Geneva Award Senate Showdown Nears End Amid Debates
In Washington April 16 a lively senate debate over the Geneva award unexpended balance unfolds as Thurman, Davis, Bayard, and Blaine clash. Blaine scores a series of plays, exposing the anti insurance position and arguing the award was a national fund to be allocated by Congress. The session hints at a final vote by Monday night or Tuesday at latest.
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Wasninotex
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Thurman
Blaine
Bayard
Davis
Illinois
Speal
Eee
Conking
New York
Eaton
Treasury
Maine
Conkling
Philadelphia
Congress
Court of Alabama
David Davis
Nff
Conquer Committee
Ilinois
Ohio
Delaware
Taurman
Mr. Davis
Great Britain
Poe
Batine
Geneva
Luther
Ruskin’s Snake Lecture Delights London Audience
The London press largely ignored politics to hear John Ruskin at the Finsbury Institute deliver a rambling yet charming address on snakes. He contrasted his outside knowledge of snakes with Darwin and Huxley, demonstrated a boa constrictor, and closed with moral reflections on education and appetite for knowledge.
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London
John Ruskin
Finsbury Institute
Moncure D. Conway
Cincinnati
Ruskin
Ins Ann
Oxford Ince
Huxley
Mr. Darwin
Professor Huxley
England
Corpus Christi
Oxford
Ingersoll Hell and Hayes on the Damnation Question
President Hayes once in a while says a good thing. In early administration, Colonel Ingersoll was a candidate for the German mission later filled by Andrew D. White. Mr Peixotto was named consul-general at St. Petersburg. The row over Ingersoll’s infidelity and Peixotto’s anti tsar stance provoked protests from Russians and religionists. The president lamented, Between Bob Ingersoll and no hell and Peixotto and no tsar I have no peace of my life. Frank Hiscock secured White’s Berlin appointment, Peixotto went to Lyons.
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New York
Hayes
Robert G. Ingersoll
Wheeler
Andrew D. White
Cornell University
Peixotto
Roumania
St. Petersburg
Ingersoll
United States
White House
Russia
Russia Anathematized Mr. Peixotto
State Department
Senate
Colonel Ingersoll
Bulgaria
Servia
Bob Ingersoll
Frank Hiscock
President White
Berlin
Lyons
What the Monroe Doctrine Means to Bidwell Stevens
Bidwell L Stevens in the Burlington Hawkeye explains the Monroe doctrine in plain terms. He says it bars foreign powers from meddling in American affairs and asserts the United States as a frontier bulwark between oceans. He warns outsiders to resolve boundary issues with the United States before encroaching on U S soil.
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Bidwell L. Stevens
Burlington
End of the Year Japan Goods Doorway Scene
A humorous seasonal vignette warns that as winter nears the old man will yank down Japanese fans and umbrellas from walls, crush grasses, and retreat for a nap. Little Johnny follows, finishing the scene in mud and ending the use of Japan’s decorative products.
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Gaimy
Johnny
Japan
Bayard's presidential boom gains fresh momentum across regions
Senator Bayard draws strong support from Massachusetts Democrats and New England delegations with the south restrained. Signs point to western backing and anticipated strong showings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In New York the Manhattan club backs him and John Kelly is rumored not to oppose. If Tilden exits, Bayard is poised for a Delaware surge.
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Senator Bayard
Massachusetts
New England
Cincinnati
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Manhattan Club
John Kelly
Tilden
Simmons Liver Regulator and Hop Bitters ad claim cures
An advertisement extols Simmons Liver Regulator to combat Yellow Fever by large doses to quickly affect the liver and bile, claiming it prevents the disease while also promising relief from dyspepsia biliousness nervousness and misery via Hop Bitters.
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Simmons
Ingersoll Lectures at Music Hall on Fear and Faith
Col. Ingersoll spoke to a large audience at Music Hall criticizing superstition and fear in religion. He attacked Rev. Joseph Cook over obscene literature claims, defended free thought, and argued Christ’s disciples wrote little of the gospels. He urged a future of liberty and plain justice.
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Heaven
Hell
Joseph Cook
Colonel Ingersoll
Boston
Skeleton Found Beneath West Springfield House Ground
Workmen grading Asa Clark’s property uncover a nearly intact human skeleton buried beneath the surface. A preserved old Kossuth hat and lack of coffin indicate burial decades ago. Dr. Horace Jacobs estimates burial thirty to thirty-five years prior, with mystery surrounding who lies there and how he came to rest near the Palmers’ former ferry grounds.
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Asa Clark
Springfield
Horace Jacobs
Hadeen
Palmers
William Palmer
New York
Palmer Teamsters
Imitation feet and sandals dazzle Viennese carnival belles
At the Vienna carnival several leading ladies adopted imitation feet and sandals to match mythological costumes. They wore flesh-colored maillots with turn soles while skilled artists painted counterfeit toes and laces. The wife of a renowned historical painter chose a water-sprite costume and asked her husband to makeup her feet accordingly.
Personal notice ends in tragedy for Harriet Van Buren
A New York Times commentary traces Harriet Van Buren, once a bright society figure, from a romantic personal ad in 1873 to a ruinous life ending in opium poisoning and a coroner's inquest in 1880. The piece argues the danger of personal ads in daily papers and the collapse of an idealized romance.
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New York Times
Harriet van Buren
George ¥. Dutch
New York
Aera Hind
Humdrum
Florida
Women Bullion Club of New York Plans Education and Profit
A New York group calling itself the Women s Bullion club led by Dr Kate Stanton and Mrs Hope Whipple declares its aim to educate women in mining and ores while pursuing profits. They deny male backing and insist no men are connected, despite charges of being fronts for sharpers. They plan five lectures starting soon and will attend the Gentlemen s Bullion club meeting.
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New York
Women's Bullion Club
Kate Stanton
Providence
R. J
Hope Whipple
Boston
Stephen Pearl Andrews
New York Sun
Ladies
Miss Blodgett
New York Truth
Mr. Dana
Sun
Dr. Stanton
Unpaid bills spark breakfast room showdown tale
In a domestic snapshot the couple argues over milk costs and extravagances as the husband bellows over a beefsteak and coffee. She slips away to seize an unpaid bill for six bottles of rock and rye and two cigar boxes, then he settles the milk bill amid a tense quiet.
Sir Evelyn Wood plans plant slips at Prince Imperial site
Sir Evelyn Wood contemplates a surprise for the empress involving slips from Napoleon’s tomb willow. The plan is to plant them on the spot where Prince Imperial’s body was found and to appoint a guardian to care for the enclosure against damage.
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Sir Evelyn Wood
Sir Evelyn
St. Helena
Napoleon
Prince Imperial
London
Restell Death Mystery Raises Doubts of Final End
The New York Sunday Mercury questions Madame Restell's death by suicide, detailing a string of sightings and impersonations. A missing coachman Gray, other alleged encounters, and reports from Vienna to Rio de Janeiro fuel speculation on whether Restell truly died and who might have posed as her.
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New York Sunday Mercury
Madame Restell
New York
Charles Gray
Gray
Weatner
Europe
London
Mme. Restell
Johnson
Restell
Maine
Gay
Rio Janeiro
Mine
Resteil
Mmne
Zoological Gardens
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Merritt
Enery
Arm of Justice
Mr. Comstock
Mr. Britton
Orphan Heir to Half a Million Sparks Candid Reckoning
A Boston observer notes a twenty three year old orphan who inherited about five hundred thousand dollars and pursued wealth through relentless labor. Once living modestly at the Hotel Brunswick, he slowly rose to bankruptcy, proving the danger of wealth without prudent discipline. The piece urges focus on such contrasts to temper all praise of self made fortunes.
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Aris
Brunswick
Deaing
Boston
Struck by a hurricane Ophir sinks. crew saved at Southampton
The barque Ophir, Captain Crosby, sailing from Philadelphia to Ireland, foundered March 21 after a March 20 hurricane. Eleven crew men survived, cramped in an eighteen foot boat for forty eight hours, with four wounded and only two able to climb the ship’s side with help. They were rescued by the steamer Neckar from New York and landed at Southampton. The Neckar also sighted the waterlogged Ulster from St John New Brunswick, adrift since February and abandoned at latitude 46 north, longitude 36 west, too waterlogged to burn.
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Ophir
Crosby
Mirimachi
Philadelphia
Ireland
New York
Southampton
Ulster
St. John
N. B
Tragic Bay City Woman Identified in Detroit River Death
The body recovered from the Range river near Detroit is identified as Annie Clemmens of Bay City Michigan. She was connected to a local man and expecting a child. A fatal abortion occurred in Detroit and the body was disposed of in the river near Delray bridge, five miles from the road.
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Range River
Detroit
Annie Clemmens
Bay City
Mich
Delray Bridge
Roit
Graft Case Narrowly Pins Down Charles Allen in Paris
Charles Allen a colored U S citizen and Kentucky voter from Paris was found guilty in a legal action. The court determined he violated the relevant statute, marking a notable verdict in a race and residency aligned case.
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Charles Allen
United States
Kentucky
Paris
Assault on voter Prompts US Debate in Washington Post
A local man slated to vote the Democratic ticket on the 7th is seized by masked attackers who beat him and warn against voting Democrat. He cannot name his assailants, fearing lethal repercussions. The Washington Post questions if centralization advocates view this as a personal rights violation and calls for a nonpartisan high court ruling.
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Uf Allen
Justice Bradley
Washington Post
Robbing an Aged Couple on Lake Street
A схем case of obtaining money under false pretences comes to light involving Mr and Mrs John Moran of East Weymouth. Theresa Moran’s savings were deposited in a Hingham bank where a woman previously forged a withdrawal after presenting a fake order claiming the depositor was bedbound, prompting a $95 payout and theft of the bank book.
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Lake Street
East Weymouth
John Moran
Hingham Institution
Theresa Moran
Oace
Mr. Harding
Fifteen Year Old Killers Sentenced in France
The Paris Figaro reports a fifteen year old, Eugene Radoude, was condemned to twelve years in a house of correction for the murder of four year old Adrien Saucey near Quillan Aude. He lured the child with an idiotic companion, struck the boy with a stone and hatchet, mutilated the body, and buried it in a shallow grave. Authorities found the evidence through two peasants and two women identifying Radoude. He was deemed fully responsible after medical examination and spared capital punishment due to youth.
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Paris Figaro
Assize Court
Aude
Adrien Saucey
Quillan
Housquet
Adrien
Eugene Radoude
Eugene
Saucey
Radoude
Radonde
House of Correction
Shall the Red Men be Vaccinated at the Public Expense
A House debate on Indian vaccination funding criticizes a $500 appropriation for vaccine matter and inoculation of Indians. Critics claim it wastes public money and favors Indians, while speakers mock the policy and joke about diverting funds to other red hair representatives.
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Bailey
Helford
Colorado
General Sherman on Pirates of Penzance interview
A western reporter recounts a chat with General Sherman about the Pirates of Penzance. He cites comparisons to Pinafore and the modern major-general, noting Sherman admires O. O. Howard and refuses to praise the opera unfavorably.
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General Sherman
O. O. Howard
Christine Nilsson demands correction over lost voice report
In a Paris letter dated March 29 1880 Christine Nilsson refutes prior New York Herald claims of voice loss and notes a later retracting French journal. She states she would have sued for damages if not restrained by contempt and seeks an early correction to reassure American friends.
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Nilsson
New York Herald
Herald
Christine Nilsson Rouzaup
Paris
Old Lady Burned to Death in Lancaster Home
Mrs Edward Melcher an eighty three year old resident of Lancaster New Hampshire was found dead and burned in her house after being alone Thursday afternoon. The cause of the fire remains a mystery as no flame was seen and the victim was totally blind and frail for years. Her husband discovered the scene and Mrs Melcher died from the injuries sustained.
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Lancaster
N. H
Edward Melcher
Counterfeit $10 coin exposes by sound and edge marks
A dangerous counterfeit coin of ten dollars circulates. A genuine piece is cut open, refilled with base metal, soldered, and reassembled to resemble true currency. It passes acids and weight tests but reveals itself by a leadlike sound when struck and a glass-viewed edge. Also note Dr Pierce’s Pellets and a medicine warning against weak packaging.
Canada Drug Firms United In Wholesale and Retail Trade
A list of drug firms across the United States and Canada including Geo. C. Goodwin & Co. Weeks & Potter Smith Doolittle & Smith Cutler Bros. & Co. Carter Harris & Hawley Jno Perkins Co W F Phillips Co Talcots Co G Moses Co Bush Silas Dinsmore Co N ReScott Co Alonzo F Wood J H Klock C H Martin Co Chambers Calner Oliver Johnson Co Mason Chapin Wells Richardson H Brewer Brent Good Co 22 Park Place New York City all wholesale and retail druggists corona all United States and Canada.
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Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter
Smith, Doolittle & Smith
Cutler Bros. & Co
Carter, Harris & Hawley
Bostor
Mass
Jno. W. Perkins & Co
W. F. Phillips & Co
Portland
Talcots & Co
8. G. Moses & Co
Hartford
Park Place
New York City
Corona
United States
Canada
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Fifth Avenue
Madame Roswell
Vienna
Hotel de Mecklenburg
Barry
Barr
Robsing
Hingham Institution For
Jesse Pomeroy
Nilsson and Her
Garboline
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Hey
Aaen
Apo
Jair
Gen’s
COR
Becond Ave. & Wood BT
Pittsburgh, PA
Weeks & Potter, Smith, Doolittle & Smith
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