Open debate clash as Lodge accepts challenge to Russell
Congressman Lodge accepts a public duel of ideas with ex-Congressman John E Russell while declining to alter his acceptance terms. plus notes on ex-governor Long and ex-Congressman Green at the Norfolk Club and a string of society and sports items across city pages.
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Lodge
John E. Russell
Long
Greenbalge
Norfolk Club
Raj Liea
Reds
Boston
Boston League
Boston Association
Boston Athletic Association
Somerville Bicycle Clu
Olmstead
Watchman
Dr. Herford
Cape Coa
Pene Bell
Trimount
Henry EF
Cobbage
Lynn
Pace
Tleas
Roxbury
Harrison
Old South
Teachers Aiding Young Students at Chauncey Hall School
A description notes a teacher presence with younger pupils at Chauncey Hall School during arithmetic and other study hours. It states a ratio of about one teacher for every ten to twelve pupils to ensure proper assistance in class and on school tours, located at 693 Boylston Street.
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Chauncey Hall School
Boylston Street
France Becoming Herself Says Ribot At Faidherbe Statue
Foreign Minister Ribot unveiled General Faidherbe’s statue in Paris and declared France is becoming herself as she reenters the European balance. He praised prudence and moderation guiding a republic that will collaborate with Parliament and Europe, cited cordial Russia ties, and noted public demonstrations for French sailors abroad.
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Paris
Ribot
Rapaune
Faidherbe
Europe
France
Denmark
Sweden
Portsmouth
Victoria
M. Ribot
Russia
Europee
French Pork Prohibition Policy Moves with Senate Action
Paris sept 27 chambers resume next month and mr Reid will push for withdrawal of pork prohibition. senate committee will tackle the chamber passed bill while officials credit german repeal with accelerating french action. brazil considers a tariff on coffees amid pressure from france and diplomacy linked to american aims.
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Paris
Reid
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Fuse Chamber of Deputies
Germany
M. Ribot
M. Meline
Brazil
Death of Mr Dessau Linked to Heart Disease
Coroner rules heart disease caused the death of Mr Dessau aged 54 55 native of Hamburg president of the Millie Iron Mine Company and a member of Acacia Lodge Felicia Club and Tammany Hall. He died after suffering illness while being assisted from a carriage and asked railway officials to safeguard his jewelry. Body to be brought to the city. wife surviving.
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Dessau
Poth
Hamburg
Millie Iron Mine Company
Acacia Lodge
A. M
Felicia Club
Tammany Hall
Night March Drills Alarm Roumanian Frontier
Russian forces conduct forced night marches and other maneuvers across the Pruth with electric lights. Roumanian government grows alarmed and concentrates troops on the frontier, ordering cavalry to upper Moldavia.
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Vienna
Pruth
Moldavia
Crispi Attends Palermo Steamer Launch Banquet
Signor Crispi attends a steamer launch in Palermo and a banquet in his honor. He responds to a toast to King Humbert and Queen Victoria, praising the Italy England alliance and the shared ties since Norman era freedom in Sicily.
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Rome
Signor Crispi
Palermo
Humbert
Queen Victoria
Italy
England
Sicily
Deacon Ladd Robbery Attack in Groveland Barn
Deacon W. B. Ladd who runs a Groveland bakery route was beaten in a Parker stable barn after returning home to fetch his money. The rear door was found open, suggesting a planned ambush by someone aware of his routine. A separate incident on Arch street saw Lilian Stetson and Jessie Phelan chased by two men attempting to grab wallets but the pair escaped unharmed.
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Haverhill
Deacon W. B. Ladd
Groveland
Dean Ek
Parker
Mr. Parker
Mr. Ladd
Lilian Stetson
Jessie Phelan
Arch Street
Rain-making Experiment Deluges Corpus Christi
A Corpus Christi report says rain makers Ellis Caster and Fairchild with a county engineer demonstrated a rain-creating experiment. They fired mortars and bombs from a hill outside town, triggering a sharp shower that grew into a heavy torrent over the city within forty minutes and lasted about half an hour.
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St. Louis
Corpus Christi
Messrs
Ellis
Caster
Fairchild
Citizens’ Committee
Conciliatory Note to Germany and Chinese Policy Move
The Chinese ambassador had a protracted talk with the Foreign Minister at Bercy and delivered a conciliatory note, similar to that sent to M Ribot in Paris last Thursday. In St Petersburg the Grashdanin advocates absolute Russian neutrality with China, warning that any other stance helps English and French interests and harms Asiatic Russia and English Pacific ascendency.
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Bercy
M. Ribot
St. Peterssure
Grashdanin
China
Russia
Tonnage Bill Proposed by Bath Shipmen Act
Bath Maine September 27 prominent Bath ship men met with Charles A Hill national secretary Americana Shipping and Industrial League and adopted a plan to hold a Maine and allied states meeting October 7 to push a tonnage bill. They propose presenting a memorial of 5 000 000 names to Congress asking passage of a tonnage bill costing 5 000 000 while foreign capitalists collect 260 000 000 in rate charges from Americans.
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Bath
Charles A. Hill
Americana Shipping and Industrial League
Maine
Congress
Platform Collapse Kills Several at Ghent Charity Fete
A platform at a Ghent charity fete collapsed after being overcrowded. The manager and workers entered beneath to inspect the structure when it failed, crushing those under it and seriously injuring many on the platform. Several people were killed in the disaster.
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Ghent
Warehouses in Ruins Destroyed by Fire
A note in the Great Building of the Man Sur Tibbetts Co. was destroyed leaving warehouses in ruins. Losses are projected to reach 650000 dollars as investigators assess the blaze impact on the site and surrounding properties.
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Mansur-Tibbetts Co
A STEAMER ON FIRE IN LONDON
Fire wrecks two buildings in St Louis as flames leap through the Plant Milling Company warehouse on Chouteau avenue. Loss pegged at 250000 with similar insurance, and rebuilt plans announced. A second blaze at Ninth and Spruce destroys the Mansur Tibbetts Agricultural Company six story structure with farm implements stock valued at 225000 and insured. Building owned by Tiffany Real Estate Company valued at 150000 and insured for 100000.
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St. Louis
Plant Milling Company
Chouteau Avenue
George P. Plant
Ninth
Spruce Streets
Mansur-Tibbetts Agricultural Company
Ninth Street
Mansur-Tibbetts
The
Tiffany Real Estate Company
Fires and damages from diverse incidents across cities
The General Fire Record reports a fierce blaze at Delaware & Hudson Conyngham colliery in Wilkes-Barre threatening coal vein flooding and layoffs. Other notices describe fires in London, Hinckney, Turtle Lake, Chippewa Falls, Greenville, Danialsonville, Savannah, Lominster, Danbury, and Cambridge, with property losses, injuries, and disrupted services.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
Conyngham
Baltimore
London
Peninsular & Oriental Company
Rome
Greenock
Hinckney
Minn
Great Northern
Turtle Lake
Nesse
Chippewa Faluli
Wis
Chippewa County
Greenville
Ill
Sail
Danialsonville
Conn
R R B. James
H. Bacon
KR James
Bacon
E. J. Joram
Chestnut Street
Embezzlement in Texas Trial Ends for Ex-Treasurer
J D McMillan former county treasurer faced trial in Kovarze Texas on embezzlement charges of 14000. Judge Hightower directed acquittal stating true money is legal tender coin and that bonds or coupons do not count as money. He asserts no official can be indicted without cash taken.
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Kovarze
Tex
J. D. McMillan
Hightower
Sudden Demise of a New York Diamond Broker in London
A tall stout man, later identified as David New York City, died at Waterloo Station as a London to Southampton special train prepared to depart for the Hamburg American Line steamer First Bismarck bound for New York. A physician arrived too late. the incident occurred just before the train left.
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London
Waterloo Station
Southampton
First
Bismarck
New York
Ydd
David
New York City
Woman Burns Self to Death in Despair
Sacum report says Mrs Catherine Felt formerly Catherine Goff, living with her parents at 22 Daniels street, set herself afire after pouring oil on clothing and burning. Neighbors removed burning garments. she died after several hours of agony at the hospital. her feet were badly burned.
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Sacum
Catherine Felt
Naine
Catherine Goff
Daniels Street
Burr
Attoy
Drowned off Tracy's Reef tragedy shocks Providence
Engineer Patrick Sullivan drowned in the Providence River after a rowboat with Frank Cooney and John J. Meehan capsized near Tracy's Reef. All three men were crabbing when the craft overturned at 11:30 this forenoon. Cooney and Meehan were rescued exhausted. Sullivan disappeared after fifteen minutes of struggle.
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Tracy's Reef
Providence
R. J
Cooney
Meehan
Suullivan
Schurz to resign from Hamburg American Line
New York report says Hon. Carl Schurz will resign as director of the Hamburg American Packet Company effective January 1, 1892. R J Curtis and O B Richard & Co resignations are accepted. Curtis will control passenger and freight departments at 37 Broadway. Office of American director to be abolished.
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New York
Carl Schurz
Hamburg-American Packet Company
R. J. Curtis
Oscar L. Richard
Woldemer Nissen
Hamburg
Schurz
Messrs. O. B. Richard & Co
C. B. Richard & Co
Broadway
He Ee
Mrs Harrison Attends Old South Church Boston Sermon
Mrs Harrison and Mr and Mrs J R McKee attended morning services at Old South Church in Boston with Moses W Richardson driving them in his landau. Rev Josiah Strong preached and a special musical program was prepared for the occasion. The party later toured Newton and Woodland Park Hotel hosts a midweek ball and a Friday musicale.
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Longwood
Woodland Park
Old South
Lynn
Sreeran
Benjamin Harrison
President Harrison
Charles A. Cottin
Danvers
Whittier
Mysterious diggers alarm Marblehead residents
Report from Marblehead on September 27 describes strangers digging at night near Forest River Lead Mills and a street railway, warned to stay away. The trench is eight feet by six deep, trees overturned, and activity shifts as investigators inspect. Landowner seeks halt, rumors of hidden iron potter box and old marks appear, with a claimed pilotage order linked to Howard Mining Company.
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Marblehead
SpEciAt
Forest River
Howard Mining Company
Cotton Pickers Riot in Arkansas Described
Late reports from Marianna indicate a cotton pickers strike near there led to a riot in which several black workers were killed and many wounded. The sheriff cooled the disturbance and leaders were jailed. The protest demanded 75 cents per hundred pounds, 25 cents more than offered, sparking a general melee with hoes, sticks, knives and revolvers. Women and children joined, with two reported dead.
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Littie Rock
Ark
Marianna
Ships Arrive and Depart From Major Ports in Late September
A lengthy list records numerous vessels arriving at or sailing from Boston, New York, Liverpool, Antwerp, and other ports between September 24 and September 27. Entries include ships such as La Bretagne, Etruria, Maryland, Bothnia, Augusta Victoria, and Many more, with origins ranging from New York, London, Boston, Montreal, Hamburg, and Liverpool.
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New York
Helene
Remen
Thomas Perry
Liverpool
Elliott
Manilla
Michele A
Gloucester
Maas
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Bergen
Olive Thurlow
Bilyoa Schs
Inglewoode
St John
Clara Jane
Hillsboro
Elizaid Wo
Ellen Marin
Webster Barnard
Abbie & Willard
Bangor
Matiie J Allen
Portland
Olive Branch
Swan Island
A _ Heaton
Woodbury
Snow
Hockland
Steter
Irojan
Windsor
Reaper
Joggins
J & H Crowley
Calais
Jennie Parker
LH Jones
Thomaston
Laura Thompson
Martha’s Vineyard
Les Cowper- Thwaite
Hastings
M H Read
New Bedford
Eb S Lewmen
Josephine
Narragansett Pier
Mary Chapin
Fall River
Larissa Allen
Laura If Lateh
Taunton
Colorado
Hull
Britannic
Treasillan
London
Circassia
Glasgow
Aenaoaee
Rae
Bostonian
Merep
Fort
Boston
Paventia
de Ruyter
Iron
Antwerp
Samara
Bluefields Nic
Balltimore
Paula
Hamburg
Columbia
Aipali
Etruria
Chicago
Philadelphia
Maryland
la Hourgogne
Ilavre
Bothnia
Rugia
Russia
Holland
Tower Hil
Aberdeen
Cynthia
Montreal
Cremen
Avonmore
Alaska
Kremen
Elbe
Offbunnet
Polynesia
Stettin
Eng
Francisco
Augusta Victoria
Mentmore
Montana
Baltimore
Havre
la Bretagne
Ottoman
Suez
Westwater
Java
Queenstown
British Prince
Whiladelphia
New York City
Anchorra
Glaasgow
Ol Malin
Oregon
Hinsatol
Llandaff City
Singapore
Strathleven
Lover
Cremon
Kinsale
Bengore Head
Daltimore
Prawle Point
Kalros
Deal
Carib
Iota Branewick
Lale of Wight
Lisnaeker
Newark
Wydale
New Orleans
Grecian
Vory Island
Nestorian
Astronomer
Arena
Fem Ioctl
Mentread Ver Poo
The Parties and Silver False Issue in Massachusetts
Hindon reports a Massachusetts political clash over silver coinage. The piece accuses Republicans led by Colonel Allen of misrepresenting Democratic views, cites a Michigan lecturer’s remarks, and notes a 1890 House vote on free coinage, arguing Allen’s stance shows inconsistency and attacks on voters’ intelligence.
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Allen
Michigan
Reed
House of Glass
Massachusetts
Olden Times Mantels Reflect Colonial Spirit and Grandeur
New mantel designs echo colonial and baronial English Scottish styles with a tall overmantel, low relief carving, and graceful shelf lines. Ideal for dining rooms or square halls, they pair well with a deer head or antlers for a picturesque old-time flavor while the fire opening can be sized to fit.
Silver policy clash cited in Hoar address at Music Hall
Senator Hoar argues Democrats blocked silver legislation for sixteen years while Republicans backed from Reed’s House. He cites 1878 and 1890 acts, veto battles, and party records to contrast past Democratic restraint with current Republican control and calls for voter discernment on leadership.
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Music Hall
Reed
Congress
Senate
Hardihood
Hayes
House
Foster
Major McKinley
Cannon
Ilinois
Bayne
Pennsylvania
Allison
Jaws
Senator Ingalls
Kansas
Stanley Matthews
Ohio
Windom
Lodge
Crapo
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Edward L. Pierce
Andrew
Boston
Cleveland
White House
Capitol
Bland
Rockwell
O'Neil
Greenhalge
Flour
Speaker Carlisle
Allen Accuses National Democrats of Financial Heresy
Colonel Allen, Republican candidate for Massachusetts governor, condemned the national Democratic party as an advocate of every financial heresy in a Music Hall speech. He argued fear of Democratic control of the monetary system casts a shadow of doubt over the people, though his own financial views remain firm.
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Colonel Allen
National Democratic Party
Massachusetts
Music Hall
Arabia
Allen
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