Porto Rico policy and coffee trade tensions surface
Washington notes discuss the Foraker Act duty on coffee, the loss of Spanish reciprocity advantages, and the impact on Porto Rican coffee versus Brazilian imports. Secretary Gage weighs reinstating the 5 percent duty. debate over U.S. policy in Porto Rico continues amid Caribbean tensions and economic shifts.
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Washington, D. C
Porto Rico
Washington
F. H. Dexter
United States
Allen
Spain
France
Germany
Italy
Gage
Treasury Department
Presidential recreations and White House pets through eras
A Washington correspondent contrasts presidential pastimes with White House pet trends. It notes presidents like Cleveland enjoyed fishing and dogs while McKinley favored driving, and it recounts the changing sights of cats and rats in the executive mansion across administrations.
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United States
Gen
Arthur
Harrison
Harrison and Mr. Cleveland
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. McKinley
Cleveland
Washington
White House
Not Anxious To See A Spook In Washington Street
Harry Carpenter of Yuma set a courthouse clock after unscrewing the case to move its hands. A stranger handed him a watch and vanished after jumping from the Southern Pacific bridge into the Colorado River. The man never reclaimed the timepiece, so Carpenter keeps it.
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Cock and Bull
Sampson
Schley
Washington
Navy
Department
Peryony
Harry Carpenter
Yuma
Washington Street
Harry
Southern Pacific Railroad
Colorado
Arizona
Granhio
Trenton Youth Walter Fiest Dies in Family Tragedy
Walter Fiest aged 16 of Trenton New Jersey dies prompting a grieving widow mother who has buried nine children between ages 15 and 6 years in a stark family tragedy that underscores relentless loss.
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Walter Fiest
Trenton
N.J
Our Grocery Bill Reflections on U S Food Expenditure
The article analyzes the nation s annual grocery bill estimating expenditures for groceries excluding meats at about 1 95 billion, with per family spendings around 130 to 156 yearly. It discusses sugar s changing share, canned goods growth, and the implication for grocers amid rising distribution needs.
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Dairy
Wisconsin
United States
The Gray Horse Frustrates a Feeding Device
A Portland Daily Press item reports that a gray horse owned by Maine Provision and Cold Storage outwitted a two clock feeding system. The horse pulled the feed wire early, causing all stable horses to eat before dawn and grow hungry by noon. A keeper must now feed at four.
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Maine Provision and Cold Storage Company
Mr. Vose
Fire Department
Dore Street
Portland Daily Press
Lord Tankerville the Evangelical Peer of Chillingham
Lord Tankerville famed as a handsome social figure in early life he excelled in manly pursuits sang beautifully and walked well. Later embraced evangelical revivalism retiring from worldly life and renouncing popular songs keeping a bright temper despite personal losses. The new earl tours for preaching in Northumberland and beyond often singing hymns on the harmonium in imitation of Sankey.
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Lord Tankerville
London
Harrow
George Butler
Christ Church
Earl of Tankerville
Northumberland
Sankey
Manchester Guardian
A Minister's Good Work With Chamberlains Remedy
Rev A A Power of Emporia Kan shares a dramatic cure tale for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after a neighbor with prolonged illness found no relief from doctors. He praises the medicine and urges regular bowel movement with Chamberlains Tablets, sold by S Kingston.
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Rev
A. A. Power
Emporia
Kan
Chamberlain
S. Kingston
Expressions of Idea and Human Presence by George Eliot
A reflection on how ideas sometimes appear as ghostly notions until embodied by living humans. When real people speak and feel with warmth and sincerity their presence becomes a powerful force that lures us with undeniable appeal and inner conflict.
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George Eliot
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