Chicago Press as Merchants Push Great Advertisements
Special correspondence from Chicago examines how merchant support fuels the city’s newspaper power. It notes high ad revenue from local merchants, compares circulation with New York and Boston, discusses key papers The Tribune and Inter Ocean, and profiles major Chicago dailies and their markets.
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CuicaGco
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
New England
Middle States
American Press Association
Evening Press
Nebadeyendavs
Chicago Tribune and Herald
Tribune
News and Herald
Chicago Press
Chicago Daily News
Mail and Journal
The
Times
Old Times
Storey
Modern Times
Rockies
Alleghenies
Inter Ocean
Chicago Times
W. F. Storey
Medill
Blaine
J. Young Scammon
Republican
Charles A. Dana
William Penn Nixon
Herald
New York Sun
West
Sun
Bamé
New York World
Hatton
Evening Mail
Mail
News
Evening Journal
News Mugwump
Herald and Times Independent
News, Herald and Tribune
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Walter Wellman
Parson Brownlow’s Prophecy Recalled by John Brownlow
Special Washington correspondence recounts Col. John Brownlow disputing a Wyatt painting claim that Parson Brownlow said Lincoln was half negro. He cites his father’s respectful views of Lincoln and a South pressure tale about Hamlin. He notes Brownlow’s 1856 election prophecy foretelling Civil War and secession trends.
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Washington
John Brownlow
Parson Brownlow
Allen Thorndike Rice
Lincoln
Wyatt
Col. Brownlow
South
Hamlin
Virginia
Buchanan
Democratic Party
Tennessee
Union
North
Tuomas J. Topp
New American Prima Donna Amelia Groll To Sing In London
Cleveland May 31 Miss Amelia Louise Groll Ohio singer engaged by Carl Rosa to perform in London for the queen s jubilee. She studied at Cincinnati College of Music at 17, won top honors at 19, toured the western states in 1883, studied in Paris Berlin and Rome, and gained praise in Bologna. She will tour South America after London then return to Rome.
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Cleveland, O
Amelia Louise Groll
Carl Rosa
London
Ohio
Cincinnati College of Music
Western States
Paris
Berlin
Miss Groll
Vienna
Rome
Zonfondi
Bologna
United States
No Irish restaurant in the United States puzzles writers
Kinderhook Rough Notes muses that while New York hosts Italian French Russian Chinese and Spanish eateries, no Irish restaurant exists nationwide and suggests a thinker should explain what this implies.
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New York
United States
Kinderhook
Honors to a Novelist and the People's Palace
A tribute to Walter Besant and partner James Rice highlights Besant's reformist novels and the East London People's Palace opened with royal ceremony. The piece notes Besant's works, Rice's death in 1852, and Besant's reflection on their partnership and forthcoming serial publications.
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People's Palacema V Philanthrople Institution
Besant
James Rice
Charles Reade
Dickens
Russia
Walter Besant
Kingdom of Honor
James Hirke
London
Jupiter
People’s Palace
Mile End
New Oxford Street
Queen’s Hall
Queen's Hall
People's Palace
Provident
Mr. Besant
J. R. Jennings
Drapers’ Company
New York Journal
Jack
Self
Bearer
Coligny
Dorothy Forster
Gibeon
Tom
Holland
Stepney
Whitechapel
Poplar
St. George’s-in-the-East
Limehouse
Bow
Stratford
Shadwell
Rotherhithe
Sorensen
London News
United Universities’ Club
Perley Poore Lifelong Washington Reporter Remembered
A tribute recalls Perley Poore a Washington correspondent who died in Washington at 67. He edited the Congressional Directory and wrote for The Boston Journal and Providence Journal. Poore shared notes with juniors and reflected on the old style of reporting and personal access to public men.
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Ben
Perley Poore
Washington
Capitol
Congressional Directory
Boston Budget
Providence Journal
Ben. Perley Poore
Jim
Gen. Grant
Inquirer
Poore
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Curtin
Pottsville
Cubs
Portrait and Sketch of Ireland’s New Under Secretary
Col Edward Robert King Harman the new under secretary for Ireland is described as a liberal Irishman with a Tory bent. Born 1838 he sits as MP for Isle of Thanet while holding Irish offices and titles including lord lieutenant of Roscommon. His early Home Rule advocacy shifted with party changes amid Gladstone’s reforms and Disraeli’s 1878 appointment as Roscommon lord lieutenant.
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Ireland
Toder
London
Edward Robert King Harman
Gladstone
Col. King- Hagman
Laurence King-Harman
Eton College
Emma Frances
William Worsley
County Roscommon
Connaught Rangers
Isle of Thanet
Kent
Col. Harman
Daniel O'Connell
Young Ireland
Harmans
Isaac Butt
Home Rule League
England
Disraeli
National Journal
Dublin
Shaw
Col. King-Harman
Actress Helen Dauvray Hosts Silver Cup for League Honors
Miss Helen Dauvray, the actress, attends many New York games of the league baseball cup and has offered a silver cup to be contested by the league and association. A cut of this cup is shown.
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Helen Dauvray
New York
Doctor boasts of saving critical patient
A doctor tells his wife he pulled a very critical patient through and jokes about saving more lives. She retorts that he might have saved her first husband if she had known him five years earlier, implying irony about past events.
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Hubby
Robert
Hon Eugene Semple Appointed Governor of Washington Territory
Hon Eugene Semple, long-time resident of Washington territory, is named governor by President Cleveland. Born 1840 in Bogota, he practiced law in Portland before editing The Oregon Herald with Sylvester Pennoyer and A A Ames, the Democratic paper advancing local politics. Semple follows a family legacy in regional advocacy dating to his father General James Semple.
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Territories
United States
Utah
Botany Bay
Cleveland
Washington Territory
Eugene Semple
James Semple
Oregon Country
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Ilinois
Bogota
New Granada
Madison
Jersey Counties
Ills
University of St. Louis
Cincinnati Law School
Portland
Ore
Oregon Herald
Sylvester Pennoyer
A. A. Ames
Minnesota
Herald
Washington’s barbers and newsdealers of color
In Washington a large Black population works across trades from cabinetmaking to carriage building and servants for summer hotels. The piece notes segregation in barbering and the aggressive street sales of newspapers by Black youths, comparing locals to Swiss hotel workers for skill and service.
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Washington
Africa
Baltimore
Europe
Gath
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Daily Journals OF Chicago
Chicago Journal
Chicago Tribune
Ghirags Tribune
Col
Robert King-Harman
King-Harman
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