Factory Girls Touraine Visit Praises Massachusetts Factory Conditions
Dayton Ohio workers Ella Haas Mary Haas Flora Pike and Ida Boroff tour East visiting Pittsburg Philadelphia New York and Washington. They commend Lynn Massachusetts factories for sanitary good conditions and courteous foremen, noting Massachusetts factory laws and superior employers. They plan to publish findings on long hours low pay and factory hardships. They will visit Waltham and Salem, stay at the Touraine, and depart for Albany after plans to see Mrs Carter.
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Dayton
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
New York
Washington
Lynn
Massachusetts
Ella M. Haas
Mary J. Haas
Flora Pike
Ida Boroff
Touraine
Miss Pike
Waltham
Salem
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Featured as Internal Remedy
A reader notes catarrh affects all regions and stages of life and promotes Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as an internal treatment. An anonymous public speaker testifies the tablets cleared his head and throat after years of winter colds, and the advert cites antiseptic qualities without opiates or cocaine.
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Union
McIerney
Stuart
Woman testifies in Bennett mystery case at court
Miss Biggar recounts a Thanksgiving promise of marriage by Mr. Bennett and a quiet New York union. She describes attending him during illness, a 11 week illness stretch, and a sanitarium rest after his death. The witness notes prior marriage, dower action motive, and absence of letters between Bennett and her. Court adjourns after her testimony.
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Bennett
Miss Biggar
Mr. Bennett
New York
Laura Biggar
Molly
Papa
Laura Biggar Claims Marriage to Bennett Years Ago
Freehold N J December 19 The actress Laura Biggar testifies in a conspiracy trial alleging she married millionaire Bennett 14 or 15 years earlier and that her former husband tried to destroy evidence while she sought a duplicate certificate. She says she has not received Bennett fortune and has only her own earnings.
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J. W. McOnnell
Laura Biggar
Joseph Surface
School For Scandal
Bennett
Freehold
Hendrick and Stanton
Miss Biggar
Mar
Mayor's knife to prune city loan bill at council vote
City Hall faces a tense budget clash as Mayor Collins plans to strike provisions with the infamous knife. The fight centers on court executions funding, Ward 9 playground, and school money, with the mayor likely to eliminate nonessential items to secure the needed total. The bill advances to the Board of Aldermen next Tuesday, with speculative posturing over special sessions and a possible five-vote defeat threshold.
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City Hall
Common Council
Collins
Board of Aldermen
Ward 9
Messrs
Bowen and Lomasney
Mrs. Livermore Celebrates 82nd Birthday With Surprise Party
Melrose on Emerson Street hosts a surprise party for Mrs. Mary A Livermore as Wintergreen Club members gather to honor her milestone. The Boston reform group praises her work in higher education and moral influence and Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association sends a wreath. Relatives and friends bring flowers and gifts as she recovers from summer illness and remains active in her affiliations.
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Mary A. Livermore
Melrose
Emerson Street
Micah Dyer
Dorchester
N. L. Walton
West Newton
Alanson Bigelow
Chestnut Hill
J. Sewall Reed
July Wardstone
Spaulding
Kate Tannat
Chusetts Woman's Suffrage Association
Blood Wine Promises Rheumatism and Kidney Cure
A period advertisement touts Blood Wine as a cure for rheumatism and Bright's disease, claiming it heals blood to restore kidney function. It cites testimonials from Dan A. Metzel of Terre Haute Indiana and Mrs H E Young of Everett Massachusetts, urging readers to buy for fifty cents.
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Dan A. Metzel
South Eighth St
Terra Haute
Ind
Baur
Questions for N H people Concord New Hampshire
The official text of the March interrogatories for the constitutional revision convention ends in Concord. It asks voters to approve reading and writing qualifications for voters, militia exam rules, removal of certain offices from selection, expanded taxation, police court jurisdiction, changes to religious language in the Bill of Rights, male inhabitant voting, antitrust powers, revised representation thresholds, and multiple polling places per town.
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Concord
N. H
Cac Ee
General Court
House of Representatives
Canadian Society of New York Holds Sixth Annual Dinner
The Canadian Society of New York hosted its sixth annual dinner at Delmonico's in New York on December 19. Dr. James Douglas chaired the event as toasts honored The President and The King, followed by toasts to Canada and The United States. Speakers included Sir Percy Sanderson Sir Frederick W. Borden John S Wise and Judge Van Wyck among others.
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New York
Canadian Society of New York
Delmonico’s
James Douglas
Canada
United States
Percy Sanderson
Frederick W. Borden
John 8. Wise
Judge van Wyck
Civil Service Clerk Dropped From Street Department
Amos Kingsley, a civil service clerk with 15 years on the city payroll, was discharged from the street department yesterday. Officials gave no formal reason, but unofficial reports say he failed to attend to duties. John J. Quinn of the sewer division is temporarily promoted to fill the vacancy.
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Amos Kingsley
Civil Service
Street Department
Civil Service Office
Kingsley
Donovan
John J. Quinn
Father Singleton Better Despite Danger at City Hospital
Still listed as on the dangerous list at City Hospital, Father Singleton showed a marked improvement yesterday with signs of stabilization and better vitals noted by medical staff. The family waits for further updates as doctors monitor his condition.
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Father Singleton
Condition of Father Singleton Improves, Hope Restored
The Rev. Father Singleton of the Church of the Immaculate Conception is reported to be improving as physicians express renewed hope for his recovery.
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Father Singleton
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Move to Unite Cape Loyal Dutch
Johannesburg Times correspondent reports a spontaneous plan to unite loyal Dutch across Cape Colony Orange River Colony and the Transvaal for mutual support against the Bond. Loyalists, currently isolated, seek an organization to bolster confidence and curb Bond intrigues amid factional tensions.
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Cape
London
Johannesburg
The
Times
Cape Colony
Orange River Colony
Transvaal
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