Memorial Tributes for Beloved Local Worker
Longtime employee of M. D. Ball and Miss Bessie Ball of Southborough is honored with floral tributes from fraternal orders including United Brothers lodge and the Odd Fellows. Rev F S Rice offers comfort as the community recalls his kindness, devotion, and upright character. Masonic burial follows at Maplewood cemetery with bearers from multiple fraternal bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gowan
Sites & Ke
M. D. Ball
Bessie Ball
Southbors
Frank Tuttle
Fitchburg
United Brethren Lodge
Commandery
Odd Fellows
The
Express
F. S. Rice
Maplewood Cemetery
J. W. Barnes
Geo. Whitney
Fred Jewett
B. F. Greeley
T. A
Quick Acting Cough Cure Sold By Local Firms
The advertisement touts a rapid working One Minute Cough Cure. It lists B. F. Johnson & Son Maynard C H Whitney Concord and H A Littlefield West Acton as sellers and distributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
C. H. Whitney
Concord
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
Sixth Massachusetts regiment earns praise for Medal claim
General Griffin reports the Sixth Massachusetts regiment merits priority in medal recognition due to its pivotal Civil War march through Baltimore and its impact on national loyalty. The Boston Advertiser correspondent notes the regiment likely to receive medals before others tied to that early war period.
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Griffin
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Sixth
Boston Advertiser
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Heals Burns and Sores Fast
Quick in effect heals and leaves no scar. Burning scaly skin eruptions cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel applied to burns scalds old sores. Always cures piles. Johnson & Son Okward C H Whites Concord Littlefield West Acton.
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DeWitt
Johnson & Son
Okward
C. H. Whites
Concord
Littlefield
West Acton
Long Distance Telephone Echoes Across Generations
A master calls his dog Gyp via telephone with the transmitter to the dog's ear in Chicago, a $2.50 novelty. A Christmas prank uses a hospital patient’s tree telephone setup to deliver a message from mother in Indianapolis. An old Coleridge anecdote recalls a strawberries versus apple dispute in a sisterhood case, provoking the judge and witness.
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Oak Mae
Gyp
Merrill
Chicago
Indianapolis
Mamma
Tacoma Ledger
Santiago Cruel Climate and Fever Ravages Cuban Capital
The description recalls Santiago as Cuba’s ancient capital set in a mountain amphitheater with narrow filthy streets and daily tropical downpours. Yellow fever decimates Spanish troops, with nightly burials and a hospital wall hole to shield the processions from view. Soldiers, pale and starved, wear dirty linen uniforms and straw hats while youths under twenty struggle with the climate.
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Santiago
Cuba
Sad End of a Bad Boy in a Moral Tale
A London Speaker excerpt notes a girl aged eight wrote a moral tale of a greedy little boy who attends a Christmas party and falls ill with scarlet fever the next day. The sequel is a dialogue where the boy dies after being urged to pray. The piece is praised for its antique simplicity.
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Arthur
London
Winnie Davis Likely Takes New York Residence For Literature
Miss Winnie Davis or Varina Annie Jefferson Davis is said to settle in New York as a permanent residence and pursue a literary career. Her essays and fiction show notable ability and a well written contemporary story suggests a promising future in short fiction.
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Varina
Annie Jefferson Davis
Winnie Davis
New York
Miss Davis
The Doctor and the Neighbor’s Lost Sheep
Dr Gyrus Hamlin buys a sheep from a neighbor who swears it is his. Hamlin discovers it is his own sheep, confronts the thief, who struggles to excuse himself. The neighbor admits his craft and defends his tricks in a humorous exchange.
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Gyrus Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin
Paris Hill
Lewiston Journal
Widener Sparks Cable Car Chat on New York Line
A Philadelphia Record note says P. A. B. Widener of Pittsburgh held a strap as a Broadway cable car swung around the Fourteenth street curve. The car was crowded to suffocation. Widener warns a young man against investing in cable companies while noting he gets dividends but never a seat.
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Pittsburg
P. A. B. Widener
Broadway
New York
Fourteenth Street
Mr. Widener
Philadelphia Record
Theatrical Tidings Notes On Modern Managers
The piece observes a shift from managers to directors in theater. It cites Modjeska with Frank L. Perley and lists directors like John Hare Clarence Fleming James O Neil William F. Connor Stuart Robson and William Hayden as contemporary leaders. It jokes that only a flamboyant star with a diamond globe and a large cigar truly “manages.”
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Modjeska
Frank L. Perley
John Hare
Clarence Fleming
James O’neil
William F. Connor
Stuart Robson
William Hayden
Carlyle's French Revolution Praised by Mill and Kingsley
West minster Review notes Carlyle's work as a wild savage book born in blackness and sorrow. It quickly gained popularity despite predictions of disfavor among British classes. Mill calls it a law unto itself and Kingsley hails it as a defining epic of modern history.
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Froude
Carlyle
Sterling
Mill
Kingsley
Milton
Thomas Carlyle
Westminster Review
Territorial Gains in Africa by European Powers
Henry M. Stanley notes in Century that over the last decade France controls about 800,000 square miles in equatorial Africa and 1,600,000 square miles with Sahara and West Africa rights. Germany holds 540,000 in southwest Africa and the Cameroons. Italy 547,000 square miles. Portugal 710,000 square miles, reflecting imperial reach.
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France
Germany
Italy
Equatorial Africa
Portugal
Sahara
West Africa
Africa
Cameroons
Henry M. Stanley
Bicycle with string pull prediction swings wheel backward
A Philadelphia Record item states a bicycle balanced on one hand with opposite pedals at extremes will move backward when a string tied to the lower pedal is pulled toward the rear, contrary to common belief that it would go forward.
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Philadelphia
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Urban Bowers
Coleridge
Mr. Coleridge
Widener
Europe
W. A. Haynes & Co’s
Iowa
W. A. Haynes & CO
Maynard, Mass
Puoto
N. B
C.d.holmes
Hudson National Bank
Caleb L. Brigham,as
Hier
Keith
Boynton
S. R. Burroughs
S. Hoar
C. Keith
Concord Junction
James Mullin
BUX
Manayrd
James T. Foote
Charles E. Watson
Summer St
D. Dilmore
Maynard’s Block
Arthur E. Walker Maynard
Insurance Agency
Best Companies
P.O. Box
Abel
G. Haynes
H. S. Hapgood
Stow
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
W. A.cunningham
H.P. N. Dahl
Riverside Block
Maynard Mass
H.p.n.dahl
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Renest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
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