Croker Returns From Germany To Testify In Grant Case
In Hoston Dost Monday morning June 23 1890 Dick Croker arrives from Germany to testify in the McCann versus Mayor Grant of New York case and to rebut accusations of paying bribes for alderman selections in 1884. The article notes New York's growing population and calls for better governance and public institutions, while critiquing the federal election bill and tariff beneficiaries in Pittsburgh. It also highlights Northern Georgia's convention at Douglasville as a sign of progress in the new South.
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McCann
Grant
New York
Dick” Croker
Germany
Ckcker
Mr. Grant
New York World
House of Representatives
Florida
Georgia
Douglasville
New South
Colonel Exuierre
Shepard
North
Atlanta Journal
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The passage records a pledge by certain men to diffuse the truth about the social political and temporal condition of the State and the South and to foster understanding between regions and faith in well meaning people while refuting untruths spread by politicians and tourists.
Hemispherical Free Trade and Its Global Implications
The article analyzes Blaine and Harrison shifting to free trade with nations of the American hemisphere, weighing effects on the home market, tariff reform, and potential inclusion of Canada Cuba and the British West Indies. It discusses potential disruptions to the McKinley tariff, impacts on exports and imports, and shifts in European power dynamics including Germany France and England amid the Heligoland dispute.
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Blaine
Philadelphia
Congress
United ‘States
Blaaie
Mr. Blaine
American Hemisphere
Canada
Cuba
British West Indies
Mexico
Argentine
The Isolation of France and German Advantage
The article argues the recent England Germany settlement favors Germany, noting Africa favors England yet loses significant leverage. It highlights Heligoland ceded by England as not clearly compensated, with Lord Salisbury's stance hinted but unfinished.
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England
Germany
Africa
Heligoland
Lord Salisbury
Ger
Corinthian boats and census figures stir public opinion
The Tribune laments Corinthian sailing becoming a degraded form of the noble sport and calls for a return to true Corinthian sailors. The piece also notes disappointment in New York’s census estimates, with Supervisor’s figure at 1,627,000 and expectations of a final total near 1,700,000, though several papers dispute this.
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New York
Orvat
Various Society and Personal News Notes From Early Times
Personal notices from the era list Field Marshal Count Von Moltke ill and Mrs. P H Sheridan at Nonquit with children, Cynthia Westover appointed private secretary to New York street commissioner, Adele Aus der Ohe vacationing in Germany returning in fall, Cape May summer residents include Mrs. Dupont and Mrs. Kearny, ex Secretary Whitney loses $1000 and a black pearl pin at Ascot. Reverend Smith Baker to leave Lowell pastorate for Minneapolis, Carmencita dances at a Morris Plains garden party for Morristown charities, Grace Hawthorne selling theatre lease for a star tour ending in London in October 1891, Samuel S Sias and Mrs Sias celebrate 25th anniversary in Cambridge with 250 guests.
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Adele Aus der Ohe
Germany
America
Cape May
Dupont
Kearny
Whitney
Ascot
Smith Baker
Lowell
Samuel S. Sias
Boston Electric Light Company
Adams Gold Medal Declamation At Quincy Academy
In Quincy’s stone temple the Adams Academy declamation contest drew voices from Gladstone to Kossuth and O’Connell. Orlando Davis Hammond of Memphis won the Adams gold medal for The New South after jurors including Rev. Wilson and Prof. Sewall weighed competing orations. Prizes honored scholars and conduct as students heard Browning and classical readings in a lively immersion of 19th century rhetoric.
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Quincy
Gladstone
Disraeli
Kossuth
O’connell
Hibernian
Henry W. Grady
Boston
New South
Caudle
Adams
Adams Academy
Sewall
Orlando Davis Hammond
Memphis
Tenn
Sexton
W. R. Tyler
Academy
William Everett
Europe
E. M. Wilson
J. B. Sewall
Thayer Academy
Francis Campbell
E. 3. Huntington
Edward Southworth
Dewey
Charles Tilden Howard
Hingham
Herve’ Riel
Allace Guilford
Yonkers
N. Y
Arthur Rindge Wendell
Edmund Yates Kittredge
Charles Sampson
Reginald Hathaway Johnson
Arthur Williams Hall
Maurice Patrick Stillane
Edmund Yates Kittridge
Ralph Shaw Pitts
Edward Burke
Robert Barstow Porter
Homer
Frederic Houston Kent
Cicero
Virgil
Walter Edward Burke
Livy
Local Labor Unions Convene and Elect Officers in Irving Hall
Local Assembly 8805 freight handlers elected A. J. Fitzgerald master workman R. Welch foreman John Powers recording secretary Frank Fay financial secretary. Typo graphical Union 13 planned convention in 1891 and entertainments for Horace Greeley Post. Building laborers discussed gains and prep for a large protest meet at Faneuil Hall over an elevated railroad franchise.
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Irving Hall
A. J. Fitzgerald
R. Welch
John Powers
Frank Fay
Typographical Union 13
Republican State Convention Focus Shifts in Harrisburg
June 22 Harrisburg PA. Senator Delamater General Hastings and Secretary Stone arrive with the advance GOP contingent. Hastings claims high odds of nomination by Wednesday while Stone gains traction as a possible compromise. Quay's presence remains uncertain as rival lines solidify.
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Harrispore
Penn
Senator Delamater
General Hastings
Philadelphia
Stone
Velamnater
Quay
Hastings
Major Ontooth
Delamater
Senator Quay
Pittsburg
Lochiel Hotel
Closing Up on Quay Boldly in Philadelphia Times
The Philadelphia Times notes opposition to Quay has struck a final series of blows in the Senate by defeating his sergeant-at-arms candidate. The piece says the secret ballot aided the withdrawal of Quay’s control in several counties and warns next week’s Republican State convention will test his leadership as he faces possible retirement of Delamater.
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Loring
Harvard
Board of Overseers
Massachusetts Senate
Judge of Probate
Richard H. Dana, Jr
Anthony Burns
Senate
House of Representatives
Gardner
Quay
Quay’s Power To Nominte Delamater
Delamater
Pennsylvania
Reading Railroad Boss Corbin to Step Down in Favour of McLeod
The Reading Railroad confirms Austin Corbin will resign as president, proposing A A McLeod as successor. Corbin, currently in Europe, notified the board of his intention two weeks ago. Also notes new coal rates and railway earnings data across multiple lines, plus a Western railroads push for reduced grain rates in Washington.
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Austin Corbin
New England
Philadelphia
Penn
George Def. Keim
Reading Railroad Company
A. A. McLeod
Corbin
Europe
Mcleod
Keim
Consolidated Road
Boston & Albany
New York
Naugatuck
Waterbury
New Haven
Springfield
Northhampton
Westfield
Collinsville
Curiaco
Ill
Western Railroad
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
Chicago
Mississippi
Alton
Grand Trunk
Boston
Literary News and Presses Announce New Works
The Historical Printing Club in Brooklyn announces forthcoming publications including Thomas Stevens's Scouting for Stanley in East Africa with Hawkeye photographs, and a Revolutionary Orderly Book of General William Heath. They publish Winnowings in American History series with four titles, each limited to 250 copies.
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Thomas Stevens
Stanley
East Africa
Cassell Publishing Company
Stevens
Hawkeye
Historical Printing Club
Clark Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Worthington Chauncey Ford
William Heath
Harrisburg
Paul Leicester Ford
John Daniel Hammerer
South Carolina
John Cruden
Fort Niagara
Burke
Georgia
John Ingram
Death of Judge Henry W. Thomas in Fairfax Virginia
Fairfax Court House Va June 22 Judge Henry W Thomas died this morning at age seventy eight He was a member of the commission that met President Lincoln in 1861 to avert hostilities For half a century he was a leading lawyer of northern Virginia
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Samuel E. Sewall
George R. Russell
Samuel G. Howe
William B. Spooner
Francis Jackson
F. W. Bird
Walpole
Albert G. Brown
Salem
T.W. Higginson
Worcester
William I. Bowditch
Robert Morris
Dr. Howe
John L. Swift
Wendell Phillips
Theodore Parker
Court House
Parker
Court Square
Burns
Fairfax Court House
Henry W. Thomas
Lincoln
Virginia
Knotty divorce, oarsman legend, and urban wit in one
A collage of vignettes on divorce cases and social quirks. Jibes about Yale oarsman Mr Spinner, a fatal provoked shooting over a McGinty joke, a New Jersey tramp who sues after being beaten, and London Zoo metempsychosis musings. Chicago bath debates and a July Harpers Society note accompany verses from Aldrich.
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Maude
Spinner
Yale
Mabel
John Rusk
New Jersey
Zoological Gardens
London Illustrated News
Beaver
Bird
Elephant
Barclay
Perth
Scotland
Grubb
Chicago
New York
Thalia
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Harper’s
Blaine's recommendations on subsidies and pan-American bank
The Baltimore Sun notes Secretary of State Blaine backs subsidies to spur commerce and supports an intercontinental bank from the Pan American Conference. The paper suggests he lacks confidence in Congress's current economic policy and questions his own certainty in these proposals.
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MR. Blaine
Blaine
Intercontinental Bank
Congress
Baltimore Sun
Dem
Political shifts on reciprocity and wool imports
The Providence Journal notes Republicans will claim Secretary Blaine’s plan to admit South American wool as reciprocity serves enlightened protection, contrasting it with tariff reformers' stance as a blow to home industry. The piece hints at a panic influencing opinions, with a tongue in cheek reference to Miss Juliet Capulet.
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Blaine
Juliet Capulet
Providence Journal
Ind
Party organs on Mr Blaine's letter declares policy aims
A collection of editorials weighing Mr. Blaine's letter as a guide to formulating a Pan American policy and reciprocal trade, arguing protectionist roots but openness to traded concessions, with calls for a broader plan beyond sugar on the free list and a prioritized export expansion strategy.
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Blaine
Congress
Philadelphia Inquirer
McWinley
Hartford Post
Hartford Courant
United States
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