Carr Not To Head Finance Commission
Governor Walsh will not name Charles L. Carr of the Finance Commission as chairman to succeed John A. Sullivan. He said he plans to go outside the body for a chairman, having considered only Republican Robert J. Bottomley of the Good Government Association for the post.
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Governor weighs candidates for city offices amid reform talk
The governor backs a qualified Democrat for a key city post while considering Corbett or Murphy for chairs. Rumors swirl about moving the law department head to the Finance Commission as Sullivan’s successor. Murphy has Lomasney backing. Walsh plans a major legislative message and a centralized, paid executive board with department heads as secretaries, following Ohio and Illinois models.
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Charlestown
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D alvarez bids farewell to hub in Carmen at Boston
Margarita d Alva rez, the great contralto, will appear in Carmen at the Boston Opera House Wednesday evening. Director Russell hopes to keep her for Boston’s season, but Russia contracts must be fulfilled first. A notable cast includes Alice Nielsen as Michaela and Lucien Muratore as Don Jose.
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Boston
Carmen
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Russia
Boston Opera Company
Paris
Boston Opera House
J. C. Fairchild
Women’s Suffrage Up Today in Senate Calendar
Washington february 8 administration leaders in Congress face immigration trust legislation Panama tolls policy and wilson aims. Tomorrow the constitutional amendment extending suffrage to women is first on the senate calendar. Senator Ashurst guides the measure but expects no vote due to pending discussions by several senators.
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Senate Calendar Signals Possible Suffrage Action
Senator Ashurst watches the calendar as a suffrage resolution may be taken up with no objections. A repeal of the Panama Canal toll exemption for coastwise ships is slated for next week. The bill to repeal faces Senate opposition but gains in House support, while immigration remains a top Congress matter.
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Senate moves to review literacy test after House pass
The Burnett bill with a restrictive literacy test has passed the House. A Senate committee has taken it up and will meet daily until it completes deliberations. A fight over the literacy test is certain, with a modification of restrictive provisions expected.
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BEGIN COPPER STRIKE PROBE IN MICHIGAN
In Hancock Michigan the Western Federation of Miners plan to present causes leading to the copper country conditions to the congressional investigating committee. O N Hilton senior counsel will lead the testimony this week for the strikers while mine owners await guidance and records. Hearings start tomorrow if Representative Joseph Howell arrives.
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Congressional Investigating Committee
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Western Federation of Miners
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Utah
Teacher of Nordica Dies in Sharon Massachusetts
Professor John O Neill musician, composer and critic dies at his South Pleasant street home in Sharon after retiring 15 years ago. Born March 15 1829 in Clonmel Ireland he studied at Dublin College of Music and in Italy He taught at the New England Conservatory of Music Boston and mentored Mme Lillian Nordica who visited the town recently to sing for her former teacher Funeral services set for Monday morning.
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Lillian Nordica
Put Ad in Paper to Avoid Bigamy in New York
Paul Noel of 454 Mott Avenue Bronx has adopted a unique method to avoid bigamy He announced in the paper that he is about to marry a second time though he is not sure his first wife is dead The notice is to give her if alive a chance to respond
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Paul Noel
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Dartmouth to stage The Misleading Lady farce in Hanover
Dartmouth College Undergraduate Dramatic Association will present a three act farce The Misleading Lady by Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard. After a Hanover tryout on Thursday the show travels to New York for performances on February 16 and 17. Noted playwrights are visiting to view the production.
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New York
Dartmouth College to stage new play with grand-scale props
Staged under the direction of William Harris a New York producer Dartmouth actors will perform using Fulton Theatre scenery in New York while Dartmouth also presents the play with its own college props on an ambitious scale. Costumes from Paris worth more than 1500 dollars will be used and Donald Richmond of Brockton Mass a freshman new to dramatics will play the leading lady role.
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Lincoln Day Celebration by Boston Progressives
The second annual Lincoln Day event by the Progressives of Greater Boston will occur Thursday evening at Faneuil Hall. Speakers include Daniel Cosgrove Joseph Walker George P Webster and Matthew Hale with Lauriston Ward presiding. Charles Sumner Bird cancels to speak in New York.
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Woman Shot by Husband Dies in Chelsea Home
Mrs Varstensh Topalian, 19, died at Frost Hospital after a week of injuries from a gunshot fired by her husband at their 213 Chestnut street Chelsea residence. Her husband Topalian died last Thursday night from a self-inflicted wound after shooting his wife and brother in a jealous rage.
Physician Horace Marion Dies in Limousine Incident
Dr. Horace Eugene Marion of 5 Sparhawk street Brighton, a veteran physician, Civil War surgeon, and prominent clubman, collapsed and died early last evening while riding in his limousine on Commonwealth avenue with his wife and a friend. Marion, 70, had practiced over 40 years in Greater Boston and showed no prior health signs.
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Dr Marion Civil War surgeon and Boston health official dies
The obituary notes Dr Marion served as a Civil War surgeon and director and surgeon in the Massachusetts National Guard, was a Boston school inspector, past grand warden of the Massachusetts Masons, Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School graduate, member of the State Board of Health Associates, and a prominent clubman. Survived by his wife, one son Gardiner, and a daughter Eva. resident of Brighton since January 1870.
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Aviator Ingold Sets Endurance Flight Record
In Munich on February 8 aviator Ingold flew 16 hours 20 minutes covering about 1050 miles without landing setting a new world endurance flight record.
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Ingold’s long flight from Mulhauser to Munich suburb
Ingold started at Mulhauser in Alsace and flew north then south to a Munich suburb. The prior record of 14 hours 7 minutes was set by Brunelinger at Johannisthal on Feb 3.
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Boston Man Hurt in Gasolene Explosion
Arthur J. Gleason of 312 Tremont Street was seriously burned about the face and hands in a gasolene tank explosion at Faircloughs boat yard located at Main and Pleasant streets in Winthrop late yesterday afternoon.
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