Profits and Wages in the Sugar Refining Trade
Bristling attack paints the sugar refiners as an infant industry parasitizing U S fiscal policy under the McKinley tariff. It accuses the Sugar Trust of blocking census data, paying meager wages, favoring protections while profiting from northeast refineries, and plotting to renew its license through Congress. Breon W. Horr.
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Sugar Trust
Congress
Washington
Pettigrew
Senate
Census Office
Carroll D. Wright
Robert P. Porter
Department of Justice
Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
Harrison, Frazier & Co
Philadelphia
Porter
Louisiana Sugar Refining Company
New Orleans
Havemeyer Sugar Refining Company
Brooklyn
American Sugar Refining Company
Wall Street
Havemeyer
Jersey City
Matthiessen & Wiechers
Mr. Havemeyer
United States
New York
Warmner
Breon W. Horr
Democrat For Revenue Senator Hill Speech Sparks GOP Debate
Senator Hill’s anti income tax stance and push for tax policy draws sharp reactions from Democratic leaders nationwide. Minnesota labels Hill a traitor while California Democrats denounce his remarks and a Nebraska club accuses him of treachery. The New York World reports most committee men view his speech as undemocratic, suggesting he aims to stall tariff reform to aid the sugar trust.
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Hill
David B. Hill
Minnesota
Senate
California
San Francisco
Senator Hill
Thomas J. Geary
Wilson
Samoset Club of
Omaha
Nebraska
New York World
Democratic Committee
Sugar Trust
Collar and Cuffs Murphy Defends 55 Percent Duty
The Baltimore News notes that 55 percent duties on collars and cuffs, urged by Senator Murphy, weaken the Democratic party and erode the moral force that supported the bill under disinterested Ways and Means members led by Chairman Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
The
Baltimore News
Dem
Ways and Means Committee
Wilson
Prophets Without Lover Declaring Wilson Bill Menace
United States senators who called the Wilson bill a menace to American industries drew attention in 1892 by saying Grover Cleveland could not win the Democratic nomination and be elected president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Grover Cleveland
The Result of McKinleyism
A brief critique notes that the McKinley law remains sealed and unemployment swells as workers cling to bread lines, arguing the tariff yields jobs shortages and economic distress rather than relief. This opinion highlights the era’s tension over protectionism and labor.
Hair Raising Frights and the Hair on End
A discussion of hair standing on end during extreme fright, tracing references from Job to Hamlet and Virgil, and noting authorities' mixed views. It cites Hildreth Wilson St. Louis Republic and a New York Sun anecdote about prejudice against youthful doctors with beards.
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Cndi
Virgil
Conington
Macbeth
Hildreth
Wilson
St. Louis Republic
Southern Planters and the American Farmer Class
The piece praises southern planters as the backbone of the tax system and a distinct, American farming class. It compares them to English country gentry and New England farmers, noting their conservative, native-born influence, faith, and honor, while warning wealth can erode land and values as time progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Octave Thanet
Scribner's
Wasting Our Wealth and the Fin de Siecle
Providence laid up stores in earth air and sea for human use yet we squander the capital of nature. We exhaust wildlife minerals and even oceans for sensationalism and machine wealth. What remains when vitality and resources are spent. Truth calls it fin de siecle and fin du monde.
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Providence
Learning as a private tool rather than a visible act
The quote urges that learning should be worn quietly like a watch in a pocket. Do not display knowledge constantly. reveal it only when asked. The idea contrasts private cultivation with ostentatious display of learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterfield
Paris Editor Launches Journal for Mothers-in-law
A Paris editor begins a weekly aimed at mothers-in-law defending their social interests and offering friendly criticism. The first numbers feature pieces on The Ideal Mother-in-law and A Misunderstood Mother-in-law, with planned columns on relatives and domestic guidance. Voices in Paris doubt lasting success, citing prior failed niche journals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Pan
Ballet Dancers’ Journal
Chorus Girls
Edible Newspaper Idea From Australia News Confection
A Boston Transcript note describes an Australian confectioner who proposes edible newspapers printed on dough with chocolate ink. The concept aims to boost sales by letting readers eat the paper after reading. Success would depend on the dough taste and accuracy of the news and editorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Land Repression in England Reveals Cheap Historic Estates
The Livernval Letter notes a Worcester law firm’s $1.5 million liabilities tied to landed estates, signaling a persistent agricultural downturn. It highlights abundant supply of Imber Court and Merstone, with prices strikingly low as British landowners struggle. farmers report little profit, while Britain imports $100 million annually in dairy and fruit.
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Imber Court
Inigo Jones
Lord Onslow
House of Commons
Merstone
Great Britain
Livernval
Andorra’s Gun Sparks European Tension on Border
The Pall Mall Gazette reports that Andorra has bought a Krupp gun capable of 20 miles, heightening fears of a major conflict between Spain and France. At seven miles in extent, Andorra’s possession of such a weapon stirs urgent diplomatic prayers for a blank charge or pacific intervention to avert disaster.
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Europe
Andorra
Spain
France
Pall Mall Gazette
Ghost in a Dress Coat Appears in Alexandria Ghost Census
The Alexandria Dispatch reports a new spirit joins the city’s ghost population. A tenth ghost haunts Fairfax street Presbyterian graveyard and has adopted fashion from the beyond, wearing a white swallowtail coat with large pockets as described by police.
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Alexandria
Presbyterian
Fairfax Street
The Bane and Antidote
The latest society fad features chafing dish parties where Welsh rabbits are prepared by amateurs. Next in line are pepsin soirees, as noted by the Chicago Times.
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Chicago Times
High Stakes Poker Ends With I O U S Revealed
The Buffalo Express tale describes a long poker session where two players win big while a banker pays out with I O U slips, then reveals the debt as they depart. The narrative shifts to a science note on plant growth made audible via a galvanic setup and a ticking drum.
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New York Journal
Kept Der Word Gypsy Foretells Husbands By Brook
Two young women walk in the woods and are approached by an old gypsy who offers to show their husbands faces in a brook for a fee. They pay and follow, only to see their own reflections, which the fortune teller explains will be their husbands at marriage.
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Tshall
New York
Ias
Jim
Mem
Modern Proposal in New York Weekly Dialogue
A playful exchange quoted in New York Weekly features Young de Style congratulating a partner on a proposal to share twenty thousand. The dialogue notes happiness and a nod to Miss de Fashion as the possible belle of the moment.
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Young de Style
Lunnon
Miss de Fashion
New York Weekly
First European Almanac Balendarium Novum History
The Balendarium Novum, the first almanac printed in Europe and the world, was compiled by Kelimontanus and published in Buda Hungary in 1475. Only one perfect copy is known to exist, held by the British Museum according to St. Louis Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Kelimontanus
Buda
Hungary
British Museum
St. Louis Republic
Tionesta Valley Railroad Time Tale 1891 Schedule
Time tale announces May 11 1891 start for southward and northward trains on Tionesta Valley Railroad. Details list departure and arrival times for Garfield Tiona Sheffield Barnes Brookston Wolf Run and Sheffield Junction with connections to P and W at Sheffield Junction. Jerry Crary, Supt.
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Garfield
Tiona
Sheffield
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
Wolf Run
Sheield Junction
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Southern Planters
Journal For Mothers-In-Law
England
Bill
LO. U.’s
George
Buffalo Express
Ita
A. Johnson
Jonnson & GO
Boston
H.N. Richfielu
Warren
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Pallman
Ganvinra
Agermicstown
J. A. Bairy
CPN Ereema
Che Yo
War‘cu
Kinzua
Bradord
Salamanca
Eall
Trvinton
Tidioute
Tionesta
Ou City
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Oil City
Leffard
R. Ben
Sup’t
J. A. Fellows
Gen’ Pass'r
Exchange St
Buffalo, N
Dunkirt
Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad
C, & HT. i, R, CO. Lesspr
Tastern
Trail
Time Sante
Ilroad
Van
Lily Dale
Uv Corsudaga
Moon
Airy i
Erry
Eilegner
Junction
Ewsburg
Irving
Oungsville
Wittsfeld
Cippa
Garland
Orpeda
Ewton
B.pituaville
Pem
Ps Mt
Arren
Farnswort
Narrow Gaage
Garndergrift and
Dunham's Mills
Clarendon
Underwoods
I Calmont
Vanderarift
Gar- E.R. R
Ridgway
Erie
Dunham’s Mill
A. D. Wood
Tionesta Valley Railroad
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