Insolvency Sale of Smnas5. Drew Stock in Boston
Under authority of the Middlesex Court of Insolvency the entire stock of goods of Smnas5. Drew, solvent debtor, formerly at 15 Tremont Row and 62 Hanover Street Boston Mass, will be offered for sale. Stock in store No 15 Tremont Row to be examined on and after Oct 2. Goods include blankets underwear cloaks prints flannels ladies small wares.
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Middlesex County
Court
Messenger
Messener
Samuel W. Tucker
Court Square
Boston
Mass
Johnstown and insanity report cites mental strain after disaster
Seventh annual report of the Pennsylvania State Committee on Lunacy highlights the Johnstown disaster study. It argues minor evils and ongoing worry cause more mental distress than sudden calamity, and promotes Paine's Celery Compound as a remedy endorsed by professionals and social leaders.
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Pennsylvania State Committee On
Johnstown
Paine
Firemen parade and contests in continuation of Pawtucket celebration
Chronicle of events notes a continued Pawtucket parade and contests as part of the local celebration. Various pages reference population figures, governmental happenings, and notable events, including votes and official notices across multiple states.
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Pawtucket
New Hampshire
Brussels
Weather Forecast and Observations for New England
Forecast to Friday evening calls for fair weather and steady temperatures in New England with southeast winds. Eastern New York may see showers and steady temperatures with variable winds. Boston area reports include humidity, temperatures, and no precipitation, with additional observations from elsewhere.
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Washington
New England
New York
Plans of this Co. superior for simplicity and justice
You can see for yourself if you investigate that the plans of this company are superior to all on account of their simplicity and absolute justice. NAT S LIFE INS CO J T PHELPS State Agt 169 Dev Boston.
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Nat
INS. CO
J. T. Phelps
State Agt
Boston
Massacre at Vitu details and burial ban reported
Zanzibar dispatches recount the killing of German workers by Vitu natives. Four men died outside the gate, three more after a pursuit. Kuntzel was slain last. Merschel escaped in grass, Horn and Dehnke killed at Kuntzel camp. Bodies left unburied as burial permission is refused. Victims described as inoffensive and industrious except Kuntzel. The Sultan disarmed them after summoning them Sept 14, following Kuntzel’s abuse.
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Zanzibar
Vitu
Kuntzel
Merschel
Horn
Dehnke
Strike in Australia Declared Off by Labor Congress
The labor congress in Sydney N S W has declared the shorter hours strike off and ordered workers to resume duties.
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Australia
Sydney
N.S. W
Labor Congress
Demands of Gas Workers in London
The National Gas Workers' Union demands that the London Gaslight and Coke Company hire only union men. A union deputation will meet company managers tomorrow. The firm has a capital of 12 million pounds and employs 11,000 workers.
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London
National Gas Workers’ Union
London Gaslight & Coke Company
Russians foil Armenian night attack at Alashgerd frontier
A Russian frontier warning led to reinforcements from Ersingram Kharput and Dearbekr to Alashgerd. Armenians crossed the line but failed to surprise the Turkish garrison and withdrew before the Turkish forces arrived.
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Constantinople
Alashgerd
Lerzeroun
Ersingram
Kharput
Dearbekr
Elections to the Austrian Diet in Vienna
Vienna reports that the elections for the lower Austrian Diet were held today. Anti Semitics allied with Clericals won five Vienna seats and carried two suburban districts, snapping a long Liberal dominance in the city’s Diet.
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Vienna
Reopened University After Six Months Suspends Students
The university in St. Petersburg has resumed classes following a six month suspension and a purge of rebellious students. Fourteen students were reportedly arrested last night and imprisoned, with authorities denying information to their families.
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St. Petersspurg
Firemen Parade at Pawtucket With Hand Engine Contests
Early trains delivered firemen from New England to Pawtucket for a day of hand engine contests for active and retired members, marching parades, and feasting. Governors and chiefs joined as prizes from 50 to 150 dollars were awarded, and a daring dive by Patrick Devlin into the Pawtuxet bridge water drew cheers from thousands.
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Providence
Pawtucket
New England
Old City
Park Place
George J. Fairbrother
Fire Department
Boston
Barnicoat
Charlestown
Roxbury
Lowell
Peabody
Wakefield
Davis
A. C. Eday
Philadelphia
Olney Arnold
Goodwin
Taunton
New Bedford
Woonsocket
Lynn
Attleboro
Dexter Street
Camp Burnside
Sam Patch
Patrick Devlin
Third
Rhode Island Heavy Artillery
Pawtucret Bridge
Devlin
Prominent Visitors Tour State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers
Governor Brackett and Council with Mayor Hart of Boston and other notable figures toured the Danvers State Lunatic Asylum yesterday. Frank Algerton was sentenced to two years in the House of Correction for attempting to blackmail Amaziah Mayo of Springfield. New York Central officials decide to stop employing Knights of Labor members.
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Brackett
Mayor Hart
Boston
Danvers
Frank
Algerton
House of Correction
Amaziah Mayo
Springfield
New York Central
Knights of Labor
The Care and Feeding of Infants booklet offer
A free pamphlet titled The Care and Feeding of Infants by Mellen's Food publishers Doliber Goodale Co Boston Massachusetts promises mothers valuable guidance on feeding their children. Mailed free upon request to 41 Central Wharf Boston.
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Mellen’s Food
Doliber- Goodale Co
Central Wharf
Boston
Mass
Yale Athletes Work At Yale Field In October
New Haven reports extensive Yale athletic activity with football selection prospects and cautious play. Freshman heavyweights Cox and others show mixed potential while captain Rhodes voices disappointment. Baseball practices continue daily under Varsity guidance, track work starts but hampered by Captain Williams absence, and Sherrill returns from abroad to resume Law School duties.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Cox
Noyes
Lewis
Stoughton
Hoolihan
van Ingen
Bliss
Rhodes
Nine
Captain Williams
Sherrill
Law School
Oklahoma Capitol Bill Sparks Violent Capitol Riot
In Guturi f Oklahoma on October 2 a legislative clash over locating the territorial Capitol at Oklahoma City erupts into a mob scene. Speaker Daniels, Perry, and Nesbitt are surrounded as the bill moves between chambers, with Perry and Nesbitt briefly captured before surrendering the measure to the clerk. The governor witnesses Daniels erase his signature under what is described as a misapprehension.
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Guturif
Oklahoma
Territorial
Oklahoma City
Tower House
Daniels
Perry
Nesbitt
Gome
Representative Hall
Speaker Daniels
W. C. Thompson
Captain Cavenaugh
United States
Grimes
Crown
Population by counties shows New Hampshire rise in 1880 data
The Granite Hills dispatch reports county populations for New Hampshire with Belknap and Hillsboro among the gains and Carroll and Gratton showing declines. It lists leading towns like Concord Manchester Nashua and Portsmouth with their gains and percent changes, noting total state population 375,827 and 1880 figure 346,991.
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Washington
New Hampshire
Belknap
Carroll
Cheshire
Dougs
Gratton
Hillsboro
Merrimack
Rockingham
Stafford
Sullivan
Claremont
Concord
Dover
Somersworth
Manchester
Keene
Portsmouth
Rochester
Nashua
Army and Navy Gazette Military Orders In Oct 2 Special
Army and Navy Gazette lists diverse orders including retirements leaves and extensions for Army officers from Captain J W Bean to Captain William Stanton. Cadets at USMA receive ill health leaves until May 1 for exams. Naval orders shift duty assignments including Ranger command and hydrographic postings with multiple personnel placed on waiting orders or reassigned.
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Washington
J. W. Bean
Fifteenth Infantry
Army
William A. Pratt
Vernes Warreper
Joseph A. Kelly
United States Military Academy
A. E. Woodson
Fifth Cavalry
G. B. Russell
Ninth Infantry
H. G. Hodges
John L. Phillips
W. L. Simpson
Cwenty
Fourth Infantry
William B. Kennedy
Tenth Cavalry
Division of the Pacific
Fourth Cavalry
HH. P. Curtis
L. Ward
Twenty Second Infantry
John MecKinzie
Second Infantry
B. Vance, Jr
Nineteenth Infantry
William Stanton
Sixth Cavalry
George E. Wingate
Ranger
George C. Reiter
I. Dix Bolles
Smithsonian Institution
W. C. Wise
Navy Yard
Fortsmouth
N. H
Norfolk
British Iron and Steel Institute meeting notes and honors
At the session in New York the British Iron and Steel Institute discussed blast furnaces with Gayley’s paper. Windsor Richards opposed high furnace speeds while E C Potter reviewed Illinois Steel Company plants near Chicago. Snelus compared English and American furnace designs and outputs. Sir James Kittson presented the Bessemer gold medal to Abram St. Hewitt, who spoke briefly. The annual dinner at Palazzos followed, with about 250 members attending. General Sherman and Sir Lowthian Bell sat nearby as toasts were given.
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New York
British Iron and Steel Institute
Gayley
Windsor Richards
E. C. Potter
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Snelus
England
William Whitwell
James Kittson
Abram St. Hewitt
Bessemer
Civil Service Reform Banquet Echoes Curtis Speech
The National Civil Service Reform League held its annual meeting dinner at Parker House with about a hundred eminent reformers from Massachusetts and beyond. George William Curtis delivered a forceful address denouncing the spoils system and urging citizen duty. Roger Walcott presided and a large list of notable attendees listened intently to postprandial remarks.
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George William Curtis
Charles Theodore Russell
Henry Lee
Civil Service Reform League
West End
Suffolk
Haymarket Square
Longwood
Wagely
Harvard
National Civil Service Reform League
Massachusetts
Parker House
Robert N. Foppan
Francis W. Vaughan
A. A. Vaughan
C.E. Vaughan
H. N. Wheeler
David Gray
A. Richmond
Merrill Wyman, Jr
Curtis Guild, Jr
Bader R. Wilson
N. P. Hallowell
Charles L. Smith
Richard P. Hallowell
D. K. Flint
Arthur Lord
Woodward Emery
Flanagan
Boston
Peabody Fund Trustees Set Scholarships and Committees
The Peabody fund trustees at the Fifth Avenue Hotel decide to grant $100 yearly per Peabody Normal College scholarship in Nashville and provide 3 cents mileage per scholarship holder. Standing committees include Executive and Finance with notable names like Hayes Porter Fuller Winthrop Evarts Fish Cleveland Drexel Gibson Morgan. Next meeting slated for October 1891 in New York.
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New York
The
Peabody Fund
Fifth Avenue
Peabody Normal College
Nashville
Tenn
R. B. Hayes
James D. Porter
Fuller
William A. Courtenay
Charles Devens
Robert C. Winthrop
William M. Evarts
Hamilton Fish
Grover Cleveland
Anthony d. Drexel
Randall Gibson
J. Pierpont Morgan
Vermont Governor's valedictory on reform and ballots
The Vermont Legislature meets as Governor Dillingham delivers a valedictory. Governor Page focuses on reducing state costs and taxing transportation firms. He urges free textbooks, cash reserves for savings banks, expanded railroad regulation, continued prohibition, and a November election date with Australian voting reform. He supports moderate funding for agricultural commissions and the Swedish agricultural experiment.
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Montreigr
Willian Ph. Dillingham
Page
Agricultural College
Vermont
New York
Boston
Railroad Commission
Commission of Agricultural and Manufacturing
Record of Fires in Sydney and Other Localities
A series of fires reported October 2 across Sydney Nova Scotia and nearby towns. Major blaze in Sydney destroyed City Bank Atheneum Club and several firms on Pitt Castlereagh Moore and Hunter streets with damage estimated at 1 500 000 pounds and 750 000 pounds insured. Other outbreaks include prairie fires near Dickinson North Dakota causing crop losses and small blazes in Waltham Fitchburg and Charlestown stations and lodgings with minimal damage.
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SydnEy
N.S. W
Pitt, Castlereagh
Moore and
Hunter Streets
City Bank
Atheneum Club
Lart & Sons
Feldheim
Balle Co
Gibbs, Shallard & Co
Lawler & Richardson
Mr. Wrench
Waltham
Clematis Brook
Fitchburg
Narrows
Thomas Nabb
Military execution in Mexico shocks 30,000 crowd
City of Mexico reports Sergeant Zeferino and Corporal Trinidad Martinez executed at San Lazaro Plain with 22 soldiers firing. Both fell at first shot but were shot through the head later. They expiated the murder of Lieutenant Calapiz Santiago of the Custom House about a month ago.
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Mexico
City of Mexico
Zeferino
Trinidad Martinez
San Lazaro Plain
Calapiz Santiago
Presidents names join commission to visit Puyallup Reservation
The President appointed Will Cumback of Indiana George re Kinkead of Kentucky and Charles D Drake of the District of Columbia to form a commission to visit the Puyallup Indian reservation in Washington State and report as required by the act of Congress approved August 19 1599.
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Puyallup Indian Commission
Washington
Messrs
Will Cumback
Indiana
George Re. Kinkead
Kentucky
Charles D. Drake
District of Columbia
Puyallup Indian Reservation
Congress
We Boys Dress Suits at ia Best Chance This Season
All sizes from four to sixteen years available in blue and brown. The sale offers a range of boys dress suits as the season’s best option for smart attire.
Boston Dinner Speech Lampoons Political Machines
George William Curtis delivers a banquet speech in Boston praising hospitality and critiquing the spoils system. He mocks postwar patronage, cites Lincoln and a fabled senator Jimmy, and warns that majority power must protect minority rights to sustain republican government.
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Th Conveyancers Title Insurance
State Street
Ite
Frederick C. Bowpitou
Charles S. Rackemann
James R. Cauret
Grenville H. Norcross
Francis V. Baton
Aniki H. Crocker
Robert Codman
Moses Williams
George A. Fisher
Henry W. Brace
William C. Williamson
Hamar W. Chaplin
Paineas B. Smith
Joseph S. Fay, JR
J. Morris Meredith
Alex. F. Wadsworth
Robert S. Minot
Henry Bbees
Willoughby Park
Gloucester
Atlantic Coast
Brookline
West Roxbury
Newton, Mass
Back Bay
Jamaica Plains
Chelsea
Revere
Wilkins, Browne & CO
Sz Equitable Building
F. H
Leonard & CO
Brom Fleindl Street
Turkey
IFE Insurance
C. Ht. DD
Milk St
Bostor
Liverpool
Kong Frode
Port Antonio
Baltimore
Halifax
Waesland
Antwerp
Scilly Islands
Buffalo
Hull
Brow Head
City of Berlin
Newark
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Trave
Kreimen
Normannia
Hamburg
Aden
Monmouthshire
Singapore
Croekhaven
Britannic
Fastnet
Wisconsin
Netherholme
Montreal
Glasgow
Nestorian
Koston
Weenze
Internal Revenue
Idaho
Iron and Steel Institute
Delmonico’s
Governor Page
Teemer
Hanlan
Timothy G. Spaulding
James Taylor
Ladies’ Aid Association
Massachusetts Soldiers’ Home
Illinois Central Railroad
Cleveland
Theicantata of
Columbia
Tremont Temple
Mee
Iro
Charles Ek. Ladd
Observer’s Office
Wang
South West
Moieter
Duluth
Eves
el Paso
Tex
Lear
Loudy
Itu
Armenia
Sam Pateh
Army and Navy Gazette
Banquet TQ
Civil Service
Roger Walcott
Mr. Curtis
Bonaparte
Russell
Rogers
Foulke
Wheeler
Lee
Storey
the Peabody Fund
Legislature
Fremont Street
Young’s Hotel
Pleasant Street
Jordan, Marsh and Company
Dr. Johnson
Moses
Mr. Wheeler
Lincoln
James
Jimmy
White House
War Office
Stanton
Navy
Gulliver
Webster
Speaker
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