Notable 19th Century Figures and Events Reported
Sir Edwin Arnold received a $100000 offer for a 6000 line poem. Coningsby Disraeli plans to run for Parliament at the next election in Altringham. Queen Natalie of Servia insures her life for $200000 for her son. Jagannadham a Hindoo woman named house surgeon at Edinburgh hospital for women and children. Umbria passengers include Miss Geraldine Almar and Cornelius Vanderbilt and family. Minister Reed to host July Fourth events in Paris with reception and dinner. Consul General Rathbone to host dinner. Mrs Langtry reportedly ill in London with pleurisy and liver congestion. doctor prescribes rest. Mr Whistler moves to Cheynewalk. project described as disarrangement evolving toward harmony. A studio will be built in a maze-like garden with a large mulberry tree.
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Edwin Arnold
Coningsby Disraeli
Altringham
Queen Natalie of
Reed
Paris
Rathbone
Langtry
London
Mrs. Lang
Boston Post Announces Page Allocation Across Departments
The Financial Department will be on page six, the Commercial Department on pages six and seven, and the Ship News on page three. The notice outlines where readers can locate daily sections in the Boston Post.
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Ship News
Reform and political tension in Boston and Britain
The Boston paper comments on steel rail duty protests by manufacturers, critiques General Hawley’s pension stance, praises Republican caucus reform measures, and notes a Lordship debate in England on life insurance for children. It argues for stronger political organization and warns about caretaker governance amid British ministry troubles.
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England
Washington
Senate
Licensing bill heats up as Conservative foreign policy weakens
The piece argues that predictions of an early appeal to the country fade as Conservative strength in Parliament endures, yet public opposition grows on domestic and foreign issues. It notes discontent with the Germany accord, strains with France over Newfoundland, and hints at France and Russia pressuring wider European involvement.
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Squire
Germany
Mr. Stanley
France
Newfoundland
Russia
Heligoland
Heat Wave Grips Midwest. Chicago Sees Dead and Unconscious
Reports show extreme heat across Western cities with Indianapolis at 96 and Louisville at 94. Chicago endures the worst, reaching 102 by Saturday noon after 84 at midnight Friday, with sixty eight people found unconscious or dead and over three hundred horses affected by the heat.
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Indianapolis
Louisville
Chicago
Southern Republican defies party on force bill
The Hon. Hamilton G. Ewakt of North Carolina denounces the new force bill in a Saturday speech. He argues the measure sprang from partisan zeal, cites fair elections in North Carolina, and notes that many negroes vote Democratic. He urges Republicans to mind their own affairs and practice wise neglect toward the colored man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton G. EwAkt
Congress
North Carolina
House
Ewart
South
Mr. Ewart
United States
King Caucus
The
Boston Journal
Lopar Defeat Sparks Debate on Harvard Overseers Choices
The Harvard overseer race provokes debate over cause, with supporters insisting defeat stemmed from personal standards and character, not organized opposition or politics. The piece argues LopGe must reflect on his public conduct and whether he aligns with the university’s high standards. It notes alumni voting reflects individual judgment rather than factional influence, and contrasts moral standards with political maneuvering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lopar
Harvard University
Harvard College
Lopez
Hunt
Leverett Saltonstall
Judge Hoar
Henry Casot LopGe
Lopes
O’reilly
Five year old struck by train in East Boston
Robert Robertson a five year old resident of 231 Maverick Street East Boston was struck by a Boston Revere Beach and Lynn narrow gauge train yesterday afternoon. He sustained a fractured skull and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital where physicians fear he will die.
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Robert Robertson
Maverick Street
Boston
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Massachusetts General Hospital
Seating and safety on Boston Common and O'Reilly tribute
The Common Council adds 400 settees for Sunday concerts signaling better park seating. Police praise follows two offenders punished in plain clothes, guarding decorum on the Common and Public Garden. Biographical notes honor John Boyle O'Reilly on his forty sixth birthday, praising his resilience and humane aims. An electric car accident in Lynn reports James Gilbert injured and James Evans with a skull fracture, both hospitalized.
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Common Council
Carey
South Boston
Babylon Falls Tonight in Oakland Garden Exhibition
The Babylon in Oakland Garden will fall tonight for the first time and be resurrected twice daily thereafter. Three lines of electric cars will provide direct service from Park Square from seven o clock in the evening, with cars leaving every half minute. Mr P M Barnum will attend the event.
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Babylon
Oakland Garden
Haveeen
Garden
Park Square
Barnun
Resignation of Atlantic Editor Aldrich Named Successor
The Atlantic Monthly announces Thomas Bailey Aldrich resigns as editor after years of refined, scholarly leadership. Horace E. Scudder named his successor, a noted author and editor with books on children, Webster, and American Commonwealths.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The
Atlantic Monthly
Horace E. Scudder
Aldrich
Howells
the Atlantic
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Five Sisters
Noah Webster
Scudder
Boston man gives 5000 to Dartmouth for 1840 alumni
Henry C. Hutchins of Boston donates 5000 to Dartmouth College to establish a permanent fund in honor of the 1840 graduating class and his long friendship with partner Alexander S. Wheeler. He explains health prevents attendance at the June commencement and encloses a check to the college treasurer.
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Boston
S. C. Bartlett
Dartmouth College
Alexander S. Wheeler
Wayland
Mass
Bath
Grafton
New Hampshire
Oxford
N. H
Haverhill
Dartmouth
Cambridge
Old
Henry C. Hutchins
CURRENT COMMENT WARNED BY PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS
A set of editorials from Philadelphia Press Washington Star Ind and New York Herald note Republican caution toward the State ticket and Blaine reciprocity with the South. The columns urge discretion, imply political risk, and warn of potential voter confusion over a seaside home for the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Ingalls seeks veterans pension endorsement in Kansas
Senator Ingalls urged a sweeping service pension and removal of arrears limits, saying payment could cost any amount. The Kansas State Veterans Association met next day to back his bid for re election, a move contested by the Farmers Alliance. Observers call his pension rhetoric demagogic while his allies dismiss the fuss.
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Ingalls
Kansas State Veterans’ Association
Senate
Farmers’ Alliance
Springfield Republican
Mr Vaux Delivers Maiden Speech On Federal Elections Bill
The Philadelphia Telegraph lauds Mr Vaux for a lucid legal exposition of the proposed enactment and calls him a learned jurist with statesmanlike sagacity likely to place him among Washington’s leaders. Despite opposing the bill, the piece notes his masterful oratorical effort and the applause it drew from Republican colleagues.
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Vaux
Washington
Philadelphia Telegraph
Samuel J. Randall
Obituary: The Earl of Carnarvon dies after long illness
London reports the death of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert fourth Earl of Carnarvon born June 24 1831 educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford. He held posts including under secretary and secretary for the colonies and served as lord lieutenant of Ireland and of Hampshire. He married twice first to Lady Evelyn Stanhope and then to Elizabeth Catherine Howard. A son Lord Porchester and several daughters and sons survive him.
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Earl OF Carnarvon
London
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert
Baron
Porchester
Eton
Christ Church
Oxford
D.C.L
Lord Carnarvon
House of Lords
Lord Derby
Oxford University
Colonies
British North Americas
Mr. Disraeli
England
Dulverton
Lord Beaconsfield
Dardanelles
Ireland
Salisbury
Dublin
Dublin Castle
Parnell
Hants
Notts
Carnarvon Castle
Newbury
Society of Antiquaries
Agamemnon
Anchylus
Homer
Earl of
Carnarvon
Evelyn Stanhope
Earl of Chesterfield
Elizabeth Catherine Howard
Henry Howard
Duke of Norfolk
Lord Porchester
General Charles Roome Dies Aged Leader Of Freemasons
General Charles Roome of New York ex-president of the Consolidated Gas Company and a prominent Freemason died on Saturday from general debility. Born in 1812, he rose from clerk to president of Manhattan Gas Light Company and later led Consolidated Gas for about thirty years. A veteran Masonic leader, he held multiple high offices including past grand master of the Grand Lodge of New York and past grand commander of Knights Templars in the state. Roome also served as brigadier-general of United States Volunteers after the Civil War and led the Thirty-Seventh New York Regiment. He was active in the Old Tammany Society and several cultural organizations.
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Charles Roome
New York
Consolidated Gas Company
Manhattan Gaslight Company
New York Gas Corporations
James W. Smith
Freemasonry
Kane Lodge
Grand Lodge
State of New York
Jerusalem
Cur de Lion
Knights Templars
Grand Encamp
United States
Thirty-Seventh
New York Regiment
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
Johnson
United States Volunteers
Roome
Old Tammany Society
Notable Southern Surgeon Dr Willis F Westmoreland Dies
In Milledgeville Georgia Dr Willis F Westmoreland a famed southern surgeon dies. Born June 1 1828 in Fayette county he studied at Georgia Medical College Jefferson Medical College and University of Nashville with Europe study then settled in Atlanta later teaching surgery at Atlanta Medical College. He served four years as a Confederate surgeon and helped found the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal. He held roles in the American Medical Association and Georgia Medical Association of which he was president in 1873.
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Willis F. Westmoreland
Milledgeville
South
Westmoreland
Fayette County
Georgia Medical College
Jefferson Medical College
Medical Department
University of Nashville
Europe
Atlanta
Atlanta Medical College
Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal
American Medical Association
Georgia Medical Association
Atlanta Academy of Medicine
Manitou
Col
James H. Miller
House of Representatives
Ilinois
Bardwill Patten
Bowdoinham
Waterville
Arthur B. Patten
Colby University
M. Grey
International Telegraph Bureau
Berne
Trapping the Pirate in English Copyright Case
Judge Shipman rules for the English or possibly Scottish owners of The Encyclopedia Britannica in a London despatch showing dismay at an American publisher’s use of protected American articles. Commentary laments the publisher’s attempt to rob both natives and foreigners for farm-thought gains, with Pall Mall Gazette condemning deceitful plate marking and marked money.
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CG. W. S
London
N. S. Tribune
Shipman
England
Equity
Pall Mall Gazette
Bow Street
Prelude to Haverhill Celebration Prepares July Exercises
In Haverhill on June 29 a 3 PM Academy of Music service drew about 1200 attendees. The program included Mayor T. E. Burnham’s address, multiple clergy-led prayers, scripture reading, and several addresses on topics such as past religious worship, town church psalmody, and religion’s future.
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Haverhill
Academy of Music
T. E. Burnham
A. Hainer
J. W. Bixlers
J. C. Snow
D.D
William W. Everts, Jr
America
CG. 8. Nutter
Edwin ©. Holman
Rev
W. E. Bates
Y. G. W. Miller
Hendricks Monument Party departs Albany for Indianapolis
Governor Hill leaves Albany this afternoon heading to Indianapolis with a party that includes State Comptroller Wemple General Ferdinand P. Earle Sheriff Daniel E. Sickles of New York City Military Secretary Judson and the Hon John McCall The group travels to participate in the commemorative events.
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Albany
N. Y
Hill
Indianapolis
Wemple
Ferdinand P. Earle
Daniel E. Sickles
New York City
Judson
John McCall
Bowdoin honours Tom Reed as doctor of laws
A Springfield Republican note comments on Tom Reed being made a doctor of laws by Bowdoin. The item weaves in satirical asides about notable figures, including a well dressed man named Loveley the poet and Brownly the shoe man, framing the scene with light social commentary and snippets from other papers.
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Tom Reed
Bowdoin
Springfield Republican
Loveley
Brownly
Hartford Courant
Kansas Evening Star
Herr Sigg
Zurich
Bangkok
Siam
Southern Colored Farmers’ Alliance
K. R. Tillman
South Carolina
Eve
Adam
Tillman
Buffalo
Solld
East Buffalo
Cordington
Maud Sherman
Old
Virginia
Annie Sherman
Stephen Peet
the American Antiquarian
Quincy
Ill
Rock Creek
New York
Bowdoin College
Franklin Pierce
Duke of Edinburgh
China
Prince of Wales
Duke of Connaught
Duke of Albany
Frederick
Christian
Marchioness
Lorne
Beatrice
Oberammergau
London
Real estate sale at Eliot Station auctioned thirty five lots
James F C Hyde and Elliott J Hyde sold by auction to Thomas Weston thirty five lots at Eliot Station New ton. Prices were judged low. Land surveyed by E S Smilie built roads by Charles H Hale. About $14 000 to be realized. Purchasers include W S Richards L K McKenzie W H Bancroft Charles H Hale and others with varied prices per foot across Woodward Hinckley Carver and Endicott streets.
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James F. C. Hyde
Elliott J. Hyde
Thomas Weston
Eliot Station
Newton
E. S. Smilie
Charles H. Hale
W. S. Richards
Bradford Road
L. K. McKenzie
Woodward Street
W. H. Bancroft
Plymouth Road
Charlies H. Guild
E. Cobb
Hinckley Road
Endicott Street
F. Scott
Wz. Crowell
C.E. Hussey
J. E. McKinnon
Carver Road
P. E. McKinnon
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Post Publishing CO
Washington Street
Sesv
Weeeneeeser
Boston Bost
Herald
Joshh R. “Hawley
Hawley
InGallus
Kansas
Republican City Committee
Democratic Committee
Republican Committee
Peterborough
Pereborough
Voice OF Reason
Mississippi
Lollinois
Salvation Army
New South Wales
Launceston Laddie
Krupp
John Boyle O’reilly
Western Australia
O'Reilly
Canada
Lynn
Broadway
Wyoma Village
T. B. Aldrich
H. E. Scudder
Hanover
Bartlett
Blaine
Washington Star
Wanamaker
Cave May
Springfield Union
Real Estate News
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