Exposition opens as nation faces corruption and progress
The article reflects on the United States Centennial year viewing government, industry, and culture under scrutiny. It praises education and a diverse population, notes recent highplace depravity, and urges renewal while preserving the American Sabbath and national reverence. It also cites British and local notes on theft, marriage on credit, and a worm-riddled ship Abbie B. in New York waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
North America
New World
Europe
Penn
Centennial notes and political puffery from a public event
A compilation of remarks on the Centennial opening and public figures. It critiques a candidate's campaigning tactics and hails hymn and poetry performances as part of the festivities, noting graduates and orators as the season shifts toward July celebrations.
Retired Greek brigand returns to old life amid risky letter lore
A former Greek robber, living peaceably off ill gotten gains, is said to have resumed his criminal ways after years of retirement. Meanwhile in Shreveport Louisiana a mob assisted murder left David Adams dead and R F Moore wounded in a hospital bound case. Moore suffers twenty wounds from six masked assailants.
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East River
New York
Abbie B
Nova Scotia
Cape Breton
Rio
Texas
New York Harbor
Shreveport
David Adams
R. F. Moore
Mr. Good
Moore
Philadelphia exhibition guards to protect visitors
Boston Journal correspondent notes Philadelphia Exposition police to deploy 1000 officers under a colonel with chief detectives and 7 barracks. A 180 man fire patrol joins the force to deter plunderers and keep suspicious characters away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Journal
Philadelphia
United States
Fairs and Fashion from New York May 1876
A correspondent reports on Offenbach’s New York debut at the Hippodrome opening the summer season, Beecher scandal chatter, Plymouth Church motions, and a Philadelphia Centennial review. It covers crowds at the Exposition, rain disruption, and piano displays, plus fashion notes and local shop life with names like Weber, Johnston, Stewart, Libbey, and Harris.
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Frei Sur
New Youx
Moody
Sankey
Jacques Offenbach
Schuylkill
Dom Pedro Jolly
Paris
Vienna
Albert Weber
New York
Mr. Weber
Bristol
Zitella
Ermen
Preciosa
Elinor
Trousseau
Harris
Harris Victoria
Hilton
Marble Palace
Libbey
Stewart
Tenth Street
House of Stewart and Co
Broadway
J. and C. Johnston
Twenty-Second Street
Rosario
Alarming Symptoms of Galloping Consumption Described
A fragment notes alarming symptoms of galloping consumption and describes a region appearing as if it had been ravaged by grasshoppers by four or five in the afternoon. The text suggests a sweeping environmental or health crisis described in ominous terms.
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Schenck
Morris
Dr. Morris
Jallycow N
Bedell
Europe
Mr. Fish
Theorld
Town notes and events from a New England issue
The page reports a false fire alarm after brush burning, sermon dates by Rev. Mann age eighty seven, court week adjournment and criminal docket, Sunday school move to 10 20, two women fall overboard with minor injuries, Town Hall repairs due by June, Providence County Court House cornerstone laid with Masons, Masonry and temperance remarks, town council appoints Special Constable Nathan Warren, and commentary on spring fashions and a fast torpedo boat built by Herreshoff wired for government use boasting a speed beyond nineteen mph.
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New Providence County Court House
Grand Lodge of Masons
W. N. Ackley
Warren
John H. Stiness
Lippitt
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Newport Mercury
Bristol
Murray's Circus to Visit Warren on the 19th
Circus day Friday features Murray's show at Warren with special trains. Bristol Lyceum elects officers F W Vierce president and C Coggeshall 1st vice president. Debate on Cuba annexation planned next week. Sheriff Stephen Johnson dies in Brooklyn at 86. burial in Warren follows.
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Murray
Warren
New York Daily News
America
United States
New York
Bristol Young Men's Lyceum
F. W. Vierce
Stephen Johnson
Bristol County
Brooklyn
N. Y
Johnson
Bristol
Wood Street
Church Street
Cyrus Peckham
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Harrisburg
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Buffalo
Sa Belknap
Metropolis
Grant
Tweed
U. S. House of Representatives
Congressional Inquisition
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Beecher
Norwood
The
Brooklyn Argus
Indiana
Thomas H. Benton
Whittiers
New England
J Beraum
Akill
James G
H. OC. Bowen
Plymouth
Bowen
William M. Taylor
Broadway Tabernacle
California
Florence
Rome
Chesterfield
N. H
Seth W. Fowle
Milas
Messrs. Fowle &Son
de Ier
Burnside
Promax
St. Michael's Church
G. I. Locke
Joel Mann
New Haven, Conn
Congregational
Supreme Court
First Baptist Church
Steamboat Wharf
Town Hall
T. M. Clarke
Mount Hope Temple of Honor
Nathan Warren
Indies
Court House
Allen G. Wright
James T. Phelps
Tas Town Counci
Court of Propatr
Abraham A. Munro
James J. Goff
William H. Spooner
Justice Court
Charles A. Waldron
Edward Anthony, Jr
Orin Wilson
Charles “A. Barbour
George E. 8. Wilkinson
James T’. Phelps
A. B. Warner
Providence
Advent
Episcopal Chapel
J. W. Bonham
Trinity Church
F. 8. Fisher
Pawtucket
Gazette and Chronicle
Isaac Bonney
Father Bonney
Pawtucket Methodist Church
Huni
Hunt
Glenn
Hill
Pyle
Tames Pyle
Hl. Richards
Odd Fellows Building
Ford Street
Geo. A. Pike
Hope
Bradford Streets
G. P. Barnes
G. W. Easterbrooks
Hope Street
A. M
Geo. T. French
Mount Hope
Nope
Wardwell Streets
Atwood
John F. Henry
Manhattan Med. Co
Curran & CO
Moonro—Burnham
G. L. Locke
Willian James Anno
Mary Elizabeth
Aaron B. Burnham
Dupee
Lucinda
Israel
Georgiana Dupee
Norris
Mary W. Norris
Thomas Norris
Welch
Joseph Welch
Marston
Boston Highlands
Ward Marston
Louisa Marston
Lawson
Newport
Robert B. Lawton
Payne
Assonet
Henry Payne
Harrington
Fall River
Mary Harrington
Mathews
South Dartmouth
Josiah Mathews
Phoenix Marine Journal
Port of
RK. I
R. Borden
Mason
Schr. Whale
Edwarda
Prudence
Schr
Tenzer
Darling
Cole’s River
Wm. F. Mitchell
Verity
KR. Borden
Napoleon
Weeks
Sandwich
L. B. Cowperthanite
Jones
Chief
Wills
Vineyard Haven
Teazer
Dayllog
Portsmouth
Ida
Goff
North Kingstown
Condova
Wilson
Alexandria
National Rubber Co
Nery Ar Torenzo D. Kenney
John Redfern
Joseph
Thompson
Edward Abbott
Whittier
Lord Macaulay
G. Otto Trevelyan
Chadwick
Oraer
John F. Munro
T. Briggs Smith
Benjamin P. Smith
Peter Gladding
Temple OF Fashion
Barder
B. M. Lincoln
Rhode Island
A.G. Clarke
Annie E. Davis
Minnie
Emma Smith
Woo Joun
Eka
State Street
N. N. Cole
John B. Pearce
Court of Common Pleas
County of
Philo S. Shelton
Eugene E. Shelton
Charles P. Shelton
Benjamin H. Shelton
Boston
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
P.S. Shelton
Elisha M. Wardwell
Thomas J. Usher
Thames Street
Richmond Manufacturing Company
Charlotte B. DeWolf
Maria Rogers
Henry Goff, Jr
Ruth B. DeWolf
Thomas Lindsey
John Gray
M. Lyman B. Bosworth
Sherif Bristol
Mayzost
James Connery
Franklin
Lackawanna
Otis Munro
John
H. Murray’s
Great Railroad
John H. Murray
Circus i
Ofurope
Charles W. Fish
Richard the Third
Bosworth Field
White Surrey
Richard
Pray
Central Fall
K J
Oda
Reode Island
Rothers
O. P. Frost
Hope Lodge
Stephen Smith
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