Cambridge Aldermen Override Mayor on City Hall Site and Land Extension
Cambridge aldermen voted 9 to 1 to extend Charles River street over the mayor's veto and approved 94000 for land purchase for a new City Hall site. They awarded 400 to Li M Hannum for site selection and raised probation officer F W Hagar's salary from 800 to 1000. An order to take land for Washington avenue to Lambert avenue was issued. The licenses committee found druggists' license violations technical and took no further action. Council business was concurrent.
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Cambridge
Charles River Street
City Hall
Li Mhannum
F. W. Hagar
Washington Avenue
Lambert Avenue
Common Council
Trustees sue over Andover theology trust and Visitors
The Phillips Academy Board of Trustees files a bill in the Essex County Supreme Judicial Court seeking a ruling on visitation and authority over the theological foundations and professorships. The suit targets the Attorney General and the Theological Institution’s Visitors, alleging improper conduct, voting irregularities, and jurisdictional conflicts affecting the academy’s governance and funds.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Essex County
Phillips Academy
Commonwealth
Theological Institution
Messrs. Seelye
Eustis
Marshall
Board of Visitors
Messrs
Wellman
Dexter
D. T. Fiske
D.D
Robert R. Bishop
James G. Vose
W. H. Willcox
Alpheus H. Hardy
Andover
Samuel and
John Phillips
Massachusetts Bay
Phebe Phillips
John Phillips the Younger
Samuel Abbot
Westminster Assembly
Theological Seminary
Moses Brown
William Bartlet
John Norris
Associate
General Court
Smith
Sophia Smith
Frederic Jones
Jones
Valeria G. Stone
Seid Foundation
Smyth
Tucker
Harris
Hincks
Churchill
Said Theological Seminary
Joshua W. Wellman
Henry M. Dexter
O.T. Lanphear
J.J. Blaisdell
Julius H
Boston
Tucker, Churchill
Harrison Hincks
Seelye
Theological Foundations
Jones Professorship of Elocution
Churchill, Tucker
Churchill, Tucker, Harris and
D.T. Fiske
John C. Gray
Thomas H. Russell
Bosworth and
Barrows
School Board Accepts Crowley Resignation and Announces Appointments
The regular session accepted the resignation of John C. Crowley from the school committee and ordered joint action with the aldermen to fill the vacancy. Harvey N. Collison was confirmed, with nominations for multiple assistant and fourth assistant positions across Adams Bennet Stoughton and other districts. The board referred building repairs, manual training study, and schoolhouse remodel orders to appropriate committees and extended evening school sessions to March. Estimates for the next fiscal year show salaries totaling 1 615 858 dollars, with income projections and costs for textbooks, fuel, and janitorial work.
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John C. Crowley
Charles H. Wilson
Adams School
Sarah M.taylor
Bennett
Ellen F. A. Hagerty
Hugh O'Brien
M. Louise Foster
Hugh O’brien
Mary W. Currier
Kate MM. Groll
Lewis
Gertrude Cushing
Emily Hi. Sanderson
Adams
Eva L. Monroe
Dwight
Mary Kk. O’brien
Abby M. Thompson
Hyde
Joseph ¥.Bergen, Jr
Mary B. Chaloner
Sherwin
Clara A. Brown
Stoughton
Ida T. Weeks
Tileston
Lucy G. M. Card
Dudley
Nellie G. M. McElwain
Common Council
Minot
Harvard
Mansfield Considers London Season With Jekyll and Hyde
Richard Mansfield may take his HOY production to London for September to November at the Lyceum Theatre. Henry Irving confirmed the offer, with Mansfield undecided, and a strong American company planned for the tour.
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Richard Mansfield
London
Mr. Hyde
Henry Irving
Lyceum Theatre
Irving
Mansfield
Mr. Mansfield
Mary Anderson
Genevieve Ward
Lyceum
Booth
England
America
E. D. Price
Dr. Jeky
Mr. Irving
A Very Old Corner of Boston Described in Old Days
The Bostonian Society held a meeting at the Old State House with James F Hunnewell presenting a vivid account of early Boston from Dock Square to the Great House. He traced 1629 settlement, earliest worship, and the first State House with tavern life, laws on innkeeping, and a burned 1775 fate, noting notable residents and historic artifacts.
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Bostonian Society
Old State House
James F. Bannewell
Boston
Curtis Guild
George W. Armstrong
James R. Stanwood
Charles H. Taylor
Daniel Webster King
John C. Howe
Dexter N. Richards
Eben Alexander
John H. Buckley
John D. Worster
John D. Williams
State Street
Hunnewell
Dock Square
Haymarket Square
Charles River
Ralph
Richard
William Sprague
John Sagamore
Thomas Graves
Massachusetts Company
Charlestown
Bay
Prudence Wilkinson
Samuel Carter
Robert Miriam
Thomas Brigdon
Hoosac
London
Anothe
Charlestown Square
Robert Long
Three Cranes
William H. Whitmore
Samuel Henley
Peter Thacher
Milton
Mass
Thomas Planner
Peter
Lake Mary P. O
Florida
John Ancock
Paul Kevere
National Law and Order League Holds Sixth Annual Meeting
The sixth annual meeting of the Citizens Law and Order League of the United States will convene in Philadelphia on the 21st and 22nd. The national executive committee meets at Hotel Lafayette at 10 a.m. on the 21st, with sessions and public meetings at Association Hall and the Academy of Music featuring Charles Bonney, Evarts, Colquitt, and other speakers. L Edwin Dudley of Boston will report on the year’s work, with invitations to all allied leagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Law and Order League
Citizens’ Law and Order League of the
United States
Philadelphia
Lafayette
League
Association Hall
Academy of Music
Charles ©. Bonney
Evarts
Colquitt
Byron M. Cutcheon
Congress
Merrill R. Gates
Sneer College
Francis Wayland
Yale College
Lyman Abbott
New York
Public meeting on prohibition to be held at Tremont Temple
Boston notes report a 7 45 p m public meeting of the Boston Woman s Christian Temperance Union in Tremont Temple with Mrs Mary T Lathrop president of the Michigan W C T U speaking on Prohibition versus License Also listed are local police reprimand and church talks during Lent plus trains schedules and funerals across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Tremont Temple
Mary T. Lathrop
Michigan Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Thomas L. Hayes
Board of Police
Valentine program at Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union hosted a St Valentine’s Day gathering with Edwin D. Mead’s lecture on Kant and Spinoza. Mrs. Hazeltine read a war essay, Mrs. Woolson and Mrs. Porter performed, and Mrs. De Witt from New York provided a standout reading followed by music by Mme Strong and Professor Turner.
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St. Valentine
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Edwin D. Mead
Pilate
Spinoza
Kant
M. F. Walling
M. M. Cunniff Hosts Democratic Dinner at Parker House
A Boston dinner honored members of the fourth councillor Democratic district committee and the Democratic city committee. Attendees included M. M. Cunniff Patrick Maguire L. J. Logan Hugh Toland and many others. Noted pianist Albert Henry Fernald performed and speakers included Cunniff Maguire Tilden Barry and Creed.
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Democratic District Committee
Democratic City Committee of
Boston
M. M Cunniff
Parker House
M. M. Cunniff
Patrick Maguire
L. J. Logan
Hugh J. Toland
P.D. Dwyer
Thomas J. Barry
F. E. Magullion
J. W. Calnan
M. J. Kiley
J. M. Maguire
Joseph B. Neagle
John F. Dever
S. J. Rider
A. H. Gra am-Dewey
Jeremiah Desmond
J. O. Fallon
A. H. Fernald
A. K. Tilden
J. H. White
E. F. Reilly
James Donovan
M. J. Creed
C. F. Doherty
Hugh Montague
East Boston Organist Arrested in Embezzlement Case
Osman F. Bateman organist at Central Baptist Church East Boston was arrested for embezzling 4700 from Chapman Seaburn manager of the People’s Loan Office at 74 Tremont street Bateman 35 lives at 110 Saratoga street East Boston. He was fired after three years of service and accused of diverting funds by altering books and collecting loan interest for personal use.
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Osman F. Bateman
Central Baptist Church
East Boston
Chapman Seaburn
People’s Loan Office
Tremont Street
Bateman
Mr. Seaburn
Seaburn
Saratoga Street
East
Boston
Lent sermon series at Mission Church on social questions
During Lent a series of special addresses to men at the Mission Church of St. John the Evangelist Bowdoin street will cover social questions from a Christian standpoint. Topics include Marriage The Family Education Property Citizenship and The Press with various clergymen speaking on each date.
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New England General Ticket and Passenger Agents’ Association
Pathfinder Railway Guide
Boot and Shoe Buyers Across Localities
A roster of buyers and agents for boot and shoe firms across multiple cities and states list names such as Pretzfelder Kline Co Bayou Nara Wolf Picard Picard Baton Rouge Rosenfield J Bickel Haselton G E P Dodge Phelps Dodge Adams Simon Gore Rebel Schwartz Laws Cady Childs Pitts D Frank Frank Vorann Jacon Carhart Campbell Bellows Frohing Roenchild Lynch Wana maker Goldberg Nettleton Dreyfus Rodgers Smith Hull and others in Baltimore Bayou La New York Cleveland Columbus Canton Detroit Massillon Chicago and more. The notice catalogs agents and firms engaged in sales across the country with locations including Maryland Louisiana Illinois Pennsylvania Ohio and Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
H Pretzfelder
Pretzfelder, Kline & Co
Bayou Nara
M Wolf
Bayou Sara
J Picard
Picard & Picard
Baton Rouge
La-A Rosenfield
Bloomington
J P Smith
R P Smith & Sons
Ie Butler
Penn
J Bickel
Butler
H Schwartz
Sehnwartz & Bro
Cincinnati
W Laws
Laws & Co
Cleveland
W Cady
Massillon
T Frank
J D Frank & Co
Vorann
Crasacon
Jacon
B Carhart
Carhart & Phillips
Mansfield
H Lowrey
Craw
New York
R Campbell
Powell & Campbell
J Bellows
J Bellows & C
Pittsburg
N Frohing
Toledo
J S Rodgers
Dewey, Rodgers & Co
O C Smith
Smith, Simmons & Peabody
Simonds Counter Machinery v Young patent infringement
United States Circuit Court on February 14 heard a bill in equity from Cort Simonds Counter Machinery Company alleging infringement of Nathan J Simonds patent for moulding stiffeners for boots and shoes. Defendants deny infringement and the decision is reserved. W A Macleod for plaintiff J K Maynadier for defendants.
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United States Circuit Court
Cort
J. Simonds Counter Machinery Company
William J. Young
Suffolk Superior Court session notes list multiple civil cases
The February sessions record verdicts and cases across four judges. Plaintiffs, boot makers in Sharon, sue over insurance and slander, with mixed outcomes. Numerous docket entries include breaches, land title, damages, and personal injury actions against various defendants.
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Suffolk
Mason
Timothy G. Wright
Horace A. Lothrop
Same
Sharon
RK. M. Morse, Jr
W. M. Richardson
G. O. Shattuck
A. Churchill
Old South Society
William L. Wainwright
Spring Lane
L. M. Child
J. B. Richardson
F. B. Hale
Jens Ly
Reardon
Reardon v. B.&a. R. & T. Co
Willis v. Merchants
Balsam v. Kenny
M. F. Ins. Co
Colline v. B. & P
Rowbin v- Leonard, RR. Co
Dodge
Wyman
Dill
J. &. Cotter
John ©. Dalton
John P. Barnard, Jr
Nathaniel L. Frothingham
B. Wadleigh
Everett
A. Hemenway
Catholics and Temperance Meeting Opens Series
A grand temperance meeting at Tremont Temple under the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Boston featured J J Crowley introducing Rev T J County of Worcester and Rev James M Cleary of Kenosha Wis Cleary denounced liquor influence in politics and urged emancipation of government from liquor interests About 1000 pledges to total abstinence were taken signaling the start of a Catholic church led campaign to curb liquor power.
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Tremont Temple
Total Abstinence Union of
Boston
J. J. Crowley
Father Cleary
Catholic Church
Advocate elects Joseph Sears president for the year
The Advocate board of editors has elected Joseph H. Sears age 89 as president for the ensuing year and Charles Warren age 89 as secretary. The Classical Club met last night in No. 4 Holworthy. The Conference Francaise plans to present the French play The Misanthrope. Professor and Mrs. Palmer host today the first of their receptions.
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Advocate Board of Editors
Joseph H. Sears
Charles Warren
Classical Club
Holworthy
Conference Francaise
Boston University Annual Report Highlights By Warren President
The theology school lists seventy five students across graduate and undergrad classes. Law school shows nineteen lecturers and six instructors, a record size for any American law school. Medicine enrolls ninety eight students and all sciences number one hundred two. Treasurer reports assets exceed liabilities by 1,144,231 dollars and 53 cents.
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William F Warren
D.D
Boston University
School of Theology
Law School
America
School of All Sciences
Boston Marine Society Completes February Meeting
The Boston Marine Society met in its new quarters Room 88 Mason building with Captain Charles Emery in the chair. The relief committee proposed and the group approved an appropriation of 81711 for distribution to fifty six applicants this quarter. Membership applications from Captain Martin E Thompson and Captain Isaac R Kelley were received and new members elected Captain William H Lunt Captain Nathan E Harding and Captain Joseph H Kelley.
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Boston Marine Society
Mason Building
Charles Emery
Relief Committee
Martin E.thompson
Isaac R. Kelley
Dennisport
William H. Lunt
Malden
Nathan E. Harding
Chatham
Joseph H. Kelley
Bequests From George W. Little And Langworthy Will
George W. Little leaves 5000 to three Baptist societies and 1000 each to Charlestown Relief Society and Charlestown charity fund tied to First Baptist Church Charlestown. Isaac P. Langworthy leaves 10000 for the Americas Congregational Association.
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George W. Little
American Baptist Missionary Society
American Baptist Home Missionary Society
Baptist Theological Society of
Newton
Charlestown
Police Nab Theft Suspect At Western Union Room
Policeman Vinal hidden near Western Union message room at 109 State Street nabbed John Bradley aged 22 of West End early yesterday morning as he tried to enter. Bradley had been implicated in a six month streak of lost messages since his discharge.
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Vinal
Court Square
Western Union Company
State Street
John Bradley
West End
Bradley
Coming Fair Plans by Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women
An executive board meeting at Jordan Marsh & Co. hall outlined plans for a March 12 fair to be held in Music and Bumstead halls. Forty six tables will feature items and games, backed by a treasury of about $8000, suggesting solid financial support for the event.
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Massachusetts Home For
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Music
Bons Vivants Find Revere House Caisiné Actal
A quirky note mentions the Revere House case and tasting experiences as locals seek flavors. The fragment hints at a dining or hotel setting with references to patrons and gastronomy.
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Revere House
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Boston & Albany
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Wall Street Daily News
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August Priessler
Algonquin Club
Marlboro Street
Church of the Good Shepherd
Cortes Street
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Forest Hills
Frederick Grant
Washington, Penn
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Ford
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Wright
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Walker
Hanson
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Snow
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Boston & Maine Railroad
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Lincoln
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Homer
J. W. Low
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Harvard Notes
Chester MH. Graves & Sons
Wartman
Co. E. Maillin & Co
Walter R. Wightman
New England
Congress Street
Alam
Raryas Aking Powder Co
Walt St. N
GOULD
Paris
Baker’s
W. Baker & CO
Dorchester
Augusta Solomon
Court Street
Bay State
Haynes Excelsior
Wm. B. Tilton
Haynes
Crosby
J.C. Haynes & Co
Court
al- Dealers Vicat
Hamilton Place
Roo
Boston Lead Manufacturing Company
William P. Hunt
Charles M. Clapp
Jacob Pfaff
Phineas B. Smith
Alonzo W. Folsom
Thomas F. Temple
Samuel Little
William J. Brideclerk
F. E. Hodgkins
E. Boward Water and Clock Company
Amuel Little
Augustus Richardson
Albert Howard
William H. West
Charles Hayden
Bs. L. Treadwell
Boston Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Edward Atkinson
F. L. Richardson
Ezra Farnsworth
Frederic Amory
George Dexter
Thomas J. Borden
Charles EB. Whitin
Jonathan Chace
Charles W. Amory
Henry Saltonstall
Augustus Lowell
William H. Bent
Arthur T. Lyman
A. M. Newton
E. J. -Ayne
Otis Company
Thorndike Company
Cordis Mills
Summer Street
Th Paper Mill Mutual Insurance Company
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