Massachusetts House opens session weighs Tolman architect order
The House held its first morning session with fair attendance and a weak afternoon. Tolman of Pittsfield introduced an order to have the state house extension architect report within twenty days on possible acoustics improvements. Keenan faced censure for extending civil service rules to county employees as Myers defended civil service and criticized mugwumps. Kennedy celebrates Holyoke water supply expansion by taking Mandananu Tucker Brooks waters. vote 97 to 18.
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House of Representatives
Tolman
Pittsfield
State House
P. J. Kennedy
Holyoke
Mandananu Tucker Brooks
Southampton
House
Kennedy
Meyer
T. F. Keenan
Keenan
Myers
Cambridge
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Cleveland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senate
Wolcott
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Slade
Fall River
Supreme Judicial Court
Essex County
Supreme Judical Court
Boston
Gauss
Salem
Lyman and Industrial Schools
J. Gauss
Flagg Farm
Berlin
Lyman
Southern Union Station hearing adjourned for Monday amendments
The committee on railroads resumed the Southern Union Station hearing as Ex Senator Butler sought leave to present a bondholder amendment. South End merchants urged referral to a commission, while critics questioned city expense and section 15 granting Mayor power to spend. Adjournment set for Monday at 10:30 with closing arguments by Mayor Quincy and Mr. Renton.
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Southern Union Station
Committee On Railroads
Butler
New England Road
Joseph Bennett
South End
Bennett
Federal Street
Hart
Union Station
Lawrence J. Logan
South Boston
Loring
Cove Street
James A. Gallivan
John G. Morris
R. W. Smith
Dorchester
Albro Osgood
Roslindale
Harrison Loring
John C. Cobb
Albany Street
Broadway
Quincy
Renton
Bargains on Pianos In England Priced From $100 Upward
Readable ad copy notes new or second hand upright and grand pianos, including square pianos, with prices starting at 100 dollars and increasing. Mentions octaves and terms like three men, capture and England piano in a period newspaper style.
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Srawe
England
Funeral of William Butler in Malden
The funeral for William Butler was held yesterday afternoon at his home at the corner of Maverick and Chelsea streets. Rev. Father McAuley conducted the service. The Lyman Associates attended in a body with pallbearers M. J. Leary Jeremiah Hurley Howard Mitchell John Gallagher William Quirk Thomas Riley John Delehanty and Frank Keough. Interment followed in Malden.
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William Butler
Maverick and
Chelsea Streets
Father McAuley
Church of the Holy Redeemers
Lyman Associates
M. J. Leary
Jeremiah Hurley
Howard Mitchell
John Gallagher
William Quirk
Thomas Riley
John Delehanty
Frank Keough
Malden
Dissolution of R T Almy and Co Splits Partners Over Ideas
Boston clothing house R T Almy and Co dissolves after 60 day clearance sale. Clash between radical moves by Mr Almy and conservative partners sparks possible court action. Store moved to Harvard building at 58 Washington St two years ago, business had grown under liberal policy, now good clothing likely to be cheap for a while.
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Committee On
General Court
Eva M. Brown
Senate
Maccabe
Corbett
Suffolk
Committee On Manufactures
Whitney
Southard
Burns
Ayer
Messrs. Krebs
Boston
Dickinson
Cambridge
Briggs
Woburn
Mr. Whitney
R. T. Almy
Copartnership
R. T. Almy & Co
Almy
Essex
Washington St
Harvard
Hayward Pl
Harvard Board Rejects Alumni Vote Expansion
At a large Board of Overseers meeting, Harvard decided not to extend voting rights for overseers to graduates of professional schools or holders of doctor of science or doctor of philosophy degrees. The 13 to 13 vote paused debate, with President Lincoln presiding and figures like J. Bonaparte and Theodore Roosevelt present. The board approved several elections and appointments and rescinded part of the 1871 rule on minimum residence for certain degrees.
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Harvard College
Solomon Lincoln
J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Theodore Roosevelt
J. Winthrop Platner
Massachusetts Battle Ship Ready for Acceptance Trial
A Cramp Company letter to the Navy Department states the battleship Massachusetts is ready for her acceptance trial and proposes April 18 or 20. The department agrees and will set one date and appoint the trial board. The testing course will run between Cape Ann Massachusetts and Cape Porpoise Maine as requested.
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Washington
Navy Department
Cramp Company
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Cape Ann
Mass
Cape Porpoise
Cramps
Postmasters Meet A Key New England Dinner
The Postmasters Association of New England held its monthly dinner at Crawford House with about seventy members. Hon. Charles W. Dayton of New York and Colonel J. W. Coveney of Boston were among prominent guests, marking the first New York attendees at the gathering.
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Postmasters Association of
New England
Crawford House
Charles W. Dayton
New York
J. W. Coveney
Boston
A. F. Sullivan
A. H. Frost
Brooklyn
Henry H. Johnson
Haverhill
A. F. Sulivan
E. J. Knowlton
Manchester
N. H
J. E. Leavitt
Portsmouth
Frederick ©. Phillips
Central Falls
Conn
Massachusetts
H. H. Johnson
W. B. Cass
Salem
J. E. Green
Worcester
Thomas H. Jackson
Peabody
C. H. Riley
Dedham
G. A. Scofield
Ipswich
T. W. Davis
Amesbury
J. Lally, Jr
Milford
C. H. Stacy
West Newton
J. T. Burke
Quincy
W. W. Sampson
Malden
P. W. Reardon
Winchester
T. F. Haggerty
Woburn
T. B. Lucas
Middleboro
E. C. Jenny
Hyde Park
F. K. Flask
Roxbury
E. A. Ellis
Newton Centre
J. F. Freese
East Walpole
E. J. Brown
Framingham
Co. W. Ellison
Melrose
Clinton
Josiah Woodbury
Beverly
Gardner W. Pearson
Lowell
J. B. Turner
Newtonville
Thomas Hickey
Wakefield
Wendell Jones
Dorchester
F. L. Churchill
Plymouth
E. J. Slattery
South Framingham
G. Eugene Fisher
North Attleboro
E. M. Wall
Hollingston
Mark M. Grimes
West Medford
Spokane man seeks divorce after learning wife’s first husband may be alive
A Spokane man, L C Dillman, has filed for divorce in California alleging his wife Rebecca Staley Dillman’s first husband might still be alive. The case unearthed a Kansas background, a Boston absence, and a possible alias Williams. Reports tie the missing man to Boston, Portland, and Montreal with hints of a New England sojourn.
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Spokane
Wash
Boston
California
L. C. Dillman
Rebecca
Seattle
Tacoma
Yes Lr
Staley
Mr. Dillman
Dillman
New England
Williams
Portland
Montreal
Harrisburg
Penn
Kansas
Howard Jarvin Williams
Boston Theatre sees Davenport Cleopatra success and Duse Italian bill
The week features Fanny Davenport in Cleopatra at the Boston Theatre with lavish spectacle and strong crowd demand. Eleonora Duse returns to Boston with Cavalleria Rusticana and La Locandiera at the Museum receiving praise for Mirandolina and Ettore Mazzanti.
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Mme. Duse
Cavalleria Rusticana
Museum
la Locandiera
Carlo Goldoni
Eleonora Duse
Santuzza
Alfio
Ettore Mazzanti
la Locambiera
Mirandolina
Boston
Marquis
Mme Duse
Fanny Davenport
Cleopatra
Miss Davenport
Egypt
Mare Antony
Melbourne MacDowell
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Committee On Agriculturs
Barker
Psyath
Bemator Wellman
Middlesex
Commonwealth
Shaler
Prevaux
Blodgett
Worcester-Hampshire
Wellman
J. C. Cobb
Almy & Co
Sousa
Treemont
Ada Echan
W. H. Crane
Hollis Street Theatre
Kentucky
Hollis Street
Donnelly and
Girard
Grand Opera House
Jim
Bristol
Caroline Hull
Charles W. Arnold
Dave Fitzgibbon
J. W. Kelly
Keith’s
Innes
Boston Theatre
James F. Hoey
Howard Atheneum
Zalva
Imperial Four
Bartlett
May
Will H. Fox
the Levines
Henri Carman
Mile
Flossie
Kamochi
Joe Flynn
Okabe Japs
The
Rays
Carney Hospital
Lothrop
Jocko
Pongo
Austin & Stone
de Wolfe Sisters
Smith and Shirley
Neil Matthews
al and
Callie Saunders
John Topp
William Howard
Hub
Arnold
Quadroon Sensation Company
Palace Theatre
Fox & Ward
Polly
Park Theatre
Cissy Fitzgerald
Foundling
de Wolf Hopper
Wang
Tremont
Duse
Frank Daniels
Comic Opera Company
Lucia di Lammermoor
Castle Square Stock Company
Mme
Fatmah Diard
Nina Bertini Humphrys
Vincent Wallace
Hoyt’s
Chinatown
West
San Francisco
Australia
the Columbia
Tremont Theatre Abbey
Schoepfel & Grau
CAAN
Chas. Klein
John Philip Sousa
CE Worly Iopper
Craggs
Sunday Post
Dinkidorium
Ial
H. Crane
Ada Rehan
Crystal Sayer
Columbia Theatre i
Harry Conor
Donnelly Ase Girard
OPERA
Penman
HORS
Nana Zx
Masonic Temple
Tremont St
Mission
Esc
Palace
Orchestra
Ors
Uus
Eugene Tompkins
Mer
America
Davenport
Innes Band
Bowdoin Sq. Theatre
Chas. F. Atkinson
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City
Lita
Otis
Mechanics’ Building
Country Club
Levinos
Charlie Hunn
Boston Museum
Magda
Camille
Henry L. Southwick
Emerson College of Oratory
Frank Daniels Opera Co
C.O
Wizard E. Cur
Charley
Charles Trurman
the Foundling
Gastle Square
Donizetti
Lizu CIA DI
Austin
Tremont Row
Gia Ants
Carter
Italy
Theatre of Living Dolls
Crawford
Sultana
Portland Wi
Bay State
Portlap iSch
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