Knights Letter on Tariff and Immigration in Congress
A radical critique by A. J. Williams argues that high tariffs and open immigration hurt American labor. The piece calls tariff reform and immigration restriction to protect wages, using examples from wool, sugar, plows, and a broad labor perspective amid 1888 politics.
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Hositor
Congress
America
Atlantic Ocean
Moropolies
Pinkerton
Europe
England
Uber
Department of Business
A. J. Williams
Huffedale, Pa
Workingmen and Women Address by Berry and Travellick
Mrs Lenora Berry renowned for improving conditions for working women and Richard Travellick of Detroit Knights of Labor will speak at Library Hall on Tuesday evening Feb 14. They will discuss aims of the Knights of Labor and the nation’s labor questions with special trains likely for nearby towns. Public invited including Warren ladies. Meetings listed in Erie Union City Corry Titusville Warren Oil City Franklin Meadville.
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Lenora Berry
Woman's Work
Tuehard FB Travellick
Order of the Knights of Labor
People of War- Ten
Richard F. Travellick
Detroit
Order
Library Hall
Erie
Union City
Corry
Titusville
Warren
Pure Ice Ready for Harvest as Ice Pond Restored
Ed Clemons the ice man reports his ice pond is in first class shape and a fine crop of pure spring water ice ready for harvest. The damage from high water last year has been repaired and he is prepared to fill ice houses and stock up for next summer delivery. For Sale The orchard and pool tables with fixtures A Witz Warren btf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Clemons
Free America
Rambler's Comments and the Ledger Philosopher Speak
A Warren county column sketches street talk and church views, railing at temperance politics, hackmen marriages, and the idea of “best citizens.” The writer mocks self important names, notes urban reform, and argues true citizenship lies in daily honesty over wealth and status.
Put a Bullet in his Heart Extn
January 28. August C. McCoy of Knoxville Tennessee shot himself in the heart in a principal hardware store. He entered, examined revolvers, asked one to be loaded, and fired placing the muzzle to his chest. He died. He was a traveling correspondent and solicitor for the Philadelphia Press and later a clerk in the construction department of the national custom house in Washington. Letters in his pocket suggested whiskey promoted the act.
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C. McCoy
Knoxville
Tenn
Fred
Tic
Philadelphia Press
National Custom House
Washington
Tennessee
Filey Crowell Dramatic Company at Library Hall
The dramatic company performs next week at Library Hall with nightly shows including Jess Lady Audley's Secret and Toodles on Monday and Tuesday, Wild Cat on Wednesday, Signal Light on Thursday, Lattle Tatters on Friday, a matinee Saturday to be announced, and Mollie Bawn Saturday evening. Tickets are 10 26 and 35 cents and crowds expected.
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Library Hall
Jess
Lady Audley
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Cooper
Enirox Leperr
Bessemer Steel Association
Tobey
Coke Syndicate
New Northwest
Kansas
Death
Workingmen and Women
A. Witz
St. Paul
Ariend
Water Street
Bradford
Jamestown
Pennsylvania
Olean
Holmes
Presbyterian Church
Helia
Kingdom of Heaven
Mail
Warren County
Judge Johnson
Republican Party
Leven
Cowan
The
Ledger
Philadelphia
Filey Crowell Dramatic Company
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