Strikes and the Nation's Labor Tides
The Boston Post argues that wage-earner strikes have begun to affect business nationwide, muting confidence and triggering hardship for employers and workers. It warns many are paying creditors and cutting costs as production declines, urging cooperation between labor and management to avert deeper recession.
Rate Cutting and Pools and the Public Interest
Rate cutting by rival railways prompts a public war of discounts followed by pools that push prices higher. The piece argues such practices harm consumers and enrich corporations, citing the transatlantic cable pool against Mackey Bennett and praising the new company for resisting reduced rates while calling for an end to rate-cutting boycotts.
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Transatlantic
Mackey-Bennett
Line
Tailors Strike Threatens City Garments Shortage
The era of garment scarcity looms as journeymen tailors resist employers and supply lines waver in severe climate. The public worries over rationed cloth and fashion missteps, fearing a widespread famine of acceptable dress. The piece hints at societal pressure and contemplates a middle ground to avert degraded attire.
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Gote
Mr. Carlyle
Greece Faces Foreign Fleet Move Toward Pireus
The Greek scene shifts as Kerios Papamichalopoulos seeks to form a cabinet while weather relief frees foreign fleets to advance from Suda Bay toward the Pireus. Observers cautions warn of Turkish strength looming in Thessaly and the uncertain impact on Greek tempers amid naval maneuvers.
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Kerios Papamichalopoulos
Michael
Suda Bay
Pireus
Acropolis
Thessaly
Germans Back Labor Fight Over Temperance Aims
The piece notes German laboring men object to Mr. Powderly's temperance emphasis within the Knights of Labor. It claims they resist turning the group into a temperance body and prefer beer. The article suggests workers will stand against perceived capital tyranny and uphold their beer culture as a core motto.
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Powderly
Knights of Labor
Gladstone Home Rule Bill Faces Rough Debate
Despatches from London dampen hopes for a swift second reading as Gladstone concessions are seen as insufficient. Opposition swells with 102 Liberal members poised to oppose while Chamberlain commands a strong Liberal bloc. With 125 speakers slated, chances for change remain open.
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Gladstone
London
Mr. Gladstone
Chamberlain
Herr Most Captured In New York Hid Under Bed
A dramatic narration asserts Johann Most, the anarchist, has been captured in New York after hiding under a bed. The speaker ridicules Most’s tactics, claiming he seeks blood via others, while protecting his own life and proclaiming dangerous yet humorous defiance. The piece condemns anarchist violence and questions their place in society.
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Herr Most
New York
Gore
Appointment of John F E Fitzgerald as internal revenue collector
John F E Fitzgerald is named as internal revenue collector, leaving the city’s five commissioners role. The article notes satisfaction with his prior service and suggests Cleveland is entitled to appoint capable Democratic servants, while the city benefits from capable replacements.
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John FE. Fitzgerald
Internal Revenue Collector
Fitzgerald
Cleveland
Illustrious Portraits Ride Through History in Print
A contem porary printed a portrait titled Jeff Davis in 18861 and now the St Louis Globe Democrat presents a graphic of President Cleveland's wedding. The writer mocks the era’s illustration fad calling it too previous and jokes the next item will be a portrait of the first-born.
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Jeff Davis
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Cleveland
Witty clippings parade political and social foibles of past times
A collage of satirical quips from various papers lampoons politicians editors and public figures. It riffs on Most Coffey Ulster Wolesley and others with jests about bed under beds health digs at officials and a string of light political and social barbs. The tone mirrors a late 19th or early 20th century humor column.
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Coffey
Ulster
Diverse 19th Century Notes From Public Life and Food
Henry E. Dixey sails to Liverpool yesterday while Thomas Hughes writes of the late Bishop of Manchester. A Providence reunion for Roger Williams descendants is set for June 22, and Mrs. Anna Pratt of Albany inherits Horatio Seymour’s Deerfield farm. Leland Stanford plans an Albany hospital on the Lathrop site. Liszt’s name and a note on Bourbon lineages appear, alongside tributes to David Fisher, a former congressman. Reports mention Ex-Mayor Deering as Maine governor candidate and Mme Janish’s world weariness. Mormon missionaries grow in the South while John Traynor’s rowboat voyage nears. Ignatius Donnelly will lecture on Bacon’s cipher at Minnesota. Society notes praise Miss Gordon, the belle of the South, and Mme Elise Carier’s unique life story. A long culinary index offers spinach soup, chicken with rice, omelets, sauces, desserts, and many practical kitchen tips, followed by general gossip on practical wound care, asparagus dishes, majolica plates, coffee spoons, and other spring imports.
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Franz
Braganza
Hapsburg
Wittelsbach
Saxe- Coburg
Maria Theresa
David Fisher
Mt. Holly
Congress
John Quincy Adams
S. B. Knight
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John W. Deering
Portland
Maine
Mme. Janish
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Washington Barker
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Gray
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Miss Cleveland
White House
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Chattanooga
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Georgia
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R. B. Bibber
Bath
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Atlantic
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Bibber
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United Literary Societies
State University of Minnesota
Bacon
Mr. Donnelly
Miss Gordon
General Gordon
Brankemere
Tennyson
Clara Vere de Vere
Mme
Elise Carier
Geneva
France
Bonaparte
Paris
Italy
Theatre crowds and political jests in old era chatter
A collage of social satires and anecdotes reflecting late 19th to early 20th century life. The items reference political races, theatergoers, marital humor, a Dixey supper quip, Evangeline in rain, labor strikes, and a humorous old man and lawyer tale from Lewiston Journal. Strong figures include actors, critics, and everyday workers in a newspaper miscellany tone.
Pavonia Sails with 125 Steerage and Noted Passengers
Cunard steamship Pavonia, Captain Woolfenden, sails this afternoon from the port with 125 steerage, 40 intermediate and a list of cabin passengers including Leighton Baker Very Rev J E Barry Mrs J P Bates and many others. The voyage to Europe proceeds with a large party aboard.
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Cunard
Pavonia
Woolfenden
Leighton Baker
J. E. Barry
J. P. Bates
Carrie A. Bates
Mabel F. Bates
C. C. Briggs
Harriet T. Browne
Edward I. Browne
Thore P. Brown
Susan A. Brown
J. W. Brown
John A. Child
D. G
Grace C. Little
Charles McCarthy
J. McGeary
Samuel S. Martin
C. V. Mason
J. S. Mackintosh
D. W. Murphy
E. M. O'Callaghan
K. K. Osgood
Walter J. Grasanamesid
Whilliam Partons
H. Pickering
M. Palfrey
Augustus ‘T’. Perkins
Elizabeth G. Perkins
Winnifred Perkins
A. W. Pope
G. H. Dolen
Wilson J. Dodge
Kk. H. Fames
Eemes
H. Ellis
Ellis
L. Ellis
F. W. Emerson
L. Fray
Knight of the Ribbons Guides Marble Load Through Boston Streets
A vivid Northwestern style scene on Fiske's wharf shows 25 ton Italian marble blocks moved by three derricks and a team of sixteen horses. Driver Fred Tutesin, 25, Chelsea, explains handling reins and ribbons as the massive freight is loaded, hauled, and steered onto a truck for delivery amid cheering onlookers.
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Fiske
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Long Wharf
Fiesh
Fred Tutesin
Chelsea
Laudanum Lovers at the Public Bar
A Tremont street barkeeper describes laudanum use among drinkers who mix the drug with beer whiskey or absinthe at the bar. He cites regulars who hide the dose in pockets, the risky habit driving some toward stronger stimulants and opium, and a student who orders a nerve tester before leaving.
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Tremont Street
Harvard Overseers Approve Scientific Substitutes in Admission
The Harvard Board of Overseers adjourned meeting approved allowing a scientific substitute in admission tests for Greek or Latin and required broader language and history knowledge. They also named five preachers to the university and named Francis G. Peabody Plum er professor of Christian morals. The action includes stricter attendance, tighter control of elective studies, and closer faculty supervision of student course choices.
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Harvard College
Plummer
Edward Everett Hale
Phillips Brooks
Alexander McKenzie
Richard Montague
A. B
George A. Gordon
Francis G. Peabody
Department of History
United States
Grady's Easter Week Remark Draws Fire in Atlanta
The New York Sun reports Mr. Henry W. Grady of the Atlanta Constitution sparked controversy with calling Easter week "the most glorious" since the resurrection. Critics say the remark overreaches but acknowledge his earnest public service in the South's postwar prosperity.
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Henry W. Grady
Atlanta Constitution
New South
Grady
Jefferson Davis
Atlanta
Jesus Christ
New York Sun
Senators Hold 1870 Reunion at Young's Hotel
The 1870 Senators held an annual reunion and supper at Young's Hotel last evening with Hon. H. H. Coolidge presiding. Sixteen members attended including Coolidge Crosby Holden Pollard Buttrick Howe Greeley Ladd Rice Rhodes Fletcher Pate Johnson Willcomb Dowse and Fox Kale.
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Young’s Hotel
H. H. Coolidge
Messrs
Fragmented Train Timetable Fragments Across Multiple Lines
A garbled OCR excerpt shows scattered passenger times and station names such as Keene Rutland Nashua Rochester and Framingham. Mentions express and local services with several prices and routes through Otter Ald Montague Ashburnham and Bellows Falls, but details are incomplete and uncertain.
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Boyalae
Pareschuses- Otterald
Montague
Ashburnham
Ayrea West Daesrachd Barnwells
Chi Scoom
Boston and Providence Rail Train Schedule 1886
Train timetable lists multiple routes from Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket and other towns with varied departure times from 6:00 to 11:00 pm and return trips throughout the day. Notes specify Sundays operation differences, special lines like Shore Line and Steamboat/Stonington, and adjustments for certain passes and delays. Superintendent A A Folsom signs off.
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Previirence
Shore Life
New York
Shore Line
Stonington Line
Meturn
Providence
Pawtucket
San
S. Bmeturn
Dodgeville
Hebronville
Attieboro
Heturn
North Attleboro
Return
Mansfield
East Foxbor
Sharon
Gamton Jumnetieor
Headville
Hyde Park
Hope and
Clarendon
Bilis
Forest Hills
Jamaica Plain
Boylistoms
Heturm
Roxbury
Dedham
Spring Street
West Hooxbury
Highland
Hteturn
Stoughton and Canton
Oston
Mt. Hope
Warrem
Brnstel
Shore Ee
A. A. Folsom
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Manchester
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Albany
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Deerfield
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