Dry dock Dewey wireless messages from Boston yard
Navy reports transmit to the Navy Department from Boston Yard detailing Jan 7 1906 wireless updates about the dry dock Dewey. Messages note squadron position east of St Augustine and indicate course east at 3 knots under HOSLEY signing. Earlier San Juan dispatches echoed the same content with minor longitude errors.
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Washington
Dewey
Navy Department
Navy Yard
Boston
Cesar
Hosley
St. Augustine
San Juan
Lew Dockstader to Present Matinee at Majestic
Lew Dockstader will give a professional matinee at the Majestic this afternoon. He has invited representatives from all the companies now playing in this city and many have sent letters of acceptance.
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Lew Dockstader
the Majestic
Engagement Report Ties Eddy to Spreckels Daughter
The American embassy confirms Spencer Eddy, secretary of the embassy, is engaged to Miss Lurline Spreckels of San Francisco, daughter of Mr and Mrs Augustus Spreckels. The news notes the heiress’s substantial $20,000,000 fortune and links to St Petersburg reports dated January 11.
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ST. Petersburg
Spencer Eddy
Tary
Lurline Spreckels
Augustus S. Spreckels
San Francisco
Senator Heyburn Attacks Wall Street Over Corporate Control
Senator Heyburn urged a national board to oversee corporations and denounced Wall Street for interfering in national affairs. He warned the street could threaten disaster if not restrained. The open session debated Senate resolutions going to the calendar before adjourning until Monday.
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Washington
Senate Today
Heyburn
National Board For
Wall Street
Street
Senate
Tariff debate in House features campaign tactics and talks of Massachusetts
In Washington on January 11 the Philippine tariff debate shifted toward political maneuvering as Grosvenor and Williams sparred over the tariff. Mentioned were Massachusetts prosperity and iron and glass firms hurt by the Dingley tariff. The labor committee set January 18 for a public hearing on Gardners national child labor investigation and urged Governor Guild to testify. Insurgent Republicans claim 50 to 65 lawmakers pledged to oppose rules limiting amendments to the Hamilton statehood bill.
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Washington
House
Grosvenor
Ohio
Williams
Champ Clark
Massachusetts
House Committee On Labor Today
Gardner
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Curtis Guild
Senator Crane's Bill for Children's Bureau
Washington in January reports Senator Crane of Massachusetts as author of a bill to establish a children's bureau under the Interior Secretary. The chief would earn 5000 dollars, an assistant chief 2500, with a full clerical staff to follow.
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Washington, D. C
Reading Clerk
Senate
Crane
Massachusetts
Children’s Bureau
Secretary of the Interior
Renew Fight Over Draper in Ghostly Beacon Hill Row
Eben S. Draper, newly installed Lieutenant-Governor, faces a test vote on his popularity as lawmakers debate granting him a room at the State House. The issue splits along reciprocity lines, with foes using the move to gauge Draper’s political strength and signaling possible tariff entanglements for next year.
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Eben S. Draper
Beacon Hill
Draper
State House
Mayor removes Water Commissioner amid resignation
Mayor Fitzgerald accepted the resignation of Water Commissioner Eugene S. Sullivan tendered on inauguration day and named City Engineer Jackson acting water commissioner. Sullivan's term would have run to April 30, 1907, and he earned $5000 annually. The post, a prized city plum, remains vacant as the mayor weighs a permanent appointee.
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Fitzgerald
Eugene S. Sullivan
Jackson
Sullivan
Collins
New Bedford Misspent Eighty Thousand on Bridge Fund
City officials report that eighty thousand dollars raised for the New Bedford and Fairhaven bridge work was diverted to general expenses. An investigation seeks notes to cover the amount and possible bond relief beyond the debt limit. A uniformed officer was stationed at the almshouse to guard supplies amid alleged theft.
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New Bedford
Thompson
New Bedford and Fairhaven
Fairhaven
Mayor Thompson
Officer Patterson
Borden
Patterson
Freeman H. Ashley
Committee On Charities, Almshouse and the Poor
Newport delegation finds Brookline graftless town a model
Seven Newport officials visited Brookline to study its efficient, corruption free governance. They toured Town Hall departments including assessors and collectors, learning how taxes and services are run, and saw Brookline’s public bathhouse and clean streets, returning impressed by its order and lack of graft.
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Newport
R. I
Brookline
Herbert L. Dyer
J. Joseph N. Martin
John B. Donnelly
Thomas R. Congdon
Chadwick
Herbert Bliss
William Watts Sherman
Alfred D. Chandler
Washington Street
Town Hall
Edward W. Baker
Bath House
The
Mississippi
Trustees press for hearing on Bowditch removal
Five of seven Rutland Sanatorium trustees signed a statement backing the removal of Dr. W Y Bowditch amid protests over the lack of a hearing. Trustee A W Esbeck would have signed but illness prevented it. A C Getchell filed a dissent. Governor Guild holds all documents as a public hearing fight continues.
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Governor Guild
Rutland
W. Y. Bowditch
Dr. Bowditch
John C. Hammond
W. B. Parkhurst
John P. Rand
Sylvia T. Knowlton
Fannie B. Russell
Ward bill aims to curb perfunctory lying in Massachusetts recounts
Representative Ward of Buckland introduces a bill to prevent perfunctory lying in political recounts. He argues that closeness of a vote and belief in counting errors should justify a recount, asserting that many seek recounts through perfunctory claims rather than genuine concern.
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Ward
Buckland
Massachusetts
Senator Taylor Proposes Employer Liability Bill Reform
East Boston senator introduces last year’s bill amending employers liability. It lets injured employees claim compensation as if not employees and requires juries to decide if the worker was acting with due care at the time of the accident.
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Taylor
East Boston
Catarrlets Offer Quick Relief for Nasal Catarrh
Local remedy claims to relieve all forms of catarrh by soothing the mucous membrane and improving breath. The ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood and address the constitutional cause, offering Catarrlets by mail postpaid for a price.
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Hood
C. I. Hood Co
Lowell
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