Senate splits loom over Turpie and Riddleberger
A Virginia observer predicts the Senate could be divided 88 to 38 if Riddleberger renounces his party ties after Daniels allies with a new colleague. The piece notes Turpie may be admitted with a brief contest and highlights malcontent Mitchell of Oregon and party friction affecting votes.
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Wassington
Sprcran
Senate
Indiana
Turpie
Edmunds
Fair
Nevada
Virginia
Riddleberger
Daniels
Mr. Riddleberger
Mitchell
Oregon
Hoar
Jicar
Senate's Whip Hand Tests House Over Appropriation Bills
Washington a feb 18 the senate presses to force the house to yield to amendments or risk an extra session for next fiscal year's funding. The house lags on appropriation bills while the senate plans to add to house appropriations at the last moment and threaten a conference with the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
House
Congress
Conference Committee
Navy Bill Deliberations Shape Senate Week Agenda
The Senate plans a busy week with Cameron and Hale bills on naval expansion, one for sea cruising vessels and the other for coast defense. Additional items include Tehuantepec and Nicaragua canal measures, Pacific railroads, river and harbor, and district business as leaders set priorities. The House will press appropriation bills, with several reports and conferences anticipated.
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Washieron
Senate
Cameron
Hale
Pike
New Hampshire
Appropriations Committee
Military Academy
District of Columbia
Agriculture
Friends of the Nicaragua
Pacific Railroads
MacPherson
Stanford
van Wyck
House
Logan
Senate Trade Dollar Bill Agreed by House
Washington Feb 13 The House yesterday approved the amendment to the Senate trade dollar bill, providing that the record was accepted and the measure moved forward.
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Senate
Wasuixeton
House
Senate advances naval bills and post office aid
In Washington on Feb 13 the Senate reported back two naval establishment bills with amendments and set them for Monday and an early day. A post office appropriation debate followed with the mails to South America funded by a $500,000 subsidy amendment passed 86 to 14, and the bill moved forward without further division.
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Washixcton
Senate
Cameron
Committee On Naval Affairs
Hale
Naval Committee
Post Office
South America
Trestle Completed and Rail Traffic Restored on Central Vermont
The Hartford section of the Central Vermont line completed a new bridge over the White River and resumed traffic early Monday. Through passenger trains return to the old route after a week of detours caused by a Woodstock bridge fire. The railway reported high Montreal-bound passenger totals during carnival week as transfers continued. In Waitt River Junction another identification was made for Peter Blais of Warren Massachusetts, who will be cared for by W. A. Putnam and go home tomorrow.
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St. Arpans
Central Vermont
Hartford
White River
Woodstock
Wells River
Vermont
Montreal
Waitt River Junction
Peter Blais
Warren
Mass
W. A. Putnam
Knights of Labor Shoe Operatives Accept Board Figures
Lynn Feb 18 The executive boards of several Knights of Labor shoe operatives assemblies voted to accept the State board of arbitration report on Francis W Breed and his employees. The price list is intended for all makers of cheaper shoe grades though heelers say the National heeling machine rates are unfair. Most observers find the board's decision just, based on facts and statistics. Charles D Hollis told his workers he would adopt the recommended prices on Monday.
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Lynn
Specian
Assemblies of Knights of Labor
Heelers’ Hall
State Board of Arbitration
Francis W. Breed
Charles D. Hollis
State Board
Secular and Religious Press Clash Over Andover Seminary Issue
A Boston Post reader critiques religious papers for bias in the Andover Seminary dispute and Ameri can Board coverage. He argues secular papers show wider openness to liberal views while religious papers defend conservative stances, urging fair access to dissenting opinions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Andover Seminary
Jesus
Children of Light
Boston
Watchman
Doctor Endorses Horsford's Acid Phosphate For Indigestion
Dr Gro W HALL of St Louis reports taking Horsford's Acid Phosphate for indigestion and finding it of decided advantage.
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Horsford
Gro. W. Hall
St. Louis
Canadian Toboggan: Pleasure and Peril from Montreal Slides
The piece contrasts New England tobogganing with Canadian practice in Montreal. It describes steep chutes, icy runways, and high speeds that reach about 125 miles per hour, with rich scenes of riders and steers. It notes the danger, injuries, and the thrill that draws novices toward continued riding.
Business Troubles Prompt Mass of Creditors
W. B. Carter cloak maker of Boston has assigned with liabilities of 32000 and assets about 17500. J. J. Currier of Gloucester offers 50 cents on the dollar. Henry Berger of Lynn may compromise at 5 cents. Ira H. Ames of Boston is insolvent. Allen Bros. upholstery and paper hangings have failed. Cause is mortgage foreclosure for 16500 on stock. Salem Telegram Publishing Co. has called a creditors meeting and formed a settlement committee. Additional assignments listed include firms and individuals in Halifax Dartmouth Wheeling Oneida Buffalo Auburn Chanute Crookston Chicago Orion and more.
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B. Carter
Boston
J. J. Currier
Gloucester
Henry Berger
Tanner
Lynn
Ira H. Ames
Allen Bros
Salem Telegram Publishing Company
Salem
James Harrison & Co
Halifax
N. S
H. H. Harrison
Dartmouth
O. D. Kistner
Wheeling
W. Va
J. J. Payne
Oneida
N. Y
J. M. Coleman
Buffalo
B. E. Tyler
Auburn
Wingate & Barton
Chanute
Kan
Fred. Behlener
Crookston
Minn
Earnhardt & Hunt
Chicago
John McEwen
Orion
Ill
Concert review of Boston Symphony Orchestra program
The Boston program featured Haydn, Mendelssohn, Reinhold, and Wagner with Babcock as soloist. Critics praised the orchestral precision and Reinhold suite, but faulted Babcock’s arias and Wagner's misread drama, noting the unusual order altered expectations and next week’s lineup includes Tannhäuser themes and Mendelssohn pieces.
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Mendelssohn
E. Reinhold
Haydn
Gericke
Babcock
Fanny Bloomfield Seisler
Reinhold
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wagner
Camacho
Schumann
F. A. Geaert
Tannheuser
D. M. Babcock
Mackenzie
Beethoven
Boston Civil Service Opens City Work Registration
Boston civil service commissioners announce public registration for city work begins Tuesday February 15 at 9 am in the labor office basement of 6 Pemberton Square. Applicants must be U.S. citizens resident in Boston at least one year and provide two reputable citizen signatures. Honorably discharged war veterans and previous labor service workers may register later in the year. Registration ends after 400 names are filed.
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Civil Service Commissioners
Boston
No. 6
Pemberton Square
United States
Patrick Mooney
Dedham
Norfolk
Boston Post
Grerce Waitt
Esquire
Jonathan Cobb
Register
Boston Theatres Evening Schedules Open Nights
Boston Opera Company performs Lohengrin at the National Opera, Boucicault’s Fin Mac Cool at Hollis Street, Enemy featured at the Museum, MecCaull Opera Comique in Lorraine at Globe, Hoodman Blind at Park, The Ivy Leaf at Ard Atheneum, and Young Mrs Winthrop showing at Theatre Riov with matinee and evening times listed.
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Boston Theatre-N National Opera Company
ARD Atheneum
Ivy Leaf
Riov Theatre
Grapes and Chestnuts Horatio Harris 12 Months
Horatio Harris is noted for grapes and chestnuts on Tuesday and oranges on Tuesday as a 12 month entry.
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Horatio Harris
Wadsworth Weds Hews in Hopkinton Boston Match
In this city on February 9 the Rev. O P Gifford presided as Nathan F Wadsworth of Hopkinton wed Jennie P Hews of Boston.
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Wadsworth—Hews
O. P. Gifford
Nathan. F. Wadsworth
Hopkinton
Jennie P. Hews
Boston
Obituaries Record From Concord to Watertown Dead Listed
Obituary notices across Massachusetts dated Feb 9 to Feb 13 list Richard Barrett 68 Cambridge Fannie Barrington 27 Cambridgeport Joanna Bartlett 71 Marblehead Samuel R Bickner 79 Dedham Fara Dyer M D at sea Newport Josephs Edwards 82 Boston area Richard Harrison 60 South Boston Zelenda Holt 61 South Boston Mary Mann 50 Jamaica Plain Catherine Pray 90 Boston Highlands Silas Quincy 84 West Newton Abby Richmond 85 Taunton Lydia Small 95 Watertown dies notes last names and ages with service details and burial mentions.
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Jamaica Plain
Forest Hills
Buriel Et
Providence
Pray
Boston Highlands
Catherine Lander
Lewis G. Pray
Quincy
West Newton
Silas A. Quincy
Boston
Richmond
Taunton
Abby Crocker Richmond
Small
Watertown
Lydia W. Small
Harvard Board of Overseers Special Meeting Notice
A special meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College will be held at No. 50 Stile Street Boston on Thursday February 17 at 11 oclock a m to act upon communications from the President and Fellows and to transact any other business. Alexander McKenzie Secretary Cambridge Feb 10 1837 Blair's Pills Great English Gout and Rheumatic Remedy Oval bus 4 rows Lops Atal druggists.
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Harvard College
Blair
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Boston
Committee On Railroads
New London Northern Railroad Company
South Amherst
Board of Railroad Commissioners
State House
Massachiu
Middlesex
Newton
George M. Brooks
Aegis
Henry J. Allen
Walterb. Allen
Copartners
Allen Brothers
Cambridge
Samuel W. Tucker
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Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate Business
America
New England
Canada
Mt. Royal
John F. Andrew
P.O. Box
NEW Publications
Roberts Brothers, New Books
Franklin
France
Epward E. Hare
Epward E. Hare, Jr
van Loo
Chapman
de Carmontelle
J. B. Nini
Benjamin Franklin
Wm. Temple Franklin
St. James
Henry Stevens
Honore Ov Banzac
Sondra Belloni
Rhoda Fleming
NEW Law Books
Taylor
Henry F. Buswell
Soo
Br Henry Campbell Black
Little, Brown & Co., Publishers
Washington Street
South Boston Railroad
Broadway
South
Chas. H. Hersey
B. C
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
The
National Opera Company
Theodore Thomas
Charles E. Locke
Lohengrin
Emma Juch
Cornelia van Zanten
Myron W. Whitney
William Candidus
William Ludwig
Alonzo Stoddard
Martha
Flying Dutchman
Aida
Faust
Walpurgis
Corps de Ballet
Margaret Mather
Hollis ST
Isaac B. Rich
MR. Dion Boucicault
Skibbereen
Globe Theatre
John Stetson
Insurance
State Street
Isue
State St
Kilby
Great Britain
R. H. Eddy
Eddy
Chas. Mason
Patent Office
Edmund Burke
Patents
New York
Philadelphia
Yours Truly, George Draper
Edward M. Brewer
T. Quincy Browne
T. Jefferson Coos
Joan W. Cumings
Andrew Cutting
George
Dabney Jouhn S. Emerry
Callas
F. Fairbanks
Osborn Howis
AutoHees
H. Hardy
Josefh A. Tasiat
Albert Lewis
Wrehen
Baring Bros. & Co
London
William Perkins
Charles F. Perry
Wie Lor
William A. Rust
Howard Stockton
J. Wipnry Sears
Cyres Wakefield
Aanon D. Weld, JR
Stephen M. Weld
Chas
F. Wyman
Goodwin Whitney
Geo. L. Deblois
Boston Museum
R. M. Field
William Gillett
Joseph Haworth
Frank W. Sanger
Howard Athenaum
Bijou Theatre
Young
Winthrop
Prof
Carl Baermann
M. Steinert & Sons
Charles Waldstein
Fitzwilliam Museum
University of Cambridge
England
Worman’s Education Association
Chickering Hall
Chickering Rooms
Tremont Street
Commernwealth
Massachusetts
State Hovst
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Line Railroad Company
Henry Gould
Committee On
Glines
Harrison E. Morton
Commonweath
Edward Glines
Harrison ER. Morton
Cape Cod Ship Canal
Green Room
Eben J. Milliken
L. Dovge
Strate House
Committee On Agriculture
Strate Horst
Joint Committee of the Judiciary
Harris C. Hartwell
Cuas
C. Spellman
Boston Water Board
Chestnut Hill
Office of
City Hall
Water Board
Cary Sd
E. W. Tyler
YOM Monwealthe
Luke Mooney
Brookline
Said County
Johanna O. Sullivan
Suffolk
Imuae
Bic
John O. Sullivan
Soston
Edward H. Sanderson
San Francisco
California
David W. Emery
Massachus
Setts
Murphy & CO
County of Suffolk
Olney T. Meader
Tadies
Chichester
Chichester Chemical Coq
Penn
Joan Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire St
Coffin & Henry
OWA
Iowa
Des Moines
Fenancearl
Savings Bank
John Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire Street
Winterset
Madison County
Business Directory
QAPES
Amon Safe and Iron Works Co
Sudbury St
BAY Spate Electrotype Foundry
Arch St
Paine’s Manufactory
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Faneuil Hall
J. ii. Ashton
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