London Snowstorm Paralyzes City and Regions
The great storm endures four days, with central London buried under several inches to five feet in suburbs. Telegraphs fail and rail service is disrupted across England Scotland and Wales. Crops and livestock suffer, stores close, sleighing returns with many parties including MPs and nobility.
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London
Scotland
North
England
Wales
Regent
Oxford Streets
Piccadilly
Pall Mall
Cheapside
Regents
Hyde Parks
Sloane Square
Highgate
Finchley
Hendon
Muswell Hill
Preston
Nigeres
Theo
Preston North End
Notts Forest
Ireland
Candle Coupons Reveal Wide Range of Estimates in Post Campaign
Readers submit candle time guesses with hours minutes seconds estimates. William A. Ireland notes 1544:30:30 as a sample. Entries from W. P. Baxter Derby Line and others list times such as 110:10:10, 111:01:01, 623:42:15, and 975:21:08 among many.
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Dingle
Ire
William A. Ireland
W.P. Baxter
Derby Line
Post
Chicago
W. P. Baxter
Derbyshire
G. E. Grant
Tremont Street
William H. Pratt
North Street
L. E. Clayton
City Hall Avenue
S. H. Cobb
Hyde Park
William J. Ryan
Arch Street
George A. Price
Court Street
S. J. Peterson
North Weymouth
Ellery Stowell
Lexington
F. R. Simmons
West Medway
F. R. Bosson
Reading
T. Russell Adams
F. A. Hobart
South Braintree
Conference of Reform ed Episcopal youth on Dartmouth Street
The Reformed Episcopal churches of the city and vicinity hold an afternoon and evening conference at the Dartmouth street church. Readings and discussions on lines of church work precede a reception and tea, followed by a public meeting with local speakers and a major address by Bishop Fallows of Chicago.
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Dartmouth Street
Bishop Fallows
Chicago
Maine Veteran Association Dinner at American House
The Maine Veteran Association will hold its annual dinner at the American House Thursday evening at 6 30 O clock. Music will be furnished by Post 7 G A R orchestra in addition to an excellent miscellaneous entertainment. Members have the privilege of inviting their families or friends. Sons and daughters of veterans will be cordially welcomed. All Maine soldiers are privileged to attend.
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Maine Veteran Association
G. A. R. Orchestra
Maine
All About the Candle Burns for Chicago World’s Fair Prizes
A six foot beeswax candle will be lit at noon on March 1 and a timekeeping committee will monitor its burn. Readers are invited to submit estimates of burn time with prizes of two excursions to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago for the three closest guesses. Governor Russell and Mayor Matthews have offered estimates.
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Post
Russell
Matthews
Chicago
Saturday club deliberations and dinners across Boston area
President William A. Russell led Commercial Club talks on reciprocity while the Boston Club discussed street watering under C. V. Whitten. Street Commissioner Carter and Henry W. Swift spoke. the Schoolmasters' Club debated grammar course changes. New England Club officials and others gathered for municipal reform talks. The Massachusetts Yacht Club hosted its twenty second annual dinner at the Revere House with Commodore John C. Soley presiding as yachting matters were discussed.
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William A. Russell
Commercial Club
Parker’s
Collector Beard
Jonathan A. Lane
Boston Club
C. V. Whitten
H. H. Carter
Henry W. Swift
Schoolmasters’ Club
Brunswick
New England Association of Colleges
C. W. Hill
New England Club
Young’s
C. H. Kellogg
St. Paul
Cyrus van Slyck
Providence
R. J
Benjamin Lincoln
Dennysyville
Frederick Parker
H. F. Hanson
Boston
Massachusetts Yacht Club
Revere House
John C. Soley
Doubles by John van Tassel echoes a mystifying double ending
Detective Dent pursues a year long disappearance case linking Russell Van Brunt to a bank robber shot in broad daylight. A striking resemblance to a dead man leads to identity doubt until Tina Weise and Mrs Van Brunt uncover a secret German wealth connection. Russell returns from Germany with Tina, revealing a life of wealth and a mistaken death.
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Russell van Brunt
Boston
Commonwealth Avenue
Tina
Russeau
Tina Weise
Dent
Tinaeise
Russell
Providence
New York
van Brant
Mrs. van Brunt
Germany
America
Liverpool
Manchester
Musical Mattins at Music Hall Delightful Yet Lengthy
A Saturday concert filled Music Hall with patrons for a long varied program. Mme Basta Tavary starred with Verdi and Brahms encores, while Kneisel impressed with Hauser’s Rhapsodie Hongroise. The Symphony Concert followed, William Sherwood praised, Busoni’s early symphonic suite performed, and Wagner’s march closed the program.
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Mme. Basta-Tavary
Mme
Selma Knonold
Hopekirk
Myron W. Whitney
Campanari
Franz Kneisel
Fritz Giese
Philharmonic Orchestra
Reuest
Arthur Foote
Arthur W. Thayer
Mme. Tavary
Patti
Brahms
Mme. Knowold
Trovatore
Mme. Hopekirk
Chopin
Liszt
J. C. Bartlett
Lon F. Brine
Clarence Hay
Herbert Johnson
Attila
Kneisel
Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall
William Sherwood
Boston
Raft
Busoni
Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas
Dvorak
America
Vivian
The Dime Want Card Brings Unexpected Fruit
An old man in despair sought a clerk everywhere. He bought a Dime Want card and found great fruit from the idea. The poem contrasts frustration with a simple purchase that yields surprising result.
Contributions to Russian relief fund cited by firms
Kidder, Peabody & Co acknowledge additional gifts for Russian relief totalling 340,766 dollars. The list includes Jessie F. Jones of Laramie, F. W. Smith, Mary L. King of Salem, and multiple church and individual donors across states, through Bishop Brooks and other channels, with a previously acknowledged 319,116 dollars making the new total 340,766 dollars.
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William F. Gibson
Tilton
N. H
Marian Hovey
Presbyterians face tense vote over Briggs report at assembly
In Portland in May, the Presbyterian General Assembly will consider a report by a fifteen member committee on Rev. Dr. C A Briggs of Union Theological Seminary. The panel finds Briggs possibly heretical, while seminary directors assert equal partnership and limited GA authority. A contentious, likely bitter fight looms over endorsement.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Portland
C. A. Briggs
Union Theological Seminary
Detroit
General Assembly
Briggs
Presbyterian Church
W. H. Roberts
Cincinnati
Hale to Read Five Stories at South Congregational Vestry
Dr Edward Everett Hale will read five stories at the vestry of South Congregational Church beginning March 8 with Colonel Clipsams Calendar and Aunt Carolines Picture. March 22 features A Man Without a Country while April 6 includes The Minister's Black Veil and The Little Yellow Dog. Readings start 7 45 pm and conclude with an informal reception.
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Edward Everett Hale
South Congregational Church
Colonel Clipsam
Caroline
Mrs Frazar to Speak at Tremont Temple Tomorrow Night
Mrs M D Frazar will give one of her familiar talks in Tremont Temple tomorrow night. Her descriptions are plain and pleasing and she speaks without oratorical effort. She has a pleasant voice and easy manner, with a traveller's grasp of entertaining.
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M. D. Frazar
Tremont Temple
Train Conductor Killed by Coupling Link Accident
William Linley 28, conductor on the New England road, was crushed between bumpers at Hawleyville while coupling cars last night. The link passed through his body, killing him instantly.
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Dantory
Conn
William Linley
New England Road
Hawleyville
Marriage Rings Sold by Wilson Bros Boston
Jewelry ad from Wilson Bros Boston offers gold wedding rings priced seven to twelve dollars. Rings are made to order at their Tremont Row factory in two hours. The ad directs readers to look for the Big Clock and proclaims them the largest jewellery in Boston.
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Wilson Bros
Tremont Row
Boston
Laing and Dodge wed in city ceremony Feb 17
John Laing and Miriam Dodge were married in the city on February 17 by Rev. Reuben Kidner. William C. Miller and Evelyn Amis also wed in the same city on February 17 officiated by Rev. Christopher R. Eliot.
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Laing—Dodge
Reuben Kidner
John
Laing
Miriam Dodge
Miller—Amis
Christopher R. Eliot
William C. Miller
Evelyn Amis
Deaths in brief from diverse locations including Providence and Boston
Death notices list Sophia S Brown widow of Nathaniel W Brown in Providence Rhode Island Feb 19 Emma L Crosby Bedford West Chester County New York Feb 13 Elizabeth MacGregor Savin Hall Avenue Feb 18 Minetta Bath Hamilton Kentville Nova Scotia Feb 13 Susan Hamilton Feb 17 William A Lawrence Newtonville Feb 19 etc Eliza Ann Tesing Wirt Indiana Feb 13 Mary A W Newcomb Quincy aged 40 years 6 months 14 days Charles Hudson Audson Breckton aged 83 years 5 months 16 days Charles H Noyes Boston Highlands Feb 19 Frank M Brown East Weymouth Feb 19 and others mentioned by surname with ages and dates of death.
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Bath
Susan
Otho
Maria Starr Hamilton
Lawrence
Newtonville
William A. Lawrence
Wirt
Ind
Eliza Ann
John G. Tesing
Madison
John Mellen
Boston
Cure Quick for Catarrh and Health Pamphlets Offered
Advertises a mailed cure for nasal catarrh with a 50 cent fee and stamps. Promises full instructions, a brochure with cures in Boston, and a pamphlet on tobacco dangers and quackery. Also touts omni pathy external remedies and a 125 page book The Tobacco Slave for 20 cents. C. A. Greene at 178 Tremont St promotes 44 years’ experience. pamphlets free.
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Boston
Maine
Florida
Boston Post
C. A. Greene
Tremont St
Nervara Greene
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Godard
Aose
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Greig
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Harold
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Italy,’ Berlioz
Globe Theatre
John Steltson
Lillian Russell Opera Comique Company
Audran
Oston Museum
R. M. Focup
Dicke
Dombey and Son
Bermuda Pictures
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STONE
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Copley Square Hotel
Huntington Ave
Exeter St
Copley St
F.S. Risteen & CO
Hotel Bellevue
Beacon Street
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