Reduced Postal Rates and Postal Committee Debates
Debates loom in the House over cutting local letter postage to 1 cent with sub committee dalliance led by Enloe Anderson and Allen. Harris opposes for revenue loss. Dickison favors liberal change. Seeds and bulbs may move to 1 cent per four ounces and two ounces respectively. Canada rate loopholes noted. Senate schedule focuses on treaties, values, and public building bills as parties balk at adjournment timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washrneton
Sorotan
House
Enloe
Tennessee
Anderson
Illinois
Allen
Massachusetts
Harris
Georgia
Colonel Vilas
Dickinson
Far West
Department
Canada
Detroit
United States
Post Office
Naval Officer Kent Sees President and Secretary in Portsmouth
Naval Officer Kent and Frank Jones of Portsmouth visit town. Colonel Kent met the President on Friday and then conferred at length with Secretary Fairchild about office work details. He plans to return to Boston tomorrow afternoon or Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
Frank Jones
Portsmouth
Fairchild
Boston
Tariff Debate Draws Prominent Congressmen to Providence
In Providence on February 18 the Commercial Club at Narragansett Hotel hosted a sharp tariff discussion featuring Congressmen Breckinridge of Kentucky Mills of Texas and ex Congressman Crapo of Massachusetts. Mills argued for reduced duties on raw materials and free lists for finished goods, while Crapp defended protection and attacked free trade. The exchanges covered surplus, internal taxes, and the goal of revenue through customs, with appeals to national prosperity and industrial growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Commercial Club
Narragansett Hotel
Breckinridge
Kentucky
Mills
Texas
Crapo
Massachusetts
New England
Lloyd Garrison
Europe
W. W. Crapp
New Bedford
Cleveland
Committee On
Democratic Party
Senate
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Congress
United States
Ways and Means Committee
Wallack's Theatre future settled amid Abbey plans
New York reports Abbey will manage Wallack's as a stock company ends this season. Wallack's legacy faces revival plans with London Assurance and a string of comedies. The Met Opera House notes Wagner and Lohengrin successes, plus German and Italian seasons may shift. G. K. Montgomery outlines a Home Hotel for indigent writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sprerau
Wallack
Abbey
Wallack’s
Theodore Moss
Mr. Wallack
Wallack Company
Thirteenth-street
Ada Dyas
Montague
Beckett
Miss Dyas
John Gilbert
Osmond Tearle
Gilbert
Mme. Ponisi
Rose Coghlan
Harry Edwards
Kate Bartlett
London Assurance
Speed the Plough
School For
Metropolitan Opera House
Arrest of a Somerville Robber
New York report says Henry M. Perkins a jeweller's clerk from Somerville Mass who stole 2500 dollars and fled to Europe was held in a police court to await extradition papers. Detective Kelly of Boston identified him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
New Yor
Henry M. Perkins
Mass
Europe
Kelly
Boston
Lecturer Brooks Stricken In Hamilton Par crisis
The Rev. W. R. Brooks D D lecturer on natural philosophy at Madison University Hamilton Utton N Y February 19 was seized with paralysis today and is in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks
Utton
N. Y
W. R. Brooks
Madison University
Hamilton
Wart lucky woman will find the Clover to win tea service
In a Shreve, Crump & Low display window a gleaming silver tea service is promised through a Clover prize. The ad suggests luck may guide a reader to claim the elegant set at no cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreve, Crump & Low
Obituary of Alfred S. Barnes Publisher of A. S. Barnes & Co
Alfred S. Barnes longtime head of A. S. Barnes & Co New York publisher died in Brooklyn aged 71 He was born January 28 1817 in New Haven He helped found the firm with Charles Davies in Hartford later moving operations to Philadelphia and New York The firm published school books including The National Series Barnes retired in 1880 and his sons expanded the business He served as director of Hanover National Bank and Home Fire Insurance and supported Christian and educational causes giving 25000 to Faith Home Brooklyn and 40000 to Cornell Universitys YMCA
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred S. Barnes
A. S. Barnes & Co
New York
Brooklyn
New Haven
Dr. F. Robinson & Co
Hartford
Conn
Young Barnes
Charles Davies
Davies
Parker
Ly Abbott
Clark
General A. ©. Barnes
Henry J. Barnes
H. W. Curtiss
Charles J. Barnes
Edwin M. Barnes
Richard S
William D. L. Barnes
Barnes
Hanover National Bank
Home Fire Insurance Company
Inventor Thomas J. Mayall Dies at 61 in Reads ing
Thomas J. Mayall prominent Reads ing citizen and inventor died Saturday night of heart trouble at sixty two. Born August 16 1826 in North Berwick Missouri he started as a bobbin boy and rose to invent rubber belt printing machines vulcanizing rubber and early rail and naval devices. He traveled Europe promoting his cannons and held many patents. Funeral set for Tuesday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Mayall
Readsing
Mr. Mayall
North Berwick
New Hampshire
Boston
Roxbury
Mr. Goodyear
Boston Belting Company
Brazil
Washington, D
Mayall
England
James
Madison College
Evarts Misplaced Overcoats Spur Comical Coat Mixup
An emissary of William Maxwell Evarts probes New York and Brooklyn for a sought lost coat saga after the senator accidentally wore someone else’s coat from Delmonico’s then swapped again on a Brooklyn trip. He finally returns wearing a leftover 1845 pattern by luck.
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N. Y
Delmonico
Brooklyn
Delmontico’s
Delmonico Safetitate
Fragmentary note hints at a gift in Shreve Crump and Low
A partial line references a window in Shreve, Crump and Low with mentions of silver tea service and an implied gift. The text is incomplete but centers on a possible item exchange or offering within the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Belmont
Committee On Foreign Affairs
House
United States
Paris
Magazine Notes Preview in Popular Science and Scribner’s
The March Popular Science Monthly will publish David A. Wells’s ninth piece on Economic Disturbances and a piece titled The Antechamber of Consciousness by Francis Speir Jr. Andrew D. White contributes New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. Scribner’s Magazine previews John C. Ropes on The Campaign of Waterloo. Book Buyer offers Gibson illustrations and a study of Japanese book illustration by Hero mich Shugio, with Hokusai and Ritsupo works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Wells
Popular Science Monthly
Popular Science
Francis Speir, Jr
Andrew D. White
Cornell University
Voltaire
Cuvier
Mr. Gladstone
Edmund Gosse
Scribner’s Magazine
John C. Ropes
William Hamilton Gibson
H. E. Scudder
Gibson
Heromich Shugio
Hokusai
Ritsupo
Kioto
London
Boston
Notable Figures and Quiet Lives Across Continents
A collection of brief portraits: Matthew Arnold objects to a photo revealing his wrinkles. Professor Greenough White resigns from Sewanee and rests in Cambridge. Miss Jennie Chamberlain leads a secluded life in Cleveland. New Jersey reports Diana Schenck, 116, as the oldest resident in Princeton. Hester Morris of Wyoming Territory becomes the first woman JP and is described as tall with Elizabethan features. Minister McLane, 72, popular in Paris and sought by diplomats for insights on politics and Europe. Joseph Chamberlain maintains a $50,000 orchid collection at Highbury, lauded for floriculture and codfish lore. Rev Melancthon B Williams, Princeton's oldest living graduate, born 1797, class of 1814. Senator Palmer hosts weekly Washington symposia with many colleagues, featuring music and notable voices, including Manderson, Edmunds, and Ingalls, plus songs popular in the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Arnold
Greenough White
University of the South
Sewanee
Diana Schenck
Princeton
Washington
Hester Morris
Wyoming Territory
United States
Queen Elizabeth
McLane
Paris
Diplomatic Corps
Joseph Chamberlain
England
Highbury
Chamberlain
Princeton College
Melancthon B. Williams
Cambridge
New York
Nassau Hall
Richard H. Bayard
Delaware
Belgium
Bayard
Hugh Lennox Hodge
Philadelphia
Palmer
United States Senate
Vance
Voorhes
Beck
Blackburn
Kenna
Eustis
Ingalls
Chandler
West
Evarts
Hiscock
Coke
Edmunds
Spooner
Manderson
Mitchell
Plumb
Mary Ann
Josiah Quincy and a Defender of Truth in Libel Ruling
Dr Peabody lauds Josiah Quincy for steadfast integrity and leadership. Quincy as Boston municipal judge defied tradition by allowing truth to be a defense in libel cases, aiding Joseph Buckingham and discrediting Maffitt. The ruling reshaped common law in English speaking nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Municipal Court
Boston
Joseph T. Buckingham
John N. Maffitt
Maffitt
Buckingham
Moffitt
Publishers Notes on New Books and Series Releases
Notes from the publishers announce a new edition of Starr King's lectures titled Substance and Show at a reduced price from Houghton Mifflin & Co. upcoming works include Reincarnation by E. D. Walker and a life of Lafayette by Lydia Hoyt Farmer. Also, Amos A. Lawrence by Rev. William Lawrence and Taxation in American States and Cities by Richard T. Ely are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starr King
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
E. D. Walker
New York
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co
Lafayette
Johns Hopkins University
Lord Byron
Church of St. Sophia
Moscow Road
London
G. W. Dillingham
G. W. Carleton & Co
Jouarre
Ernest Renan
Paris
Sidney Colvin
Keats
Britannica
Goese
Leyden
Tasso
Symonds
Shield Nicholson
Philip Magnus
Thomas Gray
William Thomson
Temple
W. Robertson Smith
Flint
Tibet
J. T. Walker
R.E
Lacouperie
Darwin
Holland
Hobson
Christ’s College
Cambridge
Messrs. Hessels
Southward
United States
Johnston and Whitney
F. A. Walker
E. E. Hale
Massachusetts
Jessie Benton Frémont
Missouri
Elbridge S. Brooks
Sidney Luska
Connecticut
Brooks
L. J. Bridgman
John Boyle O’reily
Tickner & Co
Donoghue
Sullivan
Homer Greene
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Canada
Mexico
Central
South America
Clarendon Prohibition Band Delights Temple Audience
Fifty little midgets known as the Clarendon Prohibition Band sang at the Clarendon Street Baptist Church in a temperance fundraiser. Eftie Keyser Harry Prescott and an infant department of boys and girls helped. Rev W G Buttrick of New Haven urged directing public sentiment to eradicate intemperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarendon
Prohibition Band
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Home
Temperance
Eftie Keyser
Harry Prescott
Department of Boys and Girls
W. 4. Buttrick
New Haven
Books Received Last Week From Various Publishers
A long listing of new and notable works received last week including La Neuvaine de Colette from William R. Jenkins New York and Cassell's National Library volumes such as Plutarch's Lives translated by Langhorne, novel offerings by Hop kins and Hall Caine, biographies by Peabody Gallaudet and Starrett, and other titles from Appleton Harper and Scribner’s across U S publishers. The compilation names authors and publishers from New York Boston Topeka Philadelphia and London with topics spanning fiction history religion and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William R. Jenkins
Plutarch
Solon
Publicola
Philopoemen
Titus Quintius Flaminius
Caius Marius
J. and
W. Langhorne
Cassell & Co
Cassell’s National Library
Cousin Angie
Marie Louise Parker
Boston
Universalist Publishing House
C.M. Newell
de Wolfe, Fiske & Co
Mark Hopkins
Ticknor & Co
Harvard
Andrew P. Peabody
J. H. Long
D. Appleton & Co
Isle of Man
Hall Caine
J. W. Dawson
Edwin Percy Whipple
Esther the Gentile
Mary W. Hudson
Topeka
Kan
George W. Crane & Co
Lady Cust
William S. Gottsberger
Sam
Harold Brydges
Henry Holt & Co
Ali Aziz Efendi
Also Mentioned on This Page
MR. Allen
Mr. Cunniff
House Committee On Pacific Railroads
Moorfield Storey
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Huntington
Allison
Rathbone
Secretary of War
Ways and Means
Treasury
Judiciary Committee
Hoar
Post Office Committee
Pacific Railroad
Blacks Bob
Kansas
Committee On Territories
Territory of
Oklahoma
Committee On Manufactures
Secretary of the Treasury
New York Sugar Trust
Grant
General Banks
Cunniff
Ames
Hinman
Pratt
Mr. Lovering
Custom House
Lovering
Marshal
Blaine
Boston Custom House
Saltonstall
Providence Commercial Club
Prospect
Wagner
Niemann
Alvary
Siegfried
Lohengrin
Mr. Stanton
Ernest Gye
Gye
Mapleson
Ferdinand Cortez
Sakkingen
New York Press Club
The
Brunswick
Press Club
John A. Cockerill
World
Cockerill
Pulitzer
L. J. B. Lincoln
Deerfield Summer School of History and Romance
the Library
Vincenzo Botta
G. K. Montgomery
Alfred
MR. Evarts
Magazine Notes
Josiah Quincy
Dr. Peabody
Mr. Guiney
R. BL. Day & Company
Brokers & Appraisers No
State St
Merchants’ Exchange
Roots
Boston Stock Exchange
Union Metallic Fastening Co
Shelburne Falls
Hank. McKay & Bigelow Heeling Md
Reece Button Hole Machine Co
Cambridge Gas Light Co
Winnisimmet Co
North Chicago
BU Bud
Walt
Rfs
Royal Aking Powder Co
Wall St
Charles F. Libbie
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Florida
Fes
City of
Macon
Florida Oranges
Francis Henshaw & CO
Shawmut Nat’l Bank
Naumkeag Nat’s Bank
Salem
Lawrence Mfg. Co
Lowell Machine Shop
Boott Cotton Mills
Pacific Mills
Great Fails Mig. Co
Lancaster Mills
Chicopee
Mig
Stark Millie
Memphis, Kansas & Colorado
Saginaw & Western RR
Nashua Mf. Co
Old Colony RR
Fitchburg RR
Troy Stock
Burton Stock Vat Co
Rastanfah Oa
Union Metalic Fastening Asso
Mercantile Fire and Marine Insurance Co, Amnohiliaaw Vallaw
Albert Howe & Co
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
John C, Wilmerding
Wilmerpming, Hoguet & CO
White St
Townsend & Montant
Leonard Street
Gorham, Rogers & CO
Im Goods
Federal Street
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