Millionaire Spaulding's Charities Stir Town Gossip
The Post's story on Millionaire Spaulding's gifts wins praise at United States Hotel while readers and receivers critique inaccuracies. The eight donors received forty shares each, and Spaulding refutes claims about the Sugar Trust and the Revere refinery as well as discussing his bachelor lifestyle and agnostic interests.
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The
Post
United States
Spaulding
Hickey
Tilly Haynes
Mr. Haynes
Post Mam
Miss Miller
Miss Bates
Miss Potter
Miss O’neil
Miss Jones
Miss Collins
Fanny Kelley
Missing Bark Atlantic Post at Lloyds as Missing
London January 18 The bark Atlantic commanded by Tellefesen from Chatham New Brunswick bound for Liverpool has been posted as missing at Lloyds.
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London
Atlantic
Tellefesen
Chatham
N. B
Liverpool
Lloyds
Controversy Over Executive Council Rule Change
The Massachusetts Executive Council debates altering its committee appointment rule. David Hall Rice leads a push to let the Governor appoint all standing and statutory committees, stripping the Governor of veto power via council approval. Governor Russell condemns the move as unconstitutional, eight to one passes the rule with Donovan dissenting. A constitutional amendment proposal to abolish the Executive Council follows.
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Massachusetts
Osborne
William E. Russell
Rice
Morgan
Springfield
Mr. Rice
Donovan
Senate
House
Council
Leeson of
Newton
Russell
Roger Walcott
Executive Council
City of Atlanta Afloat After Midstream Fire Loss Likely
Fire aboard the Old Dominion line steamer City of Atlanta at East Nineteenth Street berth causes crew to flee ashore and cut cables. Fireboats fail to save the vessel, valued at about $60,000, as tugs attempt to hold her until drifted downriver. Built thirty years ago, she normally operated between the port and West Point, Virginia.
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Porter
City of
Atlanta
Old Dominion Line
East Eighteenth Street
Bole
West Point
Entertainment at the Christian Union by Fay Davis and Matt Dow
A large attendance at the Christian Union enjoyed last evening’s program featuring Fay Davis and Matt Dow in a varied entertainment segment.
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The
Christian Union
Fay Davis
Matt Dow
Powderly Voices to 2700 at Tremont Temple Monster Meeting
General Master Workman T. V. Powderly addressed about twenty seven hundred attendees at Tremont Temple last night. Local Knights of Labor officials and representatives from American Federation of Labor unions joined in a full house with State Master Workman Canning and District Master Workman M. J. Padden among the platform party. The crowd cheered as Powderly spoke, with officials present signaling strong labor unity.
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Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Powderly
Canning
M. J. Padden
Boston Labor Rally Highlights Knights of Labor Vision
State Master Workman Canning praised government ownership of telegraphs and phones while condemning the American Federation of Labor and praising the Knights of Labor. He assailed the Bouve Crawford boycott stance and criticized the local street department. The gathering was one of Boston's largest labor meetings despite a late adjournment at 10 30.
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Canning
Pennsylvania
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Central Labor Union
Bouve-Crawford
Boston
National League for Good Roads Urges Nonpartisan Road Policy
Washington June 18 The National League for Good Roads convened and resolved to separate road building from partisan action. A committee chaired by Senator Chandler urged Congress to grant a league charter and, in the interim, to form a state chartered organization. It also urged a $15,000 appropriation for the Agriculture Department to survey U S highways.
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National League For Good Roads
William E. Chandler
Congress
League
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Multiple State Legislatures Elect United States Senators
In joint sessions across several states on January 18 officials announced re election or election of U S Senators. Edward Murphy Jr Stephen White Cockrell Davis Stockbridge Turpie Bate Quay were named as winners in Albany Sacramento Jefferson City St Paul Lansing Indianapolis Nashville Harrisburg.
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Albany
Edward Murphy, Jr
United States
Sacramento
Cal
Stephen M. White
Charles N. Felton
Jeffeison City
Cockrell
St. Paul
Minn
Davis
Lansing
Mich
Stockbridge
Lypianapolis
Ind
David Turpie
Nashville
Tenne
Bate
Harriscure
Penn
Quay
Jack Frost Persists The Cold Deepens Across New England
Across New England the coldest period on record spreads fear of a water shortage and higher coal prices while hydrants freeze and sailing is postponed. Yet communities enjoy skating tobogganing and carnival sport as winter lingers, prompting residents to endure the long severe spell.
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New England
Vermont
Maine
Jack Frost
Jack
Ice King Seizes Essex Coast as Harbors Freeze Tight
Across Essex the ice king holds full sway with all harbors frozen. Three schooners, including the William Thomas from Calais with lumber, lie anchored in Salem Harbor. Salem’s ice extent matches the 1875 record, while Topsfield reports 16 degrees below zero, the county’s lowest in years.
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Sautm
Essex
Salem Harbor
William Thomas
Calais
Topsfield
Bancroft Cruiser Delayed by Ice at Moore's Yards
EnizanerH New Jersey January 18 The US cruiser Bancroft was to depart for Newport for her official trial today but the Sound is frozen solid leaving her fast in the ice at Moore's Sons yards and delaying the move.
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Enizanerh
N. J
United States
Bancroft
Newport
Moore’s Sons
Ice Reaches Twenty Inches Thick in Athol Cold Snap
Athol records a new cold spell with temperatures at twenty six degrees below zero. The night’s reading dips two degrees from yesterday, while river and pond ice thickens to twenty inches and remains clear as crystal.
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Athol
Subzero Streak Hits Twenty-Seven Days in Barre
In Barre Vermont the January thaw is absent as the thermometer stays below zero for a twenty-seventh straight day. This morning the reading reached 24 degrees below, prompting fears of a water famine for residents dependent on winter supplies.
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Barre
Steamer Recta Ashore At Cape May Point Shoal
The steamer Recta with 3000 tons of iron ore is aground at Cape May Point shoal. First Officer Grose and Captain Sooy from Cold Spring Life Saving Station landed. Heavy ice with ebb tide. cargo to be jettisoned. A tug is sent, pilot Stevens to board with life saving crew.
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N. J
Recta
Cape May Point Shoal
Grose
Sooy
Cold Spring
Stevens
Frost Stops Mills In Vermont Severe Cold Freeze
Cuestrer Vermont reports the coldest spell of the season with temperatures from twenty one to thirty below causing streams to freeze solid. Mills stop, and farmers struggle to water stock as households lack domestic water. A thaw is needed to avert a water famine.
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Cuestrer
Hydrants Frozen Up Deters Ice Slide Event
Alderman Brady urged the streets superintendent to send watering carts to Middle Street for an ice slide attracting 1500 revelers. He offered to fund watering but hydrants remained frozen drawing sharp criticism of the official, while insurers threaten higher rates unless hydrants thaw.
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Varn River
Brady
Middle Street
Word Quiz Winner Finds Answer in Paley Text
John T Murphy won last week’s missing word premium from a Post advertisement. He solved the line It is in those things which are so common as to be no distinction that the amplitude of the divine benignity is perceived by finding the word amplitude on Paley’s Natural Theology page 153. He previously worked for Donahoe’s Magazine and now sells at Globe clothing.
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John T. Murphy
Murphy
Rogers
Silver Money and a Boston Boot and Shoe Dinner Debate
The Boston Boot and Shoe Club banquet at Hotel Brunswick drew about 150 leaders including Ken nard and bank presidents. Fred Nazro presided as speakers urged international bimetallism to revive silver money. E Benjamin Andrews and James G Cannon warned of exchange friction hindering trade. Congressman Harter urged stopping silver purchases to prevent further government losses and to maintain a gold standard, urging shoe trade members to lobby Congress and Senators.
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Boston Boot and Shoe Club
Brunswick
United States
Kennard
Fred H. Nazro
E. Benjamin Andrews
Brown University
International Monetary Conference
Brussels
James G. Cannon
Fourth National Bank of New York
Harter
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
Sam
Congress
Michael D. Harter
Death of Ex President Hayes Shocks Senate and House
The Senate announced the death of Rutherford Birchard Hayes at Fremont Ohio. Leaders including Charles Foster Noble Rusk and Wanamaker were chosen to represent the President. House members eulogized Hayes as a soldier and statesman and the chamber adjourned in his memory. The Cullom bill faced a markup with the interstate commerce committee rejecting the railroad pooling provision.
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Noble
Rusk
Wanamaker
Fremont
Senate
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Holman
Indiana
Committee On Appropriations
Haynes
Ohio
Hayes
O’neil
Pennsylvania
Messrs
J. D. Taylor
Enochs and Outhwaite
Sherman
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Autobiography of Butler to Public with 1150 Pages
General Butler writes an autobiography now ready for public purchase. The 1150 page work includes 200 engravings and is praised as typographically splendid. It recounts military career, law, politics, and statesmanship with dramatic, romantic detail. A. M. Thayer & Co. publish and anticipate large orders, reflecting Butler as a beloved Bay State figure.
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A. M. Thayer & Co
Old Bay State
Glimpses of Hayes Life After Sheridan Death
After General Sheridan's death General Hayes led the Loyal Legion Commandery of the United States and attended its meetings. He visited his son Richard Hayes in Toledo and Cleve land where Webb C. Hayes works with the National Carbon Company. Richard, a partner in Swayn Swayn & Hayes, has one child and the Hayes family includes sons Bud and Scott and daughter Fanny. Hayes bought clothes from village stores and wore a slouch hat from Bamberger's. He was engaged to marry his cousin Mary Ann Hayes Bigelow of Brattleboro Vermont, but the wedding was postponed due to her eldest son Russell's death. Bigelow's widow Mary Ann was once wealthy William A. Bigelow.
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General Hayes
Loyal Legion
United States
Richard Hayes
Toledo
Cleveland
Webb C. Hayes
National Carbon Company
Swayn, Swayn & Hayes
Mr. Hayes
Philip Gottoon
Bamberger
Mary Ann Hayes Bigelow
Brattleboro
Death of Old Man Found On Fitchburg Tracks
The body of G. H. Jacobs of Littleton was found on the Fitchburg railroad track early this forenoon. He had been struck by a train. He was old and we ded.
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Concord
G. H. Jacobs
Littleton
Fitchburg
Estate sale of Nash jewelry stock in Randolph
The administrator of the late James E. Nash of Randolph Mass offers a bulk sale of miscellaneous jewelry optical goods and jewellers tools from his estate. Appraised over 600 by three trade experts and to be sold at a large cash discount. For details contact the administrator.
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James E. Nash
Randolph, Mass
Nash
Harvard Yale Debate Ends With Harvard Victory In Round
Harvard defeated Yale 1485 to 1403 on points after judges rated both substance and delivery. Carl Vrooman Donnelly Cummings and Stone argued for Yale and Harvard disputants Warren and others urged restraint and pooling reform. An informal banquet followed at Youngs Hotel with Harvard Union officers hosting.
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Brown
E. R. A. Seligman
Columbia
W. E. Barrett
Barrett
Harvard
Yale
Young’s Hotel
Harvard Union
Miners Burned Alive in Pennsylvanian Accident
Harreuton Penn January 18 The report says a terrible accident at No 5 Stockton last evening left two Polish miners entombed one likely dead and the other possibly smothered awaiting rescue conducted at the mine site amid grim efforts to reach them.
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Harreuton
Penn
No. 5
Stockton
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