Mayor and Meat Markets Annual Message Sparks Debate
The city council faces changes to meat sale licenses after the mayor’s annual message. Twenty one stalls at 50 each yield 1 050 in rents while the market house ordinance restricts sales until 5 am. The mayor urges repeal of the meat sale ordinance and proposes converting part of market space into storerooms to boost revenue.
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Jane
Hebb
Times
Chicago
Haller
Wouncisman Whiteman
Canal and coal trade amid canal access delays
Mechanized canal work faces late season start as water flow remains uncertain. Boat owners weigh cutbacks and wage demands while coal supply hopes hinge on tonnage. Meat market curb restrictions spark butcher protests over stall rents and inspections.
Island of Cuba cigar promotes five cent smoke in town
A brisk city page notes several locals in town including George Arnold of Eckhart Augustus Barrett of Mt. Savage and A J Clark of Lonaconing. It highlights a new tobacco outlet under St Nicholas hotel selling Island of Cuba cigars at five cents and mentions various civic and church appointments and meetings.
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George Arnold
Eckhart
Augustus Barrett
Mt. Savage
Cuba
A. J. Clark
Lonaconing
O. E. Ewing
Bedford
M. P. Conference
P. Hein
Robert Williams
Justice Harbaugh
Cleveland
I. T. Merrick
W. W.corcoran
Washington
Eugene Higgins
Baltimore
Treasury Department
Gorman
M. A. Newell
State Normal School
Whyte
Maryland
Cabinet Council
M. BE
Committee of Temperance
Maryland State Temperance Alliance
Cauat “Island of Cuba
St. Nicholas Hotel
Two Johns Comedy Company at the Academy Wednesday
Manager Sanders presents the Two Johns Comedy Company as the next attraction at the Academy. The troupe tours a three act broad comedy praised by the New York Herald for its popular appeal and lively, muscular humor. John Stewart and John Hart lead a capable company with strong singing features.
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Sanders
The
Academy
Two Johns
N.Y. Herald
Peope
Mount Morris Theatre
BP Earlily Rearer
John Stewart
John Hart
Welsh Outlaw Abe Buzzard Roams Reading Pa
Abe Buzzard the Welsh mountain outlaw raided stores including a jewelry shop taking about $1000 in valuables. Accomplice Lippincott was jailed for nineteen years. Buzzard traveled with Amish farmer Abraham Flickinger, then escaped from Reading, boarding a freight train toward Birdsboro before vanishing. Police suspect ties to gang member Bill Weeder in jail.
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Reaving
Abe Buzzard
Buzzard
Lippincott
Abraham Flickinger
New Holland
Reading
Flickinger
Abe Bazzard
Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph Office
New York
Abe
Birdsboro
Bill” Weeder
Weeder
Editor Edmund Yates Granted Release on Ill Health
Edmund Yates editor of the World was pardoned by Home Secretary Sir Walter Harcourt on medical grounds after four months confinement for libel. A brougham awaited him at Holloway as he left prison with a companion, unaware an order for release had been issued.
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Loxvox
Edmund Yates
the * World
Lady Stradbrooke
Lord Lonsdale
Wa. Y. Harcourt
Home Secretary
Yates
Holloway
Hungarians Eating Dogs in the Blue Mountains
Lebanon Pa March 11 A report claims European cheap labor including Hungarians and Poles faced opposition as a group of foreigners wintering to chop wood on the Blue Mountains ate several large dogs from nearby farms. They left the region after claiming long work and saved wages would allow comfortable life at home. A visit to their deserted camp found the bones of at least a dozen dogs near their huts.
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Lebanon
Blue Mountains
Russians advance into Afghan territory threaten collision
The Times reports Russians have moved deeper into Afghan territory and a clash looms. Afghans brace to resist as the British Government orders Gen. Sir Peter Lumsden to set up a defense system.
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The
Times
Sir Peter Lumsden
Doctrines of hazardous material in Manayunk temperance hall speech
The meeting of 250 Manayunk workers, out-of-work weavers and German internationalists heard a speech by Gor gushing against governments and praising force. The rhetoric praised hazardous material and violent overthrow, with a call for self sacrifice and incendiary imagery. An unrelated ad for Ayer's Sarsaparilla followed.
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Gorsuch
Manayunk
Temperance Hall
England
Russia
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