Pension bill for Admiral Parnell’s daughter approved with cut
In the House May 9 Mr Hill of Illinois pushed a pension bill for Delia T S Parnell daughter of Admiral Charles Stewart. An amendment reducing the pension to 50 dollars a month was adopted 35 to 26. The tariff debate followed as Mr Fitch and Mr Gear defended protectionism while Mr Crisp urged free sugar and cheaper goods for farmers. Proponents argued the tariff reflected public opinion. opponents warned of burdens on consumers. The session recessed to 8 pm and resumed with continued debate into the evening.
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Wasurxaron
House
Mr. Hill
Illinois
Delia T. S. Parnell
Charles Stewart
Cummings
New York
Hill
Fitch
Hattery
Hudson
R. Gear
Iowa
United States
Sugar Trust
Crisp
Georgia
Republican Party
Walker
Massachusetts
Bayne
Pennsylvania
Payne
Senate
Lexas
Mr. Mills
Washington
Tennessee
Congress
Treasury
Wheeler
Alabama
Wike
Kerr
Fithian
J. Goodnight
Kentucky
Atkinson
West Virginia
Senate debates on deportation petition and army bill provisions
In Washington on May 9 the Senate heard a petition from nine families seeking $100 per capita to emigrate to Liberia, amid a movement for wholesale deportation of Southern colored people. The body debated pension agent increases and approved an army bill paragraph for post libraries and canteens with temperance provisions, touching Maine’s prohibitory law and the canteen vs trading post debate.
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Washington
Senate
Butler
Congress
Liberia
Sherman
Yeas
Payne
Messrs
Allison
Ingalls
Plumb and
Teller
Allison, Ingalls
Plumb
Committee On Appropriations
Hale
Gorman
House
Conference Committee
Frye
Maine
Supreme Court
United States
Cockrell
Voice
Prohibition
Senate Conferrees
Mr. Call
Mr. Hale
Mr. Cockrell
Condition of business failures across the United States
Weekly business failure report shows 185 U S and 24 Canada totals from Dun and Russell for the past seven days, with Bradstreet's placing 162 U S failures. Canada 23, United States failures since January 1 total 4290 versus 4670 last year. Lowell Machine Co faces $1,000,000 attachment by Fosdick heirs over alleged patent issues. patent expirations noted. Writ of quo warranto against American Life Insurance Co demanded. J N & T Jouvet in Cincinnati assigns assets, liabilities $26,000 to $30,000.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
E. Russell & Co
Mercantile Agency
United States
Canada
Dominion of Canada
Bradstreet
Lowell
Lowell Machine Company
John F. Fosdick
Hildreth
Fosdic
Fosaick
Harrissure
Penn
Themerican Life Insurance Company
Cincinnati
J. N. & T. Jouvet
Race Street
Protecting the Old Flag Bill Introduced in Congress
Representative Caldwell of Ohio proposes a measure to punish flag desecration with a misdemeanor and penalties up to 60 dollars or 30 days' imprisonment. The Stonington line announces a new 8 p.m. Boston to Stonington express with free reclining chairs and first class service.
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Washington
Caldwell
Ohio
United States
Stonington
Boston
Central Vermont
Montreal
Lowell
Large Boston Firm AuctionS Flannels in New York Sale
A peremptory sale of 8000 packages of flannels by Parker Wilder & Co of Boston opened in New York. Over 300 buyers from major dry goods houses attended as bidding stayed brisk. Prices ranged from 12% to 27% cents a yard with total sales hitting 1,250,000 dollars. White goods fetched exceptionally strong prices while mixed goods lagged behind last season.
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New York
Parker, Wilder & Co
Boston
Oxford
Portsmouth Board Votes to Sell Railroad Company Assets
At a special Portsmouth meeting 3651 shares were represented and stockholders unanimously approved selling the Portsmouth Great Falls & Conway railroad to the Boston & Maine under agreed terms. Directors are empowered to execute deeds and necessary instruments to complete the consolidation. Additional notes cover Boston & Maine rate cuts, Northern Steamship Company pressure, and changes in passenger car design and service.
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Portrsmouth
N. H
Portsmouth, Great Falls & Conway Railroad
Boston & Maine
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston
Duluth
Northern Steamship Company
New York & New England
Erie
Fitchburg
Jts
Open bar law tested by police commissioners interview
The police commissioners faced questions on enforcing the open bar law after the Supreme Court defined a public bar as any counter or shelf used for serving liquor. Chairman Abert T. Whiting declined comment while noting enforcement. William M. Osborne said the law as defined won’t affect liquor sales at tables without food and criticized the open bar compromise and sandwiches as a farce.
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Supreme Court
Abert T. Whiting
Police Commissioners
the Post
William M. Osborne
Perkins Street Baptist Church Meets Without Action
East Somerville church members adjourned after meeting. an injunction by the antiSmith faction keeps a keeper on duty. East Limerville Baptist Society, formed by members who left Perkins Street, was admitted to the North Baptist Conference on Wednesday.
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Perkins Street Baptist Church
East Somerville
anti-Smith
East Limerville Baptist Society
Perkins Street
North Baptist Conference
Charles Wyndham Revival Pleasing Return To Light Comedy
Critics hail Charles Wyndham as the successor to Charles Mathews in light fare. He returns to the stage in a revival of a French vaudeville adaptation, drawing applause and hope for an encore of his best comic form as Young Marlow, while pausing from tragedy.
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Charles Mathews
Charles Wyndham
Charles the Second
Clement Scott
London Telegraph
Mr. Wyndham
Windham
Wyndham
Marlow
Charles Thens
Enneking and Turner Exhibit At Tremont Street Gallery
J J Enneking hosts a two week studio show at 174 Tremont Street featuring landscapes and portraits with New England scenes near Blue Hill and Hyde Park plus Retrospection a strong study of memory and truth. Ross Turner returns from Europe with Venetian and Bermuda subjects praised for atmosphere breadth and detail. The exhibition runs to the 16th with Tarbell winning the Clark prize for Alter the Ball and European summer plans for Caliga Young.
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J. J. Enneking
Tremont Street
New York
Erne King
New England
Blue Hill
Hyde Park
Howells
Ross Turner
Europe
Gallery of Doll & Richards
Turner
San Marco
Ducal
St. Mark
Ias
Riva
San Giorgio
Maggiore
San Pietro
San Michele
Bermuda
Italy
England
Isles of Shoals
Salem
Practical notes and adverts from a 1890 era column
Letters critique social talk in horse cars and advocate animal welfare for docked horses and tip-cart horses. Also a note on coat lining to reduce wear and a Paine's furniture hall stand with dual pieces offering versatile hall storage and a mirror.
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Taverner
Paine’s
Canal Street
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Renewed Strength This Spring
A historic testimonial extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for spring fatigue and sick headache. It claims rapid recovery from weariness caused by climate or life and credits a unique blend of sarsaparilla dandelion mandrake dock and juniper berries for curative power.
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Hood
J. M. Taylor
Euclid Avenue
Cleveland
N. B
Auction Notice of Boston Area Stocks and Mills
Francis Henshaw & Co auctioneers announce a May 10 sale at 12 o clock noon featuring Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co shares and various bank, mill, and railway stock items. The listing includes Boston and Middlesex County institutions, manufacturing firms, and railroad ventures with multiple issuance references.
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Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co
de K& T. Fs
Drbanks Co
Mallataral
Stock transfers and bank shares on May 10 1890
On Saturday May 10 1890 at 1130 am transfers include 30 shares Senne RR pil 50 do Boston Lowell KK 15 do Blackstone Nat Bank 5 shares Nat Webster Bank 3 do Boston Nat Bank and entries for Ratt City Bank Nat Union Bank Freeman's Nat Bank Lyman Malls Dennison building Land Co Boston Albany RK Guardian notes.
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C. S
L. G
St. Louis
San Francisco
Municipal Signal Co
Con
Montreal
Androscogginiuls
Washington N. Bank
City of Yoledo
Little Rock & St. Smith RR
Kan
City
Senne RR
Bosto & Lowell KK
Ratt Ccity Bank
Nat. Union Bank
Freeman’s Nat. Bank
Lyman Malls
Dennison Building & Land Co
Boston & Albany Rk
Blackstone Nat. Bank
I Yoderof Guardian
Nat
Webster Bank
Boston Nat. Bank
Suffolk Cordage Co
Qld Huston Nat. Bank
Merchants’ Nat Bank
Kansas City
Edwards Mfg
Aidon Cotton Mfg
Fall River
Hawilton Mfg
Middlesex Mills
Orexon & Arabbena Inquial Co
Para Rubber Shoe Co
American Screw Co
Charles River Embankment Co
American Ins. Co
Lombard Investment Co
Jarvis Conklin Mtge
Irost Co
St. Paul, Min. & Man. RR. Co
N.Y
N. E. Rit
Lst m
Pullman Palace Car Co
Central Pacific RR
Weat and Land Co
Lyman Mills
Merchants
Nat. Bank
Freeman's
Nat. Gank
National Car Co
Rutland RR
Everett Mills
Washington Nat. Bank
Nefresta Cattle Co
American Waltham Watch Co
Hamilton Woollen Co
Ft. Payne Coal & Iron Co
City of Cleveland
Lin
Naumkeag St Ry. Co
Salem
Lst
Naumkeag St. Ry. Co
Detroit & Bay City
Helena
Montana
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Chicago
Railroad Matters
Northwest
Newcastle
Williamsport
Philadelphia & Reading
Pittsburg & Western
Pittsburg
Akron & Western
Chicago & Atlantic
Carcaco
Wisconsin Central
Public Bar
Somerville Baptists
E. C. Tarbell
New York Academy of Design
I. H. Caliga
J. Harvey Young
C. I. Hood & Co
Mass
Waterloo
Warner
Bean
Summer St
Bar Harbor
Baltimore
Buchanan
Park Avenue
Nahant
Nahant Long Beach
Lynn
Prescott New Hotel
Prescott Place
Ocean St
E.won, Main
IRS
Foil Gould
Ocean House
Il. B. Snowe
Winthrop
Floyd & Tucker
School Street
Winthrop Beach
Osterville, Mass
Misses Carket
Untour
Roxbury
Catskill Mountain Glenwood
Brasson
Catskill
the Cedars
Martha’s Vineyard
South Shore
Willowen
St. James Avenue
Cailff
Swampscopt
Dan’s F
Knowlton
Swampscott
Nonquitt
Alcott Cottage
Oepeasant
Ddress
OTT Pratt
Render
Assomernes St
Boson
Owl's Nest
Joshua's Rock
Lake George
Elwyn Seelye
Everly
Edwards Street
Beverly
A. M. Bates & Son
Boston Carriage Repository
Maverick'l Street
East Side
The
Repository
Holbrook & Fox, Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents Office
No. 12
Post Office Sq
Magnolia At
Wird St. Station
Dorchester Dist
Magnolia Street
Tremont St
N. F. McCarthy & CO
Federal Street
Mortuagee
Harry J. Lydston
Abbie W. Lydaton
Joseph White
County of
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charlestown
Cook Street
Jones Dana
M. Felton
M. O. Adams
Pemberton Square
Horatio Harris & CO
C. J. Hood & Co
Francis Henshaw & CO
Congress Street
Corner Exchange Place
Boston Stock Exchange
Blackstone
Eliot Nat
Boston Nat
State
N. Webster Bank
Asiatic N. Bk
Merchants’ N. Bank
Hide & Leather Bank
Daewandis
Ewaldwn
Middlesex Co
Massachuset’s Cotton Mills
Nashua Man. Co
Old Colony RK
Firemen’s Insurance Co
Boston Storage Warehouse
Davidson Inc
Cocheco Mfg
Boston Storage Warehouse Co
Metropolitan RR
New England Mfg
Alachy Co
Burl. & Mo. Rivers RR
Eaee
Helena Water C
Hamilton Mfg. Co
China Mens Ee
Grand Ave. Cable Rr, Co
Cochevo Mfg
Salmon Falls Mfg. Co
Yale & Towne Lock Co
Roatan Wharf Co
R. L. Day Stock Auctioneers
Brok 7 Exchange PL
Ers
L. Foster Morse
Warren
A. Folsom Estate
Huntington Avenue
Longwood Avenue
Conant Street
Back Lay
Martin School
London
Port
John Munroe & CO
Devens, Lyman & Co
the Eastern Banking CO
Milk Street
Francis A. Osborn
Wh. F. Hammett
Bro Tem
Jarvis-Conklin Mortggggy Trust Company
Nn 1G
John Jeffries & Sons
Devonetire Street
Jams F.C. Hyde
James F. C. Hyde
Milk St
Islington
Auburndale
Newton
Massachuusetts
Samuel Bowles
Alex
Porter
James F.C. Hyde
Marytgagee
Elizabeth J. O'Hara
Henry O’hara
Workingmen’s Loan Association
Middlesex
South District
Belmont
Commonwealth
Underwood St
W. A. Mason
Middlesex Plana
Lerma
Workingmen's Loan Association
Cuanrces H. WaseBury
Paiste & |i Yx
Devonshire St
Murtragee
Guardian
Thomas K. Reardon
Mary E. Reardon
Milners
Silver Street
Hoston
Said Street
G. Williston
Ke Williams
Liouston
Fee, Charles, Beardon, Guardisa
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