Boston Merchants Back Subway as Sound Investment
Boston business leaders at a State House hearing defend the subway project as a city asset that funds itself over time. They argue debt for income-producing ventures is prudent, while expenses for parks or speedways burden taxpayers. They urge legislative support for a board of trade plan to manage the subway for public benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fart
City of
Boston
Merchants of
State House
J. Richard Carter
Boston Associated Board of Trade
Associated Board of Trade
Harbor Appropriation Cut Spurs Boston Ship Channel Debate
An editorial argues against a $1,150,000 cut to Boston Harbor ship channel funding, warning it harms national trade and inland commerce. It urges state city cooperation to supplement federal funds, proposing a $2,000,000 allocation for a robust plan rather than localized district projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Worcester Elects Democratic Mayor OConnell by Wide Margin
The Heart of the Commonwealth reports Worcester voters chose Mayor OConnell by a large majority, surpassing Lytle For and signaling a shift in a city long Republican. The result, tied to local issues and factionalism, alongside Thayer’s congressional re election, suggests growing independent thinking and a potential Democratic administration precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Worcester
O’connell
Thayer
Congress
Lytle
O'Connell
The Kansas Frenzy and Nation’s Crusade End in Tragedy
An innocent bartender’s wife is killed during a mob action linked to Carrie Nation’s reform efforts. The article condemns the uprising as murder and warns Kansas against similar vigilante violence, contrasting Eastern attitudes and calling for law and order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Mrs. Nation
East
McKinley Faces Growing Demand for Larger Standing Army
McKinley plans to set up a 100000 strong standing army as Congress votes. Yet reports from Panay and General MacArthur warn that pacification of natives falters and oath swears prove fragile. Additional troops may be needed beyond the 100000, signaling rising militarism in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Philippines
United States
Panay
MacArthur
Salvation Army girl aids crossing amid street scene
A Salvation Army girl at a busy Washington Street crossing is assisted aboard a trolley by a “tough” who stops a carriage horse and helps her reach the car. The scene highlights courtesy sparked by the badge and reflects on urban manners observed in the city pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Washington Street
Velox Paper Demonstration and Free Print Offer
A Velox demonstration by an official manufacturer representative is scheduled Wednesday and Thursday this week from 9 30 to 12 30 and 1 30 to 5 00. Attendees may bring a negative to receive a complimentary print, and a new table tailored for the process will be shown.
Daily Table Hints and A Dorchester Cookery Note
A Dorchester Mass cooking feature presents a Sabbath menu plan with Breakfast Dinner and Supper items. It includes Cream of Wheat soft boiled eggs and coffee for breakfast, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and mincemeat dessert for dinner, and cold roast beef with peach preserves for supper. A dumpling broth recipe and roast beef with egg milk and flour baste are provided, plus an orange short cake with coconut and agar. Signed by Mrs Harry F Cowan of Dorchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Gems
Crullers
Harry F. Cowan
Lonsdale Street
Dorchester
Mass
Odd Bits of News Range From Pens to Pilgrims
A miscellany of short items with diverse origins. It notes hand made gold pens in 1840 in New York, an Orlando style Seattle ordinance against saloon side entrances, Lourdes pilgrim totals for 1900, Roman coins found near Namur, and curious animal temperature readings for chamois and other wildlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
New York
Seattle
Wash
Riviera
Rome
Namur
Lourdes
Grotto
Girl Holds Father in Half Nelson to Announce Engagement
In a Detroit Free Press excerpt a bold American girl forces her father to listen as she announces her engagement to Mr. Johnson of Second Avenue. The old man weakly protests while she cajoles and squeezes, insisting the Johnsons are a fine match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Second Avenue
Lucy
Mr. Johnson
Kate
Papa
Detroit Free Press
Boston
Baltimore American
Courageous Margaret Fights Burglars at Rural Ohio Home
Margaret Manning shields her family when two masked burglars raid the Benton home near Cleveland. After guiding them to a hidden vault, she traps the thieves, frees her brother and father’s rifle ends one intruder. A carriage arrives as the other pursues escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret
Frank
Papa
Rover
Benton
Cleveland
Mr. Manning
Little B. & S
Cosey
Banks
Tom
Will
Minx
Roger
Nott
John
Not Guilty Verdict Stirred by Courtroom Exchange
In a Denver Times report a defendant asserts innocence while a woman recalls her father’s concern about marriage to a lawyer. The dialogue hints at family and courtroom tensions surrounding the case.
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Denver Times
Conductors Quips Stir Passengers on Baltimore Streetcar
On Druid Hill avenue a conductor shouted Laurens street then Roberts next provoking muttered complaints from an excitable woman and other riders who deemed the call impudent and demanded action for calling them rubbernecks.
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Druid Hill Avenue
Laurens Street
Twinkle, Dialect Poetry and Curiosities in Press Snippets
A collage of humorous quotes from various newspapers about dialect poetry, literary taste, art, and perception. The bits include a Boston Child defending traditional nursery rhyme spelling, a critic calling dialect poetry weak, a painter noting inspiration from nature, and a humorous caption from Punch on Miss Withers and Rinks.
Engagement Doubted As Soldier Questions Return
A Philippine tour prompts a soldier to fear a possible engagement elsewhere. His lover counters with assurance that he must inform her before any rejections or new suitors arise, reflecting a flirtatious page from Harper's Bazaar.
Miss Hayden Engaged to H B Stanton of Washington
Boston society notes announce the engagement of Miss Esther Hayden daughter of Mrs. Charles R. Hayden of Brimmer street to Mr. Horace B. Stanton of Washington D C. The couple are the season's notable debutante pairing and the announcement follows her December presentation at a large Somerset reception.
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Esther Hayden
Charles R. Hayden
Brimmer Street
Horace B. Stanton
Washington, D. C
Miss Hayden
New York
George Cabot Ward
Thomas Wren Ward
Boston
Justine Cutting
W. Bayard Cutting
Charles Barton
Foster Street
Brookline
Barton
Henry G. Parker
Commonwealth Avenue
Colonel Parker
The
Gazette
Fred McQuesten
Beacon Street
Stanley P. Clemens
Westminster
South End
Eugene Field
Laura Hawkins
Walter Hawkins
Cadet
Walter Stokes Irons
Providence
Frances Dunton Wood
Field
de Koven
Mrs. Clemens
Olive Morrison
Mabel Chipman
Clara Frost
Lila Walker
Ethel Sands
Gertrude Badger
Hattie Page
Ethel Lovejoy
Julia Dwight
Maud Hunt
Mabel Holden
Bdewin Mower
Rudyard Kipling
Ogden Codman
Somerset Club
Miss Codman
Dorothy Codman
Thomas N. Codman
Hugh Codman
Rome
James McKeehan Burr
Walnut Avenue
Roxbury
Madelaine Stuart
Courageous Margaret and Firelight Burglary Resolution
In a tense October night scene, Margaret helps restrain burglars after a vault escape, one man dies and the other is captured. She recovers from delirium, receives a $100 reward, and moves with her father to Cleveland where she presides over a refined home as Dr. Emery’s ward and companion.
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Emery
Cleveland
Margaret
Law
Frank
Sullivan Ellis Wedding in Roxbury at St Joseph's Church
John Edward Sullivan and Jennie G Ellis were married at St Joseph's Roxbury with maid Rose McArdle and bridesmaid Nellie Ellis and best man James Fee. About 100 guests attended a Bellevue Hotel reception. Congressman Naphen attended from Washington. The couple will reside in Roxbury after a southern honeymoon.
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John Edward Sullivan
Jennie G. Ellis
James Ellis
Intervale Street
Roxbury
St. Joseph's Church
Barry
Rose McArdle
Jersey City
Nellie Ellis
James Fee
Hotel Bellevue
Congressman Naphen
Washingtton
R. E. Warner
Taunton
South
Milford Two Notable Marriages In St Marys Church
This forenoon at St Marys Church in Milford two prominent Milfor d society weddings were solemnized with nuptial masses. Rev James T Canavan officiated at the Michael Francis Green and Mary Genevieve Higgiston ceremony before Rev Luke J Purcell united Edward J Burke and Annie Quigley.
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Milford
St. Mary’s Church
James T. Canavan
St. Mary’s
Michael Francis Green
Mary Genevieve Higgiston
Green-Higgiston
Luke J. Purcell
Edward J. Burke
Annie Quigley
Higginson Announces Wolcott Fund Receipts Total
Henry J. L. Higginson, treasurer of the Governor Wolcott memorial fund, reports the fund has received 36331 dollars and 48 cents so far. He notes contributions from various donors contributing to the memorial.
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Governor Wolcott Memorial
Henry JL. Higginson
Governor Wolcott Memorial Fund
Let the Voters Decide on Woman Suffrage
Alice Stone Blackwell argues that voter decide suffrage will come with time. She cites multiple states where repeated submissions shifted majorities toward yes and compares the struggle to ongoing wrestling between progress and conservatism. Dorchester Massachusetts February 19.
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Massachusetts
Colorado
Kansas
Washington
South Dakota
Oregon
Alice Stone Blackwell
Dorchester
Mas
The Sweetest Side of Living by Ripley D Saunders
A poem extols the home as the sweetest side of living beyond fame fortune and social rank. It contrasts riches and poverty and declares love and contentment at home as the true reward, authored by Ripley D Saunders.
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Ripley D. Saunders
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Boston Post
New England
t+ ek
James E. Hayes Council, K. of C
Hayward Place
Tom Burke
Athens
Tr Bith
William P. Bodwell
White Mountains
Walter Gould Lincoln
Hotel Essex
Vernon M. Pierce
Harry Farren
Columbia
Edith Hardy
Buvth
Daniel
Justin Lynch
Lynch Bros
Dorchester High School
Lynch
Crane
State Board of Agriculture
Barnstable County Society
Barnstable
Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Society
Northampton
Augustus H. Gross
Churchill
House of Correction
Station 11
Ben Jonson
Otto Fleischner
Copley Hall
Vandyke
Porbus
Clouet
Velasquez
Joshua Reynolds
Peter Lely
Greuze
Franz Hall
Gainsborough
Pink Boy
Brunswick
Alt Ue
L. A. Stinger
East Cambridge
Andrew J. Lloyd & Co
Down Town
Washington St
Back Bay
Boylston St
Velox Paper
Camera Dept
Jordan
Marsh
Sunday Post
Pater
Jennie Fulton
Newton Street
Waltham
Detroit Journal
Biffer
Cleveland Plain Sealer
Miss Withers
Harper
Razar
Amerca
Houston & Henderson
Cor
Temple Place
H. B. Stanton
Amulet
Amulet Magazine
the Amulet Publishing Company
Colonial Building
Boston, Mass
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