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SECT. 4. Whoever violates any provision of the preceding sections of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
ORDINANCE XXII.
Gunpowder and other Explosive Compounds.
SECTION 1. No person shall keep or deposit any gunpowder within the city unless it is well secured in tight casks or canisters.
No person shall keep or deposit more than fifty pounds of gunpowder in any shop, store, or other building which is within the distance of twenty-five rods from any other building or wharf : no person
Pub. Stats., chap. 103, § 56.
No person to keep or deposit gunpowder unless, etc.
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shall keep or deposit more than twenty-five pounds Limit of of gunpowder in any shop, store, or other building amount. which is within the distance of ten rods from any other building ; and no person shall keep or deposit more than one pound of gunpowder in any shop, store, or other building, which is within ten rods of any other building unless it is well secured in copper, tin, or brass canisters holding not exceeding five pounds each, and closely covered with copper, brass, or tin covers.
SECT. 2. Licenses may be granted by the mayor Licenses. and aldermen for the retailing of gunpowder, in form substantially as follows : to wit,-
Gunpowder License No.
LICENSE TO SELL GUNPOWDER IN THE CITY OF
NEWTON.
This certifies that of Newton is (or are) hereby licensed and authorized to sell gunpowder at retail. at on street, being place of business in said city, for one year from date hereof, at noon, provided shall duly conform to the laws and to the provisions of the ordinance printed hereon. And in case the said shall at any time during the term aforesaid infringe the laws or any of the provisions of said ordinance, then this license shall be void.
Dated at Newton this day of , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
No person shall sell any gunpowder within the Sales without city without such license. Every such license shall license pro- hibited. be in force one year from the date thereof, provided that any such license may be rescinded by the mayor License may be rescinded.
and aldermen, at their discretion.
SECT. 3. Every person so licensed shall keep a Sign, sign over the outside of the principal entrance from
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the street of the building in which powder is kept. on which shall be printed in capitals the words, " Licensed to Keep and Sell Gunpowder."
City Clerk to keep record of licenses, etc. Place not to be changed.
SECT. 4. The city clerk shall keep a record of all such licenses, and of the places designated therein ; which places shall not be changed unless by consent of the mayor and aldermen in writing. Every person who receives a license shall sign his name to a copy of the rules prescribed in this ordinance, as evidence of his assent thereto.
Exceptions. Keeping in magazines.
SECT. 5. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply or extend to the keeping or storing of metallic cartridges in fire-proof magazines, nor to cartridge manufacturers, so long as they shall keep their powder in canisters, as prescribed in Section 4, and in fire-proof magazines, located and built to the satisfaction of the mayor and aldermen, and so long as such manufacturers allow no more than one hundred pounds of gunpowder in any magazine, or five pounds of gunpowder not made into cartridges, to be in any one workshop at any one time.
Pub. Stats., chap. 102, § § 59, etc
SECT. 6. No person, except on military duty in the public service of the United States or of this Commonwealth, shall keep, have, or possess, in any building, place, vehicle, ship, or other vessel within one rod of a dwelling-house, any explosive compound other than gunpowder, in quantity exceeding one- fifth of a pound.
SECT. 7. The mayor and aldermen may license any suitable person to keep, store, and sell such compound, in accordance with the foregoing pro- visions.
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SECT. 8. Any member of the police or of the Fire Department may enter the building or prem- ises of any person so licensed, to make the exam- ination provided by law, at his discretion ; and on alarm of fire may cause such compound there deposited to be removed or destroyed, as the case may require.
SECT. 9. Whoever violates any provision of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.
ORDINANCE XXVIII.
Telegraph, Telephone, and Electric-Light Lines.
SECTION 1. The Chief of the Fire Department, under the direction of the mayor and aldermen, shall have the supervision and charge of all tele- graph, telephone, and electric lines. He shall forwith report to the mayor any violations of this ordinance.
SECT. 2. No telegraph, telephone, nor electric line shall be erected nor maintained until the owner thereof shall file with the mayor and alder- men a written agreement accepting and promising to abide by and perform all the conditions and provisions of this ordinance, and all orders, rules, regulations, and amendments hereafter made in addition thereto.
SECT. 3. All writing's and authority for the erection of telegraph, telephone, and electric lines shall be subject to the right of the mayor and aldermen to permit other lines to be placed upon the same posts; but this shall not prevent a reasonable compensation therefor,
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SECT. 4. On streets where curbstones are set, all posts shall be erected in the sidewalk, within and adjoining the curbstones; and where there are no curbstones, the posts shall be so erected as not to interfere with the gutters. No post shall be erected within fifteen feet of any hydrant, nor so as to interfere with any water-pipe, shade-tree, driveway, or intersection of streets.
SECT. 5. All posts for telegraph, telephone, and electric lines shall be straight, properly trimmed and painted, shall not be less than twenty feet in height from the ground, shall be of iron, cedar, or chestnut, and, if of wood, not less than six inches in diameter at the smaller end, and ten inches in diameter at the ground. Such posts shall be properly set in the ground to the depth of at least five feet. Wherever any wire shall cross any street or way, it shall be at a height not less than twenty- five feet above such street or way, and be protected by guards, and, where practicable, cross at right angles.
SECT. 6. All wires for the transmission of electricity for lighting and motive-power shall at all times be so insulated as to resist abrasion and heat, and be impervious to water. When placed above. the surface of the ground, such wires shall be suspended upon posts ; and, wherever in proximity to other wires, dead guard-wires must be placed so as to prevent any possibility of contact with foreign wires. This rule must apply to both arc and incandescent wires. When any such wire shall be broken, or its insulation become imperfect, the
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electric current shall forthwith be discontinued, and the wire not used until properly repaired and insulated.
SECT. 7. Wires for the transmission of electrici- ty for lighting and motive-power shall be secured to insulating fastenings of glass, hard rubber, or other approved insulating material. All tie-wires shall be insulating in the same manner as conducting wires. All joints in wires shall be securely made, and where possible soldered, and wrapped with insulating material that will resist heat and abrasion, and be impervious to water. Continuous wires, without joints, shall be used as far as possible.
SECT. 8. Wires for the transmission of electri- city for lighting and motive-power, passing through the exterior walls of buildings, shall be firmly incased in substantial tubes of non-conducting material not liable to absorb moisture, and so placed as to prevent water from entering the build- ing along the wire. Outgoing and returning wires for arc-lights shall enter and leave buildings at points one foot at least from each other; those for incandescent lights shall so enter and leave build- ings at points at least three inches from each other. In running along outside walls, cornices, and the like, all such wires shall be rigidly fastened by non- conducting fastenings ; and where carried over or attached to buildings, must be at least seven feet above the highest point of flat roofs, and one and a half feet above pitch roofs, and placed so as to avoid ladders of Fire Departments. They should not be run over or attached to buildings; other than
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those desiring light and power. In the interior of buildings, all such wires shall be so placed as not to come in contact with iron pipes, posts, nor girders, nor in any way so as to form other circuits or ground connections. In passing through floors or partitions or walls, they shall be surrounded by an insulating tube of substantial material, to protect them from injury by rats and mice. All inside wires must be so placed, as to be easily and thoroughly inspected. Whenever such wires enter a building, a cut-out of simple form and construc- tion shall be provided, and properly attached as near as possible to such entrance.
SECT. 9. The frame and exposed parts of all arc-lamps shall be insulated from the circuit. All such lamps shall be provided with a separate hand- switch, and also with an automatic switch which will close the circuit whenever the carbons do not approach each other, or the resistance becomes excessive. Arc-lamps must be provided with some arrangement to prevent the lower carbon from falling out, in case the lamp does not hold them securely. For inside use, the globes must rest in a tight stand, that no particles of melted copper or heated carbon can escape. Converters on alternat- ing circuits must be outside of buildings, and must be placed high enough from roof to prevent possible injury to firemen.
SECT. 10. For incandescent lamps, the con- ducting wire leading to each building and branch circuit shall be provided with an automatic switch or cut-out, or its equivalent, capable of protecting
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the system from injury by an excessive current of electricity.
SECT. 11. All light and power circuits shall be entirely of metal. No gas, water, nor steam pipe, nor the earth, shall be used as a part of any such circuit.
SECT. 12. In case of fire, the Chief of the Fire Department shall have full power and authority to order and cause any electric wires to be cut or removed, and electric currents discontinued until the fire is extinguished.
SECT. 13. Except by vote of two-thirds of all members of the board of aldermen, no wire for the transmission of electricity for lighting or motive- power shall be attached to posts of the fire-alarm telegraph nor to the posts of any telegraph or telephone company upon which fire-alarm wires are placed. Such wires, excepting when permitted by a like vote to remain, shall forthwith be removed from such posts, whenever any wire of the fire-alarm telegraph is attached thereto.
SECT. 14. All dead wires where crossing public streets or ways shall be removed.
SECT. 15. Upon the completion of any circuit, and before it is used, a plat, showing the location of the wires and posts of such circuit, shall be filed with the Chief of the Fire Department ; and any change of such posts or wires shall be reported to him within twenty-four hours.
STATISTICS.
From January 1, 1889, to December 31, 1889.
Total alarms, (Bell)
56
Total alarms, (Telephone)
21
Total alarms, (Verbal)
9
Grand Total .
86
Loss on Real Estate
$29,403 75
Insurance paid on same
27,313 48
Loss on Personal Property
8,651 67
Insurance paid on same 6,022 42
Loss in excess Insurance paid .
4,719 52
Total Insurance at risk
202,000 00
Assessed value Real Estate at risk
250,000 00
Total Hydrants . 606
Total miles of streets
. 145
Area protected by Department
sq. miles 20
CITY OF NEWTON.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
OF THE
NEWTON FREE LIBRARY
NEWTON, MASS,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, ISS9.
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NEWTON, MASS., NEWTON GRAPHIC PRESS, 1890.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1890.
At Large.
JOHN S. FARLOW. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
WILLIAM CLAFLIN. A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. EDWIN B. HASKELL.
From the Board of Aldermen. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
From the Common Council. EDWARD L. COLLINS.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1890.
President. JOHN S. FARLOW.
Secretary. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
Committee on Library.
PRESIDENT, ex-officio. EDWIN B. HASKELL.
WILLIAM CLAFLIN. JULIUS L. CLARKE.
Committee on Building.
PRESIDENT, ex-officio. A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. EDWARD L. COLLINS.
EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
Superintendent.
JOHN C. KENNEDY.
Librarian. ELIZABETH P. THURSTON.
Assistant Librarians.
H. W. HARLOWE, LOUISE J. SMALLWOOD.
ETTA P. CLEAVELAND. CHARLOTTE FLANDERS. KATHERINE K. WOOD.
Janitor. HENRY J. MARSHMAN.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.
For the Year ending December 31st, 1889.
To his Honor the Mayor and the City Council of Newton, Massachusetts :
It affords the Trustees of the Newton Free Library great pleasure at this time, to again report the continuous and in- creasing good accomplished by the institution under their immediate charge. Every thing pertaining to the Library has worked harmoniously and well the past year, with good results in every department. Full details of the receipts. expenditures, accessions, circulation, etc., appear in the report of the Superin- tendent, and the statistical tables of the Librarian herewith submitted. These show a decrease in the circulation of works of fiction during the past year, and an increase in works on arts and sciences, history, geography, poetry, travels, essays and periodicals. This improvement our Librarian attributes in a large measure, to the facilites now afforded each of the teachers in our public schools, for taking from the Library ten volumes at a time for use in the schools.
This privilege was availed of the past year to the extent of 4496 volumes.
The distributing agencies for the five more distant wards of the city have worked satisfactorily, having distributed during
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the year more than one half of the entire circulation of the library.
The magazine and newspaper departments in "Chaffin" and "Jewett" halls, are liberally supplied with the current periodieals and newspapers of the day, and it is gratifying to witness the increasing number of readers in both departments. The shelving in our "publie document" room (Read Hall) is now completely filled. and we shall be compelled this current year to call on the Public Property Committee of the City Council to furnish additional shelving therein. In addition to the books provided for general circulation from the appropria- tion made by the City Council the past year, there has been expended for books and works of art from the income derived from the
"Jewett Art Fund" $178 00
" Alden Speare Fund" 36 21
"Charles Read Fund" 275 52
" Farlow Reference Fund" 221 70
a total of $711 43
The Trustees cordially renew their invitation to the Mayor and City Council and the citizens generally to visit the Library as often as possible and witness for themselves its practical operation.
Respectfully submitted by the Board of Trustees,
J. S. FARLOW, President.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees of the Newton Free Library :-
GENTLEMEN : - I have the honor to submit to you a state- ment of the present condition of the Library and a report of its progress through the year ending December 31, 1889.
The tabulated statistics at the close of this report present in detail the work and expenses of the Library for the year and afford an opportunity for comparison with the two previous years.
During the year the circulation of books has increased, reaching a total of 105,230 which is 530 in excess of any former year.
The Library has been much more largely used than here- tofore by persons seeking to examine its books of reference and art and spending hours in reading and studying, and this has increased to such an extent that we have found it desirable to keep the Reference Room open an hour later in the evening.
The number of volumes circulated during the year was 105,230.
The number of volumes added during the year was 2,256.
The whole number of books now in the Library is 30,622.
The amount of appropriation made by the City Council for the year was $10,295.
The work of the Library is itself constantly increasing.
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The largest number of books delivered at the Library on any one day was 680, on Feb. 23.
The number of books covered was 12,508.
The registered number of names of persons using the Library is 8,773.
The amount collected from fines during the year was #383.66 and $27.66 has been received from the sale of Bulletins and old paper.
Some changes have been made in the Library force during the year. The long felt want of an assistant librarian to look after the Reading Room and care for the magazines and other property has been supplied in the person of Miss Katherine K. Wood, a lady of wide experience in Library work. Her desk is in Chaffin Hall, where she commands a view of the Reading Room, and thus is enabled to suppress the conversa- tional tendencies of the rising generation.
Mr. Chester A. Bass, our efficient janitor, finding a change of climate necessary owing to the illness of his wife, resigned his position. He has been succeeded by Mr. Henry J. Marshman, who thus far appears to be a conscientious, pains- taking man.
The delivery system of the Library has been much im- proved during the current year. The books have been dis- tributed every secular day with the exception of legal holidays at the nine different agencies scattered throughout the city. The books are collected in the morning, brought to the Library, and the new ones returned early in the afternoon. In addition to this the messenger delivers and collects books from eighteen of the public schools in the city. The prompt and accurate delivery of the books, together with the polite and obliging conduct of the messenger. have been the subject of commendation from citizens of the different parts of our city.
The Newton Jersey Stock Club has again placed us under
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a special obligation by the gift to the Library of a beautiful life sized portrait of our honored President. No more fitting or acceptable gift could have been presented to the Library than such a memorial of this liberal, public spirited citizen who has so often honored himself by his liberality towards it. The portrait adorns the wall of the Farlow Reference Room.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN C. KENNEDY, Superintendent.
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APPENDIX.
A.
RECEIPTS.
1889.
1888.
1887.
December 31.
Municipal appropriation
$10,295 00
$10,170 00
Fines, bulletins, etc.
418 38 5 64
56
1 22
$10,719 02
$10,616 95
$8,779 01
B.
EXPENDITURES.
1889.
1888.
1887.
December 31.
Salaries
$4,042 15
$3,518 16
$3,636 42
Reading room
504 60
463 60
456 85
Incidentals
169 76
168 85
241 10
Repairs
11 80
428 28
160 36
Furniture and fixtures
63 29
233 95
845 66
Printing bulletins
188 40
Printing and advertising
36 75
123 35
87 35
Binding
380 05
242 55
141 42
Books
3,061 49
2,455 49
972 58
Light
569 40
539 80
543 60
Fuel .
288 40
553 50
305 79
Distributing agencies & express,
1,425 21
1,292 95
1,193 95
Blanks and stationery
102 72
392 43
172 60
Postage account
21 50
10 00
20 77
Total expenditure
10,677 12
10,611 31
8,778 45
Bal. with City Treasurer, $0.11
Bal. at the Library . . 41.79
Total balance
41 90
5 64
56
$10,719 02
$10,616 95
$8,779 01
446 39
$8,500 00 277 79
Cash on hand at last report .
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C.
CIRCULATION.
1889.
1888.
1887.
Number of days the Library was open .
304
305
230
of holidays the Libra- ry was closed . . .
9
8
8
of other week-days the Library was closed . of volumes delivered for home use
105,230
104,700
70,005 304.3
Largest daily use, Feb. 23, 1889, March 17, 1888 .
680
641
November 26, 1887,
526
Smallest daily use, July 25, 1889,
187
90
November 26, 1888, July 1, 1887
128
Number of books lost and not paid for
15
12
10
of books lost and paid for
2
4
5
of books worn out and withdrawn
50
39
24
of notices to delin- quents . .
177
262
649
of volumes covered
12,508
13,460
13,954
of volumes bound
884
601
318
of names registered during the year
1,026
1,025
1,485
Total number of names regis- tered
8,773
7,747
6,722
-
75
Average daily use
346.1
343.2
=
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D.
DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE AGENCIES AND TO THE SCHOOLS.
1889.
Books distributed at Newton Centre
13,676
Newtonville .
11,902
Newton Highlands
8,324
Auburndale .
6,578
West Newton
5,259
Newton Upper Falls
2,908
Newton Lower Falls
2,440
Oak Hill
933
Nonantum
763
Total agency distribution
52,780
Books delivered to 18 of the 20 Public Schools.
to Eliot
546
Bigelow
482
Prospect
423
Underwood
421
High
383
Adams .
291
Claflin .
272
Hyde
191
Lincoln
190
Pierce
174
Oak Hill
120
Barnard
100
Rice .
100
Franklin
90
Davis
30
Jackson
30
Total number of books delivered for school use
4,496
Mason
279
Williams
374
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E.
ACCESSIONS.
1889.
1888.
1887.
Increase by purchase
2,050
1,804
971
by gift
128
103
300
by binding pamphlets
8
7
4
by binding periodicals .
136
96
91
Number of missing volumes restored since last report
1
Total accessions for the year Number of volumes missing or withdrawn since last report
2,323
2,010
1,366
67
55
39
Actual increase
2,256
1,955
1,327
Number of volumes in the Library, as last reported .
28,366
26,411
25,084
Total number of volumes in the Library .
30,622
28,366
26,411
Number of pamphlets bound since last report
32
74
20
Number of newspapers subscribed for
34
36
31
of newspapers given
9
7
15
of magazines subscribed for
79
71
60
of magazines given
11
9
16
Total number received
133
123
122
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F.
CLASSIFICATION, GROWTH,
SIZE, AND USE.
Increase
during
the Year.
Total Num-
ber of
Volumes.
Volumes is-
sued during
the Year.
Per Cent of Circulation.
1889.
1888.
1887.
Literature.
Prose, fiction and juvenile
reading .
356
6.467 67,457 64.11 66.34 64.62
Essays, poetry and drama
240
3.723
7,139
6 79
6.43
6.78
Periodicals
268
2,190
3,212
3.05
2.41
2.08
Foreign literature
96
683
613
.58
.46
.33
History.
Geography and travels
241
2.778
8,629
8.20 4.40
7.49
8.31
Biography .
224
2,899
4,628
History
168
2,801
5,065
4.81
4.70
4.83
Arts and Sciences.
Natural science and industri-
al arts
259
3.023
6,343
6.03
5.77
6.69
Political and social science
128
1,581
1,329
1.26
1.09
1.15
Theology
42
1,254
768
.73
.68
.69
Reference Library :
234
3,223
47
.04
.16
.09
Accessions for the year
2,256
-
Number of volumes in the
Library
30,622
Circulation for the year
-
105230
G.
Received for catalogues sold in 1889
$13 00
Paid City Treasurer
13 00
.
.
4.47
4.43
LIST OF PERIODICALS FOR 1890 IN THE READING ROOMS.
MAGAZINES.
All the Year Round.
Edinburgh Review.
American Agriculturist.
Education.
American Architect.
Engineering and Building Record.
American Garden.
English Illustrated Magazine.
American Naturalist.
Folio.
American Notes and Queries.
American Philatelist.
Forum.
Garden and Forest.
Gardener's Chronicle.
Good Housekeeping.
Atlantic Monthly.
Haus und Herd.
Bibliotheca Sacra.
Home-Maker.
Illustrated London News.
Journal of Franklin Institute.
Cassell's Family Magazine.
Lend a Hand.
Catholic World.
Library Journal.
Century. Chambers' Journal.
Life.
Lippincott's Magazine.
Chautauquan.
Literary News.
Civil Service Record .*
Literary World.
Common School Education.
Littell.
Contemporary.
London Punch.
Converted Catholic .*
Magazine of American IIistory.
Cosmopolitan.
Magazine of Art.
Country Gentleman.
Magazine of Western History.
Critic.
Medical Bulletin .*
Decorator and Furnisher.
Nation.
Art Interchange.
Harper's Magazine.
Blackwood's Magazine.
Camp News .*
Fortnightly.
Andover Review.
Appalachia. Art Amateur.
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Nationalist .* Nature.
New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg. New Eng. Jour. of Education. New England Magazine. Nineteenth Century. North American Review.
Notes and Queries. Official Gazette, U. S. Pat. Office .* Open Court .* Our Dumb Animals .* Outing. Overland.
People's Cause .*
Philanthropist .*
Political Science Quarterly. Popular Science Monthly.
Public Opinion. Publisher's Weekly. Puck. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Quarterly Review. St. Nicholas. Sanitarian.
Science. Scientific American. Scientific American Supplement. Scribner's Magazine.
Stamp World .* United Service Magazine.
Westminster Review.
Wide Awake.
Writer.
Youth's Companion.
NEWSPAPERS.
Alta California.
American Citizen.t Atlanta Constitution. Baltimore American. Boston Advertiser. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Boston Globe.
Boston Herald. Boston Journal.
Boston Post.
Boston Transcript.
Boston Traveller.t
British American Citizen.t
Brooklyn Eagle. Charleston News and Courier. Chicago Tribune.
Christian Leader.t
Christian Register.t Cincinnati Commercial.
Denver Times.t
Florida Times Union. Harper's Bazar.
Harper's Weekly. Independent.
London Times. Montreal Gazette.
New Orleans Picayune.
New York Evening Post.
New York Herald.
New York Sun.
New York Times.
New York Tribune. New York World. Newton Graphic. Newton Journal.
Paradise of the Pacific. t Philadelphia Press. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Saturday Evening Gazette. Springfield Republican. Washington Evening Star.
Woman's Journal.t Zion's Herald.t
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