Resolutions in Favor of Honest Money Rise in Massachusetts House
The Massachusetts House debated substitutes to oppose free coinage of silver and the debasement of currency. Wardwell and Quincy clashed over the broader substitute, with a party-line vote rejecting a delay. The House adopted Wardwell’s substitute and then endorsed a bankruptcy bill favoring Congress action. Senate committees organized. bills on biennial elections and public petitions discussed. Cottage Insane Asylum panel report received.
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National Treasury
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Chante
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Mellen
Worcester
Peeiaame
Murray
Fitchburg
Ellen
Mr. Mellen
Ann
Meilen
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Gould
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General Court
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Public health commission approves cottage system for new hospital
Commissioners report purchasing about 80 acres in Med field and Dover plus meadow land for 20 250. Plans and specs accompany the measure. The act authorizes a hospital for 1000 patients at a cost not to exceed 500 000.
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Sioners
Medfield
Dover
Will of General Charles Devens Distributed Among Kin
Worcester January 16. The will filed with probate details burial at Mt. Auburn and a family trust. Mary Devens may receive $20,000 held in trust for her until marriage, with principal then in her name. A. Lithgow Devens and Thomas M. Osborne receive $20,000 each to hold for Mary, plus various bequests to siblings, nieces, and cousins.
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Charles Devens
Register of Probate
Mt. Auburn
A. Lithgow Devens
General Devens
Boston
Mary Devens
Agnes D. Osborne
Thomas M. Devens
Agnes H. Devens
Agnes R. E. Devens
Artha L. Devens
Caroline Morris
Jancis P. Sherburne
Helen Crocker
Henry Devens
Lost in the many waltz at the fourth annual union ball
The Clothing Cutters and Trimmers Union held its fourth annual reception and ball at Mechanics' Building drawing hundreds of attendees. Edmonds's full orchestra provided music as the event ran late. Guests included Boston Common Council president D. F. Barry and Representative Rosnosky, with invitations extended by the American Express Employees Aid Society.
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Clothing Cutters’ & Trimmers’ Union
Mechanics’ Building
Relief Fund
Edmonds
D. F. Barry
Boston Common Council
Rosnosky
American Express Company
Employees’ Aid Society
Music Hall
Noble Society
Boston
New England
New York
Excursion Parties From Boston for Transcontinental Trips
Two February departures under Messrs Raymond and Whitcomb will take members from Boston across the continent by special Pullman palace cars and vestibuled diners. Return trips to California available with guided or independent options, tickets valid until next July. Departures set for Feb 3 and Feb 12 via Akinstad and New Orleans or Chicago and Santa Fe, with a Washington party on Feb 20. Descriptive programmes available at 296 Washington Street.
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California
Ainstanad
New Orleans
Chicago
Santa Fe
Mexico
Washington
Washington Street
School Street
Debate on a fixed gold to silver ratio in currency
The letter to the Editor criticizes calls for a fixed gold to silver ratio in world currency. It questions past Paris conferences of 1878 and 1881, arguing the aim is impractical. It cites historical ratios and proposes alternatives while noting the American 1 to 15.98 and Latin Union bids. Cambridge, January 1891. RK. N. Torran.
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Paris
Athens
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Brandis
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Cambridge
RK. N. Torran
Mails for Overseas Destinations and Pacific Routes
Shipping notices list mail closures for January from Boston New Orleans and ports in the Caribbean to Europe and Pacific destinations. Steamships Samaria Hispania Alliance Zealander City of Peking and other vessels carry letters to Great Britain Ireland Brazil La Plata and Hawaiian regions with deadlines January 17 January 20 and February 1 provided by RANS Pacific Mails division.
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Halifax
Boston
Costa Rica
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Hispania
New Orleans
Bluefields
Nic
Ant Zambrano
Great Britain
Rans-Pacific Mails
Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco
O Cressociaty’ Islands
City of Pelt
Soeton
Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Zealan Ain
SA Francisco
Bealbe
Shipping notices and sailings from the harbor list
The report lists cleard foreign steamers bound for Boston Yarmouth and Savannah with masters and destinations. It records at anchor ships bound out Roger Drury Willie H Higgins and John C ae HIGHLAND LIGHT weather observations and hull winds. It notes the steamship Banes with tug N W No 2 towing a barge from Norfolk and a separate Philadelphia bound schooner Margue rite Tripp.
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Hewitson
Liverpol
Alex Martin
Boston
Forbes
Yarmouth
John. G Hall & Co
Sachs Berma
Stewart
Annapolis
Golding
Elihu Burrets
Foster
Grana Manan
Delong & Seaman
Atavia A
Spearwater
Liverpool
Barclay, Clements & Co
Rebecca W Huddell
Tower
St John
Hatheway & Co
City of Macon
Lewis
Savannah
Richardson & Barnard
Forest City
Snowman
Williams
Katahdin
Pierce
Winterport
Calvin Austin
Ella
Montgomery
Portland
Glidden & Bridge
Freight and charter activity at Boston port rises
The Boston freight market shows improved activity with reduced home loading, many ships chartered at profitable rates, and offshore demand for coal to the West Indies. Several vessels engaged from Boston, New York, and other ports report higher rates, while coastwise business remains light.
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Hou Winship
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Lisbon
Staves
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General Cargo
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Rio Janeiro
Curacoa
Stockton
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Trinidad
Washington
June Bright
Cienfuegos
Lympsum
J Sawyer
Kezia
Portland
Porto Rico
Lamp Sum
Providence
West Coast
P J Carleton
San Diego
Coastwisk
Lark
Andrews
Apalachicola
Rockland
Camden
Schora Dunn
Satilla River
Addie E Snow
Rockport
Key West
GK Green
Belfast
Annapolis
Oc Pton
McKay
Gloucester
Elizabethport
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Bayonne
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Red Beach
Charleston
Henry Withington
CE Morrison
Wilmington
Del
Higgins
Pool
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Rose
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McClellan
Portsmouth
Venus
Alexander Yeats
Sydney
Gronsvaer
Port Elizabeth
Sound lighthouse upgrade and marine notes rollout
Sound Massachusetts to exhibit a fixed white tubular lantern light ten feet above the focal plane starting January 26 1891. The tubular lantern will hang from an iron standard on the lantern deck while the present light remains active. Marine notes list vessels classed by the American Shipmasters Association including Parkentine Steadfast Laura Mount and George s ... with reports of ship arrivals, wrecks, and divers in New York Boston and various ports, plus updates on vessel statuses and port entries.
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Commonwealth of Massachussetts
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Broad Street
Atlantic Avenue
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John L. Katchelder
Aal Commissioner's
Elisha Thayer
Suffolk Reeds
Houston Heating Company
Hyps
Dickinson & Howe
Ozama
Rockwell
Port de Paix
Inagua
Boston Dyewood Co
Tol A Flanders
Hi M Whitney
Hallet
New York
H M Whitney
Katahdin
Pierce
Winterport
Forest City
Snowman
Portland
City of Gloucester
Proctor
Gloucester
Watertown
Day
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Salem
Annie M Small
Boston
Howes
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Emmerton
Edward Lawrence
Cape of Good Hope
St Helena
Equator
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Baker
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Perkins
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Mass
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Haggerty
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Norombega
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