Emancipation Proclamation Parade in Washington
A public commemoration rises in Washington with a monster parade and a grandstand in Judiciary Square. C. H. J. Taylor will deliver the address while the President and Cabinet are invited to seats as the National Guard attends. A local clothing retailer urges buyers to inspect stock highlighting a blue serge suit priced at $15 with a suit or money back guarantee.
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Washington
Judiciary Square
C. H. J. Taylor
National Guard
Rescue at Sea as Vesta Saves Picqua Crew
Captain Card and the Boston Towboat Company Vesta rescued three men from drowning when the British steamer Picqua sank near Plymou th harbor. Mate Fuller and Fireman Brown aided the rescue, while the survivors left without thanks, too frightened to speak.
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Harry Card
Boston Towboat Company
Vesta
Plymouth
Navy Yard
Card
Picqua
Wabash
Fuller
Brown
Earth
Benefit Concert Honors Charlestown's C P Cronin
A largely attended benefit in Monument Hall last night was held for Mr. C. P. Cronin of Charlestown. The Moondyne Club sponsored the event and presented a long varied programme.
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C. P. Cronin
Charlestown
Monument Hall
Moondyne Club
Patriots Eve Observed in Lexington Union Service
A crowded town hall service in Lexington marked Patriots Eve with sermons on John Adams and Lafayette. Rev. C A Staples spoke on Adams as Champion of Independence, Rev. A E Woodsom praised Lafayette, and Rev. G W Cooke addressed the revolution’s moral condition.
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C. A. Staples
Unitarian Church
Rev
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America
Hutchinson
Adams
Captain Preston
Boston
Continental Congress
Congress
Jefferson
Franklin
France
John Jay
Great Britain
Holland
United States
Washington
Quincy
A. E. Woodsom
The
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Lafayette
Virginia
Harvard College
Bunker Hill
G. W. Cooke
East Lexington Unitarian Church
Serious Lehigh Valley Rail Collision at Silver Brook
A noon crash at Silver Brook near Hazleton killed Patrick Dailey of Milton and injured many aboard the Lehigh Valley express and a Pennsylvania freight. The freight crew oversight caused the collision, wrecking both engines and sending nearly 100 passengers tumbling, with Dailey crushed while sitting on a gondola end.
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Penn
Silver Brook
Hazleton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Kimmell
Arthur
Brosius
Art Brown
Joseph Reigel
Biddle
Philip Dormstatter
Winterstein
Pennsylvania
Pottsville
Dailey
News from whaling fleet brings good profits for New Bedford merchants
April 15 report from Solomon Hogg & Co. lists arrivals at St Helena with large sperm oil consignments. Vessels include Agate Provincetown 70 barrels, Rosa Baker Boston 160 barrels sperm and 40 whale oil, Bertha Jenkins New Bedford 375 sperm oil 40 whale oil 350 pounds bone, Greyhound New Bedford 120 sperm oil 80 whale oil, Clara L Sparks 190 sperm oil, Morning Star 190 sperm oil, Platina New Bedford 650 sperm oil. Captain McKenzie notes death of first mate Silas Pope, a Acushnet resident.
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St. Helena
Boston
Provincetown
Solomon Hogg & Co
Agate
Rosa Baker
Howard
Bertha Jenkins
Jenkins
Greyhound
Enos
Clara L. Sparks
Benton
Morning Star
McKenzie
Platina
Silas Pope
Acushnet
Mass
Ready Today The Grant Book Stage Celebrities No 8
An early notice promotes new editions of entertainment lists including Round the World No 18 and Midway Types No 3. It invites readers to come early to avoid crowds and enjoy the latest numbers.
Weather forecast for New England and eastern New York
Forecast for Monday calls for generally fair conditions in New England with variable winds and slightly warmer in the southeast portion. Eastern New York should see fair weather with slightly warmer temperatures and southeast winds.
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Washington
New England
New York
Gloried Clergyman Giddings Dies On Bowdoin Street
The Rev Edward J Giddings 64 retired Congregational minister collapsed and died on Bowdoin Street Boston last night He died of heart disease after a brief walk before his son Representative Charles Giddings home He leaves two sons F H Giddings Bryn Mawr professor and Charles Giddings and a daughter Carrie L Giddings currently in Poughkeepsie NY
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Bowdoin Street
Charles Giddings
Berkshire
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Housatonic
Mass
Boston
W. E. Parker
Scituate
Somerset
Charles
Haverhill Police Raid Gambling Places Arrest Thirty
Haverhill police raided several gambling locations last night and arrested thirty people. Twenty three suspects were taken at Hotel Webster and will appear in police court Monday morning.
Sarah Louise Wreck Near Egg Rock Breaks Up
The wrecked schooner Sarah Louise, loaded with coal and bound from Port Johnson to Cohasset, breaks up after a gale. It lay in six fathoms near Egg Rock since Sept. 28 with all hands lost. no bodies were recovered.
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Swampscott
Sarah Louise
Egg Rock
Port Johnson
Cohasset
William J Gallagher Dies in East Cambridge Businessman
William J Gallagher died at his East Cambridge home on Saturday. A well known businessman, he owned two dry goods stores on Cambridge Street and another on Flat Street in Boston. He was 84 years old and had buried his wife and mother within the past year. The funeral will be held this week.
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William J. Gallagher
East Cambridge
Mr. Gallagher
Cambridge Street
Flat Street
Boston
Suspect Held In Murder Probe In Malden
Malden police arrest Peter Pharpier traveling from Manchester to Boston amid murder inquiry into Clarence Dame of Newmarket New Hampshire. The 40 year old man with dusty clothes is questioned as investigators compare details while awaiting Newmarket officers.
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Peter Pharpier
Malden
Clarence Dame
Newmarket
N. H
Kelley
Boston
Pharpier
Dame
Manchester
Canada
Is She Lost New Bedford Sails Vanished Briggs Schooner
Along shore observers fear for the three masted schooner Charles A. Briggs of Fall River which left Norfolk April 6 for Philadelphia coal cargo and has not reached port nor been reported since. Captain Briggs of Taunton commanded the Bath Maine built vessel, 77.90 tons burthen, owner J B Phillips.
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Charles A. Briggs
Fall River
Mass
Norfolk
Philadelphia & Reading Company
Briggs
Maud Sherwood
Laura I. Sprague
Philadelphia
Sherwood
Sprague
Montauk
Taunton
J. B. Phillips
Bath
Spanish preacher Juan d Avila beatified in Rome
Juan d Avila Diego, famed sixteenth century Andalusian preacher known as the apostle from Andalusia, was beatified at St Peter's in front of about 7000 Spanish pilgrims and forty bishops. The ceremony featured a picture on the altar, a light on it, and Monsignor Fausti presiding. The Pope, carried in the Sedia Gestatoria, prayed before the monstrance, then blessed the crowd as 30,000 onlookers cheered.
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Juan d’Avita Diego
Andalusia
St. Peter’s
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Sedia Gestatoria
Surprising death by suicide in Hyde Park man died
Perkins E Baldwin a 61 year old silver ware dealer from 22 Bromfield street Boston was found hanging in his cellar at 7 am in Hyde Park. His widow and three daughters survive including a daughter married to Mr Frank Patrick of Everett. Medical examiner Sturtevant will file a report. He had been deeply distressed over business troubles. He was a Hyde Park Methodist Church member from Orange Vermont origin.
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Perkins E. Baldwin
Sturtevant
Orange
Frank Patrick
Everett
Baldwin
Death of Henry P Judson at Brighton Abattoir
Henry P. Judson, longtime chief engineer of Brighton Abattoir, died at his North Beacon Street home after two weeks of illness from nervous exhaustion. Born March 30, 1832 in Bethlehem Connecticut, he started as a fireman on a San Juan River steamboat, rose to chief engineer, and moved to Brighton in 1873 to help establish the abbatoir. One daughter survives.
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North
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Bethlehem
Conn
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Nicaragua
San Juan River
Count Them Frauds in Berlin Tourism Scam Surge
Complaints to American consuls report a surge of traveling swindlers in Berlin hotels posing as American journalists. They promise to puff papers for free board and lodging and use hotel owners' names to buy on credit, then vanish with unpaid bills.
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Berlin
England
America
Puff
Back Bay Invaded by 3000 in Swift Parade to Congressmen
Boston unemployed hold meeting on the Common then march Beacon street to Commonwealth avenue and back. Morrison I Swift and Mrs Merrifield lead a rally urging unemployed relief and a Washington delegation. About 3000 gather with varied spectators asSwift appeals for peaceful social reform.
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Commonwealth Avenue
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Morrison I. Swift
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Paterson
Massachusetts
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Fitzgerald
Back Bay
Commonwealth
Algonquin Club
Three Bodies Found in Buffalo Grape Sugar Works Ruins
In Buffalo on April 15 parts of trunks of three men were found amid the burned American Grape Sugar works ruins. Heads arms and legs were missing and no identification was possible. The remains were moved to the morgue as firemen continue cooling the ruins to aid locating the other nine missing workers.
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Buffalo
N. Y
License licensing debate grips Fall River town meeting
In Fall River on April 15, 876 license applications are filed for 74 licenses. A license committee meeting at noon will precede a city aldermanic session where permits may be granted. Aldermen Wiley and Healy reportedly back a minority license committee report with three Democrats, leaving four Republicans sidelined.
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Falgm River
Wiley
Healy
License Committee
Electric Car Crash in Ariington-Bow District
An electric car of the Ariington-Bow line turning a street corner struck a buggy on Chambera and Green Streets yesterday at 2 45 pm. Perley Butler of 12 Eaton Street and his wife were thrown into the street. Mrs Butler suffered arm bruises while Mr Butler was not hurt.
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Green Streeta
Perley Butler
Eaton Street
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Color Cartoons Boost Boston Sunday Post Sales
The Sunday Post introduces color cartoons in Boston for the first time in New England journalism. The large colored supplement sold out early, with extra copies demanded at hotels, railways, and by newsdealers across New England. Readers praised the feature, noting higher overall sales and favorable comparisons to Globe and Herald.
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Boston
New England
Sunday Post
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