Farewell at Park Street Church Dr Withrow Departs
Dr. Withrow preached his farewell at Park Street Church before becoming pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Thirty new members joined, and the sermon urged honoring God as the church’s motive and strength. He recalled Park Street’s history of faith, growth, debt payment, and missions, urging unity and steadfast creed as he steps into larger duties.
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Dr. Withrow
Park Street Church
Third Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Withgow
Withrow
Ttern
Park Street
New England
Park Street Arch
Massachusetts
God
Jesus Christ
Music Hall
Parktreet Church
Puditorium
Fires Reported Across Several Local Buildings
Record of fires shows incipient basement blaze at Weston street schoolhouse caused by hot ashes, extinguished with no damage. A chimney fire at 45 Everett street East Boston, home of Robert Gallaher, caused no damage. A Cambridge box alarm for a slight fire at Purdy provision store, Main and Columbia, from an overheated stove. Early morning blaze at 27 Bow street Charlestown grocery store thawing a water pipe caused $150 damage.
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Weston Street
Everett Street
Boston
Robert Gallaher
Cambridge
Purdy
Main
Columbia Streets
Andrew Donovan
Bow Street
Charlestown
Fires scorch towns from Sioux City to Kingston
Multiple cities report January fires causing heavy losses. In Sioux City Francisca's commission house Larsen's dry goods and Mrs Powers boarding house burned, losses totaling $15,000 with $3,000 insured. Curiaco Otis block fire damages reach $40,000. Callahan's Sacred Hotel and Newberry Furniture incur major losses. Nason livery stable burns with $5,000 loss. Henderson bird cage shop $2,500. Sloan Johnson & Co wholesale grocery $50,000. Bibb County Orphan Home $7,000. Kingston business district totals $25,000 in losses.
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Sioux City
Francisca
Larsen
Wabash Avenue
van Buren Street
Andrew Callahan
Sacred Hotel
Callahan
Newbery Furniture and Carpet Company
H. B. Nason
KniGuTsvillle
Ind
Horse Railway Troubles
Employees of the South Boston Railroad Company at Gray's Hall adjourned after a long session. A committee was appointed to meet President Hérsey and present disputed matters with a copy, with a follow up meeting set for next Saturday night. In contrast the Consolidated Street Railroad Company workers shelved their meeting at New Era Hall, praising management’s gradual fulfillment of the agreement.
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South Boston Railroad Company
Gray’s Hall
Hérsey
Consolidated Street Railroad Company
New Era Hall
New Steel Rail Mill Planned for Bradford
Pitrspura Pennsylvania January 2 Carnegie Bros Co to build a new steel rail mill at Bradford with early work and cost over 1 million dollars. The project will create many jobs and boost local industry.
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Pitrspura
Penn
Carnegie Bros. & Co
Bradford
Company Rails Capacity Reaches 400000 Tons Annually
The works will have a capacity of 400000 tons of rails per year, about half of the nation's total rail production.
Renaissance of Nationalism Leads North American Review
The January issue offers sixteen articles spanning political social religious military and economic topics. Judge Tourgee dominates with a long piece on nationalism and Civil War memory while Charles Bradlaugh warns against socialism. Wartime notes by Whitman Reed Grosvenor George and others appear alongside critiques of faiths and labor conditions in Pennsylvania.
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THE
North American Review
Tourgee
Gail Hamilton
Hamlin
Walt Whitman
James Reed
W. M. Grosvenor
Henry George
Pennsylvania
An Unknown Country in the North of Ireland in English Illustrated
The January issue features Part I of travel sketches by the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, guiding readers from Antrim to Cushendall. Miss Mulock’s journey, despite dangers, is praised for its favorable view of Irish peasantry and the land’s beauty, with engravings by Lacour from Paton drawings including Shanes Castle and Lough Neagh.
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English Illustrated
John Halifax
Ireland
Shanes Castle
Lough Neagh
Round Tower
Antrim
Outing Feature Promises Snowshoe and Toboggan Piece
The issue includes a frontispiece showing snowshoeing as a Canadian pastime and an illustrated article on Snowshoe and Toboggan. A poem titled Dreaming in a Hammock seems misplaced for the season, and editor warns serials must finish promptly to avoid reader protests.
White's Embezzlement Case Reopened For New Trial
Ex-Councilman Francis L. White facing new trial in East Cambridge Supreme Criminal Court after evidence suggests juror influence. Judge Staples set aside verdict citing significant concerns and ordered further proceedings.
Wakeman to Speak on Paine Birthday in Hall
T B Wakeman of New York will address the Paine birthday anniversary at Paine Memorial Hall on January 30. Local supporters plan a meeting at 176 Tremont Street next Saturday to arrange a lecture on the labor question before his departure from the city.
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T. B. Wakeman
New York
Thomas Paine
Paine Memorial Hall
Tremont Street
Andover Man Appointed Assistant Postmaster in Boston
Mr. William J. Dale Jr of Andover assumed duties as assistant postmaster of Boston yesterday. Mr. J B Tobey Jr, who was continued as assistant during the first month of the administration, ended his connection with the office Friday.
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William J. Dale, Jr
Andover
Boston
J. 8S. Tobey, Jr
General Corse
Christmas festival for poor children draws near 600 attendees
The Christian Union held its annual festival for needy children on Saturday. About 600 youngsters enjoyed music and refreshments and met Santa Claus who distributed useful and beautiful gifts.
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The
Christian Union
Sain Claus
Ex Mayor Cummings Recovers in Louisville
Ex mayor John Cummings of Louisville shows improved condition and optimism for recovery as doctors report progress yesterday.
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Cummings
John
Louisville
Eight Hour Movement Discussion At New Era Hall
Central Labor Union hosts a meeting in New Era Hall to push an eight hour workday. D. H. Biggs presided as Mr. Mark Courant was absent. Speakers including J. King argued for a new system and organized cooperation to reform labor conditions. The group urged political action and adjourned for two weeks.
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New Era Hall
Central Labor Union
Mark Courant
D. H. Biggs
Davis J. King
King
Leeoey
Abor
E. M. Chamberlin
Frank Pickett
Memorial for Marshall P Wilder Adopted by Massachusetts Horticultural Society
A stated Massachusetts Horticultural Society meeting deliberated memory of Marshall Pinckney Wilder who died recently. The memorial praised his fifty six years of active membership, influence in horticulture, and his thoughtful example. A committee was formed to nominate a successor to Wilder on the society's executive committee.
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Massachusetts Horticultural Soeciety
Walcott
William C. Strong
Marshall P. Wilder
Wilder
Marshall ‘Pinckney Wilder
Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Strong
E. L. Beard
Hovey
B. G. Smith
J. G. Barker
John C. Hovey
B. Hadwen
Manning
F. H. Appleton
M. P. Wilder
Messrs
Francis H. Appleton Warren Heustis
Benjamin G. Smith
Wiliam H. Hunt
E. H. Vitchings
Thoughts or Muscles Controversy Over Thought Transferrence
A heated exchange between W Irving Bishop a promoter of thought transferrence and Charles H Montague Globe city editor unfolds with claims of reading thought without senses versus interpretation of unconscious muscle impulses Both cite scientific endorsements and challenge each other to verifiable experiments The debate ends noting the unsettled nature of the issue for an impartial observer
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W. Irving Bishop
Charles H. Montague
The
Globe
Bishop
Professor Carpenter
Somerville Inauguration Opens City Government
Somerville holds the city government inauguration at Bow Street Mall at 10 in the morning. The common council will elect a president and a clerk with Charles L. North and Louis B. Merry as president candidates while General vena Frazar and William P. Mitchell contend for clerk. General Douglas Frazar is also reported as a clerk candidate to fill the role tomorrow. Charles E. Gilman has served as clerk for fifty four years and is favored to be elected again.
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Somerville
Bow Street Mall
Charles L. North
Louis B. Merry
Vena Frazar
William P. Mitchell
Douglas Frazar
Charles E. Gilman
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate as a Restorer
Drs Buck and Matthews of Springfield Illinois report the preparation helps nervous prostration by quieting nervous agitation, presenting Horsford’s Acid Phosphate as a restorative remedy.
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Horsford
Romance of the Storm and Local Obituaries
The weather piece explains a Northwest Snowstorm and Gulf Cloud romance driving a wet spell along the Atlantic coast with rain prevailing over snow. New Year’s morning rain vanished and Boston is expected to see further detours. The text then notes the first birthday of a Broad Street resident and the deaths of J Westley Dodge at Malden and Mrs Isabelle M Prince of Somerville, with brief details of their lives and funerals planned.
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Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Laertes
Ophelia
Gulf
Boston
General Albert G Lawrence Dies at 52 in New York
General Albert Gallatin Lawrence of New York died of pneumonia at the Everett House on Saturday evening at age 52. He served in the Civil War, lost an arm, and earned brevets to lieutenant colonel and brigadier general. Funeral is set for 2 30 PM Tuesday at St. Mark's Church New York with pallbearers including Governor Peabody Wetmore and Col. H Lockwood.
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Albert G. Lawrence
Albert Gallatin Lawrence
New York
Everett House
Lawrence
William Beach Lawrence
Rhode Island
Newport
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe
Vevay
Switzerland
America
Harvard College
Vienna
Legation
Fifty-fourth
New York Infantry
Maryland
Virginia
Carolina
Second
United States Colored Cavalry
Fort Fisher
Costa Rica
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Union Club
The
Loyal Legion
Charles E. Lawton
A. R
Kingsbury
Regular Army
van Ness
Egypt
W. Boerum Witmore
E. A. Crocker
Herbert C. Peel
Davies
A. A. Hayes
Death of John S Newberry at Detroit Michigan
John S Newberry died in Detroit yesterday at 4 PM in his 61st year. He was a partner in Newberry & McMillin, a railroad investor, nephew of the Chicago financier Walter Newberry, and heir to half a million from that estate. A former 1878 congressman and 1881 Interior Secretary prospect, he was a renowned admiralty lawyer with an estate near 3 million. He is survived by his widow, three sons, and a daughter.
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John S. Newberry
Detroit
Mich
Newberry & McMillin
Michigan
Walter Newberry
Chicago
Congress
Interior
Garfield
Death of Walter B. Hastings A Cambridge Insurance Leader
Walter B. Hastings of W. B. Hastings & Co. Cambridge died suddenly at the Evans House Boston from apoplexy. Born April 27 1828 in Sandwich he later moved to Cambridge and built a large insurance business with offices in Boston Cambridge and Somerville. Survived by a widow a son Frank Hastings and a daughter funeral at his Russell Street home next Tuesday.
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Broad Street
Boston
Stage Road
Malden
Nahant
Phillips
Lynn
J. Westley Dodge
Farmington
New England
Summer Street
Isabelle M. Prince
Union School
Prescot Street
Somerville
Prescott Street
Walter B. Hastings
W. B. Hastings & Co
Cambridge
Evans House
Mr. Hastings
Sandwich
Mt. Olivet Lodge
A. F
A. M
Cambridgeport
Ehu Council
Royal Arcanum
Clarendon Lodge
Knights of Honor
West Somerville
Sons of Temperance
Nathan Silsby Dies at 90 in Lynn
Nathan Silsby longtime Lynn resident dies of old age at his daughter’s home 56 Commercial Street Saturday. He was widely known as a prominent citizen and beloved in the community.
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Nathan Silsby
Lynn
Commercial Street
Christmas in Japan remembers church children with songs
The Shawmut Congregational Sunday school hosted a Christmas concert ending a week of church tree celebrations. The pastor Rev. W. E. Griffis shared memories of his first Christmas in Japan and his work translating Matthew for Japanese children, describing early Christian efforts and local resistance prior to 1870.
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Shawmut Congregational Sunday School
Japan
America
Santa Claus
January sittings of the Superior Court schedule announced
The January sittings of the Superior Court begin Tuesday at 10 o'clock with session one led by Chief Justice Brigham. Session two is by Judge Aldrich and session four by Judge Pitman. the third session follows on the Monday after.
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Brigham
Aldrich
Pitman
Superior Court Essex County Docket January 3
Summary of cases listed for the Superior Court in Essex County with docket numbers including Swift versus Carr, Byers versus Merlet, Pitzgerald versus B M R R, Campbell versus Tobin, Cleary versus City of Gloucester, Burnett versus Lefaveur, same versus same, Moore et al versus Price, Brown versus Humphrey, Bergman versus Brown, Dunney versus Upton, Porter versus Dobson, Hull versus Parsons et al, Bunker et al versus City of Gloucester, Watson versus same, Borgerson versus same.
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Swift
Carr
Byers
Merlet
Pitzgerald
Campbell
Tobin
Cleary
City of Gloucester
Burnett
Lefaveur
Same
Moore
Price
Brown
Humphrey
Bergman
Dunney
Upton
Porter
Dobson
Hull
Parsons
Bunker
Watson
Borgerson
New York Notes on Railways and Investments for 1887
Financial review from New York on 1887 prospects. Railroads show improvements with expected dividends at New York Central and American Electric Manufacturing Company in focus. Gas and electric stocks attract January interest as investors brace for a pending railway bill.
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Sunday Globe
New York
New
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
New England
Atchison
United States
American Electric Manufacturing Company
Congress
New York Central
Taxpayers face Boston’s vast property values in bold list
The tax list shows Boston’s heavy taxpayers led by the Boston & Albany Railroad with a bill of 97 685 86 and the Boston Gas Light Company at 52 386 23. Hotels and private dwellings across Back Bay appear with valuations from 78 800 in tax to above 800 000 for Parker House and Vendome. City real estate totals reach 517 495 200 and personal property 193 086 500, sum 710 581 700, vs last year’s 685 404 600.
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Rostov
Frederick L. Ames
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston Gas Light Company
Nine House
Commonwealth
Pelham
Boylston
Berkeley
American House
Oxford
United States
Brunswick
Tremont House
Adams House
Vendome
Young’s Hotel
Parker House
Dartmouth Street
Commonwealth Avenue
Back Bay
City Notes Highlight Local Events and Incidents
Gas leak at 8 Barton street nearly suffocates tenants, 70 year old Mrs. Lewis and 50 year old Mrs. Sex ton revived. Hull citizens press Nantasket Beach rail line winter idle hearing. Inquest in Sammis Johnson death held. verdict pending. Evening schools reopen for ten weeks. new matron appointed at Tombs. Wabash crew held New Year celebration aboard ship. Milk thefts surge. thiefs nabbed for 17 quarts. Five legged dog case entertains dime museum. Composers form Thin Space Associates with 90 members. United Labor party 100 Committee meets to organize. Boston Postoffice stamps rise 8 percent year over year. Waiters Benevolent ball tickets selling strong. Walnut Hill rifle winners announced. Dr. Withrow to the West. Young Men's Hebrew anniversary. Battery A to fire salute for incoming Governor.
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Hull
Nantasket Beach
Joseph B. Moors
Sammis Johnson
Parmenter
Henry Hobard
Edward Sands
George E. Sammis
E. Onthank
Deer Island
Cambridge
Abbott and Quimby
Station 3
Joseph Bagiotti
J. B. Kendall
Temple and
Derne
Thin Space Associates
Charles Lynch
Herald
George Graham
Globe
Scott Johnson
Record
M. Braydon
L. P. Hood
John H. West
Advertiser
BE. T. Milligan
Journal
William Gillespie
Post
United Labor Party
Tremont Street
Boston
Music Hall
Walnut Hill Rifle Range
W. Charles
S. Francis
O. E. Berry
Withrow
West
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Day of Prayer by Boston WCTU at Bromfield Church
The Boston Woman's Christian Temperance Union schedules a day of prayer at Bromfield Street Methodist Church on Tuesday January 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hourly leaders include Mrs Charles Cullis Miss E S Tobey Mrs A P Campbell oe FeenDee Wright Miss Brooks and Mrs A J Gordon.
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Boston Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Bromfield Street Methodist Church
Charles Cullis
E. S. Tobey
A. P. Campbell
FeenDee Wright
Brooks
A. J Gordon
A Dishonest Servant Arrested After Quick Search
Officers from Station 5 found five pocketbooks and $500 in money along with a gold watch during a search of Mary Goggin's room at 45 East Brookline Street early this morning about 1 30. The woman, a servant in the household, was arrested and locked up.
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Station 5
Mary Goggin
East Brookline Street
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