Washington Debates Next Eighteen Months in Congress
Washington notes forecast a short session starting mid November with tariff revision as top issue. Democrats seek policy to lead 1884 race while Republicans balance internal splits and risk Blunder dynamics. Cabinet changes and political maneuvering loom, with talk of Folger, New, and Brewster shifts and other senior posts.
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Washington
Congress
Poonte
Folger
John C. New
New
Polger
Mgr. Brewster
Boh Ingersoll
Department of Justice
Jury Aelog
Confession Details Bribery Plot In Star Route Case
The Department of Justice released a confession by Fall about June 14 conversations with Brewster Cameron and Foote claiming Brown was for sale as a Star route juror. Fall sought $25 for information, affidavits emerged, and Payne and others discussed bribery, with notes of payments and investigative aims amid a congressional inquiry.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Fall
Loth
Brewster Cameron
Foote
Brown
Payne
Pall
Miller
Newark
N. J
Major Richards
Dorsey & Co
Richards
Howel Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Tle
Corkwhill
Uly
Jobo G. Cox
Richard T. Laws
Ludrton
Fugitive Frederick Shaw Bailed On Bribery Charge
Frederick E Shaw, alleged to have bribed a juror to secure acquittal, surfaced in Washington and was placed under 2500 dollars bail by Judge Snell awaiting further proceedings.
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Washington
Frederick E. Shaw
Doniphan
Btar
Snell
Payne Remains to Return Home in 1900s Tone
Washington report details W W Corcoran plan to move John Howard Payne to the United States from Tunis with State Department help and a monument at Oak Hill Georgetown. A memorial service is planned in June with an eminent speaker. Separate note: consul Kahto notes poor American manufacturing representation in Australia and prospects for U S exports, especially in shoes.
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John Howard Payne
Washington
W. W. Corolan
Tuk Glolk
Sweet Lome
Tunis
United States
Department of State
England
Conul
Corcoran
Oak Hill Cemetery
Georgetown
West Washington
Sweet Home
Payne
Australia
Kahto
Bidney
New South Wales
France
Germany
Mysterious assault claims life near Bellows Falls
William Sonland of North Walpole was found near Wilpole Village with a severe head wound and broken nose after an election visit to Walpole. Doctors say a sharp instrument caused the injuries, and his condition deteriorates with no suspect identified as Walpole residents seek the assailant.
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Bellows Falls
William Sonland
North Walpole
Walpole
Wilpole
Dee
Approaching Marriage of Ex Vice President Wheeler and Mrs Woodworth
Washington dispatch reports the rumored engagement of ex Vice President William A Wheeler to Mrs John M Woodworth widow of the Maine hospital service official. They were seen together in Chicago last summer and boarded together in Congress days. The marriage is said to take place mid winter with both families already united in friendship.
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Washington, D. C
William A. Wheeler
John M. Woodworth
Maine Hospital Service
Two Duellists Duel With Bare Knuckles After Blanks
Easton dispatch reports two railroad men fought a duel on Lehigh hill after dispute over a wife. Placed twenty feet apart they fired seven blanks. upon learning this both men attacked each other with bare knuckles for three rounds, both badly punished when separated.
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Philadelphia
Easton
Pen
Lehigh Hill
New Atlantic Cable Headlines Elimination of Stock Losses
The Herald editorial asserts the Atlantic cable will be laid and carry messages next summer. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad leads the project with cash funding saving stockholders millions. Opponents allegedly sought stock but were blocked. Herald's owner is a large subscriber.
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New York
the Herald
Pennett
Atlantic
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Herall
Enterprise
Arsenic Found in Flour Poisoning Garber Family
Analysis of the Morristown flour used in the fatal pie reveals 240 grains of arsenic enough to kill twelve. Mr Garber Sr was buried today and his son is dying, while other family members are recovering. no suspects named yet.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Garber
Morristown
Distressing Funeral Chase Ends in Hearse Wreck
A hearse shattered on the Cornwall pike near Lebanon Pennsylvania last Monday disrupted Mrs Newmaster s funeral as horses bolted past a locomotive. Mourners fainted or lay unconscious amid chaos while pall bearers and ministers struggled to regain order and an undertaker sent for a replacement hearse so the procession could continue to the Ore Banks Methodist Church.
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Cornwall Pike
Lebanon
Penn
Death of an Old Abolitionist in York
Francis George Shaw a leading abolitionist and longtime contributor to the underground railroad died at West Brighton on Wednesday aged noted philanthropist and ardent worker for aiding enslaved people to reach Canada his death marks a significant loss to the anti slavery movement in the area remembered for his tireless efforts and leadership in emancipation causes.
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York
Francis George Shaw
Underground Railroad
Canada
West Brighton
Boston Woman Burned to Death in Stratham Fire
A fire at Stephen Scammon's house in Stratham last Tuesday night severely burned a Boston woman serving as housekeeper. She died within hours despite injuries. Damages were slight.
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Boston
Exeter
Failure of Providence Woollen Manufacturers
Paine and Sackett woollen manufacturers of Providence have made an assignment and called a meeting for Wednesday. Liabilities are estimated at about 30,000 dollars.
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Providence
Progipener
R. J
Nihilists Renew Activity Amid New Will of the People Issue
Al Petersburg dispatch reports a renewed Nihilist campaign in Russia. The Will of the People reappears with pamphlets and biographies of key leaders such as Andrey Jelaboff and Nicholas Kibalehiteh. Foreign donations rise with Americans and English sympathizers among contributors, boosting funds for anti autocratic action.
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New York Herald
Will of the People
Narodnaia Volia
Marcel
Zemsky
St. Petersburg
Gatehina
Weterhof
Count Tolstoi
Gatelina
Imperial Palace
Red Cross
N. Sabiin
Tyan the Terrible
Alexander II
Malinta Skuratoff
Ivan the Terrible
Hell
Mid
Skuratoff
Skuratof
Deo
Skuratofff
Justus — Schwab
New York
Benj. Rk. Tucker
Boston
St. Louis
Buffalo
Jose Cowen
I. P
KR. Applegarth
France
Germany
Austria
Roumania
Servia
Switzerland
Turkey
Egypt
Russia
Czarewitch
Convocation of Zemsky Sobor Seen as End of Czarism
The text argues a national assembly would end czarist rule, claiming that not only Nihilists but a large majority of Russians support summoning a Zemsky Sobor to reshape the country’s governance.
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National Assembly
Zemsky Sobor
Watterson contrasts wealth producers with stock swindlers in fini speech
Henry Watterson spoke at the Kentucky campaign close contrasting wealth producers like farmers and thrifty workers with Wall Street speculators he described as a vulgar mob preying on others. He urged citizens to wake to the tricks of financiers and to value their sovereigns and duties.
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Kentucky
Henry Watterson
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Solomon
Thave
Living Like a Tramp Yet Wealthy Hotel Proprietor
A Paris police commissioner visits Lelong, a hotel owner living among luxury in a Champs Élysées district building that appears dilapidated. Despite rags, he conceals vast wealth and art, claiming a family ownership for a century and an income of £1,000,000. He faces medical inquiry for mental condition.
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Journal Des Debats
Paris
M. Kuehn
Lelong
Mehh
Leong
Champsfé@ysees
Lorde
Remanded for Sentence in Bigamy Case in New York
Robert E. Gore, known as Lieutenant Harry F. Horton of the Seventh Cavalry U.S., faced a New York General Sessions jury for bigamy after two marriages. Gore, a Quincy, Massachusetts native, had just completed a Massachusetts prison term and was extradited. The jurors convicted him on the spot. he was remanded for sentence as a brother of Miss Houston lunged toward him.
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New York
Robert E. Gore
Harry FE. Horton
Seventh Cavalry
U.S
General Sessions
Gere
Quincy
Mass
Massachusetts
Gore
Taurry K. Horton
Mignonette Peacock
Rufus W. Povcork
Eighth Street
Jersey City
Nelle Royston
Pr. Gordon
Church of St. Meu
17Th Street
Boston
Gove
Miss Pescock
Smith
Houston
Egg hatched crocodile found in family edible dish
About six months ago Charles Addington of Sacramento found a banana bunch egg that hatched into a four to five inch crocodile kept in a small toy dish on the mantel. The creature apparently fed on bird seed, evidence of suspended incubation and self incubation. The sister screamed upon discovery and the animal was killed after the lid was raised.
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Placer
Mr. Addington
Montreal Youth Dies After 33 Day Fast Vision Faults
Charles Fallon of Montreal aged twenty one died after a thirty three day fast begun during a religious fervor. Doctors and parish rector urged nourishment but he claimed a new vision to eat just as a feeding plan began. He had previously shown improvement but deteriorated and passed away, leaving a widowed mother and sisters in mourning.
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Montreal
Charles Fallon
Largest telescope on order for Russian observatory
Messrs. Alvin Clark and Sons of Cambridge are building the world’s largest telescope. Ordered by the Russian government for Polkovo Observatory, the lens has taken twelve months to grind. The instrument will be forty five feet long with a thirty inch object glass, hoping to bring the moon within thirty eight leagues of the earth.
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Messrs
Alvin Clark & Sons of
Cambridge
Polkovo
Hawk on St. Paul's Cross Stirs Vicksburg Citizens
In Vicksburg a large chicken hawk perched on the church cross at St. Paul’s Catholic Church for over a week. After the hawk was killed last Saturday evening another bird replaced it and remains perched. Locals view it as an ill omen and express unease.
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Vicksburg
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Death by his own hand shocks Cleveland saloonist
In Cleveland Ohio on November 11 Fred Strack a saloonist died by suicide last night after leaving a note stating his wife was too old for him and he could not endure the situation The tragedy adds to a troubling record of domestic strain in the city.
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Cleveland, O
Fred Strack
French Labor Troubles and Kropotkine Link
Paris reports a police seizure of revolutionary manifestoes and a Lyons demonstration amid rising socialist agitation. Authorities fear a broad conspiracy, with Nihilist leader Prince Kropotkine blamed for stirring unrest while workers align with Blanc's ideas and opposition to the bourgeoisie grows. Russia readies ships for Baltic and Black seas as tensions rise. Lyons security tightens.
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Paris
Lyons
St. Sulpice
Director of Public Safety
Bimsek
M. Louis Blanc
Prince Kropotkine
Haute Savoie
Monteau Les Mioris
St. Etienne
Seciatists
Agnevy
Hutest
Death of Estanislao Figueras Marks End of Provocative Career
Maparim November 11. Senor Estanislao Figueras, born Barcelona November 18, 1819, died after an adverse court decision. He edited Reyee in support of Msepartero and was elected to the Cortes in 1861 and again in 1862. A Tarragona Revolutionary Committee member, he faced Narvaez imprisonment in 1867 and later led Republican efforts. He served as president of the executive council after the republic's formation and as minister of the interior until April, retiring after his wife’s death.
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Maparim
Senor Estanislao Figueras
Barcelona
Reyee
Msepartero
Cortes
Tarragona
Narvaez
Isabella
Agai
Republican Party
Amadeus
Republic
Executive Council
Gladstone Opposes Cloture and Ireland’s Wants Debate
London dispatch reports the House of Commons resuming the cloture debate. Mr Gladstone opposed Sir Stafford Northcote’s amendment, urging rejection of the rule and dismissal of the resolution to oblivion after seventeen nights and divisions. He argued the public seeks results, not protracted talk, and stressed the need for a practical system of rules for Ireland’s needs. Stanhope denounced cloture and accused Gladstone of courting Irish votes with recent self-government talk.
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Mr. Gladstone
Ireland
London
House of Commons
Stafford Northcote
Trish Party
Gladstone
Clyveland
Peter
Leeland
Stanhope
Davitt Warns Scotland of Radical Land Movement
London reports Michael Davitt declaring during a Scotland visit that Scots are ready for a radical land reform movement aimed at ending landlordism. He notes opposition to compensation for landlords and anticipates England and Ireland aiding a wider assault through democratic activism and literary figures guiding public sentiment.
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London
Michael Davitt
Scotland
Lreand
Ireland
England
Newman and
Blackie
Vote on the cloture sustains Gladstone in Commons
The House of Commons divided on Sir Stafford Northcote's cloture rejection resolution. The tally stood 244 for and 806 against adoption, with government members cheering. Parliament is expected to prorogue in the first week of December.
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Gladstone
Lonnox
House of Commons
Stafford Northcote
Would-be Assassin Arrested in Dublin
DuBtin November 12 Judge Lawson was approached by a man near the Kildare Street Club with a hand in his breast. A policeman intervened as he resisted arrest and was knocked down. A loaded six chamber revolver was found on his person at the station. He gave the name Corrigan, believed false.
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DuBtin
Judge Lawson
Kildare Street Club
Corrigan
France Duped by England in Egypt Rumor
Berlin dispatches say German papers view M. Duclerc’s Chamber speech as lacking impact. They argue France has been expelled from Egypt and duped by England, yet will accept defeat with resignation.
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France
England
Berlin
M. Duclerc
Chamber of Deputies
Egypt
Terrible Colliery Explosion at Claycross Derbyshire
A deadly explosion at the Claycross colliery in Derbyshire today caused heavy loss of life. Thirty workers are confirmed dead, with fear of a larger toll. Among the deceased are four mine managers and officials from Public Worship and the French Deputies. The Paris Chamber of Deputies debate on Public Worship estimates follows.
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England
London
Claycross
Derbyshire
Public Worship
French Deputies
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Department of Public Worship
Pennsylvania Mother Burned Trying to Save Children
In Anisinning Pennsylvania Mrs Joan Hepler and her eldest daughter died in a house fire started by shavings placed in a stove as the mother attempted to wake her children. The oldest daughter, eight, died with her mother. other children were injured. The blaze broke out and timbers fell as neighbors assisted.
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Tanisning
Penn
Joan Hepler
Culla County
New York and Connecticut Divide Long Island Sound Waters
Judge Nelson rules Long Island Sound is part of the Atlantic Ocean, potentially invalidating state boundary provisions on fisheries and navigation. If upheld, New York and Connecticut would lack authority over sound fisheries and related rights.
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Nelson
Atlantic Ocean
New York
Connecticut
Long Isling Sound
United States Court
Providence Steamboat Company
Bansett Steamer
Jude
Long Island Sound
Engineer Faces Fall or Snake on Pine Creek Bluff
A Wellsboro special reports an engineer on the New Pine Creek Jersey Shore and Buffalo line climbed a rocky Pine Creek bluff to survey. Held on with one hand fifty feet up when a rattlesnake coiled to strike he chose to grasp the snake with his other hand and tossed it away saving himself from a likely fatal fall.
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Wellsboro
Penn
Philadelphia
New Pine Creek
Jersey Shore & Buffalo
Pine Creek
Signed His Farm Away
Henry Wagner, a Dewitt County farmer, alleges two confidence men swindled him out of his $85,000 farm. They obtained his and his wife’s signatures on a document thought to be a payment contract but proved to be a deed conveying the farm to the swindlers. Authorities believe the pair are active in other states.
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Washington
Dudley
United States
Congress
Clenton
Til
Henry Wagner
Dewitt County
Wagner
Man Who Absconded With City Bonds Captured in Texas
Despatch from New Orleans reports the capture in El Paso Texas of ex Mayor Nevin of Adrian Michigan who fled with the proceeds of Adrian bonds unlawfully sold in New York. He was seized in Texas after eluding pursuit.
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Curiaco
New Orleans
Texas
Nevin
Adrian
Mich
New York
el Paso
Explosions Hit Cleveland Rolling Mill Company Plant
Three brutal explosions rocked the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company works on Saturday. The oil receiver burst at 6 p.m. causing $500 in damage. A second blast at 10 o'clock from a furnace water pipe leak scattered about ten tons of red hot iron and added $1,000 in losses. At midnight foul gas buildup triggered a third blast demolishing a 32 man brick wall and costing $4,000. Remarkably no lives were lost.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
O’alock
Remarkable Georgia Grocer Father of Twenty-Two
Mr Johnston a Marietta street grocer stands six feet four inches tall and at 55 remains exceptionally strong. He has a wife alive and healthy as mother to twenty two children, youngest a baby, with all but one of the brood living and well formed.
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Atlanta Constitution
Johnston
Marietta Street
Georgia
Powder Explosion Kills Two Jones in Victoria S C
Two men named Jones father and son were driving a wagon loaded with gunpowder for railway works near Jackass Mountain in Victoria South Carolina when the powder exploded. Six horses and the wagon were blown apart. The father died soon after and the son is not expected to live.
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Jones
Victoria
S. C
Jackass Mountain
Brewers seek substitutes as hops price soars
With the hops crop small the market price climbs to one dollar per pound and up. Brewers meanwhile buy chamomile flowers and calumba root and select aloes as substitutes, often moving these purchases through agents, pushing up prices for related articles.
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Hops. Com
Drug News
Train wreck on Cuban extension trestle in Bradford district
A passenger train on the Bradford Eldred Cuba line ran off the Courtney trestle at night. The engine and two coaches tumbled into a 35 foot gorge. The engineer and fireman were killed instantly and many passengers were seriously injured.
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Buffalo
Bradford
Penn
Sunday News
Bradford, Eldred & Cuba
Courtney
Senator's Gambling Debts Paid by His Father
A senator of a Mexican state, a successful stock raiser, sold his sheep then gambled away the proceeds. He incurred debt of 20,660 dollars. He confessed to his father, who punished him and paid the entire 20,000 dollar obligation in town.
Decision in Favor of Peter Cooper
New York November 11 William P Groom sued Peter Cooper for 50000 damages for alleged libel in a circular accusing him of neglecting duty as agent for Mr Cooper when he was Greenback party presidential candidate The Circuit Court in Brooklyn returned a verdict for the defendant An order was entered discontinuing the action Whiteball N Y November 10 Four tons of gunpowder exploded at Keenan Lime Works Smiths basin New York Two men Dennis Golden and Joseph Cameron in charge of the powder house were blown to fragments bodies scattered as far as a half mile"
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Andrey Ivanovitch
Jelinbotty
Sophia Lyovnn
Perovskai
Nicholay — Ivanovitch Kibalehiteh
Red Cross
Andrey Jeliaboff
Nelidoff
Andery
Jelinboit
Cza
Andrey
Lterary College
Cymmnasium
Jellaboi
Odessa University
Jellabott
Jehabod
Lama Bern
Nicholas Kibalehiteh
Tts
Eres
Tle
Siberian
Will of the People
N. K
Grineyitsky
N. Sablin
Peter Cooper
New York
William P. Groom
Cooper
Greenback Party
Brooklyn
Whiteball
N. Y
Keenan Lime Works
Smith’s Basin
Dennis Golden
Joseph Cameron
The Halifax Holocaust Disaster in Nova Scotia
Fire at a large Halifax poor asylum in Nova Scotia killed not fewer than fifty inmates, mainly hospital patients. The blaze began in the bakery basement and spread to the hospital wing, trapping seventy patients as flames roared through the roof. Local officials faced blame for delayed evacuation as firemen battled the blaze amid collapsing stairs and smoke, with many victims unable to escape.
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Marirax
N. S
Wil
Severe Lesson Administered to Alaska Indians by Marines
A U S revenue cutter Thomas Corwin arrived from the north with details of a clash at Hochince Alaska. Marines shelled the village after a Gatling gun was placed on the beach, destroying huts and looting remains. Two chiefs were taken prisoners and several warriors killed in the attack. Commander Healy earlier relieved a fur station prisoners.
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San Francisco
Cal
Victoria
B. C
United States Revenue
Thomas Corwin
Hochince
Alaska
Sitka
Corwin
Hochinao
Merriam
American Fur Trading Company
Healy
Miser Hermit Robbed of Five 1000 Bonds in Brutal Encounter
Edward Holroyd, a reclusive 1861 resident of Spencer township near Cincinnati, reports four masked men battered him and burned his clothes before forcing disclosure of five government bonds worth 5000. The robbers searched the house but found no coupons or other treasures, leaving no clue to recovery.
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Cincinnati
Edward Holroyd
Spencer Township
Tolroyd
Noclew
A New Hampshire Romance Reveals Hidden Heir
A New Hampshire tale recounts Lydia P. Safford leaving Chesterfield with her infant, living as an upright pirate in Manchester until 1880 when $10,000 was found awaiting an heir. An administrator traced the secret life to Lizzie E. Smith of Chesterfield, a granddaughter of the deceased. The Mason Malachi Babcock funeral at Natick closes with a Masonic tribute.
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New Hampshire
Lydia P. Safford
Chesterfield
N. H
Pirangere
Manchester
Saffords
Lizzie E. Smith
Mrs. Smith
Malachi Babcock
Methodist Episcopal Church
Natick
C. E. Davis
Masonic Fraternity
Middlesex Lodge
Framingham
TN. Hill
A. PeCheney
Thomas Hammond
J. M. Seaward
Wellesley
Leland
Y. Ware
Sherborn
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Shaw
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Union OF Old Friends
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M. J. Wood
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Robert BE. Gore
California
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M. Roche
Freppel
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Blick
Croistadt
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