The Second Edition of The World’s Checker Book
Charles Barker advertises the second edition of The World’s Checker Book by William R. and Charles F. Barker. The volume includes twenty two openings, 355 original games, and 24 original positions. price options for board and cloth covers and mail delivery are listed. Barker also offers checker lessons at 8 Houghton Street Cambridgeport with various opening variations and mail instruction, specifying weekly teaching days and rates.
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Charles ¥. Barker
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William R
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Chess Problem Commentary From 1880s Journal
A column of chess problem notations and reader correspondence from 1880 featuring position analyses, variations for Black to win or draw, and letters from readers in Colchester Albany Flemington and other towns discussing corrections and alternate lines in games 893 and 734.
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Checker
the Globe
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Theo. W. Kimley
Girone
Friend K
Mr. K
Albany
N. Y
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John McGregor
Flemington
N. J
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Theo
W. Kimley
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Reader letters from across the nation echo sports and column activity
A smoothed list of correspondents from Albany Flemington Colchester New Haven Weymouth New Haven Elgin Cuttingsville Annapolis and more sends thanks notes corrections and upcoming match banter. Several writers pledge ongoing submissions while others announce resignation or intent to respond.
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Albany
Flemington
N. J
Colchester
N. Y
Frank B
South Weymouth
Mass
Gaime
New Haven
Conn
Welmye
Walt H. F
Elgin
Cuttingsville
Delap
Annapolis
T. B
Bailey Barker chess match ends with Barker ahead
The fifty game match at New England chess and checker rooms concludes on February 3 with Bailey 11, Barker 15, and 24 drawn. Many games defy opening theory and are hotly contested.
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Isaiah Barker
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Leeds
America
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New York
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Newcastle
Del
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Millbury
Mass
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C.J. Lambert
Oxford
F. N. Johnson
Chicago
England
Mercury
W. Campbell
Wylie
Wyllie to Play Forsyth Delap for Nova Scotian Cup
Glasgow Herald reports plans for a match next month between William Forsyth and another player to determine the champion of Nova Scotia with a $50 stake. Bryden’s supporters push for a Wyllie contest with a £20 stake if Wyllie takes one-game odds in a ten game series. No reply yet from Wyllie. publication of his decision promised next week.
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Delap
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Boston Globe calls for country girls for city domestic work
An editorials style appeal urges country girls to seek Boston households to perform general housework at wages of 3 to 5 dollars weekly plus room and board. It argues city servants are overpaid, urges letters of recommendation, and promises rapid placement through Epwin C. Horton’s Globe employment office at 21 West Street Boston.
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Steam powered wagon for farm and traction tractor patent
A Chelsea Mass inventor William G Clark patents a steam powered wagon able to haul plows and cut furrows in one pass and also operate threshing grinding and pumping tasks. The device uses compound motion for improved traction with steering wheels and clutches to set direction suitable for road field and mining applications.
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Fifth Street
Chelsea
Mass
Journal of Commerce
Morning strolls and a sunlit pretty damsel
A fragment from En Passant in London Judy sketches a morning figure, a charming, well-dressed girl moving along a city street. The speaker notes her like sunshine and imagines her as a matutinal maiden with a gloved hand carrying a book and the other clutching a music roll.
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