Congress Ends Session With Public Benefit Admonition
The adjournment yesterday near schedule time ends a session seen as running to emptins. Critics say majority rules blocked practical relief while money for various requests flowed from the White House. The writer calls early adjournment a public benefit and favors leaving unfinished business to avoid partisan strife.
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Congress
New England
White House
Executive Departments
Washington
Lift the Lid on High Finance War by Mr Thomas W Lawson
The piece praises Lawson exiting his brokerage to expose alleged public robbery by high financiers. It urges full publicity of methods used to transfer public dollars to syndicate members, proposing restitution and public accountability through courts and media.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
Rogers
Lavish Expenditure Marks Half of Congress Term
The fifty-eighth Congress has half its term passed with appropriations totaling $781,674,629. Of this, $26,801,843 pays deficiencies, $56,500,000 goes to the sinking fund, leaving $698,272,786 for 1905 government expenses. Revenues are projected at $704,472,060, a $6,199,274 excess. Senator Allison notes a $28,000,000 rise over last session but calls for citizen criticism of rising appropriations under Republican rule, contrasting with Democratic era spending below $495 million. The article questions improved services or living standards to justify the increase.
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House Committee
Allison
Senate
Republic
Japanese Loss T1 Sees Maru Transport Sinking
Official St. Petersburg report details two Russian torpedo boats overpowering the Japanese transport Maru at sea. Seventeen officers, twenty soldiers, eighty five coolies, and sixty five crew surrendered, while the landing party with no officers refused to surrender.
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St. Petersburg
Yesten
The Observant Citizen Keeps Watch for All Sorts
Local column surveys everyday oddities and items of interest labeled all sorts. A brisk note outlines curious happenings around town and urges readers to stay alert for unusual events and small-scale news cues.
History and theater notes from Boston column
History of the Standard Oil Company chapter begins next Monday detailing Rockefeller's rise in kerosene. Notes on Miss Perkins losing and recovering a pearl and diamond necklace, Lillian Lawrence leaving Boston for the Pacific coast, Miss Kilduff's vacation, and John F. Dever's illness and return to City Hall. A Parsifal production at Castle Square Theatre features a spear scene solved by actor Howell Hansel, with backstage lore.
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Rockefeller
Miss Perkins
Commonwealth Avenue
Lillian Lawrence
Boston
Fred Belasco
Pacific Coast
Miss Lawrence
Providence
Castle Square Theatre
Klingsor
Parsifal
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
New York
Castle Square
Howell Hansel
SI. M
Hansel
Waterbury Hotel Manager Troy Talks Travel Life
In Waterbury Connecticut James H Troy formerly of Roxbury now runs the Waterbury City Hotel and enjoys congenial work caring for a large group of traveling salesmen He visits his Roxbury home at 12 Sachem Street where his mother sister wife and two sons reside during his absences. District Deputy Dailey of Charlestown and District Deputy John Watson of Brighton assisted at a recent Malden council meeting. An amusing Dedham trial moment had a witness misstate how far he ran. A restaurant near the county station launches a novel advertising scheme with placards. George E Morrill of Chelsea is named to the Board of Overseers of the Poor. The Rev C H Stackpole leaves Melrose to attend the San Francisco conference and the World’s Fair, with other Melrose preachers also traveling.
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Waterbury
Conn
James H. Troy
Roxbury
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Troy
Lenox
Connecticut Watch
Sachem Street
Dedham
C. H. Stackpole
Melrose Methodist Church
L. A. Neis
Dorchester
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
St. Louis
J. M. Leonard
D. D
Melrose
Diamonds in teeth and a Umpire’s gun tale
A wild column blends a hoax about having diamonds set in teeth as treasure with a Missouri baseball umpire who shot a player after a disputed call. It pivots to social satire on pride in gear and a quick quip on a new suspender fad, then to a light note about a ladies versus men bowling match at the Melrose Club and a college sweater joke.
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Missouri
Harvey Williams
James Murphy
Williams
Murphy
Melrose Club
Patriots or Sacrifice At Sea In Russian Transport Battle
The text recounts Japanese fighters choosing death rather than capture after resisting Russians. It notes their fatalism and refusal to surrender, with the transport going under. It questions whether the merciless drowning was necessary and whether the ship could have reached port with the heroes aboard.
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Japan
Russia
Acquittal of Harris Dexter on manslaughter charge noted
The Dedham jury cleared Harris Dexter in the killing of his brother, deeming the trial a formality. The piece stresses the need to keep firearms out of children’s reach, noting a boy's fear and misjudgment and urging safer household practices.
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Harris Dexter
Firs
Dedham
All Sorts by Newton Newkirk
Rubber is widely used in modern life in many diverse ways to serve the human family as seen in common applications and daily tasks.
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Newton Newkirk
Noted Men and Moments Across Science Society and War
Lord Wolseley mocks war correspondents with a grim joke about sending them to the rear. Dr Moncure Conway, 72, descends from the Washington family and links to Thomas Stone, with a Unitarian minister’s anti slavery past. Ambrose Swasey, famed telescope expert, leads as ME and professor Georghe Ke. Wwoop-Berry joins Amherst College as English literature teacher after Columbia tenure. Dr William Bauer catalogs southern Mexican tribes vocabularies. Lord Rosebery’s speeches spar with doubles. Dr William A Evans fronts Illinois presidency talks after Tulane education and Chicago career.
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Moncure D. Conway
Washington
Virginia
Margaret Daniel
Thomas Stone
Conway
England
South Place Chapel
Georghe KE
Wwoop- Berry
Amherst College
Columbia University
Shelley
Poe
Lamb
Journal of Comparative Literature
Amherst
Brockton DAR regent Chloe Gurney leads Boston area chapter
Mrs Chloe F Gurney is elected regent of Deborah Sampson Chapter D A R Brockton and prominent in the Woman's Club of Brockton. She dates Plymouth Mayflower lineage and Puritan settlers, with ancestry to Roxbury Welds Ruggl es and Lambs. As DAR member since founding she has served as treasurer secretary and vice regent. Other officers listed include first vice regent Mrs George O Jenkin gs Whitman second vice regent Mrs Jeanette M Tyler Abington secretary Mrs Clara L Atwood Brockton treasurer Mrs Helen O Wade Brockton historian Mrs Mary W Charles Bryantville registrar Mrs Alice W Keyes Brockton auditor Mrs Victoria Boynton North Abington chaplain Mrs Lucy Howland Whitman.
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Chloe F. Gurney
Deborah Sampson
Daughters of the American Revolution
Brockton
Gurney
Lysander F. Gurney
Woman's Club of
Plymouth
Roxbury
George O. Jenkings
Whitman
Jeanette M. Tyler
Abington
Clara L. Atwood
Helen O. Wade
Mary W. Charles
Bryantville
Alice W. Keyes
Victoria Boynton
North Abington
Lucy Howland
Office Stenographer Walks Out After Two Hard Weeks
In a Sunday Post short story fragment a sharp eyed substitute stenographer endures covert humiliation from a boss and coworkers. Louis the office boy stays loyal, cleaning machines and taking blame, until a farewell letter reveals her decision to pursue own path and college, choosing independence over marriage. Lois writes she will join her mother at Bar Harbor and praises Louis, ending with a wink that she won’t tell her mother everything.
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Papa
Bar Harbor
Lois
P. S
Boston University Beacon Names New Editors
The Boston University Beacon elected its board of editors. Editor-in-chief is Miss Sarah G. Pomeroy of Medford, with Harriet S. Fisk and Paul P. James as literary editors, Ruby H. Cole and Clarence B. Hill as local editors, Lottie A. Dodge as exchange editor, and Fred R. Willard as alumni editor, all named yesterday.
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Boston University Beacon
Sarah G. Pomeroy
Medford
Pomeroy
Beacon Literary Society
Pi Phi Greek Letter Society
Harriet S. Fisk
Roxbury
Paul P. James
Leadville
Col
Ruby H. Cole
Roslindale
Clarence B. Hill
Waltham
Four Italian Brides Arrive in Boston For Weddings
Four Italian maids who left home to seek husbands arrived at the White Star dock aboard the Republic. Rain prevented dockside ceremonies, so the weddings were held in a North Square church. Maria Lombardi, 24, wed Vincenzo Souza, a Boston barber, with Father Biasotti officiating.
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White Star
Republic
North Square
Lombardi Maria
Vincenzo Souza
Boston
Biasotti
Pasqualino Lapilato
Grabele Santamaria
Gabriela Santo
Biasce Riggieri
Worcester
Alphonse Biondi
Brini Vincenza
Cotton Manufacturers Re elect Prest Walmsley
The New England Cotton Manufacturers Association closed its seventy sixth meeting with the election of officers. Herbert E. Walmsley of New Bedford was re elected president, with vice presidents William B. Hartshorne of Lawrence and James R. MacColl of Pawtucket, R I. Directors named were George A. Ayer of Easthampton and Christopher P. Brooks of New Bedford. Papers of technical value were read by numerous members.
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Herbert E. Walmsley
New Bedford
William B. Hartshorne
Lawrence
James R. MacColl
Pawtucket
R. I
George A. Ayer
Easthampton
Christopher P. Brooks
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