Democrats urged to vote fullest at Boston caucus tonight
The Boston Post urges a full turnout in Democratic caucuses to elect delegates to the state convention. It warns that a small minority representing a district could misstate party sentiment and urges workingmen to vote. The piece critiques silver coinage and company store wage practices, arguing for stable money value and fair wages. It also notes Kipling’s Britain connection and local postal inconveniences.
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Boston
First Thorough Motorcycle Exhibition At Narragansett Park
At the Rhode Island Fair annual speed contest seven motorcycles competed over five miles. The winner finished in fifteen minutes while the slowest completed the course in about twenty one minutes. Electricity powered the successful machines, signaling a potential replacement for horses.
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Rhode Island
Narragansett Park
United States
Narragansett Park Exhibition
The Spanish Folly
The rainy season ends in Cuba as Spain plans to crush the revolution with fresh troops and energetic military operations. The article argues Spain misreads global sentiment and Cuba cannot be pacified by force. It notes crises in the Philippines, unrest in Madrid, and looming bankruptcy from wartime costs.
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Cuba
Spain
Madrid
Philippines
Weyler
Curious complications in electoral college race discussed
The article explains how fusion tickets in some states could split votes for Bryan, Sewall, and Watson, possibly denying Bryan the state’s electoral votes. It notes risks for Sewall and Watson in vice presidential outcomes, and suggests Sewall may withdraw from the Chicago ticket amid a mixed up campaign.
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Bryan
McKinley
Sewall
Watson
Hobart
United States Senate
Chicago
How Will Free Silver Affect the Working Man
A reader argues against speculative wage risk in the free silver debate. The speaker warns working people should not gamble their wages on uncertain market moves, stressing the duty to secure full value for labor and provide for families.
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United States
Magazine to be Started in Boston Titled Success
The Observant Citizen reports a new monthly in Boston named Success with editor Dr O Marden and backing. Everett Emery enjoys eastern prospects while ex representative Murphy returns from Centre Harbor with fish stories. A Brookline girl wins a neighborly dispute over dogs as a policeman helps resolve a misaddress. A boy’s near misadventure with a coal car amuses onlookers. Keith’s parrot Albert sickens. Jim Henthorn, a walking directory, is famed for his wide acquaintance. Louise Chandler Moulton discusses American literary life and liberal trends in England.
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Boston
Dr. O
Marden
Youth’s Companion
B. F. Keith
Keith
New Theatre
Albert
Keith & Batchelder
Tyler’s Third Hospital
Tremont Street
Louise Chandler Moulton
England
America
Buried Secrets at the Moonlit Farmhouse
A public reader and tutor on a seaside retreat becomes entangled with burglar Jack Mallory a bold escape plan and a detective Monsieur Chappelle. A fatal showdown ends Mallory after a staged escape checkmate and the hero preserves Mallorys card as a treasured token.
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New York
Jack Mallory
Alexis Chappelle
Mr. Mallory
Mademoiselln
Monsieur
Douglas
Mallory
England
Monsieur Chappelle
the Law
Public building interior finish contract awarded for Taunton project
The Taunton Massachusetts public building interior finish contract was awarded today to A. H. Kleincke of Chicago Illinois. The decision was announced in Washington and marks the completion of the bidding process for the interior finish work.
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Washington
Taunton
Mass
A. H. Kieinecke
Chicago
Ill
Recipes for Iced Cantaloupes and Dinner Table
Historic kitchen menu with detailed instructions for melons canning and serving. Includes dishes like Rice with Sugar and Cream, Fried Liver and Bacon, Egg Omelet, and several dessert items. The text provides step by step methods for cantaloupe halves, blueberry gems, potato salad, Arlington wheat gems, frosted coconut cake, celery soup, chocolate pudding, and lemon jelly, ending with a testimonial by Miss M. A. Brown of Dorchester Massachusetts.
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Arlington Wheat
M. A. Brown
Milton Avenue
Dorchester
Mass
Theatre notes on performers touring and upcoming shows
Ed Ganzy and Morgan star in The Old Homestead with the Hoboken Terror. Fregoli ends engagement at the Park. The Gondoliers revival is set for Castle Square the week of Sept 21. Julius Daniels and Sol Smith Russell headline future productions. rumors of a marriage within May Irwin's company. Historic mentions include Dixey at the Park and a benefit for the Actors' Order of Friendship in New York.
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Ed Ganzy
Mr. Morgan
Hoboken
Denman Thompson
Fregoli
the Park
Castle Square
May Irwin
Widow Jones
Providence
Columbia
Everglades
Merida
Boston
William H. Crane
Stuart Robson
New York
Cleveland
Gus Hill
Howard Atheneum
Rush
Howard
Howard's
Lizzie B. Raymond
Lettie le Vyne
New Grand Theatre
Austin & Stone’s
New England Kennel Club
Incog
Charles Dickson
Grand Theatre
Katherine Rober
Inez
Geisha
Daly’s Theatre
Edwin Stevens
Grand Opera House
Elvartette
Manhattan Comedy Four
Frank Bryan
O. K. Sato
Allyns
Dunn
Century Club
Trocadero
Penalty for bicycle theft proposed by reader
A Constan t Reader letter urges the state to reintroduce a prison term to curb rising bicycle thefts. The writer compares to a historic leather theft case where three years in state prison reduced crimes, and asks the editor to consider a similar law.
Appeal for Work in Boston Colums
A letter urges Boston taxpayers to question government hiring. It reports Italians, not citizens or English speakers, were placed on state house park grading work at noon. The writer asks where citizens’ first chance is and taunts politicians for wage-earner support before the fall election.
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Boston
Massachusetts State House
Hudson Apple Crop Threatens Market Glut This Year
Hudson reports an abundant apple crop with early fruit likely to go to waste. Demand exists for winter fruit at one dollar per barrel for export. One firm that handled 9,000 barrels two years ago believes it can secure from 38,000 to 60,000 barrels, but exact figures are unclear due to the surplus.
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Hudson
Notable Architects and Historic Monuments in Brief
Mrs. Minerva Nichols of Philadelphia earns a reputation in domestic architecture and designed the Century Clubs in Philadelphia and Wilmington. A granite monument to Hugh Brown, Highland attendant to Queen Victoria, rises at Crathie churchyard with a memorial inscription. Russell I Dunn of California works with Paris bankers to survey Siberian placer districts, sailing soon to Paris then via Moscow and Irkutsk. Henri Dunant, founder of Red Cross, is reported poor and ill in a foreign hospital, prompting renewed charity efforts by officials and a Stuttgart committee.
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Minerva Nichols
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Hugh Brown
Crathie
John Brown
Russell I Dunn
California
Paris
Placer
Amoor River
Giberia
New York
Moscow
Irkutsk
Siberia
Pacific Ocean
Henri Dunant
Red Cross Movement
Red Cross
Herr Rummelin
Stuttgart
Smiles and quips from early 20th century humor pages
A collage of dated zingers and jokes from periodicals like Tit-Bits and Detroit Free Press. Jokes include a railway ticket hole remark, a penny purse quip, literacy and wheel riding observations, a benevolent dime joke, a boastful originalist's exchange, and a broken engagement quip.
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Dobby
Detroit Free Press
Puck
Miss Cayenne
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Boston Post
New England
Moontoo
Rudyard Kipling
Brattleboro
Mr. Kipling
Kipling
Green Mountains
Coveney
Devonshire Street
Canada
N. Y
Bryan—Sewall—Watson
Everett Emery
Mr. Emery
Mt. Vernon Street
T. F. Murphy
Ward 8
Centre Harbor
N. H
Fred Shedd
The
Haverhill Gazette
Mr. Shedd
Essex County
Brookline
East Cambridge
Fitchburg
James Henthorn
Newton
Jim
Henthorn
Mattie M. Russell
Davison Street
Hyde Park, Mass
OAK Hall Clothing CO
North St
Megita Ryt Deputaaritimen TT
Master Peabody
Keith's
Hollis Street Theatre
Lady Slavey” Company
Henry E. Dixey
Savoy Hotel
Mr. Dixey
Old Howard
Athenaum
Hiowar
Excelsior
Bernard Dyllyn
Eleonora Cavini
Col. Washington and
Dover Sts
Fes
Ines
Hines
Remington
Nelson
AT. Keith
Living Pictures
Cinematographe
Witter J. Peabody
Imogen Comer
Hollis
Isaac B. Rich
Lady Slavey
Castle
J. J. Jason
Jakobowski
Cy. Theatre
Web
F Francis
Ilgon
Eugene Tompkins
Denman
Thompso Homestead
Tremont Temple
Lorimer
Ohn Robertson
Scotland
Crand Opera House
September
Wea'y Ani Satyaez
John J. McNally
Asparnn
Eugene
Eregoli
Tremont Theatre
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau Co. (Ltd
Paradise Alley
Geo. W. Ryer
Regoli
Weed
Columbia Theatre
Bowdoin Square
Charles Finson
Carl A. Haswin
Austin & Stone
Tremont Row
Virginia Knapp
Vermont
Sensations & Innovations
Rocadero
Palace
Lesa
Atlantic and Plant Line
Halifax
N.S
Port Hawkesbury
Cape Breton
Charlotte Town
Portland Steamers
Provincetown
John Smith
North Pier
Cape
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