Financial chaos in congress over currency bill delays reform
The Washinton correspondence reports chaos in both congress houses as the administration currency bill fails in the House. Senators and representatives draft various measures with little cross‑party support. There is talk of a compromise bill and a new currency proposal to win silver men, but no tangible plan emerges.
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Washinaton
D. C
Congress
Carlisle
Teller
Treasury
Hill
Quay
Senate
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
House
Cincinnati
Raleigh
Editor and Widow Marriage Plot Ends in Elopement
A Kansas editor and a wealthy widow faced gossip that the match was about her riches. He convinced her to transfer her wealth to a grown daughter, hoping to prove sincerity. They eloped the first night, and by morning the widow intended to arrest the editor if she found him.
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Kansas
One Year of Births Said to Stretch Around the World
A famed statistician suggests that if all infants born in one year were placed in cradles and lined up, the line would circle the globe. A vivid alternative envisions mothers carrying babies in arms, moving nonstop for the entire year. At twenty babies per minute, the pace implies about twelve hundred per hour.
Infantile pageant rear guard described in review
A vignette describes a viewer at a post seeing only the sixth part of the infantile host. The babe carried at the start would walk early, leaving a trailing line of six year olds as the year’s supply nears its end, forming a playful rear guard.
Wealthy fashion and charity shape women's judgments
A reflection on double standards among women, noting that a poor girl who errs is condemned while a fashionable, rich woman is excused and forgiven through charity. The piece laments that this charity often masks hypocrisy and the angels weep at such selective mercy.
Attorneys Seize Writ to Force Final Wagon Road Payment
W. E. Borah for Winters Parsons and Boomer obtained in the supreme court an alternative writ of mandamus against State Auditor Ramsey to compel him to show cause why a warrant for 5950 cannot be issued for the Custer county division of the state wagon road. The commission had accepted the road and ordered final payment, but Ramsey, advised by Attorney Geral Parsons, refused to draw the warrant pending the viewers report from Governor McConnell’s appraisal.
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W. E. Borah
Winters
McConnell
Bills for 150000 appropriation praised by Boise Democrat
The Boise Democrat notes that a Republican legislature in eight working days introduced bills providing for an appropriation around 150 000 dollars. The writer suggests the amount could have been larger.
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Boise Democrat
Idaho Memorial Demanding Free Silver Coinage in Congress
The joint memorial by Idaho lawmakers McCarthy and Heitfeld urges Congress to pass a law for free and unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to one, protests the Carlisle bill, and calls for a monetary system with gold, silver, and legal tender paper to restore prices and economic relief. It insists every circulating dollar remain legal tender and requests swift action for distressed citizens.
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House
McCarthy
Senate
Heitfeld
House of Representatives
Congress
United States
Idaho
Carlisle
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Rtathdrum Post
Eee Beige
Eer
Ehallsocial Club
Aestan
Jennell
Ghalelis, ‘10
Maine
Third Street
Commodius Lodging House
A.C. Bomar
Jeweler
Spalding's
John P. Spalding
Conte
Selirs
Butters
Main Street
J. Jone
Challis, Idaho
Marke
R. N. Hen
Caris
Morler
R. N. Hull
IR. N. Hull
Beardsley
Spain
Salil
E. R. Kirk
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