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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 09, 1879

Page

3

Massachusetts Temperance Society Reports Yearly Totals

The Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society held its annual meeting. Receipts 10747 dollars 17 cents expenses 10745 dollars 46 cents assets 491 dollars 61 cents. Secretary Jewell summarized work including 352 public schools addressed 1056 addresses 3521 teachers and pupils present 2464 pledged 8 towns with prizes 16 prizes 525 prize essays 3656 clergymen communications 135 sermons 153 Sabbath addresses 27 National Union divisions 2608 pledged members 79 Sunday school unions 16280 children pledged 14181 teachers and pupils present. Lifetime totals since 1871 include 108687 pupils pledged and 16,280 children in Sunday schools. Officers elected Spooner Jewell Heywood Aldrich Allen. life directors named. anniversay sermon February 28. Appalachian Mountain Club reports 162 members 41683 receipts 44459 expenses balance 224. Explorations by Ober and transfers of unincorporated club.

Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Benjamin R. Jewell National Union Temperance Army Temperance Cause William B. Spooner Charles L. Heywood J. M. Aldrich Fall River George H. Allen Ayer Oakes A. Ames Easton Joseph Cook A. H. Coolidge Leicester Lincoln Drake J. R. Duff Jamaica Plain W. F. Johnson Lynn John D. Long Hingham A. B. Shedd Charlestown Thomas Tucker Boston Levi Walker Bridgewater E. S. Potter Asa Bullard Edgar Potter E. D. Draper W. B. Spooner Tremont Temple Dr Lorimer

Committee on Retrenchment Deliberates On Salaries and Institutions

The Committee on Retrenchment met to review a subcommittee plan prioritizing salaries of the Legislature and state officials, then public debt, county expenses, and various institutions. Debate over conference with other committees occurred. reports on wives protection laws and a call for English style protections were discussed alongside notes on the State Primary School and other civic matters.

State House Walker Worcester Bancroft

New England Commercial Travellers Hold Second Annual Meeting

The New England Commercial Travellers Association held its second annual meeting and dinner at the St James Hotel with 300 to 400 gentlemen present. Officer reports showed a Dec 31 1877 balance of 825 dollars and 472,178 dollars in year receipts. Tolman presided and officers were elected. guests included Lieut Gov Long and Rufus Frost. The dinner featured speeches, music, and a toast to the association’s influence on commerce and prosperity.

Massachusetts Mechanic Charitable Association Mechanic’s Hall Charles W. Slack Nathaniel J. Bradlee Osmyn Brewster Joseph L. Bates Nathaniel Cummings William Sayward Everett Torrey George Nowell John Mack Benjamin D. Whitcomb Edwin Adams George W. Pope Thomas Leavitt William M. Rumery George G. Smith Association Paul New England Commercial Travellers’ Association St. James Hotel A. K. Tolman John W. Smith Geneva N. Y M. B. Cole John _.B. Chapman E. R. Walker Charles Richardson George E. Dustin Edwin & Conant W. F. Chadbourne R. B. Beaumont W. W. Sins J. A. Ball Boston George C. Irvin Portland F. H. Congdon Providence R. I Gov. Long Collector Beard Rufus S. Frost B. F. Guild The Commercial Bulletin C. F. Adams Leedle Yaweeb Strauss Wiliam H. Baldwin Tolman Gov. Talbot Gov. Jong Commonwealth Long Searc United States W. Ernst Providence Press Rhode Island New England Globe Rufus 8 Frost Oston Board of Trade Prince W. H. Baldwin Charles F. Adams A. KE Warren

The Case of M Frank Paige in Suffolk Jail

The case of M Frank Paige, now confined in Suffolk jail on a charge of swindling creditors, appears headed for rapid clarification. detectives traced Paige’s book keeper Charles T Stetson who disappeared November 6 and later sailed to Liverpool, Paris, and London before returning to New York aboard the Germanic. Stetson’s expected confession may implicate Paige in a $100,000 conspiracy, with the Grand Jury likely to act soon.

M. Frank Paige Suffolk Paige Summer Street Charles T. Stetson Stetson Wiggin Grand Rhode Island Connecticut

Four notable deaths and funeral notices in Boston area

William G. Brooks of Dock Square dies at 73 in North Andover. Funeral from Trinity Church at 2 PM. Eliot Constantine Yorke, MP for Cambridgeshire, dies of a pulmonary condition after a life serving royal circles. Dr John B. S. Jackson, Harvard professor and physician, dies. survived by a widow and two sons. Other deaths noted.

Gloucester Harbor John E. Wennerberg Charles H. Boynton Frank R. Kimball Marblehead Neck R. R. Raymond School of Oratory Boston University Putnam Chapel First Religious Society Eliot Square North Andover Dock Square Massachusetts Historical Society Phillips Brooks Trinity Church Arthur Brooks W. G. Brooks The Eagle Bank Brooks Boston Billy Gray Eliot Constantine Yorke Cambridgeshire Earl of Hardwicke Annie de Rothschild Anthony de Rothschild Baronet Countess of Rosebery Harrow Bonnou-i the-Rhine Yorke Duke of Edinburgh Australia John B. S. Jackson Harvard James Jackson John Ware Europe Folk Bertlett Cox Aliso Jackson Flanders Eliza M. Flanders Albert L. Flanders Fred. A. Flanders Lewis Flanders James Rothwell Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company Samuel C. Cobb William I. Bowditch

Rumors of jailbreak planned as Olive party held in Kearney

In Cheyenne rumors spread that herders would try to free Olive and associates jailed in Kearney Nebraska for arson of Ketchum and Mitchell. Prisoners to be moved for safekeeping. Richards who confessed to six murders threatens fellow inmates and awaits preliminary exam on the 14th. Jack Knowlan, a gambler, shot Mexican Joe at Sidney. he was arrested.

Cheyenne Olive Kearney Nebraska Ketchum Mitchell Richards Jack Knowlan Joe Sidney Knowlan

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