No Licenses Yet in Cambridge and a Call for Enforcement
Public meetings across Cambridge churches mobilize residents to enforce the no-license liquor law. The Citizens' Enforcement Society, with 1000 members, funds and directs watchful action, urging citizens to report violations to police and society officials as aldermen plan licensing reviews for medicinal draughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Citizens’ Enforcement Society
Enforcement Society
North Avenue Baptist Church
Warren Sawyer
Fosdick
Fitchburg
Friends of Temperance
F. G. Peabody
C. W. Biddle
Chandler
Pblic
George A. Tewksbury
Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church
C. E Rice
Thomas Bickford
James McWhinnie
D.D
First Universalist Church
Lafayette Square
George W. Kriggs
D.1
D. N. Beach
Albert Gould
East Cambridge Baptist Church
L. W. Messer
Cambridge Y. M. C. A
George L. Wren
W. C. Richmond
D. N. Geach
Inman Square Baptist Church
N. B. Fish
H. L. Caulkins
Western Crop Reports Highlight Mixed Wheat Conditions
The Farmers' Review notes favorable weekly conditions for winter wheat overall with rains across states. Illinois counties show an 89 percent average, with pockets at 110 and 100 percent but several counties as low as 50 to 90. Indiana averages mirror Illinois. Ohio trends weaker with Defiance at 40 percent and deforestation of oats in Van Wert. Across Kansas and Missouri, rains improve prospects, while Iowa Minnesota Nebraska oats and clover suffer from late injury. Wide scattered gains accompany thinning meadows and clover damage in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Farmers’ Review
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Cumberland
Edwards
Mercer
Macoupelr
Carroll, Fayette
Hardin
Warren
Adams, Clay, Henry
Lawrence
Lasalle, Marshall
White Counties
Franklin, Jefferson and
Johnson Counties
Indiana
Bartholmew, Linton, Rush, Shelly, Spencer and
DeKalb, Pike, Adams
Randolph
Ohio
Defiance
van Wert
Cuyahogie
Bourbon
Cherokee
Cowley
Dickinson
Ellsworth
Leavenworth
Mitchell
Montgomery
Davis
Clay
Rooks, Ash
Woodson
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Ilinois
Polygamy Arrest Tells of Henry Marquette Case
LowelL May 3 Henry Marquette age 27 was arrested on polygamy charges after police learned of his three marriages. He wed Salina Gilbert in February 1578 in Lewiston Mo then Annie Webb in May 1885 and Lucy Varina in 1887. The travels to Boston and Lawrence helped expose the marriages and prompt his arrest.
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Lowell
Henry Marquette
Salina Gilbert
Lewiston
Annie Webb
Lucy Varina
Boston
Leywrence
Dr William Everett Preaches at Kings Chapel
Dr William Everett preached at King's Chapel on St Matthew nineteen sixteen urging that eternal life comes through living rightly and following the general divine command. He noted the young man in the parable received a special exhortation to sell all and give to the poor and urged readiness to surrender treasured possessions to the Master.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Chapel
William Everett
St. Matthew
Heavenly Kingdom
Holy Mount
Everett
Colonel Wellington seeks week encampment for First Regiment at Fort Independence
Colonel Wellington asks Adjutant General Samuel Dalton to permit the First Regiment Infantry a five day encampment at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor. He cites inefficient training under recent orders and urges a six day encampment plus an annual drill, arguing the unit should be an actual artillery regiment and not merely in name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin C. Wellington
Samuel Dalton
Fort Independence
Boston Harbor
Wellington
Adjutant-General’s Office
Publishers Notes on New Longfellow Memorial and Other Volumes
Publishers announce Samuel Longfellow's Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to appear next Saturday from Ticknor & Co, containing journals, letters, table talk, unpublished verse, and portraits. Other entries cover Connecticut in American Commonwealth, Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours, new novels, and forthcoming Pen Portraits of Literary Women including English writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ticknor & Co
Longfellow
T. G. Appleton
J. L. Motley
Dean Stanley
C. C. Everett
O. W. Holmes
C. E. Norton
Connecticut
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Alexander Johnston
Princeton
Yb Jersey
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Devil’s Hat
Melville Phillips
Zury
Spring County
Joseph Kirkland
Admiral Dahlgren
John
New York
Cagsell & Co
Helen Gray Cone
Oberon
Puck
Jeannette L. Gilder
Critic
George Sands
Harriet Tseecher Stowe
Hannah Moore
George Eliot
Death of Boston distiller John F. Trull reported
Mr John F Trull died yesterday in the city. He was the brother of Ezra J Trull and the oldest distiller in Boston. He leaves two daughters a grandson and a great grandson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Trull
Ezra J. Trull
Boston
Senator Hearst’s Son Turns Examiners Power Into Pay
The San Francisco Examiner is now led by Senator Hearst’s son who pursued journalism over land and banks. He insists Harvard-educated editors, firing those not to his liking, keeps the paper independent. Julius Faurbach, once a sergeant, now a forger, was discharged weeks ago after swindling Jefferson County National Bank of $2000 while serving as a confidential clerk to Lt. Wetherspoon at Sackett’s Harbor.
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San Francisco Examiner
Hearst
New York
Examiner
Harvard
Julius Faurbach
Twelfth
United States Infantry
Sackett’s Harbor
N. Y
Wetherspoon
Jefferson County National Bank
May Century Magazine Opens With Pharaoh Articles
The May Century Magazine features Edward L. Wilson and John A. Paine exploring ancient Egypt, including Ramses II and his funeral procession. Other pieces cover Washington Irving at home, Louis Blanc recollections, Octave Thanet tale Whitsun Harp, Lincoln history, Atwater on nutrition, and poems by Anthony Morehead.
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Pharaoh
Edward L. Wilson
John A. Paine
Cesar
Delta
Thebes
Ra’amses
Withom
Ramesseum
Rameses
Horus
Isis
Hathor
Nile
Biban el-Mulouk
St. Denis
Westminster Abbey
Egypt
Necropolis
W. O. Atwater
Anthony Morehead
Sill
Miss Callehan of California in Sierra Valley Leader
Miss Ellen Callehan sold forty six head of beef cattle to James Miller for 844 cents a pound, earning $231,275. The sale marks the valley’s highest cattle price in two years. Callehan, a self reliant ranch owner, manages two ranches and stock, cares for hay, and can harness, ride, and drive teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sierra Valley
Ellen Callehan
James Miller
Miss Callahan
Forum previews moral debate on marriage laws and dress
The Forum features essays by Judge Edmund H Bennett on marriage laws from a moral perspective, President Francis A Walker on The Socialists, Andrew D White on college fraternities, Bascom on helpful books, Cyrus Hamlin on Russia, and Julia Ward Howe on Dress and Undress. Howe criticizes fashionable undress and attire norms.
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Edmund H. Bennett
Francis A. Walker
Andrew D. White
Cornell
Bascom
Cyrus Hamlin
Russia
Julia Ward Howe
Mrs Langtry and Her Quiet West Side Home
The N Y Tribune describes No 361 West Twenty third street near Ninth Avenue as a historic double house where Mrs Langtry resides when her stage schedule allows. The article tours a furnished drawing room with lilies and porcelain, a Chinese vase lamp, silk drapes, and a dining room, then notes her fencing room at the back and her poised after dinner chat awaiting her brougham to the theatre, with her handsome brown camel hair dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y. Tribune
West
Twenty-third Street
Ninth Avenue
Amusements: Theatre listings across city venues
The evening program lists shows atwnape Theatre performing HMS Pinafore Evangeline and other acts Mansfield in A Parisian Romance at MUSEUM Globe Theatre Ancesors Park Theatre Jim the Penman and A Cold Day at Howard Athenaeum Black Flag at Howard and a matinee of A Cold Day at the Theatres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wnape Theatre
Evangeline
New York
Rene
Eve. Rice
Rice
W. W. Tillotson
Globe Theatre
John Stetson
A. M. Palmer
Madison Square Theatre Co
Jim
Penman
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Gilbert & Sullivan
Rio Grande
Dan
Mi Surley
BIJOU
May Popular Science Monthly opens with The Natural versus the Supernatural
Mr John Burroughs authors the opening paper in the May Popular Science Monthly on The Natural versus the Supernatural. The issue also features Professor E J James on The Present Status of the Greek Question and Evolution Creation Megalithic Monuments Hygiene as a Basis of Morals and Hats as a Cause of Baldness by W D Le Sueur M de Nadaillal Frances Emily White M D and W C Gonin lock among others, showcasing a varied slate of contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Burroughs
Popular Science Monthly
Mr. Burroughs
E. J. James
W. D. le Sueur
M. de Nadaillal
Frances Emily White
M.D
W. C. Goninlock
Auctions Schedule of Rare Autographs and Goods
Sales by auction today feature rare autographs from Charles F. Libbie & Co at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. plus jewelry. George E. Hall at 10 a.m. offers fruit through Horatio Harris at noon. Tuesday highlights include paintings by Lewis J. Bird & Co and real estate by Sammuel Hatch & Co at noon and 5 p.m. Other real estate by Lewis J. Bird & Co at 3 p.m. Horatio Harris sells fruit at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Libbie
Wedding Announcements From Belmont Boston Randolph
In this city on April 27 the Rev W N Brodbeck joined George H Chenery of Belmont and H Matilda Farmer of Boston. At Randolph on April 28 Rev O C Sargent married Charles S Ludden of Holbrook and Idelia A Faxon. At Randolph on April 28 Rev C C Sargent united Albert A Winship of Somerville and Susie G Baker of Randolph.
Death notices list local people across several New England towns
Obituaries and funeral notices dated April 29 to May 3 record deaths in Jamaica Plain Rochester Dedham Newton Ogdensburg Salmon Falls Cohasset and Boston. Names include Abraham Bigelow Omar Binney Elizabeth Capen Lucy Cheney Henry Claflin Hollis Davis Robert MacKay Otis Merriam Gustavus Pratt John Trull Ellen Wood with ages ranging from 37 to 82 and funeral details noted for Trull and others.
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Claflin
Newton
Henry Claflin
Davis
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Hollis Davis
Udley
Salmon Falls
N. H
Joseph Dudley
Mat Ackay
Robert Caldwell MacKay
Merriam
Otis W. Meriam
Ellen Moseley
William &. Wood
Lyman Nichols
Sherman Letter to St Louis on Grand Army Encampment
General Sherman writes from New York urging St Louis to host the September Grand Army of the Republic encampment with hospital ity and civic pride. He praises local subscribers totaling 78 000 and urges modest veteran parades to show the city’s best, noting America’s growing empire and future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
General Sherman
Fifth Avenue
New York
Peterson
Grand Army of the Republic
Union
America
W. T. Sherman
Jewellers' Exchange Opens in New York
An association of manufacturing importing and robbing jewelers forms to establish a New York headquarters at Astor House. It offers meeting rooms daily trade access and lists of arrivals to members. Rooms will open to members on July 1 with free use and privileges to visiting jewelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Exchange
Astor House
Horsford's Acid Phosphate Imitations Warned
A brief public notice warns consumers to beware of counterfeits of Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Only wrappers bearing the word HORRSFORD'S in the correct spelling are genuine. imitations lack this mark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horsford
Horrsford
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Western Crop Reports
Pyle
Publishers’ Notes
Senator Hearst
MAY Magazines
Miss Callehan
California
Theo. Thomas
K. Paine
Wm. L.tomlins
Geo. W. Morgan
Sam'l P. Warren
Dudley Buck
Eugene Thayer
Gilmore
Itals
Franz Liszt
Saint-Saens
Ch. Gounod
Campanini
Christine Nilsson
Marie Roze
Dr. Stainer
Johann Strauss
X. Scharwenka
Paris
London
John Jeffries & Sons
OES
Devonshire St
Coffin & Henry
OWA
State St
Des Moines
BAY State Gas Company
BAY State Gas CO
B.F. Sherman
the Forum
Mrs. Langtry
Cosby
Liszt
UEEN
England
Hollis Street Theatre
Isaac B. Rich
Boston Museum
R. M. Field
Richard Mansfield
Boston Museum Company
Katherine Rogers
J. B. Mason
Mr. Mansfield
Barom
Mondapore
AXE Ents
DR. Kyll
MR. Hyde
Mr. T. R. Sullivan
Howard Athen Ham
Edwin Thorne
Black Flag CO
Museum OF Fine Arts
Rembrandt
Boston and
Hingham Steamboat Co
ROWE
Nantasket
Pemberton
Nantsket
E.G. Peirce
W.B. Dustan
Commonwealth OF Massachus Setts
Suffolk
James F. Smith
Catherine Smith
Boston Post
John W. Mckhin
Elijah George
Konehet
Charles Bortc
Said County
Moses G. Steele
Somerville
Middlesex
George H. Peters
Chelsea
Sai Court
Joan W. McKim
Sai
Elwais George
Charles F. Kelley
Nancy E. Kelley
Lucy F. Wiswall
Artemas Wiswall
Woodbury & Foss
James C. Elms
Jordan, Marsh & Co
George
Ted
Xpress
Ilver’ Safes
E.R. Morse Safe Co
Sudbury Street
Mason & Hamuin
Mason & Hamlin Organ & Piano Co
Tremont Street
Estey Organ CO
Tremont ST
Brattleboro, VT
Central
Iowary
G. E. Taintor
Sears
Mass
Elijah Smith
Richardson, Hill & CO
Fred L. Ames
Isaac Pratt, Jr
Edwin Parsons
THE
Eastern Banking CO
Milk Street
Francis A. Osborn
Edward ¥. Merrshe
Pring D
Intial John Jefatlantic Mutual Ins. C. Scrip
Henry P. Coffin
Water Street
Tostox
NHE Otis Company
Summer Street
Geo. F. Fabyan
Minhe Columbbian Manufacturing Company
Pullman & Palace Car Co
Weinsheimer
Northern Railroad
Geo. A. Kettell
Everett Mills
Eugene H. Sampson
Boston & Maine Railroad
A. Blanchard
Materia
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Corporation Notices
Cusihuirachic Mining Company
Broadway
C. T. Barney
Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation
Central Wharf
W. E. Richardson
Popular Science
Sherman
Jewellers’ Exchange
R. H. Hodyy
Kilby
United States
Great Britain
France
Washington
R. H. Eddy
Eddy
Chas, Mason
Patent Office
Edmund Burke
Patents
Boson
Philadelphia
Yours Truly, George Draper
Beverly Shore
Hospital Point
Alex. S. Porter
State Street
MNO
Howland Street
Warren Street
Devonshire Street
Warren and
Howland Streets
Copartnership Notices
Geo. H. Peters & Co
Geo. H. Peters
Geo. H. Taters
James M.W. Hall
Geo. Mh, Davenport
Kilby Street
Wellman, Hall & CO
Wellman
Providence
Jas. M. W. Hall
Simpson & Co
Bagdad Mills
Florida
Davenport, Peters & CO
Geo. H. Davenport
G. Gorham Peters
William Beacon
Wm. N. Mills
Gould, Hall & Mills
Exchange Place
Gould & Hall
Jos
E. Woods West Medford
Gale
ONR, Gay & CQ
Mok
Koyau Aking Powder Cou
Wall
Gorham, Rogers & CO
Dundee
Federal Street
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Penn
Go, C. Goodwin & Co
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