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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 26, 1890

Page

6

Elevators Not To Be Run by Boys Under Fifteen Years

In the General Court a long debate over an amendment to dis enfranchise voters for crime. Wardwell pressed to strike infamous crimes. Sanger and Greenough argued. The chair ruled, the initial amendment adopted 92 to 28, later the life disfranchisement option was rejected as a backward step. The article details broader legislative matters including endowment fund rules, street railways Meigs elevated system, and liquor law hearings.

Senate Dilhicats Wardwell Haverhill Sanger Boston Gilman Newton Greenough Wakefield Wardwell Dewey Mi. Greenough Hildreth Iolyoke Mon Sprout Worcester Williams Dedham N.S. Myrick Herbert Mackintosh Endowment Order of Worcester W. R. Knowles Everett United Order O Supreme Equity Charles H. Robinson Lynn Order of the Atsis John S. Camrell Fraternal Association America J. H. Butler Meigs Committee On George K.towle General Butler William H. Whitmore Henry Hale Bradford Grand Army Representative Day Committee On Manufactures Boston Towboat Company Committee On Harbors

Custodians of Elevators Bill Debated in House

A bill on employing elevator custodians and regulating speed drew lengthy debate. Amendments were offered and the measure, ordered to a third reading, now prohibits employing anyone under fifteen to operate an elevator and restricts speeds over 200 feet per minute for operators under eighteen.

House Bills Brought In Reported by the House

The House reported bills to raise police commissioners salary to 3500 a year to incorporate the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the American Christian Convention to allow a minor wife to release dower and homestead in her husband's real estate to define notice for certain actions and to authorize Berkshire county to borrow money to establish a truant school.

HOUSE Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the American Christian Convention Berkshire County

Inexpedient House Action On Liquor Hours and Offenses

The house reported an inexpedient motion on saloon closing hours and on making abusive language on public highways a crime. It also considered allowing original wills to be used nationwide. Leave to withdraw was granted on Grafton & Upton railroad track relocation petitions and on James Hearfer aid petition and Annie Corliss state aid request.

United States Grafton & Upton Railroad James Hear Annie Corliss

House Matters Assigned Report On Realty Purchase Power

Mr. McNary of Boston presented the judiciary committee report authorizing withdrawal on the Frank Jones Brewing Company petition for power to purchase hold and convey real estate. The fisheries and game committee reported it inexpedient to legislate regarding trout taking time limits in Franklin county and this item was set for Monday next.

McNary Boston Committee On the Judiciary Frank Jones Brewing Company Committee On Fisheries and Game Franklin County

House Calendar shows measures on trout streams and Newton court salary

Passed to be engrossed bills to elect engineers of the fre department in Woburn to curb water pollution of trout streams and to set the Newton Police Court justice salary. Reports accepted leave to withdraw on trout propagation appropriation petitions and orders amending statute reach tidal waters and riparian rights at stream mouths.

Woburn Police Court of Newton Bureau of Statistics of Labor H.C. Davis Commonwealth

Matters in the Senate Passes and Reports Filed

Senate actions include bills engrossed to amend statutes on pauper burial chastity and decency, incorporate Natick Dell Park Cemetery, adjust cooperative banks and Woburn city meetings, and confirm various individuals. Several committee reports were accepted or laid over including charters, sales acts, and state aid petitions, with a notable infectious disease notice dispute and a health board notice amendment discussed.

Senate Dell Park Cemetery Association Natick Woburn Southern Vermont Railroad Kitchburg Metropolitan Sewerate Frank W. Morse Gratton Land Company Sarah H. Burnham Tabor Academy Marion James Donovan Board of Health

Real Estate Mortgages and Transfers Noted in Boston

Real estate news lists mortgage and transfer records including Jacob Thoemmel to Germania Cooperative Bank for an Eighth street property in South Boston at 2200, and James K. F. Maroney to E. P. Fouley on Wall Street for 3000. Numerous other deeds, estates, and trustee transfers across South Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Chelsea, Charlestown, and Brighton are recorded with varied sums, plus forthcoming sales by Union Store Company and others in Everett and Roslindale set for March.

Real Estate Exchange Jacob Thoemmel Germania Cooperative Bank Eighth Street South Boston Jyman Locke Et al Benjamin Dean Broadway Willian M. Brown, Jr George W. Wattle Hawthorne Street John Donovan A. H. Lathane Avon Place Grafton L. Flynn Elias H Gates Street Daniel S. Healey Timothy Connolly Windsor Westminster M. A. Green E. P. Melzar Trenton Street W. L. Whitney H. A. Wood Et al Schuyler Street J. W. Jones H. R. Parker Fourth Street Harriet G. Hamlin Guardian Franklin Savings Bank Harrison Avenue Charles S. Hamlin Mabel A. Randall William J’. Wood Bennington Street Michael J. Downey Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank Water Street Catherine Ahern Abby Hassam West Cedar Myrtle Streets John Bantle William O. Curtis Et al Minden Street Court Heath Place Roxbury Stillman B. King George Lewis Shawmut Avenue Dana P. Bartlett Chestnut Hill Land Trust Sunderland Road Albert A. Young Hamilton Mayo Granville Place Brook Avenue Dorchester Thomas Murray Mary &. Hyde Silver Street Aarons Melatosi John Townsend Marcella Washington Streets Charles P. Leake James Ft. Wesson Newbury Street Jason Bailey Quincy A. Shaw Et al Washington Street Haymarket Place Ludwig Groenewald John May Athens Street Boston Charles A. Bray James J. Breast Suttle Avenue James P. Grieve Sophia C. Harbeck Albany Street Nathaniel M. Jewett Hadley ‘Talbot Merchants’ Cooperative Bank Idaho Street Thomas Conners Patrick Campbell Second Bolton Streets Michel Friedman Augustus Russ Melrose Street Frederick W. Tancock Frederick J. Herter, Jr Wilson and Abbott Streets West Roxbury Wesley E. A. Legg Et al Benjamin W Ashmont Street Laura A. Sargent Henry W. Savage Hanson Street John X. Long Union Park James KF. Maroney E. P. Fouley Wall Street George W. D. Reed James Lavery Lexington Street PK. J. Balfe D. W. Jones Samuel Dorr Susan E. Dorr India Street Central Wharf William A. Davis Union Store Company Everett L. L

Boston Symphony to Present Another Matinee in City

High demand for the Boston Symphony Orchestra has prevented more popular matinees in this city. A further concert is announced for Wednesday afternoon next week with Mile Clementine De Vere and Mr. Anton Uekking as soloists. Rubinstein's bal Costume will be featured in the orchestral programme.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Mile Clementine de Vere Anton Uekking Rubinstein

Paine's Furniture Co Offers Special Furniture for Invalids

In a time of prevalent sickness Paine's Furniture Co at 48 Canal Street Boston advertises a catalogue of Special Furniture for Invalids and the Sick. The notice urges readers to prepare for emergencies by ordering items now rather than later.

Paine’s Furniture Co Canal Street Boston Furthe

Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Promises Cure

An advertisement asserts a cure for catarrh bronchial throat and lung diseases when taken early using Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery with a money back guarantee. It promotes Pierce's Pellets as a pleasant purgative and urges prompt returns if not satisfied.

Dr. Pierce

Boston Money Market Quiet Yet Firm on Short Loans

The Boston money market shows quiet firmness with Clearing House loans near 5 to 6 percent and time loans from 4 1/2 to 6 1/2 percent. Exchange activity rises, New York funds move at discounts, and the market closes mixed with several bond and stock movements across railroads and banks.

Exchange of bonds offered to holders of Maine Central style notes

Holders of Androscoggin and Kennebec bonds maturing between 1890 and September 151 may exchange for new 4 1/2 percent Maine Central Consolidated Mortgage bonds through April first. Apply to Fred E. Richards, Banker, 98 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine, for full details.

Androscoggin & Kennebec Maine Central Fred E. Richards Exchange Street Portland Maine

Charleston Mining Declares Quarterly Dividend

The Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company announces a quarterly dividend of 850 per share.

Charleston D. C

New York Financial Market Mixed Amid Quiet Day on Feb 25

Money on call easy at 4 to 7 percent with last loan at 4 and commercial paper firm. Sterling exchange soft with bills at 4.8142 and demand 4.8542. Government and railroad bonds steady. Lackawanna spurt faded as prices edged higher but closed generally quiet. Tennessee Coal rallied to 61 and later slipped, Grangers faced selling pressure. Total sales $722,000 with minor gains and broad weakness in several issues.

Boston New York Clearing House Chicago St. Louis San Francisco New Orleans Bank Charleston Savannah Wallace Draper Merchants’ National Bank Bank of North America Messrs. Spitzer & Co Toledo Denison Tex Treasury Atchison Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fer Total Central New England & Western Boston News Bureau Rutland Preferred Delaware & Hudson River Railroad Company Friends of the Delaware & Hudson Rutland Central Vermont Vermont Delaware & Hudson Maverick Land Company Lamson Butte & Boston Montana Silver Bow Jevel Salmier Huron Calumet & Heela i Osceola Calumet News Calumet Opechee Sugar Trust New York Court of Appeals Prime Mercantile Paper Sterling Exchange Dulness Lackawanna Tennessee Coal Louisville & Nashville Chicago Gas Bears Manhattan Chesapeake & Ohio Hocking Valley International New York, Susquehanna & Western St. Paul C.& M Northern Pacific

Foreign financial reports from London and Berlin markets

London reports show mixed firsts and seconds for Atlantic & Great Western Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central Mexican Central St Paul New York Central Pennsylvania Reading and Mexican Central with discount rate at 4.4 percent. Berlin’s Imperial Bank notes a 16.18 million mark rise in specie.

London D. m Atlantic & Great Western Canadian Pacific Erie Clinois Central St. Paul New York Central Pennsylvania Reading Mexican Central News Atlantic & Great_ Western Illinois Central Mexican Central Berlin Imperial Bank of Germany

Market Summary: Commodities Steady to Active Across Food Staples

Commercial notices report steady to firm conditions in staples such as corn, oats, barley, butter, cheese, beans, eggs, pork products, beef, and tallow. Some items like flour, oatmeal, and rye flour show quiet or dull activity while potatoes and sweet potatoes remain fairly active. cranberries and Florida oranges show firm or abundant or unsettled trends.

Florida

Cloth Market Dull in Fall River Trade

Fall River reports a very dull print cloth market with little business and transactions mainly on odds. Quotations show 3 1/2 cents for 64x 64s and 34 seconds nominal for 66s, reflecting muted demand and modest pricing.

Fall River

Lumber Market News Brisk Spring Trade Expected

The lumber market shows strong spring demand with limited stock for certain items. Dealers report difficulty filling orders, steady spruce prices, and a general upward trend with expectations of higher prices. Dry spruce and hemlock are scarce while Pennsylvania and Eastern sales held around 1350 to 1420.

Pennsylvania

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