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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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