Government extends postal service talks with United States
A 1893 plan by Salvador to establish a postal office order service with the United States is reported as negotiations near completion. Also noted are swindling victim John Dailey of Springfield Missouri who lost 2000 dollars to the gold brick method, and immigration forces in major cities slated for a fifty percent cut due to quarantine. A New England railroad wreck culprit Breakman Frank Gorman is dismissed for fatigue overwork.
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Salvador
United States
Perm
John Dailey
Springfield
Dailey
Holiday trade opens briskly with strong demand
Dun & Co's Weekly Review of Trade reports no drop in business overall with slackening in new transactions tied to the holiday season. Payments remain large and industries are broadly employed. Fear of gold export disturbances has not materialized, markets show strong demand, money is tight mainly only in Cleveland, eases elsewhere, and Eastern cities see easier money with slackening demand as holiday trade begins brighter than usual.
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Cleveland
Dun & Co
Wage pledge redeems 10 percent advance at Rotherham works
An English mine and iron works firm, Rother Iron Works of Rotherham near Sheffield, granted a 10 percent wage advance in July 1889. Workers praised the gesture, pledged to reciprocate if wages fell, and the firm promised to restore the 10 percent once trade improves. If emulated, walking delegates might fade. Also notes fashion trends and a sales list, with Ayer's Sarsaparilla praised as stomach tonic.
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England
Rother Iron Works
Messrs. Owen and Dyson
Rotherham
Sheffield
Ayer's Cathartic Pills Endorsement Note
Feeble and capricious appetites are best regulated by the use of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They do not debilitate by excessive stimulation but cause the stomach, liver, and bowels to perform their functions properly. As an after-dinner pill they predequaled.
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Ayer
Return Postal Card Details and Design Changes
A long description reviews proposed return postal cards by the post office, detailing dimensions, inscriptions, and designs for domestic and international use. It explains the paid reply concept, border legends, a Grant vignette, detachable annex card, and bilingual text for Universal Postal Union standards.
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Post Office Department
United States ‘of America
iGen
Grant
Carte Postale
Universal Postal Union
United States of America
A Queer Enterprise and the Philadelphian Who Founded an Asylum
Gilbert Oaklin, a rare Philadelphian who attempted to run an asylum for freaks, bought a large Tenth Street house and housed a prize fat woman a dwarf a three eyed boy and other curiosities. He tended them and faced uprisings from living skeletons who attacked him. After deaths he buried his guests and he died soon after the war while working on a treatise about human curiosities.
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Gilbert Oaklin
Tenth Street
Animals Wake by Day in Captivity
Visitors to zoos will notice carnivores like lions and tigers active in daylight and sleeping at night. In the wild they hunted by night, but regular feeding in captivity shifts their schedule. Daytime feeding ends the need for nocturnal foraging.
Intellectual misreadings and a New Jersey bicycle rail
A Portland Maine anecdote about a woman mistaking a man for a widower shows humorous intuition failing the senses. A new two mile bicycle railroad connects Mount Holly and Smithville New Jersey, where a rider sits atop a fence like rail and novelty bikes glide along with guide wheels to prevent tipping.
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Mount Holley
Smithville
N. J
Divorce Trends Show High Divorce Rate and Female Majority
The text notes that over the last twenty years 828,000 divorces were granted in the country, with about 90 percent of them to women, suggesting marriage has not been a brilliant success overall.
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Ware
Coal Mines Provide Jobs for Hundreds of Thousands
The United States coal mines employ about three hundred thousand men. Citizens of Charleston celebrate the anniversary of a near city earthquake with fireworks and races, a festivity the writer deems an odd but typically American response to disaster.
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United States
Charleston
New Turkey Post Office Joins Knox County Naming Pattern
In Knox county Maine a new post office called Turkey opens joining existing offices named Norway Sweden Mexico and Peru already in the state. The naming scheme reflects local flavor as communities adopt distinctive geographic appellations.
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Knox County
Turkey
Norway
Sweden
Mexico
Peru
Columbus Monuments Across Nations and Time
The piece notes many Columbus monuments in America totaling twenty nine with more likely as the four hundredth anniversary of his discovery nears. It contrasts with six in Spain seven in Italy and suggests other European nations have fewer tributes due to lack of association with his career.
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Columbus
Washington
Liberty
Indies
America
Spain
Italy
Europe
Niagara Power Project Could Supply 7 Million Horsepower
The Niagara Falls energy venture draws global attention as engineers note that harnessing the river from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario could yield seven million horsepower, more than twice today’s U S manufacturing power. Only about one hundred thousand horsepower would be used initially, yet the project would markedly boost global work energy.
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Niagara Falls
Mechanical Science Sention
British Association
Edinburgh
Niagara River
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Unwin
Austrian police seize thirty members in human flesh ring
Austrian police report the arrest of about thirty members of a commercial society trafficking in human flesh. Centers were in Lem berg Galicia with branches nationwide. They lured young women with false job promises and sent them to Constantinople where many were sold into harems or houses of ill repute. Sixty girls were recovered with Austrian embassy help in Constantinople and will testify at the trial of traffickers who profited from the crime.
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Lemberg
Galicia
Constantinople
Town Creek
G. M. Dodge
Bainbridge
Andersonville
Florence
South Carolina
East Ferry
Athoneas
Sagna
Casey Post No.5
G. A. R. Wayne
Wayne County
Nebraska
Wayne
Jesse Hamilton
Ignorance Club in Rochester Plans Mixed Evening Meetings
An Ignorance Club in Rochester proposes a winter idea to mix with other clubs. The secretary notes five women on a country cross road can form such a club for improvement and entertainment and suggests mixed clubs may hold evening meetings, while women’s clubs meet by day.
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Rochester
Night and Day in Civilization and Genoa Honors
The text contrasts human sleep loss in civilization with bloodline vigor for rural yeomanry, suggesting civilization weakens the strong. It notes the United States marks Columbus discovery while Genoa celebrates an Italian figure with grand ceremonies reflecting Italian national pride.
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Bose
United States
America
Genoa
Forefathers' Day and Advent Notes in Local Register
Notice items from a local register mention forefathers day next Friday and the 4th Sunday in Advent, along with a Nativity season mood. Other notes include Mrs Edward Coward arriving in New York, a Hydraulion Engine and Hose Co. fair netting about 400 dollars, and a Providence 30-foot boat order for Mr George Saunders. It also cites a Baptist Church discourse on a Paris tower scene and Christmas donation appeals to Home for Aged Women. Epitaphs on Wealth by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and an article on Incompatibility by Marion Harland are announced for Harper's Bazar.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Harper’s Bazar
Marion Harland
State Highway Hearing Favors State Control of Main Highways
The State Highway Commission held a meeting in the Council Chamber Tuesday with strong Bristol county representation. Attendees favored placing main intertown highways under State control and the committee was entertained at the Commercial Club after the hearing.
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State Highway Commission
Bristol County
Commercial Club
Mrs Besse Starr Keefer Lectures at Congregational Chapel
Mrs Besse Starr Keefer, noted for temperance addresses at the Methodist Church, will speak Friday evening at the Congregational Chapel. She will deliver a scientific lecture on temperance illustrated by diagrams. Admission is free and all are welcome. The meeting starts at 7:30.
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Besse Starr Keefer
Methodist Church
Congregational Chapel
First Epworth League lecture set at G A R Hall
Dr C B Pitblado will deliver the opening Epworth League course lecture on Men and Women for the Times at G A R Hall next Thursday evening. A brief musical program by John B Pollock precedes the talk, with Mrs McCarty and Messrs Pollock and Liscomb performing. Doors open 7 30, music 7 45, lecture 8, admission 25 cents.
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Epworth League
Rt. Hall
Thorsday
C. B. Pitblado
the Times
John B. Pollock
Temple Quartette
Revidence
Garpiver
Eppy
FH Newton
JE Winthas
Evangeline Larry
Charlotte Browne
Providence
Herbert J. Markett
Levy
Ls Me Nay
Masons and Banzier Post Elect Officers in 1893 Meetings
Mason James DeWott Camp No 8 elected officers for the term. Officers include Captain Aaron Frank Usher and Lieutenants Isaac B Monroe and Willard S Kenney. Banzier Post No 15 elected Peet Commander Giles S Congdon and other leaders. A grand reunion is planned for Friday. Wang comic opera set for Providence Opera House with DreVour Horree ensemble, three nights plus a matinee, advance seats selling well.
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Mason James
DeWott
Aaron Frank Usher
Isaac B. Monroe
Willard S. Kenney
John B. Newman
Thomas S. McKeon
Charles G. Sisson
William H. Maxwell
Isaac B Munroe
M. D
Charles A. Barbour
John A. C. Gladding
William Andrews
James F. Goff
Albert C Luther
Nathaniel Gladding
Lyman B. Bosworth
Broadway Theatre
New York City
Opera House
Remarkable Salt Lake organ and Edison lamp output
The Salt Lake City great organ houses 2704 pipes each 82 feet long and built in early days when freight moved from Missouri with ox teams. Edison notes suggest 65000 incandescent lamps are made daily at about 75 cents each, illustrating growth in electric lighting manufacture.
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Salt Lake City
Missouri River
Plains
Edison
Portrait for White House Gallery Funded by DAR
Mrs. Harrisons portrait, to be painted by an as yet unnamed artist, is funded by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington and will be sent to adorn the gallery at the White House.
Death of Lemuel A Bishop in Worcester Estate and Church Leader
Lemuel A Bishop died suddenly at his Worcester home at 63, after insomnia and heart trouble worsened by a stubborn wind while returning from a drug store to his family gathering. A former mayoral candidate in Lawrence and longtime Episcopal Church figure, he leaves a widow three sons and four daughters.
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Duara
Leuven
Worcester Evening Gazette
Lemuel A. Bishop
Freeland Street
G. E. Adams
Bishop
Bristol
R. I
Lawrence
Worcester
Thos. Reed & Co
Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Church
Press Claims Company touted as nationwide cooperative venture
The piece explains the Press Claims Company as a federation of hundreds of leading U S newspapers formed to protect patrons from unscrupulous Washington claim agents. It promises efficient patent and pension services, land titles, and other legitimate business for claimants, backed by endorsements from over five hundred journals and board-approved stock allotments.
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United States
Washington
Paantz
Maca ZINE OF AMERICAN History December issue reviewed
The December number completes volume twenty eight and features articles on a colonial church in North Carolina and Richard Dillard, a Marco Polo tale by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, a sketch of General Davie by Walter Clark, and America's earliest Thanksgiving days from Edward Everett Hale. Also includes Francis Aquilla Stout tribute by Meredith Read, Glimpses of the College of New Jersey by Hotchkiss, Jr., and Horse shoe Robinson chapters by Emanuel Spencer with Lord Cornwallis appearing. Price five dollars a year, published 743 Broadway New York City.
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North Carolina
Richard Dillard
Marco Polo
Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye
William Richardson Davie
Walter Clark
Raleigh
America
Edward Everett Hale
Massachusetts
Francis Aquilla Stout
Meredith Read
Paris
France
College of New Jersey
Thomas W. Hotchkiss
Emanuel Spencer
Harron's WEEKLY highlights December issue with art exhibition
The December 14 issue features four pages of illustrations from the Retrospective Exhibition of American Artists in New York City. It also includes a series of battle photographs from the Venezuelan conflict and a descriptive article offering timely, engaging commentary on local scenes.
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Harron's Weekly
Progess
New York City
Sir Down Crooked If You Like Talk Straight
A terse opinion piece urges direct, plain speaking in public discourse, criticizing evasive language and suggesting honesty as a civic virtue. The author argues straight talk reduces misunderstanding and builds trust, calling for sharper accountability in leadership and media commentary.
Shadows and dreams in a changing fate by Exiza Crvaer
Poem contemplates fate and longing as shadows that form hopeful idols. Dreams are fragile, ever-shifting, with the central idol repeatedly dying and being replaced as perception battles hope. The speaker questions permanence and fate while imagining visionary, sunlit triumphs fading back into darkness.
1492 Columbus Opera at Providence Opera House Dec 19
Rice's Surprise Party presents 1492 Columbus opera at Providence Opera House on December 19 2021 with sparkling wit catchy music and elaborate costumes. Matinee Wednesday at 2 30 offers a festive Christmas illustration pairing portraits of President Harrison and Grandchildren in Review of Reviews.
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Columbus
Providence Opera House
Rice
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