Bryan and His Pope Demo Party on the Right to Contract
The Cordage Trade Journal criticizes Bryan’s platform for curbing private contracts and demonetizing money. It argues contracts underpin cordage trade from growers to brokers to wholesalers, warning such limits would halt commerce and raise prices for farmers and consumers. It urges voters to favor a president upholding free commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Pope- Demo
Cordage Trade Journal
Chicago
Manilla
The
Journal
St. Louis
United States
United States Supreme Court
Tri-Daily
Honest dollar for an honest day's work
A dialogue from Council Bluffs Nonpareil features the Hired Man and Boies debating wages and coinage. The hired man argues free coinage devalues wages and purchasing power, while Boies maintains current pay and dollar value, prompting the line I will look out for myself and vote for an honest dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Boies
Council Bluffs
Elaborate Trimmings Vie For Winter Fashions
Fashion notes describe sets of trimming and embroidery for collars cuffs vests and sleeves with high flaring collars elaborate braiding and velvet accents. Headgear uses embroidered cloth and plumes with extensive braiding. Paris designs set the pace while American makers race to match with complex waist ornamentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
N. Y. Ledger
Rail news and robberies highlight early 20th century services
Reports note cafes on Paris to Saint Germain trains and planned ones to Versailles. A Topeka freight halt followed a road shower on the tracks. Two masked robbers plunder a Paris and Toulouse express pay car of 8000 dollars, with one hurt and the other arrested later. New England railroads show rising business. Germany’s Ostend to Saint Petersburg train averages 39.1 mph over 881 miles, Berlin to Hamburg hits 49.1 mph over 176% miles in 3 hours 36 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Saint Germain
Versailles
Topeka
Kan
Paris & Toulouse Express
New England
Boston & Maine
Germany
Ostend
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Hamburg
Very Unkind of Him and Other Light Moments
A collection of brief humorous quips and anecdotes from various 19th century periodicals. Jokes cover parrots that talk or don’t talk, seismic earth yawns, church sermons on child training, mistaken arrests, and a joke about a baby versus a cow in winter attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Harper’s Bazar
Mr. Bloomfield
Tahiti Turns to Bicycle Races and Puncture Tricks
The article notes Tahiti’s shift to bicycle culture with soap to locate punctures on tires and mentions crossovers between skating and cycling. It cites a California woman riding 14 miles over Mount St Helena and a U S Army unit traveling 132 miles from Fort Missoula to Harrison in 32 hours on bicycles, with average wheel loads around 240 pounds.
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Tahiti
California
Mount St. Helena
Twenty-fifth Infantry
United States Army
Fort Missoula
Mont
Harrison
Rocky Range
British owners hold silver stocks and mines, Atkinson notes
Edward Atkinson counters Bryan by noting British owners control much of the US silver stock and global productive mines. He cites a British mining firm paying over $40,000,000 in eight years on under $2,000,000 capital, suggesting it could fund larger profits, while denying British silver contributions to the campaign as claimed by the Philadelphia Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Atkinson
Bryan
Mr. Atkinson
Philadelphia Times
Wages Lag as Prices Rise in Depreciating Money
The article argues that wages adjust slowly to currency devaluation while prices rise quickly. It notes that wage earners lose when currency depreciates, with prices climbing like elevators while wages inch up the stairs.
The Alphabet Through History and Names
The article traces how letters like W C U V Q T Y and E carried different forms and sounds across languages. It notes Phoenician roots, ancient usage, and Hebrew names such as Vay and he, linking shapes to meanings and eras.
Notable Tiny Infant Death and Century Birthday Gifts
A registrar certifies the death of a one minute old infant at St Ives. An elderly Greens Norton resident marks her 100th birthday by gifting a stained glass window to the parish church. St Saviour’s in Southwark, where John Harvard was christened, is restored except for some small stained glass panes. A royal commission on Ireland Britain finances reports seven variants and two memorandums toward an accord. London omnibuses carry 79 million tigers in six months with receipts near 2.49 million dollars and profits 326 thousand. 1,003 omnibuses travel 11,688,000 miles. Handel’s organ at the London Foundling Hospital, donated in 1750, is under renovation after the dedication crowd overflowed, prompting attire-friendly precautions.
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St. Ives
England
Greens Norton
St. Saviour’s Church
Southwark
John Harvard
Royal Commission
Irelend
Great Britain
London Omnibuses
Ireland
Handel
London Foundling Hospital
Ancient tub unearthed from Silchester ruins in Hampshire
An 1,600 year old tub of wood, found in the Roman ruins at Silchester Hampshire, has been retrieved though the timber is rotted in places. Licenses to sell cigarettes in Fort Wayne cost 500 dollars each and some dealers are using campaigns to bypass the law by selling cigarettes with party buttons. Kentucky reports note hunters face squirrels in the woods and cornfields, while Ireland's 1900s marriages rose to 23,120 with 8314 percent able to sign names. few interfaith marriages occurred among Quakers and Jews.
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Europe
Pytha
Silchester
Hampshire
Fort Wayne
Ind
Kentucky
Ireland
Kipling to Publish The Seven Seas Ballads
The new Kipling book of ballads will be titled The Seven Seas with several poems previously unpublished. Puvis de Chavannes finishes last three Boston library panels Philosophy Chemistry Physics and exhibits them in Paris. He also oversees lithographs for Childhood of St Genevieve as part of Paris taste reform posters. Prince Mirko of Montenegro, 17, composes music and works on a light opera for the bicentenary festival at Cettinje.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
Seven Seas
Puvis de Chavannes
Boston Public Library
Paris
St. Genevieve
Prince Mirko
Montenegro
Nicholas
Cettinje Opera House
Hungarian Countesses Prepare For Variety Stage
Three young Hungarian countesses, daughters of Count Basquet of Budar Pesth, aged 15 16 and 17, are fitting themselves for the variety stage. Borchgrewink Antarctic explorer has married in England and postponed south pole plans. Two Cairo editors jailed for 18 months plus fine for libeling Queen Victoria. Silver question in nutshell.
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Basquet
Budar Pesth
Borchgrewink
England
South Pole
Cairo
Queen Victoria
Trade committee tours South America for NAM findings
The National Association of Manufacturers committee members returning from visits to Brazil Uruguay and Argentina report promising results The Journal of Commerce features an interview with George W Fishback who led the tour He discusses currency depreciation impact on wages and prices noting wages in Argentina would rise nominally but purchasing power worsens as costs soar and warns silver coinage could trigger harsher price shifts in the United States
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W. J. Bryan
Newark
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
United States
National Association of Manufacturers
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Journal of Commerce
George W. Fishback
Legation
Buenos Ayres
Argentine Republic
Fishback
N. Y. Times
Free silver coinage would slash railway wages say Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer cites The Sun to warn that free silver would cut wages for 800,000 to 900,000 railway workers who depend on pay for support. It argues railways must buy gold to meet obligations, reducing earnings and purchasing power, with consequences shared by farmers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
United States
Sun
the Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Call to Arms by John Russell Young for McKinley and Hobart
The ex minister to China urges a patriotic safety committee from now until Election Day. He invokes Washington and Wayne, urges house to house canvasses, calls for speeches in markets and lodges, and asks every citizen to act to ensure victory and safeguard the Commonwealth.
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John Russell Young
China
McKinley
Hobart
Commonwealth
Stopping Laughs After Ball Room Visits Cited for Chill Prevention
Advice urges silence as rooms heat up and people depart. The guidance warns laughter and chatter after leaving heated ball rooms can lead to chills.
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Warren Mail
Warren, PA
Inuisville Courier-Journal
Russia
Praskowja Sergievna Uwarow
Alexis Uwarow
Jos Pantine
Happenings OF
John de Witt Warner
the Fu
Bedford Inquirer
William J. Bryan
Republican Party
Brother Bryan
New York
A Committee OF Safety
Washington
Wayne
Committee of Safety
Ayer
C. H. Hurcuines
East Auburn
Lal
Diploms
Danan & Son
Strong & Carroll Gents
Reynolds Bros
Baker & Bowman’s
Ross, Levis & Pifer
McClure, Bloeser & Eggert’s Ladies’ Shoes
J. K. Ronne
Wanamaker & Brown
Hickory St
American Tobacco Co
Cornell
Lafayette
Yale
Marlbury
Richmond
Imperial
Princess Royal
Piccadilly
Monte Christo
Becins
Charles King
Kipling
Captain King
Fort Frayne
Uncle Sam
Sam
Frank J. Kihm
Brooklyn Eagle
Kihm
William Jennings Bryan
Billy
Washington Post
St. Paul
Archbishop Ireland
Minneapolis
Cleveland World
Haviland
Siegfried & CO
Rowland & Sons
Decora
W. C. Rowland
J. E. Rowland
W. C. Rowland, JR
Fehlman Bros
H. S. Thomas
East St
Telephone
N. Y. World
W. H. Drven
U.S
Dearborn St
the Mail Office
A. Weiss
Clothier
Water St. Warren
Altgeld
Illinois
New York Press
Omaha
Puck
Vitalis Ae
Warren
Siegfried
Castoria
John Wed Ee
T. M. Eckles
Ph. G
Wampum Pharmacy
Wampum Pa
Morris & An, Warren
P. B. Canfield
Corgin
A. A. Davis & Co
Pennsylvania
Sheffield
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Sunbury
Lancaster
Baltimore
Pullman
Erie
Williams
Kane
East
Williamsport
Renovo
Ridgway
Ee Ae
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
New York Central
Hudson River R. R. Co
Daily Sun
South
Lyv
Boston
Cessesees Co
Aidady
Niagara Falls
North
Fredonia
Youngsville
View oGarland
Torpe
Titusville
Old City
Pittsburg
Falconer
D. C. Moon
N. Y
Epson J. Weeks
No.1
Exchange St
Buffalo
Gro
H. Daniels
Gen
New York City
Kinzua
Bradford
Salamanca
Olean
Olean Express
Irvington
Tid Toute
Tlonesta
Oil City
Buffalo Express
Oil City Express
W.S. Leffard
R. BE
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Sheffield Junction
Lamona
Junction
Jerry Crary
Cincinnati
West
Waengenebaiaal Tiebate Call
KKLD
Pats
Agus Jamestown. N
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