Ham refuses stay of hearing on city discharge charges
Benjamin A. Ham, foreman at Hancock Street Yard, asks Boston Mayor John F Fitzgerald to postpone his discharge hearing and allow a continuance or refer the case to the Finance Commission. The mayor declines, citing sole authority to decide and noting appeal to the Supreme Court remains.
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Benjamin A. Ham
Hancock Stract Yard
Foreman Ham
Veterans’ Preference
Senate
Good Government Association
Finance Commission
City of
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Emerson
General Court
Supreme Court
John KF. Fitzgerald
Weston Walks Through Rain to Little Falls in Historic Trek
The persistent walker Edward Payson Weston continues his cross continent journey. Weston's advance slows only for meals and shelter as crowds gather in every town. In Little Falls he is greeted by Chief James Long and applauded by citizens before resuming the route toward Schenectady.
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Kirkland
L. D. Hubbard
J. F. Owen
Oneida
West Frankfort
Little Falls
James Long
Richmond
Long
James Evans
Main Street
Ines
Scheneftady
New York City
Troy
Weston Receives Lecture Bureau Offer Overcut Schedule
A lecture bureau offers Weston $100 extra weekly salary for each week cut from his 90 day timetable. He has not accepted the proposal. Late tonight heavy rain floods streams and rivers surrounding Little Falls as they rise rapidly.
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Weston
Little Falls
Weston’s Great Transcontinental Walk Near Ocean to Ocean Feat
Edward Payson Weston 71, after 3200 miles across 12 states, pushes toward a 75 day ocean to ocean crossing from Los Angeles to New York. He endures heat, blizzards, accidents, and a Syracuse illness but forges on, with a life of long-distance walks dating to 1861.
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Vernon, N. Y
New York City
Dan O'Leary
Chicago
Weston
William Perkins
London
A. Clark
Sir John Ashley
New York
Albany
Philadelphia
Portland
Edward Payton Weston
North American
Ocean
Los Angeles
Cal
Syracuse
N. Y
Oneida
Vernon
Providence
Boston
Washington
Lincoln
No Such Thing as Old Age Ex Mayor Hart Declares Youthful Spirit
Ex mayor Thomas N Hart challenges the idea of old age at 81 noting Edward Weston’s feat and citing contemporaries like Dr. Samuel Green and Samuel Brown as still active. Hart says he and friends remain vigorous, driving, working, and living as they did in youth.
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Thomas N. Hart
Edward Payson Weston
Commonwealth Avenue
Weston
Samuel Green
Massachusetts Historical Society
Samuel Brown
Brown Fairbanks Scale Company
Boston
Body found on Naples Beach identified as Miss Estelle Reid
Naples April 25. The American consulate identified Miss Estelle Reid whose body was found on a beach near here Saturday. She was a New York City native and sister of Mrs. Bertha Reid Wells of 225 West Sixty-ninth street. Death was by drowning per post mortem. A letter from Mrs. Well aided identification. Wells had lived in an apartment hotel at 225 West Sixty-ninth street, moving out about a month ago.
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Naples
Estelle Reid
New York City
Bertha Reid Well
West Sixty-ninth Street
York
Bertha Reid Wells
Welcome for Dr. Hunter at Faneuil Hall
About 500 people gathered at Faneuil Hall for a welcome to Rev. John Hunter of Glasgow Scotland. After a banquet Dr. Hunter spoke on the Church and City noting Christian religion began in cities and thrives today within urban areas. Other speakers included Cornelius A. Parker Boston Hon C Neal Barney Lynn Rev Dr Frederick A Bissbee Boston Rev Albert Lazenby Lynn and Rev Philip S Moxon Springfield.
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Faneuil Hall
John Hunter
Glasgow
Scotland
Hunter
Cornelius A. Parker
Boston
C. Neal Barney
Lynn
Frederick A. Bissbee
Albert Lazenby
Jiynn
Philip S. Moxon, D. D
Springfield
Boston Rail Car Disturbance Ends With Fine
James F. Sullivan of 42 Foster Street Cambridge was fined 40 dollars in Cambridge District Court for disorderly conduct on a Boston Elevated surface car. Witnesses said he drank from a bottle and used obscene language. after being put off at Davis Street he punched a car window and fled before being recaptured.
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Cambridge
James F. Sullivan
Foster Street
Boston
Davis Street
Central Square
Osgood Company's Window Exhibit Demonstrates Mattress Making
An educational exhibit at 744 to 756 Washington street shows experts crafting hair mattresses and box springs in the north window of C. E. Osgood Company's retail warerooms. Crowds watched as the full process from raw material to finished product was performed, highlighting labor required for comfort.
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C. E. Osgood Company
Washington Street
Osgood
Subscriptions for Opera Close April 27
Boston Opera Company to close stockholder subscriptions tomorrow evening to prepare subscriber name cards. Cards will be drawn at the meeting at the Boston Opera House Thursday morning at 10 30 for seat allotments for the coming season. The list includes most prominent New England figures.
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Boston Opera Company
Boston Opera House
New England
Miss Charlotte Hunt Company Opens At Majestic Theatre
The Miss Charlotte Hunt stock company will start performances at the Majestic Theatre on Monday May 9. Box office sales for the first week begin Thursday morning and subscriptions have already come in heavily. The opening play is Clyde Fitchs The Blue Mouse.
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Charlotte Hunt
Majestic Theatre
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