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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1896
Page
4
Samantha endures a brutal night by a forest stream as she recalls loved ones, contemplates death, and clings to hope. A man bursts through the underbrush with a desperate, dangerous pursuit and she awakens to a moment of possible rescue.
A prisoner breaks free by tearing bars from a window after his sick child pleads for him. He runs through snow to reach home where his child lies feverish, then chooses to surrender and face a light sentence. The tale ends with his return in time for a family wedding.
An exchange lists ages of well known men at their first marriages. It cites Shakespeare at eighteen to Anne Hathaway and Napoleon at twenty seven to Josephine Beauharnais, with many others including Mozart Scott Linnaeus Goethe and Klopstock.
The writer argues against free coinage of silver at sixteen to one, claiming it would devastate business, raise prices, and hurt laborers, pensioners, and debtors who owe gold contracts. It claims gold would gain value, banks would fail, and silver states would suffer despite potential mining income.
A Chicago nominated silverite presidential candidate argues against debt repudiation and claims it would rob creditors. The critique questions his plan to seize property, warns that it would devalue savings of about 5 million Americans and deny home ownership to working people.
The piece argues that while the U S can legislate without foreign consent on issues like coast tide limits or sugar prices, it cannot fix the value of silver at sixteen to one. It pins Bryan’s nomination speech to a broader debate on sound money and global metals values, stressing that laws cannot control market values.
Samuel Dickson of Philadelphia resigns as a presidential elector on the democratic ticket. He cites doubts about bimetallism and artificial currency values, arguing that legal tender policies favor money lenders and harm debtors, with wide implications for capital idle in the south and west.
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