Direct popular vote would reshuffle 1880s presidential tally
Washington dispatch explains Congressman Springer plan to elect president and VP by statewide popular vote with each state’s votes based on its congressional delegation. Cleveland would have won 208 votes, Harrison 187, Prohibition and Labor candidates 3 each. overall 401. Also covers Senate tariff fights, sugar bounty, and camp of refuge proposals for Arctic whalers.
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Washington
Springer
Congress
House
Cleveland
Harrison
Fisk and
Streeter
Prohibition
Senate
Sherman
Finance Committee
Stanford
California
Nevada
Kansas
Fairchild
Arctic Ocean
Melville
Emery
Navy
Healey
Revenue Marine Service
Captain Healey
Point Barrow
Revenue Marine
Siberia
DeWolfe Fiske Co. Announces Clearance Book Sale
The Arch Way Bookstore at 861 and 365 Washington Street offers a clearance sale to lighten shelves before annual stock taking. Large reductions will be made this month with key bargains highlighted in the advertisement.
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DeWolfe, Fiske & Co
Washington Street
Archway
Concord Convention Sets Printing and Voting Debates
The New Hampshire constitutional convention organized and ordered 500 copies of the bill of rights and constitution. Debates considered amendments on legislative biennial start, plurality elections for civil officers, and removing the term Protestant from article 6. The body adjourned to 10:30 a m tomorrow.
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Concord
N. H
Blake
Fitzwilliam
Smith
Manchester
Felker
Rochester
Danforth
Briggs
Massachusetts
States of the Union
Hibbard
Laconia
Hadley
Straws From State Street Rebuilding Faith in Atchison Stock
The article argues that fourteen thousand stockholders have clung to Atchison stock despite a plunge in price and promises a total four percent dividend for 1888. It notes small investors, widows, and orphans kept faith while directors and bondholders bear larger stakes. It reports October earnings above charges, November higher than October, and December expected to improve versus last year, with prospects of a sharp rally within forty-eight hours.
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Atchison Company
Bulls
Bears
Shorts
Straddlers
Boston News Bureau
Atchison Road
New York
New England
Old Boston Common Council Finishes Year In Office
The Old Board adjourned sine die after clearing its calendar and sustaining mayoral vetoes. It approved a 679000 loan, paid 866.50 to John O Jocke, and authorized 3000 to Cornelius Roach. A gas explosion report urged street and utility safety and expert investigations. President Barry received unanimous thanks for his year of service.
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Cornelius Roach
Allen
Clark
Lattimore
Light
Maccabe
Means
Vialle
Perkins
Snow
Stevens
Thayer
Bowman
Fort Hill Square
Boston Steam Heating Company
Boston Gas Company
Department For
Jeremiah Carew
Chestnut Hill
John O. Jocke
Long Island
Cross Street
Haymarket Square
Commercial Street
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Common Council
Edward C. Carrigan
Richards
Ward 11
President Barry
David F. Barry
Reilly
F. Morison
Fraser
Keenan
C. C. Powers
Brooks
Barry
Sine Die
Refining by Electricity Shocks Sugar Shares in London
The Electric Sugar Refining Company, based in Wall Street, faced a sharp drop in London trading. Officials Robertson and Cottrell cited disturbances but pending investigations and potential effects on the sugar industry. Outside traders suggested misrepresentation of the electricity refining process.
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Electric Sugar Refining Company
London Exchange
New York
London Stock Exchange
Electric Company
Wall Street
Henry C. Friend
Robertson
Cottrell
Fruit Horatio Harris Case at Carpets Leonard & Co
In today’s brief note Fruit Horatio Harris, age 12 months, appears in matters involving Carpets Leonard and Company with a 3 pm event noted. The item reads as a probate or civil filing entry.
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Horatio Harris
Leonard & Co
Advertised Books for Every Institution and Reader
Booksellers libraries schools hospitals prisons and individuals are urged to buy. the pitch claims every New England home has shelf room and emphasizes that the prices are absurdly low at 5 to 25 cents, aimed at stimulating post Christmas reading.
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New England
Offices on Summer Street to Let in Granite Building
Two prime offices in the granite building at the corner of Summer and Arch streets are available. Apply to William Gray at 70 Kilby Street, Mason Building, Room 47, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
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William Gray
Kilby St
Mason Building
Tremont Street
Mason Street
John Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire St
Amusements at Boston Theaters Tonight
Listings show Mary Anderson at Hollis Street and Sweet Lavender at the Museum. Parlor Match at Mvark Theatre, Fantasma at Pope Theatre, Dockstader Minstrels at Ton Theatre, Variety at Howard Athen, Battle of Gettys at Cychoeama, Drifting Apart at Opera House. Multiple venues offer day and evening performances.
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Hollis Street
Mary Anderson
Oye Museum
Sweet Lavender
Mvark Theatre
GEANT
Opera House
Musee and
Bijou Theatre
Marriages Dated in City from January Weddings
A series of wedding notices list Charles Joseph Anderson and Anna Gertrude Barrett in a ceremony conducted by Archbishop Williams. Henry J. Bailey and Eleanor Hopkins wed. Thomas Driscoll and Mary Coleman unite. Clarence A. Hixon and Addie E. Rummery marry. Frank A. Johnson and Ninais Alexander wed. Elmer H. Snow and Grace H. Cook tie the knot. Enoch J. Shaw and Rosella Y. McIntyre wed. William Titcomb and Maria S. Stone marry in Maine and Massachusetts venues.
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Rookline
Mass
Ninais
Alexander
Brunswick
Snow—Cook
Chelsea
C. E. Jefferson
Elmer H. Snow
Grace H. Cook
Shaw—Mcintyre
South Boston
John Halloran
Enoch J. Shaw
Rosella Y. McIntyre
Titcomb—Stone
Kennebunk
Offices to Let in the Cushing Building on Water Street
A sunny suite of three rooms about 20 by 20 feet each is available for rent in the Cushing Building at 85 Water Street. Applications may be made to Wm. C. Codman and J. G. Freeman at 40 Kilby Street.
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Samuel Ss. Learnard
Boston
Suffolk
Boston Post
Joan W. McKin
Elijah George
Ee Atommon Wealth OF
Massachusetts
Hannah Milnor
George A. Dary
Gaia
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Regiser
Commonwealth OF Massachussetts
Joseph H. Wilkinson
William H. Wilkinson
Register
Ee Normannion Wealth OF
Massachussetts
Richard Fletcher
Massachu
Middlesex
James Gallagher
Winchester
Jabez A. Sawyer
Cambridge
George M. Brooks
J. H. Tyler
Boston Prat
Medford
Tide Water
State Street
WM. C. Codman
J. G. Freeman
Kilby Street
Cushing
Water Street
Gale
California
Leonard
Washington St
Oston
Deaths in City and Surrounding Areas Chronicle Obituaries
Birth and death notices list Josephine Andrews infant daughter of Charles and Kate Andrews. Rebecca Barry 75. Emily Binney 1. Dr Thomas Cummins Albuquerque formerly of Boston. Lizzie Carter Hyde Park pneumonia. Annie Cambridge Somerville 28. Francis Green 28. George Hughes 78. Margaret Han naford Cambridge. Alice Keefe Peabody 79. Ellen Keefe 34. John T. Kilty Jr 4. Catherine McAvoy 64. Harriet Muir Weston 65. James R Nourse Marlboro 93. Alphonso Pickering 36. Seneca Remington 54. Catherine Ritchie Boston Highlands 60. Addison Thayer 61. John B Tuttle 49. Harriet Wark Weston 26. Richard Wright Readville 73. Joseph A Wattendorf 7.
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Andrews
Josephine
Charles
Kate B. Andrews
Barry
Newtonville
Rebecca P. Barry
Ree Binney
Waltham
Emily May Binney
Charles A
Mary L. Binney
Cummins
Albuquerque
N. M
Thomas J. Cummins
Boston
Carter
Hyde Park
Lizzie B
Joan B. Carter
Cambridge
Somerville
Annie N
G. Cambridge
Francis J. Green
Hughes
George Hughes
Hanna Imet
Margaret Hannaford
Keefe
Peabody
Mass
Alice M
Richard Keefe
Charlestown
Ellen Keefe
Kilty
South Poston
John T., Jr
John T
Julia Kilty
McAvoy
Catherine McAvoy
Muir
Weston
Harriet M
Samuel A. Muir
Nourse
Marlboro
James R. Nourse
Harvard
Pickering
Alphonso B. Pickering
Remington
Seneca Remington
Ritchie
Boston Highlands
Catherine
Richard I. Ritchie
Thayer
Addison L. Thayer
Tuttle
Sterling
John B. Tuttle
Wark
Harriet V
Charles Wark
Wright
Readville
Richard Wright
Watten Dorf
Joseph A
Elizabeth Wattendorf
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MR. Springer
Woollen Manufacturers
Senator Hale
Maine
Maine Woollen Manufacturers’ Club
House Committee On Rules
Oklahoma and Pacific
Friends of the International Copyright
Cleve- Har- Fisk
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
N. Carolina
Ieeeeeereese Jregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
W. Carolina
Tennessee
Eoxas
Vermont
Virginia
W. Virginia
Wisconsin
Concord Convention
New Hampshire
Jersey Central
Western Union
St. Paul
Chicago
Gould
al King
Northwest
Floyd & Jones
Coombs
Rock Island
Mutual Union Life Insurance Company
Boston Mining and Stock Exchange
Simpson
Homeland
the Common Council
Council
NEW Publications
The
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company OF Kansas
County
Washings
Butler
Bourbon
Greene
Harvey
Vernon
Asid Dyvuu
Maverick National Bank
Water
Devonshire
Kan
the Eastern Banking CO
Milk Street
T. Merrihew
Francis A. Osborn
William Live More
Said County
Commonwealth OF Malachu
SETIS
Probate Court
George M. Dennis
Melrose
Said
Charles . Whiting
William H. Kennard
Amassa
Mary Keefe
Hereas
William Minot
Guardian
Lewis Putnam
Annie Crowell
Joshua
Crowell
Admr
Copartnership Notices
Stoddard, Lovering & Co
Joseph 8. Lovering
Frederick A. Haserick
Charles E. Richards
Edward W. Dean P
Joseph
Frederick
Coffin
Edward W. Atkinson
Arthur A. Haserick
Congress Street
Dean, Chase & Co
Thomas Street
Edward W. Dean
Coggeshall Chase
William F. Skilton
William P. Edwards
Parker, Wilder & Co
John Byers
Rh. W. L. Garrrison
Percival S. Howe
Federal Street
W. L. Garrison & CO
Ann Ae Panies
Cation
Boston Wharv CO
Boston Post Office
Congress, Sleeper
A. Granite
Richards Streets
Mt. Washington Avenue
Fort Point Channel
N.Y
State ST
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Knight
Dockstader
Minstrels
Levy
Cornet
Boston Ideal Opera Company
Boston Ideal Opera CO
Pauline Vallemand
Zelie DE Lussan
Georgine von Januschowski
Frank Baxter
Sig. Parisotti
W. H. Mertens
W. H. Clark
J. C. Miron
Clement Bainbridge
Attalie Claire
AD. Neuendorif
Queen Topaz
Hanlons Fantasma
London Gaiety Theatre Company
Eliie Farvren
Fredghin
Isaac B. Rich
Henry E. Abbey
Complete Dramatic Company
Lyorus
Boston N Museum
R. M. Field
Music Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wilhelm Gericke
T. Adamowskhi
Mozart
Moszkowski
Siegfried
Wagner
Sal
Chickering Hall
Geenees
Adamowski
Marguerite Hall
Clayton Johns
Galety Musee & Bijou Theatre
B. F. Keith
Lucia Zarate
al Evans
Hoey
Hoyt
Nat C. Goodwin
M. Co. Union
Union Hall
Boylston Street
Clarence Pullen
New Mexico
William H. Baldwin
W. B. Clarke
Sec’y
Dlothrop Company
Franklin Street
Appletons’ Town and Country Library
Rosa Mulholland
Marcella Grace
the Spectator
Trenont Street
Louis UnsAca
Eve
S. Barta-Goup
Louis Ulbach
Lucas Mallet
Eommuned Pendleton
Ninette
Véra
Margaret Frevp
Rathkelly
Haney Smart
Donovan
Eona Lyall
Grant Allen
Appleton & Co, Publishers
Bond Street
South St
School St
Purchase St
Western Farm Mortgage Trust Co
F. B. Rogers
Roundy & Hobbs
Court Street
Atlantic Ave
J. French & Son
Oliver St
Rentlow
Western Securities
Sals
Henry J. Nazero
Harvard College
Bath
G. P. Bemis
Mt. Auburn Street
Coffin & Henry
OWA
Iowa
Des Moines
Howard Atheneum
Great London Specialty CO
Grand Opera House
Proctor & Mansfield
Tremont
Katharine C
Jas. A. Verne
Minute Men
Crocker, Burbank & Co
Fitchburg, Mass
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Sumner F. Sptarbird
Winfield F
Court St
Androscoggin Mills
the Treasures
Summer Street
George F. Fabyan
Ames
Bow
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