Postage stamp convention opens in Boston with notes on hunting rare stamps
The third annual American Philatelic Association convention begins in Boston. The writer notes the appeal of stamp collecting, the race to confirm invention claims for the postage stamp, and a mosquito proof tent anecdote. Miss Sarah O Jewett’s Maine-set scenes are praised for depth and sensitivity.
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American Philatelic Association
Rowland Hill
England
James Chalmers
New American party seeks focus on immigration and schools
Boston Post reports the new American party plans its first national convention in Washington. Its platform calls for restricting immigration, preserving free public schools, and prohibiting sectarian public funds. It also advocates American lands for settlers and longer naturalization residency. The writer finds little fundamental departure from existing civic ideals.
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New American Party
Washington
Wagner festival at Bayreuth marks yearly musical gathering
The Bayreuth festival draws an immense, international audience. Die Meistersinger is praised while Parsifal is seen by many as not reaching Bayreuth standards. Mme Wagner directs rehearsals, upholding her husband’s memory. the Grail bearer from six years ago reappears. Boston attendees hope Tannhauser at the Boston Theatre earns focused listening, not idle conversation.
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Bayreuth
Mme. Wagner
Liszt
Wagner
Boston Theatre
Boston Journal Despatch on Cleveland Veto of Butterfield Pension
A Nashua despatch denounces President Cleveland as heartless for vetoing a pension bill for Mrs. Butterfield. The claim, in process in the pension bureau, requires testimony to prove the late husband served the government. The piece notes other vetoes and predicts favorable reform by the pension bureau in line with recent administration changes.
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The
Boston Journal
Nashua
N. H
Pension Bureau
Lawmakers urged to aid fishermen and navy nursery
The text argues that Senator Hearh should consider New England fishermen and the navy’s needs. It proposes enacting a law requiring at least five eighths of fishing vessel crews to be American citizens. It suggests incentives for native-born youths to join fishing, echoing past paternal involvement and fair pay.
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Hearh
New England
The Keynote and the tariff fight in American politics
The article attacks Blaine as a demagogue in the Republican campaign, arguing the party shifts to defend protected interests while labor earns less. It contends tariff burdens harm both black and white workers, notes southern politics and race dynamics, and warns against relying on monopolies over wage labor.
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Mr. Blaine
Great Britain
Blaine
Carnegie
New York Harbor
England
Republican League of the United States
Pennsylvania
Republican League
Foster
Republican Party
South
Mason and Dixon
Fishermen oppose fish trust claim in Gloucester protest
Deep Sea Assembly Knights of Labor Gloucester adopts resolutions denouncing the fish trust and challenging senators who repeat the line that fisheries are the nursery of the American navy. The activists demand truthful representation of who crews and profits in the fishing industry.
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Hoar
New England
Deep Sea Assembly
Knights of Labor
Gloucester
Fish Trust
The Negro and the Tariff in Southern Politics
The article questions why the Republican party shows no effort to reorganize in the South outside Virginia Tennessee and West Virginia. It argues that South Carolina and Mississippi face conditions hindering party strength and asks why North Carolina and Georgia receive no such effort.
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Republican Party
South
North
Virginia
Tennessee
West Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
North Carolina
Georgia
The Awakening of New England
A critique of how writers in New England in earlier eras faced colonials’ harsh life and religious shifts. The piece notes Unperwoop's gloomy view of Puritan beginnings, then argues that hardship spurred literary and artistic development, with German influence broadening cultural horizons and young New World scholars embracing a bright, dawn-like future.
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Gorthe
Tropics
Iiving
New York
Boston
Unperwood
Emerson
Unperwoop
Europe
England
New England
Francis H. Unprrwoop
Funerals and Finances Prompt Moral Reform
A Forum writer argues against funeral extravagance and costly monuments. He notes rich classes can afford economy while poor fear social disrespect. The author cites Greek and Latin practices and urges Christian ministers to promote simple natural and inexpensive funeral customs.
Boston candy complaints mock seasonal snobbery
A Boston correspondent to the Minneapolis Tribune rails at the city’s sweets and confections, lamenting lack of edible sugar plums and cake in a satire on modern Athens versus ancient Athens. He claims Boston confections are “favored with the omnipresent teaberry,” prompting regional retorts about taste and place.
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Boston
Minneapolis Tribune
Athens
Sockrates
Prytaneum
Far Western Tribune
Minneapolitans
Owner denies setting price for Barbizon property gift plan
The owner of MiLver's Barbizon house, studio and grounds rejects rumors of an extravagant ask to sell for a gift to Mme MiLver. He says no price was set, no sale discussions occurred, and the property will be torn down except for MiLtr7's studio which will be preserved and open to the public with the painter's works.
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MiLver
Barbizon
Mme. MiLver
MiLtr7
Independent Support for Cleveland in 1888
Ex Governor D H Chamberlain writes in the New York Post that he will back President Cleveland with zeal and confidence, while remaining an Independent rather than a Democrat. He praises Coveland era reforms and public economy, sees relief for commerce and industry from monopolists and tariff robbers, and declares his faith in patriotism over party loyalty.
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Cleveland
D. H. Chamberlain
N. Y
Democratic Party
Coveland
Literary Notes on New Publications and Authors
Announcements from Menzies and Co Edinburgh mention Dibdin's Annals of the Edinburgh Stage. Sheridan autobiography in two volumes due next week. Cupples and Hurd publish The President and his Cabinet by C B Norton. Scribner’s September presents McCulloch memories Porter Railway travel, Stevenson Letter to a Young Gentleman, Bunner story, Stevenson's First Harvests, and James A London Life concluding chapters.
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Messrs. Menzies & Co
Edinburgh
James C. Dibdin
Sheridan
Cupples & Hurd
United States
Grover Cleveland
C. B. Norton
Scribner's
Hugh McCulloch
Genera Horace Porter
Robert Louis Stevenson
Art
H. C. Bunner
Mr. Stevenson
Henry James
Political currents split over tariffs and party allegiances
Western papers note Indiana Republicans back the Chicago platform and Harrison Morton ticket while tariff reform and free whiskey opponents gain little comfort. Illinois Tariff Reform League claims 60,000 members and predicts Cleveland win. labor shifts toward Democrats in Illinois and Cook County, with Minnesota and Michigan seen as key battlegrounds.
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Indiana
Harrison
Chicago
Blaine
Foster
Tariff Reform League of Illinois
Cleveland
League
Harrisburg
Penn
New York
Louis Levy
Dubois County
Ind
Morton
The
Chicago News
Illinois
Cook County
Palmer
Michigan
Minnesota
Robert Law
Knights of Labor plan impartial coal region article
The Knights of Labor executive board seeks to publish in European papers an impartial view of Pennsylvania coal labor conditions to deter foreign labor entering the United States. The Springfield Republican asks what Blaine would say about the plan and his stance on free trade English labor from a tariff-protected millionaire’s coach.
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Powderly
Knights of Labor Executive Board
Pennsylvania
United States
Blaine
Knights of Labor
Springfield
Encouraging Prospects Across U S Business Cheer
Reports from every region show confidence in business with iron woollen and leather industries in stronger shape than expected. Bank exchanges rise, labor is largely employed, rail earnings steady, and transport of new crops and goods signals higher returns for railroad securities.
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United States
Congress
N. Y. Herald
Ind
Blaine Gleans From Foreign Labor For American Insight
Blaine, keen observer, cites foreign experiences from dining with the Prince of Wales to meetings with Salisbury and Carnegie aides. He argues foreign labor data informs the United States industrial questions, drawing lessons from social and economic conditions abroad.
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Blaine
Prince of Wales
Salisbury
Scotland
Carnegie
Cluny Castle
Dr Storrs Delivers Mercy To Wayward Party
Dr Storrs regards the reborn political group once allied with Lincoln with leniency. He condemns it slowly, believing it can reform through steady work and new chances. The piece notes the party's fall from influence and his resolve to aid its welfare.
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Storrs
Lincoln
Chicago News
Grave Blunder for Boston Republicans at Chicago
The Boston speakers acknowledge the dangerous stance set at Chicago and seek an outlet from the convention’s predicament. They argue voters oppose war taxes in peace and warn that further taxation is untenable, suggesting Chicago promises were electoral rhetoric to be dropped once Republicans resume power.
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Boston
Chicago
Galveston News
Tariff debate per Mail and Express interview triggers probe
The Mail and Express published a half column interview with Dennis Dineen of Dennison & Brown claiming workingmen favor Harrison for tariff protection. Times investigators show Dineen is a porter and that the factory’s actual labor force is small with mixed views, while two firms handle binding and printing. The article questions the interview’s accuracy and its use in the tariff debate.
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V. Y. Times
Ind
The
Mail and Express
Dennis Dineen
Cleveland
Dineen
Dennison & Brown
Democratic Party
Harrison
Times
Ennison & Brown
Brown
Willy & Johnson
Condon & Davenport
Express
Davenport
Poughkeepsie Bridge Nears Completion
Poughkeepsie New York Aug 12 The centre span of the Poughkeepsie bridge was connected on Saturday. Only half of one span remains to be connected and the job will be completed before September 1.
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Poughkeepsie Bridge
Poucukrersis
N. Y
Notable Visitors and Obituaries in Transatlantic Notes
Personal items report John Greenleaf Whittier visiting a Holderness farm while Lathrop and family travel from Russia with Baron Huhne. Notables include a statue exhibit in Paris, a French botany tribute near Montpellier, and Queen Victoria's farm prize at Isle of Wight show. Also noted are Frederick Greenwood’s resignation from St James's Gazette, Smalley’s commentary on Steinkopf, and the Dumfries death of Mrs. Aitken Carlyle’s sister with reflections on Carlyle’s regard for her.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Sturtevant Farm
Holderness
N. H
Lathrop
United States
Russia
Baron Huhne
Mr. Lathrop
America
William Knighton
Paris
Shakspere
Fournier
Boulevard
Hausmann
Planchon
Ganges
Montepellier
France
Isle of Wight Agricultural Society
Queen Victoria
Jersey
John S. Cunningham
United States Navy
Adams House
Washington
William Warren
Joseph Jefferson
Buzzard’s Bay
Mrs. Rice
Onset Bay
Warren
Buazard’s
Boston Home Journal
Frederick Greenwood
St. James’s Gazette
Steinkopf
Gibbs
Greenwood
Smalley
London
New York Tribune
Dumfries
Aitken
Carlyle
Alexander Carlyle
Froude
Escalating fashions and park plans mix in lively captions
A collage of items covers social foibles on excursion boats and playful quips about ministers and boarders. It notes fashion shifts toward topaz and amber, cautions about cat's eye stones, and reports Brooklyn park commissioners moving Beecher and Irving statues. A book spoof about living on ten dollars a week ends the column.
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N. Y. Tribune
London Punch
Poorboard
Tronder
Brooklyn Park Commissioners
Henry Ward Beecher
Washington Irving
Irving
Demas Barnes
Leecher
Stone
Upson
Downes
Grant Sherman Sheridan: Elegy on Civil War Leader
An 1853 engraved tribute by Richard Watson Gilder laments Sheridan as a modern Mars whose power once steadied retreats and turned defeat to victory. The poem honors his battles, foresight for peace, and heroism, ending with a ceremonial farewell to a fallen chief.
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Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Richard Watson Gilder
Mars
Earth
Peirid
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