Seeming Relief From Valley Floods AmidTariff Art Debate
Reports from the Mississippi Valley suggest levee breaks are not as widespread as feared and planters warn stock moved to safety. The article also discusses tariff provisions for artworks, noting limitations on bronze and statuary and implying a shift away from broad free art aims. European critics of Irish land reform weigh in, with Lords Randoph and Spencer opposing debtor relations and praising Home Rule considerations.
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Mississippi Valley
Great River
Vicksburg
New York World
Balfowr
Great Britain
Earl Spencer
Lord Hanoopy Caurchiun
Mr.glapstone
Lord Randown
London Morning Post
Bat ¥Mour
Tax burden on veterans mirrors European military taxes
The article cites Berlin figures to claim US pension and pauper costs equal or exceed wartime taxes. It argues pensions divert funds from production, likening the system to European militaries. It warns of a public sentiment shift against funding veteran benefits via taxes.
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Europe
Berlin
the Tribune
Tribune
United States
Senate
Barr
Critics Attack Tariff Plan Shrinking Cuban Wrapper Supply
The piece argues the Republican tariff proposal would severely raise duties on tobacco wrappers, threatening the Key West cigar industry and Cuba sourced leaf. It contends the plan would devastate domestic cigar making, drive production to Cuba, and fail the protective theory it claims to pursue. It also critiques municipal reform debates, urging focus on City Hall investigations rather than charter revamps.
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McKinley
Rockland Trust
Colorado Ring
Senate
Key West
United States
Cuba
New England
Florida
Havana
Eggs Break Without Any Omelette Promise
A brief note laments broken eggs with no hint of an omelette to follow, suggesting incomplete outcomes and unfulfilled culinary expectations.
Books Here and in England in English American Markets
The April North American Review article by O B Ronce analyzes English and American book markets and critiques claims about publishing conditions. He counters the belief of a twenty to one reader ratio and cites advertising columns in sources like the Atheneum and Nation to challenge misperceptions about international copyright and market size.
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North American Review
O. B. Ronce
Bunce
Great Britain
Buck
Atheneum
Reading activity and book markets in England and America
The discussion compares English and American literary markets focusing on reading activity, author profits, and library systems. It notes George Eliot and Trollope earnings, Moore libraries, and price differences. contrasts McMaster and Green histories, Thackeray editions, and cheap books abroad versus copyrighted works. It also contains a Natick misread, a digression on city government and a telephone opera transmission, and a Natick Natick versus Mississippi comparison.
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Atheneum
Greorce Exior
Romola
Antony Trollope
Bunce
Moore
England
Buner
Mupir
Frovupe
Green
Higginson
United States
McMaster
Bunex
Boxer
Chicago Tribune replies to ten million question
Sunday last the Chicago Tribune published reader replies to what they would do with ten million dollars none urged giving it to the World’s Fair. One said he would leave the dirty town as quickly as possible another would do nothing for Chicago but one respondent showed more local interest.
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Minneapolis Journal
Chicago ‘Tribune
Tribune
Chicago
William
Bismarck
N. Y
Victoria
Hero
Alexander
B. C
America
Boston
Bobby
Mr. Post
Puck. Sheepsby
Mare
Duke of Orleans
John of Austria
Zola
France
Feathers and Feasts Toward Court Etiquette and Quack Doctors
The piece critiques Chicago anarchists and the habit of bribing voters while noting England’s Queen clings to feathered hair, a shop rents feathers for balls, and Saratoga parties reuse jewels. It also surveys China’s doctors, pitting regular practitioners who test 140 pulses against quacks, and the harsh laws aimed at quacks when patients die.
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England
Old Stagers
Saratoga
New York
Springs
China
Stand Fast Craig Royston in William Black News
Dom Pedro is ill and Dr Charcot, summoned from Paris to Cannes, deems the illness not serious. A memorial tablet marks the Edinburgh house Darwin lived in as a student. Stanley expected in London late April with a Royal Geographical Society reception May 7 at Albert House. Annie Clarke returns to the Museum play after illness, Fanny Addison having replaced her. Marion Manola missed Tremont Theatre show due to illness and Josephine Knapp filled in, with Manola likely to sing tonight.
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William Black
Craig Royston
Dom Pedro
Charcot
Cannes
Paris
Lothian Street
Edinburgh
Darwin
Stanley
London
Royal Geographical Society
The
Albert House
Annie Clarke
Museum
Fanny Addison
Marion Manola
Tremont Theatre
Josephine Knapp
Manola
Race Problem Discussion At Tremont Temple Meeting
A large audience at Tremont Temple heard a lecture on The Race Problem from a Christian point of view. Rev. O B Strayer of Georgia outlined past and present solutions, emphasizing assimilation and joint Northern Southern effort to educate and empower African Americans. Dr. Miner and Rev. Ames also spoke on education and race relations, with funds raised for the Columbus Americus Institute Work.
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Tremont Temple
Benjamin IF
Bradbury
R. G. White
Chicago
O'B. Strayer
Georgia
United States
Strayer
South
A. A. Miner
Blair
Miner
Charles G. Ames
Columbus- Americus Institute
Straver
Mier
Boston plans salt water aquarium at City Point
In Boston, a plan to start work at once on a salt water aquarium at City Point is praised for brightening Marine Park and attracting visitors. The note highlights past aquariums, funds for the Natural History Society, and a comparison of literary investment values alongside reflections on dog shows and breed notes.
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City Point
Boston
Central Court
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Natural History Society
Massachusetts Chess Association Elects New Officers
The Massachusetts Chess Association held its fourth annual meeting at 33 Pemberton Square and elected President Horace Richardson. vice presidents H. N. Stone and Howard Sargent. secretary and treasurer W. S. Kennard. executive committee E. S. Huntington, F. E. Farnum, Prentiss Cummings, W. C. Bates, and C. B. Snow.
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Massachusetts Chess Association
Pemberton Square
Horace Richardson
H. N. Stone
Howard Sargent
W. S. Kennard
E. S. Huntington
Farnum
Prentiss Cummings
W. C. Bates
C. B. Snow
Central Club Boston Holds Informal Fast Day Reception
The Central Club of Boston hosted an informal Fast Day reception at its Boylston street clubhouse from 11 am to 2 pm. Members and guests enjoyed remarks by Edmund T. Phelan and a musical sketch by Heymer and Webster, followed by a lunch in the billiard room and punch in the buffet.
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Central Club of
Boston
Boylston Street
Edmund T. Phelan
Literary notes on upcoming book and authors reshaping religion and fiction
A roundup of forthcoming works from Longmans, Green and Co and Houghton Mifflin noting Dr. Martineau and Edmund Gosse as well as Andrew Lang and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Other titles include The Master of the Magicians and The Trials of a Country Parson plus The Story of Russia and The Story of the Jews Under Rome.
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New Review
Browning
Andrew Lang
The
Longmans
Dugald Dalgetty
Barry
Daniel
Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Augustus Jessopp
D.A
Russia
Rome
Varied Society Snapshots and Literary Notes
A collage of observations on manners, technology, and fame from late 19th century mood. Topics range from electric cars and stage debuts to portraits in newspapers, social shocks, and a quirky mind blindness case. It also surveys naval developments, a joke exchange, marriage gossip, a Philadelphia bachelor’s wall of loves, and Emile Zola’s French success and earnings.
Massachusetts Men Above Party in Reform Rhetoric
A collection of editorials and opinions from diverse papers analyzing party loyalty, tariff reform, and the Mugwump debate. It discusses Massachusetts voters favoring reform over strict party lines, Lodge’s partisan stance, and contrasts with abolitionist lineage figures like Lloyd Garrison, highlighting calls for public opinion driven change.
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Massachusetts
Springfield Republican
Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mr. Lodge
Hallowell
Lloyd McKim Garrison
Garrison
Harper’s Weekly
Obituary notices for Cordis Mills and rail line official
Obituary items report Frank Cordis of Longmeadow, aged over seventy, a Cordis Mills owner and mill property investor, survived by a son Lieutenant T F Cordis and a brother Edward near Boston. Also Joseph Arey, 29, hanger master on the Boston and Maine South Reading line, Salem resident, leaves a widow and two children and to be buried Sunday with Pilgrim Fathers and railroad men in attendance. The Marquis of Normandy dies at Brigh ton Enz in his seventy second year, former governor of Nova Scotia Queensland New Zealand and Victoria.
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Frank Cordis
Longmeadow
Cordis Mills
T. F. Cordis
Springfield
Pilgrim Fathers
Marquis of Normandy
Brighton
Enz
Nova Scotia
Queensland
New Zealand
Victoria
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New York Tribune
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City Hall
Hart
O’brien
Bigelow
Curtis
Conn
Richardson
Bugber
Brooklyn
Cops
Bugbee
Low
Saow
O’ Brien
Ilait
New York Sun
Major McKinley
Sun
Casino
Mississippi
Natick
New “York
Astor Library
Frederick K. Sanders
Stock Exchange
Navy
Portsmouth
Taverner
Central Club
Cambridge
Boston Journal
Providence Journal
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