Post Telephone Hearing Opens City Wide Protest
This morning at 10 the highway commissioners hold a hearing in the Ford building on the Post petition for reduced telephone charges and improved service. Boston business leaders and customers signers urge inquiry into the New England Telephone rates as a major quasi public issue.
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Highway Commissioners
Ford Building
Ashburton Place
Bowdoin Street
Post
Massachusetts Highway Commissioners
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Boston
THE
Boston Post
Washington Street
Shreve, Crump & Low Company
Tremont Street
S. A. Macdonnell
Meyer Jonasson & CO
Tremont
Boylston
George H. Hal
Adams House
James A. Houston Company
Temple Place
WM. Filene’s Sons Company
Edward A. Filene
J. G. Small & CO
Linehan presses charges over 1906 court officer act
Senator Frank J. Linehan argues the 1906 Chapter 147 act was meant to protect Suffolk county court officers after Deputy Sheriff William W. Campbell refused to surrender. The statute provided officers appointed as court attendants to serve in the Superior Court sessions during good behavior until removal for cause.
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Frank J. Linehan
Suffolk County
William W. Campbell
Linehan Accuses Sheriff of Funds Corruption Denied in Court
Senator Linehan charged Sheriff Seavey with Suffolk county employees paying money to save their jobs. Special Sheriff John Kelly denied the allegation. Charles Dolan refused to comment, saying he would speak later. A Post reporter toured the courthouse and Charles Street jail, but county staff would not confirm or deny the accusations.
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Frank J. Linehan
South Boston
Legislative Committee On Election Laws
Fred H. Seavey
Suffolk County
John Kelly
Jed H. Seavey
Charles F. Dolan
Post
Court House
Charles Street
Linehan
Sheriff Seavey Returns as Hearing Delays In Suffolk
The committee on election laws awaits Sheriff Seavey’s return from Norfolk Virginia after he left yesterday for the hearing. He, with Mr. Dolan and Deputy Sheriff William W. Campbell who was named as the sole refuser to yield, will be asked whether nominations are bought in Suffolk County and why the bill for direct action is being pursued.
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Committee On Election Laws
Seavey
Norfolk
Dolan
William W. Campbell
Linehan
Suffolk County
Senator Lines Details Alleged Employee Payments
Senator Linehan expands charges previously denied by Sheriff Seavey by naming sums paid to various employees. The report notes continued detailing of payments with completion referenced on Page 2 First Column.
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Linehan
Seavey
Boston Canal Project Seeks Bids for Sutable Construction
The Boston Cape Cod and New York Canal Company invites bids for a ship canal from Monument River to Barnstable Bay through Bourne and Sandwich with wharves docks and related works. A $750000 bond and sealed proposals due March 28 1907 require corporate documentation and a NY or Boston bank certified check.
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Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company
Monument River
Buzzards’ Bay
Bourne
Sandwich
Barnstable Bay
General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
General Court
William Barclay Parsons
Wall Street
New York City
Massachusetts
Boston, Cape Cod and
New York Canal
Tremont Street
Boston
Mass
Joint Board of Railroad and of Harbor and Land Commissioners
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Robert K. Tomlin
New York
Admitting Money From White, Evelyn Thaw Faces Garland Question
In court, District Attorney Jerome pressed Evelyn Thaw on Stanford White deposits and a Garland divorce link. Thaw admitted White’s $1350 transfer, but declined to confirm the corespondent claim. Jerome pressed for details on her letters and posed sharp questions about her past.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Jerome
Stanford White
Garland
New York
Evelyn Thaw
Harry Thaw
Mrs. Thaw
Salem
Mass
Haw
Eliot Snub Rumor Circulates About Roosevelt Trip
A rumor circulated last night claiming Secretary Deniel Roosevelt would cancel the trip. The item, dated Tilton New Hampshire February 2007, references President Eliot and engagements arranged months earlier in Canada as reported by Jerome D. Green for the Boston Post.
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Tilton
N. H
Boston Post
Boston
Mass
Eliot
Canada
Jerome D. Green
Eliot Denies Harvard Departure Rumor Ahead of Roosevelt Address
Harvard president Eliot denounces rumors that his Canadian trip was timed to snub President Roosevelt. The trip, planned since last November, includes lectures in Montreal and Ottawa with engagements for Harvard clubs and university graduates. Eliot travels with Private Secretary Green and will return to Cambridge Monday.
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Harvard
Boston
New York
Eliot
Montreal
Ottawa
Canada
Roosevelt
Harvard Union
Washington
Froncis McLennan
Association of American University
Harvard Canadian Club
Cambridge
Green
Smoot Keeps Senate Seat After Utah Unseating Vote
Washington February 20 The Senate votes 42 to 28 with 18 paired to sustain Reed Smoot from Utah in the four year contest to unseat him. Smoot did not vote and the gallery and floor were crowded as petitions from women’s groups with thousands of signatures were presented.
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Washtington
Reed Smoot
United States
Utah
Smoot
Wetmore
Senate
House
Royal Arms Scotch: remarkably fine old whiskey
A brief notice highlights Royal Arms Scotch as a remarkably fine old whiskey. The fragment suggests a feature on spirit quality, likely advertising an aged whisky with distinguished character.
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Royal Arms
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BE. T. Slattery Company
Lawrence McCarty
Boston Theatre
Henry Krey Company
Wash‘ington Street
J. CG. McCarthy
Page & Shaw
Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Co
B. J. Rothwell
Chamber of Commerce
Charles M. Cox Company
Northwestern Cons. Milling Coo
Chas. N. Rogers
A. H. Brown & Bros
Hosmer, Robinson & CO
Mark Shultis
Washburn-Crosby CO
Geo. M. Cox
Chamber of Commerce, Co. F
G. W. Eddy
Rhodes Ripley
F. Gray Co
Hanover
Gray Co
Washington and
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Chicago-New York Electric Air Line
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the Hancock CO
Chicago-New York
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R. R. Stock
NEW York Old South
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Chicago the Temple
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London
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Exchange
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Phenix
Ringfield
Exchange St
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Procter
Lynn
Archer Bldg
Rock St
Fall River
the Highway Commissioners
Cor. Ashburton Pl
Bowdoin St
Cape Cod and
NEW York Canal Company
Boston Mass
Cape Cod
Charles C. Dodge
Bartholo May
WM. Albrecht
Greater Boston
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New England
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Middle Atlantic
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Cape
Hatteras
Thompson’s Spa
George Fuller Golden
America
Julisa Kitinge
Nite Allen and Co
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Ralph Smalley
Wormwood
Animals
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Derrick
Deniel Rumor
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Congress
du Bois
Hansbrough
Newlands
Bacon
Burrows
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Dolliver
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