Gold Reward Paid to Four Thousand Boston Elevated Workers
The Boston Elevated Railway distributes 60000 in gold to about 4000 employees for 1906 conduct and service. Each worker receives a 5 dollar piece and a 10 dollar gold piece as a reward, with 87 percent of six month plus staff included. Notices were posted, and payments began at the Murray Street car house in Cambridge division.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Cambridge
Murray Street
Boston Elevated Railway
France Debates Church State Split in Senate Session
In Paris on December 28 the Senate opened debate on the supplementary church and state separation bill. Count de las Cases argued Catholics seek only freedom to practice faith, while Maxime Lecomte urged equality before law and liberty of conscience. M Lamartelle denounced Mon tagnini’s expulsion as unjustifiable as Premier Clemenceau signaled forthcoming evidence.
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Paris
Senate
Count de Las Cases
Maxime Lecomte
Church and State Separation Committee
Holy See
Germany
France
M. de Lamartelle
Pope Denounces French Respect for Prussian Law
Vatican notes that French critics misread the Prussian 1875 cultural law. It states Prussia recognizes the Catholic hierarchy even as it remains hard on the church, while France’s separation doctrine seeks to ignore the hierarchy and restrict religious practice.
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Rome
Vatican
Clemenceau
M. Briahd
G. O. P. Councilmen Elect Adopt Retrenchment Platform
The Republican councilmen elect in Boston met at City Hall and nominated Myron E. Petree for president Edward J. Leary for city messenger and John F. Dever for clerk of committees. They adopted a retrenchment platform urging restraint on debt and public spending and transparency in city contracts.
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City Hall
Myron E. Petree
Ward 11
Edward J. Leary
John F. Dever
Boston
Roxbury Crossing Line Changes Cambridge Trips
Beginning this morning the Roxbury Crossing to Harvard square line will be discontinued and a new Roxbury Crossing to the River street car house line will be established. The route follows the old Boston path via Massachusetts avenue to Pearl street then Putnam avenue to the car house. returns via Putnam avenue and Brookline street to Massachusetts avenue. Service will run about five minute intervals during peak hours and about ten minutes otherwise to improve Cambridge ridership.
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Roxbury Crossing
Harvard Square
Cambridge
River Street
Boston
Massachusetts Avenue
Pearl Street
Putnam Avenue
Brookline Street
Pearl
Brookline Streets
Moran Finds L Car Evidence
District Attorney Moran gathered detailed testimony at a special hearing before railroad commissioners about the Boston Elevated's heating and ventilation of cars. Witnesses including ex-Representative James H. Mellen and attorney Scott spoke of a defective system, with conductors allegedly ordered to shut off heat at times. Moran may summon these informants to testify before the grand jury.
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Moran
Grand Jury
Boston Elevated
Bancroft
Railroad Commission
James H. Mellen
Worcester
Scott
Cambridge Board of Health
Mellen
Frederick McLeod
Everett
Mr. McLeod
T. S. Richardson
Mattapan
Wounded Wife in Roxbury as Husband Kills Self
Mrs. Fred L. Clark lies in critical condition at City Hospital after a shooting at her parents home in Roxbury. She witnessed her husband shoot himself and die beside her body. physicians report her condition remains dangerous and bullet removal not yet attempted.
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Fred L. Clark
Centre Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
Outrage by 251st Man Brings Search for Soldier Attacker
In El Reno Oklahoma on December 28 Lee Sung resisted a hold up in a laundry and was shot by a man in US Army uniform who fled. Fort Reno soldiers sheriff's force and local police seek the assailant amid growing public anger over alleged outrages by discharged Twenty-fifth Infantry soldiers.
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EL Reno
Okla
Lee Sung
United States Army
Fort Reno
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Boy bitten on tongue by dog in Lynn incident
Edward Fitzgerald, 5, was bitten on the tongue by a dog reportedly owned by Mrs. Hannah Connors of Willis Court. Police investigated after the late afternoon attack as doctors weighed rabies risk and cauterizing options.
Roosevelt Not To Visit Philippine Islands
At the White House today December 28 the statement said President Theodore Roosevelt does not plan to visit the Philippine Islands.
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Roosevelt
Philippines
Washington
White House
Philippine Islands
Drowned Man Found Tied In Water At Marblehead Neck
The body of Theodore Stone past grand sachem of Massachusetts Red Men was found upright in mud near Nanepaschemet Hotel. A clothesline bound his arms and torso. a note suggests self inflicted death in a mental crisis. Stone, a Civil War Navy veteran and shoemaker, leaves a wife and three daughters.
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Marblehead
Theodore Stone
Order of Red Men of
Massachusetts
Marblehead Neck
Nanepaschemet Hotel
Stone
Alice
Mr. Stone
Frank
United States Navy
Farragut
Violin Worth 500 Missing From Tremont Restaurant
E N Catlin leader of Tremont Theatre orchestra reports a violin valued at $500 stolen from a Tremont Street restaurant where he left it while dining near midnight. He returned to retrieve it but found it gone.
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E. N. Catlin
Tremont Theatre
Tremont Street
Mr. Catlin
Colored Catholics to establish Roxbury church in Boston
A church for colored Catholics is to be built on Windsor Street Roxbury costing about 50000 dollars with seating for 800. Construction starts in spring. They formed a congregation years ago at the Cathedral under Rev Thomas J McCormack and will likely have him as pastor.
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Boston
Windsor Street
Roxbury
Thomas J. McCormack
Cathedral
Father McCormack
Wedding of Dora Berkman and Alfred H Rathman in Roxbury
Dora Berkman and Alfred H Rathman wed at Adath Jesurun temple on Blue Hill avenue with Southern smilax decorations. The bride wore handmade lace and a bridal veil, and the couple planned a five week Cuban honeymoon before business duties drew them away.
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Adath Jesurun
Blue Hill Avenue
Dora Berkman
Alfred H. Rathman
Jennie Berkman
Manuel Goldberg
Pauline Rathman
Minnie Gordon
Samuel Jay
Lena Friedman
Minneapolis
Minn
Cuba
Arts and Crafts Exhibit at Copley Hall Dates Set
An Arts and Crafts exhibition at Copley Hall, under the Society of Arts and Crafts, runs from February 5 to February 26. Entries close January 21 receive by January 30, with a reception opening. Conference series and lectures accompany the show.
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Copley Hall
Society of Arts and Crafts
Copley
Allston Halls
H. Langford Warren
A. W. Longfellow
George P. Kendrick
C. Howard Walker
Harold B. Warren
D. B. Updike
Alice J. Morse
Ralph Adams Cram
George R. Shaw
Mary Crease Sears
F. Allen Whiting
J. T. Coolidge, Jr
Henry Lewis Johnson
Edward R. Warren
Amy M. Sacker
Veteran Clergyman Rev William E Brooks Dies at 89
The Rev William E Brooks D D a Congregational minister veteran of the Civil War and writer died at his son Clayton Brooks home in Cambridge after three weeks retirement from Warren Conn pastorate Brooks born 1835 in Kingfield Missouri prepared at Bloomfield Academy graduated Colby College 1862 served as lieutenant then captain in the 16th Maine later Yale Theological School 1865 and headed Tillotson Institute Austin Texas 1881 to 1885
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William E. Brooks
Clayton K. Brooks
Whittier Street
Cambridge
Congregational Church
Warren, Conn
Dr. Brooks
Kingfield
Bloomfield Academy
California
Colby College
Leutenant
Sixteenth Maine Regiment
M. V. M. Flo
Yale Theological School
Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute
Austin
Tex
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