McKinley’s Maine speech blasts tariff law and Democratic drift
Governor McKinley argues the 1894 tariff law ruins industry and wages, criticizes the Democratic administration as ineffective, and says the law favors southern interests while harming northern and western labor. He cites losses in wool, sugar, and other sectors and defends protection as essential for American workers.
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Maine
McKinley
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Congress
Committee On Ways and Means
House Committee On Ways and Means
Senate Committee of Finance
Democratic Party
Wilson
Conference Committee
Senate
House
House of Representatives
New York
Pell
Congressman Catchings
Mississippi
South
North
Northwest
Hay Tariff Change Spurs Farmers To Shift Political Efforts
The piece argues the tariff on imported hay was cut by about half benefiting Canadian competition and harming American farmers. It cites US hay production rising from 24.5 million tons in 1870 to over 65 million in 1893, valued at $571 million, and notes the New York Sun predicts Empire state and Pennsylvania farmers may focus political energy on hay.
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Havana
United States
Congress
Senate
House
Union
South
Maryland
New York
Troy
Pennsylvania
New England
Sugar Trust
Canada
New York Sun
Empire State
New York Independent
Life-Saving Service Proves Coast Heroes Vital
The Life-Saving Service along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts gains two months of duty under a 1890s act, with surfmen on duty August to June. They endure isolation and hardship, trained for rescues since 1871, saving thousands of lives and millions in property at modest cost, though stations remain unevenly placed and more coverage is needed.
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Congress
Atlantic
Gulf
New England
Treasury Department
Pacific
Nantucket
Great Lakes
Falls of the Ohio
Louisville
Experiments With a Halifax Refuse-Fuel Plant
Halifax near England hosts a Livet furnace project to turn town refuse into electric energy. The design uses flues that speed combustion while slowing gases to recover heat, reducing odors and dust. Reported results show much higher water evaporation per pound of refuse and cooler gas entering the chimney, improving efficiency.
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Halifax
England
Popular Science Monthly
Consecration Theme Sets Parish Meeting Tone
Regular meeting led by Leaders-Presbyterian and others discusses Romans chapter twelve on consecration. The talk, titled What is consecration and What it does, urges total surrender to God and living a life fully devoted to divine will.
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Presbyterian
R. C. Pickett
Baptist
May Howard
Will Messner
F.cv
Doyle
Paul
Col. i
Denominational Representation Across Nations
Secretary Baer’s report notes United States denominational leadership with Presbyterians at 6652 companies, Congregationalists 5488, Baptists 3203, Disciples of Christ and Christians 2895, and other groups listed. Canada follows with Presbyterians 842 and Methodists 812. England shows Baptists leading 891, Congregationalists 353, and various Methodists 221 with Presbyterians 85.
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Baer
United States
Presbyterians
Congregationalists
The
Baptists
Disciples of Christ and Christians
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Protestant
Lutherans
Cumberland Presbyterians
Canada
Methodists
England
Converts in China Give Ten Percent of All Possessions
A Christian Intelligentger note contrasts so called rice Christians with Chinese converts who, rescued from ignorance, remit ten percent of all they possess to church and mission work, while a supporting church in China contributes 250 dollars yearly on a 2000 dollar estate.
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China
Endeavor Societies Report Numbers and Giving
The Christian Endeavor movement shows 1,482 societies with 67,304 members contributing 8749.52 dollars to missionary work last year. Rev. J F Morland D D, president, and W D Clinton M D, secretary, provide the figures.
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Christian Endeavor Societies
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
J. F. Morland
D. D
W. D. Clinton
M. D
Endeavor
First Christian Endeavor Delegates and Mission Gifts
The article notes the first delegate at the Cleveland convention was a Pueblo Indian. It states Minneapolis First Baptist is the state’s largest church society and Indiana has 367 junior societies with 13 780 members. It reports gifts of 456 to home missions and 309 to foreign missions.
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Christan Endeavor
Cleveland
Society of the First Baptist Church of
Minneapolis
Indiana
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Christian Endeavor
Hindoo
India
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