Hampton Police Affairs and Town Resignation Debate
Hampton town discussions center on the resignation of Chief J Worthen Dearborn elected at the annual meeting. Selectmen may appoint anew, as in prior years. Nearby chatter names George H Elkins as a likely candidate. The piece notes park and resort cleanliness needs amid summer travel and references local anecdotal commentary from Portsmouth hotel staff, a drummers tale, and a gardener doubting strawberry bed outcomes due to ice and possible winter damage.
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J. Worthen Dearborn
Hampton
John N. Bradford
M. FE
George
H. Elkins
Portsmouth
Exeter
Amesbury
Newburyport
Mass
The Slaves of Sia and Carlisle Band At Keith's
Theatrical folk announce Thomas Slex will visit Boston soon for a high class repertoire including The Slaves of Sia and Sydney Carlton. Keith's Boston playhouse will feature the United States Carlisle Indian band next week as the top act in a continuous program before its Paris exposition tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas S. Slex
Boston
Sydney Carlton
Shea
Marie Corelli
Keith
United States
Carlisle Indian Band
Carlisle
Navy Yard Notice on Meetings and Staff Movements
At the Navy Yard a masn meeting has drawn interest. Pay Director Bellona 18 is confined to bed with grip. Naval Constructor Tawresey of U S N was at his office after ten days’ illness. Chief Bentawain W L Hill leaves for New York for a Sons of the Revolution reunion. The T A M Craven was handed to the commandant as stores removal began. Work shifting the construction foundry from the dry dock site to the steam engineering galvanizing build has started.
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Bellona
Tawresey
U. 8S. N
Bentawain W. L. Hill
New York
Sons of the Revolution
T. A. M. Craven
Cleverest Farce in Hoyt’s Comedy At Music Hall
City briefs note a Hoyt farce premiering next Wednesday in Portamonth presented by first class company at Music Hall. Forecasts predict a big crowd, with downtown activity as spring looms, including ballet of plans and local notes on weather, events, and civic matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt
Music Hall
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Testimonials
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for incurable catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. It cites F J Cheney & Co as proprietors and lists Toledo druggists as distributors. Claims hall’s cure acts on blood and mucous surfaces and promises testimonials free.
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Wust & Truay
Toledo
Warning
Kinnan & Marvin
Hall
Kittery Briefs Note Local Items and Visit
Judge H H Burbank of Savo visited Kittery on Monday on business. Constitution lodge of Knights of Pythias meets this evening at Odd Fellows hall. Snow left streets muddy but cleared by sun and warm wind. A basketball party plans to attend league games in Pierce hall Portsmouth tonight. The Herath carried full town election details. Levi Goodrich shows marked health improvement.
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H. H. Burbank
Savo
Kittery
Constitution Lodge of
Knights of Pythias
Odd Fellows” Hall
Pierce Hall
Portsmouth
Herath
Levi Goodrich
Goodwill council benefit concert in PlAiStow and town notes
PlAiStow March 26 Goodwill council No 4 Jr O U A M held a graphophone concert raising a good sum for a benefit fund. Grange to hold mock trial Wednesday with W B Peaskee to be tried for breaking and entering and larceny. Moses B Dow will judge. John H Noyes prosecutor and Wallace Keezer defense counsel. Warner S Larriman sick with pneumonia, two children with scarlet fever. Dr Noyes attends. Village Improvement Society anniversary set for Wednesday April 19. Schools start April 2. former district No 4 school to close, scholars moved to center schools. Special meeting to decide Pollard bridge material brick or stone. Elanders Brick Co begins season, expects strong business. Totin W Sleeper named town treasurer. Town meeting votes flagmen at crossings. several appointments pending. Trinity Lodge inviting to visit Palestine Lodge April 4. J W Allison to move to Somerville. Judge M Perry Sargent in town settling Prescott and Kelly estates. Rev Frank Parker elected school board for three years.
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Totin W. Sleeper
Trinity Lodge
K of P
Palestine Lodge
Haverhill
Mags
J. W. Allison
Somerville
M. Perry Sargent
Prescott and Kelly
Frank Parker
Funeral services held for Mrs Mary J Hill of South Eliot
South Eliot Me March 26 funeral services for Mrs Mary J Hill wife of William Hill were held at 11 a m from her late home. Rev Henry Hyde Sowersworth N H and Rev A T Chase Sanford Me conducted the service. She leaves a daughter and a sister Mrs Condon of Kansas City who could not attend. She was 67 years five months and 22 days old. Interment Mount Pleasant cemetery. Pall bearers Augustus P Shapleigh Joshua L Frye George F Kennard Victor P Jankins. Funeral director Oliver W Ham. Samuel Nasouis under the care of Dr UL J Durgin at his home.
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South Eliot
Mary J. Hill
Willian Hill
Henry Hyde
Sowersworth
N. H
Sanford
Condon
Kansas City
Jin
Stratham
Samuel Sinclair
William O. Brooks
Bolt Hill
William Hill
Hill
Augustus P. Shapleigh
Joshua L. Frye
George F. Kennard
Victor P. Jankins
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Oliver W
Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Remedy Claims
An OCR fragment promotes Laxalive Browo Quinine Patlets with money back if ineffective. It cites E W Grove’s signature on a box and urges perseverance. It also touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal cure for scrofula rheum boils eruptions dyspepsia and more.
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Outa
E.W. Grove
Hood
Rise of Iron Pulley Blocks Transforms Maritime and Urban Use
The New York Sun notes a shift from rope to iron straps in pulley blocks, with iron shells and lignum vitae sheaves in many sizes. Large ships and derricks use iron blocks, steel halyards, and wire rope, as wooden blocks give way to industrial scale demand in maritime, construction, and urban drying lines.
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Lani
Ocean
New York
New York Sun
Edifying talks and old fashioned humor in faded clips
A medley of quick quotes and jokes from past papers. A Wal nut Hills ride sparks a test of male reliability, a Scotchman recalls Geordie Mc Kay, and a Mackinac hotel guest insists on a bath now rather than in the next year. These snippets reflect dated humor and social mores in light prose.
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Mackinac
Chicago Post
Water Front News Briefs On Varying Local Matters
Capt Burns of the bricking schooner Sadie Kimball begins fit out for the summer business. Schooners John Francia Stonington New York Grace II Stevens Boston Tremont salt barge Exeter Gloucester Eliot Wilson and Willard Boston for Eliot. The tug Piscataqua returns from Boston Monday. Portsmouth ladies invited to Moorcroft’s millinery opening next week Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Dr Thomas' Eclectric Oil promoted as safe and reliable. Bicycle repair shops report busy activity.
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Capt. Burns
Sadie Kimball
John Francia
Stonington
New York
Stone
Grace II
Stevens
Boston
Tremont
Salt
Exeter
Gloucester
Eliot
Wilson
Willard Boston
Piscataqua Arrivas
Miss Betty's Namesake Pig Tied to Betsy Taylor Tale
The Philadelphia Times recounts how a white pig kept by Second Dragoons at Fort Jessup was named Miss Betty after Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of General Zachary Taylor. The pig, prized by soldiers and officers, followed calls to mess and shared dainties, embodying a playful link to the young Miss Betty Taylor before her father’s 1819 rise to the presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zachary Taylor
Fort Jessup
Louisiana
Elizabeth
Betty
Second Dragoons
Miss Taylor
Misa Betty
Betty Taylor
United States
Celeste Bennett Dobbins
Philadelphia Times
Breakfast dialogue and a Paris diphtheria anecdote
The page recounts a traveling child who speaks clearly at five and travels with parents from Chicago to Boston. It also shares a Paris medical case where a baby girl reportedly said absolutely nothing, then recovered and later learned to speak normally. A humorous exchange about a black eye ends with a quip about principles and a fight.
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Boston
Chicago
Mildred
Detroit Free Press
Paris
M. X
Hartford Courant
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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