May Soon Resume Telephone Hearings In Boston
Chairman William E. McClintock said the public hearing on the Post petition for lower telephone rates and better service would resume next week with merchants and business leaders possibly sending representatives. Stone & Webster were chosen as experts to review New England Telephone & Telegraph Company books, with no date set for the report.
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Jellison Drug Company
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Record week for opera in Boston brings high receipts
New York April 9 The total receipts of the grand opera in Boston reached seventy thousand dollars according to Director Heinrich Conried. Miss Geraldine Farrar drew the greatest crowds and was credited with the strong financial showing surpassing even Caruso. Most company members have signed for next season with expectations of a record year featuring revivals of old operas and six new works.
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Petitions for Woman Suffrage Big Across Nations
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL notes massive suffrage petitions in England Sweden and the United States. The letter cites 623000 signatures in Parliament petitions and records in Iowa Illinois New York and a constitutional debate on majority petition thresholds. Leaders across parties in the House of Commons back suffrage, while the writer argues majority petitioning would stall legislation.
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O Meara Grants Vacation to Six Months Reserve Men
Commissioner O Meara deviates from precedent by granting one week of vacation to reserve officers with six months service as of May 15, 1907, instead of the previously required year on the force. Vacations will occur between May 16 and November 4, with six month men receiving one week and year men two weeks.
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Congressman Leads Posse After Thieves in Montana
Congressman elect Charles N Pray of Montana led a surrounding search at Havre to capture surviving members of the Kid Curry gang of horse thieves and train robbers. The Little Rockies of Chateau County will be surrounded by state and United States officers to bring them to justice and perhaps seize the Kid himself.
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New England Poets Revived in Daily Verse Series
The death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the Longfellow Centenary celebration spark renewed interest in New England poets. The Post will publish a daily selection of the best New England verse for a period, aiding teachers and scholars and inviting general readers to revisit favorite works.
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Kronberg Art Sale Sets Auction of 170 Works in Boston
A young Boston artist Louis Kronberg will auction about 170 paintings at Leonard's on Bromfield Street, including many noted canvases and portraits. He plans to move to Europe for several years and wishes to dispose of his productions before departure. The sale features master pieces, stage pictures with Richard Mansfield, Japanese pictures, nude studies, landscapes, marines, and two standout works Judith and the Lotus. The auction runs tomorrow through Saturday.
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Kept Awake by Rabid Patient on Steamboat Chester W Chapin
Three hundred forty passengers on the Norwich line steamboat Chester W Chapin were kept in terror during a night voyage by a rabid passenger in hydrophobia. James J Clark, superintendent of a Jewett City cotton manufactory, died of hydrophobia as the boat reached the pier after being bitten by a pet setter in January.
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Boston Industrial Home Delivers 29th Annual Report
The Boston Industrial Home released its 29th annual report detailing a year of progress. Superintendent Eliot notes the work’s impact on lives, with drunkards gaining sobriety and many shiftless men becoming industrious, self respecting Christians in a hopeful atmosphere.
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Dorchester Catholic Club Plans Bigger Minstrel Show
Dorchester Catholics promise a bigger minstrel spectacle with blackfaced comedians, assisted by young women and guest artists, at the Dudley Street Opera House Roxbury on April 18 and 19. The program blends 50 voice minstrelsy, a one act farce, and two musical specials, under coaches Cummings Sheehan and McVey.
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Roxbury
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John R. McVey
Eaton Square
Greater Boston
The Chambered Nautilus Poem Excerpt
A short excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Chambered Nautilus describes a ship of pearl wrecked and the soul’s ascent. It contrasts past and future dwellings, urging growth and buildup of a wiser inner temple as life progresses. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co. under special permission.
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