Inauguration of Governor Ames and Ex-Governor Robinson
The ceremony marked by Ames's nervous but brief message and the ex governor's parting duties. Robinson sought appointment while Ames received congratulations and the state prepared for further fiscal and civil service reforms. The speech addressed savings banks loans rules, arbitration, militia, courts, and labor relations with calls for improvements.
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New York
Commonwealth
Board of Arbitration and
Civil Service
Civil Service Act
Massachusetts Governor Ames and Brackett assume office amid ceremonial joint session
The 11 o clock assembly conducted routine business as Rev. D W Waldron of Boston was elected chaplain. A joint convention notified Governor-elect Ames and Lt Governor-elect Brackett. The ceremony featured the Supreme Court, Governor’s staff, and oaths administered by President Boardman with Governor Ames delivering a financial overview.
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D. W. Waldron
Boston
Senate
Messrs. Ames and
Brackett
Noyes
Messrs. Fisk
Pousland
Amesbury
Woodward
Wakefield
Dexter
Lowell
Taylor
Taunton
Fossitt
Supreme Court
Adama
O’brien
Suffolk
Morton
Field
Devens
William Allen
Charles Allen
Holmes
Gardner
Superior Court
Oliver Ames
John Q. A. Brackett
Robinson
Boardman
Ames
Peirce
House of Representatives
Commonwealth
Inauguration Ceremonies and Senate Schedule Adopted
A committee led by Major adopted actions to notify Governor Gould and the Lieutenant Governor-elect of their election. Senators guided inauguration ceremonies and then qualified the newly elected council. Reports on vote counting were accepted. An order set weekly Senate adjournment to Monday 2 p.m. and daily meetings at that hour.
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United States
General Court
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
States and Territories
Commonwealth
Senate
Senator Jenkins
Smilar
Boston Common Council
Senate Journal
Major
Gould
House
Howard
Fall River
Council Committees Named By Executive Council
The newly qualified executive council announced committee assignments. Pardons include the Lieutenant-Governor with Bourne Allen Johnson and McPherson. Finance with Bourne Locke Powers Johnson. Railroads and Hoosac tunnel with the Lieutenant-Governor Bourne Allen Powers Logan. Harbors and public lands with Bourne Logan Allen McPherson Jowett. Charitable institutions with the Lieutenant-Governor Allen Logan Powers Johnson. Prisons with the Lieutenant-Governor Locke Allen Jewett McPherson. Military affairs with the Lieutenant-Governor Locke Powers Logan McPherson. Accounts with Logan Johnson Jewett. Warrants with Locke Allen Jewett.
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Bourne
Allen
Johnson
McPherson
Locke
Powers
Hoosac Tunnel
Logan
Jowett
Jewett
Allen and Jewett
Boston Post Office Mail Volume Grows Since 1881
The Boston Post Office reports a sharp rise in mailed newspapers over five years. Quarterly weights show 7 262 140 pounds for Dec 51 1881 and 2 049 516 pounds for Dec 31 1886. Rates dropped from 2 cents to 1 cent per pound, boosting receipts to about 81 500. The office staff has not grown since 1851.
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Boston
Boston Post Ofice
Bay State Chemical Company
Certa
Bay Star Chemical Company
Maine
Augustus Russ
Dudley A. Dorr
Suffolk ‘Dee's
Farnhant and
Gerard Streets
Mass
Sai
Hate Street
Gerard Street
Gerard
Globe Chemical Company
Suffolk
County of
York
State of
South Carolina
John White
Frank B. White
Register’s Office
York County
William White
Thomas Gul
Martin Amery
Thomas Whisenant
Boston Lead Company
Boston Lead Company By Deed Dated May 4, 1871, and By Said Lead Company
Said and State Chemical Company
Balanc
Pemberton Square
Funeral for Cambridge City Clerk Jacobs Held Privately
The funeral for Justin A. Jacobs late city clerk of Cambridge was held at his private residence 149 Austin Street Cambridgeport though announced private. Rev. E M Gushee and Rev George W Briggs officiated with floral tributes including one from the Massachusetts Association of City Clerks. City officials’ committee attended.
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Jacobs
Justin A. Jacobs
Cambridge
Austin Street
Cambridgeport
E. M. Gushee
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
George W. Briggs
Fragmentary 19th Century Financial List With Shares and Banks
A fragmented OCR style list items numerous railway, mill, and bank names with quantities like 80 shares Norwich & Worcester RR Co dividend off 40 de Middlesex Mulls, 700 National Car Co, 68 5 shares South Boston RR Co, 2000 Rutland RR dating 1898, 1000 Boston Concord & Montreal RR, plus multiple national banks and insurance firms. No coherent narrative, just scattered holdings and collateral references.
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Bedota
Shawmut Natl
Newburyport
Cambridge Rd. Co
de Pall. Pal. Car Co
American Ins. Co
Eliot Ins. Co
Lowell Miz. Co
Otttawa
Oswego
Fox River Val
Atlantic Mutual Ins. Co. Scrip
Cedar Rap. & No
Essex Rd
Old Colony Steamboat Co
Burl
Guar
Top
St. Fe
West Rd
Union Pac
Monadnock Mills
Do Eastern Ra d. N. H
Do Lowell M’fg Co
Do National Car Cos
Plymouth Cordage Co
Do National Bank of Commerce
Do Merchandise National Bank
City of Toledo
Water
Board of Education
R’d of
Vermont
Rutland
Norwich & Worcester RR
Middlesex
National Car Co
South Boston RR
Electric Mfg
Rutland RR
Boston, Concord & Montreal
Manchester Mills
Vt. & Mass
Chicago Rolling Mills
Newton & Watertown Gas Co
Mercantile
Edwards Mfg. Co
Cons. RR. of
Essex Co
Igre Dixon Peoria & Hannibal
Blackstone National Bank
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co
Scott
Eastern & Memphis
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Dubuque
Eastern & Memphis RR
Memphis Equip. Co
Boott Cotton Co
Merchants’ National Bank
Salem
First National Bank
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Frank P. Tyler
Deelan D. Corcoran
Jacob Jacobs
John L. Bates
Devonshire Street
Commonwealth of Masachusetts
William A. Travis
County of Suffolk
F. J. Hutchinson
Copartnership Notices
William Hilton
Henry C. Weston
Henry Whitman
Federal Street
Weston, Whitman & CO
William Farnsworth
Thomas C. Thacher
H. C. Thacher & CO
It. N
Stone
J. M. Forbes & Company
J. M. Forbes & CO
Horton
L. Foster Morse
Warren Street
Malden
Clifton
Summer
Bartlett
Cedar Streets
Rockland Avenue
Brackenbury Street
Bell Rock Station
Malden Centre
Clifton Street
Cedar
Clifton Streets
Cedar Street
Erastus Bartlett
Joseph E. Burtt
Thomas H. Lord
Warren R. Houdlette
Council
Governor Ames
Boston Common
Hamilton
Andrew
State House
Chicopee
Menard
Troy & Greenfield Railroad and
Hoosac
Fitchburg Railroad
Agriculture
State Normal Art School
Military Department
Supreme Judicial Court
Supreme Judicial
Supreme Ee Court
Coast Defence and Bounty
Salata
THE
Eliza W. Whyte
James E. Martyn
William G
Waitt
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Elijah George
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Harriet Minot
George. R. Minot
William Minot
A. J
Cornelia TA Image
Thomas Dean
Esquire
Register
David Sears
Frederick R. Sears
Nahant
Essex
Charles
D. Kk. Slevens
Lizzie Hooper
Admx
Elinor W. Sparks
John A. Sparks
Rostow
Dee
Rebecca W. Stackpole
Anna W. Lancaster
Totece
Reuben MM. Stackpole
Nomie E
Mary J. Howland
Terbert L. Howland
Adm
Jan
William H. Barnes
Circuit Court of the United States
Eastern District of Arkansas
John H. Reed
Ezra H. Winchester
Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas Railway
Elisha Atkins
F. Gordon Dexter
Eastern District of
Arkansas
Charles P. Redmund
Aera
United States Court House and Post Office
Little Rock
Ark
Little Rock, Mississippi River & Texas
Little Rock, Pine Bluff & New Orleans Railroad
Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River Railroad
Pulaski
State of Arkansas
Terkana
Lafayette
Arkansas City
Warren
Bradley County
Charles P. Redmond
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Aheriye
Sheriff’s Office
Court House
Court Square
Lillian B. Wood
Somerville
Revere
Sunnyside
Pavilion Station
Revere Beach
Revere Beach Land Company
Garfield Avenue
Fred H. Seavey
Nathaniel J. Bradley
Arnold A. Rand
Richards & CO
Reade St
Goode
John
Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet & CO
White St
Townsend & Montant Auctioneers
Leonard Street
Samuel Bunting's
Ecnecks
R. &. Day & Company
State St
Merchants’ Exchange Building
Boston Stock Exchange
Kidder Press Mfg. Co
Lby
Webster National Bank
Do North National Bank
Howard National Bank
Suffolk Matoney Bank
Cabot Mfg. Co
Firemen’s Ins. Co
Boylston Mutual Ins. Co
Boylston Natl. Bank
Webster Bank
Hill Mfg. Co
City Bank
North
Chicago Roll. Mills
Lb. & T. Fairbanks & Co
State Natl. Bank
Vesav
Francis Henshaw & CO
Sate Street
Merchants’ Exchange
Shoe & Leather N. Bk
Welrose
Oston, Concord & Montreal RR
Ane
VAC Will
Everett
Freeman’s
Atlas Natl
Exchange Bank
Bank of Commerce
Boston & Providence
Portland, Saco & Portsmouth
Burton Stock Car. Co
McLeod Air RR. Signal Co
State National Bank
Horatio Harris & CO
State Street
Samuel Hatch & CO
Congress Street
Carver, Bedford
Kingston
Milk Streets
Carver Street
Boylston Street
Kingston Street
Bedford Street
Milk St
W. W. Vaughan
Harriet Louisa Atkins
R. Knights & CO
Washington Street
Main St
Boston & Bangor Steamship Co
Penobscot
Rockland
Camden
Belfast
Searsport
Bucksport
Winterport
North Haven
Green’s Landing
Swans’ Island
Bass Harbor
Southwest Harbor
Bar Harbor
South Gouldsboro
Sullivan
Dwi
William H. Hill, Jr
Portland
India Wharf
C. F. Williams
Gloucester
City of
Eastport
Calais
ST. John
International S. S. CO
Commercial Wharf
W. H. Kilby
N.B
Digby
Annapolis
M.S
John Forve
Rednes
Nova Scotia
Allan Line
Glasgow
Siberian
Liverpool
Charles V. Casey
Broad Street
H. & A. Allan
Anchor
U.small
Londonderry
Henderson Brothers
Bowling Green
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Cork Harbor
Low Kates
Palmyra
Catalonia
Samarla
Cephalonia
Great Britain and Ireland
Cunard Steamship Co
Warren Line
Norseman
Palestine
Kansas
Iowa
Warren & CO
Postoffice Square
Hansa S. S. CO
Antwerp
Hamburg
Ss. S. Baumwall
Rasbrook
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Bremen
Havre
Continental
E. A. Adams & CO
Doreh
Avery St
Hote
Tod P. N
Henry Virth
George E. Browne