Debate over silver bill and postmaster Corse talks
Washington discusses Windom silver bill versus Senate plan with amendments and implications for gold parity. Reports say Boston postmaster Corse may be reappointed. Republicans and business community back him amid calls for his renomination.
Reading and railroad market drift in New York and Boston
The market on Wall Street moved between strength and weakness with little overall change. Reading declined over 2 points as selling occurred. Wormser bought 8500 Reading shares at 38 1/2 and was accused of cornering his own stock. Lamson faced scrutiny amid a New Jersey bond case and opposition transfers. In Europe the Berlin Boerse closed flat with Italian and Hungarian losses after hours. News tied to Western roads in the East, potential rail expansions, and a California coast project.
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Washineton
Speciau
Windom
House Committee On Coinage
Senate Finance Committee
Walker
Massachusetts
United States
Senate
Bland
Missouri
Bariine
Nevada
Williams
Illinois
Knapp
New York
Mutchler
Pennsylvania
Mutehler
Messrs. Mutehler
Knapp and
Tracey
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Reading
Wormser
de Haven
J. Kirkner
Lamson
New York World’s
New Jersey
Boston
Hayden
Messrs. Fuller, Harding & Co
Lamson Company
Washington
Willard’s Hotel
Mt Vernon
California
Mexico
Colorado
Pacific Northwest
W. Raymond
Major General John Patterson examined in New England Society paper
The New England Historic Genealogical Society heard William Henry Lee read a paper on Major-General John Patterson. Patterson, born 1743 in Farmington, Yale-educated lawyer, served in the Continental army from Bunker Hill through Trenton and Monmouth, rising to brigadier general. The piece notes his role in the tribunal for Major Andre, Society of the Cincinnati ties, later life in Lenox and New York, and a late-19th century digression on Warmoth, Kellogg, and President Harrison.
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Thomas Cushing
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Henry Barnard
Hartford
John Patterson
Farmington
Conn
Yale College
Lenox
Mass
Bunker Hill
Staten Island
Canada
Quebec
Montgomery
Arnold
Montreal
Washington
Trenton
Monmouth
Patterson
West Point
Saratoga
Andre
Society of the Cincinnati
New York State
New York
Congress
Society
Alfred Small Manson
Horace _ Leslie Wheeler
Elijah Brigham Phillips
Nathan Hagar Daniels
Charles Sedgwick Rackermann
Hamilton E. Hill
William Wilkins Warren
C. E. King
Representative Springer Fights Wyoming Admission Over Women Vote
Representative Springer of Illinois opened the House Territories committee debate opposing Wyoming and Idaho statehood while seeking removal of female suffrage from Wyoming and Idaho constitutions. He argued admission hinges on disfranchising Mormon polygamists and blamed German Republicans for opposing female suffrage influence in a new state.
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Springer
Illinois
House Territories Committee
Wyoming
Idaho
Obituary of Master Abraham Lincoln in London
Master Abraham Lincoln died in London at seventeen after a carbuncle spread and blood poisoning. He was the second son of the minister to England, known as Jack, educated in Chicago and Versailles, destined for Harvard and law, with the funeral planned privately at the minister’s home and later burial in Springfield. The Queen sent condolences. the family and U.S. legation officials attended.
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London
England
Fessenden
Chicago
Harvard College
Jack” Lincoln
Lincoln
Versailles
Peau
Paris
Jack
Master Jack
Abraham
Abe
Mr. Lincoln
Master Lincoln
United States
Legation
Kensal Green
Springfield
Dangerous Photographic Stunt In Constantinople
A German photographer tried an instantaneous portrait of the Sultan as he rode to the mosque. Guards attacked his equipment and he was jailed. The act angered officials as it violated the Koran against human depiction and was treated as treason. He was released after a month and ordered to leave Peru?
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Constantinople
LN. Y. Sun
Postoffice Headsman Tops Thirty Thousand in One Year
The court journals praise civil service reform while headpostsmen continue. The chief headsman of the Postoffice Department has reached his thirtieth thousand, surpassing the record of any former administration in the first year.
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Philadelphia Record Ind
Maynard Founder Amory Maynard Dies After Long Illness
Prominent Maynard woollen mill pioneer Amory Maynard died yesterday after a years long business incapacity. Born in Marlboro February 28 1804 he built a fortune of about a million dollars through the Assabet Manufacturing Company which operates extensive mills on ten acres employing around twelve hundred workers. The company’s Fort Meadow Reservoir powers the mills originally started in 1846 and boosted Maynard’s town’s growth, with successors including sons Lorenzo and William and grandsons Amory Jr and William in management roles.
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Maynard
Marlboro
Boston
Fort Meadow
Assabet Manufacturing Company
United States
North
South America
West Indies
Assabet
Sip
Lorenzo
William
California
Amory, Jr
Deaths in Maine Washburn family captain dies in Avon
Captain Samuel W. Washburn of the Washburn family of Maine and owner of Washburn Mills in Minneapolis died yesterday morning at Avon New York.
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Samuel &. Washburn
Washburn
Maine
Washburn Mills
Minneapolis
Avon
N. Y
Warmoth's Career as New Orleans Collector Highlighted
The piece notes President Harrison's completion of his first year by securing Senate confirmation of ex-Governor Warmoth as collector of the port of New Orleans. It portrays this as the culmination of a yearlong pattern of controversial appointments, begun last August, reflecting on Warmoth's known character and the administration's pledges.
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United States
Warmoth
Harrison
Louisiana
Warmouth
Kellogg
Republican Party
Democratic
Byerly
New Orleans
Senate
N. Y. Evening Post
Auction sales. Today.
In this city auction sales listed for today at 3 p m by Leonard & Co. and notices of marriages include Burr-Ham Aaron F to Sadie G Hain March 2 by Rev Henry F Allen. Bradbury-Holmes John Putnam Bradbury to Mary Ilolines Somerville March 1. Guild-Motley Samuel Eliot Guild to Jessie daughter of Edward Motley Boston March 4.
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Burr—Ham
Henry F. Allen
Aaron F. Bure
Sadie G. Hain
Bradbury—Holmes
Somerville
George W. Darel
John Putnam Bradbury
Mary Ilolines
Guild—Motley
Boston
Brooke Herford
Samuel Eliot Guild
Jessie
Edward Motley, Esq
Many Obituaries Listed For Dorchester Area March Deaths
A string of notices from Dorchester and nearby towns from March 2 to March 5 lists deaths and ages including Frances B Atkins 78, Gardner Ball Jr 22, Catharine Bagley 81, Maren Bank 14, Martha Bullard 59, Mary Beal 86, Lucinda Burde 55, Frances Gardner 52, Amory Hodges 1st year, Hannah Hubbard 73, Rebecca Knox 24, Mary Long 84, Abner Marion 55, Samoral Richardson 48, Robert Snapson 72, Henry Stone 54, John Thomas Jr 40, Worthington Walker 77, and George Bur- v.
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Atkins
Dorchester
Frances B. Atkins
Sumner Street
Ball
Nice
France
Gardner Ball, Jr
Gardner
Helen
Bagley
Catharine
Thomas Bayley
Burbank
Maren Bank
Bullard
Martha B. Bullard
Andover
Beal
Hingham
Mary Burrell
Elijah Beal
Barde
Walpole
N. H
Lucinda Stone Burde
Loston
Frances
John S. Gardner
Hodges
New York
Amory
Armory G
Alice Woodward Hodges
Hubbard
Hannah
Dudley C. Hubbard
Knox
Mareh
Rebecca
James
Ann Knox
Long
Mary
Dennis Long
Marion
Lawrence
Abner Prescott Marion
Richardson
Boston
Samora T. Richardson
Simpson
Roxbury
Robert Snapson
Stone
Hyde Park
Henry A. Stone
Thomas
Dedham
John Warren Thomas, Jr
Walker
Worthington Walker
George FE. Bur
Regular meeting of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
A special notice records a Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati officers and standing committee meeting at Parker House Boston on Thursday March 6 at 10 50 am. It invites applications for aid or membership from descendants of Revolutionary officers who were original members, listing several officers and officials as contacts.
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Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
Parker House
Boston
Revolution
Samuel C. Cobb
Winslow Warren
Gamiliel Bradford
Wiliam Raymond Lee
J. Huntington Wolcott
Alexander Williams
J. Collins Warren
M.D
William F. Jones
Thornton K. Lothrop
John Homans
Charles W. Storey
Brookline
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Cambridge
Edward $. Moseley
Newburyport
Charles A. Bell
Lawrence
Benjamin Lincoln
Dennysville
James G. Vose
Providence
R. I. David G. Haskins, JR
Paine's Celery Compound Endorsed for Nervous Disorders
A 19th century medical advertisement argues tobacco and alcohol harm nerves, touts Paine's Celery Compound as a safe cure for nervous disorders. It claims the preparation strengthens digestion, sleep, and brain function, helps quit tobacco, and counters effects of excessive drinking with physicians approving its value.
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Repute
Paine
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Chrid Service Gazette
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