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Newspaper

Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 07, 1888

Page

5

Napoleon, Garrison and Conkling on Popular Feeling in New York

George Alfred Townsend reports from New York on Napoleon’s evolving image, the Union Square fire’s reflection on public taste, the theater scene including Union Square and Daly’s, and the contrast between old political figures like Daniel Webster and Roscoe Conkling. He notes Garrison’s influence, Beecher’s criticism, and Conkling’s shifting public stature amid debt and reform.

Cuno Europe Fifth Avenue Napoleon Josephine Napleon Siadng Stanford California Danelebster Abolition School Eli Thayer Worcester William Lloyd Garrion Boston Thayer Garrison Baltimoreery Benjamin Lundy

Parliament orders trusts inquiry and other brief items

The Canadian Parliament orders an inquiry into trusts while other notes report coal prices in Pennsylvania, debt reductions, and earnings declines for Union Pacific. Several deaths and crimes are noted, including a mob hanging in Texas and a Chicago suicide, with various world and national headlines on weather, industry, and politics.

Prince's Favorite Prescription Claim for Female Ailments

The notice touts Dr Prince's Favorite Prescription as a positive cure for leuvorrhes excessive flow and painful menstruation. It also claims relief from unnatural suppressions prolapsus weak back and female weakness, presenting a broad set of female health issues as treatable.

Boston Market for Dairy and Provisions Reported

The Boston market notes a tight supply of Houston Rose potatoes with prices around 1 a bushel. Round goods lists include Minnesota and New York wheats, various flours and sugars, fresh creameries, and meats with steers and lambs priced widely. Prices show little change week to week as demand for dried fruits, nuts, and London market items persists.

Market News from New York Chicago and St Louis

In leading markets traders report cotton at various grades with bids around 9 to 11 cents, flour and meal supplies including 4.40 to 4.76 per barrel, wheat and corn prices firm or mixed, rye and barley steady, and oil and pork markets showing slight moves. Receipts and exports for grains and flour noted across regions with spot prices and elevator quotes listed.

New York Chicago St. Louis Minnesota Canada United Western Steam City Steam Continent Liverpool Canado

Boston Markets Butter and Cheese Report

Butter market shows little change with demand and receipts near balance. High grade fresh creamery butter in fair supply, Western firsts and extras selling at full prices, imitations and ladies packed steady to fair. cheese quiet with unchanged prices. eggs firm with tightened supply. beans and potatoes firm, vegetable prices mixed. hay steady, oats and grocers noting irregular Rio coffee market.

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Arrivals of Livestock at Brighton and Watertown Week

Arrivals for the week ending Friday March 2 show Western cattle 1365 Eastern 169 Northern 856 total 1800. Western sheep and lambs 6510 Northern sheep and lambs 1418 swine 19805 veals 427 horses 504. Beef cattle dressed weight prices ranged 4.00 to 7.60 per hundred pounds. Hides and skins prices listed for various categories including Brighton and country hides and calfskin.

Brighton Watertown

Financial market notes on railroads and mining stocks

Boston financial pages show fluctuating railroads and mining shares with bids and asks for 6000 Awlacinc 2344 and 1000 C.R&Wine 45. Quotes include Union Pacific 66, Mexvenis 64, and Atlantic 18 with all sections under Calls and Between Calls. A separate note discusses chess problem history and attribution.

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CHECKERS Readers invited to post diagrams and solutions

The Checker Editor invites letters and diagrams to be mailed to lock-drawer 5220 in Boston with open hours 10 am to 1 pm. Postpaid diagrams cost 30 cents per hundred. Readers are urged to send solutions and keep correspondence with J McKenzie Barker Hardly, John F Avery, J H Elliott, C Pickering, A Schaefer.

Boston New England Washington Stret J. McKenzie Barker John F. Avery J. H. Elliott C. Pickering

Solution notes for positions 1330 to 1332 by Hennigan and Armour

The excerpt presents chess problem solutions and variations by John T. Hennigan Groton and John Armour Philadelphia. It lists positions with Black and White pieces, feeding move sequences, plus multiple named variations and outcomes where White wins.

John Armour Philadelphia Kon

Position No 1233 by Henry Gibson from 1886 note

The item recounts Henry Gibson of Melbourne publishing position No. 1233 in the Northern Leader on July 2 1886 as No 154 and traces its appearance in Dundee Weekly News 1861 Yorkshire Independent and Goulds Problem Book 812 with attribution disputes. It cites J A Conroy correspondence about plagiarism and recalls Gibson’s contributions from Maryton Montrose and other editors.

A. Bobby Henry Gibson Gibson Sturges Yorkshire Independent Independent Black King White Ellie and Martins Pecanutin Crei Lenin Magn Loor Faineekly Herald Eelem Northern Leader Dundee Weekly News Wylie and Martins Gould Maryton Montrose Scot Bag Gentleman's Journal J. Elwell Ph Ke Am J. A. Conroy

Mixed results in New York chess and club events

Henry Maxwell and William Bowe of New York split a 20 game match with four wins for Maxwell and the rest drawn. a return match follows. Albert Rogers won the Young Men's Institute tournament first prize, while J Dominicus took top honors in the East Newark event. Massillon Ohio hosts a new checker club, and a 10 game correspondence match between I O White of Aurora Nebraska and J J Brown of Indiana ends four to two with four draws. A 60 member chess checker and whist club forms in Wrohit Kansas, meeting at 206 North Main from 8 a m to 12 p m. Richard Waters, the “soldier pecker player,” seeks treatment at the Soldier’s Home. Kerr and Gillespie of Ree burg finish a 100 game match with Kerr 42, Illespie 27, and 17 drawn. Mrs Riggs, the reigning champion, visits New York. James Jaba lie’s friends plan a Canada match with William Fleming. Dr A Shaefer of New York has six outs with W Bowe, forcing Bowe to concede a draw. Bowe’s odds are discussed in multiple sessions.

Pennsylvania Union Pacific William O. Haskell Poston Herald Heaton Manice Joseph B. Holder Imterstate Commerce Commission Rhode Island House of Representatives Wekly Pennsylvania Company Deaf and Dumb Institution Fulton Ossawattomie Brown Chicago W. H. Ward The Independent Chambers Street Barclay-street Ferry Newark Clara Barton Red Cross Society Mount Vernon Duvert San Francisco Memphis Henry Ward Beecher Plymouth Church Brooklyn N. Y Florida New England Bath Boston Liverpool Carthaginian Goverment Gilpatrick Bates Marston Main Street Fore Street Bunker Hill Edmunes Village Abram Seely Washington Connesticut C. A. Russell Maine C. A. Boutelle Massachusetts K. T. Davie New Hampshire Blair Rhode Island Aldrich Vermont J. W. Stewart Albany Baum Miamisburg Charles Baum Pittsburg C Ucinnat, & St. Laws Oscar ¥. Beckwith Court Houe Hudson Simon Vandercook Austerlitz Supreme Court Court of Appeals Boston Master Builders’ Association Michigan Peninsular Friay Lake Superior Cheboygan St. Ignace Mackinac Samuel Barron United States Essex County R Richmond Fort Hatteras Hatteras Inlet Fort Warren Bosphorus Robert Mills Massachusetts State Board of Lunacy and Charity England Canada Koston Mills W. J. Alexander Wrightington Saltonstall American Iron and Stel Association Great Britain Rypecpens American Museum of Natural History New York Sising & Fund Ius Vane Cornelius Vanderbilt Morris K. Jesup Stuart W. W. Corcoran Blaine Sherman Cameron Hawley Lincoln Gresham Evarts Allison Miseck Sefield Lepew Beaver Flamborough Haytien Harvard College Harvard New York Evenng Post Julia South Vallejo Cal Midland Kansas City Frank Edison Jack O'Brien New York Court of Appeals New York Natonal Exchange Bnk Metropolitan Elevand Railway Company College Place American Linen Company Fall River Qais Tey Henry Walker A. A. Folsom Charles W. Stevens Edward E. Allen Keeler Artillery Company Clira Naelly House of Refuge Baltimore Clara Xng Charles W. Pickering St. Augustine Fla Kearsarne Housatonic Charleston Pickering Vanderbilt Fortisher Hondo Bridge San Antonio Southern Pacific Alora Freght Ridge Neotiacion Martin Norsuny Providence District Court Fray John P. Fuller Yar Fuller Boston Chamber of Commerce Congress Board of Directors Congress of the Dominion Ofanada Dominion of Canada Nicaragua Canal Greytown Domingo Cartaya Birt Cartaya W. L. Putnam Senate New York Senate Pugar Trust Jeffrsonville Ind St. Loui Ohio Mississippi North Atlantic Atteras English Channel Sre Uni Gulf Eeeacenaa Henry Maxwell William Bowe Maxwell Bowe Young Men's Institute Albert Rogers J. Dominicus East Newark Massillon L. C. Miller John Noble North Main Street Richard Waters Fort Long Loosing Utah Soldiers’ Home W. T. Kerr James Jaba Lie Rune William Flemming A. Shaefer W. Bowe Mr. Bowe Stanefer Simin Hi Aonb Lewis J. Gayne

Crandpa on Geniuses and a Farm Poet

The speaker defends geniuses as flawed yet curious creatures. He recalls a local farm poet who wrote to hens and oxen and stirred village talk. Though gentle and lazy, the man bored readers with talk and verse, raising questions about genius and fortune.

Sal

Where the Moustache Grows in Columbus Dispatch

A fragmentary note reflects on facial hair in a playful tone. The piece hints at a humorous debate about upper lip moustaches and social perceptions, capturing a light, colloquial mood of the era.

Columbus Dispatch

Philadelphia fragment hints at theater mishap and lost check

From Philadelphia a fragment from a Chicago report describes a man who fell from a gallery into the orchestra of a New York theater. He was carried toward a drugstore doorway and sighed asking where his return check was.

Philadelphia Chicago New York

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Townsend Union Square Theatre Daniel Webster William Lloyd Garrison and Roscoe Conkling Union Square Solgt Fourteenth Street Cincinnati Washington City Schiller Strook A. M. Palmer Mercantile Library Asluck Palmer Twenty-fourth Street New Square ‘Theatre Bronson Howard Shook Sheridan Union House Forty-second Street Broadway Renches America Fi - Vincina Whiskey Spectator Fisk Erie Erie 1Airoad French Abey Paol Apo Mayo Alexander Dumas Three Guardsmen Mayo Sems Ames W Lester Fagin Daly’s Theatre Walnut Street Theatre Richings Daly Irving Faust Moe Star Theatre Wallack Pi. Abbey Son Howard Mr. Belden Belden Tyson's Daly's Ceum Ameen Square Casino Albert Spencer Spencer Piner Morrissey and Reed Diaz Crome Stewart Mansion Lundy Sharpe Rifles South Carolina Aiken Mr. Beecher Conkling Gallen Jones Cankling Etter Blaine Camaign H m Johnson Utica Ince Mr. Conkling Pacific York George Alfred Townsend Houston Novacotia Island New Brunswick Hebrong Hebrons Vic Burbanks BoCasic Marocatbo Jarantes London Leeles Praveen Valencia Exim Hyso Guannowder Twankaga Sing ‘On Vthrertad Souchongs Pekoe Hongs Pekves Fish Prema N & She I Bank Shreve Hake Fistdock Ie Pollock Enn Hake Haddock Mierey Iichigan Ork Rollet Ohlowna Nina Matent St Louis Mieat Pat O Western Galveston Texas Buenos Ayres Rio Grande Sierra Leone Bond Cadiz Bon Lucerne Jersey Conte Ag Pnera Aia Ae Boston Markets Watertown Cattle Market Boston Stock Market Boston Stock Exchange Sunday Call Wylie Bertie Kite Tae Wins. Bersie,owever Joshua Sturgis Anderson Garecely Canalejas Valls Montero Kelso K. Price Fairhaven John T. Hennigan Groton Dr. Truax Dr Truax Mitia New England Checker Ae Ee Maid of the Mis Messrs, D O. D Lack Sai Cameo G. D. Bugbee New England Chess and Checker Rooms D. Dickin- Black N. Gardner Troy N.Y. Dickinson Edwin A. Durgin Melbourne Aus Checker News Crandpa
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