22 Mar 1900
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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
1
James C. Lyford cites McKinley’s re election as the only safeguard against silver inflation. He argues Bryan’s win could create a silver senate with a voting majority, while a McKinley victory would discourage silver backed legislation and protect financial policy positions.
A Washington dispatch reports Hon Frank Jones of New Hampshire, longtime Granite State Democrat leader, visited the White House and then announced he has renounced the Democratic Party and will work for McKinley. He predicted McKinley’s election and expressed strong confidence.
Veteran tailor William P. Walker was attacked by a vicious dog on his way to his shop. The dog tore his clothing and knocked him to the street, leaving him badly bruised and shaken. The dog’s owner could not be identified.
Merriment expected as Charles Hoyt presents A Day and A Night at the Music Hall next Wednesday evening. The new farce is advertised to draw a large fashionable audience and promises lively entertainment. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. guaranteed refund if not cured, with K W Groves signature on each box.
State news reports the death of Charles A. Nason of Hampton Park aged 70 and 3 months and Alonzo Pinkham at Dover Point aged 70 years 11 months and 1 day. It notes Clarence Ietchell as a school board candidate, Phillips Exeter’s 1901 banquet, Manchester Street railway seeking 12500 in capital to build the Goffstown line, a dynamite explosion injuring John Scanlon, and a Worcester bound freight derailment delaying trains at Rochester Union Station.doc
In the city candlepin league on Wednesday Portsmouth defeated Kearsarge. Portsmouth posted a three-string team total of 1298, a Portsmouth alley record, while Kearsarge finished with 1233, eight pins short of beating the Marines on Tuesday. The report details the scores.
The latest standings show teams jockeying for position midway in the season. Current leaders and trailing clubs are listed, with points and win loss records reflecting recent fixtures and upcoming schedule pressure.
Children aged four and older may enter the Portsmouth Public Kindergartens during the first week of the spring term starting Monday April 1. For best results, parents are urged to enroll lead children promptly. Enrollment cards are available from the district kindergartner or superintendent H. C. Monnton.
Delapoon faces a strong Rochester Y M C A team in Peirce hall this evening with floor admission 36c and gallery 20c. Dancing follows the game. HER LITTLE FRIENDS. Miss Julia Moses offers a private entertainment for her dancing pupils in Franklin hall Saturday afternoon. The annual exhibition and dance will be held in about two weeks, promising greater success than before.
March 24 a Monday eve in this town will feature the first basketball game against an out of town team. Admission is ten cents as locals expect a strong showing to sustain a fledgling high school team led by Manager Clough who promises a team of high quality under the name the Alwaglers.
Rear Admiral B J Cromwell has moved into residence at the navy yard. Pay Director F C Cosby and Pay Clerk Hoskins arrived to audit accounts on March 21. Civil engineer staffer Sheppard resigns for a city job in Boston, leaving friends and praise in his wake.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists endorsements from Toledo druggists West and Tuvaly Warping, Kinnan and Mannix and notes testimonials are free. Bananas arrive in markets as winter wanes. City meeting expected to be lively with a Woman's Christian Temperance Union gathering Friday at 3:30 PM at the YMCA parlors on Congress Street.
The Pythian Sisterhood hosted an enjoyable whist party in Philbrick’s block lodge room on Wednesday. Prizes were awarded to G. Trueman as gentlemen’s first, W. Brooke as gentlemen’s booby, Indian first to Mrs. A. F. Moulton, ladies’ booby to Mrs. J. T. Daw. Sixteen tables were in play.
A special meeting of the quarterly conference of the Methodist church in the entry is set for this evening at 7 o clock. All interested are urged to attend. The notice also includes a health ad about Burdock Blood Bitters claiming it purifies blood. Weather note mentions calm wind and dried streets.
A poem describing a willow bower by glassy water and the dreamlike escape it offers. The speaker recalls tranquil scenes, soft cushions of rest, and twilight fading into night, ending with a wish to linger in the bower. May Belle Willis, Boston Transcript, is credited.
London scientist Dr W Kinnear advocates a bone friendly diet to halt aging. He urges abundant fruit especially raw apples and meals of fish poultry young mutton and veal with moderate portions. Daily distilled water with phosphoric acid and an electric bath in a bio meter cell are claimed to restore vitality and prolong life to three centuries.
A downtown laundry employee describes theft by maids and porters, recounting stolen lace handkerchiefs, collars, and other items traced through multiple hands. Stories include a mulatto maidservant theft and a porter wearing a collar from a bundle, with watchful managers and customers bearing the costs. The column also slides into a streetcar scene and reports on a camel corps skirmish and tribal communications in distant regions.
The Cambridge congress of zoologists affirms sponges are animals, not plants, noting their fixed ocean bed life and colony-like protoplasm organization. It contrasts sponges with corals and zoophytes, explains skeleton diversity, and discusses their place in the zoological scale and protozoa lineage. It also mentions copper sheathing and ship protection advances.
Ella Morris Kretschmar in Woman's Home Companion denounces the blue Monday feast in homes as a rebuke to the homemaker. The piece criticizes wives who boast of husbands’ silent acceptance of substandard meals and calls out selfish neglect and indolence by partners.
Ewin A Parkman of Easter in Howkingham County New Hampshire states he was adjudged bankrupt January 27 last under federal bankruptcy acts. He surrendered all property and complied with all requirements. He asks the court grant a full discharge of provable debts, except those legally non-dischargeable. Dated March 15, 1900.
The document notes a copy of petition and order thereon filed with the court. Attest. Ruane E. Kepman, Deputy Clerk seals and verifies the record as official. The Deputy Clerk signs and affixes the seal under authority of the court.
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