McKinley Portrayed As Polished and Ready Leader
A Pittsburg Times profile portrays Major William McKinley as affable, courteous, and perfectly poised. It chronicles his wartime service, legal career highlights, and early political rise, including anecdotes of his steadfast character, enduring friendships, and the vital influence of his mother on his path to public life.
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Pittsburg
William McKinley
St. Louis
Canton
McKinley
North Market Street
United States
McKinsey
Major McKinsey
Wiliam FE. Sefton
MccKinley
Mr. Sefton
Elim
Twenty-third Ohio
Rosecrans
Stanley Matthews
Hutherford B. Hayes
Robert Kennedy
Rob
Russell Hastings
Cleveland
Ohio
Hastings
Antietam
Tod
Columbus
Hayes
South Mountain
Stark County
Alvorate
Gane
Major McKinley
Manderson
Congress
Hil
Colmbiang County
Tahlone
Major
Colutmbiluna
Vetera
Will
Salem
Connteen
McWinney
Connec
Herne
Willian
Tam
Inventors Propose Wide Range Of Cooling Devices
A Western inventor claims to cool an entire town with electric bombs that release carbonic acid gas to chill the air. Other schemes include air passed through scented conservatories, street jets to spray water, a rubber collar bath, an electric frame spray bath, bed coverings with mosquito-net enclosures and eyefinders, and wind-driven fans integrated into furniture and clothing. The article notes various patentees from Canada, Nashville, Buckeye regions, Jacksonville, and elsewhere.
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Nashville
Ad Pitentee
The Personality of Garret Hobart
Garret A Hobart of Paterson New Jersey emerges as a brilliant lawyer and rising political figure noted for fiscal acumen and unassuming charity. Born in Long Branch he rose from Rutgers to Paterson law and state leadership, later bank and railroad receiver roles, and national party involvement.
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Garret A. Hobart
Long Branch
Rutgers College
Socrates Tuttle
Paterson
Tuttle
Republican Party
Hobart
Passaic County
Assembly of New Jersey
Assembly
Senate
New Jersey Midland Railroad
New York, Quequehanna and Western
Amrash
Court of Chancery
Montclair
Jersey City
Albany
First National Bank of Newark
Ellison Street
New Jersey
Paterson Railway Company
Pugsalo Water Company
Passiac
East Jersey Water Company
Newark
Paterson Society
U Useful
First National Bank of
Paterson Savings Institution
Cedar Lawn Cemetery Company
Trival
Mike Anna Childs
Carroll and
Ellison
N. J
Carroll
Carroll Hall
Liberty Hall
Junior
Miss Fanny
Europe
New York
Lake Como
Cedar Lawn
Mr. Hobart
Keep Our Paper Up To Par With Gold
A Times-Herald editorial warns that abandoning the gold standard would devalue 475,000,000 in currency. It argues silver as a substitute would cause ongoing depreciation and urges maintaining a gold-backed paper monetary standard.
Propositions on silver and gold standards by Corlisle
Secretary Corlisle states five propositions to illustrate differences between silver and gold standards. He argues no free coinage nation escapes silver use, no gold standard country rejects silver, no silver country uses gold, silver nations have less money per capita, and silver workers earn less than in the United States.
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Corlisle
United States
Labor Must Be Paid Says Professor Huxley
A quotation from Professor Huxley argues that underpaying labor leads to physical and moral decay, social instability, and eventual ruin despite short term gains in industry. He stresses that cheap production cannot endure without humane wages.
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Professor Huxley
Recollections of General Grant at Wilderness to Spottsylvania
A war correspondent recalls meeting Grant at Willard's Hotel and on the Brandy Station trip. He describes Grant in the field writing a dispatch, studying maps on a stump, and his steady leadership during the Wilderness and Spottsylvania campaigns, ending with a quiet greeting to Confederate general Edward Johnson.
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Philadelphia
Washington
General Grant
West End
Richmond
Army of the Potomac
George G. Meade
Grant
Willard’s Hotel
Willard’s
Meade
Brandy Station
Culpeper
Army of the
Hancock
Longstreet
General Meade
Lincoln
War Department
Lee
Spottsylvania
Rapidan
Washburne
Congress
Humphries
Hunt
Warren
Johnson
Edward Johnson
Wisdom of the Fathers: Ben Franklin on domestic manufacture
Quote attributed to Dr Benjamin Franklin urging domestic production to boost the home market and reduce export outflows, highlighting national economic self sufficiency. The note frames manufacturing as a patriot cause and a money saver for the country.
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Benjamin Pranklin
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Carroll County
Columbiana County
The
New York World
Garret Hobart
Pittsburg Times
Garrett Augustus Hobart
Texas
John Hay
Chicago Times-Herald
H. Il. Koblaagt
Times-Herald
Vicksburg
Philadelphia Record
Grant IN the Wilderness
Wisdom OF the Fathers
Fitzhugh Lee
H. H. Kohlaaat
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