Progress of the Apportionment Bill in Congress
In Washington on February 6 the House took up the apportionment bill after approving the electoral count resolution. Debates covered representation by population versus state qualifications and the role of the fourteenth and sixteenth amendments. Members from Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Mississippi argued for and against immediate apportionment, amid remarks on voter suppression, education, and postwar politics.
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Waspington
House
Colerick
Indiana
Hawley
Connecticut
Congress
Robinson
Massachusetts
Tr. Hooker
Mississippi
Calkins
South Carolina
Aiken
Finly
Cox
Hind accuses Anglo-Canadian falsifications of fishery data
Professor Hind expands charges over alleged falsified fish-catch tables used in the British case. He asserts three tables, including two falsified copies, were circulated to mislead commissioners. He claims one falsified table was sworn to upon oath. Parliament debates action while Hind cites a $1.35 million one-year discrepancy and a $1.7 million five-year gap in Canadian versus American duties.
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Wasaixoton
Hind
Halifax
Commission
Ford
Bergue
Professor Hind
Powers
United States
Canada
Indorsement vote on Eads canal scheme heated by party lines
The special committee on the inter oceanic canal voted 5 to 4 for granting a charter to Captain Eads ship railway with US guarantee on 50 million dollars of bonds, but with a proviso that Mexico’s concession be transferred as security. The move may be challenged in the House, while other items include a Nicaragua canal bill and a minor bond interest dispute.
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Washineton
Mexico
Whitthorne
Tennessee
Eads
Whitbhorne
Nicaragua
Philadelphia
Lawrence
Treasury Department
United States
Washington
Doughnuts Versus Gingerbread Feud At Stoughton Court
At Stoughton Justice Marden presided over a domestic dispute between a about sixty year old couple. The husband who loves doughnuts repeatedly seized gingerbread and threw it to the hogs. After the husband kissed his wife in joy the next morning she served gingerbread again and he confiscated it for the pigs. She pressed simple assault charges and the judge bound the man to keep the peace.
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Marden
Stoughton
Newport Heroine Rescues Two Stranded Soldiers at Lime Rock
Two Fort Adams band members broke through the ice between the fort and Newport city near Lime Rock lighthouse. Miss Ida Lewis, keeper at Lime Rock light, saved them after a third sinking, guiding them to safety at the fort. This adds to her tally of sixteen or seventeen lives saved.
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Newport Harbor
Lime Rock
Ida Lewis
Terra Firma
Lime Rock Light
The Weekly Globe Promoted as Best of Its Class
A proud notice extols The Weekly Globe for its excellence and broad, instructive content. It highlights engineering, steam machinery, new inventions, chemistry, electricity, telegraphy, photography, architecture, agriculture, horticulture, natural history and more at a very low price.
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GLOBE
Death of London Township recluse Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor, an 82 year old bachelor and longtime London township resident, was found dead in his bed at his eighth concession home. He lived a solitary life with dogs and cats, hoarding his fortune in hidden house caches after a previous robbery. He had significant bank holdings and a premier London township farm.
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Rush Wright
Carbondale
Penn
Greates
Tight
Toronto Globe
Robert Taylor
London Township
London
Pastor credits Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
Reverend P F Harkler of Coal Run Crossing Arkansas testifies after twenty years of kidney and liver pain and high medical bills that Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure restored his health following visits to Hot and White Springs. He urges others to try the remedy. Girls for general housework wanted at Y E A Office 21 West Street.
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Warner
P. F. Harkler
Coal Run Crossing
Arkansas
West Street
The Climax Appeal for Calm and Loyalty Amid Disorder
A broadcasted call to counter despotism urges unity among citizens and British allies. It emphasizes self restraint, organized action, and perseverance to support the ongoing struggle and protect national interests. It appeals to coun trymen in Great Britain to oppose efforts to inflame enmity between citizens and English counterparts.
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Great Britain
Ladies and American Liga urge Ireland aid and action
A Dublin style appeal urges Irish women to form branches of the Ladies National Land League and assist evictions funds and emigration relief. Separately a Boston proclamation from the Irish National Land League urges Americans to rally, form new branches, and pressure Congress as the Land League faces crisis and imprisonment fears.
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Men’s Land League
Ladies’ Irish National League
Anna Parnell
Clare Stretch
Nannie Lynch
Harriet
Ireland
League
Michael Davitt
Ladies’ National Land League
Europe
America
League of America
Irish National Land League OF the
United States
Washington Street
Boston
The
Land League
American People
England
Rablg
Relund
Trish
P. A. Collins
Thomas Flatley
Ston
Thunderer backs hard line on Davitt arrest in Ireland
The Thunderer argues public safety demands ending what it calls a demoralizing spectacle of triumphant lawlessness. It asserts the agitation seeks to move intimidation from Ireland to England and supports the government’s arrest of Davitt as a decisive act to curb seditious activity.
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London
Mr. Davitt
The
Daily News
Davitt
Ireland
Government's reason for imprisoning Davitt cited as uprising fears
London intelligence warned of organized Irish agitation to strike in England and Ireland with Davitt named as ringleader. Troops kept under arms in London, police and detectives stationed in the Commons, and security tight at the lobby. An American firm reported internal machines shipped to Ireland, with plans to blow up public buildings in London. The Davitt arrest unsettled Parnell's group.
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New York
London
England
Ireland
House of Commons
Parnell
Land League Rally Explores Irish Question at Bow Street Hall
A large Somerville crowd attended a Bow Street Hall meeting on Sunday to hear Wendell Phillips and Rev Father Lawlor lecture on the Irish question. The speaker traced Ireland's troubles to land tenure, race, and creed, arguing reform is essential and citing historical figures from Pitt to O Connell.
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Land League
Bow Street Hall
Somerville
Wendell Phillips
Thomas M. Brady
Father Lawlor
Canada
Charles James Fox
Ireland
Father Lynch of Massachusetts Replies on Land League Lands
The Globe prints Rev Charles Lynch Massachusetts denial of buying county Cavan estate for tenants. He explains he bought to reserve purchase rights for fifteen local tenants and would sell to any who can buy. Lynch notes he organized 350 members of Land League in North Adams with a Ladies branch and started a local fund.
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Mass
Groner
Charles Lynch
Land League
Dublin
Father Lynch
Massachusetts
County Cavan
Davitt
League
Irish tenant rents under Griffith valuation questioned
The speaker argues that progress harms the Trish people and that Western farmers can export cheaply to Europe, leaving tenants burdened by rent and taxes. Griffith's valuation, set when conditions were adverse to tenants, is criticised as unsustainable and unjust under fair analysis.
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Banim
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Russia
Trish
America
New York
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Cork
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Prairies
Ireland
Griffith
VOLUME SALE ADS AND A READER LETTER MENTION
A collage of book offers and endorsements from a 19th century newspaper page. Titles include MY HERO A Love Story and VIDOCQ THE FRENCH DETECTIVE an autobiography, with prices and notes on content. Also MADAME BUVARY a tale of provincial life with cloth and paper versions. A local brewer and a Syracuse reader tout St Jacobs Oil and Pentaprine as trusted remedies.
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Gustave Flaurert
Morocco
Mme. Borgary
T. B. Peterson Brothers
Philadelphia
Penn
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