On the Bench: Lamar Joins Supreme Court Court in Dignified Gown
Washington reports the 1890s style pageant as Justice Lamar takes a seat on the Supreme Court, unveiling gown details, precedents, and social rituals. The piece notes age, tenure, and past nominations, contrasting Lamar with veteran justices and highlighting ceremonial process, retirement rules, and court decorum. The article references figures like Blatchford Gray Matthews Field Bradley and Chase, and mentions Lamar’s social duties and travel obligations while serving on the bench.
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Grandmother at 26 in Ohio family amid early marriages
Frypray Ohio report notes Clarissa Jackson a colored woman in Delaware township becomes a grandmother at 26 after an 11 year marriage and early childbearing lines. Her daughter married at 12 and yesterday her granddaughter, 10, gave birth to a baby. All parties are described as respectable colored people.
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Death of Happy Medium Stallion Shocks Lexington
Lexington Kentucky January 265 Happy Medium a famed trotting stallion valued at 40000 died this morning at Fair Lawn farm near Lexington of spinal meningitis He owned by General W T Withers He was a male by Rysdyk Hambletonian out of Princess Bay Andrews Hambletonian and sired 392 80 performers his son Marey Cabb holding the best stallion record 213844
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Women in Washington Territory vote. ballot girls emerge
In Texas Siftings style notes, women in Washington Territory gain voting rights. The piece calls those who exercise the privilege ballot girls, highlighting early female suffrage and the social label attached to voters.
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News in Brief: waves of events across nations and states
The President approved a new postal treaty with Canada while labor unrest, fires, accidents, strikes, and political shifts ripple through North America and Britain. From Manitoba finances to Pittsburgh warehouses, Nova Scotia railways, and miners in Shenandoah, reports of deaths, indents, and damages span cities, canals, and seas with ongoing labor disputes and economic shifts.
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Ancient Missouri law uses public sale of vagabonds
St Louis dispatch reports a forgotten Missouri statute allowing the sale of vagabonds at auction. Justice Cochran at Milan ordered a tramp named C C Bradley sold to the highest bidder, William McClanahan, for three cents, with six months’ service and 86 cents costs.
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CHECKERS NOTES AND SOLUTIONS FROM BOSTON STAGE
Communications from 1888 describe a Boston checker scene at 767 Washington St with rules and hours. Entries include solutions to Position No 1325 by L M Stearns of Derry Depot and Position No 1326 by G D Bugbee, noting Black to move and win in several lines.
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Barker Wins In Unrestricted Glasgow Draughts Match
In the thirty-first and forty-first games of the great international match at Glasgow between Robert Martins and Charles F. Barker, Barker defeated Martins after a long sequence of openings and endgame play. The report notes the match’s unpredictability and calls for restricted openings to ensure variety, predicting further exhibitions and potential matches with Smith and other top players.
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International Match Barker and Martins Ends Drawn Outcome
The eleventh day of the international match in Webster's Hall featured Barker and Martins with a dramatic finish as Barker secured a decisive draw in a key game after Martins blundered late. Martins led early in several games but could not convert, while Barker pressed to clinch victory, with spectators applauding the draw and Barker's sportsmanship.
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Barker Aims for Blindfold Championship Return
Charles F. Barker plans to try conclusions for the blindfold championship before returning home. Bailey remains New England Association champion, La Point succumbs. J. A. Maynard challenges the winner as reports from Toronto Draughts Club announce officers and Tuesday meetings. Duff's College students pursue the silent game with rival scores. News notes cite Barker leaving Glasgow Jan. 13 and arriving New York Jan. 28 aboard the State of Pennsylvania.
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Globe
Explosion toll at Dunsmuir mine tops seventy two deaths
Victoria B C January 26 details show 72 miners perished in the Dunsmuir colliery explosion. At 10:30 p m 22 whites and 22 Chinese bodies were recovered leaving 9 whites and 19 Chinese still inside. East slope wiped out. west slope damaged yet air restoration saved many lives.
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Tariff Bill Advances and Paris Exposition Passage
The Ways and Means Committee nears completion of its tariff bill with general agreement and minor points to finalize. It will place wool on the free list, cut sugar, tobacco, and fruit brandies duties, and extend free status to salt and lumber, with a broad tariff revision to follow. The House foreign affairs panel favors Belmon t’s Paris exposition bill, and the President approves a Canada United States postal convention effective March 1 1888.
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United States Bond Quotations From Saturday Prices
United States bonds quotation page shows bid and ask figures for various maturities including Jan and Dec issues. The data reflect market prices as of Saturday with regualr bid quotes and listed months.
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Commercial Matters Produce Kostox Market Prices
The market reports a mixed appeal with slight gains in cheese beans fruit and vegetables. Prices show firmer beans and apples while dairy and meat markets remain steady. supply tightness noted in cheese and eggs with demand moderate for imported coffees and tobaccos.
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Arrivals of Livestock at Brighton and Watertown Week Ending Jan 27
Arrivals show Western cattle 1395 Eastern 495 Northern 103 total 1893. Lambs and sheep total 7800 Western swine 584029. Prices list Western cattle per hundred weights from 4.00 to 37.02 with various grades. Hides tallow skins and lambskins priced per local rates with county and country classifications.
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Absence is the Best Policy. Detroit Free Press
A fragment from a Detroit Free Press clipping depicts a street scene by the post office corner. A man asks a boy about a missing quarter, the boy jokes about returning it, and the dialogue hints at cautious behavior and luck in a casual street exchange.
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You Don't Mean Susan 8 Do You Congregationalist
The note references 1883 and asks who is alive who wrote 1777 or who will write Loot, signaling a literary or church context without clear event details.
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