Butler Urges Farmers to Unite for Populist Reform
General Butler spoke at a Williams Grove Grangers picnic at Mechanicsburg urging farmers to unite for political reform. He warned monopolies and high transportation costs divert profits, urged the creation of a People’s party, and contrasted past hard rural life with present overproduction and under-consumption.
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Grangers
Williams Grove
Harrisburg
General Butler
the Grove
T. ’. Rynders
Greenback State Committee
Butler
Master Rhone
State Grange
Money Better Than Marriage: Woman Loses 70 in Bank Heist
Jessie McLean of Brookline trusted a man named George Walton whom she married after a brief acquaintance. They planned to move west, but in Boston she drew 70 from a bank and left it with him in a Public Garden outing. Walton vanished, police seek him as she reports the loss.
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Brookline
George Walton
West
Boston
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Henry James Critique of A New England Winter and Autumn Fashion Notes
A mixed review of Henry James new story about A New England Winter finds the tale flawed by weak plot and unsympathetic characters, contrasted with a sharp, ironic observation of Boston winter life. The fashion section describes millinery trends featuring small bonnets, pokes, round hats, velvet trimming, and delicate feathers for the season.
Crazy Quilt Ingenuity and Misplaced Energy Critique
A fashion writer denounces a huge silk quilt made of 9000 scraps as misdirected female energy. The piece argues such hours spent on decorative craft waste time that could advance embroidery, languages, science, or housekeeping, urging women to pursue broader ambitions and knowledge.
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Kensington
Camping Out An Account of a Boston Party
A Boston group enjoys camping out as a healthful, sociable retreat. Harper's Bazar notes affordable mountain grounds and a typical party of fifteen for about $85 weekly, including tents and guide. Host invites guests with a detailed luncheon plan and route map for a three week White Mountains trip.
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Wiite
Boston
Brunswick
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Flowers of Fashion and New Millinery in Early Fall Fabrics
The piece surveys autumn fashion trends with bright silks and satins, new fabrics like satin antique, French poplins, and Sanspareil poplin. It notes Gilbert cloths with irregular color blocks and stripes, Devonshire serges, and a push toward practical domestic cloth with rich finishes and vivid tones.
Velveteen Competes With Lyons Velvet In Fashion Markets
Velveteen gains popularity and is likely to surpass velvet for many uses. The Nonpareil velvet remains a top brand with new season colors, often cheaper than Lyons velvet, and equal in appearance. It wears longer and suits dresses, jackets, and children's clothing, with refinements like satin surah linings. The Sanspareil poplius from the early trade exhibit offers similar luxury with a softer texture and lus trous finish in popular colors.
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Lyons
Fashion Notes: Feathers Trim Bonnets and Redingote Style
Feathers dominate bonnets with embroidered bands and crown flowers. Soft felt bands, crochet wool capes for summer, and new colors like Porphyre and Pompeian red appear. Grande Duchesse redingote tight with steel gray cloth, bows, and embroidery signals autumn trends. Paris shows double Fedora trim for everyday wear.
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Paris
Steamer Carried Forty Miles by Men Over BC Mountain Pass
A British group plans to haul a small steamer in one piece across Clarke's fork range in the Kootenai country near Pend d'Oreille lake. The vessel, built in England and ferried via Norway and the Great Lakes, will travel 1600 miles to reach its destination amid rugged terrain and native aid.
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Kootenai Valley
Idaho
Pend d’Oreille Lake
Kootenai River
Rocky Mountains
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Chester
England
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Liverpool
Polynesia
Montreal
Great Lakes
Duluth
United States
Northern Pacific
Lana Point
Lake Pend d’Oreille
Tough tussle with a bear in Oregon ends with fork victory
L. Pott er of Portland, now at North Beach, fought a young bear over his cub after the animal leaped to his camp log. Potter clung to the bear and stabbed its nose with a dinner fork, finishing with the cub as a trophy. The encounter left Potter bloodied but victorious.
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Portland
Oregonian
L. ©. Potter
North Beach
Northwest
Potter
Mr. Potter
MacDuff
Inexpensive Decoration for the Domestic Interior
A domestic guide offers affordable ideas to beautify rooms with repurposed boxes and frames. Instructions cover making a work table from a box, wall hangings, Japanese silk panels, brackets, black and French polished wood, screens, chandeliers, wardian cases, and adaptable storage like box ottomans and wardrobes.
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Bern
Sardiniere
Mummy Found in Guano Bed Brought to City
Captain Hussey, dealer in Peruvian guano, delivers a two foot mummy relic to Captain James Russell at 211 North Street. Discovered December 4, 1883, twenty five feet under guano, it may be a one year old child, age and nationality unknown. Scientists to decide if it had a soul or is a monkey.
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S. B. Hussey
James Russell
North Street
Texas Fever Hits Illinois Cattle Herds
MARINE Illinois August 28 The Texas fever continues unabated with new herd outbreaks. Southern cattle suspected as disease carrier remain free from infection so far. Farmers are alarmed as valuable cows fall to the fatal illness.
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Illinois
Marine
Ill
Touching Incident on a Train and a Remedy Fable
An elderly man and his daughter ride a crowded St Louis express where she pleads not to be sent to an asylum. The father explains she is mentally unwell after seminary study, and a journey to a private asylum is planned. The piece then cites rising insanity and promotes Warner's Tippecanoe as a purifying stomach tonic and reviver.
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St. Louis Express
New York Central
Papa
Poir
Paiaeion
America
Warner
Tippecanoe
Harrison
Curious Cotton from Furnace Slag Blown into Fiber
A new process uses blast furnace slag to create a cotton like fibre called miners wool. Experiments at Isabella furnaces Sharpsburg show fibre withstands heat, resists burning, and could replace asbestos in insulation and fire dampening. Production lasts 15 to 20 minutes per slag flow yielding about 50 pounds of material.
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Pittsburg
Isabella
Sharpsburg
H. Kennedy
Lucy Furnace
New York
W. FP. Shion
Oliver & Roberts
South Side
Various Local Notes and Oddities From New England
A collection of brief items: Dr. Hoskins of Newport owns 1500 bearing apple trees. Wilson House in North Adams sold for 105000 but declined. Taunton resident Alvah Noyes, age 65, walks eight miles daily. Fitchburg real estate gains reach 11016 60 with 623523 year over year. New Bedford moves to park development in the south. Waterbury plans free postal service after October 1 with five carriers. Littleton hosts two baseball clubs the Grasshoppers and Potato Bugs. A Foxboro headstone mentions John Spard 1701. A 218-pound swordfish was caught off Block Island. Maine raspberry crops large. Bangor buyer purchases 20 tons at four and a half to nine cents per pound. Waterbury farmer ships wood Sunday. Fall River workers berry-picking during shutdown. West Haven land values rise. rail branch to Savin Rock proposed for 60000. Millbridge Packing Co of Maine experiments eel gelatine preserves. An old Franklin New Hampshire apple tree planted in 1770 bears fruit after 90 years. A Scarborough Beach water spring discovered near Scarborough Beach, Me. Julia Brace, blind deaf mute, dies at 78 in Bloomfield Conn. A Providence relic: a solid silver cane with rattlesnake motif and warning inscription. Minute Men era relic likely from pre-Revolution times.
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Newport
Wilson
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Alvah Noyes
Taunton
Fitchburg
New Bedford
Waterbury
Conn
Fall River
West Haven
Consolidated Railroad
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Millbridge
J. Wesley Simonds
Franklin
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Groun
Scarboro Beach
Wais Spring
Julia Brace
Bloomfiedd
Teer
America
Hartford
Bloomfield
Laurie Bridgman
Providence
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