Pennock Electric Light Co plans 1000 lights for World Fair exhibit
The Pennock Electric Light Co rushes a hotel display project with 60 lights in one window and 40 in another. It will showcase 1000 electric lights at the World’s Fair, powered by a primary battery and advertised to be cheaper than dynamos and gas. Major stockholders include T Martin, S P Tenney, M Eugene Rice, G W Moses, W H Mann, L Land, J Reynolds, and G F Loring. stock at 20 dollars, rising to 50 within 30 days.
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Pennock Electric Light Company
Exchange Place
Reynolds
McKenney & Waterbury
Pennock Company
Pennock
Thomas Martin
First National Bank
Chelsea
Samuel P. Tenney
Roxbury Carpet Company
Beacon Street
M. Eugene Rice
George W. Moses
First Ward National Bank
Boston
William H. Mann
Tremont Street
Milk Street
John I’. Reynolds
George F. Loring
Loring & Phipps
Exchange Building
Popular in Concert. The Ryne Family on Nervura Cure
Mr W Ryne Perth Amboy violinist and Mrs Ryne singer recount similar experiences with nervousness and indigestion. Both credit Dr Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy for relief and renewed performance ability, praising its curative powers.
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Patti
Nilsson
W. Ryne
Perth Amboy
N. J
Dr. Greene
Greene
Temple Place
Boston
Mass
Plans for House seating changes to fit 23 new members
Washieron Feb 24 private drawer notes reveal radical seating ideas by ex Speaker Reed and Bourke Cochran to shrink the hall and add reception rooms for the 23 extra members due under the last apportionment. The drafts propose benches, removed desks, and an enlarged space but face quorum and cost issues. A simpler plan to remove the rear rail and permit twelve new seats per side is favored for quick adoption.
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Washieron
Cisp
Rules Committee
House of Representatives
House
Reed
Bourke Cochran
New York
Bull of Bashan
Cochran
Therm
Congress
Provincetown Lands Title Dispute Reviewed by Committee
The Provincetown committee debated the trustees report on public reservations at the cape tip. They urged immediate settlement of land titles, with state care of unimproved lands and a superintendent, arguing boundaries and ownership between town and state should be clearly defined.
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Committee On Public Reservations
Trustees of Public Reservations
Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners
Cape Cod
Provincetown
Adams
Plymouth
Cape
Samson
George’s Bank
George Wigglesworth
Harbor Beach
Prbblic
Reed
Oakhead
Nickerson
Thomas Smith
Boston
H. S. Cook
George C. Knowles
Clark
Eastham
John McClintock
President Manvel Dead At San Diego Hotel
Allan Marvel president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway died at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego California early this morning. He was about 55 years old and likely died of Brights disease. Marvel began railroading in 1859 with Rock Island and later led St Paul Manitoba and finally Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe.
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San Diego
Cal
Allan Manvel
Atchison Railroad
Hotel del Coronado
Bright
Marvel
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Rock Island
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Not Bigmay or De Smith The Ponsonby Question
A fragmentary exchange questions Ponsonby about bigamy. Travis jokes a bigamist seems unlikely. DeSmith mentions LT heard his wife mentioning Dr. dle ems Weed Tonic, but the sentence trails off without a clear conclusion.
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de Smith
Ponsonby
Travis
DeSmith
Bright newsboy and canal scandal figure roll through the town
A young Russian immigrant, Max Sherman, 15, sells the Post on Washington Street and earns 80 cents daily from his first photo. The piece shifts to the Panama Canal affair, highlighting Richard W. Thompson of Indiana, nicknamed Uncle Dick, a veteran statesman linked to the canal controversy, with a long political career from Jackson era to the Civil War and beyond.
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Post
Max
Washington Street
Max Sherman
Russia
Norman Street
Congress
Panama
Atlantic
Richard W. Thompson
Indiana
Navy
Hayes
Dick” Thompson
Thompson
de Lesseps
France
Panama Canal Company
America
Dick’ Thompson
Jackson
Clay
Minneapolis
Mr. Thompson
Virginia
Bedford
Ind
William Henry Harrison
WEST ENGLAND STICKS TO GLADSTONE
London reports Cirencaster re captured by Liberal H L W Lawson with 4687 votes to 4445 for Conservative Colonel Chester Master. Liberals hail this as proof agrarians in the west of England back Mr Gladstone and his policy.
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London
Twe
Cirencaster
H. L. W. Lawson
Chester Master
West of England
Gladstone
Accommodating Husband Keeps Door Open For Wife
A sobbing wife fears she will be left at the door. The husband replies with courteous gallantry saying he would never let a lady open a door when he is present, illustrating considerate manners in a domestic moment from the Texas Silting.
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Leath
Texas
A Beautiful Dream Exchange Between Dudley Canesucker
Dudley Canesucker recalls a dream in which TJ claimed to own $50,000, only to wake to the reality of having nothing. Tommy Vanderchamp comments that waking would still expose the heavy loss, though a dream of a fortune might be harder to bear.
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Dudley Canesucker
Tommy Vanderchamp
D.C
Texas Siftings
Queer Logic in a Texas Siftings Note
A Stranver quips about paying $3 to have a valise carried to the station, contrasting with hiring a cab. A boy responds that a cab driver can be cheaper since he has a cab, but they must carry the valise on foot.
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Stranver
Texas Siftings
Paine’s Furniture unveils February leader a Columbian chamber set
Each February Paine's Furniture Company introduces a new leader to spark midwinter trade. This year the engraving appears in a different column, and the Columbian chamber set is offered at a substantial reduction, drawing eager attention from numerous buyers.
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Paine’s Furniture Company
Paine’s
Ferry elected president of the French Senate
Pants Feb 24 Jules Ferry was elected president of the Senate by a majority of 148 votes.
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Ferry
Pants
M. Jules Ferry
Senate
Death by self to Cobb Jackson shocks Atlanta society
In Atlanta on February 24 Cobb Jackson, a famed athlete and lawyer, died by suicide after a quiet drive from the Gate City Bank building. The tragedy follows the bank defalcation shock, and Cobb and his father had just left their office before the fatal shot. His loss devastates Atlanta's elite circles.
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Atlanta
Lewis Redwine
Gate City National Bank
Cobb Jackson
South
Gate City Bank
Capitol
Cobb
Captain Jackson
Robbers loot train station at Adair and city stores
Parsons Kan Feb 24 three desperadoes robbed a Missouri Kansas Texas passenger train agent of 8700 dollars after train No. 2 pulled from Adair Station I T. Eighteen citizens forced to halt with hands up, marched to a local store robbed of 300 cents. The bandits then drove to the stock yards, hitched their horses, and rode away.
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Parsons
Kan
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Adair Station
I. T
Defaulter Redwine Captured After Bank Escape
Atlanta reports Redwine the Gate City National Bank cashier who fled with about 60000 was caught in the suburbs at 1 o'clock. He refuses to talk and has no money with him.
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Atlanta
Redwine
Gate City National Bank
Horticultural Society Lectures On Carnations And Highways
At the Saturday meeting Richard T. Lombard of Wayland will read on Carnations and their Culture. James Owen of New Jersey will speak on The Celebrated Highways of that State and the Legislation under which they have been built. Both lectures free at Horticultural Hall.
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Richard T. Lombard
Wayland
Horticultural Hall
James Owen,e
New Jersey
Moravia Refuels After Short Coal Voyage to New York
The Hamwahburg liner Moravia arriving after a seven day voyage from Hamburg and fifteen days from Portland England bound for New York put in short of coal. The vessel faced gales and high seas like other steamers and sustained minor damage to a propeller yet continued after coaling.
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Haurax
Moravia
Hamburg
Portland
England
New York
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Ise
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Sticks
West England
A. W Wheeler & CO
Hanover St
American House
Panama Canal
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Puck
Queer Logic
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Hood's
Drake, Mich
Mr. Abner C. Folsom
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Panty
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Suffolk
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Esquire
Ommon Wealth
Massachusetts
Liff Folk
Marcos Calisto DO Rosario
Hong Kong
China
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Bostom Post
Joan W. McKim, Esq
Elijah George
Register
Joan W. McKim
James Smith
William W. McIntosh
Samuel M. Jackson
Loston
Joonn W. McKior
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Joseph F. Boston
Court Room
Court Square
John B. Fitzpatrick
Quffole
Daniel Pattinson
Suffok
Gilbert A. A. Pevey
Tremont St
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Goodwin
Fenetelock
Luther W. Chick
James P. Clark
County of
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Hood
Grip
A.C. Folsom
P. Mh
Drake
Mich
Catherine M. Keleher
Thomas F. Reddy
Admr
Otige
Ann Mooney
John J. Mooney
Kate P. Ward
Prescott J. Ward
OS Fonwealth
Catharine Shea
Sid County
Jeremiah i’. O'Brien
Brookline
Norfolk
Jettora
Joan W. McKin Esquire
Elwah George
Sur
Adeline Bartlet
Edward L. Barilet
John W. Mekim
Frederick Fuerst
James R. Murphy
Roston
Suid Boson
John W. McKim
Dudge
Ommonweaire
Pirate Court
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Martin P. Dosovan
Said
Joan W. McK
Elwais.george
Julia Keleher
Admi
Nezree
Ward Zobisch
Couny
Anyon J. Noether
Samuel M. Barrett
Nancym
Barrett
Hipston
Otice
Michael Cospello
Margaret Costello
Admx
William BE. Cassidy
Administratrix
School Street
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