Wool and the tariff in 1891 analysis
The American Wool Reporter reviews the 1891 wool market, noting the McKinley tariff failed to boost domestic wool prices or cut foreign wool imports. It cites Boston receipts up 15 to 37 percent with overall sales barely higher than 1890, and prices drifting lower despite higher duties. It argues tariffs did not spur domestic consumption and predicts continued reliance on Australian and other foreign wools in 1892.
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McKinley
American Wool Reporter
Boston
United States
Seaboard
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Ohio Delaine
Michigan Delaine
Chio Fine
Unsy
Unm
Fine Ann
Ugm
Ind
Let Us Ventilate Ventilation Helps Health Says Ledger
The New York Ledger argues that many illnesses labeled as drafts result from stagnant hot air. It urges daily outdoor air and brisk winter activity, criticizing hermetically sealed rooms and warm carbolic acid gas.
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New York Ledger
The French Detective and His Disguises
Parisian detectives rely on self made disguises and bold lone work. They often use a blouse and work apron to blend with common life. Shadowing is done by two men with quick swap of clothes to avoid detection.
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London Saturday Review
Mud of Egypt as a gift of the Nile described
The Nile shapes Egypt as a mudland. the author urges tracing the land upriver from Cairo to Luxor to see how rich black mud forms the country. He notes Bengal and American rivers as gifts of their waters, but the Nile’s mud is clearer and more visible in the up country landscape.
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Egypt
Herodotus
Nile
Bengal
Ganges
Lowsiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Cairo
Delta
Shepheard
Great Pyramid
Gizeh
Luxor
Cornhill Magazine
N. K. Wendelboe
Warren
Wendelboe
Ancient wheat names prove its antiquity and cultivation
The article argues that the existence of wheat names in ancient languages supports its long history of cultivation in temperate Europe, Asia, and Africa. It doubts claims of wild, persistent wheat, noting classical references from the Odyssey and Diodorus about wheat and barley growing without human aid.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
Sicily
Diodorus
Osiris
Palestine
St. Louis Republic
Dickens Appears For Young Artist In Temple Bar
The son of a Dickens neighbor, a precocious painter, painted an aged knight resting on a fallen tree in an orchard. Dickens praised the work and the old knight but quipped that the apples won’t help and the old gentleman needs burned brandy to revive him. The anecdote comes from Temple Bar.
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Dickers
Dickens
Temple Bar
Stage Dialogue Art and Theological Science Compare
A compact excerpt notes stage dialogue must balance natural speech with elevated drama, critiquing society's superficial talk. It also claims theology is a progressive science, comparing it with geology and predicting changing expressions over two millennia while core substance remains constant.
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Lippincott’s Magazine
Christendom
Extremities of Animals Explain Toe Counts
The St. Louis Republic notes no animal has more than five toes per limb. Horses are one toed, oxen two toed, rhinoceroses three toed, hippopotamuses four toed, and elephants plus hundreds of others are five toed.
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St. Louis Republic
Principal’s stark Teaching Remark Stuns Audiences
The principal of a graded school shocked listeners with a bold claim. He said, in seriousness, that he was teaching at S- and had a corpse of eight teachers. Wide Awake reports the startling line as a provocative remark reflecting unrest or humor in a teaching setting.
Bishop Ambroise Defies Czar In Penza Reception
The Russian bishop Ambroise of Penza hosted Emperor Alexander I with a shows of power and piety. He blocked the governor, forced the czar to bow before a holy image, sprinkled the czar’s rooms with holy water, and dictated church service times, ending in Ambroise’s retirement to a monastery. The incident followed by a note on American newspaper growth in Australia.
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Ambroise
Pensa
Alexander I
Ambroiia
Aena
Alexsander
Earth
Heaven
God
Alexander
Russia
New York Sun
Distant Echoes of Scandal in Two Vanishing Tales
Two scenes unfold as a streetcar argument ends with a laughing conductor and a lingering wife’s rebuke while a separate tale from Congressman O Neill recounts two Liberman tenants guarding a hedge with shotguns waiting for an unjust landlord. The men brood, the moonlight chills, and uncertainty delays vengeance.
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Congressman O'Neill
John O'Neill
Mike
Washington Post
Birds of a Feather Do What in Class Quiz
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a classroom quiz where a teacher tests adage ideas. When asked what “Birds of a feather do,” a quick boy responds “Lay eggs,” prompting a brief joke about proverb meanings.
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Detroit Free Press
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Nes
3.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mass
All Druggista
Krout
Jan Rufus
Wat
Wis Fru
Maries Seroot
Villad
E. C. West
Siegfried & Co
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Cail
Harold Hayes M.D. Suffalo
Samuel Pitcher
Castoria
G. C. Osaoon
Lowell, Mass
J. F. Rescreney
Conway, Ark
HL. A. Ancien, M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn, N. Y
Oll
Asien Wostrrat
Allen C. Swirg, Pres
the Centaur Company
T. Murray Street
New York
ATU
Front Street
Peter Creenland
Warren, Pa
N.K. Wendelboe
N. K. Wendelboe’s
Liberty Street
Bissell
AMORA
Robison
R. Edmonds & So
LPPA
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