Boston Dost. Firet Page Reports and Notes
The item catalog lists sections across pages including Latest Reports by Telegraph and Mail Local and General News on the first page. It mentions specialized sections such as Ethics of Dynamite Flying Roll All-Sorts Bird's-Eye Views and a Jump Page with Financial Commercial Market Reports Marriages Deaths Court Record Business Troubles Railroad Matters Local Public Park Obituary and Hotel Arrivals Ship News Meteorological Reports The Legislature on later pages.
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Telegraph and Mail
Jefferson Davis Honored by Maryland Confederate Society
The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Baltimore elected Jefferson Davis an honorary member on January 13. Davis replied, praising Maryland’s Christian charity and gallantry, and promised to pass the membership certificate to his descendants as a tribute to the “old soldiers of the Maryland line.”
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Baltimore
Society of the Army and Navy of
Jeff Davis
Confederate States
Maryland
Jefferson Davis
Awkward Position of Affairs-Efforts to Harmonize
Springfield Illinois January 26 The delay in forming a state officers canvass due to the house not organizing has kept Gov Oglesby and other elected officials from taking office for two weeks The situation has become costly as successors receive salaries while the canvass stalls The newly elected officials seek a temporary house organization resolution to invite the senate to meet for the canvass to proceed
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Springfield
Oglesby
House
Senate
Weavers Strike at Wamsutta Mills No 1 and 4
About 60 weavers at Wamsutta mills Nos. 1 and 4 in New Bedford left their looms this morning amid a dispute described by officers as a misunderstanding. Mill No 1 had been idle two weeks for engine repairs and cut production by assigning three looms to wide cloth instead of four, but pay remained the same. Workers are said to be responding philosophically while officials work to resolve the issue.
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New BedFort
Mass
Wamsutta
Senate in Augusta Tables Bills on Portland Rail Lease
In Augusta Maine on January 26 the senate met after noon. A bill was introduced to allow Portland to form a lease with the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad and to enable bond and coupon holders to organize a powers unlimited corporation to lease consolidate connect or complete the road. The city would deliver the road if a contract is made. A committee was formed to work with the house committee on equalizing salaries of county officers.
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Augusta
Senate
Agricultural Experiment Station
Potland
Portland and Ogdensburg
Houe
Despondent assistant treasurer hanged in Janborn
Ibernorr Jan 26 Abrama Spoun an assistant with treasurer slain himself by hanging early this morning at the Hops and Matt Bitters company’s store. He had been formerly employed there and was to marry tomorrow. Despondency over illness named as cause.
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Ibernorr
Abrama Spoun
Wity
Hops
Matt Bitters
Tomb of Boston Merchant Thos Simpson Dies in New York
Thomas Simpson of the dry goods firm Simpson Crawford & Simpson died last night in New York from pneumonia. He formerly worked with Hoge Brown & Taylor of Boston and later started Simpson Oswald & Co at Lawrence Massachusetts. His remains will be interred there on Thursday.
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New York
Thos, Simpson
Simpson, Crawford & Siimpson
Depeased
House of Hoge, Brown & Taylor
Boston
House of Simpson, Oswald & Co
Lawrence
Mass
Writ of Privy Seal Exhibition Debuts in Boston
The article notes a Writ of Privy Seal issued by George Jr will be republished in the current week's Post. The parchment is on display as a war exhibition at the Bostonian Society rooms in the old State House for a limited time.
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George Jr
Bostonian Society
Old State House
Siege of Dover Shocks City as Army Converts Grow
Dover January 26 Common Councilman Benjamin T Whitehouse of ward 4 aids the Salvation Army last night his action causes surprise. The army has made 105 converts here W T Pray who assaulted two members Friday night offers 25 to settle but the army refuses to compromise.
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Dover
N. H
Benjamin T. Whitehouse
W.T. Pray
Worcester man sentenced for man slaughter in kerosene case
In Worcester Superior Court Franklin Pierce was sentenced to two years in the house of correction for man slaughter after causing the death of a woman by external application of kerosene oil while acting as a physician during her illness.
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Worcester
Mass
Franklin Pierce
House of Correction
Steamship Line Announces Steerage Rates to Chicago
Curcaco January 26 A circular to the local agent lists steerage fares to Chicago from Liverpool ten dollars Dublin eleven London thirteen Stockholm eighteen Berlin sixteen eighty and specifies these as passenger gates aboard the steamship line.
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Curcaco
Ines
Chicago
Liverpool
Dublin
London
Stockholm
Berlin
Four Arrested After Notre Dame de Lourdes Disturbance
Fall River Mass January 26 four participants in yesterday's disturbance at the church of Notre Dame de Lourdes were arrested today on a peace disturbance complaint filed by Rev. Father McGee the pastor. They are to be arraigned tomorrow.
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Fall River
Mass
Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes
Father McGee
Child crushed by gravel train in Lowell tragedy
Lowell Massachusetts January 26 Frank Bowen three year old helper on the Billerica and Bedford railroad fell beneath a gravel train and died at St John hospital this evening.
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Lowell
Mass
Frank Bowen
Billerica and Bedford
St. John’s Hospital
Notable Olio of Letters and Travels in New England and Beyond
A string of brief notices lists figures from Theodore Lyman to editors Watkins and Kittridge, noting dinners, trips, marriages, and health updates. Highlights include Farnum Runnells celebrating his ninetieth birthday, Sidney Webster at the Vendome, and travel plans for Boston journalists sailing January 27. Also mentioned are estate terms for Theodore Dean, a New York police retiree Richarda Edgridge, Ex-Gov St John in Chicago, and a Rhode Island senate selection praised for outspoken leadership.
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Theodore Lyman
Washington
Watkins
Oxford
New Orleans
Kittridge
Boston Journal of Commerce
New South
Daniel Marey
Portsmouth
N. H
Farnum Runnells
Hopkinton
Sidney Webster, Esq
Daniel Webster
Vendome
Thorpe
Missey
Ole Bull
C. H. Ingalls
North Adams
Arizona
New York
Theodore Dean
Taunton
St. John
Chicago
Minnesota
J. 8
Clarkson
Des Moines
Daily Advertiser
Jonathan Close
United States Senate
Rhode Island
Brookline i Cronicie
goods sale advert joins plush sacs at low prices
J B Wildes at 5446 Washington street runs an attractive advertisement this morning announcing the sale of 500 plush sacques at very low prices. The message urges readers to call and inspect his stock.
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J.B. Wildes
Washington Street
Illinois Senate Seat in Flux and Morison Predicted
Special dispatch from Washington reports a Chicago congressman saying a Democrat will likely win the Illinois Senate seat, Morrison favored for caucus nomination, and Logan may be left vacant for two years. Contests in House one seat shy of a party majority could affect a joint ballot. Discussion of adjournment and Governor Oglesby proroguing the legislature follows. Dynamite talk surfaces as Capitol chatter, likened to street corner gossip.
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Logan
Senate
Washington
Chicago
Morrison
Ways and Means Committee
House
Oglesby
Illinois
Hewitt
Capitol
School
Tremont Street
The Dynamite Resolution Passes Senate After Debate
In Washington January 26 the Senate passed Bayards dynamite outrage resolution after a sharp debate. Riddleberger urged postponement to amend with slain names and deny Irish causation, Hoar defended Massachusetts Irish and neutrality, Gibson pressed for passage, Hawley called it a world civilization clash, final vote 62 to 1 with Riddleberger lone negative.
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Washington
Senate
Bayard
Riddleberger
Committee On Foreign Affairs
England
Mr. Hoar
Massachusetts
Ireland
Hoar
Great Britain
Gibson
Louisiana
Hawley
America
van Wyck
Further Awards by the Court on Alabama Claims
In Washington on January 26 the court of commissioners of Alabama claims announced numerous judgments with interest from dates. Names include Frederick M. Swain, James R. Bayley, Eben Summer, Wim H. Swazey, Warren Currier, Mary Brooks, Austin Whitney, John P. Whitney, Mary Margaret Nell, George W. Jackman Jr, Nathaniel Pierce, Nathaniel H. Edmund, Elizabeth Emmons, James P. Martin, George E. Lane, Henry C. Wainwright and Isaac P. Wainwright, John T. Morse Jr, Francis G. H. Appleton, John H. Bradlee, C. A. Brewer, George W. Wales, F. Way, Rob ert Clark, George H. Thorn, B. K. Jamison, Andrew Nickerson, W. N. Nickerson, F. W. Nickerson & Co., Winslow Nickerson, Adeline T. Nickerson, Crespy, Ben R. Converse, James H. Beal, Thos Mayo, Thos B Bradford, Paul Sears, R. W. Hopkins, R. H. Smith, Sam D. Carleton, J. H. Sears, Alfred Winsor, Jos H Sears, Sally Cropsy, Elisha F Sears, L. A. Eldridge, M. Pray, M. H. Foster, Charles Merribar, Francis Jacques, Jos. Converse, and James W. Converse among others. Several dates in 1863–1884 are cited with various awarded sums.
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Washington
Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims
Frederick M. Swain
James R. Bayley
Eben Summer
Wim. H. Swazey
Warren Currier
Sumner,Swazey & Currier
Mary Brooks
Austin Whitney
John P. Whitney
Mary Margaret Nell
George W. Jackman, Jr
Nathaniel Pierce
Nathaniel H. Edmund
B. Wales & Co
Elizabeth W. Emmons
James P. Martin
George E. Lane
Henry C. Wainwright
Isaac P. Wainwright
John T. Morse
Francis Gh. Appleton
John H. Bradlee
H. Bradlee
William Minot, Jr
C. A. Brewer
Executrix
George W. Wales
F. Way
Robert Clark
George H. Thorn
B. K. Jamison
Andrew Nickerson
W. N. Nickerson
F. W. Nickerson & Co., Assignees of Late Firm of F. W. Nickerson & Co
Winslow Nickerson
Adeline T. Nickerson
Thos. Mayo
Thos. B. Bradford
Paul Sears
R. W. Hopkins
R. H. Smith
Sam D. Carleton
P. J. Carlieton
J. H. Sears
H. Bangs
Alfred Winsor
Jos. H. Sears
Sally Crospy
Elisha F. Sears
L. A. Eldridge
M. Pray
M. H. Foster
Administratrix
Charles Merribar
Francis Jacques
Jos. H. Converse
James W. Converse
Letter to His Former Physician Sparks States Rights Debate
Washington January 26 A letter from Jefferson Davis to Dr A Y P Garnett discusses wartime options to send Confederate troops into Kentucky. Davis says he could not violate state rights by occupying Kentucky and emphasizes affection for the state and belief in its rights and remedies.
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Washington
National Republican
A. Y. P. Garnett
Jefferson Davis
Hidell
Davis
Garnett
Kentucky
Nicaraguan treaty debate and yellow fever alerts
In executive session today senators Thurman Miller Edmunds and Bayard spoke on the Nicaraguan treaty. Bayard aligns with Sherman and says the Clayton-Bulwer treaty remains in force while urging no action to burden the incoming administration. Surgeon General Hamilton reports malignant yellow fever in Panama and Colon with about 2400 Panama burials in 1884 and calls for strict watch on vessels from Colon and Panama. Miscellaneous notes mention First Lieut. Eros A. Garlington.
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Thurman
Miller
Edmunds
Bayard
Sherman
Hamilton
Marine Hospital Service
Panama
Colon
United States
Eros A. Garlington
Cavalry Officer Ordered to Recruit in Dakota Department
The eighteenth cavalry of the U.S. Army has relinquished the unexpired portion of leave and must report to Jefferson Barracks Missouri to lead the first detachment of recruits to the Dakota department. Senator Beck introduces a bill to pay one year’s salary to the widow of E M Wing minister to Ecuador. Senator Dawes introduces a bill to create an assistant chief signal officer with colonel rank.
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Enth Cavalry
U.S. A
Jefferson Barracks
Mounted Recruiting Service
Department of the Dakota
Beck To-Day
E. Mumsay Wing
United States
Ecuador
Dawes To-Day
War of Rates Dominates New York Coal Talk
In New York representatives of anthracite coal firms met at No 1 Broadway led by Sloan of Lackawanna and Gowen of Reading to uphold a plan excluding the Pennsylvania railroad. They add 1,000,000 tons to annual output, funded by higher end-use coal, while the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio join a separate bituminous alliance. Emigrant rate war persists with West Shore debuting $1 fares at Castle Garden for transatlantic-bound travelers, though full Chicago routes remain unsettled.
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Boston Post
New York
No. 1
Broadway
Sloan
Lackawanna
F.B. Gowen
Reading
The
Pennsylvania
Pardee
Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania Roads
Chicago
West Shore
National Line
Spain
Castle Garden
Pensylvania
West Shore Road
Atlantic
Grand Trunk Road
Europe
Bremen
Baltimore
Gustave Schwab
Indefinite shutdown hits Oliver & Roberts wire mill Pittsburg
Multiple 1900s style notices: naval promotion for Samuel H Baker USN. San Francisco earthquake tremor at 1 35 AM. French Senate elections tally 48 republican 21 conservative. Costa Rican canal treaty dispute. Galveston pays Capt Eads 10000 per foot water. militia movement in Maryland. West Virginia hurricane. stock losses from barn collapses. Wells of cotton exchange linked to suicide. Wethersfield prison warden dies. Julius Lieske arrest in Germany. Dora Afferman arson case. Beirul Beoul Beirul seized by Italian expedition. death of Herbert T ripp from apoplexy. Westminster Hall explosion damages. heavy Italian Alps snowfall 300 lives lost. Gatineau land eviction for mineral deposits. Montreal toboggan hills lit. ice palace inauguration. Oklahoma boomers in territory with Col Hatch. Truro customs law violations. Chinese orphan girl testimony. Dallas cotton swindle details. Oswego libel indictment. J G Jenkins financial warning. Rufe Miner arrest. Nassau sponge market slump.
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Oliver & Roberts
Pittsburg
Samuel H. Baker
San Francisco
France
Zavada
Frelinghuysen
Galveston
West Virginia
Clinton G. Wells
Cotton Exchange
Augustus Sargent
Connecticut
Wethersfield
Julius Lieske
Hockenheim
Germany
Rampf#1
Frankfort
Elgin
Ill
Dora Afferman
Assab Bay
Beirul
Beloul
Red Sea
Assab
Westminster Hall
House of Commons
Upper
Gatineau
Quebec
Montreal
Ica
Couch
Col. Hatch
Twenty-Fourth Infantry
Truro
N. S
of Customs
Crowe
Custom House
Hong Kong
San Francisco Saturdau
Jaston
Dallas
Tex
Baum
Lowenstein
Cammack
J. G. Jenkins
Oswego
N. Y
Jenkins
Pratt & Co
Rufe’ Miner
Charles Stewart
Pine
Gus Rogers
Looney
National City Bank of Brooklyn
Fie
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Nassau
N. P
Ont Islands
New York
City Free Soup Program Starts January 28
By order of the police commissioners the city will provide free soup to deserving persons commencing Wednesday morning Jan 28. Distribution points include Division 1 at 48 Charlestown Street Division 5 at 23 Fay Street Division 6 at Station House 2 Athens Street Division 7 at Station House Division 8 at 2 North Ferry Avenue Division 9 at rear 9 Winslow Street Division 15 at 4 Chelsea Street.
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Charlestown Street
Fay Street
Athens Street
Station House
North Ferry Avenue
Winslow Street
Chelsea Street
Britain’s Fright and Cunningham Arraignment
London remains tense after dynamite blasts with crowds threatening the arrested Cunningham. Police tighten security around Westminster and the tower while protectors inspect parcels and safeguard law courts. Detectives guard Dover Calais travelers and limelight photos document damaged interiors as investigators seek the explosive’s precise compound. Cunningham’s possible confession prompts rail detours and detectives aboard trains to seaports.
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London
Cunningham
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Daily Telegraph
Westminster Hall
Parliament Houses
Tower
Westminster
Cox
Vole
The
Freeman’s Journal
Ireland
Clerkenwell
England
Stock Exchange
New Law Courts
Dover-Calais
Col
Majendie
Parliament
Examination in London Prisoner Cunningham Remanded
The London session details Cunningham a Cork native with five years in the United States and recent arrival from New York. He used a cockney pose but confessed under examination, known in Whitechapel as Dalton and linked to a suspicious box in Scarboro street. He is about 28 with American Irish-American speech and was remanded for a week.
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Lonndon
Cunningham
Cork
United States
England
New York
Whitechapel
Dalton
Liverpool
Perion Cunningham
Scarboro Street
London
Pall Mall Gazette
the Gazette
America
O’donovan Rossa
Russia
Germany
St. James Gazette
Tonpon
Windsor Castle
Bow Street
Police Seek Details On Suspicious Parliament Visitors
London police issue a notice asking visitors at Parliament to report any information about a man and a woman seen together in the afternoon. The man is 35 to 40, 5 feet 10 inches, brown overcoat, billycock hat. the woman about 40, short, dark dress, seal skin cloak. Fifteen detectives arrived from London to aid the inquiry and two work with French detectives.
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London
Parliament
Dover
Cunningham
Whitechapel
Mr Boyle O Reilly on the London Dynamite Outrage
The Boston Pilot weighs the London dynamite blasts as a clash of Ireland and England. It argues the acts reflect oppression and call for justice and gentleness, condemning violence while urging fair treatment for Ireland and restraint from Britain. It notes Phoenix Park killings and England’s harsh rule, urging reform and restraint.
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John Boyle O’reilly
Boston Pilot
London
Ireland
England
Tower of London
House of Commons
Westminster Hall
Britain
Europe
Liberty Bell Arrival Sparks New Orleans Reception
In New Orleans on January 26, Jefferson Davis met the train bearing the Philadelphia Liberty Bell at Beauvoir Miss and delivered a brief speech. The city lit with salutes flags and whistles as a grand Music Hall reception was planned for Wednesday, while Davis praised the bell as a symbol of harmony and honest convictions.
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New Orleans
Philadelphia
Jefferson Davis
Beauvoir
Miss
Music Hall
Davis
States of the Union
At the Theatres in Boston Transit Shows and Opera Notes
Boston stay for a short season features a run at Horticultural Hall starting Friday Jan 30. Globe Theatre debuts Devil's Auction with Maffit and Butler praised for Egypt scenes. Fanny Davenport stars Fedora at Park Theatre with strong company, while Zozo at Howard is panned as indelicate. Minstrels Thatcher Primrose West impress. Campanari Hall concert highlighted by Beethoven and Mendelssohn works.
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Boston
Horticultural Hall
Globe
Thatcher, Primrose
West
Zozo
Howard
Fanny Davenport
Madeline
Pere Androche
Chrystaline
Carlos
Count Fortune
Chaos
Toby
Janet
Imp
Egypt
Golden Palace
China
Herbert Brothers
Maffit
Miles Cappellini
von Roceky
Brambilla
Fedora
Park Theatre
Sardou
Fanny
Blanche Weaver
Olga
McDowell
DeSerieux
the Howard
Howard Athenium
Kingdom of
Lorenzo
Mephistopheles
Bobby Gaylor
George Melville
Lester and Williams
Mile
Rudolph
Trovatore
Seamen Worthy of Aid Debate Across Boston Sailor Cases
The Post addresses criticism by Missionary Welsh of destitute sailors who sought aid at the Baptist Bethel. It lists sailors’ records from voyages and vessels, defending their status as genuine seamen while detailing recent harbor incidents and relief efforts by the Boston Seaman's Friend society.
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Baptist
Boston
Seaman’s Friend Society
Hanover Street
Mr. Welsh
J. Michael Johnson
Mitchell Johnson
Welsh
Frank Stoddard
Mr. Stoddard
Stoddard
James Riddle
Mitchell
Seigert
Gardner Deering
Mystic Wharf
Baltimore
Abfe
H. Gallagher
Thomas Borden
Fall River
John Taylor
Gardiner
Augustus Hunt
Baker
Michael Johnson
S. G. Nickerson
Gloucester
Chelsea Marine Hospital
Stephen Spooks
J. Allen
Andrew Thompson
Moon Street
A. Oliver
J. H. Chadwick
Pernambuco
Charlestown
Mass
J. Foster
River Platte
Mariner & Williams
United States Shipping Commissioner’s Office
Portland
C. Sanders
Rodgers
James Rothwell
Newport News
J. A. Lansen
Commercial Street
B. Seigert
Buenos Ayres
Glasgow
Capt. Scott
W. Ruffy
Tna Street
Montreal
F. Jones
Case Against Mutual Benefit Association Won by Defendant
In Fall River a suit by William H. Hurley as administrator of Owen Connors seeks 5000 dollars from Union Mutual Benefit Association on Connors life certificate. The plaintiff claims the association insured Connors for 5000 and must pay the named beneficiary. The defendant demurred, contending the declaration lacks a levy of assessment and a legal cause of action. Judge Aldrich sustained the demurrer after argument by Braley, Sullivan, Merritt, and Merritt.
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Mutual Benefit
Mutual Benefit Associations
Fall River
William H. Hurley
Owen Connors
Union Mutual Benefit Association
Said Connors
Connors
Aldrich
Messrs. Braley and Sullivan
Merritt
Boston
Death of Ex Mayor Wightman Prompts Aldermanic action
The Boston board of aldermen honors ex mayor Joseph M. Wightman who served in 1861 62 and as a registrar of voters. Resolutions call for a funeral committee and half mast flag display. Several appointments and petitions follow, including ward division and bridges committee reports. The water board requests legislation to allow graded water rates for manufacturers.
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TER
Joseph M. Wightman
Boston
Wightman
Alderman Aller
Allen
Cutter
Paint and Clay Club
West Street
E. M. McPherson
Trenton Street
Prescott Street
James L. Carr
Magnolia Street
Dorchester
Sears Estate
Dudley Street
Perkins Street
Tufts Street
Charlestown
George Street
Roxbury
Otis Eddy
Commercial Street
Ward 24
Old Colony
Said Street
Dorchester Avenue
Jeremiah Cronin
B Street
Fourth Street
Joseph Bennett
Union Street
Brighton
Leighton
Donovan
Essex Street
John E. Piehell
Dennis Murphy
Neponset
John Glaven
Chelsea
D. S. Lawrence
Miles Keen
Beacon Street
Western Avenue
Watertown
H. D. Henderson
Cambridge
Wm. Norton
Water Board
Washington
New York
E. Atkins & Co
Hart
Corporation Counsel
Committee On Water
Fiatt
Supreme Court
Annual Congregational Club Dinner Recaps New Members and Elections
Nearly 390 members attended the annual dinner at Horti cultural hall. New members admitted include Rev. George A. Gordon Rev. John A. Hamilton Austin R. Crosby Orrin S. Sanders M. D. Charles H. Paine A. T. Maynard Amos S. Young. The club numbers 364 after a net gain of 19. Officers elected include J. M. Hill as president after ballots. The evening featured remarks by Gov. Robinson and Hon. Chester Holcombe and a formal adjournment with thanks.
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Congregational Club
Horticultural Hall
George A. Gordon
John A. Hamilton
Austin R. Crosby
Orrin S. Sanders
M.D
Charles H. Paine
A. T. Maynard
Amos S. Young
I. N. Tarbox
I. M. Kidder
L. E. Coswell
George Stevens
C. W. Robinson
Pew
Rose
Club
A. H. Plumb
P. D
W. E. Merriman
D. D
D.W. Wilcox
George Hyde
Hamilton A. Hill
J. M. Www
Hail of
Cambridge
R. R. Bishop
Newton
Dr. Webb
Hill
J. M. W. Hill
Gov. Robinson
Poppes
Chester Holcombe
United States
Pekin
China
Thieves Steal From Mansion House During Break In
Isaac M. Southwick reports theft at the Mansion house on Washington Street. John H. Klein spots two men with a ladder on the roof. Special officers arrest Albert M. Mitchell and Thomas Williams. About $40 recovered at each residence. roughly $70 still missing.
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Isaac M. Southwick
Phenix
Green Street
Washington Street
John H. Klein
Klein
Franks
McCausland
Abbott
Albert M. Mitchell
Mobile
South Margin Street
Thomas Williams
Baker’s Alley
Arrests Reported for Theft and Forgery in City
John Bradford was arrested Monday morning for snatching a wallet from Mrs. Jesse Cameron on Washington Street. Joseph Carey alias Joseph Gunn was arrested Monday afternoon on larceny charges for a box of shirts blankets and fur trimmings valued at 25 50 from Merritt's Salem express wagon on Arch Street. At 3 30 P M Monday William Powell, painting the engine house on Charles River Bridge, fell overboard and was saved from drowning by citizens and Sergeant Sibley of the police boat Patrol. Benjamin E Rowe was arrested by Special Officer Watts on a forgery charge involving an order on John P Lovell & Sons for a leather jacket valued at 18. Several similar charges are said to be facing him.
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John Bradford
Jesse Cameron
Washington Street
Joseph Carey
Joseph Gunn
Fourth Division
Merritt
Salem Express
Arch Street
Wm. Powell
Charles River Bridge
Ser
City Missionary Society Annual Meeting Report
At the annual meeting the society read reports and held elections. Totals show receipts of 43,993.44 dollars including 16,737.48 for a fresh aid fund and a 10,000 dollar legacy from W. Swett. Missionaries made 53,993 visits during the year with preaching in two places and widespread distribution of tracts and bills, garments given away, and substantial pecuniary aid. Officers elected: President James White, Vice President Rev Edwin B Webb, Secretary Rev Albert H Plumb, Treasurer Samuel F Wilkins, Auditor Timothy Smith, and a 45‑member board drawn from the clergy and laity.
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City Missionary Society
Fresh Ain
James White
Edwin B. Webb
D. D
Albert H. Plumb
Samuel F. Wilkins
Timothy Smith
Cnergy
Arthus Knight case and local crime summaries
In New Haven Conn Arthur Knight died mystery months ago with medical examiner's finding of arsenic poisoning. Albert Champagne of Millbury reported robbed near Worcester losing money, a watch, and chain. Gules Sheridan arraigned for manslaughter in Lawrence police court with case continued. Autopsy on a little girl incident referenced. Harry J. Smith sentenced to three years in Worcester Superior Court for larceny after snatching money during a bill change scam.
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New Haven
Conn
Albert Champagne
Millbury
Worcester
Wools
Sheridan
Poice Court
Lawrence
Howe
Harry J. Smith
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This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!