Ordway and Porter at the Robinson Block on Hotel Street
The entry notes the presence of Ordway and Porter in the Robinson Block located on Hotel Street. The brief item records the storefront or tenancy within a historic block, highlighting the business alignment in a central commercial district.
Furniture dealer offers matched bedroom sets and fine china
A local retailer touts sideboards matching high price bedroom suits, imported factory direct by dealers informed on home furnishings. The piece highlights buying bedroom sets, attractive prices, and a note about fine dinner sets and assorted china pieces with an oval glass feature.
Queen’s suicide attempt linked to royal intrigues and illness
Rome reports confirm the Belgian queen’s self harm act was tied to distress over her husband Leopold’s alleged intrigues with Emilienne d’Alençon and Mile. de Merode, plus shame over Congo expenditures and Carlotta’s fortune loss. The queen fractured her jaw in a prior fall.
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Rome
Spa
Leopold
Emilienne d’Alencon
Mile. de Merode
Paris
Brussels
Congo
Carlotta
Maexico
Vatican
Pius IX
Nippon Yusen Kaisha London Manager Arrives aboard Coptic
Nogishi, selected by Nippon Yusen Kaisha to head London operations, arrived on the Coptic and will proceed to New York. The firm, the world’s third largest, owns over sixty ships and has launched a direct London line with the Tosa Mara as its pioneer. Freight from Japan to London quoted at 810 gold per ton, now 5.62 dollars. passenger rate reduced to 4.75 yen round trip.
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K. Negishi
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Company
London
European
Tosa Mara
Glasgow
Pacific Coast
Japan
Nogishi
New York
S. PF. Chronicle
Olympia Speed Trial Confirms High Seakeeping Power
The cruiser Olympia conducted a speed trial in Japanese waters amid stormy weather. Reports varied, but the test proved her to be a capable sea boat and suggested she can reach twenty three knots under natural draught under favorable conditions. Even in gale winds she exceeded twenty knots.
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Olympia
Ching Cession of Port Arthur Denied by The Standard
The New York Herald notes The Standard denies Ching's cession of Port Arthur to Russia. Berlin-based Russian news predicts Port Arthur or another favorable port will come, though not yet ripe. A Vladivostock dispatch reports growing disorder in Corea as Japan schemes to regain prestige.
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New York Herald
St. Petersburg
Standard
Ching
Port Arthur
Russi
Berlin
Russia
Vladivostock
Corea
Theapanese
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PLC
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