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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1891
Page
4
The Allan Line will reduce voyages between London and New York and reroute ships to New Orleans and Mediterranean ports due to falling shipments to American ports. English papers blame McKinley era tariffs for boosting U S home production and shrinking foreign trade.
A State Department memo notes increased Ward line steamship shipments from New York to Havana in September and October, since the Spanish reciprocity treaty began two months earlier. Shipments of machinery for Cuban sugar manufacturers rise. provision traders expect flour duty cuts next January to lift U S imports to about 100 000 barrels annually. line may add sailings or expand ship capacity to meet demand.
A father divides fortune among ten sons. Nine brothers receive a hundred each, twenty are kept for funeral costs, leaving fifty for the youngest and twenty for him. The youngest keeps his father’s ten friends and earns a farewell feast that leads to a prosperous career, proving friendship worth more than wealth. Harper's Young People
An anecdote from General Sherman recalls Memphis in July 1862 when authorities forced open shops and a clergyman resisted church prayers for Lincoln. Sherman urged Christian aid, joking that Jefferson Davis needed prayers much more, while Lincoln prayer was unnecessary, in a tale echoing Civil War era religious views.
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