Tariff details shift from ad valorem to specific numbers
A long list outlines changes under the McKinley bill with many items moving to specific duties. The schedule covers chemical substances, dyes, oils, papers, glassware, metals, cotton goods, wool, silk, pulp and paper, and agricultural products. It notes new provisions, old law contrasts, and free lists with varied duty rates and conditions.
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Japan
Castile
Secretary of the Treasury
Istle Manilla
Dust and open air shield butchers from lung disease
Dust is a common cause of lung trouble and working in dusty trades raises mortality. Butchers appear largely exempt due to open air work and high feeding. In factories and varnish, sand paper, and metalwork a high rate of chest diseases is reported. Simple dust prevention and hygiene measures are urged, including respirators, clean meals, and washed hands.
Free List Changes Add Goods to Duty Concessions
The article details tariff revisions adding items to the free list and adjusting duties. It specifies exemptions for cot ton waste fashion plates and other commodities. It also notes conditions on nickel and nickel matte containing copper and a per pound copper duty.
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Whick Us
United States
Celiews
Wink
Lesuy Tools
Mont Siger
Lway
Otc
Ted Hew Law
Jon
Secretary of the Treasury
Catching Menhaden by a Giant Seine Off the Coast
The Boston Herald reports a fishing expedition where Captain Cornell directs a seine off the maroon water as 165,000 menhaden are hauled in. The two boats form a wall, the tom is set, fish dive and surge, and 550 barrels are loaded into the steamer. About ten inches long, the fish fill twenty five feet of net space, ending in a vast collection dumped into the steamer’s fish tank.
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Cornell
Boston Herald
Solomon
Jerusalem
Jeremiah
Hananeel
Mount Moriah
Mosque of
Omar
Mount Zion
David
Solomon’s Temple
Abraham
Yonder
Hebron
Sennacherib
Egypt
Babylon
Nebuchadnezar
Nebuchadnezzar
Temple
Shadow of the Cross At Jerusalem Calvary Jerusalem Sermon
Dr. Talmage delivers a vigorous third Holy Land sermon on Jerusalem and Calvary. He traces the skull shaped Calvary,Jerusalem's sieges, and prophetic fulfillments. He envisions a 19th century gospel crusade of peace to reclaim the holy city for Christ.
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Dr. Talmage
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Jeremiah
Euphrates
David
Hudson
Thames
Mount Zion
Mount Olivet
Gethsemane
Yonder Valley
Mount Calvary
Calvary
Christ
Cairo
Egypt
Gordon
Nations
Helena
Jesus
America
Sinai
Desert
Brooklyn Tabernacle
John
Golgotha
Paradise
Jachin
Boaz
Pompey
Titus
Mount of Olives
Josephus
England
France
Christendom
Holy Sepulcher
Europe
Richard Coeur de Lion
Philip Augustus
Tancred
Raymond
Godfrey
Saladin
Richard
Bouillon
Mosque
Omar
Heavenly
Paul
Holy
Heavenly Jerusalem
Angels of Mercy
Humdrum neighbor Quickwit earns ten thousand a year
Mrs Sharptongue laments wages beside Mr Quickwit, a traveling salesman away ten months a year, as dialogue reveals tensions over rejection and differing fates. Maud notes she faced no death when rejected, while Ethel fears a similar outcome for herself.
Absent-Minded Doctor Seeks Patient Address After Prescription
A patient thanks a physician claiming divine repayment while the doctor, jotting notes, asks for the patient’s address in courtroom time. The exchange underscores tensions between medical care and personal privacy in a legal setting.
Sunshine and Season of Cold Indifference
A Munsey’s Weekly dialogue contrasts Jack and Amy as affection cools, noting the season s waning sunshine. Mrs Passmore chides John over baby crying. a humorous exchange ends with a quip about giving the earth to the child.
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Jack
Amy
Munsey
Mrs. Passmore
John
Mr. Passmore
Humorous Exchange About a Translated Joke
A witty exchange from Puck features a humorist telling a joke that he should know its author, while the joke claims to be his own child translated into German and back. The Philadelphia Times quips about self incendiarism with a joke about Dingus and spontaneous combustion, noting he "fired" himself.
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Puck
Dingus
Philadelphia Times
Sinister coffin invention shocks readers across borders
Antwerp affair features a Belgian inventor who unveiled a coffin with a built in mechanism to prevent burial alive. The device uses earth pressure to deploy a stiletto into the occupant. French and Belgian fears about premature burial are noted, with reference to Figaro and Meyerbeer era gossip.
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Antwerp
France
The
Figaro
Belgium
Meyerbeer
Galignani
London grocer burglary ends with sawdust chests
A London grocer’s shop was broken into at an early hour by three men and a supposed assistant. They moved a dozen chests of tea to a cart but the chests turned out to be sawdust dummies. The robbers fled before alarm.
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London
Ater
Liverpool Courier
CoLumpBus
P. Hayden
John McNerney
S. D. Milligan
Hare Freeman
Spirit of True Service Sunday School Lesson 1890
The lesson centers on Luke 22 24 37 with Christ teaching humility and servant leadership amid dispute over greatness. It notes Jesus as example of service, promises of a kingdom, Simon Peter’s test, and guidance on readiness and defense before the crucifixion in Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem
Jesus
Judas
Israel
Christ
Simon
Satan
Peter
Mark
Godet
A Musical Mélange of Notables and Anecdotes
A collage notes Strauss refining a conversational waltz, Rubenstein busy in the Black Forest on a grand opera, Mrs. Minnie Hawk famed for pets and a parrot tale, and a Goop tale of Bishop Winthorne of Birmingham who misreads a mass as the fiddles while the organist cites Dr Newman’s praise.
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Strauss
Anton Rubenstein
Black Forest
Auick Law
Whistler
Patti
Russia
Roumania
Austria
Germany
France
St. Petersburg
Mme
Minnie Hawk
Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg
South America
Minnie Hauk
Peresh
Uwinthorne
Birmingham
Newman
President Harrison Spends Quiet Sunday in Indianapolis
The Harrison party enjoyed a restful Sunday in Indianapolis avoiding any public demonstrations. A morning arrival, breakfast at Robert McKee's home, church services, and a reception at the New Denison Hotel followed by a private supper with Harrison's daughter marked a calm day before the train to St Louis.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ind
Harrison
Tracy
New Denison
McKee
St Louis
Kansas City
D. R. Francis
Edward A. Noonan
E. O. Stanard
Eleventh Street
M N. G
Grand Army Posts
Sons of Veterans
Western Commercial Travelers’ Association
The
Loyal Legion
Noonan
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Gulf
South America
Merchant’s Exchange
Francis
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia Goes Mad Stricken
London reports that after Russian military maneuvers in Volhynia Grand Duke Nicholas chief commander suddenly became insane from a long standing disease. Physicians say his condition is hopeless and he was moved in disguise to General Martyroft's Don Steppes estate as melancholy scenes followed the crisis.
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Grand Duke
Nicholas
Russia
London
Volhynia
Martyroft
Don Steppes
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Cotton Manufactures
Menhaden
T. de Witt Talmage
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Brooklyn
Ethel
Maud
Lita, O
John Schaeffer
William Schaeffer
Manistee, Mich
Manistee
Mich
Louis Sands
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