Consolidation proposed for gas companies in Boston area
Petitioners seek cheaper gas in South Boston Roxbury and Dorchester with hearings postponed to April. Merrill bills aim to consolidate any gas company by law, with stockholder vote and new company name, setting price caps and market-value transfers. The measure faces opposition as a Delaware-led consolidation pattern.
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Mr. Moody Merrill
Boston
Roxbury
Dorchester
Cas
Mr. Merrill
South Boston
Roxpary
Merrill
Delaware
Board of Gas Commissioners
Moriarty
Worcester
Nutting
Northampton
House
Woman Suffrage Committee
Carter
Ruosnosky, Coakley
Moore
Hawaiian Islands
Senate
William P. Cherrington
Rivers
Milton
Adams
Provincetown Selectmen
Committee On Public Health
Committee On Federal Relations
Massachusetts
Boynton
Russell
Committee On
Haigh
Lawrence
Charles
Bennett
Everett
Aers
Cambridge
Through the Storm Steamer Sorrento Arrives After Gales
The British steamer Sorrento, from Antwerp to Flushing, endured a thirty six hour hurricane from Jan 3 to 4 with seas washing over the deck. She arrived showing a port list due to coal distribution. also arriving were the Persian Monarch Pawnee and Martello with cabin and intermediate passengers.
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Antwerp
Flushing
Mediterranean
Martello
Hull
Eng
Wires in front draw fire underwriters rate plan
The fire insurance rating committee proposes higher charges on buildings with wires running in front or at the side. Businessmen oppose, arguing the power or wire owners should bear costs or wires be buried. Voices condemn the plan as unfair and dangerous to firemen.
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Board of Fire Underwriters
Post
James F. Bliss
J. E. Decrow
L. F. Wood
New England Paint Company
Atlantic Avenue
The Columbian Ball Arrangements Signal Grand Event
Plans for the Columbian ball on February 22 include an electric display with over 700 lights in a star and crescent pattern. Braham's music and Mullaly lead the procession with a noted list of aids and an extra special car from New York.
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E. E. Rice
Washington
Columbus
Crescent
Braham
Mullaly
New York
R. S. Milton
Nathan Appleton
C. S. Matthews
William E. Silsbee
Guy Norman
Henry Wainwright
R. A. Barnet
W.H. Fleming
J.C. Cunningham
E. K. Friend
Confessed His Stealings In Philadelphia Bank Embezzlement
D L Drew arrested for embezzling 13000 from the Central Savings Fund Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia. He confessed to taking 9000 after slipping past guards, fled via rear basement exit, and left New York for Boston area before surrendering. bondsmen and Pinkerton aided recovery of funds.
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New Yorks
D. L. Drew
Central Savings Fund, Trust & Safe Deposit Company of
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Drew
Dugan
Columbus Avenue
A. H. Chapman
Eldridge
Trust Company
Nichols
McFadden
Tombs
Paine's celery compound praised for nervous relief
A Campello man credits Paine's celery compound with restoring strength and nerve health after shingles and nervous prostration. He details long illness, sleep trouble, and back and kidney weakness, saying one bottle improved appetite and energy and three months cured him of symptoms.
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Paine
Lucius Hayward
Campello
Mass
Boston Journal
Fires in Boston and prevention of city fires
Forty members and guests of the Boston Paper Trade Association heard Osborne Howes Jr., secretary of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters, speak on fires in Boston and measures for care and prevention. He traced causes from petroleum and electricity to elevators and high, sprawling warehouses and noted the economic impact of concentrated urban fire risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Paper Trade Association
Brunswick
George M. Wheelwright
Osborne Howes, Jr
George W. Gregerson
Harry Bartow
G. W. Keats
C. R. Milliken
Portland, Me
W. D. Russell
Turner’s Falls
G. W. Russell
Lawrence
E. H. Haskell
J. P. Jordan
Imperial Quartet Concert Company
Boston Board of Fire Underwriters
Boston
Howes
Librarians Address Pay and Library Staffing
Massachusetts Library Club met at Boston University Hall to discuss pay for library assistants and the need for state supported free libraries. President W S Fletcher of Amherst College urged recognizing special talents and debated appointive power and training. A committee was formed to study a statewide petition for mandatory free libraries.
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the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Library Club
Boston University Hall
W. S. Fletcher
Amherst College
Paupers Urge Fire Protection at State Workhouse
Chairman J White Belcher told a committee that the Texas Almshouse needs appropriation to improve fire safety. He warned inmates would be hard to evacuate, stressing many are old and feeble. He said improvements should be funded or lawmakers bear responsibility for disaster if not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. White Belcher
Board of Trusttes
State Workhouse
Committee On
Tuckerman will case taken by court
In Probate Court Judge McKim heard R M Morse argue the will of the late Dr Samuel Parkman Tuckerman. The judge said he would take the case under advisement and adjourned it for the present. Mary has filed two additional suits against the estate seeking unsettled sums.
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R. M. Morse
Samuel Parkman
Tuckerman
McKim
Mary
Inaugural Parade Lineup Assigned to Young Men's Democratic Club
The Massachusetts organizations taking part in the inaugural parade for President Cleveland have been assigned to the Young Men's Democratic Club.
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Massachusetts
Cleveland
Young Men’s
Democratic Club
Charlestown Man Attempts Suicide on Tremont Street
W A Dallas, 35, of Charlestown, sat on 623 Tremont Street steps sharpening a jackknife and then fell, bleeding from a neck wound. He was rushed to City Hospital, where doctors treated him as his brother Joseph Dallas sought information. Dallas remained reticent but stable later in the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Dallas
Charlestown
Tremont Street
City Hospital
Joseph Dallas
Post Boston Morning Leader Circulation Tightens Margin
The Post in Boston and vicinity narrows its lead to under 2000 copies as it grows faster nationwide. Analysts expect the morning paper to soon become the dominant circulation in the region and increasingly in the country.
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POST
Boston
Focal
Eform Issues in Maine Judiciary Vote on Druggs Bill
Avousta Maine Feb 15 The judiciary committee voted on the druggists bill with six in the majority and four in the minority to report the bill. Petitioners for woman suffrage were allowed to withdraw by a majority vote. A minority report will be presented.
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Avousta
Judiciary Committee
Fire department reform urged for Boston area
A writer argues that Boston should adopt improved fire safety and centralized command. He cites costly fires, limited local capability, and the potential savings from a single commissioner and a disciplined chief engineer to modernize tactics and curb annual losses.
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Boston
Brookline
Quincy
Gerne Ee City
A Dinner With Herbs and a Fallen Diplomat
Paris reports Charles de Lesseps staying with his father Ferdinand at Le Chesnaye. Charles presented detectives as friends, while Ferdinand, frail but lucid at times, spoke of the Panama canal. The two dined together with detectives and Charles remained guarded as Ferdinand returned to Paris at dawn.
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Paris
Charles de Lesseps
Ferdinand
le Chesnaye
de Lesseps
Charles
Panama Canal
Atlantic and Pacific
Charies
Cnaries
Complains of Snowballing on the Common
A reader asks if the city police surveil the Common and protests lack of guards as youths attack a man with showballs near the Frog Pond. He urges stricter policing or a change in weapons laws to curb the danger.
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Thase
D. A
Hot haste to marry shocks funeral crowd in Springfield
At Mrs. Harrison Prentice's funeral in West Springfield, her husband Harrison Prentice asked how soon he could obtain a marriage license. He and prospective bride Mrs. Maud Christie, widow of Charles H. Christie, discussed immediate remarriage. Prentice, sixty, and Christie left together. Mrs. Prentice died after chest pain. autopsy found acute lung congestion, no poison. Prentice was distraught at her death.
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Sprinabery
Harrison Prentice
West Springfield
Mt. Orthodox
Maud Christie
Charles H. Christie
Christie
Ferry Street
Prentice
Bissonette
Washburn
I. F. Breck
Evangelical Church
Indian Orchard
Fireproofing Medfield Asylum Buildings Demanded
William R. Ross calls on Massachusetts to fund fireproof Medfield Insane Asylum buildings and cites Dover New Hampshire as a feared precedent. He urges the state to avoid unsafe facilities, noting legal provisions for fireproof public buildings and asking Your paper to advocate for proper construction.
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H. M. Federden
Medfield Insane Asylum
Massachusetts
Dover
N. H
Medfield
William R. Ross
Androsis Inflamed Health Claims From Skowhegan Sanitarium
A fragment urges investigation into Androsis and its alleged cure by luxurious bathing. it claims symptoms are hard to predict and promotes a sanitarium in Skowhegan, Maine as authoritative evidence. The text markets expelling toxins to restore circulation and vitality, casting doubt on conventional medicine.
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Skowhegan
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Graves
Maryland
Signa
Ture
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Ture Sound
FIRES
Sborne Howes, Jr
Paper Trade Association
Mr. Howes
Europe
United States
Joston
Wasington Street
Summer Street
Syioe
Maintin
William Minot, Jr
Maine
Garten
Sidusishedduni
Pveua
Lal
Smyrna
Wash. St
Globe Theatre
Wilson Bros
Scireely
Hoston
Tim
Ourweep
Wilson Bos
Tremont Row
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