Cavite Fiesta Amid Circus Music and Insurgent Sights
A 1899 Cavite letter describes festive Cavite City with banners, native bands, a religious parade, and open houses during the Fiesta of Porta Vega. It notes insurgent rumors and an attack on Fort Rice thwarted by U S forces, with a naval clash and a Petrel shelling a rebel boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavite
P. I
Porta Vega
Naval Station
Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Imus
Aguinaldo
Insurrectos
Fort Rice
Delibican
Cavite Viejo
Navy Yard
Current Opinion and Various Snippets from Newspapers
A compact review of assorted ills and editorial attitudes from several papers. It notes ongoing debates on early twentieth century topics, the Molineux trial in New York, literary critiques of General French’s gains, Carnegie philanthropic totals, a Western inquiry about cigarette smoking, Aguinaldo’s wife wardrobe theft, Graffort club readings on DeKoven Sullivan and Masengni, and an ad patter for Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets and Dr Thomas Electric Ointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graffort Club
Conservatory Hall
DeKoven
Sullivan
Masengni
Newly Gleanings From Our Suburban Towns
Yor, Jan. 5 reports attendances at Paderewski recital in Forti and notes on local events. Ladies circle at Congregational church met with light turnout due to travel. mandolin by Ralph Hawkes. York beach cottage wired for electric lights by George M. Thompson. Sleighing praised. youth lagging in dramatics. First Parish church met. Marshall couple moved to housekeeping. Durrell of Boston visited Benj Lucas. J. W. Simpson, recently married, tours the South then heads to York with bride. J. O. Barrett sick with cold. Schooner A. T. Haynes arrives from Portsmouth with grain for G. A. Marshal & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Ignace Paderewski
Forti
Fred W. Marshall
Mrs. Marshal
Durrell
Boston
Benj Lucas
J. A. Coombs
Henry Callendar & Co
J. W. Simpson
Wellington
Nevada
New Orleans
Hey
J. P. Simpson
Mr. Simpson
J. O. Barrett
A. T. Haynes
Portsmouth
G. A. Marshal & Son
Fishermen on Exeter River and Local Town Notes
Local fishermen spent the day on Exeter River catching eels with Mr. William Norton reporting about fifty pounds. Town visitors include Richard Fay from Boston and M. O. Ball of Portsmouth on business. Dr F W Pike moved household goods into a new house by W A Odell and Mrs Brackett with grandson Charlie Brackett returned from Newfields. Drifts note catarrh appears widespread with claims Hall’s Catarrh Cure offers a constitutional remedy from Cheney & Co Toledo.
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Greenland
Exeter
William Norton
Richard Fay
Limothy Gay Company
Boston
F. W. Pike
W. A. Odell
M.O. Ball
Portsmouth
George W. Brackett
Buckingham Trouting Park
William TH. Brackett
Charlie Brackett
Newfields
A Thousand Tongues For King’s New Discovery
Annie B Springer of Philadelphia reports complete cure from a long cough after trying Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. She says it removed chest pain and let her sleep soundly with renewed energy. Trial bottles free at Globo Grocery Co. Every bottle guaranteed.
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Annie B. Springer
Howard Street
Philadelphia
Dr King
Ahaoou
Dr. King
Globo Grocery Co
Probate Court Halifax Rockingham Week Jan 4 Probate actions listed
The Rockingham county probate session records wills proved and administrations granted including Sarah E Walker Joseph Currier and George Dargin executors and Louis Woodbury Melinda Esstman Mary Swasey among others. Accounts inventories guardians and court dates for yearly schedule detailed with parishes Portsmouth Exeter Derry Hampton Raymond Kingston Candia Seabrook and others. No probate court is held in August.
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Rockingham
Sarah E. Walker
Newton
Joseph W. Currier
Georges. Dargin
George W. Dargin
Annie C. Wentworth
Charles Had
Salem
Charles
Pillebury
Louis 2. Woodbury
Londonderry
Willie E. Woodbury
Melinda Esstman
Danville
Mary A. Swasey
James Sheehan
Newmarket
Irving T. George
Sally Eaton
Seabrook
Dominique Perreault
Or Parc
Amos D. Duston
Charles A. Canney
Portsmouth
William B. Noone
Harry
William R. Sides
Martha J. Hodgdon
Kensington
Mary Murphy
Stratham
Hannah A Littlefield
Elbridge G. Judkins
Kingston
Clarence A. Good Win
William Crane
Candia
A. L. Berg
Berger W. Berg
Darry
A. B. Corings
Abigail F. Chase
Exeter
Derry
Hampton
Raymond
Real estate conveyances in Rockingham County weekly list
The Rockingham registry records multiple conveyances for the week ending in January. Transactions include Portsmouth Savings Bank to Lemuel Pope Sr for land on State Street and several rights in land, plus transfers to Walter Woods and James T. Whitehorne for various parcels and equity interests, all valued at $1 or minimal sums. Other entries cover land on Newcastle Avenue, Mill Yard rights, the Greenland Stratham lands, and railroad land movements involving the Boston and Maine Railroad, with several parties signatory from Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire locations.
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Edwin C. Foss
Norwood, Mags
James T. Whitehorne
Greenland
Strathamlanda
William
Odell
Belknap
Wooka
H. Irink
John C. Lord
Hamptoun
Andrew J. Philbrick
Boston & Maize Railroad
John AW. Fogg
William F. Prekel
North Bampton
Alice M. Silshee
Watertown
Mass
Anna T. Raberte
Frederick A
The Whist Table Discouraging Discard Rules
The article surveys discard rules in whist and bridge, finding no universal guideline. It cites Fisher Ames, Mathews, Fenollosa, Proctor, and Whist Strategy, noting the futility of fixed rules and the risk of misleading partners. urged to pick a plan and stay with it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisher Ames
Mathews
Fenollosa
Gen Schalk Burger Aims at Boer Unity in Vryburg Drive
Gen Schalk Burger once tried to unseat Kruger in the Transvaal presidency now blends political aims with wartime duty. He bears a long memory of British actions including a $1 560 bounty on his grandfather. In 1881 he led burghers as field cornet amid independence war. He is self taught, a deep thinker and eloquent orator influencing the Volksraad at Pretoria.
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Schalk Burger
Vrybur
Transvaal
Kruger
Volksraad
Pretoria
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MS Kinley
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Johnson & CO
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A. P. Wendell & Cos
Market Square
John S. Tilton
Congress Street
Lawrence
Herald
Robert H. Hall
R. Hrall
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Querry
Bridge Street
TRASK
Philippines
Eddie Parshley
Manila Bay
Japan
Jeuray
Current Opinion
New York Mail and Xpress
Molineaulx
New York
Brockton Times
General French
Alfred Austin
Concord Monitor
Carnegie
Nashua
Otis
LA Gripe
Ti. W. Grove
Thomas
Pia
Hall
FP. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
PJ. Cheney & CO
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