Theosophists Hold Steinert Hall Convention
The American Theosophical Society held a Steinert Hall gathering with Annie Besant and Mrs. Blavatsky’s letters shaping the program. Besant urged unity, while Judge defined Theosophy as universal brotherhood and a reform of East and West religions amid calls for nonresistance and social progress.
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William S. Judge
American Theosophical Society
the Theosophical Society
Theosophical Societies of America
Steinert Hall Yeserday
Universal Brotherhood
Madame Blavatsky
Theosophists of the
Annie Besant
Theosophists of
America
Universal Brothers” of
Mrs. Besant
Buck
Thomas
Colonel Olcutt
Olcutt
Annie Besant A Remarkable Woman and Her Work for Working Girls
English reformer Annie Besant visits Boston for the American Theosophical Society convention. The London born speaker with a radical career advocates women’s status, socialism, and Theosophy, later aiding London’s working girls through a low cost club and publishing Lucifer in English. Besant’s life includes marriage to a Besant relative, arrests, exile, and a turning point with Mme Blavatsky guiding her toward Theosophy.
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Theosophical Society
H. P. Blavatsky
Madame Blavatsky
Colonel Olcutt
Felows
Colonel Olicutt
Clcutt
Annie Besant
England
Boston
London
Walter Besant
Charles Bradlaugh
Secular Society
Mr. Bradlaugh
Mrs. Besant
Poison in whiskey kills Mrs Barnaby in Providence
Mrs. Josephine B. Barnaby dies after drinking whiskey sent from Boston with arsenic. Mrs. G. S. Worrell survived after the Colorado trip, while the liquid, deemed by Professor Sewell to hold arsenic sufficient to kill twenty, was forwarded to Providence for examination amid inquiries as officials investigate the case.
The Law of Patents For Useful Inventions reviewed
A lengthy critique extols William C. Robinson’s three volume treatise The Law of Patents For Useful Inventions. It praises exhaustive research, structure in four books, and practical guidance for patent solicitors, noting the work rests on five principles and includes extensive notes and an appendix with case digests.
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Patent Office
Courts of Law and
Equity
Department of Law
Yell
William C. Robinson
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Barnaby Will Dispute Tied to Poison Plot Claim
Henry B. Winship executor of J Barnaby’s estate and his clothing partners dispute a poisoning claim in which Mrs Barnaby died after falling ill amid a contested will. Dr Thatcher Graves, her agent, reported her illness then she died that afternoon. Graves reached Denver later. Winship says no motive for the attempt existed despite a prior will contest that yielded $100000 for Mrs Barnaby and her children.
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Henry B. Winship
J. Barnaby
Winship
Thatcher Graves
Barnaby
Memorabilia of George B Cheever reviewed in tribute volume
The memoir honors George B Cheever D D late pastor of the Church of the Puritans New York and his wife Elizabeth Wetmore Cheever through poems pictures addresses letters and prose The tribute notes Cheever's militant yet honest public life opposing Unitarianism intemperance slavery popery and social wrongs while praising his enduring impact on national affairs and civilization.
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Abraham Lincoln
White House
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Jove
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Church of the Puritans
New York
Elizabeth Wetmore Cheever
John Wiley & Sons
Boston
Damrell & Upham
Price
Education and the Higher Life by J Lanaster Spalding
Review of a volume arguing for parochial support while acknowledging diverse leadership within the movement. The author, Bishop Spaulding, blends religion with culture and science, praising freedom, growth, and truth seeking, and urging a broad humane education in the modern age. Chicago McClurg price: $1.
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Times
J. Lancaster Spalding
Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co
Price
Manliness of Christ and Christian Heroes Reviewed
Thomas Hughes and Rev Mr Adams advocate in favor of Christian manliness amid modern criticism. The book and talks draw a procession of witnesses including martyrs hermits reformers missionaries philanthropists and statesmen. The analysis argues the same spirit finds expression through diverse heroic deeds.
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Thomas Hughes
Jesus
Christ
Mr. Adams
Ouida
Father Ignatius
Tolstoi
Adams
New English and French Novel Sketches and Magellan Biography
A review summarizes Mrs. Habberton and others with notes on A Lost Illusion A Double Knot and The English Girls by Hart, The Story of an Abduction in the Seventeenth Century, Madame d Orgevant's Husband, Stories of Old New Spain Angela and Tolstoi's The Fruits of Enlightenment and The Life of Ferdinand Magellan. It praises Guillemard's Magellan bio and decorative electricity books, with pricing and edition details.
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Helen
Leslie Keith
Miss Hart
Mabel Esmonde Cahill
Ouida
Miss Broughton
England
Catherine d’ Orleans
House of Bourbon
Madame d’Orgevant
M. Henry Rabusson
Madame Orgevant
Angela
Count Tolstoi
Tanya
Toistoi
George Manville Fenn
New York
United States Book Co
Mabel Hart
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott & Co
Worthington Co
Boston
de Wolfe, Fiske & Co
New Spain
Thomas A. Janvier
D. Appleton & Co
Alice Weber
E. P. Datton & Co
Count Lyott N. Tolstoi
U.S. Book Company
Magellan
Herbert Fell
J. E. H. Gordon
B.A
Charles Scribner’s Sons
W. B. Clark & Co
E. M. Caillard
A Good Year for Tracts Washington Meeting Report
The American Tract Society held its annual Washington meeting at First Congregational Church. Ex-Justice William Strong presided, with Justice Brewer and Rev. William A. Rice speaking. The secretary’s report shows a successful year ending April 1 with receipts around 306000 dollars from all sources.
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William A. Rice
Professor Koch Endorses Soden Pas Tillies For Coughs
Dr Koch unhesitatingly recommends the Soden Pas Tilles troches for throat and lung diseases. A persistent cough improved quickly after trying them, and the troches are said to relieve throat trouble when other medicines fail. The genuine imported box bears Sir oe MacKenzie signature and recommendation. Price not shown.
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Koch
Sir Oe MacKenzie
Plea For Help Of A Physician's Wife In Striking Remedy
Mrs. A B Sumner of Lamont suffers nervous prostration and a leg sore. After five bottles of Paine's Celery Compound, the sore nearly healed and her health improved. Now aged seventy eight she reports no recurrence and endorses the medicine as restoring blood purity through nervous strength.
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