Senate Passes Anti Trust Bill on Futures and Options Puts
Washington report from April 8 outlines Chairman Funston’s amendments to the Butterworth bill defining futures and options, taxing dealers, and extending tax rules to bucket shops. It argues the measure targets speculative grain gambling while sparing legitimate traders, with exceptions for contracts tied to actual production and government or farmer sales.
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Washington
Funston
House Committee On Agriculture Today
House
United States
Navy Bill Debated On Aliens Enlistment And Battleships
In Washington on April 8 the House debated a naval affairs bill to bar aliens from enlistment and limit reenlistment. Amendments passed to delay foreign-station enlistments and extend residency for citizenship. The bill, plus a push for three sea-going battleships, drew sharp exchanges on cost and strategy as the House adjourned after a lengthy session.
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Washington
McAdoo
New Jersey
Committee On Naval Affairs
United States
Secretary of the Navy
Boutelle
Maine
United
Lind
Minnesota
House
Lodge
Massachusetts
Civil Service Commission
United States Civil Service
Congress
Chipman
Michigan
Committee On Invade
Adams
Illinois
Whchh
Silcott
Luc House
Pennsylvania
Senate Actions and Montana Contested Election Debate
In Washington on April 8 the Senate heard a memorial from Universalist ministers condemning Blair bill defeat and hoping for reconsideration. The body passed a free import bill with broadened scope for Mexican goods and debated additions to include Canada and other American republics. A joint resolution to donate law books to Howard University followed amid remarks on Civil Rights. The Montana contested election case dominated discussion as Spooner defended the Republican claimants Landers and Powers, while Pugh argued the minority view seating Clark and Maginnis, referencing citizenship and voting rights.
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Washington
Hoar
Senate
Boston
Morrill
Committee On Finance
House
St. Louis
Department of Justice
Law Department
Howard University
District of Columbia
United States
Lis
Montana
Spooner
Landers
Powers
Pugh
Committee On Civileges
Srs
Clark
Maginnis
Toole
Messrs
Clark and
Ocean
Sanders
Power
Iron Mall
Helena
Delaware
Mr. Gray
Senate approves revised anti trust bill amid Montana election chatter
The Senate debated and passed the anti trust bill as reported by the judiciary committee. A telegraph from Helena reported Democrats winning the Montana mayoral race by over three hundred, with Republicans carrying only one ward. Sherman supported the bill as is, West urged passage for public interest, and the body adjourned at 5 45.
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Montana
Butler
Pugh
Voorhees
Helena
Mont
Thei R
Spooner
Hoar
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Sherman
West
Yeas
Mr. Blodgett
Committee On the Judiciary
Massachusetts Babies and the Infant Asylum Meeting
The annual Massachusetts Infant Asylum Association gathering at the Unitarian building on Beacon Street reported 153 children taken in the past year amid diminishing state aid. The group noted an average of 70 residents, low mortality, current property value of 138,900.60, receipts 10,932.51, expenditures 14,402.77, and bequests of 20,660. Officers were elected including President John F. Andrew and Secretary Henry M. Spelman among many names. The association appeals for donations to sustain its orphan care work, following bequests of 20,000 last year.
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Massachusetts Infant Asylum Association
Unitarian
Beacon Street
Alexander 5. Porter
H. B. Cabot
John F. Andrew
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Samuel Cabot
Henry
F. Jenks
Henry M. Spelman
Henry B. Cabot
Phebe G. Adam
Helen J. Adam
John ©. Banevelt
Anne P. Cary
James Bb. Case
Algernon Coolidge
Tucker Daland
Dwight Foster
Henry L. Higginson
Henry F. Jenks
F. A. Kennedy
Aobert Lawrence Lowell
F. W. G. May
Mary R. Parkman
Charles L. Peirson
William L. Putnam
Maria A. Revere
G. Howland Shaw
Aene T. Tiwing
C. L. Ware
A. Davis Weld, Jr
George W. Wheeler
Francis H. Williams
M.D. Mes. W
Williamson
Charles P. Putnam
H.W. Broughton
Francis Minot
Alexander 53. Porter
Tucker Daiaud
Convention at People's Church on a Rainy Evening
The Methodist Pastors and Sunday School Superintendents Union held a convention at People's Church. Rev A S Twombley presided as speakers addressed Boston missions, city mission work, and the Deaconess House. Mary E Lunn spoke on home work while Mrs Hale Jacobs sang and Rev Charles L Goodell urged care for newcomers and country town arrivals.
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People’s Church
A.S. Twombley
Oliver Huckel
Boston University School of Theology
Bureau of Boston
Huckel
Boston
London
la Voice
Hale Jacobs
Maiden
Mary E. Lunn
East Chester Park
Methodist Church
Arthur W. Bowen
Roslindale
Charles L. Goodell
Wintirey Street
Counttry
Bowen
Cambridge Type Writers Examination Notice
A special exam for typewriter positions will be held in Cambridge on the 14th inst. Cambridge residents in the last six months may apply. Applications filed with Walter W. Pike, secretary of the Board of Examiners, City Hall, Cambridge, by the 11th inst. will be notified to appear. Blank forms available from Mr. Pike. Applicants must send their typewriting machines to the city messenger before 11 o'clock on examination morning.
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Cambridge
Walter W. Pike
Board of Examiners
City Hall
Pike
City Messenger
Fund for Metlakahtla Alaska Aids Duncan Colony
The William Duncan fund assists Metlakahtla and its 800 Indians who migrated from British Columbia for civil and religious liberty. A $12,000 appeal seeks to cover fire losses, with permanent homes and buildings underway. Last report shows $4,820.78 raised. funds from donors like M. A. Brookline and Harvard Church groups. A letter from Mr. Duncan notes illness and a recovering village, with school suspended but to restart, and plans to start a salmon cannery this season.
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William Duncan
Metlakahtla
Alaska
W. OO. Grover
Brookline
Young People’s Benevolent Society of Harvard Church
Eoward I
Shomas
State Street
Boston
Duncan
Thomas
Fieids
Guattion
EFOSE
Dooming Board Forms Assessors by Ward for New Season
The Board of Assessors organized with Thomas Hills as chair and Joshua Duncklee as secretary. They assigned first and second assistant assessors by wards, listing multiple named inspectors for wards 1 through 25 with several partial parts and extra names.
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Thomas Hills
Joshua 8. Duncklee
D. H. Morrissey
Benjamin F. Palmer
Charles W. Odiorne
John,h. Duane
Jacob F. Holmes
John Bryant
Frederick H. Temple
Dennis G. Quirk
Charles W. Pearson
George S. Pendergast
Peter
George A. Comins
John Carlton
William B. Smart
Stephen Murphy
William H. Cundy
John D. Mulchineck
James Carney
Henry d. Ireland
Jerome
Didley Pray
William H. Quinn
Dennis F. Brennan
John
McDonough
John J. Gartland
Daniel W. Tyler
Samuel Hichborn
Charles H. Brigham
George A. King
Henry §. Harris
George Warren
Jonas Hagar
Hubert Pope
Charles H. Snow
Henry L. Carter
William C
Willian B. Blakemore
Charles H. Smith
Richardson Hutchinson
John de Dailey
George E. Hall
Charles J. Upham
Henry Pierce
Benjamin Mann
George W. Warren
William M. Farrington
Give Us Rapid Transit and Safer Streets in Boston
A Boston Globe editorial urges faster electric streetcars while warning against unregulated speed. It argues city leaders must balance urgent rapid transit with public safety, noting seven to twelve mile per hour limits and questioning driver qualifications and car maintenance as risks to pedestrians and riders.
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Falhor
Boston Globe
Board of Aldermen
West Chester Park
Henry D. Hyde
West End Railroad
Shawmut Avenue
Agaan
West End
Boston
Commonwealth
Careless driving leads to ladder accident on Coburn Street
Alfred W Staples, 31, of 51 Buttonwood Street, was painting a house on Coburn Street when the ladder foot was struck by a wagon driven by James Kennedy. Staples fell about 30 feet, was taken to City Hospital with possible serious back injury.
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Alfred W. Staples
Buttonwood Street
Coburn Street
James Kennedy
Beamies
City Hospital
School Committee Receives Seaver Report On Discipline
The regular meeting saw Superintendent Edwin P. Seaver present his tenth annual report. It highlights improved grammar school work, reduced corporal punishment in both grammar and primary grades, and the shift toward prevention over punishment. The report calls for disciplinary and parental schools, notes a revival of physical training using the Ling system, and discusses the no recess plan with the author expressing doubts about its hygienic safety. A festival committee was appointed: Humphreys, Packard, Capen, Pettigrove and Miss Pingree.
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Edwin P. Seaver
Deer Island
Vhe
Messrs. Humphreys
Packard, Capen
Pettigrove
Miss Pingree
Proposals for Library Roof Ironwork Opened by Trustees
Proposals reviewed for the Public Library roof ironwork include Post & McCord New York to finish by June 15 1890 with 36 375 liquidated damages 50 per day Woodbury & Leighton Boston to finish by November 1 1890 with 10 per day damages 39 420 Keystone Bridge Company Pittsburg to finish by August 1 1890 with 50 per day damages 49 500 David H Andrews Boston Bridge Company to finish by October 10 1890 with no damages 37 195 Norton Iron Company Boston to finish by October 1 1890 with no damages 54 277 Frank L Froment New York to finish by July 10 1890 with no damages 58 000.
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Trustees
Post & McCord
New York
Woodbury & Leixtton
Boston
Keystone Bridge Company
Pittsburg
Penn
Boston Marine Society Takes In Three New Members
Trustees met at Mason Building Liberty Square with Captain Albert Lewis presiding. The meeting received the monthly pilot commissioners report and proposed marine members Captain Theodore R. Elis Captain Fred W. Wyman and Captain William W. Gartied of West Dennis.
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Boston Marine Society
Mason Building
Liberty Square
Albert Lewis
Theodore R. Elis
West Dennis
Fred W. Wyman
Bristol
R. 1
William W. Gartied
Marine
Teen Struck by Train. Fractures Skull Near Boston Station
Seventeen year old Israel Kotzen leaped from an incoming train on the Eastern Division of the Boston and Maine railroad near the passenger station and was struck by an outgoing train. He suffered a fractured skull and was hurried to Massachusetts General Hospital in critical condition. he resides at 48 Pitts Street.
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Israel Kotzen
Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kotzen
Pitts Street
Free trade yields vast social and economic gains in England
Sir the results of free trade in England are evident in declining pauper rates and parish burdens, rising family incomes since 1840, halved prices for essentials, and tripled consumption of sugar vagrants and raisins. Population density and emigration trends, along with booming shipping and trade, mark England as a leading global manufacturer by 1890.
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Sir
England
Encyclopedia Britannica
Europe
Belgium
United States
Wales
Great Britain
Boston
Hassams Paris and New York Paintings at Noyes Cobb
The Boston gallery show features Childe Hassam works from Paris and England with rain drenched streets and city fog. majority of oils plus many watercolors, including English subjects like Spires of Canterbury and Hogarth's House, reflecting Hassams lively color and urban mood amid a broader local art scene.
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Childe Hassam
Hassam
Paris
New York
Noyes És Cobb
England
Place Pizalle
Seine
Montmartre
the Bois
Mr. Hassam
Champs Elysées
Canterbury Cathedral
Burlington Arms
Hogarth
Chiswick
Broadstairs
Dorchester
France
Boston Scientific Society Holds Annual Meeting at 419 Washington
The Boston Scientific Society met last evening with President J. Ritchie Jr presiding at 419 Washington Street. Secretary E. E. Norton and Treasurer reported finances of 264.25 received and 253.41 spent during the year, with seventeen meetings averaging 22 attendees.
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Boston Scientific Society
Washington Street
J. Ritchie, Jr
E. E. Norton
Amateur Philosophical Association
Ismis
Dreamland
Waterbury
Remarkable Vacuum Pump Test Impresses Reporters at Purchase Street
A dozen gentlemen and reporters watched Adolph Berrenberg's vacuum pump in a rear chamber at 109 Purchase Street. The device supposedly exhausts lamp globes quickly without mercury, achieving full vacuum in under ten minutes and enabling lamp operation in 30 seconds, with claimed costs reduced to one seventh of current methods and potential to exhaust 1000 globes at once.
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Jacob Heiborn
Purchase Street
Adolph Berrenberg
Edison
Westinghouse
Westinghouse and All Other Electric Light
Berrenberg
New Music Publishes From White Smith Co
New publications from White, Smith & Co. include The Folio for March with Flag of Our Union by William Grant Brooks and Kathleen by C. A. White. Also listed are Easter Cantata by C. C. Stearns, Annie Rooney’s Baby by Paul Jassett, O My Love's Like a Red Red Rose, Still Is the Night by C Schil ofsky, and numerous waltzes and polkas by various composers.
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White, Smith & Co
Warren
C. A. White
C. Schilofsky
Adelaide A. Proctor
P. la Villa
Frederic Sulzner
Annie Rooney
Claude Vernon
Frederic K. White
Joachim Raff
Joseph Rummel
Antoine Lafoub
Jennie L. Pratt
Frederic E. White
Francois Behr
Frederic White
Charles D’albert
Gavotte
Gluck
Gustave Lange
Sale of Paintings at Leonard & Co Three Day Event
A three day sale of a valuable collection of modern paintings water colors and drawings starts at 3 pm tomorrow at Leonard & Co under the direction of Mr. H. M. Vose. The collection includes over two hundred pictures with notable works by Michel Corot Troyon Courbet Daumier Millet Daubigny Diaz and others.
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S. M. Vose
Leonard’s
Bromfield Street
Leonard & Co’s
8. M. Vose
Michel
Corot
Troyon
Courbet
Dupré
Perrault
Chopin Recitals by Vladimir de Pachmann in New York
Vladimir de Pachmann, renowned as a Chopin pianist, opened his American tour in New York to strong expectations. He has been acclaimed in Europe for years, and Boston concerts at Chickering Hall next week will feature his Chopin cycles, awaited by pianoforte enthusiasts.
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Boston
Mechanics
Elizabeth Strong
St. Botolph Club
New-York Electric Club
Mogadore
Jupiter
Roxbury Club
Letters
St. Bernard
Vladimir de Pachmann
New York
de Pachmann
Chickering Hall
Hood's Sarsaparilla Trial Promise
A fair trial of Hood's Sarsaparilla proves its superior curative powers for scrofula salt rheum or any illness from impure blood or low vitality. Buy it from your druggist. 100 doses one dollar.
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Hood
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