Forester Commission Hopes for Practical National Forest System
The Arnold Arboretum's Sargent and Alexander Agassiz head a commission of scientists to report a practical forestry system for the national domain. The lack of such a plan has harmed public forest lands through fire, indiscriminate cutting, and neglect, risking wide desolation. States begin forest preservation efforts while the government has broader duties to safeguard.
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Sargent
Arnold Arboretum
Alexander Agassiz
No Boycott Against United States Predicted by Cuban Merchants
The article argues that Cuban Spanish merchants will not honor a boycott and will continue to trade with the United States. General Weyler suggests taking a cautious approach, but traders pursue cheapest markets and profitable demand, keeping the U S as Cuba’s top customer for sugar and tobacco.
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Cuba
General Weyler
Havana
United States
Noted Appellate Ruling on Laidlaw Case Against Russell Sage
The New York appellate division upheld a judgment awarding Laidlaw damages after he was used as a shield by Russell Sage against Norcross's dynamite. The case drew public sympathy for Laidlaw due to Sage's refusal to acknowledge the service. It remains to be seen how Laidlaw will collect the court award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of New York
Russell Sage
Laidlaw
Norcross
Distracted Italy Reacts to Crispi Assassination Rumor
A sensational but denied claim spread that Premier Crispi was assassinated. The piece notes Crispi's perilous history and the Abyssinian policy blamed for high taxes and national distress, while describing street turmoil and public anger in major cities.
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Crispi
Signor Crispi
Italy
Republicans Seek Reed Backing in National Convention
The city Republican committee shows a strong tilt toward supporting Thomas B. Reed at the St. Louis convention. The Bos ton delegation, led by Harrison H. Atwood, may influence local lines as he aims to hold his seat while shaping the national ticket. The party risks trouble if Atwood remains a dominant force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican City Committee
Thomas B. Reed
St. Louis
Harrison H. Atwood
Ward 24
Reed
Atwood
Boston
Congressman Atwood
A Commission to Cuba Could Probe War Facts
The piece argues President Cleveland might send a commission to Cuba to uncover the true situation amid strict censorship and Spanish controls. It warns that Weyler’s suppression and threats to reporters require careful planning if such a commission is established to inform the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Cuba
Geeral Weyler
Commission Aims to Probe Real Cuba Facts
Such men capable of seeing facts as they exist could serve on a properly constituted commission. With a well formed panel it might be possible to obtain accurate knowledge of how things are going in Cuba for the first time.
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Cuba
Odd Salads and Notable Doings in Roxbury and Boston
A well known patent attorney samples a highly seasoned salad on a car ride and a strong garlic aroma erupts in the coach. Local notes celebrate Williams Everett glasswork and Governor Greenhalge’s death impact, Patrick Maguire and Stocking Foot the horse, Roxbury figures Oakey O Connor and Tim Murphy, East Boston clubs buy a new house, Thurman Club event, and a newspaper man who drank unpaid for two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Street
Patrick Maguire
Roxbury
Patrick
Maguire
Franklin
Dorchester
Timothy A. Murphy, Jr
Boston
Tim
Silence After Laughter By James Whitcomb Riley
The poem laments a sudden, sad hush after joy and humor fade. It envisions the speaker reaching for the beloved voice of a witty friend, hoping to hear that cheerful wit again despite grief and yearning. The stanza blends sorrow with a longing to recover the speaker’s vanished merriment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Whitcomb Riley
The Light Denied and Restored as Storm Passes
A dark wind dimmed a steadfast light during a storm night. The hopeful refrain claims the flame will return brighter next eventide, and the passage ends with COLETTA AGNES RYAN.
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Coletta Agnes Ryan
Businessman at Mardi Gras Carnival Ball
Phelan Dickerson, a fortyish Illinois barges and tug boats owner, rejects the idea of masquerade balls but is gradually drawn into New Orleans Mardi Gras as Odette Caperton captivates him. A humorous narrator follows Dickerson’s reluctant shift from business skepticism to curiosity and tentative participation, culminating in his acceptance to escort Odette to future events.
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Phelan Dickerson
Momus
Comus
Dickerson
Illinois
Opera House
Canal
Odette Caperton
Odette
Cherchez la Femme
Peris
Miss Odette
Pasha
Masker
Sousa
Fannie Hazelton
Jim
Rhett Roman
Daily Table Hints Breakfast and Dinner Menu
This page lists a full day dining plan with breakfast items such as rolled oats with milk eggs on toast cold meats eve muffins coffee and more. Dinner features roast pork gravy potatoes onions squash mustard pickle cold bread and tray pudding with sauce plus beverages. Supper includes scalloped oysters cold bread prune sauce date cake cocoa and tea. It also provides recipes for Rye Muffins Tray Pudding Date Cake and Rouse with detailed steps and a signature from Mrs N H Dadman of Wellesley Massachusetts.
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N. H. Dadman
Wellesley
Mass
Quick Witty Exchanges From Early Morning Banter
Jokes and quips about domestic life and misunderstandings from 19th and early 20th century papers. Husband and wife laments, coffee versus tea, Lent idle chatter, divorce curiosity, language misreads, doctor visits, and cross purposes reveal humorous social norms. Each vignette shows timing, misunderstandings, and punchlines in brief exchanges.
Unfinished Hamburg House Collapse Kills Seven
An unfinished house on Papenhuderstrasse in Hamburg collapsed today killing seven workers and seriously injuring eleven others. Emergency crews raced to the scene as rescuers searched for survivors. Authorities opened an investigation into the structural failure and safety compliance at the site.
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Hamburg
Papenhuderstrasse
Venezuela Boundary Study Issued by British Government
London reports the British government will publish the blue book Documents and Correspondence Relating to the Question of the Boundary of Guiana and Venezuela. It totals 443 folio pages with a nine‑map atlas and reviews historic claims, noting Britain favored a fair boundary while Venezuela asserts broader title to Essequibo and surrounding rivers.
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London
Guiana
Venezuela
Great Britain
South American
Spain
Alexander VI
Munster
Wourth
Orinoco
Barima
Moroco
Pomeroon
San Thome de Guyana
Tamerino
Essequibo
Cuyuni
Waini
Maroni
Yurari
Commission on Venezuela Advances With Documentation
Washington March 6 Minister Andrade and Venezuela's Scruggs met with Justices Brewer Alvey Commissioner White and Sec retary Malet Prevost to receive official papers and discuss a press publication. Justin Winsor presented a comprehensive cartographic study of nearly 300 maps, outlining key mother maps and source quality to speed the commission's work.
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Washington
Andrade
Venezuela
Scruggs
Venezuelan Commission
Brewer and
Alvey
White
Malet Prevost
Justin Winsor
Provedile
Shipwrecked Sailors Aid Termed in House Bill Passage
The House passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill with amendments. One forbids federal officers from serving as receivers in federal suits. Another provides an appropriation of 0 for relief and protection of shipwrecked American sailors abroad and on Alaska shores. The phrase ship wrecked was removed from the diplomatic bill.
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Washington
House
Alaska
Rebuttal Letter Defends Marine Park Refectory Decor
N F McCarthy writes to the Post defending the Marine Park refectory in South Boston. He praises agraffito work, cites Verona and Cathedral examples, disputes newspaper criticisms, and defends ex city architect and contractor Max Bachmann while urging proper contract enforcement.
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N. F. McCarthy
Marine Park
Boston
Europe
Verona
Italy
Max Bachmann
Bachmann
Meeting House Hill
Park Department
M’carthy
No fifty year subway lease urged by French
A letter from Charles E. French of Boston on March 6 1896 warns that granting a fifty year subway lease to the West End would give exclusive street control to one company and block better transit solutions. He urges the Legislature to keep franchises revocable by the people when public needs require.
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Post
West End
Boston
Charles E. French
Druggists and Stamp Sales Debate in Government Plan
A Boston letter discusses a druggist proposal to sell stamps to shopkeepers at a discount. It recalls practices where New York and Chicago houses receiving many stamps for mail orders sell to brokers who discount them. The writer wonders if similar brokers operate in Boston.
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The
Post
New York
Chicago
Boston
Gothamite
Albany Girl’s Bold Marriage Move Stuns Preston Hollow
In Schoharie County a sensational trial unfolds as John Way is charged with abducting 14 year old Dora Chichaster of Hawverville. Dora, engaged to Cook, urged Way to marry immediately. they wed at a parsonage before her furious father intercepted them. Dora insists she will not desert her husband.
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Albany
Preston Hollow
John Way
Dora Chichaster
Hawverville
Way
Schoharie Grand Jury
Cook
Dora
Turks Offer Aid Rule Change in Constantinople
Foreign Minister Twofik Pasha renewed in Miss Clara Barton’s presence his promise to permit relief to reach Anatolia. The Sultan, however, ordered a halt to permission allowing Barton to dispatch aid to the sufferers.
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Constantinople
Twofik Pasha
Clara Barton
The
Red Cross Society
Anatolia
Miss Barton
Harvard Declines Russian Chair Without Special Funds
President Eliot denied that Prince Serge Wolkonsky would take the new Russian language and literature chair at Harvard. He said the chair is desirable but cannot be established without special funding, noting other pressing needs must be met.
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Boston
Serge Wolkonsky
Harvard
Eliot
Woman arraigned in fatal shooting of father near Saundersville
Mrs Clara Valois, accused of killing her father William J Roessler at his Scituate farm, was arraigned and granted 10000 bail by Judge Douglass. Neighbors and officials had deemed the death a suicide but rumors linked the daughter to the quarrels with her father. The defense maintains her innocence, and locals express belief in her innocence.
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Providence
Clara Valois
William J. Roessler
Saundersville
Scituate
Douglass
Supreme Court
Variou
Mystery of Angus McDonald Deepens After Disappearance
Daughters lament the loss of Angus McDonald who vanished from home last Sunday about 2 PM while wandering about in a demented state. He left without explanation and has not been found.
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Angus McDonald
Missing man McDonald sought after nervous shock
Mr McDonald aged 57 vanished after visiting his brother at 18 Bay street saying he would walk. His three daughters feared for his brain. Relatives alerted police who organized a state wide search after a Cambridge failure. He lived at 69 Rockland street with black hair and mustache, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 155 pounds.
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Bay Street
McDonald
Cambridge
Rockland Street
Missing West End contractor Harrison held for possible foul play
Hyman Harrison remains unfound after his wife and Morris Silverstein raised fears of murder threats by three men. They cited foreclosure losses of his Brighton Street home, a mortgage payoff, and recent breakage blamed on Harrison’s family as police investigate the case.
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Hyman Harrison
West End
Morris Silverstein
Post
Harrison
Mr. Silverstein
Jake Coppleman
David Benstock
Lizzie Firman
Abraham Harrison
Brighton Street
Brighton
Harrisons
Carpenter Killed Saving Child Near Track In Pawtucket
Edward D. Chagnon, 30, a Slater Street resident and New York New Haven & Hartford railroad carpenter, was struck by a train at Lonsdale while covering interlocking switch rods. He died after being fatally injured saving a 1-year-old child who was picking up chips on the track. He was taken to Rhode Island Hospital.
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Pawtucket
Lane convicted of manslaughter in English girl's death
In Detroit on March 6 Mrs Herman B Lane was found guilty of manslaughter for aiding in the death of Emily Hall. Dr D J Seaman, already convicted of first degree murder, was implicated in the same case tied to a private lying in hospital.
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Detroit
Mich
Herman B. Lane
D. J. Seaman
Emily Hall
England
Seaman
Lane
Taft Nominated in First District GOP Convention
In Cincinnati Ohio Charles Taft was nominated for Congress at the first district Republican convention. The second district convention followed with Jacob H. Bromweil nominated.
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Cincinnati
Charles Taft
Jacob H. Bromweil
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Boston Post
New England
Blackstone
Williams & K Everett
Boylston Street
F. A. Snow
Greenhalge
Massachusetts
Banks
Butler
Ames
Gaston
Robinson
Booth
Johnny O’connor
Floodville
Brereton Club
East Boston
Monument Square
Thurman Club
Lyceum Hall
Ladies’ Christian Union
al Whittaker
Senator McMorrow
Lenox
Tremont Streets
Highlands
Whittaker
Clark’s Hotel
Bill ME
Gree’ Halge
Edwardst
U.S. A
Procter & Gamace Co., Cin’t
Robert
Patrick Henry
Puck
Johnny Greenleaf
Tommy Jones
Farmer Greenleaf
Maud Ethel
Indianapolis Journal
Venezusian Bus Book
Ished
U.S. Gov’t
John
Angus M’donald
Ohio
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