Great Guns Smooth Bores Where Rifles Should Be
The author argues for modernizing U S coastal fortifications with breech loading rifles and heavy guns. It cites need for about 350 fifteen inch guns and 1000 ten and eight inch rifles, urges conversions of existing smoothbores, calls for large government spending and new plant capacity, and warns that preparedness deters attack while politics and economy slow progress.
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Wasmectox
D. C
Congress
War Office
United States
Rodman
England
Italy
Eavier
Maine
Texas
Pacific
Krupp
Russia
Germany
Turkey
Armstrong
A Woman's Revenge and the Mesmeric Warfare Tale
A Missouri girl allegedly uses mesmerism to thwart a marriage proposal, driving her rival toward celibacy. The narrative portrays a dramatic, sensational feud in St. Joseph, with the schemer blamed for manipulating lovers and exposing secrets.
Cavion Liquidation Company Incorporation Proposed
In Providence R I on May 31 the act to incorporate the Cavion Liquidation Company was presented to settle the affairs of A. W. Sprague. The plan envisions purchasing property held by Z Chaffee as trustee and distributing proceeds to Sprague creditors. The project progressed with discussion and committee consideration.
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Providence
R. 1
Cavion Liquidation Company
A. & W. Sprague
Z. Chaffee
Sprague
Postponement Until January Session in Sprague Creditors Case
After discussion, the matter was postponed until the January session. Creditors of the Spragues representing upward of 5 million dollars have signed the agreement for the corporation, but it is stated more than 5 million are opposed in the group.
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Spragues
Belfast Man Outwits Boston Lottery Swindlers
A Belfast man, accosted on State Street by a confident young man claiming a lottery prize, followed him to a Court street alley room and was drawn into a fraud. After a tense struggle he recovered most of his money, knocked down two conspirators, escaped by steamer, and walked away with about 400 dollars in good cash plus net winnings. Police and lottery tribes sought repayment but failed.
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Belfast
Boston
State Street
Court Street
Cornhill
Belfest
Cambridge
The Neponset hotel vacationer steals and rides away
A fourteen or fifteen year old youth identified as Pryor feigned work for a Boston tailoring firm and borrowed a Boston horse and buggy from the Neponset Hotel stable. He reportedly pocketed $25 from the tailor, stole $20 from his father, and fled toward Neponset before officers recovered the team days later in Canton Village while Pryor played baseball nearby. The owners recovered their property but no one is yet charged.
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Neponset Hotel
Neponset
J. Gallaird
Boston
Leonard
Pryor
Green Street
N. B. Fernald
Quincy
Mr. French
Goddards
Braintree
Frenc
Canton Village
French
Married His Grandmother A Remarkable Kansas Tale
A Rocky Mountain News curiosity piece recounts a bizarre Indiana to Kansas family saga. An elderly patriarch marries a waiter girl in Abilene, then dies from happiness, and his son marries the same girl, leading to the extraordinary marriage of the grandson to his grandmother.
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Rocky Mountain News
Indiana
Abilene
Kansas
Eatianes
Prairies
Perilous Sheep Washing Ends in Drowning at Fern Bush
A fatal accident near Maus Slingerland farm in Albany county results in the death of Martin Vanderzee aged about forty. He attempted to rescue a sheep from a ten foot deep brook but drowned, despite Cornelius A. Slingerland and neighbors trying to save him. Vanderzee leaves a wife and three children.
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Maus Slingerland
Fern Bush
Albany County
Martin Vanderzee
New Baltimore
Vanderzee
General Slingerland
Cornelius A. Slingerland
Hoth
Slingerland
Mr. Vanderzee
Leaves & Wife
Mystery Explained in Parlor Health Talk
In a chatty parlor scene Mrs Brown mocks mountain cures while Mrs White praises Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery for health and skin. She recounts summer treatments, baths, and hotel stays, asserting the White mountains are no match for these remedies and suggesting readers advertise for summer boarders in The Boston Daily Globe.
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White Mountains
Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce's Invalids
Long Branch
Invalides
Parole Wins Epsom Gold Cup in Strong Showing
New York, May 31. A London dispatch reports Parole, the American horse, winning the Epsom Gold Cup after a strong pace and steady lead from Primrose and Alchemist. The victory confirms weight allowances for foreign horses and places Parole among the era’s notable turf stars.
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Parole
Leamington
Maiden
Lexington
Alchemist
Rosicrucian
Primrose
Mentmore
Gloire de Dijon
Purple
Jeffrey
North
Morbey
Whip
Spur
the Sportsman
Famine in China Described by British Consul in Shanghai
A consular report by Arthur Davenport details a severe famine across northern China driven by drought and monsoon disruption. It covers 250000 square miles with 60 to 80 million people, noting extreme suffering, deaths, and even sale of wives and children, with corpses lining roads and markets selling human flesh.
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China
Arthur Davenport
Shanghai
Europe
India
V. Decheureus
Zikawei
Asia
Davenport
Mother's Crime: Baby Thrown From Third Floor Window
At 4 am Sunday neighbors and Officer Devenny report Minnie Burns and husband Michael Burns arrested after the five week old infant was hurled from a third story window at 65 Salem street. The child landed on a shed then ground. no bones were broken but survival doubtful. Dr Street and the Chardon street home receive the baby. motive linked to paternity dispute.
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Devenny
Station 1
Hanover Street
Minnie Burns
Salem Street
Street
Chardon Street
Michael Burns
New York Telegram Rough Courtroom Scene in Mixed Slang
A New York Telegram report describes a morning courthouse scene at Jefferson Market. A black man with whitewash and a strip of plaster faces a stern judge while a fierce woman accuses him and a man named Sam of street fighting. Both are sent to separate pens for a month.
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Jefferson Market
Sam
Gullah
Ground bind bird cared for by woman on Olive Street
A St Louis resident reports a small ground bird fell from a tree before her window. The injured canary attracted maternal attention as it was tended by the passerby, reflecting a brief neighborhood moment.
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St. Louis
Olive Street
A Modern Bluebeard Charged With Double Murder
A man named R. T. Coleman, held in Cumberland county Virginia, is charged with illegally marrying two white women and murdering both. He married the first wife in Washington years ago. she died two years ago. In May 1878 he married the second woman in Washington. they lived together until after the Kenney case. They were indicted under Virginia law for marriage. The trial, set for last Monday, was interrupted by the sudden death of the second wife last week, with the state chemist examining the body for poison discovery.
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St. Joseph
South St. Joseph
Roy Hing
Alaska
Tallahassee
Carrie
Tam
Dian
New York
R. T. Coleman
Cumberland County
Washington
Kenney
Virginia
A Sympathetic Eruption From Mount Ina The Blower
A satirical piece in the New York Graphic imagines Mount Ina erupting with political and worldly turmoil. It likens the volcano to a chorus of public figures and events from Europe and America, noting craters, speeches, and clamor. The parody ends with a call to blow and expose lies.
The Great Czar and The Humorous Banquet of Folly
A vivid account imagines a czar era dinner where a dwarf woman emerges from a pie and a man dwarf sits at the ladies table. The scene grows chaotic with elbows, fights, and whispered jokes as guests devour hams and pastries while onions and oils perfume the hall.
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Lgravia
Peter
Bedlam
Earth
Sloane
British Museum
Donnybrook
Black Trackers in Australia and the Murri Tale
An Australian debate on tracking abilities of Aboriginal people and a legend of a white man supposedly found after a gate apparition. The piece recalls bushranger hunts, a drunken squatter, a magistrate, and a black tracker who reportedly located a white man by observing blood stains and a pond, ending with the grisly evidence.
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Australia
London News
Victoria
Queensland
England
Wells
Cooper
Murri
Hhis Station
Financial markets wrap May 31 1879 State Street
The week saw bank rates easing from 4 percent to 2 1 2 percent with prime paper at 4 percent and good single name paper around 7 percent. Bond prices fluctuated, 4 percent bonds rising from 102% to 105% as the syndicate pushed quotes. New York funds heavy. post office resuming certificates halted. City quotes include U S bonds and various 4s 1891 1907. bullion gains in London. Bank of England reserve rises to 53 percent. Industry stocks show gains for Naumkeag Massa Hill Washington and others, while railroads display varied week highs and lows across many lines.
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State Street
Stock Exchange
New York
Boston
U.S
Bank of England
Atchison,Topeka & Sante Fe
LA Burington & Missouri
Nebraska
Denver &Rio Grande
Eastern
Hartford & Erie
Kansas City
St. Joseph & Council
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
New England
Union Pacific
Union Pacfic
Grants
Fortscott & Gulf First Mortgage
Kansas City, Topeka & Western First Mor
Pueblo & Arkansas Valley
Rutland
Cheshire Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
Nashua, Acton & Ma
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad
Vermont Central Railroad
Rutland Railroad
Fitchburg Road
Jackson, Nsing & Saginaw Railroad
Boston & Albany Railroad
Boston + Maine Railroad
City and Western
Lara
Gio@ilge
Carolina
Rangoon
Calcutta
Africa
Sumac
Sicisna
EAS
Ami
California
Kentucky
Georgia
Inter Phensylvania
Ohio
Commercial matters Boston market May 31 19th century
Activity in raw staples rose last week with further price and demand gains expected. Reported prices cover apples beans butter cheese coal coffee copper corn cotton drugs dry goods wool and more, noting firm to strong values, quiet butter, steady flour, firm oats and rye, and active lumber and iron markets amid a broad mix of regional and international sourcing.
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New York
Vermont
Choice
Halle
Acadia Grate
Lava
Maracaibo
Rio
St. Dominio
Pric
Uplands
Gulf
Lée
St. Domingo
Savanella
Lima
Supan
LL 'y@luc
Lolgalic
Prince Haward Island
New Western Bank
Georges
Hake
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Haddock
Eastport
Labrador
St John
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Cnotee Bakers
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
St. Louis
Pescae
California
Australia
Melbourne
Bidney
Adelaide
Pao
London
Philadelphia
Haltimore
Valencia
Sultana
Quanty
Virginia
Wilmington
Westen
Strans
Mamila
Concortia
Corrientes
Gambia
Sierra Leone
San Nicholas
Buenos Ayres
Indigo
Bengal
India
Cae
Ces
Rockland
Porto Rico
Nall LS
Market report of flour provisions and grain prices
New York on May 31 reports mixed activity in flour and meal markets with varied prices for rye flour corn meal and wheat feeds. Pork beef and lard markets show steadiness then weakness. oats corn and barley price directions noted. sugar molasses rice and coffee steady while cotton is closed. naval stores and petroleum quoted with shipping rates and freight movements noted.
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Ven Srb
Wilmington
Callon
Western
Calcutta
Boston
Elaine
Bermuda
Maine Central
Davis Sandtings
New York
Minnesota
Southern Bakers
Southern
Tea City
Rangoon
Maracaibo
Etroleum
Oeran Treigh
London
Bois O
Bois O, Olyocrain
Liverpool
Stram
Cork
Bordeaux
Giliido
Penarth
Havre
Antwerp
Brighton Live Stock Markets Report May 28 1879
The Brighton market lists cattle 3456 sheep and lambs 2600 swine 7070 with varied prices for beef cattle hides tallow and skins. Trade for western cattle strong earlier week. cowsolvent and working oxen scarce while sheep and lambs mostly from the West for slaughter show limited sale. At Watertown market cattle 304 sheep and lambs 1263 swine 57380 with ranges for beef, store cattle, and hides. Poultry sales steady. veal calves and pelts noted.
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Brighton
Maine
Ely
Gough
Connatian
Europe
Hollis
Watertown
Vermont
New Hampshire
Gloucester Fish Market Weekly Report Opens Strong
Gloucester reports a busy week with 14 arrivals of southern mackerel and 16 Grand Banks codish shipments, totaling about 700 barrels of mackerel and 980,000 pounds of codish plus halibut. Georges fleet reports 775,000 pounds codish and 20,000 pounds halibut from 24 arrivals, squid fishery notes scant results, and market quotes show steady demand with varied prices across cod, haddock, cusk, hake, and halibut products. weather warm and limited curing of Georges cod.
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Boston Globe
Gloucester
Mackarel Fort
Grand Banks
New Western Bank
Haddock
Erring
Torro
Newfoundland
Labrador
Porgie
500 CASH for vetting names signed for the American Club Association
An advertisement offers cash prizes to agents who obtain the largest number of names for the American Club Association within a specified period. Prizes scale from 10 cents to hundreds of dollars, plus a commission, with details sent upon contacting F. A. Dunham in Stevensville Michigan.
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American Club Association
Tommy Association
F. A. Dunham
Stevensville
Berrien County
Mich
Stwyle
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Finance and Commerce
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United States Bonds
Naumkeag
Hill
Massachusetts
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Berlin
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Ha & Texas
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Parsons, Kan
Chicago, Burington & Quincy Railroad Company
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EeCore Ire & Marine Insurance Copan
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Ye Company
Brokers’ Board
E. D. Bangs &Co
First Board
FIRST
Land Company
Topeka & Santa Fe
Denver
Rio Grande Rd
Kan City
St. Jo
U. B
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inNeb
New York & New Engist
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Ceersseneseers Sorseaseers
Union Pacific Rd
L.G
Topeka& Santa Fe
Ceessee Encedhersenae
Cepssseoben
Pueblo & Arkansas Val. Ra
Kansas & Lexas Ka
Chicago, Bur. & Quincy
Ertehburg Railroad
Phil
Wil. & Bal
Ind., Cin. & Lafayette
Pullman Palace Car Co
Calumet & Hecla Mining Co
Wan Dancan Silver Mining Co
Docreecosss
Istet Atte Sretemeee
Frankho Minine Ae Eee
Nework
Francer
Une
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Boston Market
THE
NEW York Markets
Gloucester Fish Market
Tommy
Dero
Scott & Son
Park Row
Antood
Sinondiers
Beeson
Addresa Ae Avidson & CO
Nassau St
N.Y
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