Men’s Dress Shirts Sale Highlights Premium Brands
Over $75,000 worth of shirts from famed lines America Champion Sovereign and more offered below cost. Includes 14 to 20 sizes with Langdon G. B. cotton, linen bosoms, and reinforced seams. Also features misfit/low-price neckwear, percale and Madras shirts, nightshirts, pajamas, and heavy Outseam Castor gloves. values range from 50c to several dollars.
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America
Champion
Sovereign
Langdon G. B
Porto Rico Legislature Placed Under Scrutiny in Washington Debate
The Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico is on a brief recess after a short session. Washington considers abolishing the House of Delegates, deeming it a useless encumbrance with no real legislative power. Critics suggest letting Puerto Ricans have real participation in their government to test its effectiveness.
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Legislative Assembly of
Porto’ Rico
Washington
House of Delegates
Executive Council
Porto Rico
Cleveland Calls for Direct Public Election of President
Ex President Cleveland urges a shift to direct popular vote to choose the executive, arguing the current system is indirect and cumbersome. He also suggests extending the presidential term, but critics question the merit of longer tenure while urging a reallocation of Congress sessions to reduce election disruption.
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Cleveland
Republic
Congress
The Passing of the Nineteenth Century
A retrospective look at the nineteenth century as it ends, praising its advances in government from monarchic rule to republics, abolition of slavery, shorter workdays, rising wages, and the spread of universal education, highlighting the century’s impact on society.
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United States
Russia
Republica
France
South America
Brackett Labels Southern Rebellions Over Voting Amendments
Ex Governor Brackett condemns North and South Carolina Mississippi and Louisiana for constitutional amendments that create an educational qualification for voting. He argues the move aims to disfranchise illiterate Black citizens, violating the U.S. Constitution's protection of the right to vote regardless of race color or prior condition of servitude.
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Brackett
Middlesex Club
North
South Carolina
Mississippi
Louisiana
United States
Union
United St
Brackett Questions Massachusetts Loyalty in Education Clause
The speaker argues Congress holds remedy, noting Brackett’s party majority. He questions why Massachusetts would be in rebellion if an educational qualification is deemed rebel by Brackett in the South, pointing to unequal representation penalties and challenging the idea of rebellion in Massachusetts.
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Congress
China Accepts Terms and Shifts Toward Pekin Accord
A dispatch notes China’s plenipotentiaries authorized to accept peace terms in the joint note of the powers, with Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang to finalize. It cautions since execution of terms will face evasions, indemnity disputes, and cautious diplomacy. The piece shifts to praise scientific progress and modern improvements of the century, from steam to electricity, and foresees reforms in the next hundred years.
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China
Prince Ching
Karl Li Hung Chang
Pekin
Observant citizen notes and charity event in Dorchester
The Sisters of Charity at St Marys Infant Asylum in Dorchester hosted a tea for friends and benefactors, with about 700 attendees and a $40,000 building opening planned for April. A Salvation Army visit, Lexington talk by Sixto Lopez, skating on Spy Pond, theater party by Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and local remarks fill a busy community page.
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Sisters of Charity
St. Mary’s Infant Asylum
Dorchester
Friends of the
Aay
The Overseer’s Quiet Turn Toward Mercy
The Gloucester overseer recounts a deceased eighteen year old girl dying of consumption in a city almshouse. He describes her dignity amid neglect, her plea to her mother, and the emotional impact of the case on him and his assistant Jenkins. The tale ends as he shifts to another case on B street.
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Boylston Street
Ken
Will
Jenkins
Lfe
Aaaitea
Soeas
Agine
B— Street
Odd Bits of News Crowd the Paris Ad and Local Anecdotes
A Parisolitary witty French ad seeks a cautious wife guide. A Tuscombia wedding stalls after the groom sleeps through the eve and remains asleep over a week. Women in China fought in 1880 rebellions and 1853 brigades formed 13 000 strong. A Callaway Nebraska chicken hawk flock departs after a night of killings. Boston station notice mocks speed and schedules. A 265 year Earth sun trip fare study by Professor Young. German forest imports reach 36 million cubic feet in 1899. A Roumanian fossil camel earns Europe’s sole example.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
China
Narkin
Callaway
Neh
Boston
Athens
Young
Roumania
Europe
Hunger tale and punchline jokes mirror city papers
A Philadelphia Inquirer clipping recounts a hungry hobos hoax with a $2.75 bill at a modest restaurant, then shifts to a string of jokes: spites and quarrels, a nobleman on business, awkward lines about age and money, and a workman’s family in a Brooklyn setting.
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Chestnut Street
Philadelphia Inquirer
Professions of Next Congress Drop In to View
Washington reports the congressional complexion shows lawyers far ahead with 287 elected. Businessmen total 50, farmers 23, bankers 20, journalists 21. Politicians number eight, doctors seven, teachers six, minors five, ministers two, and one actor joins as a Congressman.
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Washington
Law
Congress
National Capitol
Unsympathetic Exchange Snippets From Chicago Record
Brief composite of clipped historical exchanges including insults about size in sparring notes a brunette and blonde quips about fickleness and a humorous line about sofa pillows. Contains fragmented dialogue and social missteps reflective of the era’s tone.
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Chicago
Breakfast and Dinner Menu with Peach Pudding Recipe
Daily Table Hints show a Sunday Post style menu listing breakfast items like peaches and omelette, dinner includes roast lamb and peach pudding, plus a detailed peach pudding recipe with water milk eggs flour sugar butter and baking powder, attributed to Miss Emma Zoller of Cambridgeport.
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Emma Zoller
Neminates Street
Cambridgeport
Anti kissing crusade urged by Demorest W C T U New York
The Demorest W C T U of New York launches an anti kissing crusade to support temperance. The piece warns readers to avoid flirtation and romantic temptation, urging restraint to prevent moral lapses and indulgence, framing alcohol as linked to risks of impropriety.
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Demorest W. C. T. U. of
New York
100000 Worth of Men's Clothing at EW ODE BEE
The goods from Rogers Peet Co Stein Block Co Crouse Brandege and Fecheimer Fisher Co are offered by EW ODE BEE at about a specific price. The listing highlights products from premier American menswear workshops and signals a substantial supply for customers.
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America
Rogers, Peet & Co
Stein— Block Co
Crouse & Brandege
Fecheimer, Fisher Co
25 Percent Off on Men At City Clothing Sale
25 percent under regular prices on 500 menswear pieces including sutts in fancy cheviots and worsteds in stout and regular sizes with regular prices 8.75 9.75 and 12.00 marked down to 200 overcoats in black and blue all wool kerseys heavy coverts and cheviots and oxfords in regular and stout sizes with regular prices 10.00 and 12.00 marked down. fine fancy worsteds tweeds homespuns ceviots beautifully tailored and trimmed with regular prices 12.00 13.50 and 15.00 marked down.
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America
Downmark on 9 75 750 Men’s Suits from Fine Imported Worsteds
Advertises 9 75 750 men’s suits including fine imported and domestic worsted stripes and checks, Scotch cheviots, tweeds and home spuns. Suits feature hand work, regulars, stouts and songs, cut in regulars and stouts from top American shops. Regular prices $18.00 to $20.00, marked down to a lower price.
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America
Marked Down Fancy Vests and Vests in Silks and Worsteds
A vintage ad lists 13.75 quality fancy vests in silks and worsteds with spots and small figured patterns. Single and double breasted styles shown. Regular prices range from 3.50 to 5.00, now reduced to 2.00 to 3.00 with sale prices indicated.
Overcoats and Cheviots Priced at $15 and $18
Fine 8.75 300 overcoats including cheviots oxfords and vicunas are handsomely tailored and trimmed with prices marked at 15 and 18 dollars. Trade context and store branding implied.
Overcoats discounted from high prices in varied fabrics
A classified snippet lists 1.75 200 coats in vicuna melton and serge with American tailoring and markdowns from regular prices 18.90 to 22.00. It also notes 74 English and American vicuna friezes cheviots and tailor made Raglans with regular prices 23.00 and 25.00.
Overcoats and Seal Caps Sale Features in Town
An advertisement lists overcoats in vicunas kerseys meltons and silks with original prices 28 to 32.60 dollars now marked down. It also promotes Men’s Alaska Seal Caps and Driver’s Shapes in Detroit and a stock of boys tob ggan caps in extra heavy double worsted at 25 cents.
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Boston
Alaska
Detroit
Men s Shoes At 2 65 One Price Street Floor
About 15 lines of seasonable men s shoes with enamel patent calf box calf velour calf D S tan waterproof and leather lined options. Regular prices ranged from 3 50 to 5 00. all are offered at a single price of 2 65 per pair on Monday.
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D. S
Bargain Lot of Boys Shoes Slashed to 1 50
A Monday sale offers one lot of high cut tan skating and storm boots plus leftovers of five lines of boys shoes in prices ranging from 2.00 to 3.50. All pairs offered at 1.50 each.
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Madras
Oxford
Boston Post
New England
Booth-Tucker
Salvation Army
Worcester
Armn Sam
Cozens
Columbia Road
Lexington
Senor
Sixto Lopez
Lexington Green
Far East
Spy Pond
Tony
Hollis Street
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
John de Chase
Haverhill
Castle Square
William N. “Bsgood
Tremont Building
Sunday Post
Abbie P
Gloucester
Mass
Tramp
Jane
Kate
Detroit Free Press
Yonkers Statesman
Count de Smallchange
Baltimore
Rusty
Philadelphia Record
Brooklyn
Wilson
Albrecut & Koellner
New Hongland Distributors
Elburn Stationery CO
I-Joot
Jordan, Marsh
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