Batchelor Succeeds General Pike as Grand Commander
Lou James Cunningham Batchelor M D of New Orleans succeeds pro tem to the honors of General Albert Pike as sovereign grand commander thirty third degree of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. Born in Canada July 106 1818 he moved to Alabama then New Orleans where he organized a Confederate company and served as captain. He was promoted through Scottish Rite ranks and held Louisiana grand secretary for twenty four years. Notes mention a one eyed mason disqualification and various Masonic incidents including the Prince of Wales election as grand master and a Wellington lodge dispute. Newport RI saw a Free Mason lodge established forty eight years after Pilgrims landings.
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James Cunningham Batchelor
Albert Pike
New Orleans
United States
Canada
Alabama
Eureka Lodge
Polar Star
Jacques de Molay
Grand Lodge of
Louisiana
Dakota
Manu
Prince of Wales
England
Robert Stout
Wellington
New Zealand
Grand Orient of France
Newport, R. L
Free Masons
Knights of Honor and Fraternal Orders Overview
The April Knights of Honor roll lists 183 deaths with totals for benefits paid amounting to 363500 and 44524 paid in, plus notes on membership ages and durations. It mentions Grand Lodge redistricting, a Knights of Honor hall in Memphis, and a New Orleans Supreme Lodge meeting, with Canada work underway. Also covered are the Improved Order of Red Men origins, upcoming junior sagapore candidacy, and fraternal orders in Massachusetts with endowment and investment figures totaling about 3250000 plus higher January earnings around four million in estimated paid-in amounts.
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J D. Sharon
Winchester
Mass
Richardson
Knights of Honor
Grand Lodge
Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor
New Orleans
Order
Memphis
J. J. Foltz
Canada
Improved Order of Red Men
Great Britain
Maryland
Harrison Nesbitt
Luzerne County
Junior Sagapore
Great Council of Pennsylvania
Trenton
N. J
Why Steamers Sail Midweek and Saturday From New York
A reader asks why Atlantic steamers mail sail only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The explanation notes cargo handling drives schedules. Lines use a four week cycle with ships departing to optimize inbound and outbound cargo, placing sailings far from Sundays. When traffic surges, other days are added to accommodate freight and mail to England.
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Europe
New York
England
New York Tribune
Diamond Ring Mystery Solved by Hen
A Gravenhurst Ontario household fretted over a lost diamond ring once owned by a New York guest. A maid faced suspicion but remained employed. The ring turned up under the lady’s window with the setting intact, the stone missing. Cleaning a chicken revealed the missing diamond swallowed by the hen after the ring allegedly slipped from the owner’s bed clothes and was carried to the yard.
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Gravenhurst
Ont
New York
St. Paul Globe
How They Remembered It And A Silly Waiter Tale
A Boston Courier anecdote contrasts a captain and his educated wife with a less cultivated mother and daughter about a journey to Russian ports. While the wife recalls St Petersburg for finishing a silk quilt with Sadie, a humorous Harper’s Bazar vignette shows a waiter mishearing a simple cracker and milk request as an oyster stew.
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America
St. Petersburg
Sadie
Boston Courier
Harper’s Bazar
Emperor Wilhelm’s Body Guard and a Real Estate Pitch
A Washington Post item describes Germany’s imperial body guard, fifteen foresters selected by court martial and trained for the emperor, serving nine to twelve years before retirement with royal forest posts. Also noted is a man in real estate who extols his firm's homes near the city, climaxing with a singing anecdote about Home Sweet Home and investment sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm
Espero
Germany
Royal Forests
Washington Post
Sweet Home
Labouchere Bemoans Illegible Signatures Plan
The London Truth editor Labouchere complains about his own bad handwriting and urges readers to adopt his signature plan by printing his name and address at the top of letters to avoid deciphering delays. He notes spending an hour weekly reading unreadable signatures and cites recipients who receive many letters.
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Labouchere
Mr. la Pouchere
London
Sullivan
Francis Sullivan
North Second St
Philadelphia
Fay Otly
Knights and Ladies of Columbia Hold First Grand Lodge Session
The first annual session of the grand lodge Knights and Ladies of Columbia met in Boston. Reports show the order in strong health with about 2,000 members and a plan to pay members 600 in five years, while certificates carry paid up value each year under Massachusetts charter. Artisans' Order of Mutual Protection presented a carved gavel block to Goodwill assembly of Philadelphia. United Friends reports total disbursements of 2,185,673.58 through March 21, including 126,000 to disabled members and 2,009,673.53 to beneficiaries of deceased members. one April assessment was issued, listing twenty death notices.
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Knights and Ladies of Columbia
Grand Lodge Knights and Ladies of Columbia
Boston
Massachusetts
Wissenach
Goodwill Assembly
Philadelphia
United Friends
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H. M. Plunkett
Popular Science Monthly
Warren Book Bindery
Warren
Miles
Woodworth & Co
Fort Wayne, Inc
Snow & Co
Syracuse
N. Y
Wolf
Hillsdale
Mich
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Kopf & Henry
Warren, PA
J. K. Ronne
Ory Street
L. G. Noyes & Co
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Alron Works
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Fuenikhin
Stiasos
Purtland
Baina
Meen
Parker
W. L. Douglas
Massachusets
W.W. L. Douglas
W. Ll Douglas
W. L.ogiaa
Brice
W.L. Douglas
U. S
L. Douglas
Brockton
Pera” and
Greenlands
Berekey & Gay Furniture
Grand Rapids
Nelson Greenland Undertaker and Embalmer
Exchange Block
Warren, Ps
Diamond Block
Penn’a
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