Gold standard greed and political factions stir national anxiety
The author denounces gold monopoly tactics and Wall Street influence shaping politics. He warns that conspiracy and wealth can alter money’s purchasing power, urging honest money and public oversight. He cites 1890s politics, calls out professors and bankers, and urges Nash County farmers to unite for a July meeting led by C. H. Banvgs.
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College Presi
Uua
Sacoenceane
Ty Gould
New York
Gould
Western College
North Carolina
Wall Street
Cleveland
Republican Party
Wall Steers
New York City
W. J. Peele
A. and M. Commencement Draws Large Audience
The Agricultural and Mechanical College near the city closed its exercises after a three day program. Highlights included class welcomings, addresses by W A Bullock and Prof Chas E Vawter, and numerous bachelor degrees in science and engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural and Mechanical College
W. A. Bullock
J.S. Blount
L B. Banett
G. W. Corbett
W. K Davie
Gladstone
E. 8
Darden
L C. McKeown
Chas. E. Vawter
Miller Manual Training School
Virginia
M. B. Hunter
Mecklenburg
J. A. Bizzall
Cumberland
J. C. Dey
Currituck
H Wiswall, Jr
Beaufort County
W. A Bullock
B R. Lacey
P. B. Park
Cabarius
S. H. Beck
Burke
A. R. Kennedy
Lenoir
J. A Bizzall
J. W. Brawley
Iredell
Vance
E. 8. Darden
Greene
L. Bennett
Carteret
C. W. Gold
Wilson
A. H. Prince
T. M. Ashe
Wake
J. I. Blount
Sampson
Dr. Clark
G. W. Corbett, Jr
Pender
W. K. Davis
Cartersville
H. Wiswall, Jr
J. A. Bissell
L B. Everett
A. H. Privett
Fraps
Robert G. Mewborne
N. R. Stancil
Robeson
Jos. F. Hunter
Halifax
Howard Wiswall, Jr
J. A. Bizzell
C. McKeown
Wake Forest Class Day Ends With Addresses And Medals
Wake Forest commemoration closes with a reception at President Taylor’s residence. F E Parham presided as class president. John H Kerr won the Thomas Dixon Literary Medal and the Orator’s Medal. W L Poteat spoke on Culture and Faith. Addresses by T W Mason and Samuel Roland Buxton highlighted the program along with student oaths and poems by James Vance Devenny and Isaac Sebert Byles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh Travers Daniel
Weldon
Wake Forest
John A. Oates, Jr
Sampson County
N. C
Frank Earl Parham
Granville County
Charles E Taylor
Wordsworth
Roberta T. Allen
Beaumont and Fletcher
Luther A. Beasley
Duplin
William T. Christian, Jr
Durham
Athens
John L. Cornwell
Cleveland
Monrovia
P. Davis
Yadkin
Herbert W. Earley
Bertie
England
Oliver L Hoffman
Burke
J. Malcolm Holding
Shelley
Hugh Long
Union
James R. Moore
Robeson
John A. Rogers
Harnett
William Royal
Batchelor
Letters
W. M. Ward
Arts
R. T. Allen
Boyles
R. Buxton
W. J. Christian, Jr
J L Cornwell
R. T. Daniel
M P. Davis
H. W. Earley
O. L Hoffman
J. M. Holding
J. H. Kerr, Jr
W. C. Newton
J. A. Oates, Jr
F. E Parham
J. A. Rogers
W. Royall
E E Hilliard
Scotland Neck
D. D
W. R. Gwaltney
A. M. Simms
Raleigh
E. M. Poteat
New Haven
Conn
J. B Richardson
High Point
E E. Folk
Nashville
Tenn
W. T. Faircloth
J. B Gambell
Georgia
J. D Greene
Missouri
N B Broughton
W. C. Dowd
Charlotte
Rv. J B. Boone
Windsor
Taylor
F. E. Parham
J. H. Kerr
L A. Beasly
Thomas Dixon
John H. Kerr
W. L. Poteat
T. W. Mason
Samuel Roland Buxton
Jackson
William Carey Newton
Clayton
James Vance Devenny
John Hosea Kerr, Jr
Caswell County
Isaac Sebert Byles
Pilot Mountain
North Carolina
Nashville Commencement and Local Tobacco Boom
The Nashville Collegiate Institute held its commencement on Thursday and Friday under Prof. S. D. Bagby and daughter Miss May Bagby with Miss Horner contributing art and music. Two tobacco warehouses near completion and prize houses under construction signal a strong upcoming crop. W. S. Bailey finished a fish pond and plans a surrounding park.
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Nashville
N. C
Nashville Collegiate Institute
S. D. Bagby
Mics May Bagby
Horner
W.S. Bailey
W.S. Bary
Bi metalism vs monometallism stance in NC Christian Advocate
The North Carolina Christian Advocate, a Methodist leading organ, editorially endorses bi metallitism. It argues the national question before the people, through the upcoming months, is which system will prevail and asserts banks will favor the lesser beneficial option, urging readers to oppose it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina Christian Advocate
Little Alex Stronach Delays Printing Laws Case
After the last General Assembly adjourned, Stronach, defeated by Jim Young for a House seat, was hired to index the laws. The delay in furnishing copy delays the State Printer, who faces daily fines, while Stronach seeks $600 in pay, seen as Democratic obstructionism.
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Alex. Stronach
Jim Young
Coke
Alex
State Treasury
Nightly state dispatches loom with fires floods and thefts
The report chronicles fires at Toe Renfro Ion Mt Airy and Hedricks flouring mills in Lexington with losses totaling $34,000. Robberies strike J K Renigar barroom in Winston and whiskey sales surge at the Charlotte wharf amid a 9000 gallon shipment. Weather and crops show mixed results with peach apple crops steady in Statesville and heavy huckleberry shipments to northern markets.
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Renfro Ion
Mt. Airy
Hedricks Bros
Lexington
J . K. Renigar
Winston
E H. Wright
Oy & Richmond Shoe House
Flat Rock
States
Monroe
Washington
Aurora
Statesville
A. D. Cowles
Ashley Slocumb
Atlantic Coast Line
Goldsboro
Insane Asylum
Raleigh
G. W. Kittelle
Phenix
D. H. Browder
Roaring River
Wilkes County
Washington Gazette
Susan Saunders
Col. Saunders
Grimsland
D. T. Taylor
Lucian Pilkinton
Pittsboro
Mitchell
Charles T Harris
Spence Taylor
Hillsboro Observer
New Berne Journal
Kinston
James Daly
Neuse River
Carthage Blade
Moore County
Weldon
Raul Garrett
Rocky Mount
Caleb Daws
John W. Petty
Roberts
Way Cross
J. M. Mullen
Tillery
Scotland Neck
Charlotte
Quintuple Arrests in Luzerne County Pa
Detectives led by James O Brien capture Frank Shaffer Geo Jordan James Miller Sarah Miller and Hester Bress in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. They are charged in the 1894 Hungarian shanty wrecking near the mountain cut off which killed four and injured eight. Shaffer cooperated and implicated the others in a suspected robbery plot.
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Wilkesbarre
Luzerne County
James O'Brien
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Frank Shaffer
Geo. Jordan James Miller
Sarah Miller
Hester Bress
Shaffer
Desperate Bank Robbery Try In Burrs Montana
A lone man attempted to rob the Silver Bow National Bank in Burrs Montana. Clerk Will Thomas activated a revolver from behind the counter and the robber fled. Officer Ingraham pursued, the robber fired three shots, but none hit. The suspect, about forty, was captured after a chase through Main and Granite streets.
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Burrs
Mont
Silver Bow National
Will Thomas
Thomas
Ingraham
Silver Bow Bank
English Factory Bill Advances Age Limit Change
London June 11 the Trade Committee in the House of Commons reported in favor of changing the factory employment age to fourteen from sixteen. Home Secretary Arquith pressed for the change and Asquith approved it. The committee carried the proposal forty to fourteen, with Radical members protesting.
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London
House of Commons
Trade Committee
Home Secretary
Arquith
Asquith
Triple Tragedy in Michigan Reported at St Louis home
Mrs Herman Becker aged 34 and her two children a boy and a girl aged four and five were found shot to death in a back cellar at 12 30 today. The mother reportedly unstable and a suicide note said all must die. The children were shot in the left temple and left cheek, with the mother in the temple, believed dead for two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Mich
Herman Becker
Imprisoned in Germany Rothschild Case Updates
Bath New York June 11. Davis Rothschilds brother Morris Rothschild reports an attempted conscription in Germany. Rothschild was detained two days, then tried for service, fined 300 marks, with War Department review pending. He has fled to Switzerland and will notify Washington. A US passport bearing Secretary Greshams signature was among the papers sent to Berlin.
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Bath
N. Y
Davis Rothschild
Morris Rothschild
Germany
Eishutten
Freyburg
United States
David Greismar
New York
Rothschild
War Department
Berlin
Switzerland
State Department
Washington
Gresham
Four men suffocated in Alpine tunnel disaster
News From Pitkin Colorado reports four men died in the Alpine tunnel after an engine vented smoke and gas. Victims listed include M. W. Flavin superintendent, N. Martinez engineer, Michael Burns fireman, Oscar Cammann miner. Special train brought bodies to town as families traveled to the scene.
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Pitkin
Col
Alpine
M. W. Flavin
N. Martinez
Michael Burns
Oscar Cammann
Gunnison
Texas Jack Arrests Amid Vienna Riots
A Vienna dispatch reports "Texas Jack" and his North American Indians aiding police during a riot. Six workers were seized by magistrates who ordered lassoes to capture anarchists, provoking local indignation over the street arrests.
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Loudon
Daily News
Vienna
Debs Reports for Jail Over Contempt in AIM Contempt Case
President Debs of the American Railway Union reports to U S Marshal Arnold for removal to jail to serve the remainder of his contempt sentence. He plans to join colleagues at Woodstock jail while awaiting reinstatement talks with Great Northern President Hill. Other ARU officers, including Phelan, Howard, Rogers, Elliott, Burns, Hogan and Goodwin, also report and are ferried to Woodstock or Joliet custody as directed.
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Curiaco
Ill
Debs
A. R
United States
Arnold
Terre Haute
Woodstock
Illinois
Frank W. Philap
St. Louis
American Railway Union
St. Paul
President Hill
Great Northern
Judge Woods
Howard
Geneva
Joliet
Phelan
Taft
Cincinnati
Trade With Germany Bulletin Opened By Agriculture Dept
Washington June 11 The foreign markets division will release its second bulletin on expanding American agricultural and other exports. Germany is examined with detailed statistics on area population wealth and debt along with Germany's tariff schedule and key import sources for American products.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
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Nash County Meeting
Nash County Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
Nash Tile
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C.H Banvgs
Sec’ Y Treas
Nash Co
Alliance
State News
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Pitkin Colorado
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