England's Gift Letter on Coercion in Ireland by Sister Mary Francis Clare
Sister Mary Francis Clare writes to James Redpath condemning Ireland's coercion bill and the harsh impact of landlord protection laws. She recounts a starving child in Kenmare, the church service, and protests against Irish governance. She warns of famine risk and urges American readers to believe the Irish plight.
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Mary Francis Clare
Kenmare
James Redpath
England
Ireland
Mr. Repram
Henry VIII
Kerry County
America
Peppree
Mr. Redpath
Mamet
Justice
M. Frances Clare
Beaubien Street Wedding Ends With Cooper Pact
Detroit story recounts a Fremont police stop for a riotous Beaubien street wedding. A former lover tied and gagged in the back yard, while the father jokes of coopering a milkman and a cooper partnership that will double his shop’s capacity and fund the new marriage festivities.
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Detroit Free Press
Fremont
Beaubien Street
Wilkman
Mary
Brogshead
Cooper
Reuben
Twin sisters mark eighty fifth birthday in two states
Delia Prescott of Charlestown Massachusetts and Mary Clark of Bath Maine celebrated their eighty fifth double birthday separately while relatives gathered at Prescott’s home to honor the centenarian lineage. A reception with four generations featured remarks by William Raymond and photos showing the sisters’ striking likeness.
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Maine
Massachusetts
Delia Prescott
Mary Clark
Windham
N. H
Cross Street
Charlestown
Edward
George Prescott
Albert Prescott
Petersburg
Dauhter
Almira Hayden
Clark
Bath
Cambridge
Prescott
Harvard Hill
Richard Bazen
William Raymond
Doyle
Odd cures told in Pittsburg Chronicle tale
The Pittsburg Chronicle recounts an improbable cure of rheumatic pain by an old tramp who treated a child by moving it over a jackass daily for nine days, causing the donkey to swell while the child improves. It notes skepticism and compares to a local ward case where a coal miner named Braun treated inflammatory rheumatism by handling doves, eventually finding relief and returning to dairying.
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Pittsburg Chronicle
Braun
Staun
New York News
Barnum
Mahone
Olive Logan
Lorne
Louise
New Haven Register
United States
New York
Ohio
Boston
Nevada
China
Free Press
Jones
Quincy Argo
Henry Holt & Co
Beecher
Brooklyn
Carlyle
Washington
Pennsylvania
Bernhardt
Han
P. I. Man
Andrew Jackson
Salisbury
N. C
Delauney
May Fiske
West
Hell
May
Norristown Herald
Philadelphia Bulletin
Mary Walker
Dr. Mary
Pharaoh
Syracuse
Tabal Cain
Bob Lincoln
G Jubal Cain
New York Commercial Advertiser
Paradise
Globe
Adam
Eve
Lynn Bee
Cleopatra
Antony
Nile
Swinburne
Berlin
Prince Bismarck
Diet
Prince Carolath-Beuthen
Carolath
Messina
Sicily
Herbert Bismarck
Italy
Senate
Nelson
Trafalgar
Teddy O'Brien
Teddy
Chicago Times
Le Parisien in New Paris theatre sparks carnival mischief
The Continental Gazette lauds MM Paul Ferrier and Vast and Ricouard's Le Parisien staged at Nouveautes. Frederic, the Parisian, is exposed as a wolf in sheep’s clothing amid jealousy and mistrust from Cambusat and Babelin, ending with a marriage brokered as carnival season resolves.
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Paul Ferrier
Ricouard
Continental Gazette
Frederic
Cherea
Fulbert
Cambusat
Babelin
Mirseilles
What the Government Paid for the Lands Official Report
Prince Edward Island land reform history described in detail. The Land Purchase Act of 1875 and earlier measures converted leases to freehold, with sales to tenants and compensation to proprietors. It outlines grants, quit rents, settlement requirements, court actions, and outcomes up to 1880, presenting a model for Ireland’s land questions and government support to tenants.
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Land League
Ireland
Prince Edward Island
Atlantic
Secretary of State
Commissioner of Public Lands
William McGill
Pubic Lands Office
Charlottetown
P. E. Island
Thomas Heath Haviland
Q. C
Earl of Kimberlye
Secretary of State For
Canada
London
Board of Trade and Plantations
British America
Ferling
John H. Gray
New Brunswick
Joseph Howe
Nova Scotia
J. W. Ritchie
Tenant League
Halifax
Supreme Court of
Charlotte A. Sullivan
Robert Bruce Stewart
John A
MacDonald
Helen J. MacDonald
William C. MacDonald
John
Mr. MacDonald
Spencer C. B. P. Fane
Sidney I
Amelia Evans
John A. MacDonald
James F. Montgomery
Montgomery
Cumberland
Department of Public Laws
Entertaining scraps and local quips from 1881
A collage of offbeat items, jokes, and short notes from various papers. Quips about lecturing, fashion, and social life mingle with remarks on editors and public figures. The item includes brief anecdotes, humorous exchanges, and random observations, reflecting a lively, gossipy snapshot of culture and society.
American Checker Player catalog and match notes
The notice advertises The American Checker Player with 179 pages by Charles F. Barker, detailing openings and variations, plus endgame positions. It notes a continuation of Reed vs Barker for $400 and the America championship, listing moves from the eighth and ninth games and the end of the ninth as the same as the seventh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Wardell
Lyman
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
End game in Amelia championship match at Milliken's House
Solution of Position No. 820 notes E H Wheeler and C Johnson endgame with Wheeler winning. The long match began on the 21st of last month at Milliken's House Boston between Charles I Barker of Boston and James Reed Jr of Pittsburg for a $400 stake and the Amelia championship. the report ends with the outcome.
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Reed
Glasgow
Barker
E. H. Wheeler
C. Johnson
Milliken’ House
Boston
Charles I, Barker
James Reed, Jr
Pittsburg
Penn
Amelia
Whitter
Bristol
Renew at Once for Next Globe Issue
In a bold subscription appeal readers are urged to renew promptly otherwise arrears lead to discontinuation. The notice instructs checking the wrapper date and, if payment has expired or will soon end, forming a five person club to receive a free copy under terms shown in another column.
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The
Globe
N. B
Southwestern Immigration Company promotes southwest settlement
A new firm forms to aid immigration to Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. The Southwestern Immigration Company promises reliable information on the region’s resources and advantages. Its president and managers are well known, urging interested parties to apply. See advertisement.
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Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Southwestern Immigration Company
Southwest
Southwestern Immigration Co
William Wang
Texas State Grange
B. G. Duval
Austin
J.N. Victor
Upong Lst
Broadway
New York
Warning on an Advertised Painting Offer From Boston Firm
A February 25 advertisement from Wildes & Co of Boston offered an original high class painting for 25 cents. Substantial subscriber complaints forced withdrawal of any implied endorsement, reminding readers ads aim for profit and buyers rarely receive more than fair value.
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Wildes & Co
Boston
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Hape
Westminster Abbey
Jim Kerry
Kerry
Land Reform
Donald Ferguson
Arthur Newbery
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Boston Rubber Co
Boston Mass
Lasgow
J. Reilly
Black
Suter
James Pelletier
Snuter
Championship of America
Sane
Laird and Lady
Fife
Bes
Wil of
Tis
Barnes
Checker News
Sca
D. Cere
George Dick
Arnot
Weekly
Ehrich Brothers
Smn
Robert Orr
Pearl St
Apg
Enness
P Corres C.& AR. R
Dwight
Tolono
Chamy Shetinaiee County
Purrington
F St
Washington, D. C
Linsly & Co
Northford
Conn
Card Mills
Wyltt Mbas
Outfit Free
G.M. Hanson
Chicago
F. Beatty
N.S
Vickery
Augusta
Clintonville
H. Bogert
Paris
Bevel
Bevelike Card Co
Iona
Cowétmhy
Roy
al Cara'Co
Eowltuhd
Reed Card Works
Nassau
N.Y
C. Queen
Stoneham
L Jones & CO
J.B. Husted
Star Card Co
Namie
Pairhaven
Star Printing Co
Odnp
Big Outfit
Lve
Kirminham
Potter & Co
Montonese
Pacericenes Amateur
Winslow & Co
Meriden
Snow & CO
Clark, Wiscoy
Minn
True&Co
Lys
GEO, C, Goodwin
J. P. Miller
Philadelphia
Hanover St
Arthur’s Home Magazine
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Appleton’s Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Naturalist
American Agriculturist Art Amateur
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
Brick, Pottery and Glass Journal
Brainerd's Musical World
Barnes Educational Monthly
Beadle’s Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye Boys
Bailey’s Magazine
Bee-keeper’s Magazine
Babyland
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Chicago Advance
Corner Journal
Donahoe’s Magazine
Demorests
Dwight’s Journal
Forney
Frank Leslie
Germantown Telegraph Gardener's Monthly
Godey
Home Circle
Harpers’ Magazine
Home Journal
Indiana
Independent, International Review
Town Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Chemistry
Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
American History Mining Record
North American Review
N.Y. Medical Journal
N.Y. Sportsman N. Y. Observer
Ohio Farmer
Poultry World
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Ladies’ Magazine
Popular Science Monthly
Medical Times
Practical Farme
New Yorker
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Su Sunday School Times
Scribner's Monthly
St. Nicholas
Sunny South
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
San Francisco Argonau Turf
Vick
Wide Awake
Washington Post Daily
Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Western Stock Journal Youths’ Companion
Mewg
Ement
Weekly Globe
Boston, Mass
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