King Edward's Limits on Power and Privy Council Rules
The article outlines constitutional restrictions on the British king, detailing limits on accepting profits from subjects, holding private offices, and dispensing with cabinet or council. It notes the king cannot preside over the privy council, must appoint only British-born officials, cannot exempt classes from taxes, and cannot sentence or imprison without Parliament's process. It adds the petition of right guiding future taxation, and that a Roman Catholic king risks the throne.
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Edward
Great Britain
Privy Council
Anne
College of Physicians
England
Church of England
Fragmented 19th Century Advertisements Mix Slogans and Quips
A jumble of promotional lines cites Dr Kiine’s Great Nerve Restorer, Defiance Starch, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, Atlas Oats, and various quips. It features sales pitches, medical ads, humorous asides, and a note on lancewood’s strength, echoing period commercial rhetoric.
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Kiine
R. H. Kuing
Fournier Auto Company Pays $50,000 For Name Use
M. Fournier received fifty thousand dollars from the Fournier Automobile Company to use his name as part of its branding. The payment reflects cultivation of a public image by the auto maker’s marketing strategy.
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M. Fournier
Fournier Automobile Company
Reichstag to vote on state exam for music teachers
The coming Reichstag will be asked to pass a law compelling two thirds or about 150000 music teachers to undergo a state examination.
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Reichstag
Prices of Burns and Scott Manuscripts Tower Over Today
Manuscripts by Burns and Scott commanded high prices, with Scots Wha Hae selling for 70 pounds in 1890 and Commonplace Book fetching nine pounds one shilling per page. Tales of a Grandfather required 106 pounds for a portion, Old Mortality sold for 600 pounds in a later sale, and collectors must pay dearly to own such originals.
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Burns
Chambers’ Journal
Scott
Bank of England
Shakespear
Stependous National Debt of France Compared to U S
The courage of the French people and their confidence in paying debt is sublime. The United States Civil War debt peaked under 2.75 billion dollars while France carries about 6 billion in funded debt. Nearly the entire French debt is owed to its own people in a remarkably thrifty land with strong sanitation.
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United States
France
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Burns’ Manuscripts
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