Open Question on Peiroto Ships Enlistments in Brazil Affair
New York observers report a possible enlistment for Brazilian service tied to the El Cid. Collectors and officials weigh clearance risk as the submarine torpedo boat Peacemaker is noted and guard crews monitor movements near El Cid Britannia and the Brazilian mission. The Destroyer reaches Erie Basin but docks wait on occupied docks.
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New York
Kiloreth
Washington
Custom House
Secretary of the Treasury
Brazil
Peacemaker
el Cid
Britannia
Peixoto
Admiral Mello
Brazilian
American
Erie Basin
Newport
Old Love Letters Highlight Vaughan Clarkson Trial
The Vaughan Clarkson $20,000 damages case concluded with the jury near noon. Congressman Page led the plaintiff's defense as readers viewed scandalous letters including a plea of enduring love and threats of exposure. The trial revealed a web of alleged infidelity and financial arrangements surrounding Mrs Clarkson and Vaughan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Congressman Page
Biles
Clarkson
Hsen
Vaughan
England
Licenses and Permits for Boston Peddling
Boston residents inquire about costs for dry goods peddling licenses and wet kitchen article street peddling. A city license costs 25 dollars, a state license 50 dollars, and street vending from a vehicle requires a separate permit from the paving department at City Hall.
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Boston
W. K. Charlestown
People's Singing Class Opens Winter Season Under Church Patronage
The People's Singing Class begins its season under church sponsorship on Mov 6 93 at 1 o'clock. Mr H B Holt leads with new charts and studies for the season. Class lasts 90 minutes with an admission fee of 10 cents per member. Jensen will be the only expense to members.
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Praternity of Churches
H. B. Holt
Jensen
Greenhalge Rally Promises Tax Relief and Jobs in Shelburne Falls
In Shelburne Falls on November 8 a Republican rally for candidate Greenhalge drew crowds at Union Hall after a drum corps procession. Greenhalge touted tax cuts from removing tariff duties on sugar, defended his debt reductions, and argued Republican policies bring employment and prosperity, noting shifts in tariffs and industrial growth.
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Shelburne Falls
Greenhalge
Union Hall
Henry A. Howard
N. Snow
Cutler
Greenfield
A. &. Tyler
Charlemont
Charles
United States
Pacific Railroad
Republican Party
Russell
Ihepeal
McCorkle
West Virginia
Congressional Ways and Means Committee
West
South
Greenhalge Arrives for Orange Campaign Rally
Candidate Greenhalge arrives in Orange at 6 PM and campaigns at the Mansion House with a reception. A packed Putnam Opera House hosts a Republican rally at 7:30 PM featuring Dr. William Wright and other local figures. Greenhalge speaks 30 minutes amid cheers.
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Orange
Greenhalge
Mansion House
Putnam Opera House
William Wright
E. C. Fowler
C. A. Towne
John W. Wheeler
M. D. Herrick
Sumner W. Fields
E. H. Harding
Franklin L. Waters
Clergyman Recounts Painful Illness and Recovery
A well known clergyman from Brookfield Massachusetts details a long battle with intercostal rheumatism and pleurodynia. He credits Dr. M M Dewey of Tremont Street Boston with a slow but complete improvement after treatment began in 1892 and urges others to trust his skilled care.
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Charlestown
Chelsea
Weathern
Fitchburg
Jenny
la Grippe
M. M. Dewey
Tremont Street
Hotel Pelham
Iston Street
Dewey
Tor
J. Barrows
Al Dewey Adverts Health Cure at Hotel Prine Boston
Al Dewey offers treatment for catarrh Wing troubles epepsia and blood disorders at 5 dollars per month with a two week initial plan. First month includes two weeks treatment and medicine. Office in Hotel Prine 4 Boylston Street corner Tremont open until 8 pm weekdays and Sunday 10 to 4 pm with elevator access.
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Dewey
Scare at Westminster Bridge Bomb Found by Waterman
A seven pound conical iron bomb found on a centre buttress by a waterman near Westminster Bridge caused a scare. The owner, who had retrieved it from a battlefield, had intended to dispose of it by throwing it into the river but left it on the buttress instead. Scotland Yard investigated and confirmed the relic’s harmless origin.
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London
Globe Today
Scotland Yard
Westminster Bridge
Matabele Trouble Discussed in House of Commons
In London the colonial office secretary Sidney Buxton said reports of Matabele disturbances were broadly accurate. Debates touched on whether there was bloodshed and the massacre of 2000 men, with Buxton noting about 500 Africans were killed. Henry Fowler announced London rate-equalizing legislation, while Gladstone pledged to push arbitration to curb strikes.
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London
House of Commons
Sidney Buxton
Colonial Office
James Fergusson
Foreign Office
Henry Labouchere
Buxton
Henry Fowler
Local Government Board
Gladstone
Board of Arbitration
Stormed the Wall Vienna Socialist Breakup at Hall
German Liberals met in a Vienna public hall to discuss Taafe and suffrage reform when 80 Socialists burst in shouting for universal suffrage. Police charged with sabers, forcing most to retreat. several protesters remained until then cleared from the hall.
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Vienna
Cme
Rolza Ete
Sii Teria Altos
Postoffice Revenue Fell as Envelopes and Stamps Underperformed
Washington reports from Third Assistant Postmaster-General Craige show total revenues of 75,896,983 and expenditures of 81,074,104 for the last fiscal year, leaving a deficit of 5,177,171. Envelopes, three postal card sizes, the international card, and Columbian stamps underperformed, with demand far below expectations. The registry fee cut from 10 to 8 cents worsened revenue, while special delivery gains continue.
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Washington
Craiger
Department
Wanamaker
Bisse
General Craige
Million-Dollar Embezzler Weeks Arrives for Plea
Francis H. Weeks, the defaulting lawyer, extradited from Costa Rica, reached New York at 12 43 PM in custody of two detectives. He faces five counts of grand larceny for embezzling nearly a million and a half in trust funds from Weeks & DeForest. He was ordered held at the Tombs with a plea deadline set for the tenth.
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New York
Francis H. Weeks
Costa Rica
Weeks
Martine
Weeks & DeForest
William Street
West Superior Land & Improvement Company
Countess von Linden
Wisdom at a Feast Sparks Quiet College Summit
A private gathering of 13 college presidents and numerous professors convened at Boston University and the Theological School on Mt. Vernon street. Attendees from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Amherst, Dartmouth, Tufts, and others met to discuss university affairs, then dispersed after a luncheon at Young's.
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Boston University
Young’s
Theological School
Mt. Vernon Street
Perrin
Eliot
Harvard
Carter
Williams
Dwight
Yale
Andrews
Brown
Gates
Amherst
Tucker
Dartmouth
Hyde
Bowdoin
Buckham University of Vermont
Capen
Tufts
Raymond
Wesleyan
Smith
Trinity
Warren
Hall of
Clark
Emerson
Seymour
Olds
Colby
Houghton
Merrill
University of Vermont
Storer
Packard
Winchester
Colbear
President Proclaims Nov. 30 as Day of Thanksgiving
The President issued the annual proclamation naming November 30 as a day of thanksgiving. The notice appears in Washington on November 3.
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Washington
Local man injured after fall at home on Lenox Street
George Donahue, 23, residing on Lenox Street, fell going down stairs yesterday morning at his residence and was hospitalized with a broken bone and other injuries.
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George Donahue
Lenox Street
House Adjourns Sine Die After Clashes Over Clerk Pay
Congressional action ends with the House adjourned without a final vote after a clash over clerk and per diem pay. Texas member Catchings moves to suspend rules and seek a tellers’ vote while Curtis Richardson and Sayers press for related measures. The session closes as adjournment sine die occurs at 3 o’clock.
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Texas
Richardson
Catchings
Dem
Mississippi
House
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Sayers
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hutchinson
Catchin
Messrs. Richardson
Treasury Allows Resume of Standard Silver Dollar Coinage
Washington November 8. The Treasury Department ordered San Francisco and New Orleans mint superintendents to resume standard silver dollar coinage under the Sherman act of 1890. The move aims to seize seigniorage, with an initial output of about 1.5 million dollars, yielding roughly 500 thousand dollars in seigniorage, and plans to raise monthly coinage to four million dollars as other mints clear of gold.
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Washington
Treasury Department
United States
San Francisco
New Orleans
United States Treasury
Olney
Carlisle
Senate confirms several nominations in Washington
The Senate confirmed James R. Roosevelt of New York as secretary of embassy in London, C. Hugo Jacobi of Wisconsin as United States consul at Reichenberg, and Thomas P. Smith of the Indian Territory as Indian inspector, among other postmasters. Some notable nominations lapse due to adjournment, including Hornblower for associate justice of the Supreme Court and Robert E. Preston for director of the mint.
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Washington
Senate
James R. Roosevelt
New York
United States
London
C. Hugo Jacobi
Wisconsin
Reichenberg
Thomas P. Smith
Indian Territory
Mr. Hornblower
Supreme Court
Robert E. Preston
Mint
Post praises Cleveland on repeal of the silver bill
The Post congratulates President Cleveland on the repeal of the silver bill after a long fight to end what it calls the incubus imposed by silver mine owners. It notes the silver party as a theoretical construct, praising U S practical common sense and Cleveland's reliance on it until opponents’ follies forced a solution.
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London
the Post
Cleveland
United States
Silver Party
President Signs Chinese Extension of Geary Law
The President signed the Chinese bill amending the Geary law on November 8, extending the restrictions and requirements for Chinese immigrants. The measure clarifies classifications and enforcement provisions under the law.
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Washington
Poisoned liquor theory emerges in Central Park deaths
New York dispatch reports park policemen and a tramp died in a ball house in Central Park on October 19 with a third officer surviving. Coroner pending. police consider poisoning as possible cause amid rumors of illumination gas and unclear motives.
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New York
Park
Central Park
Police Department
Senator Sherman Rushes to Ohio for McKinley Support
Senator Sherman hastened to Ohio at a leading Republican's summons to bolster McKinley's campaign. He departed at once, traveling direct to Cincinnati and scheduled to deliver several speeches as the campaign presses on.
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Washington
Sherman
Ohio
McKinley
Cincinnati
Adams Case Protests Move Forward In Superior Court
A new protest by Carl V. Adams against Professor Charles R. Adams's decree nisi asks that the decree be vacated and the libel dismissed on grounds that since the decree nisi the professor married Miss Sally S. Friese. The protest mirrors Miss Barton’s earlier filing and may be heard alongside it.
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Adams
Carl V. Adams
Charles R. Adams
Superior
Charlies R. Adams
Sally S. Friese
Miss Barton
Barton
Austria
Nina
Miss Holbrook
Close Shave for Boston in Fog Near Seal Rocks
The U S cruiser Boston nearly struck danger off the Farallones on a Honolulu return voyage. Captain Day slowed the ship as a pilot affirmed course. Engines reversed, the ship backed clear just before Seal rocks loomed ahead.
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San Francisco
United States
Boston
City of New York
Farallonés
Honolulu
Day
Seal Rocks
Thanksgiving Turkey Gift From C H Robinson & Co
Dock Square furniture dealers C H Robinson & Co offer a Vermont turkey free with every New Home range for Thanksgiving. This marks their eleventh annual promotion, following last year’s two tons of turkeys and growing customer demand. The firm specializes in stores and household goods on reasonable terms.
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Messrs. C. H. Robinson & Co
Dock Square
New England
Vermont
Funeral for Captain Oliver Batcheller in Charlestown
Funeral services for Captain Oliver A Batcheller former commander of the United States ship Concord were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his father in law Dr Lyon’s residence 34 Monument square Charlestown Major Pope of the Charlestown Navy Yard led the arrangements A Unitarian Church clergyman Rev C C Carpenter conducted a simple house service Floral tributes were sent by the family members.
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Oliver A. Batcheller
United States
Concord
Tryon
N. C
Dr. Lyon
Monument Square
Charlestown
Major Pope
Charlestown Navy Yard
C. C. Carpenter
Unitarian Church
Unity Art Club Exhibition Opens at 270 Boylston Street
The Unity Art Club hosts an informal summer sketch exhibition at 270 Boylston Street open daily 11 am to 4 pm through November 13. The Nfe class starts this evening and runs weekly through winter, with a painting class led by F. H. Thompson beginning at month’s end.
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Unity Art Club
Boylston Street
Nfe
F. H. Thompson
Jordan Marsh to retire from jobbing business
Messrs. Jordan, Marsh & Co. plan to retire from the jobbing trade around January 1. A new firm is expected to form to continue this branch, as their retail expansion demands full attention.
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Messrs
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Free Lectures and Musical Services At Local Halls
Dr Landis promotes a Sunday lecture on Evaporating and Driving Out Microbes and Evil Spirits at 659 Tremont Street for ladies at 8 p.m. and young men at 8 p.m. A B Y M Christian Union vesper follows at Union Hall 48 Boylston Street with Gounod works. Episco pal City Mission holds special Sunday services at St Pauls Church Tremont Street. James Logan Gordon to speak on Individuality. Patriot ic meetings at Music Hall in People’s Church with notable clergy and speakers and patriotic selections.
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Union Hall
Boylston Street
Charles Francois Gounod
Paris
8. C. Wellington
Eleanor E. Fox
G. M. Sturtevant
Flora B. Barry
A. M. Sibley
G. E. Howes
Arthur A. Lincoln
B. Parker
Sidney Woodward
Nathaniel L. Lincoln
G. Rob Clark
W. Tracy Teale
George "Mendall Taylor
Episcopal City Mission
St. Paul’s Church
Tremont Street
Charles Ferguson
James Logan Gordon
Boston Young Men's Christian Association
G. A. Stiles
Charles Miller
H. Reichard
Joseph Stewart
Music Hall
People's Church
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G Hood
Susie
Rum- Mall
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Methodist Episcopal Chu Church
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J. G. Barrows
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Cost Rica
Aes
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Cor. Newton Street
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Wait Estate
Hillside
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Parker Hill
Roxbury
Ae Ieee
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Milton
Blue Hill Avenue
Drindon
Mattapan
Dudley Talbot
Water Street
Iot
Novelty Clothing CO
Washington St
Columbia Theatre
Campania
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Johnson A& CO
Robsart
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