Demand High Tariffs for Farm Goods at National Congress
The National Farmers' Congress adjourned with R. F. Kolb elected president B. F. Clayton secretary and William Lawrence treasurer. Resolutions demand equal tariff protection for farm products with manufactured goods and higher rates on wool and mutton to deter imports. The group also urges policy favoring nations that accept silver as legal tender.
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United States
Congress
Three Ducks With One Shot at Benjies Point
President Harrison stayed at Benjies Point, Maryland, attending the Ducking Club. Despite a strong wind, he shot five ducks in the morning with three downed in one shot. General Sewell and E. C. Knight captured the others. He also made a record of seven ducks in four shots earlier. He will return to Washington at 2 PM tomorrow.
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Bauroworee
Harrison
Benjies Point
Middle River
Baltimore County
Sewell
E. C. Knight
Washington
Benjies
Bidding Brisk the Past Week Stocks Held at Slight Advance
Fall River November 15 The effect of strong mill meetings shows in the stock market with brisk bidding and more sales than in a month. All stocks are held at a slight advance. The following list is reported by G M Haffards & Co stock brokers.
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Fallu River
G. M. Haffards & Co
William Waldorf Astor
Sforza
Chevalier Bayard
Milan
New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Boston
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co
Impressive Flag Raising at Classical High School
In Lynn on November 15, a flag ceremony at Classical High School featured Post 5 Grand Army presenting the flag. Major Dennis led a drum corps and battalion procession to Highland Square, where Commander Hall handed the flag to Superintendent Bruce and then to John J. O Keefe. The flag was hoisted as students sang the Star Spangled Banner and a dress parade followed.
Salem Billiard Club marks fiftieth anniversary celebration
The Salem Billiard Club celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a banquet and social evening. Original members included Judge Otis P. Lord and ex-Mayor Stephen G. Wheatland. present members include ex-Secretary Endicott and ex-Mayor Huntington. A committee member from a recent Salem Brass Band gift concert reportedly withholds about $1500 in ticket money pending prosecution and fines.
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Salem
Speciau
Old
Salem Brass Band
Railway price dispute heard by Interstate Commission
The Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis Railway Company sues the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad over party rates in theatrical contracts. Attorneys for both sides appeared as witnesses from Rice and Dixey and the Baltimore and Ohio. The commission will decide after hearing that the 2 cent per mile rate for parties of ten or more undercuts the normal 3 cent rate and excursion tickets.
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Washington
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Interstate Commission
J. B. Brooks
Hugh L. Bond, Jr
A. J. Dittenhoffer
D. McCurdy
A. Vanderpool
C. K. Land
Edward E. Rice
Rice & Dixey’s Company
New York
Henry Jarrett
Commission
Malden Tests New Pumping Station at Eaton's Meadows
Malden Nov 15 The new pumping station at Eaton's Meadows built at over 100000 dollars underwent a public test with city officials and neighboring town reps attending. The pumps operated from 8 a m for 16 ½ hours and delivered about 1 120 000 gallons at roughly 70 000 gallons per hour, though the system reportedly stopped several times as water gave out.
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Malden
Eaton’s Meadows
Egypt Birthplace of Greek Art Leads Miss Edwards Lecture
Miss Amelia B Edwards presented her second Egyptian lecture at Chickering Hall, arguing Greece owed much to Egypt. She traced Greek art to Egyptian sources from early dynasties, noted Doric and Ionic forms derived from lotus motifs, and linked Greek myth to Egyptian religion. The next talk on November 20 will cover origin of portrait sculpture in ancient Egypt.
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Amelia B. Edwards
Chickering Hall
Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Alice Freeman-Palmer
Wellesley College
Frank B. Sanborn
Egypt
Greece
Miss Edwards
Rameses II
Pentaur
Nile
Daphne
Memphis
Mycene
Beni Hassan
Horus
Isis
Osiris
Naukritus
Apollo
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Peyotian Exploration Society
Boston Athletic Club Hosts Multisport Evening
The Boston Athletic Club stage featured a 126 yard swimming race with twenty entrants and five heats won by Wells Wadsworth and Dalton. After the swimming events came a diving demonstration by Professor John Robinson Worsfold and a billiards match where Weston defeated Richards 100 to 94 to hold the cup on defense.
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Boston Athletic Club
J. A. Taylor
F. J. Wells
M. Norton
C. A. Stuart
Wells
M. W. Hammond
H. A. Edgerley
O. S. Wadsworth
J. H. Wright
Wadsworth
H. R. Dalton, Jr
F. Allen
H. F. Adams
F. Bb. K. Marter
Dalton
John Robinson
W. G. Worsfold
Messrs
Richards
Weston
How Protection Protects Wool and Woollens Lecture
William Lloyd Garrison spoke at Lever Hall Harvard under the Free Wool Club on tariff reform and wool. He traced tariff history from 1810 to 1870, argued protection raised prices and harmed industry, noted mill failures, rising imports, and urged gradual move to free trade to avert crisis.
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William Lloyd Garrison
Lever Hall
Harvard
Free Wool Club
Gallatin
Washington
United States
Iowa
New England
London
England
Banquet Held For Sheriff Candidate Bradlee in Milton
Norfolk county Republicans gathered at Young's Hotel for a 100 strong banquet honoring defeated sheriff candidate J Walter Bradlee of Milton. Speeches praised Bradlees GOP record as letters from Hoar Robinson Long and Morse were read.
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J. Walter Bradlee
Milton
Young's
B. L. Lovell
David Hall Rice
Rice
Theentreman
Hadeen
Senator Hoar
Robinson
Long
Elijah A. Morse
George M. Towle
George A. Marden
Er. C. Bumpus
Asa French
Charles H. South
Bradlee
Endicott
Joseph O. Burdett
Anney
Brad- Jee
Department
George 8. Evans
F. A. Hobart
J. Merrill Brown
Henry J. Weils
Elements of Mechanism Lecture Opens Ten Part Series
The Wells Memorial Association began a ten lecture course for machinists with Professor A J Purinton explaining machine basics. He defined a machine as a moving parts assembly that transmits and modifies motion or force and illustrated velocity and angle calculations using the sewing machine as an example. The next lecture is set for the 29th inst.
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Wells Memorial Association
A. J. Purinton
Institute of Technology
Harvard Faces Princeton In 2:30 P M Championship Game
Harvard football meets Princeton on Jarvis field at 2 30 this afternoon in a bid for the championship. The home lineup lists Cumnock Upton Cranston Tilton P Trafford Stickney Crosby Dean Lee Saxe B Trafford among others. The Harvard Shooting Club held a regular meeting at Watertown with Quinlan Hardie Gould posting top scores.
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Jarvis Field
Cumnock
Upton
Cranston
Tilton
P. Trafford
Stickney
Crosby
Dean
Lee
Saxe
B. Trafford
Harvard Shooting Club
Watertown
Quinlan
Hardie
Gould
Secret Chicago, Suring and Quincy Board Meeting Details
Railroad officials gathered in Burlington Iowa yesterday to discuss changes in freight transportation and traffic on Western lines. The meeting focused on strategic adjustments in rail operations and logistics.
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Chicago, Suring & Quincy Railroad
Burlington
Western Lines
Buttons and Beatles Baby in New Book Reviews
A mixed review roundup critiques Buttons and Beatles Baby by John Strange Winter, noting light Regency tone and charming regimental humor. Also covers Clark Russell maritime sketches and novels by King Astor Armstrong Porter Feuillet and others with varied reception and allegorical drama.
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Buttons
John Strange Winter
Roger Cottenham-Page
Routh
Twenty-first Dragoons
Meredith
Jeanie
Beotles
Baby
Mme. Winter
New York
Frank F. Lovell & Co
Books Received Fac Similes and New Works By Noted Authors
A list of new books and editions from major publishers includes fac similes of Aquareiles by American artists with text by Ripley Hitchcock, new works by Moran Gibson Humphrey Ferris McVickar Barnsley Symington Nimmo Moran, The Good Things of Life series sixth volume, Maggie Bradford's Club, The Menaechmi of Plautus edited by Harold Fowler, Latin Classics Students Series, Taken Alive and Other Stories by Edward Roe, The Queen of the Adriatic with colored photos by Vriarte, Babes of the Nations with Maud Humphrey illustrations and Edith Thomas verses, Lament of Dives by Besant, A Little Journey in the World by Warner, Would You Kill Him by Lathrop, Cradle and Nursery by Herrick, and Wellington Letters to Miss J 1834 1861 edited with extracts.
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Percy Moran
W. Hamilton Gibson
Maud Humphrey
J. L. Gerome Ferris
H. W. McVickar
James MacDonald Barnsley
James Symington
Paul Nimmo Moran
Ripley Hitchcock
New York
Frederick A. Stokes & Bro
Maggie Bradford
Joanna H. News
Frederick A. Stokes & Co
Harold North Fowler
Leach, Shewell & Sanborn
Edward P. Roe
Dodd, Mead & Co
Venice
Charles Vriarte
F. A. Stokes & Bro
Edith M. Thomas
Dives
Walter Besant
Frank F. Lovell & Co
John Strange Winter
Autograph Auction Highlights Historic British and American Letters
The C F Libbie Co hosted an autograph sale with scarce items and strong interest on a few pieces. Prices topped at 76 dollars for a Lord Howe document and 6250 dollars for a Buchanan letter, with numerous autographs from Agassiz, Alcott, Banks, Austen, Bayard, Ellsworth, Stowe, and other notable figures selling in the range of 10 to 275 dollars. The auction paused at 4 30 pm and resumes today with a broader selection.
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Messrs. C. F. Libbie & Co
Lord Howe
James Buchanan
Louis Agassiz
Cambridge
W. H
W. F. Ainsworth
Louise M. Alcott
Rose Terry
Celia Thaxter
Adeline D. T. Whitney
Harriet Beecher Stowe
S. Austin Allibone
Grace Greenwood
Frank Moore
Samuel Angus
Europe
Ezra Badlam
Lincoln
Shays
Isabella Banks
Thomas Lister
John Bayard
Oliver Ellsworth
Beecher
Lowell
Longfellow
Stoddard
Whittier
Emerson
Bret Harte
Howells
T. K. Aldrich
Park Benjamin
W. C. Bennett
Westminster
John
Non-Importation Association of Virginia
Williamsburg
Charles Dickens
Eliza Cook
Thomas Chittenden
Vermont
Charleston
Lanmoy
Somerville Pattern Maker John Paull Dies After Funeral
John Paull a respected Somerville citizen collapsed with apoplexy at a friend's funeral in Lexington yesterday afternoon and died en route home. He spent years as a pattern maker and designer of calicoes and prints at the Middlesex bleachery in Somerville.
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John Paull
Somerville
Lexington
Middlesex
Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Claim Page
The testimonial claims Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery cures torpid liver and impure blood and a wide range of skin and scrofulous diseases with a money back guarantee. It also notes Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy priced at 50 cents and sold by druggists.
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Admiral Porter
Australia
England
Arthur Merton
Admiral David D. Porter
U.S.N
New York
D. Appleton & Co
Dr. Pierce
Carlsbad Sprudel Salt Laxative Claims Cited
Ad promotes genuine imported Carlsbad Sprudel Salt as the best laxative and diuretic with a warning to beware of imitations.
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Carlsbad
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