Massachusetts Should Speak On Senate Stand
Editorial urges Massachusetts to publicly back Senator Hoar for his defense of free government and independent stance on imperial policy. It warns against attempts to block resolutions, calls for timely public expression of pride in his defense of Massachusetts ideas, and stresses the need for the state to speak now.
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State House
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Republic
Washington
Massachusetts
Hoar
Dingley Recovering Strength After Illness
A favorable report from physicians states Congressman Dingley has won the crisis and is on the path to recovery. The public, especially in New England, expresses relief and honors his integrity and contribution as a public servant.
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Dingley
New England
Congressman Dingley
Tuskegee Institute Fundraising Plan In Boston
The article highlights Booker T. Washington leading the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute amid Southern race tensions. Boston business figures propose a $25,000 two year endowment to ease Washington's fundraising load, with trustees Rev. George A. Gordon Silas Dizer and Rev. Charles F. Dole awaiting full subscription. The effort is framed as a prudent investment in patriotism and morality.
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South
Bookers ST. Washington
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Mr. Washington
Washington
Boston
Tuskegee School
Black Belt
Tuskegee Institute
George A. Gordon
Silas Dizer
Charles F.dole
Eagan's Defence Mocked for Unusual Language
Report notes Commissary-General Eagan used ridiculing phrasing to deny General Miles's beef embargo claims. Observers say his temper and loose tongue cast doubt on his conduct before the war investigating commission.
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Eagan
Miles
Hagan
Gei
General Miles Unfit for Army, Exposed in Outburst
The piece accuses General Miles of a tirade filled with coarse language, claiming he lacks self-control and should leave the service. It contends General Eagan accurately describes the situation, insisting Miles must exit the army or face being barred from decent society.
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Eral Miles
Eagan
United States
Miles
McKinley and the Philippines Policy Debate
A critical column questions President McKinley over Philippine policy. It faults Senator Foraker for overstepping his authority by stating the administration's aims and urges the President to disclose his real views and despatches to the Senate. The piece warns that secrecy could fuel anti imperialist sentiment at home and abroad.
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Senator Foraker
McKinley
Philippines
Ohio
Foraker
Hoar
Andrew Carnegie
Senate
United States
Paris
Boston Elder Joseph D. Jones Dies at 101
Boston's oldest resident Joseph Davis Jones died at 101 years, 13 days. He had no noted illness and remained mentally sharp to the end, while city society notes a changing roster at local clubs and a broad social calendar. The piece also mentions Rev. Edward G. Porter’s election as president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and various local events.
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Joseph Davis Jones
Boston
Edward G. Porter
New England Historic-Genealogical Society
Porter
Annie Ring
E. 13Th St
New York City
Boston notes on Merrills move and Purim ball plans
Boston items report Dr George E Merrill leaving Immanuel Baptist in Newton to assume Colgate University presidency in Hamilton New York. Purim Association of Boston plans a third annual charity ball at Music Hall on February 9 to aid the Federation of Jewish Charities, following prior financial success.
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Newton
George E.merrill
Immanuel Baptist Church
Merrill
Colgate University
Hamilton
N. Y
teh +t
Purim
Music Hall
Purim Association of
Boston
Purim Association
Federation of Jewish Charities
Tilly Haynes
New York
Sand Springs
Williamstown
Magss
Berkshires
Kipling Verse Tribute From Captain Evans to Zogbaum
Kipling sends works to Captain Evans of the Ohio along with verses. The poem contrasts Zogbaum’s pencil and a conning tower command with handling ten thousand tons and a ten inch gun. It reflects naval life and artistic egos in brisk, period voice.
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Rudyard Kipling
Robley PD. Evans
The
Ohio
Zogbaum
Chocolate Tomato Soup and Cheese Straws Menu
Daily Table hints list recipes for cheese straws and tomato soup with ingredients and method. Includes portions for cheese straws, seals with lettuce salad, plum pudding, nuts, and coffee. Provides Mrs. W. A. Bradley address at Winchester.
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W. A. Bradley
Mt. Vernon Street
Winchester
The Sash and a Proposal in Maud Deane's Story
Maud Deane sits at her desk with a Roman sash and an urgent letter from Floyd Hudson asking for marriage. The sash connects family memories with a rekindled romance as Maud reads the letter, contemplates, and finally answers with a kiss of the keepsake.
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Maud Deane
Miss Deane
Maud
Floyd Hudson
Mr. Hudson
Floyd Maud
Floyd
Personal notices and notable details from OCR fragment
VNCLUrla plans spring outing to Cimiez with confidence toward French reception. The youngest U S Army recruit is 14 year old Carl Stein Kuchler of Company G Sixth Missouri Volunteers, large for age with presumed 19 or 20 status. Ruben McChesney, wood carver for Philadelphia House of Correction centennial expositions, died in vagrancy after bad rum and pneumonia. Mrs Solomon Gassoon urged for Indian viceroy council seat, deemed her Women’s work in India. Frederick Maccabe, once England’s favored entertainer, now aged exile in Ormskirk workhouse after earlier U S visit.
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United States Army
St. Louis
Missouri Volunteers
Carl Stein Kuchler
Peeee
Philadelphia House of Correction
Ruben McChesney
Pennypack
India
Solomon Gassoon
Bombay
Social Democrats Emerge in Haverhill Election Debate
A reader argues that Haverhill’s elected officials and representatives belong to the Social Democratic party, not the Socialist Labor party. The letter defends the new party’s goals, condemns Old Party tactics, and cites Carey and Seates as Social Democrats with victories on November 8 and December 6.
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Haverhill
Socialist Labor Party
Chase
James IF. Carey
Lewis Seates
Social Democratic Party
New Socialist Party
Chicago
Main Haverhill
New Party
Bona Fide
Trades Union Movement
James F. Carey
Marlboro
Social Democratic Party of America
Social Democrat
Choate’s St Patrick Speech Sparks Years of Fire
Portrait of Joseph Hodges Choate the London envoy as a calm, suave debater who once roused a storm with his St Patrick's Day oration. The piece recalls his sharp wit, fearless courtroom style, and a later clash with Richard Croker, including his Balak/Balaam satire and Croker’s public rebuttals.
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Croker
Joseph Hodges Choate
London
Rufus Choate
Mr. Choate
Choate
New England
John Choate
Massachusetts
New England Society
Roscoe Conkling
Shakspere
Mars
San Francisco
Supreme Court
van Brunt
Justice Andrews
Justice van Brunt
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
America
Ireland
England
Atlantic
Pacific
Father Gladstone
New York
Richard Croker
Chickering Hall
Mr. Croker
Balaam
Word Transpire Defined By Reader Letter
A reader letter asks the editor to confirm that among Webster's definitions the word transpire means to perspire or sweat. The note cites definitions including excrete through the skin and exhale.
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Morning Post
Lynn
Question on crime comparisons between Athens and other cities
A reader asks whether a Monday issue article elevating Boston crime rates proves more crime nationwide than all but two places, or instead reflects Athens residents’ strong morality and law enforcement. January 10 letter by T W Silloway.
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Boston
Edward R. Byram
Donahoe’s
Thomas Barry
Hamet
John Gilbert
Charles Fechter
Charlotte Cushman
Edwin Forrest
E. L. Davenport
Mary Anderson
Lawrence Barrett
John Wilkes Booth
Edwin Booth
Mr. Tompkins
Athens
Union
T. W. Silloway
Unique camel hair lounging robe with black velvet trim
Describes a lounge robe made from white camel hair and white China silk with a large jet buckle at the left waist. It features an enormous collar, wide revers, black velvet embroidery, and loose sleeves embroidered to the elbow, suited for half mourning and highlighted by matching velvet ribbons.
Choate Predecessors Representing U S at Court of St James
Compilation traces American envoys to Great Britain from 1776 to 1899, naming Franklin Deane Jefferson Adams Jay Monroe Gallatin Bayard and Choate among others. Notes multiple terms, paths to leadership roles, and cultural impact of diplomats across eras.
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Court of St. James
Benjami Franklin
Pennsylvania
Silas Deane
Connecticut
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Europe
Jefferson
Arthur Lee
John Adams
Massachusetts
Great Britain
Francis Dana
John Jay
New York
Henry Laurens
South Carolina
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Pinckney
John Day
Rufus King
James Monroe
Jonathan Russell
Rhode Island
Albert Gallatin
John Quincy Adams
James A. Bayard
Delaware
Henry Clay
Kentucky
Louis McLane
Martin van Buren
Andrew Stevenson
Edward Everett
Maryland
George Bancroft
Albert Lawrence
Joe J. Ingersoll
James Buchanan
Edward J. Phelps
Vermont
Robert T. Lincoln
Ilinois
Thomas I
Bayard
John Hay
Ohio
England
Mr. Choate
Salem
St. James
United States
John Quincey Adams
George M. Dallas
James K. Polk
United States Supreme Court
Treasury
Richard Bush
Edward Jiverett
America
Lothrop Motley
James Russell Lowell
Edwards Pierrepont
Grant
Thomas F. Bayard
Robert
Schenck
Witty exchanges and quips from early 20th century papers
A collage of humor from papers like Tit-Bits and Cleveland Leader. Jokes include a dentist threatening a nerve, a life insurance agent fearing ruin, a public official well paid, a father with plumbago, a pun on pain in the back, and a Christmas gift quandary for Mrs Harebus.
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Chicago Post
Chicago
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Boston Post
Democratic
Sunday Post
M’kinley and Foraker
Theo
Paint and Oil Club
Henry H. Sprague
Metropolitan Water Board
Wells
Street Department
Bulwer Lytton
A. T. Stewart
Colonel Hilton
Reek
Home Market Club
Park Street
Lawrence
Mallalieu
Dewey
Massachusetts Avenue
Frank P. Stone
Austin & Stone’s Museum
Miami
Fla
Havana
Florida
Stone
Cuba
Senator Lodge
Davis
William McK. Osborne
Napoleon
William
Louise B. Robinson
Tuileries
Boston University
General Wheeler
Turkey
Kipling
Bob” Evans
Federal Street
CE Kendall Co
Gertrude C. Oliver
Fourth Street
East Cambridge, Mass
Uhen Vnclurla
Cimiez
Frederick Maccabe
Orneskirk
Choatiana
Sesesesesese Ssssbrss
POST
CRIME
Opes
Porrze D
G. Corr
Bob Props
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