Judge White backs wholesale retail license rulings in Philadelphia
Judge White writes to Judges Ewing and Magee urging a consistent view on reapplications for retail licenses under the Brooks law. He argues that without discretion for wholesalers and bottlers the retailer discretion is pointless and urges patience as July and August bring rehearings. He mulls a machine metaphor to ease public thirst while tensions over licensing persist.
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Paxson
Philadelphia
Allegheny
White
Ewing
Magee
Captain Wishart
New York Weekly
Somervilé J Journal
Boston
Vanter
Newport
Berlin
Stocksmith
Thesa
Canadian Lines Support US Trade Says Chicago Board of Trade
A Chicago Board of Trade committee told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that Canadian transportation lines in the United States generally aid American commerce. They cited breaking pools and fair freight practices, equal treatment of shippers, and the Grand Trunk line’s impact on beef and livestock traffic. The remarks surprised senators and echoed The Dispatch’s long-stated views.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Senate Inter-State Commerce Committee
United States
Chicago
Committee of Chicago
Board of Trade
Michigan Southern
Michigan Central
New England
Grand Trunk Line
Canada
Hiscock
Pittsburg urged to adopt water gas for cheap illumination
The article discusses a Chicago formed company to supply water gas by the English process at 25 to 30 cents per thousand, cheaper than existing gas trusts. It argues Pittsburg should adopt the new gas, noting local costs and the paradox of paying high prices for gas while natural gas is cheap for heating, urging steps to bring cheap gas to consumers.
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Chicago
Gas Trust
Pittsburg
Pittburg
Proposal for gas competition to cut Pittsburg rates
The writer argues there is room for reform in Pittsburg where people pay four times the reasonable price for light. They urge introducing competition in gas to justify costs and possibly pay for the new process within the first two years.
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Pittsburg
Call for detailed records from Belief Commission relief efforts
Citizens urge immediate disclosure of six weeks of relief transactions. The editorial argues the Belief Commission and local relief committees must publish itemized purchases, suppliers, payments, and deliveries to show how funds were spent and restore public trust in Conemaugh Valley.
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Johnstown
Belief Commission
Beaver
Harrisburg
Conemaugh Valley
Shepard Draws The Line On Prize Fighting
The piece argues Colonel Elliott F. Shepard rejects flattering invitations tied to prize fighting and politics. It notes religion should not harmonize with brutality or moneyed influence in elections, while warning against religious editors swallowing money and trusts influence.
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New York
Elliott F. Shepard
Sullivan
Colonel Shepard
King Oscar’s Tragic Play Prompts Satirical Gibe
The author jokes about King Oscar’s tragedy to be staged in Stockholm and mocks royal meddling in theater. It contrasts republican ideals with royal drama while imagining American politicians penning farce, noting sympathy for Swedes quitting monarchy.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Oscar
Harrison
United States
Watering Place Trial Reopens Near Saratoga
A lengthy Ballston trial reopens the Broad Street Railroad bribery case at the fashionable Saratoga watering place. Witness recollections waver compared with earlier hearings, casting doubt on key points. District Attorney Fellows may yet press the case with focused legal challenge.
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Broadway
Ballston
Saratoga
Fellows
Gilded youth fleeced in Long Branch amid Saratoga scandal
A New York gilded youth, notorious last year for distributing diamonds at Saratoga, loses 50000 dollars in a Long Branch gambling joint. The incident prompts calls for strong law enforcement and a crackdown on his circles. Chicago touted as refuge for Sullivan backers. broader editorials lash Philadelphia lawyers and rail against corruption in crime and politics. The piece also notes a hot weather column and a misreported Ohio tornado. Nevada parades a claimed fountain of youth amid skepticism.
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New York
Saratoga
Bar Harbor Dispatch Cites Blaine Resignation Rumor Denial
A Bar Harbor dispatch notes Secretary Blaine denies resigning, stating the latest Washington rumor is false. Other items report Mrs Willis, widow of N P Willis, living in Washington, and various political and social notes from the capital.
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Tanner
Bar Harbor
Blaine
Washington
N. P. Willis
Corps of Geological Survey
Charles Wooncock
Charles of
Na. Dow
Proctor
Vermont
Lacey
Charlotte
Garden Casino
Edward Stanwood
Boston
Census Office
United
Boston Advertiser
Roscoe Conkling
Forest Hill Cemetery
Utica
Quincy
Conkling
New York
EZ HB
Midnight climb and river night ride through two cities
Peregrine Quill recalls a moonlit ascent of Monument Hill and a nocturnal ride along a silver river. The piece contrasts Pittsburg’s glittering lights with distant riverbank tranquility, describing dawnlike streets, distant clocks chiming midnight, and the sensory pull of bay and hay as a poet’s escape.
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Monument Hill
Mount Washington
Pittsburg
International salt trust outlined by E D Wheeler
E D Wheeler of Manistee Michigan outlines plans for a 20 million dollar international salt trust to be incorporated in New York. He says English capitalists will hold five million of the salt trust, with a price per barrel to be set after allocation of losses among producers in Michigan Kansas and New York. The trust aims to standardize prices starting next January.
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Milwaukee
E. D. Wheeler
Manistee
Mich
West
International Salt Trust
New York
Michigan
Kansas
Suit Over Oil Tank Destruction At Fort Scott Mills
The Standard Oil Company is sued by Fort Scott, Kansas firm Solenas Gasteing for $200,000 in trespass after 6000 gallons of kerosene spilled from a Standard tank car on a side track behind the mills. A valve was removed, the oil fed into the mill, reached furnaces, and the mills and elevators were destroyed by fire.
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Company
Fort Scott
Kan
Standard Oil Company
Deaths of a Day E C Jordan and L H Smith
E C Jordan longtime proprietor of Jordan White Springs dies after months of illness. Colonel D Howard Smith of Louisville Kentucky, ex Auditor of Kentucky, dies in Louisville. Local notices summarize the deaths and biographical notes for these two prominent figures.
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EB. C. Jordan
WiorcurgsTan
E. C. Jordan
United States
Jordan White Ae Springs
Geres
Byulirests
D. Howard Smith
Louisvin
L. Howard Binith
Kentucky
Leah Ce Ea
Parade of Junior United American Mechanics Captures Harrisburg
Harrisburg prepares for a grand parade as 80 delegates from Pittsburgh and 500 to 300 from Philadelphia arrive to join the first street parade of the Junior United American Mechanics. The event fills the city with holiday decor while state officers selected for the coming year face a level contest for State Vice Grand.
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Harrisburg Gally
Seaalon
Hare Servie
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Harry Bolten
Marchal
Representative Brown
Gowell
Dacphin County
East
West
Middle
National Council
Order of United American Mechanica
State Council
Bolton House
Leland
Lochiel
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
National Council of the Order
Johnstown
Stephen Collina
8. M. Bickford
Conemaugh
Stephen
Quay Expected to Save Republicans in October States
Senator Quay plans to meet President Harrison at Deer Park on Wednesday to discuss October elections in four new states. Republicans fear Montana Washington Dakota and South Dakota might fall to Democrats, risking Senate control and both houses. The meeting aims to secure party success amid mounting worries.
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Philadelphia
Quay
Deer Park
Reblicans
Canoi
Senate
Harrison
He Has Come to Stay Phrase In Sparrows Roost Prediction
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a local quip predicting the English sparrow will roost on tombstones of those who denounce him, reflecting a tongue in cheek stance on birdwatching culture.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Spiritualism and Theosophy in Early 1900s Boston and Portlana Sightings
The article sketches Charles Watkins a former spirit slate writer turned Boston hotel clerk awaiting seven years for a new development. It mentions a Boston doctor claiming magnetism to treat diseases on paper, blavat sky's repudiation of Spiritualists, Captain Parese Srows’s claim of witnessing Lady Franklin’s spirit message, and a Cleveland medium’s alleged fraud. A Portland Maine window portrait of a departed mother appears, charging 10 cents to view, with reports of fading and reappearing in front of witnesses.
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Charles Watkins
Boston
Mass
Spirite
Mme. Blavatsky
Parese Srows
England
Lady Franklin
Portlana
The Clan na Gael and Its Fierce Founding Father
A historical profile tracing the Clan na Gael from its early aims of armed Irish rebellion to its later notoriety. It centers on founder Jerome J. Collins, born in Cork, who worked in England, learned of Fenian activity, and shaped the order before his death on the Jeannine expedition. The piece contrasts past idealists with the organization’s later criminal turn.
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New York Herald
Clan-na-Gael
Ireland
England
Allietes
Emmeta
Mitchels
Meaghera
O'Briens
Jerome J. Collins
Collins
Dunmanway
County Cork
New York
Secon
Spring Street
James Ebeedy
Monitor
James Sh
Ss Ax
Gleanings in Gotham A Great Time for the French
New York report on Bastille Day celebrations by French societies. A large parade began at Washington Square with 20 French groups in blue white and red, marching to Union Square where the Mayor reviewed them. Events included bouquets for President Grant and gatherings in parks with speeches and dances under the tri colors. Germans grumbled over City Hall flagging, and beer trucks stayed away from floats.
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REW York Bureau
Washington Square
Union Square
Mr. Grant
Germany
Grant
City Hall
No Haneat Scales in New York
William Martin Sealer of Weights complains about dishonest weights used by tradesmen in New York. He plans complaints against about ten more butchers grocers and hucksters with incorrect scales. His investigations claim thirty million pounds of essentials are stolen yearly by false measures and weights. He says no correct scales are found on a fish dealer counter.
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William Martin
Martin
Wright
Neil Burgess Improved After Lamp Explosion Injures Actor
Reports of Neil Burgess being dead or dying circulated after a lamp explosion at his country house in the Highlands. Doctors say his condition is not critical, with severe injuries but not dangerous. An open letter to Union Square Theater manager J. M. Hill describes his status and future engagements.
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Neil Burgess
Highlands
Burgess
J. M. Hill
Union Square Theater
Descri
General Catlin Hooks Six Foot Shark Off Fire Island
Brooklyn's General Issac S. Catlin and his nephew with Captain Sammis and bluefish tackle sighted a shark two miles from land off Fire Island. After a tense fight the shark was brought to the boat and measured six feet four inches. The creature was described as a man eating variety with many rows of teeth.
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Issac S. Catlin
Brooklyn
Fire Island
Sammis
General Catlin
Catlin
Not Only Virtue Is Self Sustaining
George J. Theiss, a wealthy owner of a disreputable resort, died last night. Three years earlier he gained national notoriety by suing the Waiters' Union Knights of Labor for boycott activity. Five union members jailed for distributing boycott circulars. Theiss left about $700,000 in property.
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George J. Theiss
Knights of Labor
Theiss
Dangers of Fooling With Lightning
Electric expert Alex McAdie told Bourke Cochrane’s Electrical Commission why Kemmler should not be executed by electricity. He cited two lightning victims resuscitated by him and argued current science cannot safely direct electricity to kill. Subway Commissioner Daniel W. Gidbena said ten dollars would not tempt him to watch another dog electrocution.
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Alex McAdie
Electrical Commission
Bourke Cochrane
Kemmler
Daniel W. Gidbena
Subway
Harold P. Brown
Vogelphone Demonstrated Over Prairie Wire
In Maywood area two houses three thousand feet apart tested the Vogelphone, an invention of Chicago architect William Vogel. The device uses magnetism to transmit sound, claims no ground wire, and envisions a line between New York and Chicago.
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Maywood
Chicago
William Vogel
Vogel
New York
Odd Local Notes: Cats, Parrots, Letters and Marbles
A Philadelphia post office lunch room hosts cats from Virginia carried in mail bags. An Italian musician in Philadelphia tunes a parrot that sings operatic soprano and collects coins from windows. A Barnesville boy retrieves letters for three maidens but stops to kill a polecat. Lebanon Pa reports a cat with 68 kittens. A Jefferson County couple’s engagement ends when the bride cites his poor spelling. A Parkersburg farmer says a mule died after a lightning strike. A Carlisle lawyer faintly swallowed his false teeth during vertigo. choking nearly followed.
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Philadelphia
Virginia
Hrexayr Newahom
Carlisle
Seaacrevty
Curious Condensations Across a Chaotic Page
A collage of odd snippets reports local curiosities and small-town oddities. Notes describe church fund contributions, a proposed Eiffel-style tower on Eagle Rock, a deep cave in Kansas, and a Swedish woman in Detroit. Other items mention a college dispute, a dead whale, snuff habit autopsy findings, a bird egg pen, a Wisconsin rescuer, antique Bible and irons, a Richmond court incident, Bariton nets and sharks, a rattlesnake duel with a farmer, and a boy bitten by an adder with home remedies.
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Richmond
Theer
Baritan
Eamnalier
Fis
Washburn
Brooks County
Hhis Plantation
Ube
Replaio
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Stone County
Ole Olsen
Detroit
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