Naval contingent in the militia debated in Legislature
Lt Long urged a naval contingent in the militia during a military affairs hearing. Lt Soley said initial state costs would be under 10 000 dollars. The Post argues for Congress to grant 350 000 dollars for clerk hire to classify first class offices, with Dickinson's backing noted by a Washington correspondent.
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Committee On Military Affairs
Long
SoLey
Congress
Washington
Dickinson
Rhode Island elects Republican ticket and legislature
Republicans win state offices and control of the legislature in Rhode Island. The independent vote kept the majority to about 1600, with Lieutenant Governor candidate Lapham failing to keep pace. The suffrage amendment goes down by around 500, and the new legislature secures a United States Senate seat for the party amid heavy voting and noted corrupt practices.
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Rhode Island
Lapham
United States
Senate approves Breck amendment on bond purchases
The Senate’s 88 to 13 vote endorses Breck’s plan to buy silver bullion with Treasury funds when national banks surrender circulation. It expands the bill beyond the House form, signaling alarm over coinage policy and Treasury vaults holding vast silver. The move contrasts with a conservative route and shows finance excesses.
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Mr. Breck
United States
Senate
House
Two Plans for Handling Fisheries Treaty Criticism
Washington despatches report opposition senators consider either a general complaint or a detailed State Department rewrite of the fisheries treaty. Critics like Senator Frye argue reform would expose fishermen’s earlier demands, as the treaty largely reflects their position.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
State Department
Frye
Letter criticizes Chicago inter Ocean misstatements on Cobden Club
Our London correspondent rebuts a Chicago Inter Ocean article that claimed the Cobden Club of England is composed of Britain’s rulers. He calls the assertion “most unlucky” and argues the piece misstates the club’s makeup, noting only possible exception of Mr.
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London
Chicago inter-Ocean
Cobden Club
England
Great “Britain
Protection and free trade debate misstates London unemployment
Goschen and Lord Salisbury are depicted as favoring protection over free trade. The Inter Ocean is accused of distortions about a million starving mechanics in London, a figure deemed false. The writer's unemployment estimates are challenged, with 40,000 out of work claimed as a more plausible figure given Trafalgar Square protests.
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Goschen
Lord Salispury
Coquet
Inter-Ocean Falls
England
Cobden Club
London
Trafalgar Square
Inter-Ocean
The Lost Meaning of Fast Day in Boston
The executive summons citizens to assemble or enjoy seaside trips, regattas, theatres, and sports as Boston observes a fast day that has largely lost its religious aim. The piece argues proclaiming a feast and holiday of sports would better reflect the season and public mood.
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Commonwealth
Boston
Wealth Division In US and England Trade Effects
The article argues wealth concentrates among the few in the United States due to tariff-restricted markets and concentrated management. In England, open global markets curb vast fortunes while more gainful small incomes rise. It notes the middle class shrinks as wages rise, contrasting with English trends toward middle- and higher-income growth.
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United States
England
Wealth, Trade Fluctuations, and the Middle Class
The piece argues unchecked over production and tariff policy hurt small earners while enabling the wealthy to prosper in booms. It warns against drastic wealth inequality, calls for laws favoring a robust middle class, and critiques tariffs for decimating middle income holders to enrich a few.
Neutrality Break Ends Burlington Strikes Amid Public Danger
Chicago rail workers withdraw sympathy boycott on Burlington system ending a tense stalemate. The shift halts violence risk, preserves wages for connecting roads, and exposes the limits of the Locomotive Engineers union power. Critics warn of language drift and French terms corrupting English in theatre criticism.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Burlington
Artruud
Burlington Road
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Artrour
The English Theatre Footnotes on Borrowed French Terms
An English critic notes the poverty of everyday theatrical language and the heavy borrowing from French. He warns that direct transplantation or modified forms risk linguistic imbalance and harms the English stage vocabulary.
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England
Lever de Rideau
Tragddienne
Comédienne
Jeune
Correspondent Defends Critics Over La Tosca and Measure for Measure
A reader rebukes Post and Tribune critics for failing to review La Tosca by Miss Davenport and Measure for Measure by Mme. Mopsiska, arguing critics should assess works honestly even if immoral. The piece contends a critic must discuss flaws and uphold public duty, not become a mere moralist or praise-monger.
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New York Tribune
Miss Davenport
Mme. Mopsiska
Post
New York
The
Tribune
New York World Sees Great Light on City Journalism
The New York World laments its city’s journalism being interrupted by street clashes and javelin throwing, claiming no other large U.S. city faces such disruptions as often as New York. The piece frames the issue as a call to uphold proper journalistic conduct amid chaos.
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New York
Describing a Nations Plea for Peace in Press Reform
A city speaks on its professed wish to live in peace and its repentance, arguing that the current woes of the New York press are not its fault. The plea claims innocence with the line thou canst not say I did it, echoing a Shakespearean evasiveness.
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New York
Macbeth
Notable Society News and Distinguished Visitors Abroad
Personal notes reveal Mr. J. Beaver Webb building a cottage at Bar Harbor while Mrs. Bloomfield Moore plans a controversial Austrian hospital experimenting with electricity on incurable patients. Ex-Queen of Naples focuses on horse racing in exile France, and the Henschels tour Russia with introductions to high officials. Pattison Jolly of Dublin dies at 104, the world’s oldest printer. Supreme Court justices Lamar and Harlan own no houses in Washington, Mrs. Lamar planning to buy one. Ezekiel E. Smith could join Liberia’s diplomatic list. Murat Halstead’s writing criticized as illegible, rivaled by Houghton secretary Duval. Young artist Henry L. Levy rises from wall street to study art in France, earning top honors at Beaux-Arts. Three new partners join Houghton Mifflin & Co: Thurlow Weed Barnes, James Murray Kay, and H. O. Houghton Jr. Barnes, a Harvard graduate, previously worked Albany Journal. Kay, Edinburgh native, aided railroad links. Houghton Jr., Harvard ’77, leads manufacturing duties.
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J. Beaver Webb
Bar Harbor
Bloomfield Moore
Austria
Naples
France
Georg Henschel
Russia
Princess of Wales
Czarina
Pattison Jolly
Dublin
Ireland
Edinburgh Journal
Lamar and
Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Fayetteville
N. C
Senate
Liberia
Smith
Murat Halstead
Greeley
H. C. Duval
Chauncey Mitchell Depew
New York
Halstead
Henry L. Levy
New Yorker
Wall Street
Levy
L’ecole Des Beaux-Arts
Thurlow Weed Barnes
James Murray Kay
H. O. Houghton, Jr
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Barnes
Harvard
Albany
N. Y
Albany Journal
Kay
St. John
N. B
Boston
Edinburgh
Aspinwall Hill
Brookline
Damrosch Lectures On Wagner in Chickering Hall
Walter Damrosch of New York opened a six lecture series on Wagner's Nibelungen Trilogy with Rheingold and the first act of Die Walkure. His conversational piano illustrations drew a good audience though some felt deeper analysis would have benefited the talk. The next lecture, April 11, will cover the remaining acts of Die Walkure. Richard Heard.
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Damrosch
Chickering Hall
Walter Damrosch
New York
Wagner
Richard Heard
Wariness on Ohio GOP nominee choice hints at Sherman's rival
The Ohio Ideal notes Mr. Sherman faces treason accusations within his state as he endures tough times fromquad rennial booms. A noisy rival like Foraker is seen as closer to the ideal Republican presidential candidate than the seasoned Sherman.
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Sherman
Foraker
Washington Post
Revenue reform revival driven by tariff message
The protective press tone shifts as Republicans and farmers press for tariff relief. The president's tariff message is hailed as a pivotal, far reaching push for revenue reform, gaining unprecedented publicity and shaping public home discussions nationwide.
Policy of Obstruction in Tariff Report Critique
The Providence Journal notes the minority on the ways and means panel pushes a partisan tariff reform critique. It argues the report overuses free trade framing, weakens reform goals, and promotes obstructionism, a stance Republicans cannot afford to have from their leaders in Congress.
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Ways and Means Committee
House
Republican Party
Congress
Providence Journal
Boston Dog Show Notes and Castle Island History
In Boston I observed the dog show focusing on the round headed bull-terriers and Irish setters, noting a mixed showing and anticipations for improved judging rules. The article then surveys Castle Island Fort Independence history from its 17th century origins, defenses, changes under Adams, Civil War use, and its scenic harbor setting, interwoven with comments on minstrel stage acts and judicial end men in the Boston theatre scene.
From Dan to Beersheba in the April Century
The April Century opens with Oriental travel sketches by Edward L. Wilson and an extended Henry James tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson. James lauds Stevenson as a living model of character, not merely a writer, and the issue previews Roosevelt, Kennan, Munger, Pope, Eggleston, Allen, Lazarus, Edith Thomas, and Page with literature, poetry, and historical notes.
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Edward L. Wilson
Dan
Beersheba
Henry James
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Mr. James
Mr. Stevenson
Pat
Theodore Roosevelt
F. Remington
Mer. Roosevelt
George Kennan
Telegraph
Professor Morse
Alfred Vail
Edward Eggleston
the Graysons
James Lane Alien
Kentucky
Bluebird
Robin
Simeon Pease Cheney
John Vance Cheney
Emma Lazarus
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Edith M. Thomas
Marie Phil
Thomas Nelson
A Patchwork of Taxes Trades and Tales from April
A collage of quotes and anecdotes on April bills embezzlement poverty and wealth, jockey earnings, priestly musings, Japanese art, and Moorish royal railways. It riffs on finance fashion art and travel while nodding to notable figures and places.
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