Townsend's Letter Tuesday Election Lessons From New York
Alfred Townsend critiques the November New York election and the mugwumps influence, arguing Blaine’s defeat reveals lower intellectual opposition and party fractures. He laments wartime era vitriol, praises Hill's governance, and warns against paid press attacks and bloody shirt politics while praising Blaine’s appeal to reform-minded voters.
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Washington Monument
Rome
Christian Church
Italy
Washington
Otomac
Blaine
Governor Hill
Hill
John W. Bookwalter
Ohio
Davenport
Mr. Bookwalter
Evening Post
Tammany Hall
Hugh J. Grant
New York
Cleveland
Southey
Inchcape
Ira Davenport
Noy
Abraham Lincoln
Appomatox Court House
Mr. Hill
Horace White
Hilat Elmira
The Woman's Hour Crocheted Shawl And Baby Sack Notes
The article discusses doll dress fabrics for the year, comparing materials for little girls’ dresses with those used in mothers’ gowns. It highlights velvets, boucle, plushes, and English cloths, plus trims like braids, ribbons, lace, pendants, and large buttons. It describes pretty dresses seen at a large house with sketches by an artist.
Children’s Suit Styles in Plush and Velvet Fabrics
A catalog of 4 to 10 year old dresses in electric blue plush, white wool lace, and sarah silk, detailing a one piece top with a two piece appearance. Describes velvet, English cloth, plaid, tricot, and boucle ensembles with plaits, vests, sashes, bows, and metal buttons.
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Sarah
Dainty Woollen Costume Described With Striking Velvet Detail
A young lady’s costume described features a woollen novelty fabric with a narrow striped plaited skirt and back drapery in dark red blue and brown. The coat overdress is reddish mixture with dark blue velvet. A Moliere vest in front uses small metal buttons and velvet folds on the fronts showcase oval ornaments in red and blue silk. The same decoration appears on pocket welts and cuffs, creating a handsome striking effect.
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Moliere
Messrs. Cole & Co
Crocheted Sack Pattern Seams and Finishing Notes
Instructions detail a cream white and blue pink sack crochet pattern by Eva M. Niuxs. It covers materials, stitch counts, row sequences, shaping for body and sleeve, collar lace, and finishing with ribbon and bow.
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CoLak
Eva M. Niuxs
Woman's Hour Crochet Pattern Request Notice
Editor responds to readers about crochet hood patterns and instruction books. A Chelsea Woman is promised the hood pattern if she sends her name and address. Many requests arrive. the Hour is limited by space, and the pattern will appear in a forthcoming issue.
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Woman's Hour
Dairy Guopr
Boston
Lamp Mat
Chelsea
Clara V
GLOBE
Waitress Pester Dr Pullem Over Tomatoes and Corn
A waitress tests the correct title with Dr Pullem the dentist asking about tomatoes and corn. He rebukes her, correcting her to dentist. The exchange highlights humor in misaddressing a professional title.
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Dr. Pullem
Pullem
A Gloomy Possibility
In Summerville, the Gazette notes a protest by young people against secret marriages. It observes a decline in visits by young men to the ladies, suggesting fear of discovering they wasted affection on a married woman.
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Summerville
FiveYearOld Says God Thinks I'm Dead
The Enquirer records a child's remark overheard at home last evening. A five year old told her mother that she believed God thought she was dead because she had not said her prayers for a week. The dialogue reflects a child's anxiety and religious upbringing.
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Richmond
Enquirer
the Enquirer
CATCHING AND CURING Hygienic Health Notes and Quackery
A reporter observes a physician’s dramatic cold cure and a lively debate over baths, ventilation, and clothing as remedies. The piece links ozone inhalers, home formulas, and public school ventilation to the causes and prevention of colds and hay fever.
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John B. Moran
Stumbling Blocks Puzzles Column Invitation
Department open to all requests readers to write on one side of paper only and enclose a stamped reply. Members of the Pastime Association in Danvers Massachusetts are invited to send matters to L. H. Patterson for this column.
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Pastime Association
L. H. Patterson
Danvers
Mass
No. 51 Charade and other clever puzzles from Seaside Library
A scanned puzzle column from Seaside Library features No 51 Charade No 62 Numerical Enigma No 64 Geographical Puzzle No 55 Diamond with multiple riddle prompts. It includes answers hinted by clues such as letters and numbered word parts, various place stamps like Danvers Mass Deer Park Md Taunton Mass and editors initials ED.
Riddle prompts the well known New England puzzler
A seven clue riddle points to a name from Danvers Massachusetts, with each clue hinting at a plant genus an expression a rough cut to supply or direct to catch suddenly a sim pleton a departure and a dye or color.
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New England
Danvers
Mass
Fifty letters charade puzzle hints and scattered clues
A jumble of charades and word squares from Diston Virginia and Sunapee New Hampshire with themes of Greek letters jobs deities and objects. includes multiple numbered puzzle blocks and references to Northwood Lowell San Francisco and Concord with notes on answers to blocks and historical crosswords clues.
No.227 Political Winter Because 28-1
No readable events or names found. Fragmentary text mentions positions and roles without clear actions or outcomes. Unable to extract a coherent item.
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Naxfellow
Puzzle prize list from Seaside Library contest results
Best correct list awarded to Concord Mass Kismet Inn and multiple solvers. Prizes include a Seaside Library copy for best list and an interesting book for next best. Nearest list earns three months of this paper. first answers to Nos. 55 and 60 receive 16 and 10 cents respectively.
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Kismet
Inn
Mass
Potomac
William County
Alice M. P
South Bridgton
Steuben
Seaside Library
Word Munt Contest Closes November 24 With Prize
The notice urges participants to send lists by November 24, with the keyword importance and ten cents per list in stamps. So far forty seven lists have arrived and more are welcome as the prize stands at six dollars.
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Wero
New England puzzlers league aims to grow nationwide
A Boston based puzzle group advocates forming a New England puzzlers league open to members from several states. They plan a convention at Young's Hotel Boston on December 25 to elect officers, adopt a constitution and publish an official organ.
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New England
Ohio
New York
Virginia
Indiana
Iowa
Maryland
Colinwell
Barbara
M. E M
N. R
Eastman
W. Kh
Schofield
Leclair
Maud Lynn
Concord
N. H
Potomac
Globe
Taunton
Mass
New England Puzzlers
Cohannet
Portland
Salem
Wall
Frankfort
Guilford
Cambridgeport
Chicago
JJ. A
C. A. Foster
Charles F. Badgett
Young’s
Boston
L. H. Patterson
Danvers
Prize and puzzle notes from Cambridgeport to Readfield
Letters mention prizes sent three weeks after win and deadlines for list submissions by November 26. Readers respond with thanks and requests for identification or return of non de plume. Instructions cover stamps, reception confirmations, and postal responses from various New England towns.
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F. E
Cambridgeport
Mass
Auburn
Sunapee
N. H
A. F
Readfield
I Did Its department in the Temperance Banner
The Temperance Banner announces a new page feature called I Did Its department and praises its broad, ably conducted support. It invites puzzlers to send in photos and addresses for a December issue, offering portraits of puzzlers and a Christmas theme, with return of photos if stamps are included.
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Temperance Banner
Morning Star
St. Louis
Cohannet
Beech Nut
Rex Ford
Delphine
Hawkeye Boy
Ghosts as Witnesses in Historic Murder Trials
A New York Star piece recalls cases where spectral testimony influenced verdicts. It cites 1632 England where ghosts allegedly named killers, 1754 Edinburgh where a ghost failed to identify the body, and a Warwick 1771 trial halted by a judge who exposed ghost credulity and led to the accused’s execution.
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Anna Walker
England
James Graham
Walker
Sharp
Graham
Durham
Duncan Terry
A. B. MacDonald
Edinburgh
Alexander MacPherson
Warwi
Warwick Assizes
Raymond
Ecrer
Tornado Explained by a Quick-Witted Father
In the Strict Q. T. column a youth asks what a tornado is and a nervous father explains it by likening it to a mother blowing up and warning that you should notify her next time. The exchange carries a humorous tone as the man deflects the question.
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Parker Street
Roxbury
New York
Sargent
Harvard College
Sunapee
N. H
New York Journal
Four Games Played in Liverpool Between Martins and Clark
The article notes four games at Liverpool England during a visit by Mr Martins to Clark. Scoring sequences and results are listed showing draws and wins for Clark in some boards and Martins in others, with final positions and the author credit J H Harrison Somerville Mass.
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Liverpool
Eng
Martins
E. Clark
Clark
Spennymoor
Wollie
London Aa
Strickland
Lancashire
Manchester
Yorkshire
Bradford
Wyllie
Auty’s Temperance Hotel
Heckmandike
Glasgow
Barker vs Freeman Match Draws Interest for 200 Dollar Side
The 50 game match between Charles F. Barker and A. d. Hellner, $200 a side, opens January 11 1886 in Providence RK L with final stakeholder A. J. Dunlap. A broad public interest and controversy surrounds the event among draughts players nationwide.
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A. J. Dunlap
Random Chicago exchange on book sales and nomination hopes
A brief dialogue in Chicago news excerpts shows GeniiT discussing a future presidential bid. The publisher expects the book to raise about $100,000, while the candidate weighs how the release could boost popularity and nomination chances.
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Chicago News
He Spends His Whole Time Winding
A brief note about a man who constantly winds watches, with a playful remark comparing him to the prince of Wales who owns seventy suits and a Waterbury watch in each. The line emphasizes endless winding as his habit.
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Buffalo
Prince
Wales
Waterbury
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