Venezuela franchise revoked amid promoter ties and public misgivings
The Venezuela telephone franchise of the American Telephone Company is said to be revoked and not cover major cities. Tyrer promoted the firm, with Washington clerks investing, and Congressman Butterworth and trustees offer to return funds. The piece critiques public figures lending names to ill understood ventures and comments on Dr. Enwarp McGlynn and Henry George in reform debates.
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Venezuela
England
Wintcor case dampens hopes for decisive board guidance
The State board of arbitration fails to offer a clear ruling in the Wintcorr matter. It notes that Mr Wintcorr dismissed non union bricklayers who stood by him as union men refused to work. The board concludes no action is necessary, a result deemed disappointingly vague and urged to use influence beyond legal powers.
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State Board of Arbitration
Wintcotr
Wintcorr
New Postal Treaty with Mexico Reduces Fees and Delays
The new arrangement cuts consular and related charges on small Mexico trade shipments, though tariffs stay the same. Beginning next Friday, parcels up to two kilograms sent from the United States will go to exchange offices in Mexico, where duties are assessed and paid on delivery by the recipient.
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Mexico
United States
Jamaica and Costa Rica Accept Proposed Agreement
Jamaica and Costa Rica have formally accepted the proposal signaling agreement between the two nations. The accord moves forward as both governments commit to the outlined terms and structural changes.
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Jamaica
Costa Rica
Free Shops and the Knights of Labor Clash in Worcester Shoe Trade
The Worcester strike exposes the fault lines of the free shop system and the Knights of Labor. The union appeals for funds while denouncing outside laborers, yet sustains 1500 idle workers on $2500 weekly support. As contributions fade and insiders demand high pay, the effort collapses, proving individual rights resist majority rule. The piece frames the conflict as a victory for individualism over collective authority.
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Masters
Worcester County
Knights of Labor
The
General Assembly of the Order
Misrepresentation of Boston Riot Sparks Cross City Debate
The piece condemns exaggerated reports of a Tuesday Faneuil Hall event as harms to Boston’s reputation. It cites New York papers and the Irish-American Republic of Boston arguing there was no riot, no mob, and no disturbance, urging protest against misrepresentation and defense of lawful, peaceful celebration.
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Boston
Board of Police
New York Commercial Advertiser
Faneuil Hall
Crowd gathers around Adams Square amid lawless demonstration
A large crowd assembled Tuesday evening near Adams Square drawn by notoriety from press coverage and a conspicuous police display, illustrating disorder accompanying the event.
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Adams Square
Rescuing Towns From City Fever And Forward Paths
An essay argues the rural population declines amid city lure and railways. It urges youngsters to attend agricultural colleges, invest in scientific farming, and stay in New England to strengthen farms, citing Cambridge’s graduation day and Harvard traditions. It notes a July 17 deadline for a law curbing minor peddling and begging.
Boston Circus Reflects on Heat and Performance
The writer recalls a Boston circus visit praising Barnum’s show quality despite heat. He notes interest in performers and backstage theatrics over the main events, admires the ring’s rakish circus man image, and observes traditional ceremony shaping audience perception. A large crowd of charity children shares the afternoon.
Eccentrics of Boston Remembered in a Nostalgic Portrait
The piece recalls a parade of eccentric Boston figures including Daniel Pratt Shakspere Daddy Lamson Abby Folsom Yankee Doodle and Crazy Jane. It muses on how modern society favors uniformity and wonders if true eccentrics can survive amid changing times.
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Daniel Pratt
Boston
Deer Island
Jane
Shakspere
Daddy” Lamson
Abby Folsom
Yankee Doodle
Notable Figures and Notorious Characters of a Bygone Era
A compilation identifies Janie Laton as the country’s sole African lineage millionaire, notes Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rockwood’s kinship to Colonel Prescott, and recalls Captain B. D. Shannon’s Wyoming appointment. It also chronicles Edison’s diet quirks, Ruskin’s health denial, Joe Mulhat tan’s liar fame, and Craig Tolliver’s long feud and martial law pursuit in Rowan County.
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Country
Janie Laton
New Orleans
Sarah Chaplin Rockwood
Courtland County
William Prescott
Bunker Hill
BE. B
Mr. Ruskin
Pall Mall Gazette
Joe Mathatton
Louisville
Mulhattan
Harvard Annex Commemoration and New Waterbury Bank Formed
Yesterday at the Harvard Annex an ivy oration by Missiles and a Latin oration by Miss Herrick marked the commemoration day with gowns, caps, singing, and collation. The Fourth National Bank organized in Waterbury Connecticut names D S Plume, Richard Smith, B G Bryan, E T Turner, N D Granniss, G E Terry and Edmund Day as directors with E T Turner as president and B G Bryan as cashier. Capital is $100000.
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Harvard Annex
Fourth National Bank
Waterbury, Conn
D. 8. Plume
Richard Smith
B. G. Bryan
E. T. Turner
N. D. Granniss
G.E. Terry
Edmund Day
E.T. Turner
July Scribner's Magazine Highlights Napoleon Illustrations
Scribner's July issue features Millets frontispiece from an Emperor Soult gift and Ropes's Napoleonic illustrations with caricatures and portraits. D A Sargent writes on manly proportions, Thackeray letters, and a "Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago" through New York and Portland letters with March 1802 entries. Miss Southgate recounts a Boston Assembly storm and social scenes, plus poems by Mrs. Moulton and notes on stories and new Boyesen work.
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Scribner’s Magazine
Napoleon
Frédéric Millet
Marshal Soult
Thackeray
New York
Ballston
Salem
Portland
Charles Coffin
Horatio
Mr. Motley
Mrs
Horatio Southgate
Dr. Southgate
Bishop Southgate
William Scott Southgate
Miss Southgate
Seth
Mr. Boyesen
Mrs. Moulton
Harper's July issue highlights a Printed Book and rural life
The July Harper's opens with A Printed Book detailing its making from start to finish illustrated by W P Snyder. Phillada is a poem with Abbey illustrations and Cadet Life at West Point by Charles Kinfe. Howells's April Hopes follows with critiques, including praise for Hardy's Woodlanders and comments on Eliot and Reade. Additional pieces include In Central Soudon Town by Joseph Thomson Here and There in the South by Rebecca Harding Davis and Dr Ely's Social Studies.
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Harper's
Harper's Magazine
R. R. Bowker
W. P. Snyder
Phillada
Abbey
Charles Kinfe
United States Army
West Point
George Eliot
Charles Reade
Compton Reade
Thomas [Hardy
Woodlanders
Reade
Thomas Hardy
Inquirer
Winterborne
Grace Melbury
Grace
Soudon
Joseph Thomson
Rebecca Harding Davis
Ely
New Haven Yacht Club Regatta Winners Named
The New Haven Yacht Club held a twenty mile race from New Haven to Charles Island and back. Weather was pleasant with a fresh southerly wind. In class A the Derby challenge cup went to the Marguerite. In class D the Register cup went to the Vixen, which earns permanent possession after three prior wins.
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New Haven
Conn
Butler Club rhetoric signals party clash over Cleveland era
F. W. Birp argues a Butler Club dinner exposed pro Butler partisans ready to wage war on President Cleveland and the Democratic party. He warns of disloyalty under guise of loyalty and predicts further clashes as Butler forces press their anti Cleveland agenda.
Exposures Prompt Alarm Over Pension Law Fraud
The Philadelphia Times argues the pension act’s exposure invites fraud and harms genuine veterans. It claims millions were swindled from the government by skulkers and camp-followers, while many deserving soldiers fail to receive justice due to claim hurdles.
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Philadelphia Times
A Principle to Be Extended to Public Service
The Providence Journal argues that officials should serve the people, not Congress or party, and that reform requires time and acceptance of mistakes. It suggests applying the same principle to legislators once clerks are chosen for real service and integrity, and that public service will improve and spread.
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Congress
Friends of Reform
Providence Journal
Grand opera salaries and own merit praised in bold view
The writer argues that opera should stand on its own merit and educate the masses without coddling. They claim top singers in the United States are overpaid and suggest fairer salaries, contrasting today’s high bids with Europe’s pricing when New York was a rough trading post decades ago.
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United States
New York
Europe
N. ¥. Graphic
Daniel Pratt and the end of a political era
A historical sketch honors Daniel Pratt as a lifelong candidate for president, praised for integrity, oratory, and sympathy, noting his fifty years of campaigning and untarnished character, while contrasting public critiques of war records with political behavior.
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Daniel Pratttle
United States
Union
N. Y. Sun
Cleveland Fire Threat Sparks Hill Boom Discussion
The New York Tribune reports a Blaine Republican view that Cleveland's bid to reshape the South through rebel flags has backfired, turning a molehill into a looming mountain amid political upheaval following his firing attempt.
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Blaine
Cleveland
N. Y. Tribune
New Militia Law Takes Effect July Fourteen
General Orders No.8 issued by Adjutant-General Dalton on June 22 announces a new militia law to take effect July 14. Brigade regimental and battalion commanders form the military board of examiners. All commissioned officers elected or appointed must appear before the board within forty days from election or appointment, instead of sixty.
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Dalton
Military Board of Examiners
Digest of assorted modern notes and curiosities in 19th century city
A collage of brief items including a Bodkin tailor mention, gambling on baseball, German forest culture, New York mayor Hewitt, Canadian minister Foster, car stoves, Horace Mann quotes, Kentucky politics, Pacific coast sealskin prices, seer sucker coats, Victorian age talk, bank embezzlement chatter, Salvation Army incidents in Quebec, Massachusetts church waste, an ocean voyage doctor, Tolstoi praise, Georgia plantation gauge, new steel clad bullet, Chinese opium dealer humor, ballot girl gossip, Faneuil Hall debate quips, Ludlow hen with three legs, odd gas meter, and Chinese wage strikes in New York.
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Hewitt
New York
Foster
Republican Party of
Kentucky
Pacific Coast
Cribage
Salvation Army
Quebec
Élden
J. L. Jenkins
Pittsfield
Mass
Massachusetts
Harper's
T. Aki
Kalakaua
Chicago News
Baltimore
Buffalo
St. Louis
Chicago
New Orleans
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Buncombe
Whall
Richards
Queen Victoria
Ireland
Ward 7
Queen Kapiolani
London
Ludlow
Barnum
Vacancy in Yale Corporation to be filled by clerical members
The Yale corporation face a likely clerical-filled vacancy after the death of Rev Samuel G Willard of Colchester Conn The self perpetuating majority of Congregational ministers in the state is expected to choose next week Attention centers on whether new theology supporters and probationists will influence the selection The preceding vacancy was filled by Rev Burdett Hart known for attacks on the new theology and views on probation The choice may include Rev Dr Munger Rev Dr Newman Smyth Rev Thomas R Bacon or Rev Mr Todd all linked to the probationists and the Yale Theological Seminary dispute remains unresolved
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N.Y
Burdett Hart
New Haven
New Theology
Munger
Missionary Home
American Board
Prudential Committee
Newman Smyth
Andover
Probationists
Thomas R. Bacon
New School
Todd
Hart
Yale Theological Seminary
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Milk
Washington Street
Post Publishing Company
Nassau Street
Ernest F. BinmincHam
Washington
Fourteenth Street
Enwarp McGlynn
McGuigan
Henry George
Tennyson
Minnesota
Wayback
West
New England
Cambridge
Harvard
General Fainciito
Mile
Elise
July Magazines
Scribner's
NEW Haven Yacht Club Regatta
Butler Club
Noah A. Plympton
Plympton
Butler
Pope
Fitz John Porter
Genera Butler
Porter
Generalutler
Post
Mme
F. W. Birp
Tuttle
Fairchild
N. Y
Bodkin
Cain
Connecticut
Norwich Bulletin
Knights
Yale Corporation
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