McKinley Tariff Sparks Starch Trust Rise
As the McKinley tariff bill becomes public the starch trust forms in Covington Kentucky while news outlets report meetings in Buffalo and New York. The piece notes Burrows of Michigan supports removing protective duties, yet the ways and means committee keeps two cents per pound on potato starch and raises dextrine duties, with starch profits cited at over 8 percent and rising.
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Starch Trust
McKkinley
Ways and Means
Buffalo
Covington
National Starch Company
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
Burrows
Michigan
Uuke
Capitol
Ways and Means Committee
Washington
America
American Starch Company
Columbus
Ind
Met
McKinley
Unu
Lime Trust in Maine Faces Tariff Fight and Canada Route
The Rockland lime makers formed a trust to raise prices and block Canadian lime. They seek a six cent per hundred pound duty, fivefold the current rate, to protect profits. Masons, builders and dealers protest, noting imports from Canada keep prices down. The trust plans output restrictions and vows to renew the combine in May while hinting tarifts role as tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lime Trust
Rockland
Maine
Canada
Dingley
Capitol
Little Lime Trust
Congress
Burrows
Massachusetts
Rockland Lime Trust
New York
Philadelphia
England
McKinley Tariff Raises Duties On Men and Farm Goods
The piece argues the McKinley administration uses the Mills bill to boost duties on men making cloth and on various farm products. It notes a 200 percent rise on certain men used in cheap clothing and 35 to 50 percent increases on fine goods, calling protectionist press eager to defend farmers while criticizing the “dark lantern” tactics and Capitol secrecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Flax Growers Association
Mcinley
McKinley
Capitol
Tidiente
Lugran
Tidieate
Diamond Furniture
Preenlund
Wendelboe’s
Diamond Block
Warren
Perna
Wendelboe
J. J. Dardin
Kinzua
Bink
Siegel’s
Discipline Runs Aground In Royal Dockyard Sentry Case
A London Tit-Bits tale shows a dockyard superintendent pressed to challenge all and forget his parole. The sentry detains him, mistaking status for security, and soon the guard also mistakes the policeman for a true pass holder, both jailed until relief arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bootewuin
Royal Establishment
London
English Stiffness and a Dinner with Hugo and Palmerston
A tale from Dumas the elder contrasts English reserve with humor. At a late dinner hosted with Victor Hugo, Lord and Lady Palmerston arrive late, leaving the pair unintroduced. Decazes jokes that Palmerston asks Lady Palmerston to sit between Dumas and Hugo at thirty five past twelve, a witty social rebuke and display of etiquette.
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Dumas the
Victor Hugo
Duke of Ducates
Lord
Lady Palmerston
Decazes
Dumas
Lord Palmerston
Lyerd Palmerston
Alexander Dumas
Wise Weasels Awe Townsfolk of Newfoundland
A Newfoundland tale portrays weasels as cunning and dangerous. A man and his partner steal young weasels and milk, but the old female weasel returns, overturns the pail, and spills the milk to protect her brood, illustrating the animal’s wily nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newfoundland
An Irish Dollar Lament and Cafe News Bits
A humorous Irish tale about a worn silver dollar passed around a table with jokes on currency and circulation. Then a short New York Press note mocks men who eat uptown and read newspapers only during cafe breakfasts for quick news glimpses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erin
Harper’s
New York Press
No Restrictions There in Minnesota Bankers
Under Minnesota law a banker may be a pawnbroker money lender jeweler undertaker farmer lumberman toll bridge owner or poultry hatch operator. All goods are warranted sound and healthy or no pay says Detroit Free Press.
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Minnesota
Detroit
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Tur Lainzes’ Home Journal
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The
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Curtis Publishing Company
Ebres
Farnsworth
Wanda
Clarendon
Dunham's Mill
Wood
Western
BX. Y.a& Pla
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Bradford Salamanca
Olean
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Trvinton
Tidioute
Tionesta
Oil City
Pittsburgh
CITY
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R. Bell
Sup’t
J. A. Fellows
L Pass
St. Buffalo
N.Y
Arjy
WW. B. Rickards & CO
Franklin, PA
Emery
Sapolio
Enoch Morgan's Sons CO
Swayne
Dr. Swayne & Son
E. F. Bukerkeep
Syracuse
N. Y
Warren County
SV. Davis
Willis Cowan
A. Dunn
B. B. Alo
W. D. Ridelspergzer
W. D. Beaty
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G. K Starr
F. A. Cogswell
K. Russell
Enric Ericson
Edif Warren, Pa
Cass
Eric Ericson
P. Greenland
Episcopal Church
Call
Ste
Wall
Spinner
East Warren
C. W. A. Messenger & Co
Hertzel Dock
Conewango Bridge
Ohio
Wmn
Swaynes
B.A. Lynde & Son Co
Truth Soap Works
Waren
N.K. Wendelboe’s
Ledger
Merck Drug
Morris & Mullen
Siegel's
P. Greenlund
Etrapa Reenlundga
Geo. Ball’s
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