Eliot Church Burns in Newton Fire Levels Edifice
A radical blaze destroyed the Eliot Congregational Church on Centre and Church streets Newton. Firefighters from Newton and Watertown fought the flames for hours as the steeple collapsed and the clock tolled its last hour. The church, built in 1860 at a cost of 42500, housed 700 in attendance with 1000 seating. Total loss put at 75000 with 45000 insured on the building and 12500 on the organ fixtures. No one hurt. reconstruction planned in stone near six figures.
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Newton
Spacran
Eliot Congregational Church
Eliot Hall
Centre
Church Street
Patrick O’ Rourke
Centre Street
Henthorn
Bixby
York
Watertown
Sexton M. C. Laffie
J. P. Cobb
Newton Centre Church
Newton Ae
E. Snow
Tremont National Bank
Boston
Snow
Walcott Calkins
Worcester
J. H. Brown
Harpoot
Turkey
John M. Wiles
Truck 1
Newtonville
Explosion at Middlesex Bleachery levelled boiler building
A boiler explosion at the Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works in Somerville destroyed the main brick building and started a stubborn fire. The firm Gilmore Haigh employs 175 workers who will be idle while repairs are planned. insured losses are around 320000.
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Middlesex Bleachery
Somerville
Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works
Fitchburg
Gilmore Haigh
Fire alarms report damage at Kingston Street brick building
At 4 58 am an alarm from Box 48 noted a fire in the four story brick building 76 and 75 Kingston street. The ground floor housed International Express Co and the fourth floor Galen Coffin suffered $500 loss. building damaged by water. At 7 10 pm another alarm from Box 13 reported a kerosene flare and small explosion at 206 North street where Antone Rapetto started a fire with kerosene. no damage reported.
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Kingston Street
International Express Company
Galen Coffin
North Street
Antone Rapetto
Fire destroys Clifford block in Denver loss totals
Denver reports a three story Clifford block building burned yesterday afternoon causing total loss of 125000 with 101000 insured. The article details the distribution of the loss across damage categories and involved parties.
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Denver
Col
Clifford
Sermon on Art by Rev Griffis at Shawmut Church
The Shawmut Congregational Church heard a lecture on art by Rev William E Griffis D D praising art as the voice of a nation and urging purity in depiction. He contrasted classical styles from Egypt Rome and Greece and called for modest dress and fewer bric a brac in homes while advocating war scenes and nature to strengthen heroism. he lauded Ruskin as critic of the world.
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Shawmut Congregational Church
William E. Griffis
D.D
Egypt
Meissonier
Gerome
Rome
Ruskin
London
Liverpool Post
D. A. Jones
the Princess’s
Daily Telegraph
World
William Archer
Sarcey
Daily News
The
Pall Mall Gazette
Atheneum
Memoirs of J. Lewis Diman and a Patriot Scholar
The piece reviews the life of J. Lewis Diman born 1831 in Bristol Rhode Island and a professor of history and political economy at Brown University. It notes his Puritan heritage his liberal ecumenical approach and ministry work including preaching at King’s Chapel and several lectures. Diman declined several offers to lead other institutions and remained connected to Brown until his death in 1881.
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Dialan
Professor Diman
Providence
New England
Rhode Island
Bristol
Amure
Jeremiah Lewis Mirman
Diman
Brown University
Andover
Boston
King’s Chapel
Baltimore
Elio
Hollis
Cambridge
Dimon
Une
Episcopal Church
J. Lewis Diman
Caroline Hazard
Tloughton, Mittin & Co
Price
Two Tolstoi Portraits in One Critical Study
A London Saturday Review portrait of Count Tolstoi describes two Tolstois a mystic realist and a humane observer. The piece praises his naturalism and kindness toward both the wicked and the virtuous while noting his focus on the highest and lowest social strata.
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London Saturday Review
Count Tolstoi
Tolstois
Olstoi
Exclusive resignation notice shrouded in London press
The Thunderer breaks the news of Lord Randolph Churchill's resignation with an overnight lock down at Printing House Square. Editors and writers faced secrecy as despatches arrived and the leading paragraph and comment were held until the last moment.
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London Times
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph
State No-License League elects leaders at Worcester meeting
The Massachusetts State No-License League met at the Unitarian House at noon Saturday. Rev. Hugh Montgomery was elected agent of the State league. Finance committee members include Rev. B. J. Hale, Ladd of Spencer, Sen. Jeffs of Hudson, Miss Elizabeth B. Tobey, and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. Executive committee selections: Rev. D. O. Mears D D, Hon. B. B. Johnson, Ladd, Councillor McPherson, and Mr. Burry of Boston.
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Massachusetts State
Unitarian House
Hugh Montgomery
Worcester Temperance Union
State League
B. J. Hale
Ladd
Spencer
Jeffs
Hudson
Elizabeth
Tobey
Mary A. Livermore
D. O. Mears
D.D
B. B. Johnson
Mr. Ladd
McPherson
Mr. Burry
Boston
Civitas Poem Praises America Through Historic Allegory
Walter L. Campbell writes Civitas a lengthy epic in ten syllable lines. It tracks Civitas later named America from battlefield virtue to temptation by Anarchia and Monarchia with Libertas as guardian. The work ends hopeful, praising noble, free law and future American greatness.
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Civitas
Walter L. Campbell
America
Anarchia
Monarchia
Democrates
Libertas
Plutocrat
Helps to Belief series expands with three new volumes
New York Cassell and Co releases three entries in the Helps to Belief series. The sermon on prayer by Rev Teignmouth Shore emphasizes desire faith and divine will. The Divinity of Our Lord by Bishop of Derry argues Jesus is God. The Morality of the Old Testament by Newman Smyth stresses progressive holy ethics.
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Teignmouth Shore
Christ
God
Lord
Derry
Jesus
Newman Smyth
J. Teignmouth Shore
M.A
William Alexander
D.D
New York
Cassell & Co
Three Books of Verse and New Sonnets Reviewed
A Boston review praises The Heart of the Weed a small anonymous volume of refined poems led by Wishes and Prayers. It notes mannered verse and pathos. It also discusses Tennyson Locksley Hall Sixty Years After and Emily Pfeiffer Sonnets praising depth, art, and scientific thought.
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Lowell
Helen Choate Bell
Heine
E. W. Gurney
Jocasta
Tennyson
Locksley Hall
London
Holmes
Ministry of Love
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Alfred Lord Tennyson
P.L
D.C.L
New York
Macmillan & Co
Emily Pfeiffer
Scribner & Welford
New American Ballad and Juvenile Science Titles Highlighted
A described old American ballad Isaac Abbott appears in print with drawings by E. P. Cranch, likely a joke. Paul Bert's Scientific Knowledge for Children gets an American edition with additions and illustrations praised by educators. Also noted is a dull novel My Lodger's Legacy by Robert W. Hume.
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Hero
Lodger
Robert W. Hume
New York
Funk & Wagnalls
Isaac Abbott
E. P. Cranch
Rockwood Pottery
Cincinnati
Robert Clarke & Co
Paul Bert
France
Belgium
England
W.H. Green
Philadelphia Central High School
Philadelphia
Boston
F. M. Ambrose
N. FE
Price
Century Midwinter Number Honors Father Taylor and Poets
The midwinter Century features two papers on Father Taylor by Rev. A. Bartol and Walt Whitman on his oratory. Edmund Clarence Stedman and Joaquin Miller contribute poems. James Otis starts a serial in February St Nicholas, and Hjalmar Boyesen contributes a story of Iceland.
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Father Taylor
A. Bartol
Walt Whitman
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Joaquin Miller
Mr. Stedman
Jenny
St. Nicholas
Iceland
Hjalmar H. Boyesen
McClellan and Halleck on Stanton order at Washington Arsenal
Review notes on General McClellan and General Halleck in relation to Secretary Stanton’s September 2 1862 order to ship arms from the Washington Arsenal to New York. Describes Ramsay Welling Ripley and the cabinet clash, and credits Colonel Ramsay for disobeying the order to save the capital’s defense. Ends with a death report of a Concord dentist’s chair accident.
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George Ticknor Curtis
General McClellan
Philadelphia
Stanton
Washington Arsenal
Washington
Lee
Antietam
Baltimore
Pope
General Ripley
George D. Ramsay
Arsenal
New York
Ripley
Colonel Ramsay
Ramsay
James C. Welling
National Intelligencer
Columbia University
Welling
Mr. Welling
McClellan
Halleck
Porter
Secretary of War
Gro. B. McClellan
ARMY
D. C
W. Halleck
Mr. Stanton
Mr. Chase
Gideon Welles
Prime
Chase
Lincoln
Hoss
Gossip from Over Sea on Jubilee and Battenberg Controversy
London readers hear mixed views on the Queen's jubilee reception in England while provincial figures eye farming and aristocratic flair. Reports recount skating disaster near Dublin, Prince Philip’s sporting volumes, Battenberg shooting critiques, and royal etiquette clashes affecting Victoria and Alexandra.
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Victoria
Vienna
Prince Philip of
Saxe-Coburg
Prince Ferdinand
Jagdzeitung
Karendo
London
Russia
Hungary
France
Scotland
Brazil
Australia
Ceylon
India
Java
Iceland
China
North America
Mississippi
Eight-Hour Strikes Discussed by Central Labor Union
Captain Wilkinson states that properly managed eight hour strikes are not failures. The Central Labor Union held a well attended meeting at New Era Hall with vice-president George J. Clinkard presiding and Captain John W. YW. introduced to discuss the eight-hour question.
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Wilkinson
Central Labor Union
New Era Hall
George J.clinkard
John YW
Wilkinson Recalls Cambridge Street Railway Strike
In a long address Calain Wilkinson lauds the street railway workers strike and cites audience applause as proof of its success. He argues a strike properly carried out cannot fail and that workers gain while employers lose during the stoppage. He criticizes the Old Colony railroad's weekly payment opposition and is followed by Frank Pickett and others.
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Old Colony Railroad
Calain Wilkinson
Frank 8
Pickett
10 shares 50 do x do no 50 25
A terse line lists numbers and actions with repeated 50s and 25. The fragment offers no clear people or organizations but implies a numeric sequence or transaction note. No coherent event or statement can be discerned from the available text.
Doao Do Ap Ie Shaped 14 5 G Shares
Incomplete OCR text reads as a fragment mentioning a quantity or label 14 5 G shares. No clear event person or organization identified. Unable to determine a coherent news item from the snippet.
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Isaac Hahn
Samuel Barr
National Tubing Company
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Hahn
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Concord
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Prince Alexander of Hesse
Windsor Park
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Boston Stock Exchange
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Tel. Co. Alen
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Douglas Axe Mfg Co
Boston Belting Co
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Amnanatan
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Top. & So. West. Ra
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New Eng. Mort. Sec. Co
Francis Henshaw & CO
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Boston Daily Globe Newspaper Co
Abington National Bank
Have” Merchants’ National Bank
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Salem National Bank
Hamilton Manufacturing Co
Tremont & Suffolk Mills
Merrimac Manufacturing Co
Hill Manufacturing Co
Pepperell Manufacturing Co
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester RR
Boston Consolidated Street Ry
Boston & Providence RR
American Shoe Tip Co
Apie
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Old Colony RR
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Houghton & Ontonagon RR. Co
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Horatio Harris & CO
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Florida Oranges
Albert Howe & CO
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Warren Avenue
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Arnold A. Rand
Atchison, Topeka & Santa FE Railroad Company
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Chicago
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