Boston Democrats Fight Republican Vote Buying
The piece reports on alleged Republican tactics in Boston to buy votes with blocks of tea beer and boodle, detailing campaigns in South Boston Roxbury and Deer Island inmates list misuse. It notes Democratic leaders vow to counter repeaters detect illicit voting and deploy detectives, with emphasis on wards 19 23 16 4 and colored voters concerns.
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City Hall
Massachusetts
Simpkins
Fall River
Iag
Boston
Roxbury
Sunday Post
Curtis
Deer Island
Democratic City Committee
Democratic
Donovan
Quincy
Curtis money and blue badges sway Boston votes in quixotic race
In South Boston and wards 19 and 22 Curtis forces push patronage and beer to secure votes while Quincy supporters claim the Carter and Wheeler fault lines. Budgets and bogus campaigns circulate as Donovan asserts strong Democratic spirit and a likely Quincy majority near 4000.
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Quincy
Carter
Wheeler
Curtis
Brighton
Roxbury
Donovan
Hampshire Street
Hayes
Alderman Witt
Conant Hall
George S. Faul
Council
Janse
Gurney Hall
Dolan
Republican Party
Traveler
Third
Athens
Dorchester
South
Boston
Edward Welch
Democratic City Committee
Allen to Quincy letter disputes Quincy's school and survey claims
A reader rebukes Mr. Quincy for errors in statements about city finances. The letter argues that savings from consolidating the surveying and engineering departments total 26 000 annually and that contracts exist for additions to Lewis Grammar School Beech Street Roslindale and a brick schoolhouse on Harvest Street Ward 15 plus two wooden buildings.
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Josiah Quincy
Quincy
Engineering
Board of Survey
Lewis Grammar
Beech Street
Roslindale
Harvest Street
Ward 15
Roxbury Group Endorses Josiah Quincy for Mayor
The Roxbury Political Association, a new group of about 50 railway workers and others, endorses Josiah Quincy for mayor. The statement lauds his work on the hours of labor bill of 1888, citing his role in amending and passing a ten to twelve hour workday for West End street railway employees and urging conductors and motormen to vote for him.
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Josiah Quincy
Boston
Longstreet
West End Street
Committee On
Executive Board
Committee On Labor
State House
Quincy
House
Whitney
West End Street Railway
Democrats Mobilize Voters in Several Wards for Quincy
The Democrats of Wards 19 20 22 and 13 vow strong turnout to boost Candidate Quincy and the Democratic ticket. Republicans split over Mayor Curtis amid ward tensions. Ward 20 sees Fields break with Democrats while Ward 22 backs Quincy by 600 to 800. Curtis faces defections in Ward 19 and 13. Locals warn of beer stockpiles near Tagnous precincts before Tuesday.
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Quincy
Curtis
Jerry Watson
Tom Dolan
Watson
Dolan
Fields
Curtis & Pope Lumber Company
John J. Hoar
Bell
South Bonkan
East Boston Winter Club Denies Curtis Endorsement
Edward J. McGonigle, president of the East Boston Winter Club, writes to deny that George F. Mooney is authorized to claim the club supports Mayor Curtis. He adds that the club, in a meeting yesterday, denounced the report made at Music Hall Friday night as unwarranted.
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Edward J. McGonigle
East Boston
Winter Club
Post
George F. Mooney
Curtis
Music Hall
Mayoral Prospects Highlight A P A Support
The Herald editorial notes strong Democratic unity behind Curtis and predicts nearly all A P A members will back him in the mayoral race. It also expects Curtis to receive the full Republican vote possible, framing a broad cross party backing for Curtis.
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The
Herald
Curtis
Quincy
Boy Drowns on Thin Ice at Concord Reservoir
Michael Crann, 16, of 10 Merrill Street, Lowell, ventured onto thin ice at Concord Reservoir this afternoon, broke through and drowned. The body was recovered shortly after.
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Lowell
Michael Crann
Merrill Street
Concord
Mrs. Laura Chant Addresses North End Union Children
Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant spoke to children at the North End Union on Parmenter Street about sin and helping the fallen. She urged kindness to mothers, urged awakening good in boys and girls, and said she would comfort tears and inspire Christian living. She will perform at Chestnut Hill tomorrow and plan travels to Chicago, Denver, and London before February.
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North Nd Union
Parmenter Street
Laura Ormiston Chant
Mrs. Chant
Chicago
Denver
London
New York Sees Next Mayor and Boston Civic Reform
A New York Times note describes a rally before City Hall on School Street featuring Josiah Quincy’s statue in Boston. It recalls his 1823 mayoral term, early public works, and six years of service while highlighting reform rhetoric against alleged corruption under a four year Democratic regime.
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New York Times
City Hall
School Street
Josiah’ Quincy
Boston
Quincy
John Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Faneuil Hall
New York
Chicago
Curtus
Quincy Market era in Boston mayoral era linked to water works
The article recalls Josiah Quincy Sr and Jr, Boston mayors, and notes the third Josiah Quincy’s likely election as mayor. It contrasts Democratic support for Quincy with Republican Edwin Curtis, claims reform failed under Curtis, and hints at the city’s water system from Lake Cochituate shaping Boston’s water supply.
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Boston
Josiah Quincy
Edwin Upton Curtis
Boston Mayoral Campaign and Reform pledges described
The piece portrays a political battle surrounding the current mayor's re election bid. It accuses him of personal scheming, partisan staffing, andенд corruption in city departments while praising Quincy’s acceptance letter proposing mayoral cooperation with merchants financiers and civic groups to boost trade and industry if elected.
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Boston
Curtis
Quincy
Venezuelan crisis deepens over £12,000 demand
A British note asks £12,000 for the arrest of Englishmen in English territory along the British Guiana border. The issue moves to President Crespo as he travels to appoint a new cabinet and replace Vice President Acevedo. The revolution narrows to Los Andes.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Crespo
Acevedo
British Guiana
Los Andes
The Business Man sermon by Rev Savage at Bulfinch Place
Rev Minot J. Savage preached on The Business Man last evening to a large Bulfinch Place Church congregation. He argued that religion and business are inseparable and that legitimate business production and exchange benefit mankind while illegitimate lines harm society.
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Minot J. Savage
Bulfinch Place
Mr. Savage
Columbus
Divine Forgiveness Sermon at Christian Union
The Rev W H Lyon of All Souls Roxbury preached on The Divine Forgiveness at the Christian Union last evening. He spoke on forgiveness through faith, repentance, and divine law, noting God sees hearts and forgiveness depends on our response, comparing divine action to gravity guiding rivers and fountains.
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W. H. Lyon
All Souls’ Church
Roxbury
Christian Union
Mr. Lyon
Jesus
Sermon on Immaculate Conception at East Boston Church
The Rev. John J. Garrity preached at the Church of the Assumption East Boston yesterday morning on the Immaculate Conception. He opened with praise for the Virgin Mother of God and traced the belief’s development from ancient times. The sermon covered scriptural proofs supporting the doctrine.
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John J. Garrity
Church of the Assumption
Boston
Power Producer of the Human System
A historic health claim extols the Power Producer as the key to bodily health by aligning the stomach. It promises renewed blood, nerve force, strength, and life through a right stomach and improved digestion as the foundation of vitality.
Strange Son Kills Father in Maine Then Confesses
Alfred J. Hurd, a telegraph operator and ticket agent for Boston & Maine, killed his father James M. Hurd in Liddeford, Maine. He confessed after police questioned him, describing an axe blow to the temple and a neck slash. The elder Hurd, born in 1822, had lived in Biddeford since 1879.
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Alfred J. Hurd
Liddeford
East Somerville
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Somerville
Hunnewell
The
Post
Young Hurd
Old Orchard Beach
Hurd
Warren
Biddeford
James M. Hurd
Lyman
Boston
Murphy
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