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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1886

Page

5

Brookline Railways Public Hearing on Extension Petition

Brookline selectmen held a public hearing on the Metropolitan Rail road Company request to extend tracks along Beacon street from Boston line to Harvard street and connect with Washington and Longwood avenues. Opposition from John Panter, William Aspinwall, and Henry M. Whitney argued against granting the location while praising West End Railway plans. hearing adjourned for decision.

Brookline Town Hall Metropolitan Railroad Company Beacon Street Boundary Line Boston Beacon Harvard Street Washington Street Longwood Avenue Boston Line Walnut Avenue C. A. Richards Metropolitan Road Arthur Plimpton Richards Washington and Tremont Streets Coolidge’s Corner Allston Brighton Coolidge Cambridge Bridge Jordan, Marsh & Co West End Metropolitan Company Panter William Aspinwall Metroplitan Aspinwall Aspinwelly Whitney Metropolitan Henry M. Whitney West End Company L. F. Beecher

Winchester Social Highlights Banquet and Ball Plans

The Wedgemere Tennis Club of Winchester hosts its annual ball on New Year's Eve at Harmony Halis with a minstrel show planned for club benefit. Mr and Mrs Bangs of Rangeley Park invite guests to a reception on Monday evening December 20. The Calumet Club announces the first of three dancing parties on Friday night December 17 at Harmony Wall, the new club rooms full to capacity.

Wedgemere Tennis Club Winchester Harmony Halis Tennis Club D. Bangs Rangeley Park Calumet Club of Harmony Wall

Canadian Pacific Names Lucius Tuttle Passenger Traffic Chief

Lucius M. Tuttle, formerly general passenger agent for the Boston and Lowell, has agreed to join the Canadian Pacific as passenger traffic manager. He returns from Montreal after talks with Canadian officials and will start duties on January 1, 1887.

Lucius M. Tuttle Boston & Lowell Railroad Montreal Canadian Pacific Canadian Road Tuttle

Market Prices and Trade Listings From Today

Stocks include R. L. Day & Co. at 11 30 a m Francis Henshaw & Co. at noon Fruit by Horatio Harris & Co. at noon Oriental chinas bronzes etc Leonard & Co at 2 0 m.

R. L. Day & Co Francis Henshaw & Co Tloratio Harris & Co Leonard & Co

Bookstore Consolidation Promotes Classic Titles

In a listing at all bookstores the Golden West and a host of reprints and children’s books are promoted. Titles include A Family Flight Through Mexico Sights Worth Seeing Foreign Facts and Fancies Wonder Stories of History A Romance of the Revolution and more.

Golden West Mexico

Boston Theatres Schedule Over Several Weekday Evenings

The listing notes Harbor Lights at Boston Museum with 7 45 pm shows, Mikado at Globe Theatre with 7 45 pm shows, Mr Frank Mayors Nordeck at Park Theatre, Edwin Booth at Boston Theatre every evening 7 45, Lang's Comedians at Bijou Theatre daily 2 and 8, Adonis at Hollis Street Theatre in afternoon and evening, Eagle's Nest at Howard Athenaeum in the afternoon.

Boston Museum Harbor Lights Globe Theatre Park Theatre Mr. Frank Mayors Nordeck Boston Edwin Booth BIJOU Lang Hollis Street Howard Athenaeum Eagle’s Nest

Brown Dalrimple and More Marriages Recorded in City Notices

In this city notices list multiple December weddings and one in November. Isaac Brown wed Marion C Dalrimple on December 7. Thomas McMurray wed Jennie Samuels on December 13. Samuel Stevenson wed Elizabeth Chart on December 12. Frank Wildes wed Frances Ball on December 11. Stephen Blegett and Elizabeth Cummings announced in Brooklyn on December 18. Walter Kibling wed Mrs. Kate Partridge in North Leominster November 1.

Boston Wildes—Ball Henry W. Foote Frank Waldo Wildes Frances Elizoe Ball Maurice Hilger New York Blodgett—Cummings Brooklyn George W. Briggs J.D Stephen H. Bleagett M.D Cambridge Elizabeth W Charles H. Cummings Brookline Kibling—Partridge North Leominster N. J. Jones Walter B. Kibling Kate E. Partridge

Obituary notices from city and surrounding towns

Deaths listed in this city and nearby communities include Harriet N. Coleman aged 64 from Josiah Bumstead family. John Amory Codman aged, died after long illness. Charles Chipman aged 77 in Jamaica Plain. Captain Frank Fowle in Clarendon Hills. George Haynes 81 in Dorchester. Celia P Reed 7 in Harmony Maine. Charlotte Swan Shedd 90 in Jamaica Plain. Mary W Brown 54 in Watertown. Sophia Needham 89 in Lynchfield Centre. Elizabeth A W Leavin 59 in Portland Maine. Lucy Merrill in Newburyport. Sarah T B Smyth for Framingham.

Brown Watertown Mary W Newell Brown Hwyod Lynfield Centre Sophia Needham Jacob Hood Portland Elizabeth A. W Edward M. Leavin Lanee Newburyport Lucy EF. Merrill Smyth Framingham Sarah T. B Charles W. Smyth Samuel Bridge Dorchester

Pills Great English Gout and Rheumatic Remedy Ad

An oval box labeled Great English Gout and Rheumatic remedy lists 34 pills per box with 14 pills per dose and promotes the product in a drugstore advertisement. Also mentions new books and a general druggist distribution.

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Brookline Railroads Dc. A. Richards MR. Tuttle NEW Publications Christmas C.lothrop & CO Frankblain Street Dean Stanley No-Man’s Land Kelly Marlow Washington Margaret Sidney Bester New England Trenchton Europe Pettibone Minute Man Oliy Little Folks Santa Claus Krissy Cherry Alice Grafenburg Alaska Bowett Thucydides Irving Phackeraypeichens Scott George Eliot Ee Mac Donald Ite Celia Thaxter Washington ST Transcript Office REW Publications Acmilan Us. S Pickwick Papers THE Pickwick Club Charles Dickens Charles Dickens the Younger Pickwick London Thomas Carlyle Charles Eliot Norton Carlyle Froude Boston Traveller P. Lanfrey Saad Scribners Magazin Esanuvary Gambetta Republic OF France Howard Pyle Frank Frencis Paris E. B. Washburn Wromispiecey Seth France New York House A. B. Frost F. Hopkinson Smith And.g. W. Edwards Sonnets IN Robert Herrick de Clercq, Pinches Starold H.C. Bunner Arlo Bates F. W. Greene U.S. Engineers Gouverneur Morris G. Kruell Old Miorrisania Austin Dosson Thomas A Janvier Wiian_ Hayes Annige Cary Morris Francis A. Walker Mayyaury Fleming Margaret Crosby D. Lothrop &Co Franklin St Lothrop & CO Estes & Lauriat Old South D. Appleton & CO A Lady of Ty David A. Wells Popwar Science Monthly Popular Science Monthly United States E. D. Cope National Academy of Sciences Cope America Archbishop Trench Trench F. Marion Crawford W. E. Norris Laurence Alma Tadema Vernon Lee Edmund Gosse Bono Street Franklin Street Charles Scribner's Sons Broadway Richardson Johnston Adams Cassell & Company Perkin Richelieu Mazarin American Art Tine Knox Robert Fulton Marco Polo Plutarch Herodotus Uncle Sam From Thackeray Chaldea Greece Rome Carthage Spain Hungary Germany Norway Putnam’s Prospectus of Nations G. P. Putnam’s Sons of Living Poets Cassell Hugh Thomson Roger DE Coverley the Spectator Thomson N. Y. Tribune Randolph Caldecott Old Christmas Bracebridge Hall Washington Irving Dave Boston Commercial Bulletin Riine William Martin Conway Roscoe Jack and the Beanstalk Hallam Tennyson Four Winds Farm Boston Saturday Evening Gazette MADAME _TABBY’S ESTABLISHMENT Kari L. Wain Beaton Saturday Evening Gazette Troy Aubrey Stewart M.A Stewart Boston Journal Moon Maiden Jessy E. Greenwood Macmillan & Co Fourth Avenue Houghton, Mifflin & CO Tile Club Miss Phelps Madonna of the Tules Bret Harte Kate Greenaway Mr. Lowell Craddoche Clonda Park Street DE Wolfe, Fiske & CO Transvaal Natal Durban Union and Castle Lines Government Railways Ladysmith Barberton Cape Town Kimberley Fields Idberton Chamber of Conmerce Cassell & Company, Limited N. Y Ebster G. & C. Merriam & CO State Street Merchants’ Exchange Boston Marine Society William C. Codman J.G. Freeman Kilby Street Aaron Br, Gay & CO Wm.c.codman High Street Pearl Street Purchase Street Belcher's Lane Congress Street Broad Street Friend Street Water Street Postoffice Square Summer Street Faneuil Hall Peart Square Post Office State Or Horace S. Crowell FOCET Atlantia Avenue Janus 1 George Plaisted & Son Stock Exchange A. C. Lombard’s Sons Central Street FE. A. Hunting Bromfield Street C.S. Montgomery Motte Street John Jeffries & Sons Devonshire Street Missouri Pacific Railroad Little Rock, Mississippi River &Texas Railway Company Jay Gould Damon Safe and Iron Works Coy Sudbury St
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