Massachusetts Road Progress In the Bay State
Alberta Pope describes Massachusetts Highway Commission actions from 1892 to 1895, detailing funding, district-by-district construction, and the shift to municipal or private contracts. The piece covers road widening, single-track options, sidewalk care, stone testing at Harvard, shade-tree plans, and the push for statewide highway adoption to boost commerce and interstate travel.
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United States
Massachusetts
Highway Commission
Congress
Department of Agriculture
General Court
Thoss
Rovida
Massachusetts Highway Commission
Harvard University
Lawrence Scientific School
N. 8. Shaler
Commission
Europe
France
Germany
Old Bay State
Alberta
Pope
Dream of the Press and Reform Echoes Across Papers
A collage of quotes from reform era publications critiques of austerity and party loyalty. It includes warnings about gold standards and political parities, reflections on European governance, and a closing letter signed by Thomas Jefferson urging attention to public affairs and moral restraint.
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Europe
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
CALAMITY HOWLERS: STATESMEN AND WRITERS QUOTE COLLECTION
A compact collection of quotations from Jefferson Lincoln Webster Phillips and others criticizing banks money policy and government power. Notable lines argue against debt private money and aristocracy and advocate liberty through popular independence.
Cheap Prices Expose Poverty Behind Prosperity
A Chicago Coin essay argues that department store price cuts reveal widening poverty and wealth gaps. It recalls a Missouri man noting a garment cost $1.15 but originated from $22 quality, with profits squeezed by retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers, while farmers and workers shoulder the burden and live in crowded tenements.
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Missouri
Chicago
The Right of Liberty in Progressive Thought
A treatise arguing that true liberty requires moral justice and economic reform. It contends laws create unequal conditions and that liberty warrants abolition of legal privilege and tax shifts, envisioning a society where cooperation replaces competition and the Golden Rule governs wealth from natural opportunities.
Letter from Thomas Jefferson on newspapers and public liberty
Jefferson argues the people as the best army and the safeguard of liberty. He urges full information through public papers to enlighten citizens and keep government responsible, stating he would prefer a government with newspapers to one without. He emphasizes universal access to print for informed decision making.
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Jefferson Wendell Phillips
Paris
Edward Carrington
Liberty and property in a populist primer excerpt
The text discusses liberty as a natural right and real property founded on equitable title, contrasting unalienable freedom with ownership. It portrays workers as sheep under a money system, a critique labeled as slave-like obedience to masters, urging independence from party dogma and urging reform.
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Wwen
Uy Equity
LaFayette Ave
Brookly
Ebay
John Bull
New York
Washington
Farmers Alliance Demands Currency Reform and Public Ownership
The Raleigh based movement calls for a government issued currency with legal tender for all debts, 16 to 1 coinage ratio, expanded money supply, and a graduated income tax. It also urges postal savings banks, land reform reclaiming alien and railroad holdings, government rail and telegraph services, and direct election of U.S. Senators by district vote.
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Republic
Southern Mercury
Calliope
Bulletin of Reform
Carlisle
United States
Missouri
Cleveland
Begos
Farmers’ Voice
Brockton
Chicago Express
New York
San Francisco
Alliance Vindicator
Boston
South Carolina
Cleveland Democrats
Sound Money Silver Alliance
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Raleigh
N.C
Oll
P ™ PLC
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Mass
Dream OF the Press
Mitchell
Southern Bank
Scott
Victor Hugo
Jefferson
Treasury
Thaddeus Stevens
Church and State
Calhoun
Prof
Walker
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Mill
Wendell Phillips
Gillfillin
Albert Gallatin
Secretary of the Treasury
Thomas Jeffrson
Monticello
T.a.slocum
M.C
Pearl St
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