Land of the Noonday Sun Mexico in Mid Winter
Walter Clark extols Mexico City and surrounding sites, recounting Cortes memory, Chapultepec, the National Military Academy, and the Paseo. He notes the Noche Triste tree, Alvarado’s Leap, statues of Cortes and Cuauhtemoc, portraits in the Pantheon, and Ciudad landmarks. Mentions Juarez, Guzman, Grant, and plans for rail links to volcano summits.
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Mexico
Arena
Lott
National Bridge
Cerro Gordo
Jalapa
Cherubusco
Hougoumont
Chapultepec
National Military Academy
Europe
Military Academy
Cortez
Alvarado
Weil
Cuba
Tacuba
Republic
Paseo
Cuahtemoc
Anglice Guatemezio
Spain
Descen
Grover Cleveland and the Silver Fight Roils Kentucky
Brawster West surveys the political turmoil as Grover Cleveland faces a silver-winged challenge at the Kentucky Democratic Convention. He mocks Cleveland and Carlisle, mocks reformers, and calls for a patriotic president and a removal of the capital. He notes the Butler anti bond bill's passage and spars with imagined monarchist fears.
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Kentucky
Grover
Carlisle
Uence
Progressive Farmer
White House
Grover Cleveland
King Cleveland
Washington
Joseph C. Sidley
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Knights of Labor
Farmers’ Alliance
The
Grange
Cleveland Democracy
Cleveland
Donny
Mississippi
Congress Heights
Denny
District of Columbia
Uncle Sam
St. Louis
Republic
England
Wall Street
Capitol
Treasury
Senate
Reed
Eprak
Tilmaning Tillman
Brawster West
Remembering tax burdens for farmers in 1866 and 1896
The Missouri World notes a shift in tax payment value from 1866 to 1896. A farmer could cancel a $10 tax with five bushels of wheat or 40 pounds of cotton in 1866, but by 1896 needed 20 bushels of wheat or about 150 pounds of cotton. The piece warns that fixed charges remain and failing prices force producers to part with more of their products to clear taxes, with a caution about the old saying that a dollar buys more than it did.
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Dants
Monteleone
Sicily
Charles IV of
Spain
Napoleon
Charles
Republic
Mexican Republic
Liberty
Juarez Dsing
Oaxaca
Mexico
George Washington
William of
Nassau
Garita
San Cosme
U.S. Grant
Popocatapetl
Arcent
Mont Blanc
Oriziba
Righi
City of
Johnnie
Violeta
Wilhelmus van Nassauen
Amsterdam
Missouri World
National Alliance Demands Adopted in Washington 1896
The National Alliance demands a progressive republic with public utilities held by the people, a national currency issued by the government, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, graduated income tax, and direct senator election by district. It calls for public ownership of railways, telegraphs, and post, land reclaimed from aliens, and direct legislation via initiative and referendum.
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Blogus
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Whiteman
Sambara
L. J. Holden
Jonesboro
W. G
Jones & Powell
Wake Co
L. L. Pickett
M. W. Knapp
John R. Bryant
Jesus
Satan
Hell
Manilla
D. H. Tuttle
Raleigh
N. C
Tabor
Capital
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