Word: paper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opening article of the New England Magazine for June is a very interesting and admirably illustrated account of "The Boston Tea-Party." It is a reprint of the oration delivered before the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the Revolution by Francis E. Abbot on February 22. The paper is a full description of the circumstances which led to the "Tea Party" with a detailed narrative of the actual event. There are a number of pictures from old engravings with portraits of many of the men who went to the party This article is followed by two short poems...
...given previous committees perfect satisfaction, and the chairmen of these committees strongly urge the engaging of the same men for this service. The general facts of the instance last year of a ticket taker entertaining his friends at the gymnasium, were correctly stated in the communication in Thursday's paper, but the superintendent of the Pinkerton Agency detected him and was prompt in acknowledging the truth and in removing the man. In engaging Pinkerton men, and it is to be noted that they are not North End roughs but the specials of the permanent Pinkerton Agency, the committee is enabled...
...book will be 12 mo., of about three hundred pages, well printed on unusually good paper. It will be fully illustrated by New York's great illustrator, Harry Fenn, and will contain sketches, stories, and essays, - descriptive, humorous. Historical, and scientific, written exclusively for the book, by William D. Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel S. Shaler, and others...
...unnatural and improbable story and though it has a certain interest for the reader in that it is written in an easy and pleasant style, the plot is nothing new or remarkable, and the situation at the end is rather incomprehensible. "Kings of the Trotting Track" is a paper supplementary to "Queens of the Trotting Track' printed in the May number. It is, like the first part, largely statistics and to the average reader rather uninteresting. It is well illustrated from paintings by Gean Smith...
...Sailing Yacht of Today" is a good treatment of the subject by C. L. Norton. The paper is illustrated with a number of diagrams. "An Apache Dance" by Nantan Lupan is very interesting. S. Scoville has another article on Athletic Records, Past and Present." The author compares new records with those of the past in a very good paper, finding 'that in all field events and in the track events through the mile we are far superior to our grand parents." "A Dangerous Sidepath" by John Seymour Wood is a typical Outing love story. The heroine is a great bicyclist...