Rice Bird Pest Prompts Hawk Training Plan in South Carolina
The Agriculture Department explores hawk training to curb damage from rice birds plaguing South Carolina plantations. A farmer cites $8000 yearly losses. prior decoy hawks failed. Pennsylvania’s 50 cent bounty on hawks and owls cost the state about $90,000 while actual farmer losses were far higher, with ecological consequences from removing natural predators.
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Europe
Palmetto
England
Harry Hotspur
Pennsylvania
Enforcing Blue Laws Narrowly Persuades Washington Officials
Washington officials extend a one week grace period to enforce old blue laws. Saloons closed, many shops stay shut by police as debates rage over Sunday restrictions. Editorials in multiple papers urge full enforcement, including stopping Sunday services and presses. Rumors of mandamus actions to compel compliance spread among cigar dealers and other businesses.
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Fisheries Controversy and Butterworth Bill Progress
President Cleveland's diplomatic letter to Gloucester fishermen signals possible US Britain talks on a fisheries treaty. Ohio Representative Butterworth promotes a bill to erase customs lines on the Canadian frontier, plans to explain it to New York merchants next month, and predicts passage within two years.
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Great Britain
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Ohio
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New York
Canada
Athletic Turners Meet in Lawrence for August Prize Gymnastics
The New England Turn Bezirk Association held its quarterly session in Lawrence with forty-one delegates from Boston Manchester Providence Dedham Worcester Clinton and Lawrence. They planned August prize athletics and gymnastics instruction by Christian Eberhardt of Boston, with many spectators present.
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Lordon
New England Turn Bezirk Association
Boston
Manchester
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Providence
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Worcester
Clinton
Christian Eberhardt
Tragic suicide under distress on Marblhead wharf
MARBLHEAD April 10 This noon a party on the wharf heard a pistol shot and found John ST Ford 28 lying on the ground with a smoking pistol in his hand. He lived about twenty minutes. The act is believed to be caused by temporary insanity from family troubles.
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Marblhead
John ST. Ford
Daniel C. Linscott
Rose C. Shepard
Rose C. C. Dow
Boston
Suffolk
Boston Post
Jons W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate Promises Nervous Headache Relief
Dr. A. Kirkpatrick of Van Wert Ohio reports brilliant success using Horsford’s Acid Phosphate for chronic nervous headaches fever with profuse night sweats impotence and nervousness. The advertisement highlights health claims and medical use in the era’s tonics.
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Horsford
A. &. Kirkpatrick
van Wert
General Paine's New Steel Sloop Under Construction
Pusey and Jones of Wilmington will start work on General Paine's steel sloop. Estimated dimensions place length about 107 feet overall and 86 feet water line with a beam near 23 feet. The vessel features an overhanging bow and stern, steel angle frames, riveted bulkheads, low ballast, and a wooden centreboard with steel keel plates.
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Wilmington
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Burgess
Handel and Haydn Society Presents The Creation at Music Hall
The Handel and Haydn Society staged Haydn's The Creation in Music Hall last night, third concert of the season. Carl Zerrahn conducted with B J Lang organist Franz Kneisel leader Georg Henschel soprano and bass W J Winch tenor and chorus. The performance drew a packed audience and received high praise especially for the Henschels whose voices blended beautifully. Henschel the bass delivered notable solo and duet work while Winon showed uneven tone in higher passages though improved in concerted numbers. The chorus was precise and powerful and the overall rendition deemed exceptionally brilliant and satisfactory.
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Music Hall
Haydn
Mechanics’ Hall
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B. J. Lang
Franz Kneisel
Georg Henschel
W. J. Winch
Henschel
Mr. Henschel
Winen
Louis Maas Concert Ends Notable Miller Hall Series
The fourth and final Louis Maas concert in Miller Hall featured Franz Kneisel Emanuel Fiedler Louis Svecenski and Fritz Giese. The program included Brahms piano quartet op 26 Reinecke piano quintet op 88 and Maas own well regarded sonata op 19. The Reinecke quintet and Brahms quartet were new to the series and performed with notable brilliance and musicality. The season’s concert series is praised as among the city's best with well chosen programs and broad audience enjoyment.
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Benefit concert planned for late Councilman Denny’s friends
At a Walker House meeting presided by David F. Barry the Friends of the Late Ex Councilman Thomas J. Denny arranged a Sunday April 17 Boston Theatre benefit concert. J H ONeill served as secretary and Mayor O'Brien as treasurer. A $10 subscription list opened with eighteen names. Fire and burglar proof safes by E R Morse Sate Company exhibited at 76 and 78 Sudbury Street promise solid iron shells and enhanced fire resistance.
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Walker House
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Sudbury Street
John T Raymond Dead in Indiana at 60
John T Raymond the actor died in Evansville Indiana at 1 15 am after arriving ill from an intestinal disorder with heart trouble. His family is in New York and he had a long career beginning in Buffalo in 1856 and reaching fame as Colonel Sellers in The Gilded Age. He faced financial ups and downs and remained a temperate, generous figure through a life of stage work.
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Ind
John T. Raymond
New York
Mr. Raymond
Raymond
Buffalo
Stephen ‘the Hunchback
Thomas Carr
Barton Hill
John O’brien
Mobile
Laura Keene
America
England
Jefferson
Sothern
Paris
Mark Twain
California
Court of Arbitration
Mark ‘Twain
Hartford
Bartley Campbell
Julian Magnus
Miss Gilder
Colonel Sellers
Canada
Last appearance in this city last winter recalls a lodge member
A fragment notes a man, identified as a member of the St. Louis Lodge of an unspecified order, marking his last appearance in this city last winter. Further details are missing from the readable text.
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Lodge
Multiple Deaths Reported Across Cities In 19th Century Obituaries
A series of death notices recounts the passing of Theodore N. Taylor of Malden aged 41 from pneumonia, and U.S. Navy chief engineer George Purdy Hunt of the Juniata at sea. Other obituaries include Isaac N. Metcalf in Worcester, Elisha Brimhall in Clinton, John B. Windsor in Hartford, Henry Bonney Turner in Lewiston, Dr. J. J. Jacques in Waterbury, Rev. Edward G. Taylor in Buffalo, and Judge William Strong in Portland. The notices describe lifetimes of public service, professional leadership, and family losses across several states and cities.
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Parker Street
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Chelsea
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Shekinah
Royal Arcanum
George Purdy Hunt
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Pacific
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Catalonia
Liverpool
Boston
Engineer Hunt
Brighton
Isaac N. Metcalf
Worcester County Musical Association
Worcester
Metcalf
Handel and Haydn Society
David
Elisha Brimhall
Lancaster National Bank
Clinton
Republican State Central Committee
State Senate
Ohn B. Windsor
Foreist and Windsor Company
Windsor Locks
Foreist Steel Company
Bridgeport
Hartford
Conn
Tariff Reform Argument At New England Club Meeting
Harvey N. Shepard, president of the New England Club, urged tariff reform in a speech contrasting past protectionist beliefs with current views. He argued protection is an unjust tax, explaining how duties fail to raise prices enough to deter imports and harm consumers, then warned of the loss of foreign trade and government revenues if protection overreaches.
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Maine
Shepard
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Hopedale
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Boston
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United States
Sunday on the Common in July Sabbath mood
The Boston Common hosted a regular July Sunday scene with a brown midsummer lawn, many resting on the grass, a Gospel sermon near the bandstand, families picnicking, and Salvation Army music shaping an exceptional spring day contrasting with last week’s ten inches of snow and sleighing.
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Central Labor Union reacts to strikes and charter issue
The Central Labor Union met in New Era Hall with President David H. Biggs presiding. Fifteen new delegations admitted. Fifty dollars to the John Swinton meeting and one hundred dollars to the striking granite cutters. Resolutions opposing West End Land Company and Beverly Farms division were adopted. Legislative committee to publish resolutions to every Representative.
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New Era Hall
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Beverly Farms
Amusements Theater Advertisements and Showtimes
Various shows listed with times across Boston venues. Notable entries include Passing Shadows at enet Theatre, The Earl starring George Riddle, Masks and Faces at Boston Museum, Ruddigore at The Theatre, Fédora with Fanny Davenport at Park Theatre, Wallick's Cattle King at Howard Athenium, The Red Fox daily matinee at two oclock.
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Hollis Street
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Clarke
Auction Sale Notices From Leonard & Co and Real Estate
Sales by auction include Books by Leonard & Co at 10 4 m and 3 p.m. Tuesday, fruit Horatio cars at 12 m, and real estate by S. R Knights at 4 p.m. Obvious items listed for public sale with times and organizers.
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Marriages in Braintree and Boston on April 7
In Braintree, April 7, Rev A A Ellsworth joined E H Matherson of East Weymouth with Mrs Flora Stoddard of Braintree. In Boston, April 7, Rev N B Jones Jr united Andrew J Pomeroy with Alice F Coe in marriage.
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Alice F. Coe
Death notices multiple near Boston area with dates in April
Obituaries list for Walpole Oakland Charlestown Dorchester Malden Somerville Newton Chelsea and Boston Highlands. Includes Mary Buffum Lucretia Curtis Mary Greenough Harriett Jaques Grace Kimball J Edward Knowlton Austin Maynard Helen Porter Sylvina Shepard Stillman Spaulding Denis Tully E W Wheelock Mary A Winch Eliza Young with ages from 2 to 86 and funeral details for several.
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Jaques
Dorchester
Harriett Jayues
Kimball
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Knowlton
Malden
J. Edward Knowlton
Maynard
Somerville
Austin Woodberry
Everett A
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Neponset
Helen M
Whitcomb Porter
Shepard
Newton
Sylvina F. Shepard
Spaulding
Newton Centre
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Tully
Newton Street
Denis H. Tully
Church of the Immaculate Conversa
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Gardner Street
Chelsea
Uesday
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Mary A
John Winch
Young
Boston Highlands
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