Postal Definitions and Third Class Mail Permissible Writing
Postmaster General D M Key discusses congressional questions on section 232 and 22 of the act of March 3 1879, defining what constitutes personal correspondence and what may appear on third class printed matter. He cites Universal Postal Union regulations, outlines revenue implications, and defends liberal mail classifications while urging cautious rate reductions.
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H. D. Money
R-General
George M
Adams
Webster
Department
Congress
Universal Postal Union
San Francisco
Europe
Post Office Department
Army and Navy
Erseral
Obituary of James Cooke the famous circus clown
James Cooke born Patrick Hoy in Dublin in 1836 died in New York. He started as a utility actor and gymnast, joined Bell's circus in England, and toured widely in Europe, the United States, Mexico, South America, and Asia. Known as a First-Classa Clown, he once walked a rope with a bear on his back near San Francisco and organized a river race with tubs drawn by geese. He married Helen Cooke and had children in San Francisco and later in New York. His funeral will be held next Sunday at 2 PM under the Masonic lodge. The Cooke family has long roots in English circus history.
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New York Times
Postal Union
United States
Europe
Persia
Adway
Philadelphia
James Cooke
New York
Dublin
Patrick Hoy
Patsey
Hoy
Ellen Burke
Bell's Circus
Leeda
England
Astley
London
Mme. Marie Macarte
Fourteenth Street
Mexico
South America
John Wilson
China
Japan
East Indies
Australia
New Zealand
San Francisco
Cooke
Hill Carlo
Carlo
Bret Harte
Santa Clara College
Mss
Helen Cooke
Barnum's
John HA. Murray
Circus
Aquarium
Stickney
Supreme Council No
Masonic Brotherhood
Perenne
Cypress Hills
Oeereea
Cooke's
James E. Cooke
Newtown
L. L
Carlotta de Berg
Ellen
Mr. Beecher
Russia
Toda
Germany
Hismarck
France
Laly
Spain
Great Britain
Ankind
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
America
Black
Eis
A Hindoo Hercules Feats of Strength in Bombay Exhibition
March 6 at Mr. Morarjee Goculdas house in Bombay showcased Deccan athlete Babajee Tulsiram. Guests watched his feats including crushing cowries, breaking a cocoanut with a betel leaf, splitting a rope, chest breaking under a four Bengal maunda stone, and flying sugar cane fragments with a sword strike.
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Morarjee Goculdas
Bombay
Deccan
Babajee Tulsiram
Hindoo
Babajee
The New Profession and the Rise of the Teacher
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke at Ruggles Street Baptist on The New Profession, urging education reform and universal schooling. He warned of global upheaval and praised the teacher as central to democracy, urging free unsectarian schools, universal suffrage for women, and lifelong, heroic educators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
Ruggles-street Baptist Church
Robert G. Seymour
Spurgeon
Shakespeare
Public Medical Works From World’s Dispensary Association
New publications offered by the World’s Dispensary Medical Association and Great Russell Street Buildings London present the People’s Common-sense Medical Adviser about 1000 pages with nearly 300 illustrations by R V Pierce M D at $2 60. In valid’s Guide-Book ten cents Motion as a Remedial Agent illustrated cures for various ailments including female diseases stiff joints and club feet. Catarrh its Rational Treatment and Positive Cure available on receipt of postage.
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Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Russell Street
Lond
England
Times
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Ring of Swindlers Exposed in Philadelphia License Office
The Philadelphia Press details a year long scheme in the quarter sessions office where two thousand liquor licenses for 1880 were issued on forged bonds. Clerks and a recorder allegedly shared illicit fees, letting tavernkeepers buy bonds for two dollars with fake sureties, enabling illegal licenses and sparing the city from tax revenue. Judge Finletter has summoned the grand jury to speed prosecutions.
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Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia
Ptrae
Finletter
Grand Jury
Meeker case reveals child murder by relatives in Vermont
In Montpelier Vermont on April 27 a disturbing confession ties H C Meeker and his son Lewis A Meeker to the murder of nine year old orphan Alice Meeker. The two then buried the body after drugging her with strychnine. A gruesome tale of alleged abuse, misdirection, and an eventual police revelation leads to their arraignment.
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Montreser
Alice Meeker
Duxbury
Charlotte
H. C. Meeker
Meeker
Lewis A. Meeker
IH. C. Meeker
Meekers
Alice
Young Meeker
Moscow
Barre
Mr. Atherton
Richmond
Montreal
Atherton
Eben Huntley
Carpenter's Drug Store
Bates’ Stable
Waterbury
Lewis
Latro
Magoon
Phair
Vermont
Peripatetic Humbug Vanishes After Boston Deceit
Mason Anderson a former New England lecturer on reform and gambler vanished after a failed scheme to marry in Providence. He planned to buy a Cambridge restaurant with $150, borrowed $140 from a fiancée, left with a watch and a diamond pin, and owes $17 in board. Suspected in St. Louis whereabouts unknown.
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Mason Anderson
New England
Boston
Providence
Anderson
Cambridge
Bridgeton
MeAnderson
Camridge
St. Louis
Double Tragedy in Indiana Amid Mob Violence
A mob of about 100 masked men seized Henry Long in New Albany as he awaited verdict on murder charges. Long shot the mob leader Henry Otte, who died. Otte’s death triggered a mob attack. Long fled, later missing, with blood in the woods and a terrorized neighborhood as warnings to residents spread.
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Cincinnati
New Albany
Ind
Henry Long
Long
Henry
Otte
Morbile Accident at Manchester Bakery Oven Collapse
In Manchester New Hampshire on Lowell Street Charles Per rault a 42 year old unmarried French Canadian was fatally mangled by an oven collapse while cleaning the bakehouse. His skull fractured brains oozed from his left eye leg broken in three places and other serious injuries noted. An unrelated classified ad invites summer boarders to Boston Globe Boston Mass.
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Manchester
N. H
Charles Perrault
Lowell Street
A Gift for the City of Boston Ensign Purchase
New Orleans on April 28 reports the city council authorized Mayor Patton and city administration to act as a committee to purchase a national ensign to be presented by the Continental Guards for Boston on the Fourth of July honoring Boston’s aid to New Orleans during the 1874 epidemic year. A Leadville meeting described fierce contention over a contested seat as a Republican was ousted and a Democrat sworn in causing Republican walkout and council chaos.
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Boston
New Orleans
Patton
Continental Guards
Leadville
Denver
Col
Dew
Remarkable thirteen year old Georgie Georgie at reform school
At Jamesburg New Jersey the boy Georgie a precocious mind with a giant head arrived. Born in Paterson he charmed governors and the public but fell into vice. His growth slowed as his intellect expanded. His mother toiled in a mill while bad influences swayed him toward drink and profanity. He was sent to reform school at twenty one?
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Republic
America
Paul
New Jersey State Reform School
Jamesburg
Entil Zola
George Ee
Paterson
N. 1
Georgie
Milton
Shakspere
Tristram Shandy
Darling
Reform School
Law
van Voorhees
Fifteen Puzzle Interruption in Brooklyn Jury Trial
In Kings County Court of Sessions a juror interrupted the burglary fraud trial of John McCord to claim he solved the fifteen puzzle. Juror Constantine Tasso excitedly cried I did it I got it right, provoking laughter and a rebuke from Judge Moore for talking with counsel.
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Kings County Court of Sessions
New York
John McCord
Wyer Ridgway
Weinberg
Constantine Tasso
Judge Moore
Assistane
Hawe
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House of
House OF Representatives
Paia
D. M. Key
Samuel J. Randall
A Glown
the Equestrian Benevolent
Association
Hercules
Beecher
the Highlands
Brooklyn
Shoeidas
Lauhter
Noittle Wizen-Faced
Plymouth Divine
NEW Publications
Indiana
Tuk
Boston Daily Globf
Boston, Mass
Briate
New Jersey
New York Herald
Shakepere
Governor Bedle
Tux Bustos Daily Globe
Aes
Pel
Vir
Resto
Adie
Gercome
Pleasure
Tanclice
Srpg
Lavouny & Co
Carbo
Kennedy & CO
Canada
Second Ave
WOOD
Pittsburgh
Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter, Smith, Doolittle & Smith
Carter, Harris & Hawley
Mass
Weeks & Potter
H. Martin & Co
Concord, N. J
Chambers, Calder & Co
Oliver Johnson & Co
Mason, Chapin
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