Labors Bureau Reappoints Colonel Carroll D Wright Commissioner
The Labor Bureau reappoints Colonel Carroll D Wright as United States commissioner of labor. A Massachusetts native, Wright led the bureau of statistics of labor in the Commonwealth and has guided the national commission with proven capacity and prudent leadership since its creation in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll D. Wright
United States Commissioner of Labor
Colonel Wright
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Washington
Wright
Representation of the Minority in Massachusetts Legislature
The piece argues minority representation is needed to curb gerrymandering and ensure fair voting power, noting the dominance of a single party. It urges charter provisions for free transfers and arbitration of labor disputes in new elevated rail bills to protect workers, the public, and corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Senate
House
City of
Boston
Gas Inspection Urged to Cut Boston Gas Fatalities
Testimony before a legislative committee on manufactures supports a city wide gas fixture inspection system in Boston and for buildings using water gas. Boston Gas Fitters Union President O Neil backs the plan as beneficial to workers, employers, and the public, while acknowledging it cannot prevent all suicides or careless acts. Owners of rental houses should arrange annual inspection and repair of gas fixtures and piping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legislative Committee
Boston
O’neil
Boston Gas Fitters’ Union
A Real Queen Claims Hawaii No Abdication
The article argues two years after Hawaii’s republic was formed that Liliuokalani did not abdicate and remains the true Queen. It suggests she signed the act under duress and criticizes Harrison’s pension proposal, noting revolutions hinge on deed over formalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic of Hawaii
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Harrison
L. Dominis
The Modern Diplomat and a Week of Arbitration Talks
The New York World features a week of diverse arbitration voices including a Bismarck interview, King Oscar of Sweden, General Gomez on Cuba, General Campos in Spain, Cleveland on Scovel, and a bishops telegraph symposium urging an arbitration treaty. This collection underscores a global push toward peaceful dispute resolution.
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New York World
Bismarck
King Oscar
Sweden
General Gomez
Cuba
General Campos
Spain
Cleveland
Scovel
Publicity as Modern Diplomacy in World News
A critique lauds newspapers for pacifying international tension by rapid cablegrams from royal and political leaders. It argues that publicity can achieve in a day what slow diplomacy cannot in years, presenting newspapers as a powerful diplomatic tool.
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Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Gladstone
Rosebery
Great Britain
Free transfers in Boston street railways debated again
Evidence supports free transfers as in other cities with public benefit and corporate approval. The public’s demand mirrors last year with voters showing preference for legislative action. A lighthearted city scene and a Brattleboro philanthropist visit punctuate the long discussion.
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Legislative Committee On
Boston
Amatory notes and odd tales in a Valentine week
The Observant Citizen notes Valentine Day comedies and varied tokens from felt hearts to pussie willows. It cites a Holyoke car line spitting ban and maintains a light tone as readers age toward spring amid ghostly tales cured by an oculist in Australia and visions of dead customers in Berlin.
A Lovers Valentine Poem For A Boston Post Reader
A sentimental poem of courtship and affection praising Valentine wishes. It speaks of love’s bliss and a simple token to a maiden, hinting at a kiss and the joy of the lover’s day. The verse emphasizes tender sentiment and intimate affection between lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Kate Marshall and the Confederate Border Encounter
In Virginia during the Civil War era a teen heroine named Kate Marshall shields her dog Bernard from a Federal rider at a stream. She intervenes as the horseman aims a pistol, risking danger to save the animal and disrupt a tense roadside encounter on the borderlands.
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Virginia
Army
Mosby
Kate Marshall
Kate
Dixie
Bernard
The Woods Walk and the Ivory Bound Prayer Book
A Union soldier guides a lost rider toward Fairfax Court House while warning against Anderson's in Mosby territory. Later Lt Oscar Selden meets Miss Marshall of Virginia, who returns his ivory prayer book and recalls their woods meeting. The tale ends with reconciliation and a final note of Union victory.
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Bernard
Harry Anderson
Anderson
Mosby
Fairfax Court House
Anderson’s
Anderson’s. Mosby
Oscar Selden
Ebbitt House
Washington
Libby
Virginia
Chelsea writer thanks Post for prize and praise
A reader from Chelsea thanks the Post for a $10 prize, praising the paper for concise Sunday content. EVA A. CASSELL notes her family prefers the paper for easy reading and thanks the editors for supporting local talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva A. Cassell
Fitz Terrace
Chelsea
Letter to the Post on Irwin Rourke free transfer dispute
D W Finn defends Representative Rourke against Senator Irwin over the free transfer bill. Finn cites Senate journal entries from 1896 showing Irwin absent on June 1 and 2 and voting against the bill on June 8 and against reconsideration on June 9, arguing Irwin favors monopoly over public welfare. Finn urges Northampton to prefer a representative more concerned with all people.
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Post
Sir
Boston
Representative Rourke
Senator Irwin
Irwin
Journal of the
Senate
West End
Northampton
State House
People’s
D. W. Finn
Norton Dante Lectures Planned for Prospect Union
A six session course on Dante's Life and Work will be taught by Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard at Cambridgeport starting Feb 15 at 3 30 PM. Topics cover The Functions of Poetry Dante and His New Life The Divine Comedy Hell Purgatory Paradise. Tickets priced at $1 single, or full course tickets at a set price, available from local ladies and at Prospect Union and several bookstores in Cambridgeport and Boston.
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Prospect Union
Cambridgeport
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard University
Italy
Dante
Hell
Paradise
Louis Agassiz
Alice M. Longfellow
Ole Bull
Charles W. Eliot
F. G. Peabody
George H. Palmer
Agnes Irwin
Mary Allen
Cambridge
Henry Whitman
John C. Phillips
W. 8. Fitz
S. B. Pearmain
Margaret Deland
Glendower Evans
Mary Morton Kehew
Boston
Massachusetts Avenue
Old Corner
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Thurston’s
Harvard Square
Gilbert Stuart School Dedication in Dorchester February Ceremony
The Gilbert Stuart School dedication in Dorchester takes place February 22 at 2 PM with a program including invocations by Rev. F B Mott, remarks by Henry D Huggan, E M Lancaster, Frank T Rob inson, Ross Turner, Emily A Fifield, Edwin B Seaver, and songs such as Alpine Shepherd Lovely Appear March of the Guard and America.
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Gilbert Stuart
Dorchester
F. B. Mott
Third Religious Society
Henry D. Huggan
Boston School Board
E. M. Lancaster
Gilbert Stuart School
Frank T. Robinson
Gilbert Stuart Association
Boston
Ross Turner
Boston Art Club
Emily A. Fifield
Ninth Division
March of the Guard
Edwin B. Seaver
America
Personalities and fashions in the news of the day
Notes on long distance bicycle rider Mrs Rinehart and her transcontinental relay and century rides. Hobart’s $5000 Rutgers gift and 1863 Rutgers graduate status. St Paul Claver’s patronage for missions to enslaved peoples. Michigan Governor Pingree on Washington's Birthday sentiments. Altha Briggs Stryker as Populist rival to Mrs Lease. Fin de siecle bath robes and home sewing guidance for businesswomen with eiderdown and Turkish toweling styles. The Latest.
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Pingree
Michigan
Washington
Altha Briggs-Stryker
Kansas
Lease
Breakfast and dinner menus with veal recipe notes
Daily table hints list breakfast items rolled oats sugar and cream broiled steak mashed potatoes brown bread butter coffee dinner features roast stuffed veal glazed potatoes spinach shapes open peach tart bread butter black coffee supper includes cold sliced veal potato salad bread and butter cocoanut cake preserved peaches tea glazed potatoes and a veal roasting tip with spinach egg cups and peach tart assembly. Mrs Irene Jennings Brown avenue South Manchester NH.
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Irene Jennings
Brown Avenue
South
Manchester
N. H
Tremont Temple Sunday Services and Church Listings
Boston churches announce Sunday services across Tremont Temple Old South Church Pro vClubs and many denominations including Baptist Unitarian and Presbyterian. Programs include sermons by Lorimer Mabie Barnes and Brady with revival meetings and Sunday school sessions.
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Presbyterian
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Warren
Woodbine
Moody
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Dorchester St
South Boston
Charles J. Cameron
Newbury and
Exeter
P. L. O. A. Keeler
W. J. Colville
Boston
Berkeley Hall
Berkeley Street
George D. Fuller
Worcester
Mass
May S. Pepper
Lyceum
Minnie M. Soule
The
Gospel of Spirit Return Society
Appleton Hall
Appleton Street
Paine Memorial
Ena
Financial Matters Talked at the Annual Inn He Asserts Position
A public gathering this year focused on financial policy and state banking concerns. The speaker asserted his stance on state bank issues, outlining views on regulation and lending practices. He urged prudent oversight and emphasized stability for local businesses and residents.
Lincoln Birthday Dinner at Massachusetts Reform Club Noted Guests
A well attended Reform Club dinner at Young's honored Lincoln's birthday. Edwin B. Haskell presided as Charlies N. Fowler of New Jersey spoke on currency reform. Lamb Taussig and others reviewed Indianapolis convention outcomes and debated gold standard reform.
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Massachusetts Reform Club
Young
Lincoln
Edwin B. Haskell
Charlies N. Fowler
New Jersey
Henry W. Lamb
F. W. Taussig
Indianapolis
Cummings
Charles C. Jackson
Charles A. Conant
Washington Commercial Bulletin
Walter H. Page
Gamaliel Bradford
John E. Russell
Haskell
Abraham Lincoln
Congressman Fowler
United States
United States Treasury
Treasury
Treasury of
Taussig
John KE. Russell
Democratic Party
Grover Cleveland
Gulf
Inez
Bank of
Wauregon
Ill
Russell
Massachusetts
New England
Gage
Sherman
General Darius N. Couch Dies at Norwalk at 72
General Darius Nash Couch died shortly after 10 tonight in Norwalk Connecticut. He was born in Putnam County New York and rose to colonel of the Seventh Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861. He served with the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville before resigning after the war. He later ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts and served briefly as Boston’s collector from 1868 to 1869 when Senate confirmation failed.
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Darius Nash Couch
Putnam County
New York
Massachusetts Volunteers
Army of the Potomac
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Couch
Massachusetts
Boston
Senate
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South America
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Berlin
Sir Valentine
Valentines
Samuel Dunlop
East Brookline Street
UNION
Alice M. Gardner
Midway Mills
Nelson, Va
Ancier’s
Etroleum
NVA
Yaxing
Royal Baking Powder CO
Porris Dave and
Chem. Corr
Bobe
Norton
Mrs. Rinehart
Hobart
Rutgers College
Rutgers
St. Peter Claver
Leo XIII
Tremont Temple
Sebbath Home
George C. Lorimer
D. D
Horace F. Barnes
Miner R. Deming
H. C. Mabie
Dr. Lorimer
John Beer
Jefferson
Lorimer Hall
Lorimer
H. F. Barnes
B. N. B. S. S. Teachers’ Convention
OLD South Church
Third Church
N. H. Whittlesay
New Haven
Methodist
Columbus Avenue
James Boyd Brady
George F. Washburn
Unitarian
Parker Mepmortal
Berkeley
Appleton Streets
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
the Times
John Duckson
Eliot Hubbard
Miss van Vieck
Howard M. Dow
B. Y. M. Christian Union
Smart
Babylon
Howell
Israel
Dudley Buck
Marston
George Mendall Taylor
Music Hall
Republic
H. Bowman
San Francisco
George B. Cutter
People’s Temple
Corbett
Christadelphians
Arcade Hall
Park Square
Sarah and
Hagar
Bond Woman
Christian Science
Woman's Journal
Park St
Clara E. Choate
Christ Ministry of Healing
Hospitaller
Sunday Institute
Washington Street
Mth. Cullis
B. B. of G. Club
Stoddard
Smith College
All Physicians
Theo. Metcalf CO
John Russell
Fowler
N. J
General Couch
Norwalk
Conn
Darius N. Couch
Stephen B. Simons
Wellesley
A. B. Vorse
Wellesley Hills
Herbert Johnson
Frank F. Hodges
Mr. Simons
Charleston
D. C
Indiana
Vesuvius
Charleston Bar
Newark
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