New York and Ocean Water Lines Buy Boston North End Site
The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad plans to acquire a large Commercial Street land lot from Boston Consolidated Gas and nearby appraisers stores site. Deeds exchange valued around 350,000 dollars, with total near 650,000 dollars. The deal aims to give the railroad coast to coast access and reduce ferriage and lighterage costs for public and freight traffic.
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North End
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Ocean Water Lines
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Boston City Proper
New York
Commercial Street
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Shaw
New Haven
Rail service route via Union Freight railway
The article notes that the direct rail service will operate by way of the Union Freight railway, detailing the line used to connect destinations.
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Union Freight Railway
Verdict Adverse to Will in Graves Estate Case
In Salem on December 19 a six hour jury verdict found William H Graves case unduly influenced by Carrie G Stone. The Supreme Court will hear motions in January in Boston. Mrs Snow testified Graves implicated in the 1881 Hathaway murder.
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Salem
Supreme Court
William H. Graves
Carrie Stone
James H W. Sisk
Boston
CUMMINGS AND TIMILTY INDICTED BY GRAND JURY
Grand jury indicts Matthew Cummings superintendent of street cleaning and watering divisions for suspending two war veterans without 72 hours notice. James P Timilty former South End paving yard foreman indicted for employing William Craven paid under a dead father in law. Each held for trial at $100 bond. District Attorney Moran notes eight hour law loopholes and urges new legislation to protect workers.
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Matthew Cummings
James H. McMahon
Patrick J. Maguire
Ward 8
James P. Timilty
South End
William Craven
Cummings
Timilty
Moran
Bitter views on Brownsville incident and treason
A writer condemns mutiny and murder and urges severe punishment for perpetrators and their abettors. He criticizes advisers who excuse colored men aiding criminals and warns of a dreadful reckoning for those who defend mutinous acts.
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Brownsville
Resolutions Denounce Roosevelt As Enemy Of Race
Leaders of the Suffrage League of Boston denounce President Roosevelt as the instigator of race hatred and mob violence. A bitter set of resolutions was adopted at a meeting held at 121 Dartmouth Street with Rev. W. H. Scott presiding. More than twenty speakers, among New England's prominent colored figures, urged action after Roosevelt's reply to the Foraker resolution was released.
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New England
Suffrage League of
Boston
W. H. Scott
Woburn
Dartmouth Street
Foraker
Secret Indictments Stir Political Circles In Boston
Rumor spread hours before Timilty and Cummings faced charges that true bills existed. Timilty’s case relates to the old padded payroll scandal alleged to involve Craven drawing City pay for his father in law who is deceased. Cummings, as national president of the A OH, drew major attention in political and organizational circles.
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Cummings
Craven
Jeffries Ready to Fight Burns for 50 000 Purse
James J. Jeffries said he would agree to a Burns bout if the purse reached fifty thousand dollars. He refused to fight Jack Johnson for any sum.
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Los Angeles
James J. Jeffries
Tommy Burns
Jack Johnson
George A. Marden Dies in Lowell After Illness
George A. Marden longtime soldier orator editor former State treasurer and deputy treasurer of the United States in charge of the sub treasury at Boston died at his Lowell home from angina pectoris. He had suffered five years though remained active until recently and had been bedfast only in the last four weeks.
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Lowell
George A. Marden
United States
Boston
Mareden
George A Marden A Sharp Shooter From New Hampshire
George Augustus Marden born 1839 in Mt Vernon New Hampshire son of Benjamin a mechanic. He worked as a shoemaker and farmer while studying, attended Appleton Academy then Dartmouth College and graduated 1861. He joined Berdan's Sharp‑ shooters in 1861 serving under McClellan in the peninsula campaign and later held staff duty before mustering out in 1864. He then studied law in Concord while working as a writer.
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Mt. Vernon
N. H
Benjamin Marden
George
Appleton Academy
McCollum Institute
Dartmouth
Berdan
United States
McClellan
Third Division
Third Army Corps
New Hampshire
Concord
Marden, Lowell Newspaper Leader and Politician died
William Marden a lifelong newspaperman and New England statesman died leaving a legacy in Lowell Boston and New Hampshire. He edited and owned papers including the Courier Citizen and Kanawha Republican and served as Massachusetts speaker of the House and treasurer. He was a Grant delegate and held allied posts in Loyal Legion and G A R. He left a wife Mary I Fiske and two sons Philip and Robert F. connected with the Lowell Courier Citizen at his passing.
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McKinley
Marden
United States
Boston
Roosevelt
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
G. A. Fh
Dartmouth Alumni Association
Mary I. Fiske
Nashua
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The
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European monarchs invited to auto show
Harvard varsity hockey team fell to substitutes in a recent game. Sprague backed Newton hockey captain Jeffries to referee the Gans Herman bout.
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Europe
Harvard
Subs
Sprague
Newton
Jeffries
Gans-Herman
Colds and chills of winter with Sanford's Ginger
A brief note touts Sanford's Ginger as effective protection against winter colds and chills through timely hot doses, urging readers to prepare for cold season.
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