Van Wyck praised for halting Hall of Records gift to museum
The Boston Transcript backs Mayor Van Wyck of New York for refusing to transfer the old Hall of Records and Register's Office to the National Historical Museum. The move defines city property as not giftable to non city controlled institutions, aligning with the Transcript and the Post's view of his character after a strong electoral mandate.
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van Wyck
New York
Boston Evening Transcript
Board of Aldermen
Old Hall of Records and Register
National Historical Museum
Boston
Boston Merchants Say Fire Insurance Rates Should Fall
At a directors meeting A Shuman presented evidence that Boston has yielded profits to insurers, with a five year premium total of 16 million and losses of 5 million. For 1897 premiums reached 3.5 million while losses were under 750000, arguing Boston deserves lower fire insurance rates.
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Boston Merchants’ Association
A. Shuman
Boston
Shuman
Boston Men for Boston Affairs
The Evening Transcript and The Post favor making the mayor’s advisory committee mostly Boston residents. The Transcript supports a majority rule while The Post urges every adviser be a Boston resident. The Associated Board of Trade should appoint only Boston residents.
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Evening Transcript
Post
Boston
Quincy
Transcript
Associated Board of Trade
Wages and Cost of Living Under the Dingley Tariff
The Lowell mills defend wage reductions by returning to the September 1893 scale, arguing it is not new. Yet living costs have risen and will keep rising, while wages have fallen 10 percent, challenging the Republican tariff's promised offset.
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Lowell
Dingley
New England
Harvard Extends Suffrage to Professional School Alumni
Harvard University plans to petition the Legislature to grant voting rights on the board of overseers to graduates of its professional schools. Currently only academical department alumni can vote. The move broadens university administration and could include Radcliffe at commencements.
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Harvard College
Harvard
Radcliffe
Remarkable serial tale captivates readers locally
The Post publishes a day to day binary tale by H. C. praised as a masterful imaginative work. The story unfolds with simple direct realism rivaling Defoe and Verne, drawing strong popular interest as the plot thickens. readers are urged to join and start today.
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Jules Verne
de Foe
Indorsed Shows A Ty In Its Favor
The passage notes a favorable tilt toward a ty in endorsements while acknowledging no hesitation on the matter.
Notable Boston Society Figures Reach for Winter Skating
Boston socialites led by Miss H S Hunnewell and Mrs George von L Meyer take to local ponds this winter as Curtis Guild’s long leadership strengthens the Bostonian Society. Reader notes include Irish freedom efforts, Joan of Arc tribute by Father Gaston, and Captain Condon’s New England inspection tour.
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Boston
Fee
H. S. Hunnewell
George von L. Meyer
F. H. Prince
C. M. Weld
Back Bay
Priscilla and Reflections of a Queenly Mind
A playful dialogue tale where Priscilla confronts a mirror that shows not her appearance but thoughts. The speaker teases Priscilla for mischief and imagination, hinting at a pretend romance between a strong arm and a delicate waist. A blush reveals the truth in a salon scene.
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Priscilla Little
New Year Dinner Turns romance on a Boston stage
Katharine Forrest, visiting aunt Hester Burr in Boston, works as a dinner maid to impress guest Robert Maynard. Her disguise reveals mutual attraction, leading to engagement after a year. Maynard later learns Katharine served him on New Year’s Eve, tying fateful reunion to their betrothal.
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Katharine
Ellen
Archibald Burr
Katharine Forrest
Boston
Chicago
Hester
Mrs. Burr
Robert Maynard
van Allen
Aunt Hester
St. Augustine
Casey Nook
Miss Forrest
Maynard
Paragon
Renowned English churchman and architect figures in notices
The text notes the Rev Dr William Rainford Denying Bible infallibility during a Sunday address. It also profiles John Loughborough Pearson the eminent ecclesiastical architect responsible for Truro Cathedral and Westminster Abbey projects. It mentions Munroe as explosives expert and inventor of indurite popularly called navy smokeless powder.
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William 8. Rainford
St. George’s Church
New York
Edward Charles Munroe
American Chemical Society
Navy
John Loughborough Pearson
England
Truro
St. Augustine’s Kilburn
London
Lincoln
Westminster Abbey
Peterborough
Rochester
Bristol
Exeter
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
University Library
Cambridge
Witty exchanges and sharp comebacks from vintage joke pages
A collage of humorous lines from 19th and early 20th century papers. Jests cover marriages, flirtations, and social quirks with quips about fools words lovers and drinkers, showcasing light social satire and witty miscommunications. The snippets pair witty replies with social foibles across newspapers.
Tucks All-Pervading In Fashion Gowns And Guimpe Styles
The piece highlights wide use of tucks on velvet muslin coats and underwear. It notes separate guimpes in lace over satin and tucked fabrics, with examples in brown cloth cheviot and water melon shades. It describes a reseda cloth gown with a velvet yoke and clustered tucks, and a geranium red princess line gown with front revers and fur trim. The latest trends are showcased.
Daily Table Hints Breakfast and Dinner Menu Fragment
Recipes and meal ideas list breakfast items to dinner including grape fruit shredded wheat biscuit lamb chops white sauce baked potatoes and coffee. Dinner features soup sirloin steak spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce mashed potatoes Brussels sprouts custard souffle and wine sauce Supper includes meat and potato pie cooked figs with cream cake and chocolate muffins with a basic muffin batter note and street address 606 Cream Sydney street Dorchester.
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Jaslsatert
Croam
Aydney Street
Dorchenten
Bonaparte Lectures on Bosses and Rings at Sanders Theatre
The Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte delivered a Cambridge talk on bosses and rings before students and the public. He traced the Bonaparte lineage to Napoleon I and cited Baltimore as a battleground against bossdom, defining a boss as a leader of major political parties and praising anticorruption as a general, not local, issue. Ex Secretary Olney, ex Mayor Matthews, and J. C. Carter were slated to speak in forthcoming lectures.
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Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Cambridge
Sanders Theatre
Bonaparte
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Napoleon I
Jerome
Napoleon
America
de Molkte Hindtfeldt
Paris
Boston
New York
Croker
Olney
Matthews
J. C. Carter
Ex-Mayor Grace's Daughter Weds Quietly in New York
The marriage of Miss L. Juanita Grace, second daughter of former Mayor Grace, to George Edward Kent occurred in New York today. The ceremony was very quiet as Ex Mayor Grace recovers from a recent severe illness.
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New York
L. Juanita Grace
Mayour Grace
George Edward Kent
Grace
Colonel Fletcher Dead in St Johnsbury District
Colonel Frederick Fletcher, the district’s oldest and wealthiest citizen, died today in St Johnsbury Vermont at an advanced age. He was widely known as a leading figure in local affairs and philanthropy.
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Fletcher
ST. Johnsbury
Frederick Fletcher
Protests for Lower Fire Insurance Rates at Boston Merchants Meet
At the Boston Merchants Association meeting, F A Breed A Shuman and G A Crocker debate lower fire insurance rates. Breed cites five year loss data and Horace Partridge fire. Shuman cites nationwide reductions and Boston’s strong results. A Mitten letter contrasts New York and Boston rates. Delegates appointed for Monetary Commission meeting. Philadelphia museums topic explored. Batchelder Bros. admitted.
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Boston Merchants’ Association
Young’s
Messrs
F. A. Breed
A. Shuman
G. A. Crocker
Breed
B. B. Whittemore
Horace Partridge
Shuman
New York
San Francisco
New England Insurance Exchange
Southeastern Tariff Association
Western Union of Insurance Companies
Boston
New York City
Buffalo
Toledo
St. Louis
Omaha
Albany
The
Western Union
Fall River
Haverhill
Lynn
EH. T. Mitten
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Sears
Banking and Currency Committee
H. H. Hanna
Indianapolis
Congress
Monetary Commission
Business Men’s Convention
Green
Philadelphia
Association
Massachusetts Historical Society Building to Undergo Four-Story Addition
Plans by A W Longfellow propose a renovation of the old Massachusetts Historical Society building with a steel skeleton, concrete foundations, four new stories, and a central heating plant at City Hall. The Renaissance style addition includes granite exterior, marble finishes, iron stairs, and 20 000 square feet of new office space at an estimated cost of $130 000, aiming to connect to the City Hall and Old Court House and raze the probate building if completed.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
A. W. Longfellow
Tremont Street
Probate Building
City Hall
Old Court House
King’s Chapel
el Foors
Currency Reform Hears Edmunds on Gold Standard Plan
The House banking and currency committee held a hearing on the Man Commission bill proposing a comprehensive currency revision. Edmunds led the delegation with Fairchild J. W. Fries Bush and Judge Taylor, arguing for a single fixed standard of gold while allowing limited silver use.
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Washington
Man
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Edmunds
Vermont
the Treasury
Fairchild
New York
J. W. Fries
North Carolina
South
T. J. Bush
Alabama
R.S. Taylor
Indiana
Middle West
Gage
Mr. Edmunds
Commission
United States
Representative Cox
Dem
Tenn
Cox
Walker
Edwards
Newlands
Silverite
Nevada
Klondike
Bush
Anniston
Ala
Monetary Commission
Representative Fowler
Indian Vedanta priest sails for India with Mrs. Ole Bull
Swami Saradananda, Indian Vedanta priest, sails on the Teutonic today from New York. He is accompanied by Mrs. Ole Bull, widow of the violinist, and a Boston woman. They voyage to India to support the priest in his work there.
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Colonel Coram
Lowell
Post
Sunday Post
Coram
New Mexico
West
Boston Post
The
New York
Swami Saradananda
Teutonic
Ole Bull
Boston
India
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Tammany
Lowle Insurance Rates
Boston Men For
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Harkable
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H. C
the Post
Curtis Guild
Bostonian Society
Mr. Guild
Bill’ Conant
Boston Baseball Club
Soden
Father Gaston
Boston College
Joan of Arc
Catholic Union Hall
John L. Sullivan
O'Neil
Treasury
South Boston
Cove Street
Federal Street
Broadway Extension
Devonshire Street
Edward O’meagher Condon
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
John J. Teevans
Baseball Association
Teevans
Priscilla
Ellen A. Richards
Western Avenue
Natick, Mass
Hall Caine
Father Adler
Lord Norton
4Free Press
Figaro
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago News
0. J. Bonaparte
F. W. Breed
the Merchants’ Association
A. W. Longfellow, Jr
Tremont Building
Pya
the Monetary Commission
Porrim Cave
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