Marchioness Ajuria Known to Royalty in New York
New York report details the status and letters of the Marchioness Isabella de Ajuria who is suing Russell Sage for 75000 dollars. Letters from Mgr O Connell Princess Beatrice secretary to the Queen of Italy and Chauncey Depew praised her miniature paintings. She remains at Mt Vernon with brother Richard Saalfield while bills and rumors swirl.
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New York
Isabella de Ajuria
Russell Sage
Mgr
O’connell
Beatrice
Princess Henry of Battenberg
Italy
Herbert Gladstone
Chauncey Mr. Depew
Marchioness
Mt. Vernon
Richard A. Saalfield
West Sixtyninth Street
Ajuria
Mtt. Vernon
Queen Victoria
Princess Beatrice
Princess Henry of
Richard Saalfield
Broadway
Strecker Butterfly Collection Bought by American Museum
On January 17 the American Museum of Natural History secured the Strecker collection of butterflies for 20000 dollars from heirs of Dr. Herman Strecker the butterfly man. The sale includes 370000 specimens with a notable pink moth from Sierra Leone costing 107 dollars and will enhance the museum’s famed insect holdings.
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New York
Dean Hoffman
Episcopal Theological Seminary
American Museum of Natural History
Strecker
America
Herman Strecker
Sierra Leone
Africa
Myers Plans Short Legislature With 10 Day Cut
Speaker James J. Myers of the House presses for a short session and enforcement of the twelfth joint rule to block late bills. Filing deadline is January 31 and no extensions. President Soule backs no delays in committee reports as hearings continue. The scene includes petitions on fines for poisoning animals and a bill for a half holiday on election day. The Massachusetts school fund rose to 4,470,548.14 as volunteers' pay bills and printing of Revised Statutes are debated.
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James J. Myers
House of Representatives
Committee On Rules
Myers
House
Soule
John KE
Merritt
W. Whitlock
Hancock
Brockton
Massachusetts School Fund
Ways and Means Committee
Boston Ward 16 recount hearing resumes in Foley Lawrence case
The House elections committee resumed its hearing on the Foley Lawrence contested election in Ward 16 Boston. Lawrence named Chairman Charles R. Saunders of the Boston Election Board. Foley counsel Jennings drew laughs by claiming Mr. unders as a witness. Saunders detailed the recount with other election officers testifying. The committee adjourned to Monday at 10 o'clock.
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House Elections Committee
Foley-Lawrence
Boston
Lawrence
Charles R. Saunders
Boston Election Board
Jennings
Foley
Unders
Saunders
Three-Year Term Proposed for Town Clerks
Robert T. Swan, commissioner of public records, urges in his annual report that town clerks be elected for a three year term rather than the current one year term. He argues longer terms would improve continuity and efficiency in local government.
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Robert T. Swan
Public Records
Commission urged to fix salaries of park board members
Chairman William EB Delan Casas and Ea win U Curtis of the Metropolitan Park Commission appeared before the committee on public service in favor of Governor Crane's inaugural proposal to permanently fix salaries by the Legislature. Commissioner Edwin J Curtis said he would not devote the same time for $8000 as last year.
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William EB
Delan Casas
Eawin U. Curtis
Metropolitan Park Commission
Committee On Public Service
Crane
Edwin J. Curtis
Railroads seek authority to use tracks in Brockton area
Attorney Robert P. Clapp appeared before railroad commissioners in support of Brockton and Plymouth Street Railway Company to use Old Colony street railway tracks. No opposition was raised and the matter was taken under advisement. Final arguments were made on locations granted by the Waitham Board of Aldermen for Waltham Street Railway and Lexington and Poston Street Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert P. Clapp
Railroad Commissioners
Brockton & Plymouth Street Railway Company
Old Colony Street Railway
Waltham Street Railway Company
Lexington & Poston Street Railway
Waitham Board of Aldermen
Hearing on Wishard Game Commission salary raise
Yesterday the committee on public service reviewed the Wishard Game Commission annual report recommending raising Chairman Collins salary from 1800 to 2700 dollars per year. There was no opposition and the matter was taken under advisement.
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Committee On Public Service
Wishard Game Commission
Collins
Wu Gave Tit for Tat at Clover Club Dinner
Chinese minister Wu Ting Fang met the Clover Club in Philadelphia for a ten minute exchange. He joked about interruptions, noted differences with China, and praised restraint. Guests included Captain Clarke, Representatives Grosvenor and Hooker, Senator McLaurin, Senator Penrose, Captain Sigsbee, and Charles Emory Smith.
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Philadelphia
Wu Ting Fang
Clover Club
China
Captain Clarke
United States
Edward VII
Baltimore
Grosvenor and
Hooker
Senator McLaurin
South Carolina
Penrose
Sigsbee
Charles Emory Smith
Reform panel weighs bulletin printing fix by contract rule
The joint rules committee received an Attorney General Parker ruling that buying 1200 copies of the bulletin from a private firm would breach the Commonwealth state printers contract. President Sousa Speaker Myers and Representative McNary of Boston formed a sub committee to decide open reform on the bulletin’s issuance.
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Joint Rules Committee
Parker
Commonwealth
Sousa
Myers
McNary
Boston
Bargain Sale at Morse's Store in Haymarket
Customer asks about bargains as Morse's repeats deep discounts on mens pens and overcoats and suits. Prices drop from 35 and 30 to 20 and 15 and further down to 7.50 and 10. The caller plans to visit the store to see the rest.
Bank Directors Testify in Danvers Bank Wreck Trial
Horace Bushby, longtime director of South Danvers National Bank, testified about loans to Dickinson and others, noting notes were presented to directors for approval and that the 1899 1900 examinations revealed Dickinson’s indebtedness near 148000 dollars. Albert Whitten, another director, said notes had not been presented for discount before March meetings and that directors lacked full awareness of Dickinson’s paper until shortly before the March session.
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Horace Bushby
South Danvers
South Danvers National Bank
George M. Foster
John W. Dickinson
United States District Court
Dickinson
Ww. E. Dickinson& Co
W. HH. Whorpe
Pennacook Manufacturing Company
Alabama Kaolin Company
Plumbers’ Woodworking Company
J Pitch
Foster
Dickinson’s
Mickinson
Albert H. Whitten
Bushby
J. W. Dickinson
Brokers Watch Griffen Case at the Supreme Judicial Court
The case involves Corey Milliken & Co. brokers of 53 State street and John H Griffen of Newmarket N H. Griffen says he did margin trading and was wiped out, claiming the brokers failed to close out and that he should recover $1200 under a statute for nondelivery margins. The bankers seek an injunction to release bank attachments and argue Griffen never made the alleged contract. The suit is under review after a demurrer was sustained in Superior Court.
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Corey, Milliken & Co
State Street
John H. Griffen
Newmarket
N. H
Supreme Judicial Court
Griffen
Corey, Milliiken & Co
Whipple, Sears & Gden
Equity
Smith Held on $5000 Bond in Fatal Greenfield Assault
Witnesses in District Court described an alleged brutal assault by Edward F. Smith on Henry N. Warner on December 28. Warner died two days later. Smith, a Black man, was held for the grand jury after failing to post bond. Mrs. Warner testified Smith knocked her husband down with a chair and beat him with a flatiron, then refused to leave.
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Greenfield
Edward F. Smith
Henry N. Warner
Warner
Smith
Miss Susan Pratt Returns From Japan Missionary Work
Miss Susan Pratt, seven years in Japan under Union Missionary Society of New York, visits Medford Hillside on vacation. She supervised GO women in Yokohama distributing Bloles for seven years, brings back carved wood work and a goldthread robe. She toured the Holy Land and major European cities, and spoke in Philadelphia and Scranton since returning, with plans to resume Yokohama school in March.
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Susan Pratt
Japan
Medford
Farsarl & Co
Yokohama
Susie A. Pratt
Medford Hillside
Mdford
Hillside Street
Fratt
Union Missionary Society of New York
Pratt
Holy Land
Naples
Rome
Switzerland
London
United States
Philadelphia
Scranton
Yokoham
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New York & Florida Express
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Hoffman
New York Museum
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Purdy
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Park Commissioners
Salartes
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Philadelphia Clover Club
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Haymarket
Morse’s
Washington and Brattle Streets
Borden
Fall River
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Danvers Bank Directors Dazed
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