Haymarket Station to Become Main IL Transfer Hub
Within months the Haymarket square subway station will become the IL system’s main transfer point. A new double underground passage will link Union and Friend stations on the Washington street tunnel and the two Haymarket square platforms, providing transfer facilities for passengers on six tracks.
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Haymarket Square
Union
Friend Street
Subway
Friend
Washington Street
Transfer Passageway Set For Greater Boston Rapid Transit
The passageway links north and south bound tunnel trains with cars between Pleasant Street and North Station, via Charlestown and East Cambridge. It will be a complex yet useful transfer point, with a streamlined layout at Haymarket and Scollay Square, and direct connections to West End elevated and Tremont Street subway routes.
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Pleasant Street
North Station
Charlestown
East Cambridge
West End
Greater Boston
Cambridge
Haysmarket Square
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Haymarket Square
Friend Station
Friend
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Death of Ellen Kelly longtime Charlestown resident
Mrs Ellen Kelly also known as Ellen Donahue died at her daughter Mrs Mark Mannings home 62 Sullivan Street Charlestown Sunday night She had lived in Charlestown 51 years was born in Ireland came to the United States at 17 She leaves Mrs Sullivan two sons Thomas F Donahue patrolman Station 16 and ex Councilman John W Donahue Ward 4 Funeral services set for Wednesday at 9 am with interment in Hollyhood Cemetery
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Ellen Donahue
Mark Manning
Sullivan Street
Charlestown
Kelly
Ireland
Sullivan
Thomas IF. Donahue
Station 16
John W. Donahue
Hollyhood Cemetery
Quick Home Cough Remedy Promises Fast Relief
A five minute at home cure uses Granulated Sugar Syrup and Pinex to treat deep coughs and colds. A pint lasts a family days at about 54 cents, with a teaspoonful every one to three hours. Pinex is described as rich pine extract. remedy marketed as superior to other pine products.
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Norway
Relief Hospital Defies Undermining Foundations Heroic Boston Transit Work
The Relief Hospital in Haymarket Square endures as core of a massive Boston Transit Commission project. Engineers report the brick walls and extensive foundations, sunk through peat and earth to clay, are almost entirely gone yet the structure remains firm with rail traffic and workers surrounding the site.
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Boston Relief Hospital
Haymarket Square
Boston Transit Commission
Sunday Whiskey or Candy in Roxbury Slogan Debate
Roxbury victuallers push to ease laws restricting Sunday sales to newspapers and tobacco. A sign at Henry Vose’s periodical store in Figeston Square argued whiskey should be allowed while candy is treated as a full dinner, drawing crowds as Vose defend the stance and cites readers’ support.
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Roxbury
House of Representatives
Figieston Square
Henry Vose
Post
Vose
Boston
Mrs Schenck Seeks 334 890 From Estate in Lenox
Mary Louisa Schenck files in Probate Court at Pittsfield a claim for 334 890 against J Frederick Schenck estate. She says 184 500 is due for real estate transactions and that she acted as his agent paying sums from 1891 to 1900. He died in Lenox February 1905 and the will left her household goods and jewelry with the rest in trust for income to her.
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Pittsfield
J. Frederick Schenck
Lenox
Mary Louisa Schenck
Mew Filene Store A Marked Success
Yesterday tested the Filene tunnel bargain basement to capacity. Visitors from suburban areas and neighboring states shopped under cover despite rain, impressed by the new merchandising system and planned price reductions over five weeks.
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Filene Tunnel
Boston
Vilene
Elopement Tangles Peoria Pastor's Household
William D. Ashmond a former steamboat mate turned choir assistant elopes with Christiana Barr wife of Reverend Elmer C. Barr pastor in Peoria Illinois. The affair shocks local readers as details emerge from the converted sailor’s romance with the clergy’s spouse.
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Peoria
Tll
William D. Ashmond
Christiana
Elmer C. Barr
Donlan Defends Long Island Almshouse From Alderman Curley Attack
Donlan replies to Alderman Curley over alleged brutality at the Long Island almshouse. He vows grand jury action against critics casting reflections. A letter in Curley’s hand is repudiated by the sole inmate named Michael Connor who offers support for current administration.
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James M. Curley
Long Island
Board of Aldermen
Charles E. Donlan
Mr. Donlan
Alderman Curley
Grand Jury
Michael Connor
Donlan
Dr. Donlan
Edward M. Gallagher
Gallagher
Widow Mrs Oliver Roberts Ends Life In Barn
In Green Harbor on January 4, Mrs Oliver Roberts age 50 a well known local farmer's wife hanged herself in her barn. The body was found by her 10 year old daughter on returning from school after the child noticed her mother's absence and went to the barn. The rope left the mother suspended with her feet not touching the floor.
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Green Harbor
Oliver Roberts
Boston Caledonian Club Plans 150th Birthday Celebration
The Boston Caledonian Club marks the poet’s 150th birth anniversary with a grand celebration. Sculptor Hugh Cairns is commissioned to decorate Mechanics Hall, aiming to outdo his Somerset Hotel display for the Scots Charitable Society’s 240th anniversary. Committee members include Alexander McGregor Robert Harley May A M Munro and George Scott among other Boston Scots.
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Boston Caledonian Club
Scotland
Hugh Cairns
Mechanics’ Hall
Somerset
Scots’ Charitable Society
Alexander McGregor
Robert Harley May
George Scott
Boston
Van Camp's Beans Proclaimed Most Economical Digestible Choice
An advertisement extols Van Camp's baked beans as tastier and more digestible than home-baked beans. It argues home methods waste food value, produce gas, and cost about twice as much as Van Camp's, which are steamed to 245 degrees in small parcels for instant serving.
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van Camp
America
Kaupert Lectures Priests On Modern Psychical Phenomena
J Godfrey Kaupert delivered the first in a four part series on Modern Psychical Phenomena at Catholic Union Hall in response to Arch bishop O Connell invitation. The audience consisted mainly of archdiocesan priests with three scholars present from Harvard Charlestown and Brookline.
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O’connell
J. Godfrey Kaupert
Catholic Union Hall
Dwight
Harvard University
John F. O'Brien
Charlestown
Henry V. McLaughlin
Brookline
Oxford University
Raupert
Lodge
Lombroso
Barrett
Brooks
Wallace
Man Arrested After Portent of Revolver Incident
Allison E. Wilcox told Judge Burk he could not pronounce his home state name as it was too long. He admits carrying and discharging a revolver on Hanover Street and was fined $25 by the court.
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Allison E. Wilcox
Burk
Wilcox
Hanover Street
Supreme Court Dismisses Reid Brownsville Case
The Supreme Court dismissed Oscar Reid’s suit over back pay from his 1904 discharge of the Brownsville soldiers, ruling the contested amount was not sufficient to reach the high court. The decision upholds the Southern District of New York ruling that the President’s discharge authority was valid.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Oscar Reid
Brownsville
District Court For
Southern District of New York
Reid
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Texas
United States District Court
New York
District Court
New York Court
Government Wins Big in Senatorial Elections in Paris
Paris reports a sweeping government victory in the senatorial elections with a gain of 15 seats marking a strong parliamentary showing for the ruling party.
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Paris
Gate Tender Jani Manchester Sacrifices Life at Union Station
At Union Station Theodore Manchester a 651 year old gate tender pushed an unknown woman from the path of a Boston express train. He was struck by the engine and the train passed over him severing both legs. He died soon after at Rhode Island Hospital.
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Providence
Annual Meeting on Boston Elevated Railways Stockholders
Stockholders of the Boston Elevated Railway voted that current facilities remain suitable and public service remains efficient. The transfer system faced criticism as an apparent abuse. The company reported 24 horse cars and 207 horses unused for passenger transport. Gross earnings reached 14 million 74 thousand 696 dollars with net earnings at 4 million 620 thousand 910 dollars and dividends of 798 thousand dollars. Directors elected by a 76 441 vote included Threderick Ayer John J Bright J M Prendergast William A Bancroft Samuel Carr Nehemiah W Rice Quincy A Shaw Jr William S Spaulding Frank E Peabody and Robert Winsor.
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Boston Elevated
Threderick Ayer
John J. Bright
J. M. Prendergast
William A. Bancroft
Samuel Carr
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