Immigrant Population Shapes State’s Growth and Industry
A 1905 bulletin analyzes foreign born residents in the state, noting 918,412 foreign born as of 1905 and two thirds concentrated in 33 cities. It highlights immigrant labor fueling manufacturing and asks if industrial progress rests on further influx. The piece also discusses international tensions after Algeciras, warning of potential clashes and the risk of a Muslim world war influencing Europe.
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Statistical Department
Iieuse
Commonwealth
Algeciras
Germany
London
Morocco
France
England
Africa
Turkey
Mahomet
Europe
Dardanelles
Ice famine or averted crisis in New Hampshire
The piece argues that ice dealers should accept Woodman of Malden’s offer of 500,000 tons from Silver Lake Madison New Hampshire to avert an ice famine and rising prices. It contrasts the Independent Ice Company’s stance with a hypothetical milk shortage to urge decisive action.
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Woodman
Malden
Silver Lake
Madison
N. H
Independent Ice Company
Rhode Island
New York
Remarkable Growth for Sunday Post After Roosevelt Daughter’s Marriage
The Sunday Post sold 234,900 copies a week after Roosevelt’s daughter's wedding, rising 10,350 from the prior Sunday. It then reached 244,645 total with 9,745 more copies as readers flocked from New England. The Gibson pictures, arranged with Collier’s, boosted demand. The issue highlights Gibson’s first drawing Castles in the Air and touts the value of the Sunday Magazine.
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Roosevelt
Sunday Post
Gibson
New England
Ice supply question prompts plea for fair pricing
The piece argues ice companies should accept Mr. Woodman’s offer or risk public anger by charging high prices next summer. It stresses ice as a health and food preservation necessity for city residents in hot weather and urges reconsideration to avoid societal unrest and hardship.
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Woodman
Ice
Newton
Commonwealth Avenue
Centre Street
A. F E. Alvord
B. P. Gray
M. S. Buckley
Sunday Chamber Concerts at Chickering Hall Delights Audience
Edith R. Chapman soprano Bertha Cushing Child contralto George W. Proctor pianist and Felix Winternitz viola performed in the 17th Sunday Chamber concert at Chickering Hall. Chapman sang works by Hildach Grieg Martini German and an old English air. Child delivered La Cloche Felee with viola and piano and Gaelic songs. Proctor offered piano pieces by Chopin Schumann Grieg and Sjogren. A full house attended.
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Chickering Hall
Edith R. Chapman
Bertha Cushing Child
George W. Proctor
Felix Winternitz
Miss Chapman
Hildach
Grieg
Martini
Mrs. Child
C. M. Loeffler
Mr. Proctor
Chopin
Schumann
Sjogren
Deep Within My Breast Love Poem by Phebe Lyde
A lyrical verse expresses a deep enduring love that transcends daily troubles and moods. The speaker notes a powerful inner current moved by a beloved, whose influence shapes the speaker's innermost identity. It is attributed to Phebe Lyde and dated March in Lippincott's.
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Phebe Lyde
Lippincott’s
The Hen Topples the Egg Trust With Fresh Eggs
The egg trust holds about sixty million eggs in cold storage bought at 18 12 cents per dozen, now a loss. The Hen’s winter strike ends as hens resume laying, flooding markets with fresh eggs at 9 to 10 cents per dozen. Prices drop, widening access to omelette buttons and symbolically basting the trust.
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Egg Trust
Trust
What the Sphinx Says at School Times
A fragment from a late 19th century reader page presents playful Q and A snippets. It notes Cambridge Massachusetts resident Leela At as sixty years a pupil and includes a numeric riddle answer about eleven million eleven hundred thousand and eleven hundred eleven. The page also mentions Philadelphia Jack OBrien and a hotel admission incident linked to a Toronto or Manchester area correspondent.
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Foitor
Leela
Cambridge
Mass
Hepburn Bill Gains Notoriety In City Papers
Bill Hepburn, the town blacksmith, enjoys pride after being styled Hepburn Bill in several city papers.
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Bingville
Bill Hepburn
Hisself
Hepburn Bill
Philadelphia scholar abandons dictionary project
A Philadelphia scholar who started a new English dictionary fifteen years ago has given up the task after spending about 500 000 dollars. He argues that word corruptions and the rise of slang render an up to date dictionary of English impossible.
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Philadelphia
Running Down Rockefeller in Boston Card Drama
A vivid Boston episode recounts John D Rockefeller disguised with a New York train arrival and city pursuit. The narrator mocks Rockefeller’s teetotal stance, describes encounters at Touraine and Franklin Square House, and ends with Rockefeller fleeing into the Charles River after a summons reveal.
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Boston
John D
New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford
South Station
Jack the Slasher
John
Essex Street
Washington
Boylston
Touraine
Franklin Square House
James
Skiddoo
Commonwealth Avenue
William Lloyd Garrison
Lawson
Sam
Missouri
Tom
Rockefeller
Charles River
Resources of Crime Hafiz Hardcase
A fragmentary line from a comic or stage dialogue features Hafiz Hardcase contemplating seizing ginghams, hinting at a lighthearted crime motif rather than a serious incident. The text presents a playful, stylized moment rather than a newsworthy event.
Local notes on education and community events in Boston
Bane and antidote in Chelsea schools head to Louisville for a three day meeting of country superintendents. Mt. Bel lingham Methodist rebuild fundraising reaches 7000 dollars. Malden writer Edward Glynn gains magazine success. Welldrift guide Will Parlen, hurt in a fall, aims to fish next season. Judge Emmons praised for fairness. Roxbury plans a mock church trial March 1 with witty witnesses. Charlestown stenographer James Maloney ill with pleuro pneumonia. Chinatown patrolman Libby earns Cantonese rapport. Boston music scene notes memorial march for composers. Dorchester Writer’s Club fund drive features “The Restless Woman” play March 1.
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Dorchester Club
Observant Citizen Today in History February 26
February 26 marks the 1869 passage by Congress of the 15th Amendment granting suffrage to Black men. A year ago, a $5,000,000 fire devastated New Orleans, highlighting rapid urban risk and recovery concerns.
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New Orleans
Debutante Season Brightens With Social Pageant
Society notes recount Miss Mary J. Amory’s many entertainments as she plans a Lentiny season stay at Aiken with Mrs. Gardner hosting. Elizabeth Clarke’s and other society events unfold at Tuileries and Jordan Hall. Amelia Ely’s church wedding to Dr Walter Howe tops today’s social calendar.
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Mary J. Amory
Miss Amory
Aiken
Augustus P. Gardner
Dnd
Francis T. Amory
George Otis Draper
Hopedale
Washington
Draper
The
Institute of Technology
Amelia M. Ely
Frederick D. Ely
Dedham
Walter Clarke Howe
Newbury Street
St. Paul's Church
Miss Ely
Henry Dorr Dupee
Caroline Kingsbury Dupee
Ther
Monadnock Street
Dorchester
William Atherton
Mary Atherton
Commonwealth Avenue
Stillman B. Allen
William A. Allen
Everett C. Bumpus
Union Club
Bumpus
Quincy
Eliot C. Clarke
Elizabeth Clarke
Tuileries
Jordan Hall
St. Stephen
Joseph Lindon Smith
Dorothy Jordan
Helen Prince
Charles Almy
New Yor
The Theosophist Woman and a Duel Haunting a Night
Rod Baxter returns from Calcutta and joins friends in Rad's rooms as they discuss psychic phenomena. Griffith recounts Harley Reed's duel linked vision and a near-fatal mirror episode that left him with a scar and a purple temple-to-temple line, prompting questions on telepathy and fate.
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Rod Baxter
Calcutta
Mme. Blavatsky
Rad
Will
Cook
the Kid
Raymond Griffith
Griffith
Harley Reed
Paris
Harley
South America
Dear Miss Champagne I Seek Advice On A Lost Lover
A young girl writes asking Miss Champagne whether to continue with a young man of 18 who allegedly ran away with money. She requests guidance and signs as LOSES, awaiting a reply in the Post.
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Miss Champagne
Santemo
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Sphinx
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Mie
Jack O'Brien
Manchester
Soft Shoe
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Hans L. Carstein
Cogswell Avenue
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Naval Service
Annapolis
Daniel H. Bradley
Somerville
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Hafiz
Bane
B. C. Gregory
Chelsea
Louisville
Mt. Bellingham
Edward Glynn
Will Parlen
Weld
Mr. Parlen
Franklin County
Maine
Madrid
Willie
Police Commissioners
Judge Emmons
Highland Congregational
Roxbury
Sam Elder
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
James P. Maloney
Charlestown
Maloney
Chinatown
Libby
Celestial Empire
Harrison Avenue
Mands
T. O. Ed
Brunems Cafe
Congress
Stella May Coffin
Lincoln House
Baker Street
Lynn
Wiffith
Mildred Champagne
San Francisco
Pittsburg
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