Boston College to form O Reilly Athletic Club with shamrock emblem
The proposed club at Boston College will be named the O Reilly Athletic Club not sectarian in intent. It will admit amateur athletes, seek A A U membership, and plan a Chester park site with outdoor gymnasium. Polo league control for Winslow rink and upcoming boxing events at the B A A are noted with several local clubs and athletes highlighted.
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Boston Colts
O'Reilly Athletic Club
Chester Park
Suffolk A.C
Trimount
A. C
Boston College Association
Polo League
Winslow
John Robinson
Chicago
Shea
Robinson
Frank Peters
Lockwood
Metropole A. A
Providence
Cornish
New York
Walter Hodgkins
Boston
Brookline
J. F. Moakley
Trimount Athletic Club
Carey
D. J. Sullivan
First Regiment
Thompson
Ballard
Smith
Clausen
John Graham
Charles Bank
Billy Ryan
Billy Morse
Gay
Ienes
T. A
Richard P. Russell
Cross County
N. FE
Estimating Candle Burn Time by Simple Experiment
The Post explains a candle time measurement puzzle using a six foot beeswax candle. A one foot candle of the same material should burn in one sixth the time. Real results depend on beeswax versus sper maceti, with readers submitting various duration estimates from A. G. Frothingham to J. Kennitt, ranging from hours to hundreds of hours.
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A. G. Frothingham
Chauncy Street
G. H. Kedail
Bristol
N. H
George C. Irving, Jr
Atlantic Avenue
EK. A. Wells
Enfield
3. G. Page
Newton
Levi Crockett
Union Rescue Mission aims to aid needy by meals and meetings
The Union Rescue Mission at Knee land street Boston led by a business board offers ten meal tickets for a one dollar donation sent to Superintendent William H. West. Donors may also give cast off men’s clothing. Visitors are welcome during the day and at nightly gospel meetings at 7:30.
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Union Rescue Mission
Kneeland Street
Boston
G. M. Fiske
Fiske, Coleman & Co
F. F. Davidson
Thomas Long & Co
O. Durell
Brown, Durell & Co
William H. West
West
Boston Aldermen Probe Public Institutions and Lottery Ads
City officials order investigations into management of public institutions run by the commissioners. Aldermen debate abolition of commissions, seek lottery ad controls, and approve transit and street projects. Mayor veto on civil service legislation stands. inquiries into leaking naphtha and hospital funding proceed.
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Board of Aldermen
City of
Boston
Alderman Flood
Alderman Leary
John H. Sullivan
The
Island Ward
Deer Island
Mr. Sullivan
Sullivan
Leary
Ciry
City Hay
General Court
Civil Service
Lam
N. Matthews, Jr
Pintsch Compressing Company
Boston Gas Company
Carter
Orry OF
Orry Hall
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Lee
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Lewis
Carney Hospital
Common Council
Law Department
Board of Street Commissioners
Sterling Street
Washington Street
Harrison Avenue
Hoxbury
Payson Avenue
Hancock Street
Glendale Street
Worchester
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Committee
Department of Public Grounds
Boston Common
City Council
Jeffries Street
Wood Island
Boylston Street
All About the Candle Burning Contest
A candle carved of bees wax stands stx feet high with a six inch butt and five and a half inch top diameter. Weighing fifty six pounds the candle will be lit at noon on March 1 with a three eighths inch wick and a three inch deep socket. Citizens submit estimates of burn time for prizes including trips to the World's Fair art exhibit.
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Feito
Governr
Russeil
Matthews
Boston College Athletic Club Planned by Local Leaders
Preliminary steps to form an athletic club at Boston College were taken at a meeting with several willing to hustle and organize. An executive committee of sixty prominent business and professional men will be appointed to organize the club, with the aim to perfect the organization by month’s end. A prominent young lawyer presided at the conference.
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Boston College Athletic Club
Boston College
McMinan Wins Pool Showdown Sets New Tourney Mark
McMinan defeated Barnes 756 to 6380 in a pool game last evening. He produced a grand run of 30 to break the tournament record of 28 held by Hogarty. Ingraham is slated to meet Hogarty tonight.
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McMinan
Barnes
Hogarty
Ingraham
Russian emigrant dies at city almshouse
Fart River February 1 reports Mrs. Mandell a Russian emigrant whose insanity caused much talk in the city died this evening at the city almshouse.
Boyd Is Governor as Court Rules Citizenship Clarified
The Supreme Court ruled Boyd a U S citizen entitled to Nebraska governor, reversing the Nebraska high court. It held collective naturalization via statehood, noted Boyd's father’s late naturalization, and established Boyd’s intent to be a citizen. Election figures: Boyd 71331, Richards 68878, Powers 70187. Trayer remained holdover.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Boyd
Nebraska
Justice Field
United States
Harlan, Gray and Brown
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Richards
Rep
Powers
Ind
John M. Tnayer
Bond Paid by Insurance Firm on Local Cashier
The Guarantee Company of North America paid today to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley railroad twenty thousand dollars, the bond on Sylvester Young, the railroad's defaulting cashier, in Louisvillor Kentucky on February 1, per Spector to the Post.
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Louisvinor, Ky
Guarantee Company of North America
Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Sylvester Young
Glendon of St John Flouts Flag Display at Princeton
The schooner Glendon from St John N B lies at her wharf without a flag after yesterday’s excitement with National Guardsmen over the British Jack at the masthead Captain Trowbridge shows indifference to the fuss and will not be compelled to fly the American ensign. Washington officials say no U S law requires foreign vessels to display colors though some ships register in foreign ports observe it as courtesy rather than a legal mandate.
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Princetort
Conn
St. John
N. B
Trowbridge
Washington
United States
trans-Atlantc
Foreign Register
Civil Court Listings in Supreme Judicial Court
A court report lists criminal cases argued in the Commonwealth’s Supreme Judicial Court and equity assignments before Justice Barker. Cases include Commonwealth vs McCauley Parks Cutter Abrahams Caponi Meserve Meserve and others with counsel noted. adjournment listed. plus equity dockets in Suffolk session with multiple named parties and corporations.
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Supreme Judicial Court
TAL Commonwealth
J. Fisip
C.J
Holmes, Knowlton
Suffolk, Is
Superior Court Suffolk First Session Judge Sherman list of cases
The record lists numerous cases before Judge Sherman in the first session of the Suffolk Superior Court, including Underwood v Haewell, Gray v Parke, Brown v same, Waters v same, Towile v Heath, Coe v Lenson, Patterson v Green, Lets v Boston, Bocas v West End, McGarty v same, and others. It notes a second session under Dewey with tort actions such as Kragg v Sam Sing and Krugg v Same, plus additional cases like Samuel Hockaday v Old Colony Railroad and William Hockaday v same, detailing damages sought and trial status. The entry documents multiple sessions, counsel for plaintiffs and defendants, and mentions suspended trials for jury view.
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Haewell
Gray
Parke
West
Brown
Same
Waters
Samne
Towile
Heath
Co E
Lenson
Ek Pti
Terriveeger
Hagers
Fitchburg
Jackson
Devine
Boston
Coolidge
Turner
Mc Sally
Jme
Clark
Marcus
House of Good Shep
Davis
Hall
Conrad
Smith
Drake
Ford
Dewey
Robert Kragg
Sam Sing
Elizabeth Krugg
R. F. Nimes
W. R. Trask
H. N. Shedon
Samuel H. Hockaday
Old Colony Railroad Company
William Hockaday
Milton Lower Mills
J. D. Long
W. D. Turner
J. H. Benton, Jr
Probate court lists wills admitted to probate and admins granted
In Suffolk on February 1, the probate court admitted the wills of Joseph Middleberg Elizabeth Clark William Wade Rebecca Salisbury Susan D Childs Mary Fitzgerald Anna Childs Merwin Elizabeth Withington Robert Williams Wood John F Hammond Mary Jane Gilman John O Sargent Mary Houghton William A Blenkinsop Patrick Barrett Thomas W Leslie John A Phipps Sarah G Henry Philena C Balch Helen A Brigham Eliza L Lawin Wilhelmina Arbogart Bridget Star and Eloise L Derby Admin with will annexed granted to Oliver Smith Administrations granted for Doris Schwaar Michael Lonergan Buckminster Brown Carrie Blake Joan S Corning Mary Connolly Anna Kelly James H Nelson Andreas O Rummele Mary W Shattuck Mary Tobin Margareta Mulier H Vincent Butler William H Harvey John A McInerney Margaret Connolly Nora Reynolds Charles A Keith Margaret Whalen Sampson Warren Oliver C Pearson
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Joseph Middleberg
Elizabeth Clark
William 5. Wade
Rebecca Salisbury
Susan D. Childs
Mary Fitzgerald
Anna Childs Merwin
Elizabeth Withington
Robert Williams Wood
John F. Hammond
Mary Jane Gilman
John O. Sargent
Mary Houghton
William A. Blenkinsop
Patrick Barrett
Thomas W. Leslie
John A. Phipps
Sarah G. Henry
Philena C. Balch
Helen A. Brigham
Eliza 5
Collision lawsuit from Cambridge Superior Court case list
In Middlesex Superior Court Cambridge on February 1, a tort action cites plaintiff Catherine Tucker and others against J. Hawker vs Spraker for an alleged team collision injuring plaintiff and wife. The docket includes cases Liver 6012 and Brooks v City of Somerville 16384 plus Pleister v Hopf and Goodwin v Pauli among others.
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Middlesex
Cambridge
J. Hawker
Spraker
Liver. Compt
Brooks
City of
Barr
Somerville
Pleister
Hopf
Goodwin
Pauli
Lindson K. Ast. Co
Vy. McQueen
Pell it to the Post in Boston gambling dens list sought
A reader asks for the location of pool rooms faro banks policy shops and lottery dens in Boston. The inquiry seeks a complete listing of venues and their addresses or directions. No explicit outcomes or actions are stated.
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Faro Bank
Boston
Bookmakers Arrested in Guttenburg Under Quiet Bail
Six bookmakers were quietly arrested at Guttenburg on February 1 by Special Officer Graham and deputies. They appeared before Justice Lockwood and were held on $500 bail each with J. C. Cart acting as bondsman.
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Guttenburg
New York
Graham
Justice Lockwood
J. C. Cart
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