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Newspaper

Portsmouth Herald

Location

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1899

Page

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Winter Bargains on Men's Heavy Wool Pants and Underwear

Special winter sale items list heavy wool pants at $2 a pair and heavy underwear. Natural wool and camel hair options priced 50c 75c and 1 dollar per garment.

Trask Writes Again From Manila Letters From Cavite Hospital Visit

Jule Trask recounts a visit to the First Reserve hospital in Manila Cavite October 1499. He praises nursing care for soldiers ill or wounded and describes wards tents and a crowded capacity of about 1235 patients. He meets Eddie Parsley of Laconia and notes other soldiers and local life including a Plymouth doctor and one couple at the outpost. He reports ongoing cannonading near Cavite and shares anecdotes of American families and daily hardships.

Manila Cavite San Roque Bea Ifal Aranal Natave Instituti Ns Escalta Spain Eddie Parsley Laconia First New Hampshire Chickamangs A. S Philippines Parsley Tasw 24Th Infantry Cavite Point Fred D. Grant Tom Wyoming Regiment Rocky Mountain San Francisco Nagasaki Yokohana Dodge

Dr Moore in Lakeport Not Improving After Prison Release

Dr Joseph C Moore, living quietly with his sister Mrs Mary E Tucker at Lakeport, shows no marked improvement since release from state prison in Concord. He is taking more nourishment and doctors hope recovery if assimilation continues. friends are hopeful, but he cannot venture outdoors for a long time.

Joseph C. Moore Mary E. Tucker Lakeport Concord

Bailey to visit Piscataqua lodge in Portsmouth

Mr W. Bailey of Manchester, grand warden of New Hampshire for the New England Order of Protection, will pay an official visit to Piscataqua lodge of this city next Friday evening. Portsmouth members plan a royal reception with entertainment and collation.

W. Bailey Manchester New Hampshire New England Order of Protection Piscataqua

Newly Gleanings From Our Suburban Towns

Kittery Me December 4 at a Kittery High School entertainment arch lecture the program includes piano duett Miss Milliken and Mr Lock a three part chorus of twelve young ladies solo and chorus Twelve Young Ladies lecture by W W Stetson and Haven Fernald of Bath Me visiting town The Ladies circle of the Second Christian church plans a cannual fair in Wentworth hall Wednesday and Thursday evenings admission 25 cents for both evenings The W C T U will meet with Mrs James at the lower foreside on Wednesday afternoon

W. W. Stetson Haven Fernald Bate Second Christian Church Wentworth Hall W.C.T.U James Claimed

Marriage and social notices from South Eliot district

South Eliot notes list weddings and visits from late November to December. Albert Staples married Miss Williams of North Kittery at the Methodist parsonage. Spinney family and Remick relatives are mentioned visiting or hosting. Local rumor places Wallace Manson moving to the Spinney house near W. E. Spinney’s store. Epworth League fair set for December 13 and 14 at the Methodist church with season tickets.

Mary J. Spinney Jamaica Plains Mass D. Spinney Oscar Mr. Remick Boston J. W. Remick John N. Fornand Amesbury Joseph TH. Foss E. W. Kennison Albert Staples Miss Williams North Kittery South Eliot True Canney H. D. Canney Herbert Edson Portsmouth Wallace Manson Henry Spinney W. E. Spinney Methodist Church Ventry

Local notices and social notes from Greenland eventful year

The excerpt lists farm hands’ sparring injuries, visits by Freeman Walton and Mrs. Alice Coleman, Clinton Hendry and Bert Huntress travelers, John Wettergreen’s Maine stay, Hedley Golding and Arthur Marden visits, Herbert Tuttle’s family, Clarence Huntress and Ida Lord in Portsmouth, Charles H. Brackett on business there, local anglers returning with a meal bag, B. S. Weeks buying land for a house, and a surge in building amid expected electric road value rise, plus a brief drug ad for Laxitive Bromo Quinine with E. W. Grove’s signature on each box.

Freeman Walton Alice Coleman Portsmouth Richard Downing Clinton Hendry Haverhill Bert Huntress Boston Melvin Huntres John Wettergreen Malden Mass Maine A. J. Adams Hedley Golding Boston City Hospital E. N. Holmet Arthur D. Marden B. and Herbert A. Tuttle Exeter Daniel Tuttle Clarence Huntress Ida Lord Charles H. Brackett Great Bay

Appointment of James H Walker Inspector of Masonry

In Washington December 3 188? the navy department approved the board’s choice from Portsmouth navy yard candidates and James H Walker of Kittery Missouri was named inspector of masonry for the new deck. Kip of New York appointed clerk in Portsmouth yard supplies and accounts. J G Shaw to relieve C Fletcher. Navy weighing nine hour day for dock contractors.

Wasumaron D. C Navy Yard Portsmouth Navy Department James H. Walker Kittery Kip New York Department of Supplies and Accounts G. J. Shaw U.S. N J. B

Free Christmas gifts with Red Cross starch offer

A promotional notice promises the first five purchasers of the Endless Chain Starch Book will receive a large 10 cent package of Red Cross starch, a 10 cent Tubinger's Best starch, two Shakespeare panels or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all free. The ad extols Red Cross laundry starch as a top invention by J C Hubinger, urging readers to ask grocers for the starch to claim the gifts.

Red Cross United States J. C. Hubinger

Portrait of Daniel Webster Portrait Settlement

The portrait dispute is settled as artist Ulysses D. Tenney agrees to take the Webster portrait to Cambridge for finishing touches and to obtain Harvard endorsements as per contract. Auctioneer J G Tobey Jr sells the John Critchley estate for 1450 to Nathan Whally, subject to widow’s rights.

Daniel Webster County Court House Exeter Ulysses D. Tenney Cambridge Mass Eliot Langdell Harvard J. G. Tobey, Jr John Critchley Nathan Whally

Water Front News From Kittery and Vicinity

Steamers and schooners arriving at Kittery and nearby ports carried coal cement bricks and bricks heading for Portland Boston and Philadelphia. Reports note talk of a fish market combine affecting prices as large fish shipments departed west from Kittery Point on Sunday.

Kittery Point

American Girl Thursday Night at the Opera

The American Girl a new attraction by HL Grattan Donnely features George J. Hall and Miss Frankie St. John among a strong cast. The program promises high class specialties and a highly enjoyable performance for the season at Scammon's venue.

Scammon HL Grattan Donnely Russia George J. Hall Frankie St. John

Spain's Greatest Need Promoted at Aiken

Barcelona visitor Mr. R. P. Olivia credits Electric Bitters with curing back head pain and weak nerves. He claims the remedy revitalizes liver kidney blood and nerves and boosts overall vigor. Available for 50 cents from Globe Grocery Co.

R. P. Olivia Barcelona Spain Aiken America Amenee Globe Grocery Ca

Potomac Yard to Commission This Week Amid Labor Spend

At the navy yard the Potomac is likely to be commissioned this week. About 183 thousand dollars were spent on yard labor last year. Arthur Dow of Manchester was appointed blacksmith with the new dock contractors. John Pierce of New York met with foremen on Friday and pushed to accelerate dock work.

Potomac Arthur Dow Manchester John Pierce New York

Delay sought for electric light plant yard project

There is likely to be a delay in the construction of the electric light plant at the yard and an extension of time has been requested. The ad also notes Burdock Blood Bitters as a tonic for a clear healthy complexion and pure blood.

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Henry Peyser & Son John S. Tilton Carvers A. P. Wendell & CO Swell Moorcrofts If Market Square Herald Trask Kittery High School Miss Milliken Myr. Lock Bollit Dr. Hot, Durgin Milton N. ST Chaney Mag. C.F. Drake Bott Hill Greenland Dee Toh B.S. Weeks W. A. Odell Draggiata E. W. Grove Kittery Ar Water Fron News Charles F. Meyer Mae Chow Baltimore J. A. and A. W. Walker John M. Fiske Nutt E Ment Jessie Hart Kellay Perth Amboy George D. Boulter Dover Eliot and York Flower Larbor P. N. Co No. 16 Clara B. Kennard Hattie Lewis Sadie A. Kimball Wilson and Willard Franklin
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