Soubrette at the Howard Second Night Big Thespians
The second night with the Thespians at the Howard proves a big one as the troupe outshines rivals with a lively performance led by a witty soubrette. Strong audience response underscores the show’s success this week.
Stage Angel Leads Post Boys to Howard Show
A Post staff theatre party fills the Howard Atheneum as a large group of mewsboys marches in for a night of variety. A stage angel performs without wings, drawing cheers and a playful kiss from the gods above the living terrace. The event draws hundreds, with Pito Sessa doing tumbling tricks while the audience enjoys a brisk, bustling program.
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The
Howard
Olympus
Post
Globe
Howard Atheneum
Pito Sessa
Pito
Executed by Elhovidity at Sing Sing Prison
Live Line New York reports the execution of Loppy, a New York wife murderer, at Sing Sing prison at 12 03 PM. The procedure described includes the death warrant reading by Warden Brown, careful voltage checks, and the chair’s operation. Loppy walked to the chair, sat without resistance, and died after electric current cycles, with an autopsy performed in the adjoining room.
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N. Y
Loppy
New York
Sing Sing
Brown
Dr. McDonald
Supreme Court Sets Conditions On Special Trial Warrants
The Supreme Court rules that when a special trial justice signs an arrest warrant or summons the record must show absence of the regular justice and reason why, or prove the special justice was in court and why he was there. Connors’ exceptions at trial are sustained.
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Supreme Court
The
Commonwealth
James E. Connors
Connors
Mayor Matthews cited for cleaning abuse in first term
In his first term Mayor Matthews is praised for swiftly correcting graft. The Laforme bribery case shows a $500 payment to secure confirmation, with details from the commissioner and his son. The Colson bribe attempt and other actions prompt support for re election, arguing the mayor will curb city hall abuses.
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Matthews
Vincent Laforme
Laforme
Frank
U M Lforme
Latorme
Frank Laforme
Lenin
Storme
Otis Kk. Newell
Colson
Carter
City Hall
A Sign of Christmas in Everyday Life and News
The piece notes signs of Christmas time in daily life from shopping triumphs and family gifts to festive scenes. Interwoven are crowded port notices from Boston detailing arrivals, ships, cargos, and sailings with a long list of vessels and destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion
Social Science Institute seeks public support and dues
The Social Science Institute unites reform elements to reduce prejudice and clarify debates across races classes and sectors. It promotes platform social and class discussion to foster cooperation and sociology studies. Membership is one dollar annually with larger gifts urged to fund early operations. Address secretary T W Curtis at Horticultural Hall Boston.
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The
Social Science Institute
Elmer H. Carew
T. W. Hickinson
Phineas Pierce
Mary A. Livermore
Adelaide A. Claflin
T. W. Curtis
Horticultural Hall
Boston
Will Press Day Bill by Republican Temperance Guard
The Republican Temperance Guard executive committee led by John d. Long and nine others issued an address outlining proposed legislation. They seek a liquor sale ban on premises except for food, tighter liquor delivery rules in no license towns, census-based licensing measures for summer resorts, and a three year no license vote with three fifths approval for licensing. Additional measures may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Republican Temperance Guard
John d. Long
L. Edwin Dudley
John L. Whiting
Elmer Hi. Capen
Edward H. Haskell
B. B. Johnson
Frederick Fosdick
David Manning
Francis O. Winslow
Gas Leak Sparks Explosion at Bosworth Street Building
Peter Jones a bootblack living in a basement room on Bosworth street and Chapman place smelled gas yesterday morning. He and another man hunted for the leak with a lighted match triggering an explosion that wrecked the basement and lower floor windows. The building owned by Albert C. Russell and leased to John Mack & Son suffered $1000 in the mason’s office damage, with $500 to repair the building. Valuable bric a brac worth $500 belonging to George R. Beaman was ruined. Professor Jones was injured and sent home. A street gas pipe had broken allowing escaping gas into the building. another explosion followed after firemen arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Jones
Bosworth Street
Chapman Place
Jones
Albert C. Russell
John Mack & Son, Masons
George R. Beaman
Professor Jones
Endowment Orders Dissolved by Superior Court
Judge Dewey in the fifth session of the Superior Court dissolved the injunction against the Progressive Benefit Order with all parties agreeing. An attempt to appoint a temporary receiver for the Order of the Golden Lion was adjourned pending Supreme Court review of related cases.
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Dewey
Superior Court
Order of the Golden Lion
Supreme Court
Subscriptions Received by Committee in November 1891
A list of November contributions totaling 1401 dollars acknowledged by the committee. Names include Charles G. Lawrence treasurer, H. Hinharp secretary, with donors from Rev. Father Hall to Miss Edith Rotch, Mr. Joseph S. Fay, Mrs. Henry Whitman, and others at addresses such as Beacon Street and Mt. Vernon Street.
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Father Hall
Charles Street
H. Pickerips
Warren
Joseph S. Fay
H. G. Hunnewell
Henry Whitman
C. Ward
Gig Esau Bate
Helen Bradley
David Kimball
Robert W. Morrillo, Jr
Edith Rotch
BE. A. Drummond
H. Blanchard
W. A. Peabody
Mt. Vernon Street
Robert S. Russell
Beacon Street
Sarah S. Kimball
Peabody
John C. Ropes
Ann Wales
Charles G. Lawrence
State Street
H. Hinharp
Shipping News High Water Delays at 4 30 P M
Fragment text reports high water and shipping notices with times and costs. The readable portion mentions a 4 30 P M timestamp and a 1 moon measure, plus references to day length or tolls and a Sartaisil 60 9 hell m phrase.
Burglars Strike Dedham Homes Then Forged Check At Bank
Across Dedham early yesterday burglars robbed Mrs. Sarah E. Church on East street of silverware and jewelry while James H. Prince's residence on the same street was frightened off. Last Saturday at the Bank of the Republic on Milk street a forged check was passed. bank inspectors described the man from clerk witnesses, noting this may be part of a recent pattern.
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Dedham
Sarah E. Church
East Street
James H. Prince
Bank of the Republic
Milk Street
Death of a Bostonian Abroad Frederick M Cheney
Frederick M Cheney formerly of Boston died December 2 in London at 46. He was London resident partner of Arnold Cheney & Co. New York for five years, after 15 years with the firm in India and Africa. Cheney served in the Forty second Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War and was a Boston native and English High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick M. Cheney
Boston
London
Arnold Cheney & Co
New York
India
Africa
Zanzibar
United States
Forty-second Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers
English High School
Boston post office theft charges in U S Commissioner Court
Joseph A Maynard, a messenger for Francis Henshaw & Co, faced United States Commissioner Hallett on theft charges after letters were stolen from a Boston Post Office delivery box. He was held for the District Court Grand Jury in $1000. Louisa Dooley was held in $300 on a charge of sending a scurrilous postal card.
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Joseph A. Maynard
Francis Henshaw & Co
United States
Hallett
Boston
District Court
Maynard
W. H. Parker
Louisa Dooley
Suffolk deeds week ends with 429 transfers and 170 mortgages
Real Estate Exchange records at the Suffolk registry for the week ending Dec 5 show 429 transfers and 170 mortgages totaling 933 410 dollars.
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The
Real Estate Exchange
Suffolk Registry of Deeds
Shipping News Roundup From Various Ports
A maritime summary lists vessels sailing or arriving at Dover Fall River Fernandina New York Newport Providence Plymouth Perth Amboy Philadelphia Vineyward Haven and nearby ports with details on ship names captains destinations origins and cargo intentions including vessels such as Warren Adams Estelle City of Washington and Harry Stewart among others sailing for Rio de Janeiro Norfolk Portland and Philadelphia with several loaded for South America and Europe.
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Pavonia
McKay
Liverpool
Queenstown
Moise
Alex Martin
Ham
Samaria
Boston
Lake Huror
Carey
EA Adams & Co
City of Savannah
Savage
Savannah
Ndse
Richardson & Barnard
Lewiston
Ingraham
Bangor
Battler
Blizzard
Hoboken
Dudley Pray
Cates
Rondout
Scranton
Troy
Alice
Lynn
Tamatave
Lamatave
Ark Matanzas
New York
Erickson
Havana
Navy
American Sugar Refining Co
Ernestine
Portland
Doull
Black River
Wilson & Co
H B Hussey
Bath
Hodgdon
Charleston
Weymouth
Doris
Gerhart
Ponce
Whitney, Poasland & Co
Stephen G Loud
Pearson
Harry Prescott
New Haven
Gilmore
Darien
George McQuesten & Co
Gem
Cole
Hillsboro
Cobb
Baltimore
Ludlam
Rockhill
Philadelphia
Jordan
Stedley
L Eaton
Grierson
Annie A Booth
Wasson
Lottie
Friend
Gould
Hopkins
North Haven
Majestic
Tinker
Gloucester
Mass
Forest Bell
Robertson
Julia
Martha
Hamilton
Hamilton & Close
Europe
Germanic
Great Britain and Ireland
City of
Paris
Cuba
Niagara
Curacoa
Venezuela
Columbia
Brazil
la Plata
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Barbados
Demerara
Vigilancia
Bocas del
Torden
New Orleans
Nassau
N. P
Johannes Brun
Bluefields
Greytown
Gussie
Bergen- Newcastle Sea
P. O
Southampton
Germany
Christiania
Amburg
Fuerst Bismarck
Progreso
Mexican States
Habana
Central America
Costa Rica
Guatemala
South Pacific
Colon
Newport
Tampa
Fla
Mascotte
Liec
Yucatan
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
City of Washington
Scotland
Anchoria
France
Havre
la Hretagne
Great Britain
Ireland
Umbria
Elbe
Port Simon
Holquin
Jamaica
Hthelred
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Halifax
Dover
Hope Haynes
Wiscasset
Fall River
J P Wyman
Deer Isle
Fernandina
Warren Adams
Norfolk
Rio Janeiro
Horse Island Harbor
Estelle
Port Spain
Mexico
Fualham
Asiatic Prince
Glasgow
M F Pike
Cape Ann
Perth Amboy
Harry Stewart
H ‘i Townsend
Ohio
Prydian
Fiume
Josephine Ellicott
Apalachicola
Pottsville
Grace Lynwood
Kingston
Matthew Baird
Mayaguez
Henry Clausen
Joel Cook
Cienfuezos
Robin Snow
Delaware
Olive Thurlow
Gibara
Vineyard Haven
Thomas Rackett
Rackett
Grace, Brown
Nantucket
Seis Win Jones
George S Tarbell
Rebecca W
Uoddell
Bertha Louise
Theresa
Converse
Schmidt
Seis Louise Monette
Hallock
Edartown
Arleville Heary
Peary
Maggie P Smith
Douglass
Annie B Mitchell
Isurdick
Newburyport
Cora May
Eben King
Wesley Abbott
Abnert Taylor
L. B Cowperthwaite
Alice Belle
Fannie & Fay
Theresa, Grace
Stephen G Lond
Stevenson
Foreign Ports and Local Sinking Near Chatham
Shipping notices from Antwerp, Guantanamo, Hull, Lisbon, Leghorn, Sierra Leone and Sackville report arrivals and departures of vessels including the brig Herbert and schooners John P Kelsey Flora Condon and Flyaway. A Me grounded near Handkerchief Shoal near Chatham was floated with Monomoy Life-saving aid. Flyaway ran ashore at Marion area in a Friday blow.
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Antwerp
Hermann
Boston
Guantanamo
Thomas Brooks
New York
HULL
Colorado
Lisbon
Onelaska
Philadelphia
Leghorn
Thomas Stewart
Trapani
Sierra Leone
Schoom
St Thomas
Sackville
Herbert
Robinson
Barbadoes
John P Kelsey
Rockland
Handkerchief Shoal
Chatham
Monomoy
Flora Condon
Flyaway
Marion
Closing of Foreign Mails Specially Addressed Belgium
Specially addressed correspondence for Belgium per steamer Westernland December 8 and 9. Mail handling details note specific routing and timing for overseas posts. It records a maritime mail service status and a brief notice of addressed shipments.
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Belgium
Westernland
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Thea
Newsboys
Thespians
Tion
Elhovridity
Nessmore
Oranmore
Parkmore
Hansa-Johnston
Hamburg
Wandrahim
Stubbenhuk
Baumwail
WM. Johnston & Co., Litd
Water Street
Cogent
Ye JS Fines
Johnny
Grandma’s
Jack Frost
Mrs. Commonwealth
Santa Claus
St. Nick
Port OF
Trans
Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Samoan
Hawaiian Islands
Monowai
San Francisco
Friends OF Reform
Temperance Guard
Republican Party
Church Temperance Society
Etal
Total
U.S. Commissioner’s Court
Marine Notes
Atlantic Mutual (Marine) Ens. CO
ROD Ovfkin
Arent. WR. &. Colbw
Atlantic Works
Werder St
East
Blass
Clyde Steamship CO
Great Southern
South Carolina
South
Washinggton Ptreet
Hoston
J. A. Flanders
Theo. G. Eger
Trafic
Bauwling Green
Worts
Savannah Line
New England and Savannah Steamship Co
Lewis’ Wharf
Torton
City OF Macon
Metropolitan 35. Co
South Lines
Ocean Sx. Co
C. RR
Georgia
Florida
Alabam
Louisana
C. G. Pearson
A. Vew. Sampson
N.E. Avent
W. Ry
G. A
Washington St
Atlantic Ave
G. M. Sorrel
East Nort
Calais
St. John
International Ss, Co
Commercial Wharf
Eastport
Boston & Maine R.R
Washington Street
E. A. Waldron
White Star Line
Royal
Faetcot
Atlantic
ED Star Line
BE. A. Apfasis & CO
Singte St. Cer. Brond St
Moston
Sane
TRE Adams
Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Line
Yeoston
Alway
Philadelphis
Iron Long Wharf
Wilmington
Westnet
K.P. Wing
Long Wharf
Oston
E. Bb. Sampson
Mgr
Fiske Bldg
Bostom Rae
Baltimore, Norfolk
A.M. Graham
Agt
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Cunard Line
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Rerneel
Samaria Scythia
Pavonia Catalonia
Scythia
Cephalonia
Cataloni Cabin
Alexaan Her Mart
Van
Beaver Line
Lake Biuron
Dee
Lake Ontario
Bec
Allan Line
A. Allan
Galveston
Lampasas
Brunswick and Fernandina
San Antonio
State OF Texas
Mallory
San Marcos
Leona
Seth Sprague
Warren Line
Michigan
Sorseman
Kansas
Otsoman
Warren & CO
Agenis
Furness Line
Oerderer
Aquapio
Stockholm City
Furness, Wilky & Co., Ltd
Azores
Sarah
L. R. Hale
E. A, Adams & CO
Statstree Boston
Boston Fruit
Tropics
A. W. Preston
Anager
Southern Pacific Company
Morgan Line
Nimeinsippi
Pexan
Jeanmond
Arizona
California
EK. Ke Currier
N. BE
Heron
Lmawley
Trafic Misa x
Broadway
New Wor
Savanna Hare
Rans Wharf
Canada Atlantic Steamship CO
A. Dew
Sam
Weenies
Ta Richardson & Barmard
Aqoims
Atlantic Avenue
India Wharf
North River
Evita Soth
Iire
Lading
M. Whitney
Ludia Wharf
Glesant
Ortland
Gum
C.F
Williams
Ajent
Rallevads
Stonington
Rata Square
McPack and
West Anal
Deatiga UN
Tickete
Slater Quuis
Fark Square
Tealephous
Millerk
Presidant
Chas
Agiat, Kriggls
Sak Pasa Ash
Providence
Brooklyn, N.Y
Chicago
Washington
Boston Depot
Summer Street
Norwich
M. Pullman
Erie K. N
Providere
Hyde Park
Beadville
Walpole
Bailford
Franklin
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Woon.ie
Buickstone
Lester and Southbridge
Wwillimantic
Flartford
Waterbury
Ppanburry
Wishkill-On-Hudson
Rewburgh
Bsuffalo
Niagara Falla
Detroit
Points West
Erie Railroad
Norwood Central
Slyde Park
Central Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Falls
Needham
Highlandville
Upper
Medfield
West Medway
Pascoag
Sa.m
Sumner Street
A. C. Kendall D. Hl
Nicnots
Boston & Albany R., RB
Bostoun
Wagner Bullet
Albany
Syracuse
Clevelinu
M.C
Wagner
Iutteb
Utica
Toledo
Hetrott
Bostena
Gig oOroute
Gestion
Losten
Cleveland
L. 3
M.S. E.R
M.C. 1
Bor Giartfordt
Wea
Wia Seriacue d Dsimee
Becaten
Buffet
Obibaly York
Lutle
New Yok Limited
Baily
Mlewamt Smins
Springfield
Nixcht Express
Brooklyn
Long Island City
Long Island
Eastern States
New England
Mintbush Avenue
LRR
Zeebo Ae Rhos
Brooklyn Bridge
Fulton, Wall and South
Fifth Avenue
X. Y
N. E. RK
D. H. Nichols
A. C. Kendall
VIA
Central Railroad OF
New Jersey
Philadelphia & Reading
Owi Bar
Liberty St
Lisi
Zain
Bisos
Baltimore and
Fall River Line
Pal Gmew
Park Square Staion
Keston
Annex
Pier 23
Randersey City
Splenaid Orchestra
Trea Tote
Poston
Olinashi
Kehngton
State Srecia
Park Square Station
Old Colony
I.R. Kendrick
Geo. L. Connor
Aera
A. L. BH
Palmer
State House
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