Parnell and the English land reform issue reviewed
The article by George A. Bruce surveys English politics amid a new era of enfranchised voters. It outlines four Radicals’ aims: land reform, disestablishment of the state church, universal secular education, and House of Lords reform. It credits Parnell with driving Irish land reform that stirs reform across Great Britain and discusses possible paths for reshaping or replacing the Lords.
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United States
England
Scotland
Ireland
Tom
Guope
Great Britain
House of Lords
Massachusetts
Oxford
Cambridge
Europe
Edinburgh Review
Macauley
William E. Gladstone
M. P
Gladstone
Noronger
Birmingham
Leeds
Newcastle
John Bright
Oool Society
Lord Palmerston
Lord Russell
Bright
Labouchere
Cowan
Papes
Chamberlain
Lords
Artishops
Protestant Episcopal Church
Soverei
House of Ids
Senate
House of Commons
London
Secon House
Commons
House of Loras
Eng Dy
Forge A
Bruce
Crank Claims Atmosphere Proof at Capitol
Police recount arrest of a man who claimed to be atmospheric proof after attempting to jump the Capitol railings. He threatened to leap to the pavement from the roof, and then named the Brooklyn Bridge and Niagara Falls as possible targets.
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Hunt
Capitol
Jumbo the giant elephant returns from Paris to New York details
Barnum recalls Jumbo's life at Bridgeport and New York with keeper Matthew Scott describing the elephant's growth, diet, and affection. The keeper notes Jumbo weighed about a ton and saved Tom Thumb from a train incident. Barnum estimates Jumbo earned up to 800000 dollars in the United States, plans for mounting skin and skeleton, and potential Boston museum display after death.
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Barnum
Bridgeport
Matthew Scott
Jumbo
Tom Thumb
Mr. Scott
Zoological Gardens
Paris
Charing Cross Station
Jardin Des Plantes
Alice
Rochester
Ward
England
Leo
Waldemere
Arstingstall
Tom ‘Thumb
Scott
Barnum Museum of Natural History
Tufts College
Boston
Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Barnum
Henry A. Ward
Agassiz
Obituary Snippet Mentioning Faults and Bees in Acworth
A Lowell Courier fragment notes a hollow Acworth tree with yellow wasps four spotted adders and a large swarm of bees. An obituary in the Martford Times praises a man as muscular and good-hearted while a Naugatuck contemporary cites a quotable line about everyone having faults.
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Lowell Courier
Acworth
N. H
Martford
Naugatuck
Local teen dies at twenty three in community loss
Word spread after the death of a young man aged 23 years and 10 months. A funeral service and interment were held Friday with a large turnout. The wife and child are named as the nearest of kin.
Atlantic Works builds giant harbor shears for Boston port
Atlantic Works of East Boston completed a massive pair of harbor shears to lift 100 tons, enabling hoisting boilers or shafts on large steamers without dry docking. The 180 ft 6 in tall structure uses 40 in diameter legs, steel rope back guy, and double riveted seams, marking a leap from the former 40–50 ton capacity.
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Boston
Atlantic Works
Navy Department
Washington
Navy Yard
Charlestown
Atlantic
Lees
Albert B. Low
United States
The Wonderful Invention That Came to 1 Fort Worth Man
Fort Worth inventor Fred H Brown developed a magneto telephone and telegraph without a battery after years of work. The device was tested in Fort Worth and in Cleburne, with demonstrations showing clear voice transmission over long lines. Brown arranged international interest, with rights sold for the United States and talks of Europe and Canada investors. plans include rapid expansion of sub companies and further large scale tests to prove world spanning communication.
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Fort Worth Democrat
Fred H. Brown
New York
Fadio
George J. Frankel
H. Shuttler
France
Germany
E. Keye
Brown
Gould
Mr. Mackay
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Company
Washington
J. d. Safeley
Austin Corbin
Har
Safeley
United States
Mr. Brown
Fort Worth
Bonanza McKayee
Canada
England
Long Island
Brownhag
Edwin Masterson
Overland Telephone Company
Western Union
Charles A. Tinker
Blas
Manger
Cleburne
Mor Frankel
Mr. Frown
Ioventar
Rv. Masterson
J. H. Murphy
Robert L. Moore
Craters
Fort Worr
Granger
C. M. Bander
H. Murphy
Es Ives
Atlantic Ocean
Buckshot for the Minister Second Attempt to Assassinate a Colored Baptist Preacher
In Memphis on October 19 Rev. R. N. Countee, a well known colored Baptist minister, was shot at near De Soto and Webster streets as he left services. Two bullets hit Countee, a brother was wounded in the back and chin, a bystander woman injured, and the assailant fled dropping the gun after the failed attack.
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Memphis
Tenn
R. N. Countee
de Soto and
Webster Streets
Mr. Countee
L. Countee
Ellen Wright
Newark Cashier Robbed As City Bank Heist Fails
John Berry cashier of Yates Wharton & Co hatters Newark drew 2700 dollars from City National Bank and was struck down near the bank. A small boy helped Officer McManus pursue the thief, James Reegan, who allied with Joker Lang. Berry’s wound was not serious. Mike Connelly fled in a buggy but vanished after Lang’s arrest.
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New York
John Berry
Yates, Wharton & Co
Hatters
Commerce Street
Newark
City National Bank
Lang
Hwntws the Hwntwes of Wales and Norfolk dialects
A linguistic note from the Norristown Herald explains Hwntwes as the name used for South Wales inhabitants by northern peoples. It includes the phonetic prompt for pronouncing the word and hints at regional language curiosity.
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Norristown Herald
South of
Wales
North
Stock Exchange Mints Speculation on St Paul Shares
New York October 18 Rigolo hints at a revived stock market with brisk buying and soaring broker optimism. Armour and Newcomb emerge as key players driving St Paul and Erie stock activity, using private wires and bold moves while critics demand substantiated earnings reports and population and freight data to back speculative gains.
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New York
Stock Exchange
John R. Andrews
James Struthers
Wall _ street
Struthers
Jack’’ Andrews
A. Cordova
Wittany & Co
Andrews
Wallae
Wal Street
Sori
Green & Bateman
Rocky Mountains
Ae Orner
Victor Newcomb
Phil” Armour
Mortimer
New and
Wall Streets
Charles O Ds
Sven
Chica
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Erie
Chicago
Armour
Mitchell
Wadsworth
Northern Pacific
Wall Street
The
Extraordinary Good Luck on the Arkansas Traveller
Two men ride a railroad train. One buys a book and after reading a while shows it down. He declares it the oddest book he ever saw and calls it a fraud, threatening to maul the author. He then reveals he is the author.
Ducks, dogs, and a crab miss in Cambridge note
State's Attorney Henry and Sheriff Melvin hunted ducks on the marshes last Saturday. Henry killed a crab in range of his gun and the sheriff drowned his dog yet managed only four ducks as compensation. The column ends with a digression about lifestyle habits and quotes from Variety and Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Cambridge
Chronicle
Henry
Melvin
Pittsburg
Market Notes and Bank Statments from Finance and Commerce
Moderate demand for money and ample loanable funds keep loan and discount rates steady. New York funds quoted at 15 cents discount per $1000. clearing-house totals show weekly exchanges and balances. Bank reserves exceed legal requirements. Bradstreet notes general trade remains in excess of 1884 and stable to hopeful, with mixed signals by region and sector.
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New York
Bradstreet’s
Boston
Seaboard
Philadelphia
Ion
Chicago
Boston Dairy GLong Adapts Prices For Apples Butter and Beans
Prices for apples and evaporated fruit rise amid steady demand in Boston markets. Butter prices firm with creamery stock scarce, while beans and other staples show mixed movement. Market notes include coal cannel rates, pork and lard activity, and general commodity fluctuations across oats, flour, and tea.
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Boston Dairy Glong
Baldwins
Nubbardaton
Pippina
Waterbury Watch Advert from The Weekly Globe Boston
The Waterbury watch offers a 57-part stem winder in half open face with nickel silver case. Each unit includes a nickel plated chain and whistle, packed in satin lined box, postage free. Guaranteed to run twenty eight hours when fully wound, tested six days at factory, repairable for 50 cents.
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Waterbury
Weekly Globe
Boston
Mass
Market notes from Saturday feature mixed grain and cotton data
Saturday reports show flour and meal at stony prices with mixed grades, while cotton futures rose on favorable foreign cues and closed varied by contract month. Spot cotton remains firm with middling upland at 13 16 cents and Gulf at 10 cents amid substantial port receipts of 44 266 bales. Wheat futures closed variable as Ugrain movement continues.
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Chicago
Michigan
Sime
Dan
Uiry
Ile
Bossare Sah
Blleab Ieee
Jolge
Patton
Live Stock Markets Brighton and Watertown Arrivals
Weekly market report shows totals for Western cattle 1530, Northern cattle 290, sheep and lambs 6580, total 17371, beef prices 450 to 850 per hundredweight dressed. Prices listed for western cattle quality grades, hides, calfskin, tallow, lambskins, country hides and sheep tallow.
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Brighton
Water
Gloucester Fish Market Report October Ten to Seventeen
Gloucester market shows strong sales and shipments across fish types with steady prices. Weekly receipts near 2,600 barrels and 950,000 pounds of codfish plus large fresh halibut pollock haddock and hake totals. salt fish rates varied by species and size. shore backerel sales strong at 77 26 per barrel out of Peolkie. overall stock remains light as season nears close.
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Franklin County
Vermont
Yorssons
New York
Lon Alries
Airoeet
Worcester County
Umberland
Clearfield
Acadia
Rio
Ava
Beimert Tadbloc
St. Doingo
Haus
Cane
Arena
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Frei
Sisto
Borne
Turkey
Valencia
London
New England
Glouverst
Weatees
Grand
Haddock
Eas Lock
Hake
Grand Bank
G Srige
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