For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos a social study
A review of the historical novel set in the Carpathian Mountains where Taras a Lowlander leads peasant justice against feudal exactions. The work explores imperfect justice and the dangers of vigilantism, praising its social insight while noting verbose Germanic narration.
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Scott
Carpathian Mountains
Taras
Paris
Vienna
Austria
Carpathian
Karl Emil Franzos
Julie Sutter
George MacDonald
Ll.d
New York
Harper & Bros
Ship News Placement Cited Across Pages
The notice indicates the Ship News section will be located on page three while references to additional content appear on pages six and seven. Readers are advised to locate shipping updates and related notices across the specified pages for full details.
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Ship News
Rumors Target Crown Prince in Berlin Crisis Over Victoria Marriage
Reports from Berlin suggest forces influence the current crisis and that Crown Prince may be the prime mover in Bismarck's opposition to Princess Victoria's marriage to Alexander Battenberg. The chancellor may back the successor to the throne to oppose reforms favored by the Emperor and Empress. Family matters are less the cause than a chance to confront royal policy.
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Berlin
Bismarck
Victoria
Alexander of Battenberg
Prussia
General Boulangers Secret Endorsements Undercut Public Stance
Private dispatches published in a Paris newspaper reveal that General Boulangers secretly approved partisan steps to back his name as a deputy candidate while publicly disavowing responsibility. The disclosure underscores his habit of equivocation and suggests his temporary popularity may fade quickly, diminishing fears of decisive anti government action.
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General Boulanger
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Clermont-Ferrand
Nomination of Henry B Loverine For U S Marshal
The nomination of Henry B Loverine to be United States marshal for the district is open to no objection on fitness. His character is above reproach and his abilities exceed the requirements. The appointment would be seen as political credit to the last Democratic convention faction and civil service reform policy.
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Henry B. Loverine
United States
Lovenrina
Open Rhode Island vote buying tale sparks reform hope
The Providence Journal accuses open vote buying in Rhode Island last week, while the Advertiser calls it an old story. The piece notes long standing voter corruption in Rhode Island, but says a reputable journal finally forces attention and blush, signaling a beginning to electoral purification.
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Providence Journal
Rhode Island
Organic
High License Bill Faces Senate Resistance in New York
The New York high license bill seems unlikely to reach Governor HI for a veto due to Republican Senate recalcitrance. Only sixteen votes appear solid, with seventeen needed, as objectors oppose the beer tax set between 100 and 490 dollars. The Crespy bill becomes a party test in the House, while Senate objectors gain backing from a solid Democratic opposition. It is feared the measure may fail.
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New York
Senate
Questioning the effect of treatment on party virtue estimate
The passage notes skepticism that the popular estimate of party virtue will rise due to the treatment under discussion. It emphasizes doubt about the treatment altering public perception or moral judgments of the party involved.
Supreme Court upholds state power to ban oleomargarine
The Supreme Court affirms state authority to prohibit manufacture and sale of oleomargarine under police powers, noting Pennsylvania’s law is largely symbolic in effect. The ruling confines future oleomargarine challenges to state courts, contrasting with New York’s view that fraud could be punished but honest sale barred only by state law.
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United States Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Kansas
New York Court of Appeals
Opposition to Underground Electric Conduits in City Streets
The city board approves a conduit franchise for buried electrical wires, but critics argue it risks massive electricity waste, interferes with telegraph and telephone lines, and undermines public rights. They urge comprehensive study of scientific issues before any private grant digs up streets.
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Board of Aldermen
Brooklyn Board of Commissioners For Electric Subways
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
The Potato Tax Should Be Repealed
In a time of shortage the fifteen cent per bushel customs duty on potatoes raises food costs for the poor. Imported tubers from Canada and Scotland supplement scarce native stock, but the tax inflates prices and burdens daily meals, with officials wasting more than the revenue. Repeal urged.
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Custom House
Maritime
Canada
Scotland
Boston
Barrier Aide Aims to Hinder Foreign Food Imports
A policy effort seeks to throw a barrier in the way of foreign importations of food, aiming to protect domestic markets and adjust trade dynamics. The initiative signals broader moves to regulate international food flow and support local producers.
Self-respect in Liberals as Tory squires face change
The piece argues Liberals banking on Tory discontent with the local government bill misread the squires. It cites the Saturday Review noting country gentlemen will endure reforms to preserve social standing, and that the Conservatives will align with Radical principles without major splits. It also discusses Germany’s wages, tariffs, emigration, and the social impact of protective measures.
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Saturday Review
Mr. Gladstone
Birch
Lord Siinsbury
Pool-Bal
Wages and tariff in Germany debated in 1888 notes
A correspondent questions the claim that Germany’s tariff raised wages, citing Henry Casar Lopas and Butterworth. The piece reviews a 1848–1886 Hamburg building commission wage table from the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, noting policy shifts and tool provisioning changes since 1868 and 1874.
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Germany
Burtenworth
Butterworth
Henry Casar Lopas
Harvard Finance Club
Free Trader
Bureau of Statistics
Washington
Building Commission
Hamburg
Masona
Mch
Tod
Hamlet Debut Fails to Please New York Audience
A New York theatre Monday hosted James Owen O Connor in Hamlet where the audience and critics ridiculed his performance. His stage missteps and back turned antics drew roars, fainting actors, and a sharp Times critique. The piece notes both audience uproar and the serious view that such reverence ruins a noble work.
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New York
Metor
James Owen O’connor
Hamlet
O'Connor
McCunnollan
Boor
Irvine
Guyed
Times
Mr. O'Connor
O’connor
Mr. O’connor
Lile
Sunday Openings for Museum Benefit
A movement to open the Natural History Society museum on Sundays aims to popularize science by offering study opportunities outside regular work hours. If adopted, it would provide public access and enhance educational outreach through flexible scheduling.
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Natural History Museum
Museum of the Natural History Society
Weathering April’s sharp but fleeting storm in Boston
In Boston on Washington Street I note a crowd returning shoppers undisturbed by a light rain and sleet. The piece reflects on spring’s gradual signs from crocuses to tulips, the Public Garden, and Granary burial ground, and critiques stage realism and literary criticism while praising the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and urging support.
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Washington Street
Massachusetts Society For Prevention of Cruelty
Taverner
Mozart Requiem Presented At Music Hall This Afternoon
The Mozart Requiem will be repeated at Music Hall this afternoon for suburbans and others who missed last night's fine performance. The entire programme includes vocal numbers from the Marriage of Figure and the Magic Flute by Mme Lehmann, Miss Meissinger, Mr Kaliseh and Mr Fischer. Concert begins at 2 30.
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Music Hall
Mme. Lehmann
Miss Meissinger
Mr. Kaliseh
Mr. Fischer
Sugar standpoints debate bounty to growers
Current comment argues against direct bounty for sugar growers. The piece contends the proposal is absurd and mere optics to satisfy consistency, asserting sugar growing warrants protection like any other industry and criticizing placing it on the free list in one move.
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N. O. Picayune
House committee action on dependent pension bill criticized
The opinion urges that the House committee seeks a higher bid to sway veterans votes, calling the move not creditable. It predicts Senate approval or veto by the President, and condemns the partisan handling as shallow politics lacking public regard for taxpayers and veterans. The piece warns both parties have failed to treat the bill on its merits.
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House Committee
Senate
House
N. Y. Times (Ltd
Letter From Roscoe Conkling on Grant Dinner
A 1883 correspondence from Roscoe Conkling declines a Massachusetts Club Grant birthday dinner invitation at Vendome. He sends thanks, praises Grant as brave and great, and expresses heartfelt thoughts with editorials of respect.
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Conkling
Massachusetts Club
Roscoe Conkling
Vendome
Wall Street
George A. O. Ernst
Sir
Grant
Rosco
All Sorts of Odds and Ends in One Page
A sampling of brief items touches on politics, hunting schemes in Georgia, a tobacco bulletproof claim on a Missouri train, and quips about newspapers. It notes Senator Hawley’s wife handling letters, a Louisiana or Georgia hunting ground plan, a man saved by tobacco on a train, and various humorous excerpts from papers like the New York Sun and Hartford Post alongside Claflin University’s 660 students and remarks on race progress in South Carolina.
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Hawley
New York Press
Manchester Union
Twiggs County
Gordon
Smith
Brown
Texas
Republican Springfield Union
Republican Party
M. Blavier
North Pole
Gulf Stream
Europe
Wilmington
American Independence McClintock
Directory
Independence
Delaware
New Castle
Kent
Sussex
Blaine
Marco Bozzaris
Fitz Greene Halleck
Constantinople
N. Y
Chicago
Breezy
Claflin University
Orangeburg
S. C
Dunton
South Carolina
Charleston News and Courier
The
Times
Etiquette Query: What Should a President’s Wife Call Him
A New York World note surveys etiquette precedents on how a president’s wife should address her husband. It cites examples from Mrs. Cleveland to Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Lincoln, Garfield, and asks for guidance when no clear rule exists.
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C. FP. Huntington
San Francisco
Pacific
England
Dickinson
Detroit
Washington
Labouchere
Prince Imperial
Russia
Hermann Kaulbach
Munich
Count Zang
Vienna
Paris
James Grant Wilson
Atlanta
McPherson
Wilson
Cleveland
Frank
Martha Washington
George
White House
Held by the Enemy at Park Excites Strong Praise
Dramatic notes hail Mr. Gillette's Held by the Enemy at the Park as highly commendable with a sharper third act climax. Performers Gillette and Dupree receive praise for their roles as war correspondent and Susan McCreery. Upcoming honors include Natural Gas夜 benefit by Philip J. Shea and tributes at the ninth anniversary with knapsack souvenirs.
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Henrietta
Hollis Street Theatre
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GrorGre F. Lry- Coln
Aix-la-Chapelle
Porter
Crefeld
Cologne
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Mayence
Switzler
Dureanu
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Treasury Department
Washington, D. C
Robin
Robins
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Jekyll To Hyde
New York Nation
Atheneum
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