Tilton estate sold back to Plimpton family after 80 years
WALrott Mass Sept 30 The Tilton estate and water privileges once owned by Cal vin Plimpton and later sold to Hubbard W Tilton have been bought by the Plimpton brothers, restoring the property to the family that founded the iron works. The plant once employed 100 men, later decayed, and had traded hands through tariff pressures before returning to Plimpton control for about six to seven thousand dollars.
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Plimpton
Hubbard W. Tilton
Tilton
New England
Almy Taken to Woodville for Trial
Manchester New Hampshire September 29 After secrecy officials transferred Frank C Almy from the city to Woodsville for arraignment. Jailer Wadsworth led the party carrying crutches aloft as a symbol. A prisoner in a dark suit with a careful toilet, his defiant air marked his passage through the crowd.
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Manchester
N. H
Frank C.almy
Woodsville
Wadsworth
Tos
Desperate Young Romeo Charged With Attempted Murder
Charles Ross a 20 year old was captured in Kent county and jailed at East Greenwich for attempting to assassinate Deacon James Bailey of Natick. He entered the deacon's house despite orders, hid in an upper room awaiting Mamie Ley, threatened to shoot the family, and fled into the woods before being recaptured.
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Providence
R. I
Charles Ross
Kent County
East Greenwich
James Bailey
Natick
Pawtuxet Valley
Ross
Mamieley
Bacon
Mamie
Leila
Itrader
Lynn Mourns Cyrus Tracy Botanist and Public Servant Dead
Cyrus M. Tracy a longtime Lynn figure died suddenly in Lynn Massachusetts at the age of 60. Born 1824 in Norwich Connecticut he moved to Lynn in youth and held roles from city clerk to surveyor and engineer. He taught botany at Essex Institute and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and edited the Lynn Transcript for a decade. He championed the citys free public forest and led library efforts as a public servant and educator.
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Lynn
Mass
Cyrus M. Tracy
Norwich
New London County
Conn
William Vom
Essex Institute of Salem
Medica Massachussetts College of Pharmacy
Frersse
van ‘Transcript
Free Public Library of
Mgmber
Essex
Worcester County
Tracy
Free Public Forest of
Supposed Firebug Held in Lowell Mass
Joseph Donaldson, charged with setting a Prescott Street barn fire, was ordered to the grand jury in $3000 bail by Judge Hadley. He remained in jail after failing to post bond. A former White River Junction resident and ex-section hand, Donaldson carried matches in his pockets and claimed no memory of the blaze.
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Lower
Mass
Joseph Donaldson
Manning & Leighton
Prescott St
Hadley
Donaldson
White River Junction
John Donnelly
Lowell
Gen William Wells Seen as Vermont Secretary Proctor Success
Burlinghton Vermont Oct 2 The prominent mention of Gen William Wells of this city as a successor to Secretary Proctor has created interest in the state Wells a noted soldier and citizen born Waterbury Illinois December 14 1867 He joined the 1st Vermont Cavalry in 1861 rising from lieutenant to captain to major He fought in Banks Shenandoah and Pope Virginia campaigns and served with the Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps until war’s end except Aug 1864 to Mar 1865 under Sheridan in Shenandoah Valley.
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Burlincron
William Wells
Proctor
Wells
Waterbury
Vermont
New Hampshire
1St
Vermont Cavalry
Nathaniel P. Banks
Shenandoah
John Pope
Virginia
Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac
Sheridan
Shenandoah Valley
Henry Law
Butterworth
Wabash
Charlestown
Cambridge
Gertrude A. Higby
Suffolk County
Mass
C. H. Higby
Boston & Albany
North Wilbraham
Labor Societies of
Boston
Wendell Philps
Norman Munro
Norwood
Bridgeport
Conn
F. Eaves
W. A. Seaman
Zeone
New Lonon
John Taylor Hall
Albany
Seward
Weed and Greeley
Lucien D. Mears
Beloit College
Andover Theological Seminary
Danby
Beloit
Bostocce League
Portland
Fred H. Knight
Springfield
R. R. Doherty
New York
Epworth League of America
Hugh Price Hughes
London
M. P. Oakes
Stillwater
William McKee Dunn
2D United States Artillery
Fort Preble
Washington
Fortress Monroe
Army of the Missouri
Regular Infantry
Artillery
Gloucester Board of Aldermen
Coffin
Deonohue
Sullivan
Hodgkins
Roberts
Nathaniel Webster
Iray
Gray
Robert Landrick
Milford
Mersena Brett
Prospect St
South Hingham
Brett
Salem
Andover
O. M. Clark
Swampscott
Clark
Lee
Silver Lake
Leicester
Cornelius Driscoll
Bow St
Mary
Kate D. Knowles
Newport
R. I
Jerry Calden
West Springfield
Silver Watch
E. H. Schermerhorn
Frank Gorham
Dgeport
United States
Europe
Republic
Georgianna Thompson
Blue
Civil War General Wells' Long Service and Civic Roles
The record outlines General Wells who became colonel on June 4, 1864 and was brevetted brigadier general on February 22, 1865. He led brigades in the Army of the Potomac, later headed the 2d Army Corps division, and mustered out January 15, 1866. He served Waterbury in the Legislature in 1865 and 1866, became adjutant and inspector general, joined Grant's administration as collector of customs for Vermont in 1872, and later served as state senator in 1886. He held executive positions with Ells & Morse, Rutland Road, and Burlington Company.
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Wells
3D Cavalry Division
Army of the Potomac
Fairfax Urt House
Waterbury
Grant Coll
District of
Vermont
Ells & m Company
Rutlan
Burlington Company
Zephaniah Geary Dies at 66 in Warman Church Service
Zephaniah Geary, 66, collapsed and died during services at Bethany Free Baptist church in Warman, Mass. He had long worked at the D. B. Gurney tack factory. He leaves a widow and one son. heart disease cited as the cause.
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Warman
Mass
Zephaniah Geary
Bethany Free Baptist Church
Mr. Geary
D. B. Gurney
Four Year Old Kitty T Sold at Gravesend Sale
In New York on September 30 a sale at Gravesend saw several thoroughbreds listed but only the four year old brown filly Kitty T a Enquirer offspring out of Bonnie Lawn change hands Browning and Kneal for 3650 dollars.
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New York
Gravesend
Kitty T
Enquirer
Bonnie Lawn
Browning & Kneal
Peter Cull ing Found Dead After Drinking Rat Poison
Briperrort Conn Sept 30 Laborer Peter Culling employed by B D Pierce Jr drank rough on rats mixed in water early this morning His body was found today on the boarding house floor showing evidences of terrible agony
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Briperrort
Conn
Peter Culling
B. D. Pierce, Jr
Unitarian Minister Nominated for Representative Race
Miziorp Oct 2 Rev. George Ball of West Upton nominated by Republicans for representative from the Upton district. George H. Stoddard is the Democratic nominee.
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Miziorp
Mass
George 8. Ball
West Upton
Upton
George H. Stoddard
Child survives after ingesting carbolic acid
In Rutland Vermont on October 1 a 15 month old child of William E. Palmer swallowed three to four teaspoons of carbolic acid solution after taking the bottle from a shelf. A physician gave antidotes and used a stomach pump. After about an hour the child was declared out of danger.
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William E. Palmer
Harper Woollen Mill Fire at Oxford Causes Great Loss
Norway Me Oct 1 The Harper Manufacturing Company's woollen mill at Oxford burned last night from an oil lamp explosion. Loss estimated at 100000 with no casualities reported. forty men were employed at the mill and all are safe.
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Norway
Harper Manufacturing Company
Oxford
Milkmen vote to raise price in Manchester meeting
At a large City Hall gathering of milk suppliers from Manchester and nearby towns, a vote approved an immediate price increase. The new schedule sets storekeepers paying 40 cents per can, housekeepers 36 cents per can, and retailers 6 cents per quart.
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Manchester
N. H
Danbury Elopement Involves Bennett And 16-Year-Old Carrie Cooper
Charles W. Bennett, a 35 year old married man, eloped with Carrie Cooper aged 16 in Danbury. Bennett, a well known citizen, was previously admired by the girl and withdrew from societies. He took both his own and his wife’s money from the bank, leaving her penniless.
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Quincy
Mass
McGrath
Lee
Dominico FE
Capone
Angelina Campana
North St
Boston
Bear
Angelina
Italy
Humphrey
Rutland
Danbury, Conn
Charles W. Bennett
Carrie Cooper
Bennett
Turbulent Day in Vermont and New Hampshire Deaths
Reports from Tunbridge and Putney Vermont detail Freeman Sweetzer’s back shot wound by an unknown loader’s mishandling of a target gun, while E. O. Dean committed suicide by hanging in Putney. Other incidents include a Proctor railroad accident injuring George Johnson, a funeral in Exeter aged 84, and various civic and industrial notes from New England towns detailing fires, strikes, and local governance events.
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Tunbridge
Freeman Sweetzer
St. Albans
Dean
Pierce
Shelley Place
Putney
Brattleboro
Proctor
George Johnson
Patience Allen
Exeter
N. H
A. F. Pike
Pike’s Station
Sanitarium
Danville
New England
New Britain
Patrick Fleming
Boston
Morton Pl
Pittsfield
Mass
Rhode Island
New School For the Deaf and Dumb
Willimantic
Conn
Elisha Dyer Vinton
Sabin St
Providence
Roxbury
A. W. Tewksbury & Son
Ellen R. Lowe
Grear
Crescent Beach
Rockland
John M. Burrage
Leominster
John Patterson
Worcester & Nashua Railroad
Nashua
Harry A. Sylvester
Waltham
Newcoss News
Thomas Carson
Johnston
R.I
Arthur
Dorchester
Annan Colony
Hawes’ Bridge
A.B. Hammond
Saratoga
Woodstock
Japimond
Ardelia Griffin
Dover
Beecher’s courtship of a classmate’s fiancée at seventeen
Mrs Beecher recalls Henry Ward Beecher wooing a woman who doubted his singing, his quiet persistence, and bold request for her hand. The tale recounts parental misgivings, Beecher’s earnest appeal, and a father’s late certainty that the courtship would endure, begun in 1831 with a music loving circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Beecher
Beecher
Henry
Cupely
Henry Ward Beecher
Father
Eecher
Man Who Got Alaska A Memory of Cassius M Clay in Kentucky
Frank G Carpenter recalls Cassius M Clay near Richmond Kentucky as the first abolitionist of slaveholders and a diplomat who secured Alaska for the United States. He details Clay’s early Yale speech, Lincoln friendship, Russia mission, and critique of Seward and European powers while praising Clay’s courage wealth and world view.
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Ichmond
Kentucky
Cassius M. Clay
South
Hamlin
Russia
Abraham Lincoln
Yale College
Causius M. Clay
White Hall
Henry Clay
Horace Greeley
Greeley
White House
Washington
Spain
Europe
Lincoln
Mr. Clay
Sam
France
Ennaland
Adams
Dayton
Kena
Senator Baker
Oregon
Gen. Clay
Baker
President Lincoln
Clay
America
Alaska
United States
Siberia
Behring Straits
George Kennan
South Carolina
Lexington
Richmond
Jackson
Julias Cresar
Egus Shy
Wood
Jackson Paar
Webster
Cassius M. Sates
Henry Wey
Ter
Frank G. Carpenter
What Is New in Wraps for Fall and Winter Fashion
The piece describes longer fall capes and coats in cloth or fur, reaching to the knees with tight-fitting blue cloth styles, beaver or seal shawl revers, and richly decorated waistcoats. Rich fabrics include silk and wool blends in garnet, browns, blues, greens, gold-thread designs, and brocaded linings. The fall cape mirrors summer styles with richer materials and decoration. Buy your lining first, then the cape if funds allow.
Oddities From A Curious Era Of World Marvels And Oddities
A medley of eccentric claims and industrial previews from a bygone era. It cites experiments in animal behavior, massive coal trains, spider thread scales, gambler communities, and global measuring quotes. Other notes discuss skyscraper bridges, fairground aquariums, and speculative science from electricity to optics.
Ocean floor mapped revealing vast plains and basins
The New York Ledger reports on a London expedition mapping the Atlantic’s bottom over four years. It describes three major basins, two miles beneath ships, with mountain ranges and submarine cables. Deep vents host red volcanic masses and unusual creatures. Ancient legends of Atlantis resurface, suggesting a lost continent may lie beneath.
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Atlantic
New York Ledger
London
Newfoundland
Ireland
Reclus
Tese
Plato
Solon
Izcail
Bourbourg
Africa
West Indies
Atlantis
New Boston Music Catalog Highlights Piano and Vocal Pieces
Oliver Ditson & Co markets piano titles such as Frolic of the Frogs and Judith Gavotte by Rollinson and Schindler. Vocal selections include Serenade and Sombrero for singers, Love's Proving by Browning, and That is Love by McGlennon and Ray. new comic songs Casey's Choice and Friends Friends Friends, plus a skirt dance, That is Love, touted as the season's favorite.
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Oliver Ditson & Co
Mrs. Browning
Robert Coverley
J. W. Hinds
H. E. Barney
Casey's Choice
Martin Hennessey
F. McGlennon
Jwsns Ray
Double Breasted Vests and Plush Cushions Stir Fashion Talk
The column comments on sofa cushions in diverse settings from divans to floors, noting plush textures and silk fabrics. It highlights double breasted waistcoats in whipcord and brown sack suttings, praising the chime with the season and suggesting a revival in a subtler palette.
Lions in His Path on Limpopo River
A London Graphic correspondent recounts a Transvaal boundary incident where a Hottentot driver named Cigar pushes through heavy roads. His oxen halt before a pair of lions and cubs naps mid day. He lashes with a giant ox whip, startling the lions who flee into the jungle.
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London Graphic
South Africa
Limpopo
Transvaal
Cigar
Hus
Suit at Law The Globe Letter Satirizes Legal System
A verse letter to The Globe mocks the legal process. It lampoons lawyers drawing cash, prolonged suits, and delays, noting procrastination, bills, and the law’s flaws. It uses playful rhythm and references to Latin jargon and courtroom banging rhetoric.
Druggist Hires Applicant After Odd Exchange
In a humorous scene a pharmacist questions a job applicant about qualifications asking if he can sing for the position. The applicant cannot sing and shows reluctance, but the druggist nevertheless offers engagement, marking a comical hiring moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Rooney
Moneywed Couple Sparks in Antique Borough Riff
In a Brooklyn Eagle blurb a humorous exchange unfolds between Mr Moneywed and Mrs Moneywed. He laments empty pockets while she recalls how easily he found them in their early married days. The snippet captures domestic humor from a bygone era.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Mr. Moneywed
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