Checkers column and game notes from 1879 Boston issue
The page lists editor Charles F. Barker and contact in Cambridgeport Massachusetts. Included are chess style notes with authors Isaiah Barker E W McMurphy and Eugene A. White. Entries show Black to move and win with Position No. 633 and a Double Corner game No. 824.
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Boston
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
New England Chess and Checker Rooms
G L, Bugbee
Isaiah Barker
Barker
Glasgow
Mr. D. Kirkwood
Kirkwood
Li A
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Charles W. Y Msted
Melmore
New England
G. D. Bugbee
Drawa
Mr. Freeman
Stick” Smith
Switcher game 814 noted by Globe editor Deesar Sin
Carmichaels Penna October 20 1879 Checker Editor of The Globe DeEsaR Sin reports on Switcher game number 814 with terse local sports note.
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the Globe
Deesar Sin
World’s Checker Book details and correspondence notice
An 1879 Chess and checkers column recounts game positions, corrections, and author notes. It includes letters from readers about Barker brothers and J. D. Janvier, plus solutions by Barker, White, and Powell for positions 629 to 631 and an ad for Barker’s book with pricing and order details. The piece preserves names, places, and dated correspondence.
Answers to Correspondents in the World’s Checker Book
Letters to Bert E Carr in Liverpool Oregon City Decatur and New Castle with notices about the World’s Checker Book. Readers comment on plays and solutions, noting weak points and awaiting future analyses from Heffner and Bugbee in Boston.
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Bert E. Carr
Diverpool
Curisie Archer
Oregon City
Ore
Frank Young
Decatur
Ala
W. J
Kl. Young
J. D. Janvier
New Castle
Del
Charlies Vester
Chicago
September and October numbers of the New England Checker Player show match notes
The September and October issues publish sections from various authorities including the Bristol opening by K bh Bowen with fifty five variations from the World’s Checker book. Reed backed out of the Waieb match versus Lim and Priest. W. H. Broughton of Portland played blindfolded in Lewiston, winning one and drawing two of three games.
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New England
W. H. Broughton
Portland
Visied
Lewiston
Veteran Type Founder Michael Dalton Dead in Old North End
Michael Dalton, aged veteran type founder and oldest in the country, died in Boston. Born May 23, 1800, on Middievott Street, he rose from apprentice to head of a leading Dickinson type foundry. He formed Phelps & Dalton in 1845 and helped build a premier printing type business. He leaves a son, Henry L. Dalton, and will be buried at Hull Street residence.
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Boston
Middievott Street
Bowdoin
Mayhew School
Aaron Breed
Broad Street
Charlemont
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Sewall Phelps
Phelps & Dalton
Dickinson
Samuel N. Dickson
Dalton
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Hull-street
Alton
Facts Worth Knowling from Chambers Journal source
Though fragments, this item crowds scientific curiosities and figures. It notes sound speeds in air water and metals, mercury freezing, clouds, air density, atmospheric pressure, human force under load, heat and expansion, ice to water, water to steam, Dead Sea salt content, rainfall depth at the equator, Earth interior heating, gunpowder force, artificial cold, solar radiation, deep water darkness, and ends with an advertisement for Dr Ben’s Cough Syrup priced at twenty five cents.
Chess notes and matches in Detroit exchanges
Communications to W. W. Curran detail chess study and a short match between Captain Mackenzie and Eugene Delmar at five dollars per game. The piece discusses an upcoming Mackenzie Hosmer contest, a Cafe Engel venue, and a shift to Manhattan quarters. It critiques an electric ending claim, notes endgame simplicity, and references G. Reiehbela's work as superior complex analysis.
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Mackenzie
Eugene Delmar
Messrs
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Hosmer
Cafe Engel
Manhattan
G. Reiehbela
Bismarck pressuring to seal Austro German alliance
Cologne Gazette reports Bismarck warned he will resign if Emperor William refuses to sign the Vienna defense pact. He presented two protocols creating a defence alliance Austria Hungary and Germany, with council approval and imminent sanction from Baden. Critics fear risk of war and entanglements with Russia. Britain’s stance unclear.
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Lonovoy
Cologne
Bismarck
Federal Council
Berlin
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Europe
Varsin
Germany
France
Biswarck
Count Andrasay
Englana
Bat Cave of Texas near Uvalde described in 1879 report
The article details a vast bat cave twenty miles north of Uvalde with large north facing entrances and extensive interior passages. Guano mining employs a 1 ton capacity tram system and a dry ing cylinder powered by a Jack engine. Daily guano removal ranges three to ten tons, shipped to Galveston then Scotland for chemical use. The piece notes bat populations and a post office department notice about mail detention.
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St. Louis
Galveston
Scotland
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