Issue No. 72 of the Manchester weekly trade journal The Textile Mercury, dated 6 September 1890, covering the cotton, wool, silk, linen and jute industries. Editorials deal with cotton speculation, the Trades-Union Congress, the McKinley tariff, a threatened spinners' strike at Farnworth and the centenary of Samuel Slater's Pawtucket mill. The designing section gives fancy diagonals for dress material, Galatea striped linen, shirtings and the arrangement of floral figures, with drafts and pegging plans. Other items include a feature on John Whiteley and Sons' card clothing works at Halifax, dyeing and calico-printing recipes, the Dundee textile industries, market reports, company news and patent abstracts.