Unemployed Demand Work Shocks Pittsburg
In Pittsburg on February 5 the unemployed storm City Hall as about 8000 men seek immediate work. The civil service commission issued 6000 application blanks and a rush order for 6000 more was sent to printers. An ordinance allocating 220000 for public improvements aims to employ the idle, with family status and hours considerations planned to maximize relief.
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Pittsburg
Penn
City
Civil Service Commission
Warner's Safe Cure Advertises Kidney Disease Cure
A Boston Daily Post advertisement touts Warner's Safe Cure for kidney liver and bladder diseases. It highlights a Baltimore woman’s five year illness and recovery after using the cure and promises trial bottles free with the publisher’s guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Arner
Safe Cure, CO
Rochester
N. Y
Boston Daily Post
Boston Hippodrome and Opera House Planned for 1909
Albert R. Rogers of the Boston Hippodrome Company envisions a $5,000,000 complex on Park Square site with a 10,000 seat hippodrome and a 5,000 seat opera house facing each other. Plans include a revolving stage and a large circus, ballet, and chariot events, opening spring 1909 with weekly expenses around $3,500 and receipts about $5,000. Oscar Hammerstein linked to lease rumors. site choice and approvals are pending.
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Boston
London
Paris
Park Square
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Hippodrome
Opera House
Albert R. Rogers
Boston Hippodrome Company
Oscar Hammerstein
Rogers
Hammerstein
Ariel
Floor
Jim Key
American Humane Society
Mechanics’ Building
Richard Lindsay Famous Boston Orchestra Leader Dies
Richard Lindsay, longtime Boston area musician and orchestra leader, died at his mother’s home on 7 Cedar Avenue in Jamaica Plain. He had been cared for by a physician and nurse in his final days and was once prominent as a conductor with several notable orchestras and a collaborator with Richard Carle.
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Richard Lindsay
M. B. Lindsay
Cedar Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Lindsay
Boston
Richard Carle
Coldest readings in two years hit region towns
Great Barrington reports eighteen below zero at Taft Observatory in Egremont marking the coldest spell in two years. West Stockbridge measured 24 below, while Egremont and Alford saw 22 and 23 below respectively.
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Great Barrington
R. ©. Taft
Egremont
West Stockbridge
Alford
Record Day at the Port as Six Foreign Ships Land Merchandize
Six foreign steamships arrived at the local harbor amid a record one day valuation, carrying cargoes worth over 5 million dollars. Vessels included the Bucknall line Queen Alexandra from Calcutta, the Hansa Lichtenfels, and the Swedish Norman with 2700 tons sugar for the American Sugar Refinery. The Indrasamaha and others endured severe seas and cold, with crew deaths and damage reported, while other ships brought rattans and hemp for Boston and New York.
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Lichtenfels
Norman
Uncle Sam
Bucknall Line
Queen Alexandra
R. Leslie
Calcutta
Algiers
Leslie
New York
Cuba
Indrasamaha
Evans
Mystic Docks
Japan
China
Philippines
Boston
United States
95 Days On Voyage From St John To Boston
The St John woodboat Temperance Bell under Captain Wilcox arrived after a remarkable 95 day voyage from St John N B to Boston. She carried 64 467 feet of spruce boards and 350 000 shingles for Stetson Cutler Co to Neponset. Ice in the Neponset and nearby rivers may delay discharge until spring. Built at Johnston N B in 1870 the 91 gross ton vessel visited many Maine ports en route.
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St. John
Temperance Bell
Wilcox
N. B
Stetson, Cutler & Co
Neponset
Maine
Johnston
Wagner-Focused Benefit Concert In Symphony Hall
The second pension fund concert of the season occurs tonight at 8 in Symphony Hall with a Wagner program. Madame Schumann-Heink donates her services and flies from Pittsburgh to attend. Mile. Gerville-Reache performs Eurydice aria from Orpheus and Eurydice, a piece she favors and has sung in Paris Brussels and London.
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Pension Fund
Symphony Hall
Wagner
Madame Schumann-Heink
Pittsburg
Mile. Gerville- Reache
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Eurydice
Gluck
Orpheus and
Orpheus
Opera Comique
Paris
Brussels
London
Nine midtown printing plant workers dropped from payroll
Acting Superintendent Laurence Minot of the municipal printing plant discharged nine compositors and a copyholder for lack of work. Names include Patrick J. Norton Henry B. Jordan Joseph M. Kennedy William F. Kenefick Catherine G. Tierney Mary M. Brennan Dennis J. Murphy Richard J. Barry Emanuel J. De Freitas with varied appointment dates and wages. Founder's Day marks Dwight L Moody birthday with organ dedication and bequests to Mt Hermon School and Northfield Seminary.
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Laurence Minot
Patrick J. Norton
Byron Street
Henry B. Jordan
Puritan Avenue
Joseph M. Kennedy
Pleasant Street
William F. Kenefick
Bradbury
Catherine G. Tierney
Moulton Street
Mary M. Brennan
Winthrop Street
Dennis J. Murphy
Ottawa Street
Richard J. Barry
Nazro Street
Emanuel J. de Freitas
Q Street
Northfield
Dwight L. Moody
Mr. Moody
Congregational Church
Elizabeth Billings
New York
Frederick Billings
Woodstock
Northern Pacific Railroad
F. D.whitney
Boston
Moody Educational Institutions
Mt. Hermon School For
Northfield Seminary
Alice Byington
Stockbridge
Mt. Hermon School
Rhoades
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Chas. Rose
McCulloch St
Baltimore
Reat
Berkshire
Hansa Line
Frerichs
ST. John, N. B
Mme. Gerville-Reache
MA LC
Lam Elia ET Ael
Melea
Pauise
Minot
Chase & Sanborn
Spichs
Iacproriteriss
Esnex
Trunyat Co
Columbus Ave
Rox
Central Sq
East Boston
Mass. Ave
Cambridge
Everett
Main St
Malden
Tobaggo
Rogers Ding and Chemical Co
Fifth and Race Sts
Cincinnati
Ohio
Boston Clinic, Inc
Tremont St
AH Druggists
Aurmino
4Th St
Jaynes
Leo Court
Hugh J. Tur- Paes
Daniel Sates
Commercial Street
Stephen
Susan A
John Young
Pam Ram
Mithareban
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