Eight Hour Plan Faces City Council Debate
John C. Short leads a push to have the city petition the Legislature for the eight hour system in all departments. Opponents warn of higher costs and poorer living standards, while supporters argue for labor rights and citywide parity. The measure passes 39 to 27 as council enacts other actions and adjourns after midnight.
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John C. Short
Common Council
Short
Wilson
Ward 9
Ladd
Ward 10
State of Massachusetts
United States
Blume
Ward 11
Mr. Blume
Boston
Order
Friends of Labor
Carroll
Ward 15
Committee On Elections
Thomas F. Nunan
Robert Provan
Mr. Nunan
Edwin F. Dunn
William H. Oakes
Provan
Dunn
Whall
O’brien
Suit Against Bell Began In United States Circuit Court
Papers filed in Boston mark the start of the Bell Telephone case in the U S Circuit Court. The government alleges Bell failed to fully disclose his invention and used fraud to obtain patents, naming prior inventors and caveats, and questions the validity and duration of Bell’s patents in both Britain and the United States. The suit seeks judicial review and possible cancellation or modification of the patents.
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Bell Telephone
Boston
Washington
United States
Stearns
Circuit Court
Columbus
Bell
Patent Office
Alexander Graham Bell
Philip Reis
Germany
Gray
Reis
Varley
Meucer
Edison
Dolbear
Bell Telephone Company
Solitition
Great Britain
Elegant Commonwealth Hotel Ball Draws Bright Social Crowd
A stylish evening at the Commonwealth Hotel featured seventy five couples in elegant attire amid smilax and flowers. Mrs Lovell and the planning committee received guests with Baldwin's Cadet orchestra providing music, as supper followed late dancing and high praise for the event's management.
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Commonwealth Hotel
Smilax
Karma
T. P. Lovell
J. A. Moore
R. W. Carter
George A. Fullerton
Francklyn W. Howes
Messrs
E. B. Rundlett
H. Landon Hurlburt
Evelyn B. Goosell
Herman P. Chelius
Baldwin
Kent
Ex-Commissioner Williamson Speaks on Railroads and Lands
A Boston club dinner features ex-commissioner J M Williamson on land grants for transcontinental lines. Guests include Oliver Ames and Charles Francis Adams as discussions argue railroads profited from government land grants while Adams notes Union Pacific’s repayment through land value, cheaper transport, and ending Indian warfare.
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Mr. Foster
Cain
Foster
Edward Atkinson
Atkinson
George B. Loring
Frank Ames
Providence
Guild
Oliver Ames
Commonwealth
Charles Francis Adams
Union Pacific Railway
H. C. Nutt
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
George C. Lord
Boston & Maine Railroad
E. B. Phillips
Fitchburg Railroad
J. W. Converse
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad
J. M. Williamson
United States Land Office
J. M. Forbes
H. Price Collier
Isaac T. Burr
Richard Briggs
Boston
J.M. Forbes
Forbes
Briggs
Alden Speare
Daniel Webster
Buffalo
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
West
Isaac ‘I’. Burr
Williamson
Texas Pacific
Northern Pacific
Oakes
Oakes Ames
Union Pacific
Algonquin Club elects officers and expands premises
At the annual Algonquin Club election John F. Andrew was named president with Alexander H. Rice Stanton Blake William Gaston and others as officers and executives. The club has begun building a new house on Commonwealth Avenue after a $120 000 payment and plans occupancy within two years. Sixty seventy five new members were added last year bringing total to 360. James Trainer of Malden was stricken with paralysis and is critically ill.
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Algonquin Club
John F. Andrew
Alexander H. Rice
Stanton Blake
William Gaston
William Bliss
Charles P. Searle
Francis M. Stanwood
Asa P.potter
Thomas O. Richardson
Charles W. Parker
Robert Batcheller
Samuel P. Mandell
George B. Clapp
John C. Balderston
A. Pierce Green
George Mixter
Henry W. Dodd
Josiah W. Hayden
Arthur F. Estabrook
Dwight Braman
Commonwealth Avenue
Dacey
Williamson
Porter
Darling
Canning
Griffin
Dunn
Swasey
Walker
Lasker
Hall
McDonald
Roeth
Gallagher
Murphy
Horace Mann
Samuel Eliot
Hygiene
R. D. Elliott
Crowley
Blake
S. Eliot
Granger
Fallon
Hyde
Walsh
Chapin
St. Eliot
Rooth
Eliot
Trial in Fitzgerald Williams suit details alleged seduction
Rebuttal testimony in Superior Court mirrors accusations against Father Fitzgerald. Agnes Gardner denies accusing him of seduction. she recounts past liberties felt not ill intent. Witnesses discuss Hawkins Street affair and broader financial notices show several companies entering receivership.
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Fitzgerald-Williams
Aldrich
Superior Court
H. Burr Crandall
Mr. Kennedy
Agnes Gardner
Miss Gardner
Father Fitzgerald
Bridget O’connor
Lynn
Hawkins Street
Gaston
R. M. Morse, Jr
Donahue
Morse
Rome
United States Hotel Directors Hold Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the directors of the United States Hotel was held last evening with a majority present. Reports of the year were presented and accepted. After business, a sumptuous repast was enjoyed by officers and invited guests.
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United States Hotel Directors
United States Hotel
City Notes Recitals and Local Events at Boston Venues
Various city notices report a reception at Priday Street for the Eng ration, an upcoming Rienzi performance at the Boston Theatre starring Miriam O'Leary, and police praise for Patrolman Michael Neil. Also listed are society gatherings at Evans Hall, Washington Lodge anniversary, a musician's death in Brookline, poultry exhibition plans, a well-attended YMCA entertainment, Griffis Japan lecture, railroad officials thanking police after a strike, Military History Society officers, Five Forks talk, Rogers system fire alarms demo, Furniture Travellers’ dinner, and English high school class gathering at Young’s Hotel.
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Fish High School Assoc School
Montgomery
Miriam O'Leary
Boston Museem Company
Rienzi
Boston
Lawrence Barrett
Station 3
Michael Neil
Boston Relief Association
N. Dyer, Jr
J. ©. Tucker
H. Parkman
George Forristall
Horace B. Fisher
Brookline
William Lust
Providence
R. I
Massachusetts Poultry Association
Young’s
Boston Young Men’s Christian Association Hall
E. K. Hood
Reader
Weber
William Elliot Griffis
D.D
Japan
Powers
Consolidated Railroad
Board of Police
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts
Charles Devens
Samuel M. Quincy
Edward B. Robins
John C. Ropes
Francis A. Walker
Theodore Lyman
Battle of
Five Forks
William W. Swan
Rogers
City Hall
Furniture Travellers’ Association
G. J. Harrison
New York
Philadelphia
Young’s Hotel
Court list from the Massachusetts supreme and superior courts
The January 13 session lists cases before Chief Justice Morton and others, with dockets for the Supreme Judicial Court and several Superior Court matters, including tort and contract actions. It covers numerous parties and lawyers, plus a school board meeting announcing committee assignments for the current year.
Legal notices of two tort actions in East Cambridge court
No 1846 Jennie L Wright versus Charles E Whorf et al seeks damages after being run over by defendants express wagon with verdict for plaintiff 6708 Champlin Ryther Wentworth for plaintiff Winslow for defendant No 1551 James Aylward versus John O Brien claims ownership of two pews in St John East Cambridge church and alleges theft and destruction of sacred fixtures by the defendant with ongoing dispute over church ownership and Pew removal by church society
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Jennie L. Wright
Charles E. Whorf
Champlin, Ryther & Wentworth
H. H. Winslow
James Aylward
John O’brien
St. John
Cambridge
St. John’s Church
Mudee v Welch nuisance suit over steam engine near house
Action of tort brought by plaintiff to recover damages for an alleged nuisance caused by a steam engine and boiler maintained by defendant near the plaintiff's residence. Defense is a general denial. Attorneys Hurlburt and Lucie for plaintiff Niles and Carr for defendant. Also listed in order are Bird v Stevens Shatner v Bohaker Strong v City of Gloucester.
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Welch
Hurlburt & Lucie
Niles & Carr
Bird
Stevens
Shatner
Bohaker
Strong
City of
Gloucester
Winchester Home for Women Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
The Winchester Home for Aged Women in Charles Town held its annual meeting in Trinity Methodist Church vestry. Officers chosen include Liverus Hull as President and Charles E. Daniels as Treasurer, with a full slate of trustees, officers and members-at-large listed.
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Winchester
Winchester Home For
Charlestown
Trinity Methodist Church
Board of Managers
Liverus Hull
T. T. Sawyer
Francis Childs
John Turner
Charles E. Daniels
Abram E. Cutter
Anthony
Morss
M. D. Balfour
C. BE. Daniels
C. F. Byam
William Tufts
Abby Tufts
L. Hull
J. Q. Lowell
J. Q. A. Bolster
John Pierce
George A. Whiting
A. Littlefield
Nahum Chapin
Nelson Bartlett
Fr. A. Downing
W.E. Carleton
E. G. Byam
W. A. Byam
George W. Little
George S. Poole
J. F. Hunnewell
Charles Butler
Stephen Merrill
Peter Baker
Horatio Wellington
William Murray
J. M. Stone
O. C. Everett
Jacob Forster
Andrew J. Locke
James Spratt
J. P. Hilton
C. B. Goodrich
Daniel Johnson
William C. Murray
Thomas G. Frothingham
D. B. Weston
P. J. Stone
Enoch J. Clark
Knights of the Golden Eagle Hold Massachusetts Ball
The first battalion of the Massachusetts division of the Order of Knights of the Golden Eagle held its annual ball at Berkeley Halls with about six hundred attendees. The event featured gold and blue regalia and elegant dress, with proceeds to defray travel expenses for the May 22 visit to New York for the Supreme Castle meeting.
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Massachusetts
Order of Knights of the Golden Eagle
Berkeley Halls
New York
Supreme Castle
First WCTU Meeting At Clarendon Street Church
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union held its first weekly meeting last evening in the vestry of Clarendon Street Church. Meetings will occur at the same place on consecutive Thursdays for the rest of winter. C W Sawyer spoke on alcohol’s terrible consequences. Students from the New England Conservatory of Music performed, including Annie Gates Ollie Wright Ada Hollingsworth Ethel Newcomb Gertrude Lyon and Melle Shoots. Mrs Clements accompanied on piano.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Clarendon Street
C. W. Sawyer
New England Conservatory of Music
Annie Gates
Ollie Wright
Ada Hollingsworth
Ethel Newcomb
Gertrude Lyon
Melle Shoots
Clements
James Pyle Pearline Washing Compound Uses
Pearline Washing Compound is used as directed on each package and will save one half the time labor and drudgery of washing. It reduces rubbing and prolongs the life of clothing and paint according to the advertisement.
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James Pyle
Pearline versus imitation goods drives strong sales in 1886
The advertisement warns about 100 dangerous imitators under priding themselves as superior. It notes 15,000,000 packages of James Pyle's Pearline were consumed in 1886 among discerning customers who reject pedlar goods. It urges readers to choose Pearline, manufactured by James Pyle in New York.
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James Pyle
Pedler
New York
Proposal for Albany Street Bridge Bid Opening
Sealed bids addressed to the city engineer will be received at City Hall Boston until 12 o clock noon on Thursday January 20 1887 for building Albany Street Bridge. Plans and contract forms available after January 12 1887. Bidders urged to inspect site. City engineer may reject any or all bids.
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City Enineer
City Hall
Boston
City of City Hall
William Jackson
Office
Freestone for Chestnut Hill Pumping Station Sealed Bids
Boston Water Board invites sealed proposals for freestone to build a new Pumping Station at Chestnut Hill Reservoir Ward 25. Each bid must include a $1000 certified check. Plans available at City Architect Office. Light-House District office in Tompkinsville invites bids for chains and ballast balls by Jan 20 1887 with similar bid terms.
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City Hall
Boston
Boston Water Board
Chestnut Mill Reservoir
Ward 25
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
H. J. Rockwell
Weather Indications For New England And Eastern New York
For 24 hours starting 7 a.m. Friday January 14 southerly winds shift to westerly across New England and eastern New York with rain or snow and a slight rise in temperature.
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Washington, D. C
New England
New York
Social hop at United States Hotel draws cities guests
A large gathering attended the first of a series of social hops at the United States Hotel last evening. Prominent attendees included George G. Crocker Uriel Crocker Tilly Haynes E C Carrigan state board of education Upham Galvin Miller and daughter Louisville Ky Romans Roach Pasumpsic railroad officer Western Union supervisor Sandwich attendees Captain Sampson and others. The second series is planned for Thursday evening the 27th.
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United States Hotel
George G. Crocker
Uriel Crocker
Tilly Haynes
James G. Hickey
E. C. Carrigan
State Board of Education
Upham
Galvin
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