Postal guidance and office address for POST PUBLISHING CO
The notice outlines second class matter entry and sender risk for payments. It instructs that all checks drafts and money orders be payable to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. It lists the New York office at Broadway and Wall Street and names Buiceman BremincHall Co. as agents with a Washington office in the Corcoran Building Fifteenth Street.
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Post Publishing Company
New York
Broadway
Wall Street
Buiceman, BremincHall & Co
Wasmineton
Corcoran
Ship News on the Third Page
The notice directs readers that the Financial and Commercial Departments will be located on the Sixth and Seventh pages, with Ship News confined to the Third page.
Porter census plan invites criticism to avert bias
Mr Porter, superintendent of the census, says he will send to free trade professors the schedules for the manufactures statistics and welcome their criticisms. He hopes this openness will lessen suspicions that the inquiry serves any class or theory, though the need for such vindication casts doubt on his impartiality.
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Mr. Porter
South
Cambridge
Norton
Andrews Norton
Charles Eliot Norton
James, Royce
Taussig
Norton’s Woods
Prohibition Republicans debate via Morse and Gracey disquisition
The Boston Journal notes a joint piece by Hon Exisag A Morse and Rev Lamvert L Gracey on Prohibition Republican principles. It suggests the statesman and clergyman shared a stance against bolting and urged steadfast progress, while hinting Colonel Haskell should address the party’s suggestions. The piece questions the third party’s practical application to the present situation.
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Cottage “City
Exisag A. Morse
Lamvert L. Gracey
Boston Journal
Statesman
Divine
Haskell
Versailless Mills Failure Highlights Wool Industry Decline
The Versailles Mills collapse draws attention to the New England wool sector’s slump. The American Wool Reporter cites tariff taxes on raw material, protected growers’ exactions, the commission-house system, and powerful “trusts” as main pressures, with the GOP pushing higher Senate tariff rates soon after the new Congress convenes.
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Versailles
Connecticut
New England
American Wool Reporter
Wool Reporter
Philadelphia
Versailles Brills
Republican Party
Ohio
New
Republican Congress
Workingmen voyage to Europe to study foreign industry
About fifty American workers sail from New York aboard the City of Rome to visit major industrial centers in England Belgium and the Paris Exposition. The mission, funded by private individuals, aims to gather firsthand knowledge on factory systems and labor conditions beyond tariff rhetoric and to form independent judgments on each nation’s industrial policy.
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New York
Rome
England
Belgium
Europe
Journey results hold wide interest for workers and public
The text notes that outcomes of their travels will capture attention across many groups and impacts. It underscores broad relevance to workingmen and observers, signaling a chain of effects anticipated from the journey.
Surplus Treasury Bonds Debate and Constitutional Doubts
A New York banking circular urges liberal bond purchases to profit the Treasury, citing the Chicago platform and Harrison speeches. Critics argue such moves echo Cleveland and Fairchild policies, warn of party factions, and discuss the Fourteenth Amendment and suffrage protections amid tariff reform debates.
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New York
Harrison
Chicago
Treasury
New York Tribune
the Tribune
Cleveland
Fairchild
Blatnr
The
Tribune
Constitutional Objection to Southern Representation Reduction
A political analysis critiques a Daily Advertiser effort to claim the fourteenth amendment authorizes reducing Southern representation over voting rights. It discusses the amendment’s origin after the Civil War, intended to protect Black suffrage, and questions the constitutional logic of using electoral disenfranchisement to alter representation amid postwar reconstruction tensions.
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Chandler
Hoar
The
Daily Advertiser
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Clayton
Breckinridge
To Report Progress Navy Update on New Torpedo Boats
Six new British torpedo boats are under construction and three tested boats achieved speeds from 22.53 to 22.64 knots. U.S. and British vessels, including Stiletto comparisons, discuss speed, armament, and expected trials, with word that the navy’s construction pace remains strong and progress is being reported.
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Messrs. Herreshovf
Congress
Vesuvius
Messrs. Cramp
Washington
Baltimore
Newark
Philadelphia
Texas
Norfolk Navy Yard
Charleston
Mr Gladstone and Aulen Thorndike Rice Reflections
Mr Gladstone writes in the August North American Review about his limited talks with Aulen Thorndike Rice. He remarks he never spoke with Rice more than once and reflects on the editor’s character with a tentative, roundabout approach.
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Gladstone
Aulen Thorndike Rice
North American Review
Rick
Anet? Not enough for a clean headline
The passage critiques Mr Rice as editor potential, noting North American readers are modern and that Gladstone questions how well he knows the subject, pondering whether eulogy would be better left unwritten.
Dramatic critics clash over plot and art in heated debate
In Boston a lively exchange unfolds as critics challenge Mr. Howells and the Dramatic Mirror on drama theory. The piece mocks the notion of eliminating plot for truth and notes Chicago’s Jekyll and Hyde case while praising painterly progress of C. E. Dallin in Paris and the Norton Woods preservation push.
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Dramatic Mirror
Mr. Howelns
Howells
Howerys
Chicago
Mr. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Notable Anglo American Gleanings from London and Europe
A sweeping set of brief notes reports Mrs. Belva Lockwood in London and General Sherman returning from the West. Queen Victoria invited to visit Ireland next spring. Austrian poet Robert Hamerling dies at Gratz. Lincoln and wife to visit the Prince of Wales at Sandringham. Emperor William joins the Goethe Society in Weimar. Lawrence Barrett’s lecture on Charlotte Cushman issued by Dunlap Society. Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands rumored to be funded and planning a Paris exposition visit. Woolsey’s palace at Hampton Court may be revived by Lord Portman in London. Alberta Gallatin and Alice Hamilton engaged by Daniel Frohman for Lyceum Theatre in New York. Parkin leads Canadian federation talks with cordial reception in Melbourne. Oxford to present Oriental works to the King of Sweden during the Oriental congress. Archibald Carpenter lectures at Westminster Abbey for charity. Bishop Walsh of London Ont. named archbishop of Toronto to fill Lynch vacancy. Kingston elevated to archdiocese. Daughters of Captain Reid planning a monument. Reid advised on the national flag changes. Thomas Monahan, Irish Melbourne immigrant, dies. vast posthumous wealth from land. Pendleton rumored hopeless invalid. health travels with daughters. softening of the brain feared.
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Belva Lockwood
London
General Sherman
Queen Victoria
Ireland
Robert Hamerling
Gratz
Lincoln
Prince of Wales
Sandringham
Emperor William
Goethe Society
Weimar
Lawrence Barrett
Charlotte Cushman
Dunlap Society
King Kalakaua
Sandwich Islands
Lord Portman
Woolsey
Hampton Court
Alberta Gallatin
Albert Gallatin
Allice King Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Daniel Frohman
Lyceum Theatre
New York
Archibald Carpenter
Henry Bernard Carpenter
Charity Fund of
Walsh
Ont
Toronto
Lynch
Kingston
Samuel Chester Reid
Reid
L. P. di Cesnola
G. N. Saunders
Thomas Monahan
Melbourne
Australia
Monahan
Poe
New Comet Discovered by Queensland Professor
A cable message from the European Union of Astronomers reports a bright comet found by Professor Davidson of Queensland on July 21. The following night places its position at July 22 961 GMT with right ascension 12h46m9s and declination south 32 29'. The comet shows a northward motion of about 3 degrees per day.
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European Union of Astronomers
Davidson
Queensland
Atlantic August Issue Highlights Lowell Poem and Reviews
The August Atlantic Monthly features John Lowell's long poem How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes and a range of reviews. H. W. P. and L. D. discuss The Background of Roman History, Mrs. Chace Wyman contributes about slavery and William Buffum, and Paul T. Lafleur surveys Canadian poet Louis Frechette. Other pieces cover The French Alliance and the Conway Cabal, The German Boy at Leisure, Law and Political Fact in the United States, and observations on the Baltimore oriole. The issue also reviews Emerson, Madame de Staël, Carlyle letters, and updates on Fort James becoming Fort Williams.
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L. D
Cicero
Vergil
Arthur
Troja Fuit
Chace Wyman
William Buffum
Paul T. Lafleur
Louis Frechette
Canada
Lafleur
M. Frechette
Papineau
Kiel
Fiske
George Moritz Wahl
Mr. Richman
United States
Olive Thorne Miller
Baltimore
Emerson
Madame de Staél
Thomas Carlyle
Madame de Stacl
August Scribner Review Highlights Tennyson and Lounsbury
The August Scribner offers literary pieces on Tennyson and Van Dyke with portraits and homes of the poet, plus Lounsbury's strong The Two Locksley Halls essay. It also reviews Tarpon Fishing in Florida, notes on Electricity in Lighting, forms in Lawn Tennis, and railway feeding, with mixed fiction and Stevenson’s.
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Scribner. Scribner’s
Tennyson
Mr. van Dyke
Lounsbury
Locksley Hall
Robert Grant
Florida
Henry Morton
James Dwight
M.D
Benjamin Norton
Messrs. Brander Matthews
H. H. Boyesen
George Parsons Lathrop
E. C. Martin
Mr. Stevenson
Henry Esmond
Mixed Prose Bits and Historical Snippets
A collage of wry observations and curiosities notes varied topics from slangy quips about royalty and newspapers to reports on diamonds, shad hatcheries, and a Paris Exposition imperial diamond. It mentions the Imperial diamond, the Regent, and Connecticut shad hatchery concerns tied to river pollution and declining supply.
A Boston Triumph on the Hot Shore
A scene at a fashionable watering place shows three maidens in fine gowns. A Chicago entrant laments the heat while the New York State visitor declares the warmth extreme. The Boston reader, absorbed in Dante, scoffs at the sun’s intensity.
Pious Editor Left With No Hope for Shepard
The editorial page laments the administration will do nothing for Colonel Elliott F. Shepard. A New York Times note echoed the sentiment with the line harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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Elliott F. Shepard
Mail and Express
N. Y. Times
Ind
Public probe urged for Pension Office
A Philadelphia Inquirer editorial calls for a fully public investigation into Tanner’s Pension Office management. It condemns a secret, star chamber inquiry by unfamiliar commissioners as ineffective and urges openness.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rep
Tanner
Star-Chamber
N. Y. Evening Post
Administration faces scandal as Pension Bureau reratings probed
Secretary Noble has appointed a commission to investigate all reratings in the Pension Bureau during the last twelve months, focusing on government personnel to determine if any reratings violated law. The remark suggests political shifts as Tanner falls from favor with the President and Secretary of the Interior.
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Noble
Pension Bureau
Tanner
Secretary of the Interior
New York
N. Y
Tariff reform live issue and party courage
The New York Tribune noted that a swing of eight thousand votes from over eleven million could have elected a Democratic President and Vice President, a Democratic Delaware Senator, a tied Senate with the Vice President’s vote, and a Democratic House majority, a fact to temper boasts of a verdict against tariff reform and pro‑trust sentiment.
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Democratic Party
New York Tribune
Delaware
Senate
House
Pittsburg Post
Help From Boston Not Wanted and United Effort Sought
A Boston writer criticizes New York City for seeking Boston organizers to run the world’s fair. The Tribune asserts New York cannot manage the fair alone and calls for genuine cooperation nationwide to ensure a creditable and superb opening.
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Boston
New York
N. Tribune
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