Will Harrison Yield to Postponing Civil Service Rules
Washington April 23 strong effort to secure another postponement of applying civil service rules to the railway mail service. Post Office officials and Wanamaker push for delay while Lyman opposes. The lists ready May 1, and vacancy certifications will follow. The piece notes political pressure and pledges in the president’s stance.
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United Kingdom
Washixcton
Chicago
Post Office
Wanamaker
Civil Service
Lyman
Clarkson
Bell
Might
Main
Post Office Department
Cleveland
R. Oberly
Senate
Congress
Harrison
United Kingdom Trade Revival Cited By Consul General
Consul General Waller in London reports a general revival in UK trade and commerce in 1888 with improved volume and quality across industries, noting shipbuilding gains and favorable US-UK trade balances. He links crime decline over a decade to broader education expansion.
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United Kingdom
Waller
London
Department of State
United States
Pension Granted for Old War Injury in Stillwell Case
Assistant Secretary Bussey granted the motion for reconsideration of Jesse M. Stillwell of Company A, Seventieth Ohio Volunteers, for back injury suffered about December 24, 1863 when struck by a comrade while seated by his tent. The decision states the government must protect soldiers and that he is entitled to pension benefits. Promotions follow: Col David L. Magruder retires at 64. Vallum to colonel. Warren to lieutenant colonel. Hanne to major. Ewing to captain. vacancy created for a first lieutenant surgeon appointment by the President.
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Bussey
Jesse M. Stillwell
Seventieth
Ohio Volunteers
David L. Magruder
Edward F. Vallum
A. Webster Warren
J. Victor D. Hanne
Charles B. Ewing
Meaning of "Total Disability" overturns pension rule
Corporal Tanner grants John Webb an increase from 24 to 80 dollars monthly for total disability in the foot, redefining total disability as the inability to perform ordinary manual labor. The ruling sets a broader standard beyond complete uselessness. A second note records a New Custom House ruling on weighting boards for imported woollen goods, weighing one board out of ten as the average.
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Corporal Tanner
Commissioner of Pensions
John Webb
Indiana Cavalry
Webb
Congress
Custom House
Tichenor
New York weigh and multiply method praised at conference
A New York weighed one board and multiplied the result by the number of pieces. The new method was recommended by the boast of local appraisers in conference at New ark.
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New York
Newark
Office Seekers Leave Lodge Abroad Ten Days
Congressman Lodge is in New York for ten days, delaying correspondence about offices until his return. No Massachusetts member of Congress remains in Washington. A national salute of thirty eight guns is ordered by the Secretary of War to mark Washington’s centenary on April 30.
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Lodge
New York
Massachusetts
Congress
Washington
Secretary of War
Straws From State Street
Reading stock drops amid reports of March earnings decline as traders remain bearish. Local market weak with short interest dominant. large Readings mortgages trade, and Ames Elevated Railway may adopt Riley system if contest withdraws. Bank statements show big shifts and freight totals remain unusually light. editor laments public losses from scarce information. CAPE Cop.
Ring and the Book discussed by Browning Society at Brunswick
The Browning Society met yesterday afternoon in Brunswick to explore The Ring and the Book. Caponsacchi was presented by Rev H G Spaulding, Pompilla by Mrs Alice Kent Robertson, the Pope by Prof Shackford, with Mr Hornbrooke leading a discussion on the poem’s lesson. Colonel T W Higginson shared thoughts on the metre of Muley ab.
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Browning Society
Brunswick
Caponsacchi
H. G. Spaulding
Pompilla
Alice Kent Robertson
Pope
Shackford
Hornbrooke
T. W. Higginson
After Election Meeting Discusses Woman Suffrage Campaign
A postvote gathering at Room 21 Bromfield Street led by Edward H. Haskell and others reviewed the suffrage campaign. Senator Gleason presided as twenty four speakers analyzed opponents and decision makers. The group declined further prohibitory legislation for now and formed a committee to advocate license voting rights for women and to organize permanently.
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Bromfield Street
Edward H. Haskell
Rufus
E. H. Capen
Tufts College
A. E. Winship
D. C. Mears
E. H. Haskell
Elijah A. Morse
B. B. Johnson
Rufus 5. Frost
Representative Manning
Carpets and Mattings Offerings From John H. Pray, Sons & Co.
This season urges replenishing household carpets and mattings and no city house offers a larger stock than John H. Pray, Sons & Co. at 558 and 560 Washington street. They also carry a full line of rugs and window shades.
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John H. Pray, Sons & Co
Washington Street
Investments in Reed & Goodspeed Mines in Utah
Mainthea Strock reports Thomas P. Boole of 15 Congress street markets a line of investment securities as agent for Reed & Goodspeed Mining Company. The company claims its Salt Lake county Utah mines in Big Cottonwood district yield profits plausibly surpassing Calumet and Hecla.
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Mainthea Strock
Thomas P. Boole
Congress Street
Reed & Goodspeed Mining Company
Calumet & Hecla Company
Big Cottonwood
Salt Lake County
Utah
G. W. Simmons & Co ads feature servant outfits
SrEecra ALty No 2 highlights waiters jackets cooks apron and butlers apron. The best hotels nationwide rely on G. W. Simmons & Co for servants outfits for seashore and mountain properties.
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SrEecra Alty
G. W. Simmons & Co
A Brilliant Pageant The Centennial Celebration Unfolds
New York on April 23 reports a grand centennial festival for Washington's inauguration. Ten committees, vast decorations, and massive funding mark preparations. McAllister episode settled as Edmund Stanton takes over. President Harrison will attend naval parade, receptions, and a three day program culminating May 1 with a grand Metropolitan Opera House banquet.
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New York
Sprcrau
Washington
Europe
Paris
Persia
Champs Elysée
McAllister
Metropolitan Opera House
William Astor
Hamilton Fish
Sidney Webster
William Waldorf Astor
William Jay
Stuyvesant Fish
Webster
William Aston
Stanton
Harrison
Governor Hill
Grant
City Hall
Centennial Hall
St. Paul’s
Whittier
Depew
Sub-Treasury Building
Schofield
Madison Square
Art Committee
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Washington Square
Union Square
Boston
Bureau of Public Comfort
G. E
Auction Sales Today at Fruit-Horatio Harms and Etchings
Auction sales are scheduled today with Fruit-Horatio Harms and Co. offering items at 11:45 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. In the afternoon C. F. Libbie and Co. will present etchings and engravings at 2:00 p.m. The notices specify the sequence and times for the offerings.
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Horatio Harms & Co
C. F. Libbie & Co
Boston Theatre Listings and Show Times
A row of theater notices lists performances at Hollis Street Theatre Adonis at 2 and 7 45, Boston Museum Rosedale at 2 and 8, Park Theatre Natural Gas at 2 and 7 45, Globe Theatre Mrs Langtry at 2, Boston Theatre Faust at 8, Cyclorama Custers Last Fight at Tremont, Howard Athenium Vacation at 2, Grand Opera Harbor Lights at 7 45, Mechanics Building Horse Show open 9 to 10 30.
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Hollis Street
Boston Museum
Rosedale
Park Theatre
Globe Theatre
Grand Opera House
Harbor Lights
Mechanics’ Building
Marriages Extracted From Winthrop to Roxbury
A list of marriage notices dated April 17 to April 23 from various locations. Arthur L. Baker wed Agnes Barclay in Winthrop. George Herbert Darling married Eliza Ann Butters in Reading. Theodore Dorr Dupee wed Mary Louise Hobart in the city. Dutton Mandell married Caroline Braman in the city. Abbie M. Anthony wed William G. Sawyer in Norton. Walter P. Sheldon married Belle Richardson in Woburn. Josiah B. Stetson wed Katie I. Land in Roxbury. S Sumner Waterhouse married Kate A. Smith in the city. Samuel F. Winslow wed Bertha Russell in the city.
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E. A. Horton
Dutton Mandell
Caroline Braman
Sawyer
Anthony
Norton
Mr. Nicholson
Abbie M. Anthony
William G. Sawyer
Waltham
Sheldon—Richardson
Woburn
Henry C. Parker
Walter P. Sheldon
Malden
Belle &. Richardson
Stetson
LAND
Rox
Death notices from city and surrounding towns
Deaths list including Stanton Blake aged 51 in Boston. Margaret Brophy 76. Annie G Bates in East Weymouth. Matthew J Barrow 31. Laura A Cammon Somerville 66. Joseph R Farwell Cambridgeport 64. Thomas Fleming Charlestown 56. Eliza J Fay Chelsea 57. Ira C Gray Reading 59. Mary Keenan city widow. Samuel Lunt Somerville 2. Mary Westcott Owen Providence. John C Park Newton 84. Deacon Silas Richardson Millis 90. Emily Thompson Stephenson Philadelphia formerly Boston. Mrs Mary A Thayer Holbrook 71. Harriet R White Omaha 68.
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Blake
Stanton Blake
George Baty Blake
H. C
John Cammon
Farwell
Cambridgeport
Joseph R. Farwell
Fleming
Charlestown
Thomas Fleming
Fay
Chelsea
Eliza J
George W. Fay
Alimere
Gray
Reading
Ira C. Gray
Keenan
Mary
Patrick J. Keenan
Lunt
Somerville
Samuel
Sol
Ada Chase Lunt
Owen
Providence
R. L
Mary Westcott Owen
Smith
Mary E. Owen
Park
Newton
John C. Park
Richardson
Silas Richardson
Millis
Stephenson
Philadelphia
Emily Thompson
George A. Stephenson
Boston
Thayer
Holbrook
Mary A
E. Wales Thayer
White
Omaha
Neb
Harriet R. White
Melrose
George W. White
Mass
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Reading General
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Legislative Committee
Riley
California
Southern Pacific Company
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Alexander Hamilton
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Seth Low
S. van Renssalaer Cruger
John C. Tomlinson
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St. Nicholas Kane
Edmund CC. Stanton
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Clarence W. Bowen
Admiral Porter
Elizabethport
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Scott
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Dunboy
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Grandison Wather
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Harry Harland
Peixada
Voisin
Jose
N. 1 Press
Boston Advertisers
Frances Hodgson Burnett
C. S. Reinhart
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Geo. B. Elliot
Jamaica Plain
Geo
Elliot
Cassell
Annie Eliot
Jane Valentine
Cassell & Company, Limited
Fourth Avenue
Back Bay
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Alex. S. Porter
T. A. Barker
Tolstoi
Crorh
Thomas Y. Fue i & Co
Five Little Peppers
Margaret Sidney
Framingham, Wass
Meredith & Nelson
WM. C. Codman
J. G. Freeman
Kilby Street
Wartner
Clinton Yarn CO
Clinton
Mass, Co
W. Norton Keld
Pemberton Square
Coschman
G. R
Harvard St
BR. G
P.K
Whitney Place
Boston Highlands
pHe Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
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Ome
D. Lothrop Company, Publishers
Langwood Hotel
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T. G. Hiler
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A. W. Carr
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Holt Co
W.W. Wheeler
Harlan
Iowa
Joan Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire St
Langwood
Langwood Park CO
Watts & Willis
Quincy Market
Sewall Place
Mile ST
Quincy
Alleyn Terrace
Hancock and
Alleyn Streets
E. Stoddard
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children
Hancock Street
Pemberton Sq
Eee
Chapman Riedesel Ave
Cambridge
Helen
Herford
Pinckney St
Architects
Gould & Angell
Tremont ST
Coffin & Henry
State St
Heston
Des Moines
Railroad Junction
Edward G. Stevens
Loston
Office of Post
Leopold Babo
Horse Show
F. W. Breed
Music Hall
F. A. Schwab
Hans von Bulow
R. M. Field
John Stetson
Langtry
J. F. Vila
J. K. Cou
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Lydia Thompson
Custer
Grand Indian Musee
Battle of Gettysburg
ST. Treatre
Iegea A
Adonis
Rice & Dixey
BIG Burlesque
Wey Electra
Sophocles
Jaiety Burlesque CO
Proctor & Mansfield
Bridget
Howard Athen Zum
DALYS
F. C. Sturtevant
Wartford
Conn
M. B. Faxon
Seedsman
South Market Street
Eureka Telephone Company
Liberty Square
Norfolk Avenue
East Chester Park
Clarence D. Washburn
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