Progress of U S Navy Build Up and Domestic Armor Industry
Secretary Whitney reports on steps to create a modern navy. The shift from foreign armor and gun steel to domestic production is detailed, including Bethlehem Iron Co. contracts and aims for a full domestic armor and gun forgings capability within two and a half years. The article notes expenditures, purchasing reforms, and emphasis on armored cruisers, harbor batteries, and torpedo boat developments amid international builds and naval trials.
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Wassixaron
Whitney
England
Department
Bethlehem Iron Company
Bethlehem
Penn
United States
Congress
Bureau of Construction and Steam Engineering
Bureau of Ordnance
Navy Department
Navy
Blake and Blenheim
William Armstrong & Co
France
Italy
Germany
Russia
Ericsson
War College
Board of Inspection
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Commodore D. Bd. Harmony
Navy Yards
Naval
Commodore Harmony
Teredo
Ordnanes
Montgomery Shcard
Boston Architectural Club Opens New Club Room
Boston architects formed the Boston Architectural Club six weeks ago and last night opened a bright club room at 66 Hamilton Place. About 100 members attended, including Mr George F Newton who had just returned from abroad. An exhibition of Newtons drawings, featuring Old World architecture, mosques, cathedrals and furniture, was shown today and Monday. The rooms are a long parlor with alcove and lavatory, ash floor, greenish walls, open fireplace, oak furniture and upholstered couches. Visitors included Wetherer Longfellow Walker Turner Everett Mills Bacon and Taylor. Permanent officers will be elected next Saturday.
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Boston
Boston Architectural Club
Hamilton Place
Chinis
George F. Newton
Newton
Constantinople
George Wetherer
W. P. P. Longfellow
C. Howard Walker
Ross Turner
Arthur Everett
C. F. Mills
Francis H. Bacon
B. Taylor
Blaine Seeks Front Run for Secretary of State
The Northwest World notes James G Blaine pushes to become Secretary of State under Harrison. Senator Hale predicts Blaine will be named, urging Harrison to assemble able Republicans to steady the administration. Critics warn of reactions from Republicans who voted for Harrison but backed Blaine.
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N. ¥. Times
Ind
Harrison
Blaine
Eugene Hale
Portland Club
Hale
Cleveland
Bayard
State Department
James_ G. Blaine
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Blaine
Marriages Record From Boston and Vicinity
Multiple wedding notices dated late November list couples: William H. Breed to Lottie B. Mitchell in Boston Highlands. Herbert A. Drake to Jacia H. Nye in Norwood. James H. LaBate to Fannie K. Elkins at Plaintree. Roswell Ks Phinney to Minnie L. Childs at North Falmouth. Herbert F. Searles to Mary M. Hall at Ludlow VI. Ora J. Shaw to Elia M. Peavey in Chelsea. Nathan Washburn to Etta Mendall in Middleboro.
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D.D
Norwood
Herbert A. Drake
Camden
N. J
Jacia H. Nye
Labate
Fritz W. Baldwin
Ora J. Shaw
Chelsea
Elia M. Peavey
Everett
Washburn
Mendall
Middleboro
R. K. Harlow
Medway
Nathan Washburn
Etta Mendall
Local Deaths and Notices From Boston Area Listings
Obituaries record multiple deaths including Eliza Babcock Adams in Somerville Hannah Bucknam widow of A P Bucknam aged 90 in Montvale Mare T Hathaway widow of Foy Hathaway in South Braintree age 69 Elizabeth Bradley Holmes in Boston age 71 Abby W May daughter of Samuel and Mary May of the city age 59 funeral December 3 at Church of the Disciples. Florence A Sawyer wife of Timothy T Sawyer Jr at 25 St James Avenue November 28 services 1 PM burial private. Herbert J Riley aged 18 in Callao Peru oldest son of J Herbert and Mary C Leath erbee Riley. Sarah A Ropes widow of Captain John F Ropes of Salem aged 65 at Woburn November 30 Asahel B Winslow aged 58 in Boston Highlands.
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Church of the Disciples
Sawyer
Florence A
Timothy T. Sawyer, Jr
Sylvanus A. Denio
St. James Avenue
Riley
Callao
Peru
Herbert J. Riley
J. Herbert
Mary C. Leatherbee Riley
Ropes
Woburn
Sarah A
John F. Ropes
Salem
Ears
Boston Highlands
Asahel B. Winslow
Straws From State Street Market Report 1888
Market activity in New York was firm with Missouri Pacific under pressure and east bound rate hikes anticipated. Local trading rose on Calumet and Frenchman’s Bay declines while pledged stock weakness and court news drifted. Major rail and mining earnings featured, including Pennsylvania railroad Western line profits decline and the Douglas mine’s $200,000 monthly output.
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New York
Missouri Pacific
Calumet
Frenchman’s Bay
Exchange
Meeting Notes Lineup For Monday Auctions
Listings show Leonard & Co at 3 p m today. Fruit Horatio Harris at noon. Fruit Snow & Co at 1 p m.
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Bugs
Leonard & Co
Horatio Harris
Fruit—Snow & Co
Siberian Exiles and Century Magazine Highlights
Century’s December issue features George Kennan’s Siberian emigration notes and a Beecher manuscript on England in the Civil War. It includes Henry James on London, Lincoln draft plans, travels in Mexico, Sinai to Shechem study, and poems by Riley with illustrative engravings. The issue, priced 35 cents, ships December 1.
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George Kenshan
Siberian Road
John Howard
Greenock
Scotland
George Kennan
Henry Ward Beecher
England
Beecher
J. D. Buckley
Mr. Beecher
Liverpool
Julian Hawthorne
H. S. Edwards
G. H. Jessop
Louisiana
George W. Cable
Siberian
The
Century
Century CO
East 17Th St
New York
London
Henry James
Joseph Pennell
Lincoln
Mexico
F. Hopkinson Smith
Sinai
Shechem
Edward L. Wilson
Timothy Cole
Tas
James Whitcomb Riley
R. H. Stoddard
Mary Hallock Foote
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Bethods
Great
Lewiston Mills
Lewiston
Cana
Union Water Power Company
Mauie Central R. A
Grand Trunk R. R
Chasek Rory
Gerard C. Tobly
Devonshire St
Koston
Mass
State Street
Supreme Court
Lansing, Mich
Pewabic Mining Company
Great Britain
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Erie
Calumet & Hecla
St. Louis Cable & Western
Douglas
Australia
West
Atchison
Chicago
Kansas City
Mississippi River
Cape Cop
Parlor Pride Manufacturing Company
NEW Publications
Macmillan & Co
NEW Books
John Inglesant
the Countess Eve
J.B. Shorthouse
Sir Percival
Margaret F. Sullivan
Chicago Tribune
Robert Elsmere
Humphry Ward
Boston Beacon
St. Paul Pioneer Press
George Eliot
Emperor Frederick
Frederick
Crown Prince
Rennell Rodd
Empress Frederick
Matthew Arnold
Lord Coleridge
Globe
Poetry
Milton
Thomas Gray
John Keats
Wordsworth
Shelley
Amiel
Byron
Leo Tolstor
Aspern
Daisy Miller
Princess Casamassima
Boston Journal
Rachillan &Co
Whield
Elbridge
Brooks
Cooper
Dana
Farragut
Washington ST
Archway Bookstore
D. Lothrop CO
Franklin Street
Gouverneur Morris
Anne Cary Morris
Morris
Washington
Jefferson
H. Stranahan
Buffalo Express
Charles Scribner's Sons
Broadway
Mother Goose
Bvere I. Lave
J. Louis Wess
Cassell & Company, Limited
Fourth Avenue
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Holland
James Thorold Rogers
John Codman
S. Wells Williams
Middle Kingdom
China
Frederick Wells Williams
Louis Grossman
Augustus Jessopp
Northwest
A. G. Riddle
Putnam's
America
London Graphic
the International News Company
South Street
Essex Street
Alley Bros. & Place
Possession
I. WM. Minot
Court Street
Brookline
Cambridge
Alex. S. Porter
State St
Franklin St
Herbert L. Perry
Milk St
William H. Cundy
Bowdoin Building
WM. C. Codman
J. G. Freeman
Kilby Street
Insurance
KILBY
Silas Peirce
Eugene E. Patridge
Charles XX. Macallar
NEW England Mutual Life Insurance Co
Post Office Square
Massachusetts
Ben J. F. Stevens
Jos. M. Glerens
F. Trull
WM. B. Turner
Grand Opera House
Proctor & Mansfield
Tremont
Helen Barry
Frank Mordant
J. B. Hell
Dc. W. Couldock
Horticultural Hall
Salem Cadet Band
Music Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wilhelm Gericke
Sa’cfurday
Lachner
Volkmann
Beethoven
Gettysburg
Tremont Street
Ted
Mechanics
Pasching TY Venice
Dustrial Union
Carl Marwig
Union
Boylston Street
Harvard Glee Club
Jahrmarkt
Omnipathy
C. A. Creene
Harrisburg, Pa
Tremont Temple
Fort Hill and
Hawes
DR. Greene
Harry Lacy
Joseph Arthur
Joseph Jefferson
Globe Theatre
Rip van Winele
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Howard Athenaum Star Specialty Company
New American Opera Company
Gustav Hinrichs
Sardou
Fanny Davy
Gustav Hinrich
Boston Museum
R. M. Field
Bronson Howard
Shenandoah
Hollis ST
Isaac B. Rich
Haggard
EET Theatre
Wm. Gillette
W. W. Furst
14Th St
N. Y
Julia Marlowe
Musette
Gillette
Howard Atheneum
Reuben Glue
Austin
Court St
Aaron L Gay & CO
Siste Street
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