Stand-patters rally at Home Market Club banquet
The Home Market Club banquet features Governor Bates and Vice President-elect Fairbanks. The speech focuses on tariff reform and opposition to immediate relief aligned with Massachusetts voters. The piece argues the stand-patters dominate party leadership, but notes Massachusetts elections won’t be decided by such gatherings.
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Home Market Club
Massachusetts
Canada
Bates
Fairbanks
Beef Trust
Steel Trust
Little Gloucester Fish Trust
Pensions for Life-Savers A Call for Retirement Reform
A government report urges extending the retirements system to United States life-saving service members. In the year ending June 30, crews aided 1061 vessels, saving 3300 lives and $7,000,000 in property, plus 103 rescues off shore and 161 warnings from the beach patrol. The life-savers work through storms and danger, with meagre pay and future disability needs highlighted.
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United States
Army
Navy
Judge Emmons Resigns Police Board Chair Refused by Governor
Governor Bates declines to accept Judge Emmons resignation as chairman of the Board of Police. Emmons says he is always willing to follow the governor’s wishes, whether to resign or remain in the post.
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Bates
Board of Police
Emmons
McLaughlin
Melrose
Judge Emmons Refuses to Quit Office Unless Removed
Judge Emmons states he will remain in office through his term unless Governor Douglas departs him. He vows to heed John L Bates rather than the Chief Magistrate, prompting questions about dignity and sincerity. If he intended to resign he would present the move to Governor Douglas.
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Judge Emmons
Douglas
Executive Council
Emmons
John L. Bates
Commonwealth
Miles as Adjutant General Would Boost Massachusetts Militia
The piece argues Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles would make an ideal adjutant general on Governor Douglas's staff. It notes Massachusetts militia strength and efficiency, and says Miles’s leadership could raise prestige and strengthen state and national services, while acknowledging Miles’s post retirement business commitments.
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Dalton
Nelson A. Miles
Douglas
Massachusetts
National Guard
Miles
Heavy sentences for assault on teamsters during labor unrest
Judge Holmes imposes four to five year terms on three men convicted of assaulting teamsters on public streets during labor trouble last September. The court views the penalties as severe but necessary, praising organized labor's stance against violence and noting the deterrent effect on public order and labor relations.
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Holmes
Organized Labor
The Hatpin Myths and a Woman's Lending Power
A column contrasts a woman lender with hard nosed men, praising the hatpin wielded by a Western Pennsylvania woman. It notes a loan of two thirds of a million and jokes about security while extolling female influence and wit. The piece ends with the hatpin as a mightier tool than the sword.
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Pennsylvania
Port Arthur
Real Czar of Russia Leads Next Sunday Magazine
William T Stead opens the Sunday Magazine with The Real Czar of Russia a portrait of Tsar Alexander III as a sympathetic yet retrogressive ruler. Julien Gordon writes Letters and Letter Writing while Gellett Burgess offers The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne a satire on modern literature. Everett McNeil tells Jonathan Delvin's Truth a revolutionary love story. Aunt Amanda's Sittin Room appears with a decoration theme.
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William T. Stead
Sunday Post
Russia
Stead
Livadie
Tsarskoye Selo
Mr. Stead
Omar Cayenne
Everett McNeil
Jonathan Delvin
Margaret Greenleaf
Greenleaf
Miss Harding
James W. Morrissey
Anton Rubenstein
Bandmaster Gilmore
Clara Louise Kellogg
Emma Abbott
Addison YT. Millar
Miss Volendam
Zuyder Zee
Holland
Mary A. Post
Nixon Waterman
Edwin L. Sabin
Eben E. Rexford
Merton Lyon
E. G. Holden
George Bancroft Griffith
Smith D. Fry
Ivy M. Bolton
Michael White
William J. Lampton
Agnes Morley Cleveland
What the Sphinx Says A Peculiar Skunk Query
A satirical piece questions the prevalence of skunks in Marblehead and laments their persistence. The writer mocks government impotence and laments the odor filling the desert air, urging a skunkless country. John M Monagan is cited as the editor and critic.
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Board of Health
Marblehead
John M’monagan
John
Dole Publishes Two Symphonic Poems
Observant citizen Nathan Haskell Dole will publish two symphonic poems The Building of the Organ and Onward. They were read before Tufts Phi Beta Kappa Society last June.
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Nathan Haskell Dole
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Tufts College
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