07 Mar 1900
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1900
Page
1
Lamson & Hubbard announce the opening of a new neckwear and hat department in New Hampshire. The store offers a broad range of scarves ties and spring hats for both men and women with updated shapes and a refined furnishings section. Visitors are urged to inspect the enlarged department for the latest styles.
New rules for carriers handling registered mail on routes go into effect March 15 in Tarsi City. System mirrors Manchester, offering public convenience while enforcing strict collection practices. Carriers may not enter houses after delivering registered mail or wait for mail not ready for pickup.
The social democrats of Exeter nominate candidates for town offices to be supported in the upcoming election. The ticket lists several prominent citizens.
A York burial ground features a gravestone for a pious man with the line gone on faded. A young girl suggests the missing words may imply he died of a broken heart, interpreting gone on as a melancholy fate.
A vintage ad urges that beauty and charm come from health. It links a well complexion to strong nerves and clear blood, promoting Tlecine Bittera as a universal remedy for stomach liver and kidney regulation and blood purification. Available for 50 cents at Glabe Grocery.
Chief Carpenter Smith reports for temporary duty in the department of yards and docks as yard force slightly increases. Men break up old shell and iron to be sent by schooner to Boston for purchasers. Ad ends with a patent medicine pitch for Dean’s Ointment at 60 cents.
A Portsmouth reader notes a lively winter with erratic sleighing and hints of spring. The piece mentions women taking newer jobs like advertising solicitor and genealogist, anticipates spring and the Farmers Almanac dates, a stamp book idea, and Portsmouth’s large presence at the Boston Sportsmen's show. The column ends with a Lent humor anecdote about a Portsmouth girl and family reactions.
An advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It claims all druggists refund money if the cure fails and features a signature line for ER W Grove on the box.
The high school fair raised over two hundred dollars for the institution despite a rough opening night. Walter Lutts wed Mollie Stevens in a home ceremony. Mrs. Fred Stevenson died at twenty three, prompting community sympathy. Kittery residents planned basketball at Pierce Hall Portsmouth. Elizabeth Berry celebrated her 22nd birthday with a party for twenty friends.
In Greenland on March 7 both basketball teams staged practice games with solid play. The Wapagnog edge the Seminoles while the Seminoles prepare to face the Witterys next Thursday. A town hall meeting hosts Grange business and party caucuses Saturday night for Republican and Democratic officers.
Hampton residents report a thick fifteen inch deer blood? wait. A plate sold for six dollars. The beach road reopened Sunday aiding travel. Widow Wesley Cole mourns husband and father Moses Leavitt amid broad town sickness and strained benevolent funds. Exeter Amesbury mail system upsets jobs. judges plan benefit entertainments. Winter lingers with forecasts of another two storms.
Johnstone Bennett joins Miss Mare Howard and Miss Violet Stewart in Portsmouth performances with The Female Drummer and Zara. Praises Frohman's His Excellency while citing strong audience support at Music Hall and in Boston houses, noting actors Frank Connor Miss Howard and others.
Ex members of Company A First New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry met at the armory Tuesday evening to discuss the death of former member Arthur N Chambers. They voted to send flowers to his funeral in Claremont on March 8.
Port towns await Charles E. Blaney as he presents a star studded Music Hall show featuring A Female Drummer and other acts. An incident halted a through freight car near town when a snow plow derailed between city and Portland. Venus shines high in western sky and may be visible at noon soon. astronomical notes note daylight viewing possible with keen eyes.
Portsmouth masons led by W. D. Trace O H Sides Fred I Brown Warren P Laighton Fred Watkins D C Church B F P Webster and Chandler M Hayford traveled to Boston Tuesday to attend a meeting and banquet hosted by St Johns lodge The banquet for 250 sat down at the new Masonic temple.
Mrs Kate Gannett Wells spoke to a fair audience in the Unitarian chapel on Tuesday evening about what the women of the nineteenth century bequeath to the twentieth. The talk was thoughtfully prepared and well delivered. The same paper was delivered before the National Alliance in Washington.
The board of engineers of the fire department held their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. After routine business they adjourned to Rice's for an oyster supper hosted by Assistant Engineer Chas. H. Kehoe.
A Mrs A B of Stayla Yonkers New York credits Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier for her husband boils and carbuncles with complete cure after two bottles. A Kentucky woman with lifelong scrofula reports improved vision and health after taking Hood's. Another Woonsocket speaker praises Hood's as a spring strengthener and appetite builder.
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