Endicott Pushes War Dept for Defenses and Assistant Secretary
Secretary Endicott in his annual report urges Congress to bolster seacoast and lake port defenses with new heavy ordnance funding. He proposes $2.84 million for defences and $1.89 million for torpedoes and submarine mines, plus plans for pneumatic dynamite guns and a 15 inch gun program. He notes armory output, powder challenges, and a site in Columbia Tennessee for a new arsenal, while renewing calls for an Assistant Secretary of War. The War Department requests roughly $44.63 million for 1890 with prior year at $41.17 million and current year $59.68 million.
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Wasutneoron
Endicott
Sheridan
Congress
Army
Ordnance Department
National Armory
France
Columbia
Tenn
Department of Justice
War Department
Time-Honored Charity Lecture at Second Church
The annual charity lecture by Rev E A Horton at the Second Church chapel spoke on fulfilling the law of Christ and building humanity. He argued worship without aiding mankind is flawed, urged active compassion, cited leaders who inspired action, and noted the charity offering followed. The lecture tradition began as quarterly in 1700, became annual in 1860, with services on March June September December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Horton
Horton
Christ
Earth
Manind
Tremont Temple Sunday School Leader Resigns
The Tremont Temple Bible class met Saturday to discuss the weekly lesson and act on the resignation of leader George W. Cable. After remarks by Rev. F. N. Peloubet, Cable’s resignation letter was read. his extensive literary duties were cited. The vote accepted the resignation unanimously and approved a letter of thanks and acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
George W. Cable
F. N. Peloubet
International Sunday School Quarterly
Cable
End of the Teachers Convention Elected Massachusetts Officers
At the closing session of the Massachusetts Teachers Association officers for the coming year were elected. William H. Lambert of Fall River was named president. A large slate of vice presidents, secretaries, treasurer, and councillors from cities including Boston Cambridge Newton Framingham Lynn Waltham and others were chosen.
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Massachusetts Teachers’ Association
Tollows
William H. Lambert
Fall River
Janes
Barrell
Cambridge
Thomas Emerson
Newton
William W. Waterman
Clinton
James W. Macdonald
Stoneham
A. L. Goodrich
Salem
Elvira Carter
Westfield
George H. Martin
Bridgewater
Joseph G. Edgerly
Fitchburg
Edwin P. Seaver
Boston
Francis Cogswell
Ellen Hyde
Framingham
Rob Tetlow
Harriet E. Caryl
Oston
John O. Norris
Charles W. Parmenter
Waltham
Orsamus B. Bruce
Lynn
Lulu M. Baley
Henry Whittemore
Walter 8. Parker
Ray Greene Huling
New Bedford
Admiral P. Stone
Springfield
Henry ©. Harden
John E. Clarke
Chelsea
Daniel B. Hagar
Albert C. Boyden
John W. Dickinson
William F. Bradbury
C. Goodwin Clark
James F. Blackinton
Frank A. Hill
Larkin Dunton
Ulster Reefer Padded IL Leather Jackets at Simmons Co
U W Simmons & Co at 32 to 44 North street advertises Ulster Reefer jackets in leather with price range three dollars and a half to eighteen. The garment targets pedestrians riders and drivers seeking comfortable unobstructed travel and easy wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. W. Simmons & Co
North Street
Ulster Reefer
New Rector Frisby Begins at Church of the Advent
The Church of the Advent on Brimmer Street welcomes Rev. Father Frisby as its new rector. He arrives from Trinity Church New York, preaches Advent Sunday, and outlines his spiritual mission to lead in devotion, sacraments, and pastoral guidance while the parish celebrates its 44th year and growth to over 1200 communicants.
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Father Frisby
Brimmer Street
Father Grafton
Father Sherman
Trinity Church
New York
Pinckney Street
Matthew
Christ
Brethren
Bry
House of God
Tme
Fatal runaway horse incident on Beacon Street
Last evening around 9 o'clock a horse drawing a coupé, driven by Slattery, ran away on Beacon street. Occupants Mary Hamilton of 1476 Washington street and Hugh Madden of 48 Oneida street jumped out. Hamilton died from a broken neck. Madden sustained minor injuries.
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Slattery
Beacon Street
Mary Hamilton
Washington Street
Hugh Madden
Oneida Street
Madden
Conference of Organized Labor Forms Coordinate Body
A conference of organized labor met at New Era Hall with Frank Foster presiding to form a united body representing labor groups. Delegates from District Assembly 30 rights of Labor Central Labor Union and Carpenters advisory board attended. A legislative committee was named to seek factory inspection and shorter hours legislation. M E Byrne urged a resolution to seek opinions on making the conference permanent.
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Conference OF
Organized Labor
New Era Hall
Frank Foster
District Assembly 30
Rights of Labor
Central Labor Union
Carpenters’ Advisory Board
Mr. Foster
M. E. Byrne
Big 200 ton gun touted at Woolwich Arsenal
London dispatch reports a 200 tone monster gun under construction at Woolwich Arsenal. It will use $110,000 in special machinery to mount its two ton projectile. When deployed on the coast it could shower 4000 pounds of shrapnel every five minutes over fifteen miles toward France.
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London
N. Y. Sun
Woolwich Arsenal
English
France
Paris
Art Porters For Grems Gem Parlor Offers Birthstone Gifts
Boston jeweler Art Porters For Grems invites shoppers to a quiet richly furnished apartment to view a fine gem collection with expert advisers. The “gem of the month” birthstone talisman is pitched as a Christmas gift. Parlors at 58 Winter Street showcase personal design suggestions by Mrs. Friend and George A. Perry, a noted gem connoisseur.
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Boston
Winter Street
Friend
George A. Perry
Hampton Institute program showcases Negro and Indian education
A Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute event at Trinity Church in Hampton, Virginia, featured General S. C. Armstrong and students promoting education for blacks and Indians. The program included the Hampton Quartet singing, talks by J. H. Wainwright and Samuel Perry, and a strong plea for more colored institutions to elevate education, with emphasis on work, Christian values, and cross-racial cooperation.
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Institute
Samuel Perry
Indian Territory
William H. Daggs
South
Hampton
John Tiokasin
Dakota
Bishop Hare
Susan la Flesche
Philadelphia
Armstrong
Florida
The Graft of the Trinity Upon Christianity
The Rev. Brooke Herford spoke at the Channing Club in Globe Theatre on the Trinity. He argued against three Gods as heathen invention, claiming scripture and history support monotheism and that churches now reject the Trinity in favor of one God.
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Brooke Merford
Channing Club
Globe Theatre
Brooke Herford
God
Egypt
Christ
Books Received. What to Do and More Monographs
A catalog of new and forthcoming books with varied authors and publishers. Titles include Tolstoi's What to Do, Heimburg’s Her Only Brother translated from German, Sophia Herrick’s The Earth in Past Ages, Wallace’s The Boyhood of Christ, Richardson’s American Literature 1607-1885, and many works from Harper, Putnam, Crowell, Fowler, Longmans, and others.
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Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
New York
T. Y. Crowell & Co
W. Heimburg
Jean W. Wylie
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Sophia Bledsoe Herrick
Harper & Bros
Christ
Lew Wallace
Charles F. Richardson
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Worcester College Hall
Oxford
James E. Thorald Rogers
G. P. Putnaim’s Sons
Drayton
A.M
Fowler & Wells Company
Lord Tennyson
Heaven On Earth
William J. Shaw
Better Times
Margaret Kent
Boston
Ticknor & Co
Charles Cashel Connolly
Baltimore
John Murphy & Co
Wilfrid Meynell
Cassell & Co
B. C
British Columbia
J. A. Lees
W. J. Clutterbuck
Longmans, Green & Co
Richard Jefferies
Walter Besant
Wanderers
William Winter
David Kay
W. T. Harris
Ll.d
International Education Series
D. Appleton & Co
Garrett P. Jerviss
Colonel Quaritch
V.C
H. Rider Haggard
George Munro
Counter Currents
Justina
Roberts Bros
Edward E. Hale
New Books by Higginson Celebrates Travelers and Outlaws
Higginson’s Travellers and Outlaws gathers essays from magazines plus one new piece A New England Vagabond. Highlights include The Old Salem Sea Captains based on tradition, a Revolutionary Congressman on Horseback from William Ellery diaries, Henry Tufts the vagabond, and six pieces on slave insurrections. Boston Lee Shepard edition priced $1.50.
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Old Salem
New England
William Ellery
Dr. Canning
Henry Tufts
Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higeon
Boston
Lee & Shepard
Vindication of General Parsons Against Treason Charge
Dr Loring’s vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons argues that Parsons acted as a spy for his own side via the agent Heron, not as a traitor. The analysis relies on Parsons Washington correspondence and State Department abstracts, concluding Parsons’s reputation should be cleared and Clinton deceived by a misreading of events.
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Samuel Holden Parsons
Sir Henry Clinton
Parsons
Loring
Heron
Arnold
Dr. Loring
Henry
George B. Loring
Salem Press
Salem
Mass
Roosevelts New Political Works Reviewed
A critical look at Theodore Roosevelts essays on reform and politics, noting his common sense approach, calls for active citizen involvement, and the tension between idealism and practical governance. Also discusses Miss Hagues Alabama family narrative and the broader Civil War reminiscences, with brief notices of the two books by Sturdy and Hague and their publishers and prices.
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Albany
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Miss Hague
Alabama
New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Boston
Laughton, Macdonald & Co
Price
William, A. Sturdy
Cupples & Upham
P. A. Hague
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
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Leseman
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