Washington Gossip on the Speaker Nomination Battle
Special correspondent outlines the contest for the next House speakership amid a three party division. Democrats, Republicans, and Nationals jostle for influence as 287 members vote. Details weigh candidate pledges, likely coalitions, and two leading caucus rivals Randall and Blackburn.
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Sunday Globe
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Smith
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March
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Monday Lecture on Alcohol Effects and Temperance Reform
The nineteenth Monday lecture at Tremont Temple featured Dr Harriman on the microscope and blood changes from alcohol. Mr Cook urged teaching temperance to youth, linking religious principle to reform. A subscribers meeting followed, renewing Cook’s engagement for 20 30 lectures next season. financials not disclosed.
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Donua Clark
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Otvioan Politician Described In Detail In Private Note
A candid assessment portrays the Otvioan candidate as robust and jovial, with a full beard and mustache, twinkling eyes, and a strong voice. He spends hours daily on ball pool and is deemed fit for a presidency but unlikely to be elected.
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Luther
A Mohammedan Wedding in Cairo Brings Royal Ties
Mahmoud Hamdi Bey, fifth son of the khe dive, marries a daughter of Edha mi Rasha, tying Cairo and Egypt’s viceroyal line to the Abbas Pasha family. Prince Lefwik and Prince Ibrahim are betrothed to sisters, as the ceremony unfolds with bride procession, mosque prayers, and a grand street passage through the city.
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Edhami Rasha
Abbas Pasha
Mehemet Ali
Egypt
Lewfik
Ibrahim
Woolwich
Alee
Bagdad
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Cairo
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Israelieh
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Nubar Pasha
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Roper displays tiny steamboat in shop exhibition
Mr S H Roper of 299 Eustis street shows a curiosity a miniature steamboat built with basswood planks copper rivets and nickel plated engine. The ten by three and a half by one foot double end craft weighs 229 pounds with an 18 inch screw propeller engine and brass boiler designed to carry two men and travel Boston light and back.
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Samuel McIntosh
Roper
Boston
Evxry
Talmage Denounces Sectarianism In A Broad Liberty Sermon
Brooklyn preacher denounces sectarian bigotry while praising liberty of conscience. He traces origins of division among denominations from home education to immoderate clergy and urges unity in mission. Fields the hostler thief seized with $870, drafts, a pistol, and knives. to be sent back to Massachusetts.
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Edison and his work cited as greatest genius of this century
A Globe report recounts Professor E H Johnson praising Thomas A Edison at Tremont Temple. The interview outlines Edison life, his originality, and key inventions like the electro mutograph and electro-motograph telephone, asserting his unique methods and impact on science.
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Smuggling Tricks Recallled in Detroit Case and War Era
A Detroit smuggling arrest and firing evokes wartime echoes as smugglers used hidden cans worn on the body to transport brandy from Canada amid high duties. Women, often more successful, carried two gallons by fitting tin cans to limbs while musk was smuggled by a man who hid it under his fingernails and sold trips for profits.
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Canada
Romance of the Custer Massacre sparks Maine widow's hope
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes Colonel Ben teen's Reno testimony hinting Dr Lord and Lieutenant Sturgis may still be alive with the Indians. A Maine widow clings to a fragile belief while Major Walsh and Salem police chase fresh clues in a sprawling, uncertain outcome.
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White-Horse Company
Jules Verne
Maine
Leading World Governments and Uneven Regimes Summary
A historical survey lists seventeen leading governments with constitutional monarchies and republics, noting despotic regimes and several misprints. The piece catalogs nations such as the British Empire, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Hanover, the German Empire, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, the Turkish Empire, and others, mixing errors and wartime-era labels. It also includes short Washington-era items about curiosities in Norristown and a Boston captain’s death, followed by an advertisement for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters addressing yellow jaundice symptoms.
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Norway
Sweden
Russia
Holland
Belgium
Hanover
German Empire
Switzerland
Austrian Empire
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Turkish Empire
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Afghanistan
Beloochistan
Tartary
Hindoostan
Indo-China
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Granada
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Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Arcania
la Plats
Paraguay
Uruguay
Hayti
Republic
Allan's Anti Fat Remedy Promises Obesity Cure
In a dated 1878 notice, Allan's Anti Fat is praised as the superior digestion regulating remedy for corpulence. It claims no weakness or injury, preventing undue assimilation of food. Sold by Ellisworth in Kane, with testimonials from users such as Miss Taxlor.
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Finance and Commerce Boston Money and Stocks
The week opened with money loaning between banks at 4 percent, rising to 4 1/4 and easing to 4 1/4 percent by close. New York funds were heavy at 12 to 20 cents per $1000 discount. treasury actions and 4 percent bond subscriptions shape the market. Quebec’s 3 million loan and anticipated treasury accommodations ease credit. Bonds steady, savings banks notes quoted. leading stocks show gains, with extensive price changes across multiple rail lines and banks.
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Shoe
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Ellot
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Newton
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Andover
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Peabody
Eh? Market Notes on Apples Butter Cheese and more
Saturday evening reports quote diverse commodity prices including apples with varied grades, butter with modest shifts across New York Vermont and western dairies, cheese at Northern factory levels, coal with limited sales, coffee beans notably Jamaica and Rio, corn and rye market activity, and dry goods demand remaining firm across a broad retail spectrum.
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Rio
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Brighton Market Report March Week Ends With Sluggish Trade
The Brighton market shows a large cattle supply and mixed demand. Western cattle grades slipped, store cattle and milch cows sold slowly with prices down from the prior week. Working oxen remained in light demand despite higher listed weights and prices. Sheep and swine were read with West sheep butchered, fat hogs reported at 4 9 4c per pound live weight.
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