Josef Hofmann Examined by Mayor Over Child Labor Concerns
The 11 year old pianist Josef Hofmann appeared before Mayor Hewitt and a panel of doctors to assess his health and stamina for public performances. Physicians found his nervous system highly organized but advised limit to four shows weekly with rest days, while offers circulated to fund extended education if he withdraws from the stage.
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New York
Josef Hofmann
Hewitt
Henry E. Abbey
Marcus R. Mayer
W. H. Morton
A. McLean
Hamilton
Louis Sayre
Elbridge T. Gerry
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Joseph D. Bryant
Board of Health
E. G. Janeway
Gerry
Josef
Mozart
Hofmann
Abbey
May Wilson
The
Bears
Congress
San Francisco
General Banks
Postal Bill Targets Book Series For Mailing Rates
A House bill would end second class mailing of complete books issued in series and push those works to higher rates. Publishers warn of thousands in losses and disrupted distribution while defenders say literature should not be stifled. Senator Kenna answered Sherman's tariff speech, defending revision as necessary. The debate highlights tensions over literature access and tariff policy.
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Washineton
House
Senate
Post Office Committee
Blount Georgia
Cannon
Illinois
Brumm
Pennsylvania
General Bingham
Farquhar
New York
Harper Bros
Franklin Square
Messrs
Cassell & Co
National Library
Ticknot
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Riverside
Lee
Kenna
West Virginia
John Sherman
Sherman
Frye
Hiseezk
Hoar
Arthur
Folger
McCulloch
Ohio
Contro
House of Represent
Denis Kearney
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Mr. Storrow
Bell Company
Commissioner of Patents
Bank Officers' Association Members Disport in Minstrelsy
A page 2 item notes members of the Bank Officers' Association engaging in negro minstrelsy. The brief item summarizes the observed entertainment at a banking group gathering without further detail.
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Bank Officers’ Association
Michael C. Hayes
Suffolk Manufacturing Company
Guests and officials dine at Young's and Crawford House
Guests at Young's include W S McCrillis Portland Lucius Tuttle Montreal and others. At the Revere George R Moore Frederick and James Gibbons Lewiston attend while the Tremont hosts E Ely Norwich and Samuel D Thompson Mansion House owner. Royal Arcanum Club dinner and business meeting at Crawford House draws thirty. Sheriffs of the Commonwealth attend at Young's for the annual dinner. Gossamer Rubber Clothing Association holds its regular meeting and dinner at Young's chaired by Vice-President G A Place.
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Young’s
W.S. McCrillis
Portland
Lucius Tuttle
Montreal
Bec Houghton
North Adams
Sidney Broadbent
Scranton
Penn
Charles P. Matthewson
Hartford
The
Revere
George R. Moore
Frederick
James Gibbons
Lewiston
James B. Gardiner
New York
Norwich
Conn
Samuel D. Thompson
Sheriffs of the
Commionwealth
Herrick
Essex
Sprague
Worcester
Cushing
Middlesex
Kimball
Franklin
Crosby
Berkshire
O'Brien
Suffolk
Brooke
Hampden
Harmon
Plymouth
Clack
Hampshire
Gossamer Rubbrer Clothing Association
Young's
G. A. Place
Improvements of the Fitchburg Railroad Progress in Winter
Fitchburg railroad work presses on through severe winter with two Hoosick Falls bridge gangs replacing wood with iron. Trains run via Boston Hoosac Tunnel and Western between Hoosick and Hoosick Junction. Buckland Erving iron bridges finished and Green River bridge span complete. New Fitchburg yard proves useful. West Cambridge yard near spring readiness. Ten locomotives to be added early spring for switching and passenger service.
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Fitchburg
Hoosick Falls
Troy
Boston
Boston, Hoosac Tunnel
Green River
Greenfield
West Cambridge
Coffee Rooms Opened in Cambridge at O Brien’s Building
New coffee rooms in O Brien's building North Cambridge were formally opened yesterday with free coffee in the afternoon and brief addresses by clergy and Mr. Frank Foxcroft. Three rooms will serve as a coffee counter reading room and smoking room, with plans to open similar facilities elsewhere in the city.
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O’brien
Cambridge
E. H. Hall
W. 8. Alexander
C. W. Biddle
Edward Abbott
Frank Foxcroft
Vestry Meeting Aims For Rev Dr Courtney Successor
A meeting of the vestry of St Pauls Church is set for Monday to discuss appointing a committee to consider a successor to Rev Dr Frederick Courtney who has been called to be bishop of Nova Scotia. No name has been suggested by any source yet. Courtney will not depart for his new field until after Master.
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St. Paul’s Church
Frederick Courtney
Nova Scotia
Courtney
Working Boys Home Concert At Hollis Street Theatre
A sacred concert to benefit the Working Boys Home will be held next Sunday evening at the Hollis Street Theatre. Captain James Lambert leads a lineup of volunteer vocalists and musicians. Tickets are on sale at the Home on Bennet Street and with corporation clerk John Coulon at 108 Lincoln Street.
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Hollis Street
James Lambert
Corporation
Bennet Street
John Coulon
Lincoln Street
Transatlantic Shipping Movements Reported Across Ports
A list of ships and routes dated Feb across multiple ports including Aden Antwerp Liverpool Plymouth Rotterdam Hong Kong Boston New York Philadelphia London Queenstown and Belfast. Vessels travel between New York Calcutta Gibraltar Jamaica San Francisco and other cities with several departures and arrivals noted.
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Aden
Hesperia
Calcutta
New York
Antwerp
Pieter de Coninck
Brow Head
Brooklyn City
Kristol
Gibraltar
Vonca
Mediterranean
Philadelphia
Olympic
Liverpool
Empress
Galveston
Port
Toledo
Baltimore
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Hong Kong
City of Sydney
San Francisco
Boston
Siberian
Glasgow
Lake Fluron
Enskaro
Carbarien
Melgenland
Columbia
Oxford
Voorman
Blanche Henderson
Jamaica
London
Denmark
Queenstown
Adriatic
Melgic
Yokohama
Kinsale
Cadiz
New Orleans
Pixtegeol
Duke of Westminster
Newport News
Istrian
Belfast
Lord O'Neill
Christiansand
Yhinkwalla
Copenhagen
Bassano
Hamburg
Europa
Norfolk
He Ruyter
State of Georgia
Bergenland
Tower Hill
H F Dineck
Hull
Bristol
India
Port Adelaide
West Point
Welcome for Lord Ripon Morley at Dublin meeting
A Dublin assembly in Central Hall conferred the freedom of the city on the Marquis of Ripon and John Morley. Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan chaired as MPs and Parnellite supporters filled Leinster Hall amid cheers. Ripon urged calm, Morley warned Home Rule crisis nears, both urging unity and peace across Ireland.
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Lord Ripon
Mr. Morley
Dublin
Leinster Hall
Morley
Sullivan
Archbishop Walsh
Rome
E. Dwyer Gray
M.P
Ireland
Liberal Party
England
Lord Salisbury
Parnell
Dillon
Reading Strike Expands as Miners Negotiate Coal Output
The joint strike committee authorizes work at collieries agreeing to 8 percent rise with coal diverted from Reading railroad. Reading operates thirteen collieries today with about 4000 workers. two new mines Kohinoor West Shenandoah start. Shenandoah district fractures as independent workers return. A clash in Shenandoah City mine and a wage petition to issue a writ of quo warranto against Reading Railroad is filed.
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Porrsvmur
Penn
Reading
Reading Company
Kohinoor
West Shenandoah
Shenandoah City
Shenandoah
Lee
Turkey Run
Kelley Run
John Burns
May Wilson Fire Crime Shocks City Hospital
Eleven year old May Wilson confessed to starting a hospital fire at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children after matches were found in the register area and near a table, with Fire Marshal Sheldon noting pyro mania and the case heading to the district attorney while her youth may spare punishment.
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New York
May Wilson
Richard Wilson
East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street
Gibbs
Sheldon
May
Gibney
Honoring Gen Banks Survivors Toast His Speakership
Washington notes mark a dinner at the Republican League Club as ten of twenty five Twenty-fifth Congress survivors gather to honor General N P Banks. A Banks Survivors Union is formed with Cragin as president and Morrill as an executive member.
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Washineton
General Banks
Republican League Club House
N. P. Banks
John Sherman
Ohio
Justin T. Morrill
Vermont
Aaron H. Cragin
New Hampshire
William Oumback
Indiana
Russell Sage
New York
Guy R. Pelton
James H. Campbell
Pennsylvania
Galusha A. Grow
James 8. T. Stranhan
Thomas T. Flagler
Senator Dawes
Senator Cragin
Mr. Flagler
John R. Eddy
Samuel Todd
Banks Survivors’ Reunion Association
A. UL. Cragin
William Cumbach
Sherman
Morrill
Cragin
General F. Spinner
John J. Perry
Maine
John A. Bingham
Mr. Perry
Portland
John M. Wood
P. B. Benson
Knowlton
Israel Washburn, Jr
Banks
Aiken
Jacob Brown
Fuller
J. W. Forney
McDonough Sues Bell Case Postponed Before Patent Commissioner
The McDonough Bell telephone patent dispute continued before Patent Commissioner Hall with adjournment to tomorrow after a six hour hearing. Attorneys for both sides presented affidavits and deeds to support ownership and collusion claims. Storrow of Boston led Bell defenses. Hurd of Ohio to open for McDonough.
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Washington
McDonough
Bell Company
Hall
Humphries
Western Union Telegraph Company
Gray, Edison
Storrow
Boston
George P. Prescott
New York
The
Gold and Stock Telegraph Company
Theodore N. Vail
William JD. Baldwin
Counse
Western Union
William C. Tompkins
Charles R. Cross
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Trowbridge
Harvard College
Arthur W. Wright
Yale College
W. W. Jacques
Mr. Storrow
Frank Hurd
Ohio
New York Yacht Club Elects Officers and News of Prizes
At the New York Yacht Club annual meeting on February 2 officers were elected: Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry and others. Ogden Goelet offered 1500 for prize yachts to be sailed under club rules, with 1000 and 500 for schooner and sloop events, to be scheduled later. Martha's Nineyard Yacht Club reported a 1500 purse to fund cups for August 1888 races. The June regatta date was set for June 21.
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New York
New York Yacht Club
Elbridge T. Gerry
C. H. Colt
HE. D. Morgan
John H. Bird
F. W. J. Hurst
John Hyslop
Ogden Goelet
Norseman
Goelet
Martha’s
Nineyard Yacht Club
Mayor Manning and others face trial for compounding felony
Toronto court reports ex-Alderman Rogers and four men including Bank Manager Strathy and Dr. R Snelling pleaded not guilty to compounding felony. Mannin Strathy and Snelling were committed for trial on bail. Jegreis was acquitted.
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Toronto
Ont
Manning
Rogers
Strathy
R. Snelling
Mannin
Snelling
Togeirs
Copper prices hold firm in New York trading
New York copper market closed strong on February 2 with spot ranges from 16.55 to 16.60 for February and up to 16.80 to 16.85 for May. Transactions exceeded 500000 pounds. London saw bear pressure pushing copper down to 75 2s per hundredweight with about 500 tons traded. Tin iron and lead remained dull and emotionless.
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New York
Bears
London
Chinese lecturer Wong Chin Foo sues Dominion government
Kingston report states Wong Chin Foo, a Chinese lecturer and journalist of New York, filed an action for 25000 dollars against the Dominion government. He came to Kingston from Clifton on bond with a label on customs regulations cited as part of the case.
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Kingston, Ont
Wong Chin Foo
New York
Dominion
Wong
Clifton
Kingston
Waa
Fish Sale Allowed as Treaty Rules Hold in Nova Scotia
Haumax Nova Scotia February 2. The schooners Whittier and Moonlight managed repairs with 10 000 pounds of fresh halibut on board and asked to sell it but were refused under treaty rules. Ottawa ordered customs to permit sale at five cents a pound. Newfoundland reports government plans to outfit fleets to guard bait supply against the French, who have ample frozen herring. The Gloucester schooner Arthur D Story arrived, left without reporting, and faces seizure if seen in any Canadian port.
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Haumax
N. S
Whittier
Moonlight
Ottawa
Newfoundland
Arthur D. Story
Stain and Cromwell Facing Dexter Case in Bangor Jail
Bancor Maine February report notes no indictment yet against Stain and Cromwell, alleged Dexter bandits, but a grand jury term beginning February is expected to return an indictment. Chief Justice Peters presides, government attorneys Baker and Appleton stand for the state, defense by Barker and Gillan. Trials likely February 16 to 20 with Newport robbery, the Shorty shooting, and Welch murder among notable criminal cases.
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Appleton
L. A. Barker
P. H. Gillan
Penobscot
Dexter
Newport
Tramp
Shorty
Sheriff Stevenson
William Welch
Sumner T. Stuart
Train wreck on Old Colony near Tremont causes alarm
An Old Colony railcar derailed at Tremont on a Wednesday evening. A passenger recounts the train ran a mile or more off the track at not less than thirty miles per hour. Passengers, aided by a bell-cord and brakes, halted the train before a serious catastrophe occurred.
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Old Colony
Tremont
Night messenger saves children during runaway horse incident
John O Connor of the Associated Press risked himself Wednesday to control a frightened sleigh horse on Eighth Street. He grabbed the bridle, held on as he was dragged, and stopped the animal without injuries to nearby children. He received a $10 reward for bravery.
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John O'Connor
Associated Preas
Charles Hettleman
O’connor
Weather forecast for New England and eastern New York
For twenty four hours starting 7 a m Friday Feb 3 New England will see fair weather with slight temperature changes and light to fresh westerly winds shifting to northerly For eastern New York fair weather with slight temperature changes and light to fresh winds The Blue Hill Observatory notes a forecast for southeastern New England fair and warmer weather.
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New England
New York
Blue Hint Observatory
H. H. Clayron
Weather Chart Signals High Pressure Across Regions
The chart shows high barometer in New York and Massachusetts extending to Virginia with another high pressure area in the extreme Northwest. A Gulf low is developing but unclear, along with a low in the Southwest. Warm weather prevails nationwide except the South where clouds and heavy rain hit Galveston. Friday outlook: fair and warm.
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Signal Service
New York
Massachusetts
Virginia
Gulf
Galveston
Observations Across Stations at Simultaneous Moment
Observations compiled from multiple stations taken at the same instant note synchronized readings across locations, indicating parallel conditions. Data reflects identical timing and shared environmental or event markers observed concurrently at each site.
Kenna Replies to Sherman on President’s Message
In the Senate a special committee on Pacific railroads is announced with members Frye Dawes Hiscock Davis Morgan Butler and Hearst. Mr Plumb pushes a postal service investigation while pressing for open session on the British treaty. Quay wins unanimous consent for a pensions bill increasing support to utterly helpless soldiers and sailors to 72 dollars a month with future increases aligned to Revised Statutes.
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Washineton
Pacific Railroads
Frye
Dawes
Hiscock
Davis
Morgan
Butler
Hearst
Riddleberger
Plumb
Quay
Committee On
United States
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Ons
W. W. Corcoran
Cogswell
G. W. Simmons & CO
North Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
A. W. Blodgett
Young Men’s Christian Association
George Dana Burrage
Dahlgren Post
Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation
Atchison
Horticultural Hall
Julia Ward Howe
the Navy Yard
Charles J. Whitmore
Bay State Iron Company
Connecticut
General Lig Insurance
Hartford, Conn
Massachusetts Standard
Ptork
T. W. Russell
Prest
F. W. Hudson
Sec
Leonard & CO
Bromfield Street
DR. Courtney
Working Boys
John Morley
Leinster
Mr. Cox
Limerick
Little May Wilson
Gen. Banks
Pring News
Stain and Cromwell
Triai
Observer’s Office
U. S
Noston
Alea Esss
Rae
Eastport
Wortland
Northfield
Block Island
Albany
Cien Lynchburg
Hatteras
Wilmington
Jacksonville
Montgomery
GoOs
New Orienta
Parsa
Shreveport
Aeg
Fort Smith Se
Knoxvillie
Memphis
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Enaee
Siswaro
Cleveland
God
Detroit
Ori
Grand Haven
Mackinaw City
Sue Bon
Marquette
Mich
Chicago
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Bo.d
Duluth
St. Paul
Rain Des Moinnes
Saugeen
Ganeveees
Cloudy Rock Cliffe Watern
Bnow
Clear
Yarmouth
Halifax
Huren
St. Vincent
Bismarck
Snow Vort Bulord
Wae
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Elewae Fort Custer
Helena
Rapid City
Cheyenne
North Platte
Denver
Dodge City
ASO. Sn
Salt Lake City
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