Pensions and education amid new states outlined in Harrison's 1889 message
President Benjamin Harrison urges federal provision for town land titles in Alaska, education aid, and pension relief for disabled Civil War veterans. He notes four new states South Dakota North Dakota Montana and Washington boosting national growth and calls for railway safety measures, a Department of Agriculture, a World’s Fair plan, civil service reform, and expanded American merchant marine to boost commerce and national security. The address also tackles voting rights and race issues in the South and stresses justice and constitutional rights for all citizens.
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Benjamin Harrison
Executive Mansion
Washington, D. C
Notable quotes and anecdotes of public figures
A compilation of remarks and trivia about notable figures. Notes include Lorp Salispury's tobacco aversion, Oliver Wendell Holmes declining a magazine poem, Prince Bismarck's congratulatory telegrams, and various stories about Tennyson, Bronson Howard, Meissonier, Mrs. Tom Thumb, Sunset Cox, Napoleonic lineage, F. E. Spinner, and Joseph Chamberlain.
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Lorp SaLispury
Oliver Wenprth Holmes
Prince Bismarck
Mopieska
Lord Tennyson
Keats
Horace
Bronson Howard
Secretary Windom outlines tariff reform and silver coin plan
The Treasury Secretary reports 1889 revenues of 87.05 million and a 57.47 million surplus after debt redemption. He favors tariff revision to protect domestic labor, calls for ending mandatory silver coinage, and proposes issuing notes backed by silver deposits, while reviewing National banks and foreign labor law issues.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Durin
Treasury Department
Congress
Treasury
National Bank
Department
Justice Field
David S. Terry
Marshal Nagle
United States
Washington
Books of the Treasury
Windom
Fatal crossroad accident kills three men in Wilkesbarre
At the Hazel Street crossing of the Jersey Central railroad in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania three men Benjamin Polsne John Brandt and Conrad Ernst were killed while waiting between two tracks for a work train a freight car timber struck them and threw them under wheels. All were married. Charles C Harrison of New York was named for Minister to Russia in a presidential nomination news brief.
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Wilkesbarre
Benjamin Polsne
John Brandt
Conrad Ernst
Michael Zeliski
Hazel Street
Jersey Central Railroad
Woman Arrested for Forgery in Cucaco Case
Mrs. Ella White, alias Ella C. Worth, arrested for forgery in Cucaco. She is taken to Elmira New York for trial charged with raising 825000 on fraudulent notes and spending the money in speculation.
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Cucaco
Ella @ White
Ella C. Worth
Elmira
N. Y
Chicago Hopeful As World’s Fair Site Preference Reveals Support
Chicago supporters express optimism after the New York World survey shows 67 votes for Chicago as the World's Fair site, with 48 for New York, 36 for Washington, and 22 for St. Louis. The public question gauges candidate preferences amid ongoing canvassing.
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Chicago
Washington
New York
St. Louis
Two Boys Die In Mine Cage Rope Break
STEUBENVILLE O Dec 5 In a coal mine near here Wednesday the rope of a cage broke precipitating two boys a distance of seventy five feet killing them instantly.
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Steubenville. O
Here
Maxims of Caution and Justice in Old Wisdom
A collection of aphorisms on self restraint prudence and justice. Emphasizes bearing misfortune without wrongdoing hearing both sides valuing learning over pleasure and the duty of rulers to protect the weak. It notes that wealth follows learning and that even the wisest may err.
New Home Catarrh Remedy Promoted In Toronto Pamphlet
An OTC treatment claims to cure catarrh hay fever and catarrhal deafness in one to three at home applications every two weeks. It states the remedy is not a snuff or ointment and invites readers to request a pamphlet for three cents postage to A H Dixon Son Toronto Canada.
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Congress
A. H. Dixon & Son, Cor
John and King Street
Toronto
Canada
Christian Advocate
McVickers Theater Announces Old Homestead December Showing
The Terre Haute Express notes at McVickers that The Old Homestead will be due there December 16. Rev. Robert Collier praises the play, saying it touches the hearts of many and deepens noble qualities, eliciting both laughter and tears in one sitting.
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McVicker
Robert Coller
Terre Haute Express
Youth's Companion offers year long access at reduced price
An advertisement highlights The Youth's Companion subscription being $1.75 for a free extra period through January 1891. It promises ample value from its paper quality, illustrated supplements, and holiday numbers, urging readers in Philadelphia and Boston to respond.
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Youth’s Companion
Tue Youth’s Companion
Boston
Mass
No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption
Five cents buys Piso's Cure for Consumption a claimed remedy for various illnesses. The advertisement promises cures where other treatments fail and asserts no opium is used.
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Philadelphia
Wyss
Catarag
Binghamton Herald
Dr. Pierce
Texas
McVicker’s Theater
Philadelphia Inquirer
T. A. Slocum
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Pearl Street
N. Y. Sun
Boston Transcript
Carter
Hale
Pike
Baltimore American
Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
McExcury
Binghamton
Ash Brown
Henry Ward Beecher
Boston Courier
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Isaac Thompson
Jacobs
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Emedy
Charles A. Vogeler Co
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ISO
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Paillards ‘Sendrane de pBote
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NEW Music Boxes
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