Koch lymph therapy gains state support in Berlin plan
The Prussian minister Von Gossler and Dr. Koch outline a path to make Koch’s lymph treatment the state enterprise. A Berlin hospital and laboratory will be funded and built to test and apply the remedy, with free access for the poor and centralized distribution through designated central sections and hospitals. The plan envisions public lectures, staff expansion, and eventual transfer of manufacture to the state.
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Pennantry
Nister von Gossler
Dr. Koch
Koch
Berlin
von Bergmann
von Jossier
von Gossler
Hospital of Charity
Paris
Dr. Pasteur
Royal Hospitals
Effect of an Overdose Raises New Question in Berlin
Byrain January 1 report states Dr. Koch, recalled suddenly to Berlin, faced an unexpected overdose incident during a short vacation. Dismissal of speculation follows as officials review medical details and potential causes.
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Dr. Koch
Berlin
Byrain
Koch
Questioning Lymph Injections After Strong Fever Reduction
The report notes that after a lymph dose and Dr Koch applying strong anti fevers, the patient showed marked improvement. It questions whether strong lymph injections may prove advantageous. Lymph quantity was forty milligrammes and fever spiked to 108 Fahrenheit during the interval after the injection.
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Koch
Oldest Man in New England Celebrates 110th Birthday
Middleton January 1 Special to the Post Charles Roi known as Charles King the oldest man in New England will celebrate his 110th birthday on the 15th Surrounded by six generations of descendants at Hewes farm house with his son Jean Baptiste King grandson N b King and relatives from Haverhill and Newburyport The lively gathering shows a sturdy stock and active elder who still enjoys company and a briar pipe He speaks French better than English and may surpass a brother who lived to 110.
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Middleton
Charles Roi
Charles King
New England
Hewes
Jean Baptist King
N. B. King
Danvers
Emancipation Celebrations Across Several Cities Mark 28th Anniversary
Across Newport Portsmouth Worcester and Ayer on January 1, colored communities held Emancipation Proclamation anniversaries. Newport featured a mass meeting at the Opera House with music and addresses by Revs Butler and Downing. Portsmouth saw a literary and musical program at Franklin Hall with Edward Everett Brown delivering an oration. Worcester hosted a children’s concert and later a banquet with Prof. A F Moore. Ayer’s Peace and Unity Club celebrated with an address by Louis L Slater and representatives from nearby towns and cities.
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Newport
R. 1
Opera House
W. H. Butler
D.D
M. van Horne
George T. Downing
Portsmouths
N. H
Lincoln
A. F. Moore
Newbern
Ayer
Peace and Unity Club
Town Hall
Boston
Worcester
Lowell
Lynn
Lawrence
Mass
Nashua
Louis L. Slater
Newton
Public Buildings Likely For Taunton Haverhill
Washington reports Taunton and Haverhill will probably receive funding in the sundry civil bill for new public buildings. The fate of multiple projects hinges on appropriations policy as Republicans push for quick action while Democrats hedge. If House stalls, Senate action could still secure funds and prompt concurrent approval. Leavening the outcome, Pawtucket Lewiston may begin construction next year.
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Jan
Taunton
Haverhill
Committee On Appropriations
Congress
House
Senate
Bilig
Launton
Pawtucket
Lewiston
Immigration contract delegation to visit Treasury
The Massachusetts State Board of Charities delegation will call at the Treasury Department tomorrow on the immigration contract matter. Senator Hoar cannot attend due to absence in Massachusetts. General Cogswell Randall and Morse will present for the three Massachusetts House members.
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Washington
Sprerial
Massachusetts State Board of Charities
Treasury Department
Department
Senator Hoar
Massachusetts
Windom
Mssachusetts
House
Cogswell
Randall
Morse
Army and Navy Gazette Retirements and Assignments
The Army retires due to disability Captain Clayton Hale Sixteenth Infantry Captain John M Newell Twelfth Infantry Captain Charles F Roe Eleventh Infantry First Lieutenant William R Abercrombie Second Infantry leave extended four months Captain Joseph I Haskell Twenty third Infantry extended ten days Captain Andrew H Russell ordnance inspector reassigned to South Boston Iron Works Captain Henry B Kilbourne Assistant Surgeon Captain Edwin J Gardner Assistant Surgeon Captain Edward Everts Assistant Surgeon Lieutenant John J Dougherty Eleventh Infantry found physically disqualified for captaincy retired as captain Captain Richard Eskridge Twenty third Infantry joins Fort Sam Houston Texas board for promotion Captain William L Kellogg Fifth Infantry relieved Major John V Lauderdale Surgeon to Pine Ridge Agency South Dakota Major Ezra H Ewers Fifth Infantry ordered from Pierre South Dakota to Fort Bennett South Dakota under amended orders Henry J Hunt Fifteenth Infantry to join by March 1 1891 Major Lauderdale ordered to Pine Ridge Agency to report to Brigadier General Brooke for field duty
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Washington
Army
Clayton Hale
Sixteenth Infantry
John M. Newell
Twelfth Infantry
Charles F. Roe
Eleventh Infantry
William R. Abercrombie
Second Infantry
Joseph I. Haskell
Twenty-third Infantry
Andrew H. Russell
Ordnance Department
Builders’ Iron Foundry
Providence
R. I
Boston
South Boston
Department of the Platte
Henry 8. Kilbourne
Edwin J. Gardner
Edward Everts
John J. Dougherty
Richard Eskridge
Fort Sam
Houston
Lex
William L. Kellogg
Fifth Infantry
Henry J. Hunt
Fifteenth Infantry
John V. Lauderdale
Fort Ontario
New York
Pine Ridge Agency
John R. Brooke
Ezra H. Ewers
Kansas Bank Closes Doors Amid Unclear Figures
Abilene Kansas January 1 County Bank shuts down leaving about 45000 dollars in some accounts and notes on liabilities. Officials say the closure affects local customers and may prompt further action by creditors.
German Flag Hoisted Along Coast as Zanzibar Territory Marked
Zanzibar dispatch reports the German flag hoisted along the coast to commemorate Germany's claim to Zanzibar. Decree names Tanga Panani Saadani Bagomoyo Dar es Salaam Kilwa Lindi Mikindana as sole export and import ports. The article notes the minister's warning that Britain in May will face contingencies.
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Zanzibar
Germany
Tanga
Panani
Saadani
Bagomoyo
Dar-es-Salaam
Kilwa
Lindi
Mikindana
Nihilist Trial in St Petersburg Reports Confessio n
Istomina, organizer of a Nihilist ring, faced a seven hour exam and admitted knowledge of the secret group. Others accused were freed for lack of proof as roundups continue. London reports Jewish persecution in Russia prompting protests and potential large Jewish emigration to America next spring.
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St. Petersburg
Mr. Froude
St. Petersporag
Istomina
London
Froude
Russia
the Chronicle
Vienna
America
Abyssinia and Italy Seek Mutual Friendship
The Adewa governor telegraphed King Humbert expressing King Menelek’s wish to deepen the Ethiopian Italian friendship for their mutual benefit. In San Francisco, Li Hung Chang is named to the Council of State and may become Minister of Military Affairs in China.
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Rome
Adewa
Humbert
Menelek
Abyssinia
Ethiopia
Italy
San Francisco
Li Hung Chang
Pekin
Council of State
An Old Negro's Big Heart in Real Life Romance
In Knoxvintz Tennessee Rufus Cheatam a respected colored man with his family encounters his former master A S Nowlin who once nursed at Ruthus's mother. Nowlin fought in the Patrick Grays and Longstreet's corps. After ruin from a Montana cyclone Nowlin returns to Virginia with his family aided by the Cheatams who intend to help him regain footing in life.
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Tenn
Rufus Cheatam
Cheatam
Patrick Court House
A. S. Nowlin
Rufus
Nowlin
Patrick Grays
Pickett
Longstreet
Montana
Virginia
Cheatams
Marlboro Faces Ice Supply and Transit Questions
Local Marlboro citizens question whether the new city government will allow a private firm to harvest an annual ice crop from Lake William without compensation to residents. The Electric Railroad Company is under scrutiny for late trains, track repairs, and winter delays. Potential city leadership contenders surface, notably Michael Quirk, while Charles Whitman emerges as a debated name amid mayoral race chatter.
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MarRiLboro
Lake William
Marlboro
Msriboro
Electric Railroad Company
Board of Aldermen
Michael Quirk
Boyd & Corey Shoe Shop
Board of Selectmen
Quirk
Charles Whitman
Howe
Whitman
Manly to Succeed Bancroft at Brown University
Providence January 1 Professor John M Manly Ph D has been called to the vacant professorship at Brown University caused by Professor Bancroft's disappearance He graduated at Furman University and taught English literature atWilliam Morris College before pursuing graduate work at Harvard Manly will teach English literature and the sophomore class in Anglo Saxon
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Providence
Specifl
John M. Manly
Furman University
South Carolina
Harvard
William Mowell College
Missouri
Brown University
Bancroft
Manly
Man Attacked Over Song Belief In Parnell
In Philadelphia on January 1 Edward Schoening was singing a song praising Parnell when Patrick Fitzgerald objected. A melee followed and Schoening suffered a compound skull fracture. Fitzgerald is jailed on charges of the assault and may face a fatal outcome for the victim.
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Philadelphia
Edward Schoening
Patrick McLaughlin
Parnell
Ireland
Patrick Fitzgerald
Schoening
Fitzgerald
Albany Argus designated state paper under 1885 law
The Secretary of State the comptroller and the State treasurer designated the Albany Argus as the state paper to publish notices rules laws and advertisements from state departments. Governor Hill did not interfere and Treasurer Danforth and Comptroller Wemple did not back the Evening Times against Secretary of State Rice who favored the Argus.
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Albany
N. Y
Albany Argus
Hill
Danforth
Wemple
Evening Times
Rice
Argus
Franks Andes breaks world rope jumping record in AusurRN
Frank Andes of AusurRN set a world mark by skipping rope 2000 times in fourteen minutes and thirty seconds during a YMCA gym exhibition. Local athletes witnessed the performance in the crowded gymnasium.
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Ausurrn
N. Y
Frank Andes
Christian Association
New Officials Inaugurated In Nasaua City Hall
Willliam H. Bensom was sworn in as mayor of Nasaua, with aldermen and boards of education, assessors, and overseers of the poor confirmed. He outlined city debt, assets, and proposed commissions to depoliticize fire and police, plus needs for a new fire ladder, truck, and expanded Mt. Pleasant and Crow Hill engine houses. Budget notes cover pauper relief, soldiers’ aid, and schoolhouse expansion. New city officers include E. M. Bowman as city clerk and Harry W. Ramsdell as tax collector.
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Board of Overseers of the Poor
Bensom
Department of City Affairs
Mt. Pleasant
Crow Hill
Fires Rack Several City Buildings Across North Atlantic
Many fires reported across major cities. A seven story brick at 241 Centre street owned by A Trenkmann gutted with losses around 150000. Blaine house in northwest city partly burned with 15000 damage. Globe Hotel in Halifax burned with broad damage, insurance covering most losses. Clinton Prison in Albany heavily damaged with 175000 loss. prisoners safeguarded. Multiple minor blazes in Pawtucket Plattsburg Dorchester and nearby areas caused limited damage and alarms.
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Centre Street
A. Trenkmann
Heffer
Cleveland Motor Company
Union Pearl Works
Washington
James G. Blaine
Leiter
Chicago
Blaine
Tme
Haifax
N.S
Globe Hotel
J. W. Salterio
Outhit & Monaghan
Morley and Rogers Measure Tiny Bar Length Changes
In Waterville Maine on January 1 Measurements were made in the Colby University lab by Professor Edward W Morley and Professor W A Rogers using a Rogers constructed machine to gauge thermal expansion of metal bars in millionths of an inch via light wavelengths demonstrating an untried experiment for precise length variation.
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Waterville
Physical Laboratory
Colby University
Edward W. Morley
Adelbert College
Cleveland
W. A. Rogers
Rogers
Willis Rowe Dies at Baltimore University Hospital
Willis Rowe aged sixty four died at Baltimore University Hospital of consumption after a life from New Haven to Yale and Harvard. He built a liquor wholesale business, then became an oyster packer in Baltimore for decades, losing his fortune and leaving a widow and several children in Buffalo. Telegrams sent to three brothers in New Haven remained unanswered. His body rests in a Green Mount Cemetery vault.
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Willis Rowe
Baltimore University Hospital
Rowe
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Harvard
Baltimore
Green Mount Cemetery
Buffalo
Cyclone hits Keachi demolishing several buildings
A cyclone struck Keachi in Desoto parish damaging the Masonic hall post office and stores. No lives were lost with damage around $20,000. In nearby Missouri a blizzard began with four inches to a foot of snow crippling rail traffic and in Iowa heavy snow and high winds disrupted lines.
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Keachi
Shreveport & Houston
Desoto Parish
Masonic Hall
Ihe Spencer
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Mars Hallsttown
Indian War Notes From Pine Ridge and Ghost Dance
General Miles has taken command at Pine Ridge, relieving General Brooke who moves to the field with the Second Infantry. A funeral held in a blinding storm honors thirty soldiers killed at Wounded Knee, with six graves and a ceremony led by Rev. Cook. Captain Wallace to Fort Riley and Captain Mills to Omaha. Kickapoo ghost dance on a nearby reserve continues, one dancer dying from exhaustion but no trouble anticipated.
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Neb
Bee
Pine Ridge Agency
Miles
Brooke
Oelrichs
Wounded Knee
Company K
Seventh Cavalry
Little
Cook
Wallace
Fort Riley
Kan
Captain Mills
Omaha
Hiawarwa
Woman and three children sent to almshouse after distressing family crisis
Mrs Philip Sullivan and her three under twelve children were committed to the almshouse from Fort River on New Year’s Day. They were taken to the Central police station, later moved by hack. The husband’s death left mortgaged property at John and Rodman streets. The mother, partly demented, sought a one third share. New Year’s Eve the children slept in the old house corridor. landlord found them this morning. Fiends offered to care for the children if separated from the mother.
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Fort River
Philip Sullivan
Central
John
Rodman
Moriarity
A Citizen Warns Against Free List for Aldermen
Charles W. Clark of West Roxbury criticizes a Post proposal for a free list ballot in aldermanic elections. He argues it removes voter freedom, forces partisanship, and undermines independent candidates. He contends nonpartisan general tickets and the Australian ballot best safeguard choosing the best men regardless of party.
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O.’s
Citizens’ Public School Union
Charles W. Clark
West Roxbury
Sailed Steamers City of Chester Queenstown to New York
In Loxpon on January 1, steamers City of Chester and Queenstown departed for New York while Sardinian and Livepe youl headed toward Pursland today.
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City of Chester
Queenstown
New York
Pursland
Weather Indications Forecast Across New England
Washington reports a forecast through 8 pm Friday with snow and rain likely in Maine New Hampshire and Vermont and warmer conditions with southerly winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut face threatening weather with rain and brisk coast winds. Eastern New York expected to see rain and a cold threat with southerly winds. Cautionary signals are being dispatched from Savannah to Boston.
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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Savannah
Boston
Post's Forecast Describes Slow Moving Storm Effects
The forecast notes a very slow moving storm impacting New England with rain and rising temperatures and easterly winds, followed by a cold wave likely to reach New England Saturday with fair weather and northwest winds. It details rainfall amounts across cities, barometer readings, shifting rain to snow in parts, and temperature contrasts across regions.
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POST
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Michigan
Detroit
Grand Haven
Des Moines
Chicago
Green Bay
Montana
Fort Assiniboine
Kansas
Iowa
Northfield
Kansas City
Huron
S. D
Jacksonville
Lakes
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Block Island
Tuesday Evening Lectures on The Laws of Health
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union announces a January lecture series on The Laws of Health. Edward Cowles, M D, will discuss The Nervous and Mental Mechanism and Mental Hygiene with charts on Jan 6 and Jan 13. Jan 20 features Edward O Ours M D on The Economics of Good Bodily Condition in City Life. Jan 27 Samuel H Dargin M D will speak A Talk on Healthy Homes.
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Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
Edward Cowles
McLean Asylum
Somerville
Edward O. Ours
Boston
Union Gymnasium
Samuel H. Dargin
M.D
Board of Health
Auctioneers Office Notice from Boston Firm
By Holbrook and Fox auctioneers and real estate agents, office located at No. 1% out Office Square Boston.
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Holbrook & Fox
Boston
Charles Napier and Charles Lamb in English Men of Action
A review contrasts Sir Charles Napier with General Gordon, praising Napier for bravery and leadership yet noting his career’s limits due to command friction. It discusses his Life and Opinions by his brother and calls for a detailed biography. It also examines Charles Lamb and Birrell’s Essays of Elia, noting Lamb’s independence and prudence, with editions edited by Birrell and illustrated by Railton.
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Corunna
Meance
Creat
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Navarre
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W. F. Butler
William Woul
Peccavi
Manchester
Napier
Sirles Napier
William F. Katier
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Macmillan & Co
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Charles Lamb
Birrell
Elia
Lamb
Henrik Jaeger Tells Ibsen as Moral Chronicler in Novel Biography
The first English biography and criticism of Norwegian dramatist Ibsen, translated by William Morton Payne, offers novel depictions of Skien, early years, and a strong focus on the later plays' moral dimensions. Jaeger argues the small communities’ traits mirror Ibsen’s themes, questions Nora’s choices, and Stockmann as a stand, with Payne delivering an excellent translation despite some Americanisms.
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William Morton Payne
Jaeger
Ibien
Skien
St. John’s
Alving
Nora
Stockmann
Mr. Payne
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Jaeger
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A. O. McClure & Co
Boston
W. B. Clarke & Co
Four Frenchwomen in a Modest Dobson Review
A vintage set of Austin Dobson essays on four French women, lightly revised for book form. The critic notes uneven effectiveness, praising Mme. Roland while urging sharper handling of Charlotte Corday's portrayal and its implied selfish theatrics.
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Charlotte Corday
Mr. Dobson
Mme. Roland
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