Boston Opera House Plans Advance for Mechanics Building
Abbey Schoeffel Grau explore three plans to place a modern opera house in Boston. The most favored option would convert the Mechanics Building into a larger opera venue, possibly surpassing New York's Metropolitan, with work expected to begin soon after New York talks.
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Boston
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau
Messrs. Abbey
Schoeffel
Abbey
Mr. Schoeffel
New York
Huntington Avenue
Mechanics
Metropolitan
Pollard case unfolds with baby mystery and letters
In Washington on April 5 the fifth week of the Pollard Breckinridge trial resumes. Witnesses describe the foundling baby case, naming Dietz Downing, and discuss Miss Pollard's past, letters from Breckinridge, and college records amid objections and rebuttals as court adjourns.
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Washington
Miss Pollard
Colonel Breckinridge
Major Butterworth
Mary Parsons
Lidie
Dietz Downing
Diesz Carlyle
Shelby
Wilson
Water Front Steamship Plans New Boston to Charlottetown Service
Mr M F Plant assistant manager of Plant steamship line announced a weekly Boston to Charlottetown service via Port Hawkesbury starting the last week of April aboard the steamer Florida. The Mindora recent long voyage is noted, and the Francisco suffered a docking mishap with a fouled propeller cleared by diver Captain Duncan. The Wandrahm reports icebergs sighted as it arrived.
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M. F. Plant
Plant Steamship Line
Boston
Port Hawkesbury
C. B
Charlottetown
Halifax
Florida
Mindora
Bowden
South Shoal
Manilla
Francisco
Wilson Line
Hull
England
Pier 1
New England
Duncan
Kuenn
Rhody's Returns Show Brown Wins Governor Support
Complete returns from yesterday's election indicate Brown the Republican candidate for Governor received 2,179 votes while Baker the Democrat secured 22,924. Republican support for other state officers exceeded Brown's, and on joint ballot the Assembly is expected to stand Republicans 1100 to Democrats 6.
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Providence
Brown
Baker
George Cross dies at Hotel Dorrance after brief illness
Providence April 6 George Cross proprietor of Hotel Dorrance died at the hotel this morning from inflammation of the bowels after a short illness. Cross was one of New England’s best known hotel keepers. He began his career in Boston as a clerk in the City Hall.
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Miss Pollard
Kentucky
Pittsburg
Graftonsburg
Lexington
George H. Kean
Sawyer
Kean
Louise Lowell
Capitol
Brown
Wesleyan College
Cincinnati
Professor Orvin Brown
Spitfire
Miss Spitfire
Civil Service Commission
Mary Smith
Colom Breckinridge
Mary Yancey
Mrs
Mary
Colonel Breckinridge
Boston
Providence
George Cross
Hotel Dorrance
Cross
New England
Tillman Attacks General in South Carolina Inquest
Spies testifying before a military inquest in Darlington are shuffled onto a special train at dawn. Forty three revolvers are seized from eighteen men after disarming. The inquest reconvenes behind closed doors as Governor censures General Richbourg for not securing attorney representation. Press censorship continues.
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Darlington
S. C
Richbourg
State Guards
Ward 17 Voting Irregularities At Testimony Hearing
Testimony in the Ward 17 election contest revealed alleged irregularities including underage registrations at 100 East Canton Street and instructions to vote for Democrats. Witnesses described as minors being advised to register, with references to Hayes and the South End Associates.
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Bernard T. McCabe
South End Associates
East Canton Street
Hayes
John T. Sparrow
Sullivan
Associates
Champlin
Hart
Emerson
Dover Street
F. E. Witherell
Tremont Street
Doyle
Wade
Fitzpatrick
O'Brien
James G. Curtis
Forest
Ward
Carey
Henry Harrington
Lexington
West
Canton Street
Boston
Harregton
McCabe
Thomas J. Donnellon
Dennis Regan
Dedham Street
Long Island Hospital
Appeal to the Pope for religious freedom abroad
Chicago Methodist ministers at their weekly meeting passed resolutions to appeal to the Pope for extending United States style religious liberty to South American nations Peru Ecuador and Bolivia. Rev J F Thompson of Montevideo spurred the move citing Protestant persecution.
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New York
Chicago
United States
Peru
Ecuador
Bolivia
J. F. Thompson
Montevideo
Mr. Thompson
New England Gleanings from Winchester to Lowell
News briefs from several towns report forest work in Middlesex Fells Park and minimal fire damage, a death from consumption in Plymouth, a demolition and new brick structure plan in Woburn, arraignments in Portland on a policy game case, liquor raids and fines in Lawrence, embezzlement charges against John Joyce in Lowell with a 1891 crime linked to a 1893 arrest.
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Winchester
Middlesex Fells Park
Plymouth
N. H
Frank Mamlin
Hamlin Bros
Jebomeone
Woburn
Woodbury
Main Street
Lena G. Hart
Portland
Joseph H. Wolff
Benjamin
Hiram
Gould
Wolff
Maine
Lawrence
Patrick T. Bradley
Dennis Torrent
Bradley
Lowell
John Joyce
Joyce
Knowles Faces 25-Year Habitual Criminal Sentence
John C. Knowles and Richard Welch were captured after pawning shoes identified as those stolen from a freight car in East Boston Saturday night. Knowles, detained in Charlestown, faces up to twenty-five years as an habitual criminal.
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John C. Knowles
North End
Richard Welch
Charlestown
Boston
Free Medical Services Until Cured by Dr. Dewey in Boston
Boston physician Dr. Dewey offers free medical care for all diseases during hard times. Offices at Hotel Pelham, 74 Boylston Street. Hours 9 to 1, 3 to 6, 6 to 8 p m, Sundays 10 to 40. m
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Dewey
Boston
Hotel Pelham
Boylston Street
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