Public Franchise League urges 25 year leases for Boston subways
In a brief to the Massachusetts Railroad Commission the Public Franchise League recommends limiting Boston Elevated Railway leases to 25 years and extending key tunnels to 1936. It urges public investigations of the company's finances, books, and service, with public hearings, and favors shared five cent fares and state rights to take over or license the property.
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Public Franchise League
Massachusetts Railroad Commission
Boston
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Railroad Commission
Washington Street
Beacon Hill
Riverbank
Park Street
South Station
Dorchester
League
Crane
Washington Street Tunnel
Europe
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
London
Paris
Joint Board
Crocker
Elevated
Street
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Boston Elevated Company
State House
Chelsea
Winthrop
Revere
Greater
Boston City Council
West End Street Railway Company
Millionaire Ayer Writes Love Poems in Early Verse
Lowell industrialist James Cook Ayer’s son, bachelor and benefactor, John Ayer, publishes love poems with Carlyle and Wilde influences. He endowed Lowell General Hospital and other causes with nearly a million dollars, while composing poems about love, reverie, and the master’s influence.
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Millionaire Ayer
Carlyle
Mr. Ayer
Cayr Wilde
Lowell
James Cook Ayer
Josephine Mellen Southwick Ayer
Massachusetts
Ayer
Lowell General Hospital
Pawtucket Street
Lowell Textile School
Young Women’s Christian Association
Old Ladies’ Home
Fletcher Street
Day Nursery
Lowell Humane Society
Young Men's Christian Association
Mr.Aver
Man
Prunella
More Grateful Women Find Relief From Catarrh
Letters from Mrs. W Pray of Brooklyn and Mrs. Mary Shanks of Marshal lkme praise Peruna and Erma as highly effective for catarrh and throat issues. Other testimonials from Mrs. J C Dacus of Danville and Mrs. E I Gaddis of Marion claim cures for ear trouble stomach woes and general debility after using Peruna and Lacupia.
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Erma
Mary Shanks
J. C. Dacus
Danville
Arkansas
Peruna Medical Department
Lacupia
Perruna
Four Hart Injured in Auto Wreck Near Franklin Penn
Four prominent men from Franklin were seriously hurt but not fatally when a railway motor car on the Lake Shore line, 25 miles east, wrecked during a pleasure trip. A snapped connecting rod caused the high speed derailment, throwing them onto the road bed.
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Franklin, Penn
Franklin
Cambridge Volunteers First to Offer in 1861
A letter to the editor describes Cambridge volunteers as the first non militia company in the United States to respond to Lincoln era calls for troops. The Cambridge unit issued its call in January 1861, with Governor Andrew accepting recruits on April 16 1861. The First Volunteers Citizens Association, formed 16 years earlier, celebrates this distinct service annually.
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Cambridge
United States
Andrew
Lincoln
First Volunteers Citizens’ Association
D A R Clash Averts at 20th Continental Congress
Washington April 18 Business opened at the Daughters of the American Revolution annual congress where a potential clash over the treasurer general's report on bond sales was settled by President General Mathews T Scott of Illinois. Delegates heard membership reach 68 552 up 503 in a year and current fund disbursements exceed 820 000 with 43135 on hand.
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Washington
Mattheu T. Scott
Illinois
Ballinger
District of Columbia
Tulloch
Boy Scout Plunges 50 Feet From Cliff in Reservation
Ernest Lowry aged 14 son of John W Lowry of Glenwood Malden fell fifty feet from a cliff while playing with Boy Scouts in the Middlesex Fells reservation near Glen Rock yesterday afternoon. He narrowly escaped serious injury and was aided by fellow scouts and local residents.
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Ernest Lowry
John W. Lowry
Glenwood Street
Malden
Boy Scouts
Middlesex Fells
Glen Rock
Scouts Fall Breaks Through Cliff During Weeklong Wood Exercise
A group of scouts during spring vacation fell from a cliff while practicing mimic warfare. Comrades carried the injured youth about one to two miles to his home where he was found with multiple cuts bruises and a fractured left leg. Lowry led the scouting ascent and leaned too far over the edge. A shrub cushioned the fall saving his life as he landed on moss.
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Lowry
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Millie
Tremont Street
East Boston
East
Bell
Breez
Tennygon
Oscar Wilde
Browning
Peruna
Mrs. W. Pray
Dacus
Hart
Vrontier Asthma CO
Niagara and Hudson ,Sts
Buffalo, N. Y
Beilabeers
BOY Scout
N. K. Fairbank Company
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