Massachusetts Senate May Consider Commission for Cotton Industry Inquiry
The Senate debated bills and orders including a five member special commission to investigate Massachusetts cotton manufacturing. An investigation into alleged coaline purchases by an engineering department-affiliated firm was postponed after initial calls for probes.
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Senate
Massachusetts
Bradford
Boston
House
McCarthy
Innes
Folsom
Thomas F. Madden
Irwin
Gallivan
Williams Bill Seeks Massachusetts Cotton Industry Commission
Senator Williams of Norfolk introduces a bill to appoint within thirty days a five member commission to study cotton manufacturing in Massachusetts. The panel, with two manufacturing reps and two labor reps, will compare conditions with other states, wages, efficiency, hours, regulations, earnings impact, industrial development, and social effects, and report by the next Legislature's second Wednesday in January.
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Williams
Norfolk
Committee On Manufactures
Massachusetts
Boston Bill Proposes Board of Aldermen and Local Liquor Reforms
The State House reports a draft bill for a Boston Board of Aldermen with nineteen nominees per party and district slots. Liquor laws heat up with local option districts and an excise board proposal while labor measures set hour limits and half holidays for mercantile and public employees.
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Boston
Moran
Fall River
Ramsay
Lowell
Davis
Cambridge
Radical Cure for Piles Endorsed by Evangelist Budlong
An 1804 testimonial from Ashaway Rhode Island reads that Pond s Extract Co remedy effected a radical cure for piles. The evangelist Budlong of Ashaway endorses the treatment, urging sufferers to try it.
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Pond's Extract Co
New York
Budlong
Evangelist
Ashaway, R. 1
Connecticut River Improvement Opens Water Traffic to Holyoke
The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners reports that making the Connecticut River navigable to Holyoke and Springfield would boost Massachusetts prosperity. It argues water transport would start immediately to Holyoke, support interior manufacturing, lower costs, and extend benefits statewide.
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Connecticut
Springfield
Holyoke
Massachusetts
Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners
Hird
Commonwealth
Congress
Connecticut Valley
Eight Roxbury Boys in Court for Burglary
Eight boys average 16 years appeared before Judge Bolster in Roxbury District Court on breaking and entering charges. Officers from Station 10 detained them. Kelly 17 and Krammer 17 were held for the grand jury in 600. Fielding 16 and Giroux 16 sent to the State Reformatory. Hart 16 found not guilty. Ryan 16 Young 12 and McGown 16 placed on probation. Fielding and Giroux appealed and also held for the grand jury.
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Bolster
Roxbury
Lane
Station 10
Joseph Kelly
John Krammer
Beni
Eugene Fielding
Albert Giroux
Elliot Young
Thomas Ryan
Thomas Hart
Edward McGown
Kelly
Krammer
Fielding
Giroux
State Reformatory
Hart
Ryan
Young
McGown
Mayor Seeks Outside Debt Limit For Park System
Boston Aldermen proceed on public works as council debates debt limit loan for park expansion. Mayor Quincy pushes 1 000 000 loan for park construction while authorizing transfers, school builds, and street widenings. Board postpones action on the outside debt limit.
City transfers funds and advances on street projects
An order reallocates 10 000 from Leonard street extension to Granger street extension. Additional loan orders authorize 60 000 for the Board of Street Commissioners to plan territory and land sections and 50 000 for the wires department. A new East Boston ferry is authorized for construction. The park commission order proceeds.
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Sioners
General Court
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Water Department
Park Department
Norton Street
Park Commissioners
M Street
South
Boston
Blue Hill Avenue
Talbot Avenue
Morton Street
Ward 23
Hyde Park Avenue
Walk
City Record
Boston Transit Commission
East
Committee On Public Improvements
Leonard Street
Granger Street
Board of Street Commissioners
Commissioner of Wires Department
East Boston
Park Commis
City council rejects loan for Blue Hill avenue extension
The Common Council defeated a 224000 loan for public works, including the Blue Hill avenue extension, by 36 to 14, short of the 50 votes needed. It also passed a 350000 appropriation for sewer division maintenance and rejected a transfer from Back Bay sewer funds to pave Gibson street yard. A petition from the Sons of the American Revolution to fund marking graves was approved.
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Superior Court
Quincy
Dyar
Codman
Charles
Conry
Cleary
C’s
Presho
Codman, Norton
O’toole
J. Mitchell Galvin
John F. Dever
Edward J. Leary
Gaston
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Blue Hill Avenue
Walk Hill Street
Harvard Street
Boston Street
Mt. Vernon Street
Edward Everett Square
Blue Hill
Suffolk County Reformatory
Common Council
Board of Aldermen
Back Bay
Gibson Street
Sons of the American Revolution
Cemetery Commission
Watson
Ward 18
Miller
Committee On Rules
Wells
Ruggles
Parker Streets
Park Commissioners
Generals Court
Theatre Notes Spark Boston Scene and Touring Artists
A lively round of performances fills Boston venues with strong notices for A Normandy Wedding and Julius Caesar at the Park and Grand Opera House. Hanford and Lowell win applause as Brutus and Antony while Marie Dromnah and Miss Timbermann headline.
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Park Theatre
Merry Opera
Boston
Grand Opera House
Mr. Keene
Julius Cesar
Calphurnia
Miss Timbermann
Portia
Tremont Theatre
Anna Held
Little
the Cat and the
the Bride Elect” Company
Philadelphia
L’orage
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Wilson Barrett
Mrs Bazin to Be Buried at Chelsea Home Today
Mrs Mary P Bazin Sunday school pioneer to be buried from her home 30 Blomingdale Street Chelsea today at 2 pm. Services led by Rev C H Pape pastor of First Church and Rev Cc E Jefferson of Chelsea.
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Mary P. Bazin
Blomingdale Street
Chelsea
C. H. Pape
First Church
Cc. E. Jefferson
Eda Nichols Portrays Maid of Orleans at Steinert Hall
Miss Eda Lulette Nichols presented a condensed story from Mark Twain on Joan of Arc before a large Steinert Hall audience. Dressed in white India silk and a silver fleur de lis girdle, she outlined three parts: preparation revelation and trial. Emma Tuttle James and Myra Louise Pond aided with guidance and music by William Heinrich.
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Orleans
Eda Lulette Nichols
Steinert Hall
Mark Twain
Sieur le Conte
Jeanne
France
Emma Tuttle James
Hallie Ermine Rives Admitted To Brooklyn Sanitarium
Hallie Ermine Rives, the young Southern authoress, is hospitalized in Brooklyn after hostile criticism of Smoking Flax. Overworked over the strain of new Southern problem volumes she was moved from the Waldorf yesterday seeking recuperative quiet. Her doctor hopes recovery in a week or two, though she needs a long rest. She defends lynch law and is cousin to Amelie Rives.
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New York
Hallie Ermine Rives
Brooklyn
Waldorf
Miss Rives
Amelie Rives
Immigrants Pouring In To New York Ahead Of Law
The January 27 report notes a surge of arrivals as the new immigration law nears enforcement. The steamship Tartar Prince brought 720 steerage passengers from Italian ports, signaling heightened entry pressure that the law would soon limit.
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New York
Jurors in Quandary Over Board of Aldermen Deadlock
District attorney may reject as competent the 34 jurors drawn for the Superior Criminal Court after the board failed to agree on its chair. Meanwhile the Air Line Limited advertises daylight travel from Boston Park Square to New York Grand Central at 1 PM with 6 PM arrival.
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Harry Bryant
W. B. Watson
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Maude Odell
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Marie D. Shotwell
Cumberland
Jessie Bartlett Davis
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Newport
New Bedford
Kneeland Street
Marlloro
Blitchburg
Leominster
Clinton
L. H. Palmer
Boston Pageonger
E. G. Allen
Bus Route Notes for Lakeport and Nearby Stops
Southern division outlines a runs only to Lakeport with limited stops and connections. It states it does not stop at Weirs Warren Bethlehem Junction Twin Mountain and Fabyans except Franklin only with weekend adjustments.
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Maauaustat
D. m
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Maschester
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A. m
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Halifax
Stephen N. B
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Glen
Grawfords
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Campton
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Lisbon
Littleton
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Fabyan House
White Mountain
el Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Bristol
Claremont
Hanover
ST. Johnsbury
Ee Sherbrooke
Quebec
ST. 3
L. C
Cc. P. Ry
Bethlehem
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