U S Warns Against Further Hostile Expeditions
Washington reports the State Department urged Pekin to avoid new military expeditions. Cabinet discussed the move, aiming to keep pressure via direct diplomacy with foreign powers. The note’s text remains private, but it supports peaceful negotiations and adherence to rights of all parties.
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Washington
Conger
Cable
Pekin
United States
State Department
Chiré’e
Chaftee
Russell Favored Mrs Maybrick London
The Humanitarian League prison reform committee adopted a resolution urging Secretary of State for the Home Department Charles Tutchie to consider a letter from the late Lord Chief Justice Russell to Florence Maybrick. The letter argued that further detention would not benefit the public unless conclusive evidence of guilt was presented.
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London
Markdown Sale Cuts Prices on Wool Trousers for Men and Boys
All wool worsteds now four and five dollars replacing six seven and eight dollar grades. The store adds a three dollar variety with similar reductions. The markdown targets timeliness as many men and boys need trousers now at Men and Boys Wear.
Stormy Rules Session Over Gas Inquiry At State House
The committee on rules held a stormy session at the state house over the gas situation and failed to reach a decision. Speaker Myers presided and twice stood to condemn the committee members’ attitude toward reaching a conclusion.
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Committee On Rules
State House
Myers
Lawmakers poised for clash over gas inquiry and Luce order
The Rules Committee agendas a report opposing McPherson's gas investigation while backing the Luce order on stock watering associations. Saunders leads dissent with possible three allies, as Speaker Myers seeks a noon meeting and House action this afternoon.
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Saunders
Turtle
Pittsfield
Adams
Melrose
Myers
McPherson
Luce
Gilpatrie
Greater Boston Club Proposed At Revere House Meeting
Former Representative Marcus Cook led a gathering of about thirty contiguous town officials to form the Greater Boston Club to promote shared interests and consolidation benefits. A committee was formed to draft a constitution and by laws with a public meeting planned for next Monday at Revere House parlors. No membership fee is to be required.
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Marcus (. Cook
Boston
Revere House
Greater Boston Club
Dr. H. C. Marcy
Henry Powers
T. J. Donaghue
L. F. Smith
John Hargreaves
William H. Brine
George H. Lomax
Somerville
J. J. Sweeney
Revere
William M. Nichols
Winthrop
T. W. Pierce
Arlington
Mr. Cook
W. L. Sears
Dr. Marcy
M. C. Cook
H. Oo. Marcy
J. J. Cochrane
W. H. Brine
J. J Sweeney
M. W. Nichols
T. W. Perce
Brookline Board OKs Beacon Street Parkland Purchase
The Brookline Board of Selectmen approved the park commissioners plan to buy 245000 square feet of land at the upper end of Beacon street near the Chestnut Hill station of the Boston and Albany railroad for use as a playground with a price cap of 45000 dollars.
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Brookline Board of Selectmen
Park Commissioners
Beacon Street
Chestnut Hill
Boston & Albany Railroad
Lay Dead A Week In Kneeland Street Tenement
Oscar R. Wheeler aged 40 was found dead in a two room flat at 156 Kneeland Street after being unseen for about ten to fourteen days. Neighbors recall Wheeler as reticent and isolated in the crowded building. A bar keeper remembers Wheeler seeking help the night he fell ill.
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Kneeland Street
Oscar R. Wheeler
Oscar Wheeler
Wheeler
New Ship Contract Spurs Skilled Labor Demand in New England
The Fore River Engine Company in Quincy Point wins a government contract to build five battleships named Pennsylvania New Jersey Georgia Virginia and Rhode Island. President Watson says the plant will grow from 650 to 2000 plus workers in three months with most hires as skilled mechanics. Some staffing may come from outside New England, but most positions are local.
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New England
Fore River Engine Company
Quincy Point
Thomas A. Watson
New
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Large Beet Sugar Plant In View In Indiana
Chicago capitalists form a $1,000,000 Central Sugar Company to compete with the American firm for home sugar. A beet sugar factory is planned at Shelby Indiana with ten thousand acres acquired. The plant should operate in time for this year’s crop producing about 600 tons of beets daily and employing up to 300 men. Charter granted in New Jersey.
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Chicago
the Post Today
Central Sugar Company
Shelby
Ind
New Jersey
Fall River Mills Show Big Growth
Fall River mills added 119046 spindles at a cost over 2 million dollars boosting producing capacity in the past two dividend years. The 30 corporations listed have capital of 18,225,000 with total spindles now 2,287,594 up from 1,416,872 in 1888 and capital 14,710,000.
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Fall River Mills
Fall River
Marriage of Reginald Pole-Carew and Lady Beatrice Butler
Brigadier-General Reginald Pole-Carew wed Lady Beatrice Butler at the Guards Chapel Wellington barracks this afternoon. The couple received more than 600 presents from royal and noble donors including King Edward and Queen Alexandra, the Dukes of Cornwall York Connaught and their spouses.
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London
Reginald Pole-Carew
Beatrice Butler
Marquis of Ormonde
Guards Chapel
Wellington Barracks
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
Queen Wilhelmina to Have a New Crown
London reports that Queen Wilhelmina may receive a new crown. The Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Express cites plans or discussions about replacing the current royal headpiece with a modern or revised design.
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Wilhelmina
London
Rotterdam
The
Daily Express
Hearing on Storti case for commutation to life imprisonment
Governor Crane and the Governor's Council will hear petitioners on April 7 after a March 6 session where counsel will argue for commuting the death sentence of Storti to life imprisonment.
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Crane
Storti
J. J. OCallaghan Employees Hold First Annual Banquet
The staff of J. J. O Callaghan at 543 Washington street held their first annual banquet yesterday. Members performed musical and vocal selections and the group adjourned after a very enjoyable evening.
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J. J. O'Callaghan
Washington Street
Lariviere Declines Planned Marriage in Hillsville
Anthony Lariviere of Hillsville announced he will not marry Spencer. He told the town clerk and relatives that the planned marriage is off and he will remain without a bride.
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Spencer
Anthony Lariviere
Hillsville
Ibsen Stricken by Influenza in Norway
In Copenhagen on February 19 the Norwegian poet and dramatist Henrik Ibsen is reported ill with influenza. The epidemic is widespread in Christiania, though Ibsen's condition has improved slightly compared with yesterday.
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Ibsen
Copenhagen
Christiania
Henrik Ibsen
Print cloth prices cut as mills face curtailment risk
Fall River reports a drop from 8 1 2 cents to 8 cents for regular print cloths and proportional cuts on all goods. Southern and Eastern goods sell below committee figures amid dull yarn markets. Local mills face possible production curtailment with stockpiles and slim margins threatening profitability.
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Fall River
Washington Congress Tightens Hold on Schley Sampson Dispute
Washington reports show both Senate and House delaying action on the Schley Sampson naval dispute. The Senate rejected the conference report on the Military Academy appropriation as too drastic. Deboe urged Nicaragua Canal construction and Gallinger proposed funds to outfit army post exchanges. The House focused on sundry civil appropriation and arid lands irrigation debates.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Schley- Sampson
Santiago Bay
House Naval Committee
Sampson
Schley
Conference Committee
Deboe
Kentucky
Nicaragua Canal
United States
Gallinger
Government
High School regimental officers win relief from deficit liability
The English High School regimental officers, aided by the Post, avoid responsibility for drill deficits unless costs exceed 126 dollars. Mayor Hart defers to the school board, and Committeeman Kenny agrees to cover any shortfall under 126 dollars while maintaining the same drill arrangements with band costs. The boys celebrate the favorable outcome and thank supporters.
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Hart
English High School
Elliot Tucker Sayward
Walter Rogers
Richard Taylor Evans
Gallivan
Porter
Kenny
President McKinley Hosts Supreme Court Family Dinner
The President and Mrs. McKinley held their annual White House dinner in honor of the Supreme Court. The long corridor and east room were lavishly decorated with greenery, primroses, ferns, azaleas, and roses. Attending were justices and wives, Attorney General Griggs, Senator Platt of Connecticut, Representative Littlefield, and many Senators and Representatives.
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Washington
McKinley
White Honse
Supreme Court
Griggs
Platt
Littlefield
Health Board to store anti toxin at local offices
Feb 19 Lynn report states anti toxine will be kept at the Health Board offices after physicians reported inconvenience obtaining it from the State Board of Health.
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Lynn
State Board of Health
Luth eran Trinity Roxbury Young Ladies Entertain Parish
The Roxbury Lutheran Trinity Church young ladies held a well attended show in the parish schoolhouse. The program featured a Walter Dallow piano piece, a moving shadow picture Der Tausch with Katherine Wohlschlaegel and B Hennings, a zither duet Stahler and Stahler, a pantomime The Courting with Anna Cook and Fred Hennings, Shaking Quakers with all members plus Master Doerringer, a two act German comedy Muetter chen Geburtstag led by Lucy Bruhn et al, stage manager Pauline Ganser, president Augs te Pacht, and closed with a ghost walk Battle of Blenheim.
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Young Ladies’ Society
Lutheran Trinity Church of
Stahler
John Stahler
Anna Cook
Fred Hennings
Doerringer
Francis Derringer
Frank Kaebere
Robert Katzmann
Pauline Ganser
Auguste Pacht
Gear named judge in Hawaii Circuit Court
George D. Gear was appointed today judge in the Circuit Court of Hawaii. He once pressed charges in the House against Delegate Wilcox and has lived in Hawaii for four to five years where he practices as an attorney.
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Washington
George D. Gear
Circuit Court
Hawaii
Wilcox
PIANO GIFT AND RING CELEBRATION AT CHARLESTOWN HOME
Miss Katherine McCourt received an upright piano and an emerald ring from friends gathered at her parents home on Sheafe Street Charlestown. Nearly 200 guests from Roxbury South Boston and the North End attended with speeches by Miss Josephine Doherty and Miss Alicea Connelly. Music and dancing continued until midnight.
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Katherine McCourt
Bernard McCourt
Sheafe Street
Charlestown
Roxbury
Anne Johnson
Agnes Connelly
Katherine Connelly
Mary Myers
Annie Fardy
Bertha Miller
Gertrude Brown
Mary Murphy
Lylia Reardon
Mary Reardon
Katherine McCarron
Mary Canny
Margaret Ward
Melssra
Andrew Murphy
Robert Fitzgerald
Hugh Wallace
Austin Cannon
John Crotty
Albert M. Ringer
Joseph Sullivan
Richard Buckley
William McDermott
James McTague
John Teilly
William Fitzgerald
Contractors' Wachusett project tied by local attachments
Clinton merchants file attachments against Moulton and Ouahoney contractors on the Wachusett Reservoir. The firm held a sub contract from Nawn and Brock for two years. The Metropolitan Water Board steps in to settle affairs and will pay creditors from money due the company on Thursday.
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Clinton
Moulton & Ouahoney
Wachusett
Clnton
Nawn & Brock
Metropolitan Water Board
Water Board
Death of Captain Joshua J L Jordan Prominent New England Sea Master
Captain Joshua JL Jordan a prominent New England sea captain died at his Auburndale home on Central street Newton Feb 19 Born in Thomaston Maine in 1825 he came from a family of seamen He had resided in Auburndale ten years A widow and four children survive him.
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Newton
Joshua JL. Jordan
New England
Central Street
Auburndale
Thomaston
Farewell for Major Atkinson to Salvation Army
Major Joe Atkinson leaves Boston for Salvation Army national HQ in New York where he will serve as general secretary of the general province. A Boston farewell drew hundreds from Salvationists and converts who filled Washington street and Broadway barracks for prayers and praise led by Colonel Richard Evans and Staff Captain Allen as the Cambridge brass band played.
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Joe” Atkinson
Salvation Army National
New York
Salvationists
Boston
Washington Street
Broadway
Major Atkinson
Richard Evans
Allen
Cambridge
Atkinson
Lighthouse Board sets buoys to mark dredged canal limits
The local Lighthouse Board issues guidance for mariners noting three spar buoys placed in twenty seven feet of mean low water to mark the limits of the partially completed dredged main ship canal.
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The
Lighthouse Board
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