Moderation in Summer Exercise in Boston Opinion
In Boston the writer argues for moderate summer exercise rather than excess or inactivity. He cites skin activity in heat, preferred morning or evening workouts, and warns against extreme schedules while noting behaviors of conductors, workers near the waterfront, and the poor who seek cooling near water. He admires a gentle cop in tending sleepers and reflects on tramp life as a counterpoint to artificial city routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Athletic Club
Lowell
Taverner
Emperor William to England Brief Visit Then Antwerp
The Boston Post notes Emperor William arrives in England for a brief stay. After naval and military reviews next week he will travel to Antwerp. Possible incognito London visit discussed, but uncertain. Questions rise about motives for crossing the Channel and the British display of power.
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William
England
Antwerp
London
Ohio Republicans Seek Harmony in Forked Fortunes
Wandering Ohio Republicans speak up on home policy and Governor Foraker. Murat Hatstead and Senator Sherman letters accompany Halstead’s pledge to join the Ohio campaign. Leaders declare personal feuds are ended, with politics of friendship shaping the fate of Foraker and potential U.S. Senate ambitions.
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Ohio
Forakee
Murat Hat- Stead
Sherman
Halstead
United States Senate
Foraker
The Hon Henry Casper Lodge Sounds Off on Patronage
The Plymouth celebration featured Henry Casper Lodge denouncing patronage as a core public life evil. He urged Congressmen not to become machines for patronage and warned such spoils systems are unworthy of American intelligence. He invited figures like Banks and McCarthy to reflect on the remarks.
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Henry Casper Lodge
Plymouth
General Banks
Jerry McCarthy
LopGe
New York World's Fair 1892 Debate Draws City Controversy
Across the nation other cities slight New York for the 1892 World’s Fair plan, arguing the city is not the sole viable site. Philadelphia manufacturers mock New York as unsuitable, citing free trade nations and a strong Democratic majority as flaws in its claim.
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Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Free Trade Nations
Chicago as railroad hub and gateway to the Americas
The Chicago News extols the city as the world’s greatest railroad center located at the continent’s heart. It argues Chicago sits at a strategic vantage for viewing America and welcomes international visitors who have crossed vast seas, urging exploration beyond the eastern coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
North America
Americas
America
Argument on Center of the Country Versus New York City
A debate on regional representation questions whether visitors should be directed to the country’s center rather than New York. The writer notes the nation’s preference for New York despite the city’s perceived arrogance in its claims.
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New York
Chamberlain’s sudden shift draws scrutiny and debate
A Greenwich speech by Joseph Chamberlain denounces Radical aims while praising conservative lines, highlighting a rapid, perhaps opportunistic, political realignment. Critics label him a time-server, questioning his leadership prospects amid past radical ties and present critical stance.
Pilgrims Monument Dedication Honors enduring American spirit
The Plymouth Pilgrims monument completes a thirty year quest, symbolizing the enduring American spirit and the unity of past and present. Breckinridge delivers a notable oration on representative government with the Mayflower cabin document prefiguring the Constitution, while O Reillys poem adds lyrical grace to the ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Breckinridge
United States
O’ Reilly
The New Jersey Floods Damages and Dams Questioned
The floods in New Jersey cause heavy losses with Plainfield facing a quarter of a million dollars in damage and other areas also spending heavily to clear the disaster. The piece notes insecure dams along the Orange Valley, especially Feltville, and compares the situation to Johnstown while warning about potential loss of life if such structures fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Plainfield
Johnstown
Conemaugh Valley
Orange Valley
Feltville
Reckless forest destruction blamed for New Jersey floods
The article argues floods in New Jersey stem from deforestation atop mountains and poorly aged dams. It cites a dam built for $100 by a wealthy builder, later decaying, with landowners flooded and lawsuits ongoing after one death. It warns nature’s recklessness and urges forest conservation to prevent repeats like Johnstown.
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Fir
Springfield
Frexr
New Jersey
New
Tersey
Orange Valley
Johnstown
Novelists on novels at Deerfield Summer School
At Deerfield several speakers discuss the novel theme during a closing session. Mixed views arise about the future of fiction with praise for authentic imagination and criticism of overworked sentiment. Mr James’s letter to the school offers a sly counterpoint to the audience’s concerns.
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Deerfield
Chicago Women’s Club
Deerfield School
Lincolly
Buack
Harpy
James
Doctor Hammond Tests Lamb Based Elixir Of Life
Dr W A Hammond experiments with Dr Brown Sequaras elixir of life using lamb derived essence injected into a decrepit patient. Work began a week ago with leg treatments every other day and rapid signs of renewed vitality by day three, raising questions about the elixir’s true value.
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W. A. Hammond
Hammond
English syndicate plans trust to control ballet dancers
The piece discusses a proposed trust by English buyers to dominate the market for ballet dancers in the West. It claims three thousand dancers are enlisted and asserts that stage girls will be hired exclusively through these organizers, implying broad, expandable control over the entertainment workforce. The remark hints managers will rely on this group for hiring, signaling a widening of the trust concept.
World admits July circulation reachs over eleven million copies
The New York World openly concedes a July total circulation of 11,000,700 copies, averaging 354,861 daily. The paper asks what proves it is not a legitimate newspaper, hinting at doubts about its own credibility.
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New York World
Notable 19th Century Figures in Brief Form
Card inal Lavigerie recovers from critical illness. S L M Barlow left about 2 000 000 dollars from law practice. President Harrison may visit Maine after Bar Harbor. Lord Tennyson rumored to write a royal marriage poem but no work appeared. Archduchess Stephanie to leave Austria. Francis Joseph provides well. Carl Schurz and family sailed to Europe aboard Columbia from New York. Edward Bryant named dean at Wisconsin State University Law Faculty. formerly Assistant Attorney General Post Office. Colonel North, “the Chilian nitrate king,” pays 1 725 000 dollars yearly nitrate export duties. building estate near London. Hartford prepares for Stowe pageant in September. Newport to honor Howe on Aug 13. Benjamin Owen, late Champion Michigan resident, pupil of Jenny Lind, composer of Ave Maria, Sweden-born. He toured with Ole Bull and Kellogg. educated in Sweden.
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Cardinal Lavigerie
S.L. M. Barlow
Harrison
Maine
Mr. Blaine
Bar Harbor
Lord Tennyson
Stephanie
Rudolph
Austria
Francis Joseph
Carl Schurz
Europe
New York
Columbia
Edward Bryant
Law
Wisconsin State University
Post Office
Colonel North
England
London
Eng
Hartford
Conn
Boston
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Newport
Julia Ward Howe
Benjamin Owen
Champion
Mich
Jenny Lind
Hjorlsborg
Owen
Ole Bull
Clara Louise Kellogg
Sweden
Roosevelt urged to investigate removals in civil service
The editors doubt Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt will sincerely probe political removals and unlawful dismissals since the current administration began restructuring officeholders. They fear he will not meet the opportunity to earn broad respect and that the Civil Service Commission will remain a laughingstock under this administration.
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Civil Service
Roosevelt
Public Service
Civil Service Commission
N. O. Times-Democrat
Wage-Reducing Administration Criticized in Albany
The Daily Albany Argus demeans Harrison's government as the wage reducing administration. Since March 4 an epidemic of wage cuts across the country is blamed on the administration, described by spellbinders as protecting American labor.
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Harrison
Albany Argus Dem
Behring Sea question reopened by revenue cutter actions
The Rush commander seizes ships on the high seas under fur seal fisheries regulation. The dispute risks broader conflict as Britain and the United States push to resolve legality of title and control in Behring Sea. Providence Journal notes the difficulty of reopening the long debated issue.
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England
High Sea
Providence Journal
Teather trade shocks as W F Johnson & Co suspends
Creditors seize on the Leather firm at 244 Purchase street, with assignment to James B. Case and Theophilus King. Liabilities about 225000 dollars, indorsed notes around 170000. Johnson, Tupper, Plummer run a tannery and commission business with prior ties to Johnson Eaton Co and various tanneries. Medical emergency marked the moment of realization.
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W. F. Johnson & Co
Purchase Street
James B. Case
National Bank of Redemption
Theophilus King
Bryant & King
Johnson
W. F. Johnson
Beacon Street
L. T. Tupper
Quincy
Gordon Plummer
Longwood
Johnson, Eaton & Co
William Hichardson & Co
Hornersville
N. Y
W. W. Kellett & Co
Tionesta
Penn
End of Deerfield Summer School Discusses American Novel
The final Deerfield Summer School session faced downpour as President Luther J. B. Lincoln critiqued modern fiction and praised Hawthorne while urging a pure, living literature. Letters from Howells James and Stevenson circulated as George W. Cable led discussion and Mrs. Celia Woolley outlined club work at Chicago Women’s Club before closing with readings and a collated tea.
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Luther J. B. Lincoln
Charles Brockton Brown
Cooper
Irving
Poe
Hawthorne
Lincoln
Howells
Robert Lou
Stevenson
Deerfield
Henry James
Westminster
London
George W. Cable
Celia P. Woolley
Chicago Women’s Club
Woolley
F. A. Tupper
Arms Academy
Titus M. Coan
America
John Keats
Thackeray
George B. Bartlett
Concord
Cable
W Deerfield
Creditors meet over L A May Company Lynn assets and liabilities
Creditors of the L A May Company of Lynn met at the Parker House to weigh the firm’s finances. A full statement could not be given yet. An inventory committee was formed. The Connecticut Rubber Company assigned all property to Frank A Mitchell of Norwich as trustee with assets about 75 000 and unknown liabilities.
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L. A. May Company
Lynn
Parker House
J. M. Lewis
Steadman
Abram French & Co
May
Jesse C. Ivy
Emory Souther
D. B. Steadman
Connecticut Rubber Company
Frank A. Mitchell
Norwich
Democratic Harmony in City Democrats Convene Twice
Two Democratic city committee meetings are set for Monday at 8 pm in different venues. Matthew Keany will be named permanent chairman by both groups, and after adjournment a single merged committee will be formed with unresolved ward delegates to decide remaining contested cases.
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Cunniff
Democratic City Committee
Superior Court Room
Maguire
Meionaon
Cunnitt
Matthew Keany
Keany
Opening of Boston Typographical Club Quarters on Hawley Street
The Boston Typographical Club celebrated the formal opening of its new rooms at 20 Hawley Street. President M A Murphy served as toastmaster while guests enjoyed piano selections and speeches. The irregularly shaped front room features three Hawley Street windows, carpet, paper, a cabinet grand piano, and a crayon portrait of the president by I J Devitt.
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Boston
M. A. Murphy
Hawley Street
Charles Kendrick & Sons
I. J. Devitt
Quixotic quotes and feats fill the pages of a wide miscellany
A collage of vignettes spans a sunflower emblem for Russell Harrison, a jab at Fife in royal contrasts, a salesman with dynamite, and shop mottoes. It touches Oxford printing in many languages, French ballot skepticism, Tolstoi's smoking halt, Howells, Paris Exposition, Connecticut population heft, a cashier’s night trek, social lists, and notable walks by Mr Cameron and Mr Bowman across Europe from Aberdeen to London with only knapsacks.
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Russell Harrison
University of Oxford
Boulanger
France
Tolstoi
Howells
Wellesley
Women’s College of America
Connecticut
Exchequer
Terre Haute Express
Chicago Mail
The Troubadour Charm in Belford’s Magazine
A jaunty troubadour with cloak dagger guitar and blue ribbon wanders a city, charming ladies and receiving encores as his tunes and verses weave through glamour and merriment, a vivid portrait from Belford's Magazine.
That Proposed Air Power and Ship by Loeber Letter
Charles G. Loeber of Boston argues for a new mechanical property in the air to enable ship propulsion by air alone. He challenges Cabot to read his letter again and promises to share further information, noting that such undertakings require caution and not credulity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles G. Loeber
Boston
Ives and Stayner Returned to Jail
The New York Supreme Court chambers dismissed writs of habeas corpus and certiorari in the Ives and Stayner case today without argument, and the prisoners were returned to Ludlow Street Jail.
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Ives
Stayner
New York
Supreme Court
Ludlow Street
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Tremont Street
Boston Post
Joserh Chamberlain
Greenwich
Lord Randolph Churchill
Birmingham
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Salisbury
Chamberlain
Teather Trade
L. A. May & Co
Democratic Harmony
Boston Typographical Club
Prince Bismarck
Varzin
Willie
Washington
Philadelhia
Burdette
Chestnut
Pennsylvania
Hendricks
Ceestial City
Wellsville
John Bright
Lancashire Monthly Meeting
M.P
Jesus Christ
Society of Friends
Donald Cameron
Glasgow
A. Bowman
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Aberdeen
Dover
Calais
Channel
Abbeville
Dieppe
Havre
Brest
Nantes
Bordeaux
Belford’s Magazine
Ai& Ship
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