Recount Confirms Lee-Duane Street Commissioner Race
Day five of the recount starts with three wards left for street commissioner and Aldermen. Duane gains lead as Ward 2 shifts, final tally showing Duane elected street commissioner by 569 votes, with Lee ahead of Mahoney in aldermanic recount by 165 votes despite large adjustments.
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Hutchinson
Republican City Committee
Benjamin M. Cram
William H. Lott
Mahoney
Lee
Duane
Cram
Alderman Mahoney
Ward
Tenjawin M. Cram
Train Robbery Near Independence Delivers Thousands
Express Messenger Frier described a night train robbery on the St. Louis and Chicago line near Independence. Masked bandits disabled the locomotive, forced Frier to reveal safe keys, opened two safes, and dynamited the large vault to seize money and valuables worth thousands.
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Kansas City
Express
Frier
Independence
Miles to chair inauguration reception committee in Washington
General Nelson Miles accepts the chairmanship of the inauguration reception committee named by Congress. The committee includes senators, representatives, jurists, officials, and citizens. the chair acts as personal attendant to the new President during inauguration day.
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Washington
Nelson Miles
Congress
Horace Porter
H. C. Corbin
U.S. A
Gamma Delta Dines with 20th Boston University Christmas Spread
The Gamma Delta Society at Boston University celebrated its 20th annual Christmas spread with no men allowed in chapel gym or Parthanon. Miss Margaret Tyacke led the event with aides Miss Snow and Miss MacLellan as alumnae and freshmen served as waitresses. The gathering recalled past spreads and included former members reminiscing at No 20 Beacon Street.
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Gamma Delta Society
Boston University
Chapel
Gym
Parthanon
Taylor
Society
Margaret Tyacke
Somerville
Lucile Snow
Viola MacLellan
Gamma Delta
Amy Rue
Beacon Street
Missing Schooner Hattie S Phillips Feared Lost
Anxiety rises for the Hattie S Phillips a large fishing schooner missing after a three week La Have Bank trip. Commanded by Captain Michael O'Brien of Boston with a crew of twenty two, she was provisioned for two weeks and last seen a week before the storm. Several fleet vessels report severe weather and overdue status including the Fredonia Oreasa and Annie C Hill. The Nellie G Thurston limped in shattered by the same storm, while the Helen F Whitten is out twenty one days with a similar crew.
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Hattie S. Phillips
la Have Bank
Phillips
Michael O’brien
Boston
P. H. Prior
Fredonia
Oreasa
Annie C. Hill
Little la
Helen F. Whitten
Antone Courant
Nellie G. Thurston
Tim Desmond Honored With Gold Watch At Hotel Thorndike
The Hotel Thorndike head waiter Tim Desmond received a gold watch as a Christmas present after eight years with the hotel. Guests and staff praised him highly. Parker House head waiter Simon Kelly also received a gold watch from his fellow waiters in a similar token of esteem. Over 400 waiters gathered in the hall for the event and the captain in the cafe delivered the presentation speech.
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Thorndike
Tim Desmond
Desmond
Simon Kelly
Parker House
Christianity of the Next Hundred Years Sermon at Parker Memorial
At Parker Memorial corner Berkeley and Appleton streets the Benevolent Frater nity of Churches holds popular Sunday evening services. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale will preach on The Christianity of the Next Hundred Years with music by soprano Mrs. Lester M. Bartlett tenor Mr. Thomas E. Johnson and organist Mr. Howard M. Dow.
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Parker Memorial
Berkeley
Appleton Streets
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
Edward Everett Hale
Lester M. Bartlett
Thomas E. Johnson
Howard M. Dow
Man Dead at Wheel of City Ash Cart in Boston
Jeremiah Mackin aged 62 of South Boston was found dead yesterday morning at the reins of a city ash cart on Boylston Street. The patrolman noted the horse was out of control near the Public Library and discovered the dead driver, fatal heart disease listed as the cause after Mackin had been ill two weeks and had just returned to work.
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Boylston Street
Public Library
Jeremiah Mackin
Jay and
Fourth Streets
South
Boston
Christmas in Boston Tenements Expose Social Gloom and Fronts
A Postman sketches Boston tenement districts during Christmas noting poor families endure cold, dirt, and crowded rooms behind flashy frontages. He observes overcrowded, unsanitary homes with mothers, children, and scant heat, while modern fronts mask poverty.
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Boston
Countess Pappenheim Sues for Divorce in Berlin Report
New York reports Count Pappenheim has filed for divorce from his American wife Mary Wheeler Pappenheim for wilful abandonment. The former Mrs Wheeler, daughter of Philadelphia iron magnate Charles Wheeler, left Europe with their three children and stays in Philadelphia.
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New York
Berlin
Pappenheim
Countess Pappenheim
Charles Wheeler
Philadelphia
Europe
Mary
Wheelers
House of Paprenheim
Wheeler
Bavaria
Oberammergau
Married the Corespondent In Divorced Case Sequel
New York December 24 Mrs Knoop the plaintiff in the recent divorce trial married Leo Dietrichstein the actor named as co respondent in the case The Knoop divorce action involved infidelity charges against Louis J Knoop while Dietrichstein denied the allegations and testified Mrs Nadel confessed to the accusations earlier in the trial The Belvidere Hotel figures prominently as the setting and Dietrichstein claimed Mrs Knoop worked for him as amanuensis at eight dollars weekly
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New York
Knoop
Supreme Court
White Plains
Louis J. Knoop
Weisbaden
Sarah Nadel
Jersey City
Leo Dietrichstein
Dietrichstein
Kissed and Made Up In Court Divorce Plea Unfolds
New York court hears Mrs Jaenke accuse husband of cruelty after he allegedly threw her down and insulted her while drunk. The magistrate questions both, the wife kisses him and the baby signals reconciliation, ending with the wife’s remark about friends with troubled marriages.
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New York
Theodore Jaenke
Tramped For A Wager By Two American Women
Mrs H Estby and her daughter Clara completed a cross country foot journey from Spokane to New York covering 4500 miles in seven months. They left May 6 and arrived in New York at noon yesterday, having undertaken the wager to cross the continent on foot with limited funds. They faced hardships including a New Jersey diversion that led to a snow storm but arrived safely.
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New York
H. Estby
Clara Estby
Spokane
Washington
New Jersey
Four Sons Born to Noah Scott in Shelbyville
Noah Scott and wife welcomed four healthy sons this morning in Shelbyville Indiana. The newborns are William Bryan George F Williams Arthur Sewall and Claude Matthews Scott. Scott is noted as a free silver advocate. In 1892 the couple had twins and a daughter named for President Cleveland and his wife, with a letter from Cleveland in the father’s hands.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Noah Scott
William Bryan
George F. Williams
Arthur Sewall
Claude Matthews Scott
Scott
Cleveland
Mr. Cleveland
Queen to dictate own biography of long reign
The St James Gazette reports the Queen will personally dictate and revise a biography of herself to appear in 189. The work aims to tell the story of the longest reign in English history with the Queen guiding its content.
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London
St. James Gazette
England
Frances Willard Relapses Ill at Castile Sanatorium
Miss Frances H. Willard president of the temperance unions is ill at the Castile sanitarium with a relapse. Her physician has cancelled all engagements and she will remain there for some time under care.
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Castile
N. Y
Frances H. Willard
World's and National Christian Temperance Union
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