Death of William Brown in Melrose Street lodging house
William Brown, a Travellers' Hotel employee, was found dead in the hallway of Mrs. Sarah Shepard's lodging house at 23 Melrose Street. Doctors blamed alcohol and a fall for his death, noting no motive for foul play. He was separated from his wife and supported a 16 year old daughter.
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Sarah Shepard
Melrose Street
Draper
Station 4
Brown
Travellers’ Hotel
Hotel Proprietor Dead in Newburyport
Enoch Tilton a longtime Newburyport resident died at his home aged 83. In 1830 he opened a partnership to run the Merrimack House later Wolfe Tavern gaining national reputation. He later acquired the adjoining property at 102 State and left five daughters including Elizabeth Addie Georgiana Towle and Abby Tilton.
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Newburyport
Enoch Tilton
Newseer
Te Street
State Ae
Elizabeth Tilton
Addie Tilton
Edward B. Towle
Georgianna Tilton
Abby Tilton
Boston
Petition Window for Quasi Public Legislation Closes
Last week for petitions ends this week with filings to advertise proposed quasi public law. Afterward, petitioners must go to the General Court and seek suspension of the ninth joint rule. Richard Olney filed with the Secretary of State a charter petition from Francis W Gibson and William Winslow to build a Cape Cod canal via Buzzards Bay.
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General Court
Richard Olney
Secretary of State
Francis W. Gibson
Illiam Winslow
Cape Cod
Buzzard’s Bay
Forty Two Workers Strike at Faunce Spinney’s Factory
Forty two hand turned goods workers at Faunce and Spinney’s plant walked out after a wage cut. A notice of reductions appeared Saturday and after two failed talks with the firm the strikers left.
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Lynn
Faunce & Spinney
Woman of the Scarlet Letter Branded by Court Edict
In St Louis Pauline Hoffman aged 24 has carried a heart shaped scarlet letter A in India ink on her chest for seven years. The piece portrays a harsh social label once meant to shame her and contrasts with Hawthorne's fictional warning. The article frames her as a public menace under a court edict and notes a century old Salem Custom House reference.
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ST. Louis
Salem Custom House
Pauline Hoffman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pauline
India
Tragic German exile to America ends in court action
Pauline Hoffman once deemed a public menace in Ludingsburg after tragic family crimes has endured exile and a life of hardship in the United States. Now at Hephziban Home for Girls in St. Louis, guardianship is sought as her past and fragile condition collide with family and legal claims.
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Ludingsburg
Germany
America
Rudolph Hoffman
Pauline
New York
St. Louis
Otto
Short Skirts and Dainty Boots At Rainy Day Club Meeting
Baltimore society maids and matrons braved northeast rain to attend the annual Baltimore Rainy Day Club meeting. Members praised five inch skirts above the ground for ease and comfort, discussed waterproof cloaks, and compared rainy day footwear with cork soles and high leather gaiters as alternatives to rubbers.
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Baltimore
Rainy Day Club
Court Dismisses Naturalization Case Against Bergen
In a circuit court yesterday the Pintsch Compressing Company sued Mary A Bergen seeking the return of her naturalization certificate. The petitioner asserted that only her apparent citizenship justified the action. The court dismissed the bill.
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United States
Pintsch Compressing Company
Mary A. Bergen
Miller divorce suit cites cruelty and threats in Hoboken
Mrs. Josephine Miller sues John B. Miller for divorce alleging repeated cruelty and neglect. She claims he poured water from an upper window on her head and threatened her with a carving knife, leading to his arrest and her refusal to live with him after his release.
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New York
Josephine Miller
John B. Miller
Hoboken
Woman wills funeral to be all women attendants
Miss Murnane of Newman Illinois after forty eight years as a hermit and irritable man hater due to love disappointment wrote a will requiring a woman preacher women pallbearers a woman to drive the hearse and a woman to close her grave for her funeral.
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Newman
Courted Wrong Sister Causes Divorce Case
In New York a divorce suit by Elizabeth A Wilre against William B Wilson alleges undue influence from her sister Emma Taylor. Wilson, a general insurance agent, says Emma and her threats to ruin him led to his wife seeking divorce after years of marriage.
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New York
Elizabeth A. Wilre
William &. Wilson
Wilson
S. Emma Taylor
Emma
Hovev
Elizabeth
Gloucester Welcomes New Fish Industry In Festive Debut
A joyous Gloucester December 6 marks the birth of a new fish industry. A public committee organized a rapid celebration with a Main Street procession, red fire, and illuminated streets. The event featured the M V M militia band, High School Cadets, and a banner showing a whale and swordfish.
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Gloucester Fresh Fish Company
W. G. Brown
J. R. Pringle
Hutchins
E. J. Horton
Kerr
Boston
Hull
Gloucester Launches Fresh Fish Industry at Low Wharf
At 7 am the Gloucester Fresh Fish Company opened its new facility with Captain Augustus G. Hall directing the setup. The Horace Parker delivered the first basket of fish at 7 30 am, as 58 boxes valued for Boston were moved for transhipment to New York and Philadelphia markets, part sent to Portland. About 250 000 pounds of fish were handled with Boston dealers John R. Neal and J Maddocks among consignees.
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Gloucester
Benjamin Low
Gloucester Fresh Fish Company
Augustus G. Hall
Horace Parker
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Portland
John R. Neal
J. Maddocks
Fishermen Clash with Gloucester Boats Over Boston Trade
At T wharf Boston dealers show confidence as Gloucester boats shift markets. Captain Baker notes handling limits at Gloucester and predicts short duration of Gloucester business. Gloucester crews may earn less in Boston while hawkers buy small fish, prompting rivalries and uncertain quotations from Gloucester.
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T Wharf
Gloucester
Baker
Boston
Hiram Lowell
Lottie Gardner
James Steele
Nelson
Hiram Sewell
J. R. Neal
Express
Overcoat Sale Offers Size Variety at Half Cost
We offer a large stock of coats in sizes from small to stout and at the same price. The wholesale price was 25 dollars and was taken by Whitten Burdett and Co. We bought their stock for half the cost and have about a thousand surplus coats to move at regular prices. This is our great offer.
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Whitten, Burdett & Co
Chief Justice Albert Masogm Confined by Illness at Brookline
Chief Justice Albert Masogm of the Superior Court, in his sixties, is confined to his Brookline home with a severe asthma and bronchitis attack. Widely respected, he is missed by colleagues, court staff, and Suffolk bar members. He rose to prominence with Mason, Lord & Curtis, with partners Arthur Lord and Mr. Curtis both attaining notable positions.
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Brookline
Albert Masogm
Superior Court
Peo Ehcia
Suffolk
Massachusetts
Shoul
Mason, Lord & Curtis
Curtis
Arthur Lord
Albert Mason
Gloucester seafood trade swells as schooners dock at T wharf
Nineteen schooners delivered an estimated 300,000 pounds of fish at T wharf, with cargoes averaging 16,000 pounds. Buyers found ready markets as most cargoes were sold before mooring. Gloucester & Boston Steamship Co plans a fast steamer to move fish to Boston, delaying until Wednesday.
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Gloucester
T Wharf
Boston
Haddock
Gloucester & Boston Steamship Company
Reverend Keith declines pension and repays funds
Refuses pension, Rev. L. J. Keith of Vincennes writes to the pensions commissioner at Washington to absolutely decline government support. He returns 495 dollars received and notes the pension was not properly based. Keith served four years six months in the Civil War with Company B, Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment and has a solid record.
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Vincennes, Ind
L. J. Keith
Washington
Keith
Twenty-sixth
Indiana Regiment
Opposed to McKenna Supreme Court Elevation
President Echols and Secretary Palmer address American Protective Association councils urging protest against Attorney-General McKenna's Supreme Court appointment. They charge government departments with Romanisation and Catholic influence, condemn civil service liberalization, and urge letters to Senators and Representatives opposing sectarian funding at the current Congress.
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Washington
Echols
Palmer
American Protective Association
McKenna
Supreme Court Bench
Congress
Doctor Hatch Held for Murder in New Hampshire Case
Dr J R Hatch was held to the grand jury for the murder of his wife in Centre Ossipee New Hampshire. The wife was found dead and laudanum was discovered in her stomach.
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Ossipee
N. H
J. R. Hatch
Vermont grand jury to hear Davis death case in Montgomery
Middlebury Vermont December 6 The Addison County grand jury will begin its term tomorrow. The chief trial will be Smith G Davis of Montgomery jailed in default of 7000 dollars bonds for alleged involvement in the death of Dora Cushman. Other suspects are under arrest or surveillance in the same case.
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Middlebury
Addison County
Puseday
Smith G. Davis
Montgomery
Dora Cushman
Women as Speculators Warned Against Stock Scams
A London money column warns that many victims of stock and share scams are women of small means. It urges women readers to avoid unsafe investments, distrust advertisements, and seek family solicitor guidance before reinvesting. The piece condemns advertising sharks who prey on women unaware of business details.
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London Daily
English High School Class of 1872 Dinner Held at Young's Hotel
The twenty fifth anniversary of the English High School class of 1872 was celebrated with a dinner at Young's Hotel on Saturday at 6 30. A large attendance of class members was already assured.
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Sh High School
the Atten
Young’s Hotel
Costume Talk on Fish Net Hosiery Among Ladies
Mr Whistles comments on ladies wearing costumes with conspicuous fish netting. Mrs Whistles agrees they are durable and quite catching, prompting further quips from Whistles Harpers Bazaz.
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Mr. Whistles
Mrs. Whistles
Whistles
Missing Mt Holyoke writer Bertha Mellish linked to suicide tale
Dayville Conn December 6 Bertha Lane Mellish missing Mt Holyoke College girl linked to a novelette she wrote describing a romance and deliberate self destruction. The story La Petite told of Marie Racine and ensuing death. Father publicizes the manuscript and its implication in the disappearance.
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Dayville
Conn
Bertha Lane Mellish
Mt. Holyoke College
Mellish
Darley
Burl
Marie Racine
Mamma
Marie
Joe
la Petite
Lovering Reprimanded by Secretary Amid Court Martial Action
Secretary Allen or Ger? today made public the reprimand given to Captain Lovering and his sentence to court martial. He criticized the officer for violating laws and lacking humanity, calling for a harsher punishment than a mere reprimand.
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Washington
Alger
Captain Lovering
Lovering
Bryan Starts for Mexico
William J Bryan departed Guthrie Oklahoma after a public lecture on bimetallism at the Opera House. He plans a four week stay in Mexico and has been invited to dine with President Diaz in the capital. Mrs Bryan will join him in Fort Worth and Governor Crittenden will meet him in San Antonio.
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O. T
William J. ‘Bryan
Mexico
Opera House
R. Bryan
Diaz
Inmate Francis L. Brown Ends Life in Taunton Asylum
Francis L. Brown of Chelsea, 65, an inmate at Taunton Insane Asylum, died by his own hand today. Committed from Chelsea Court last Saturday, he had lived in Chelsea since 1886 and worked as a real estate agent. Loss of property reportedly drove him to madness. his only known relative in Chelsea was a cousin.
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Taunton
Francis L. Brown
Chelsea
Chelsea Court
Suit for a Trick Horse in Waterbury Rail Disaster
In the United States Circuit Court yesterday Judge Aldrich presided over the trial of a $60,000 lawsuit by Hugh B Maguire of Philadelphia against the New England Railroad Company. The case centers on the loss of the trick horse Mazeppa killed in a freight wreck near Waterbury Connecticut.
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United States Circuit Court
Hugh 8. Maguire
Philadelphia
New England Railroad Company
Mazeppa
Waterbury
Conn
Witnesses summoned in Olive Pecker case at Norfolk
Captain Cain of Division 1 Officers Bidredge and Russell of harbor police and Budrow keeper of a North End boarding house summoned as witnesses in the Olive Pecker case at Norfolk.
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Cain
Division 1
Bidredge and
Russell
Harbor Police
Budrow
North End
Norfolk
Congress Leaders React to President's Message Dec 6
Washington dispatch reports opinions of leading Senators and Congressmen on the President's message. Dingley Hale Hoar Chandler Foraker Allison Teller Cox Bland offer mixed praise and sharp criticisms on Cuba policy currency and international law.
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Dingley
Maine
Ype
Hale
Cuba
Hoar
Chandler
Foraker
Allison
Teller
Cox
Committee On Banking and Currency
Bland
Lawmaker Introduces Gold Backing and Civil Service Edits
In Washington a batch of House bills was introduced led by Mr. Evans of Kentucky proposing to back debts with gold and maintain gold parity for silver dollars while restricting new silver coins. Another Evans measure narrows civil service scope to Washington clerks and higher paid employees nationwide. Mr. Henge of Texas seeks to define trusts and punish related corporations to foster free competition.
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House
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Unitedtates
Henge
Tex
United States
Congressman Belden Hurt in Capitol Fall
Representative Belden of New York fell on marble stairs from the House floor to the basement at the Capitol. He was carried to a committee room where doctors treated head wounds and feared concussion but he remained conscious though not rational. He was moved to the Arlington Hotel for further care.
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Washington
Belden
New York
Capitol
Booge
Moffet
Arlington Hotel
New York City
Brooklyn
Cushing Process Co
United States
Boston
Secretary Long Asks Miss Christine Bradley to Christen Kentucky
Secretary Long sent a letter to Miss Christine Bradley inviting her to christen the battleship Kentucky with Governor Bradley giving consent. The event marks a ceremonial naval occasion with high official participation.
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Washington
Long
Christine Bradley
Kentucky
Bradley
Marine Corps reshuffles detachment at Charlestown prison
Colonel Heywood announced Major Meade is detached from command of the naval prison at Charlestown and ordered to Portsmouth New Hampshire. He avoided confirming Major Pope as Meade’s replacement and gave no reason for the changes.
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Washington
Heywood
Marine Corps
Meade
Charlestown
Portsmouth
N. H
Pope
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