Back Bay Lands Sold End of Long State Sales
The annual report of harbor and land commissioners shows all Back Bay state lands sold for 11 144 feet at 48 566 dollars. Since 1856 the state sold land totaling over 2.3 million feet, with public avenues donated to institutions and the remainder auctioned or sold privately. Net proceeds total 3 442 205 37 after filling costs, with market values rising in recent years.
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Harbor and Land Commissioners
Back Bay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Society of Natural History
State Board of Education
Normal Art School
Trinity Church
City of
Boston
Treasury
Pereet
Parker Street
Strong license measures prompt reform bill in Legislature
The Legislature heard reports from the Auditor and Harbor and Land Commissioners while debating a stringent liquor license bill. Key provisions include limiting licenses, higher fees, fixed non intoxicating limits, juror eligibility rules, and Sunday and minor restrictions. A second bill aims to reform wills law, with lawmakers extending new-business introduction time.
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Harbor and Land Commissioners
Back Bay
Law and Order League
Law and Order Leagues
House
Senate
Senate debates and bills in Massachusetts session report
The Senate defeated the House order to suspend the twelfth joint rule 20 to 14. Reads and Reed supported the order. Glines Hartwell Morse opposed. Several committee actions followed including withdraw proposals on grand jury, railroad consolidations, and highway notice timing. A Berkshires senator proposed education for deaf mutes and various liquor licensing and trial provisions were introduced or amended.
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House
Senate
Reads
Reed
Glines
Hartwell
Morse
Clark
Committee On the Judiciary
Henry O. Downing
Grand Jury
Norfolk County
Gould
Committee On Railroads
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Line Railroad
Phillips
Lynn
Boston & Lowell Railroad Corporation
Lee
Mystic River
Berkshire
American Asylum
Hartford
Clark Institution
Northampton
Currier
Supreme Court
Law and Order League
Massachusetts
United States
Supreme Judicial Court
Superior Court
Boston Legislature Notes and Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Boston lawmakers introduced bills on leave including a finance measure tying general class expenditures to approved sums with 5 percent limits for reserve and incidental funds. Another bill seeks a constitutional convention next August. Committees recommend hearing on Boston & Lowell rail petition with no cost to Commonwealth. Amendments propose city charter protections and witness limits at capital executions. Essex County petition seeks court house expansion and borrowing authority.
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Mr. Fitzgerald
Boston
Dresser
Commonwealth
Fitzgerald
Milliken
Malden
Essex County
Salem Court House
Back Bay Land Donation Net Gain Highlighted
The report tallies cash and cash value realizing a total of 4 275 644 73 for the Back Bay enterprise with 833 439 36 counted as donated land value for education and other uses. It notes the New York and New England Railroad's unfinished filling of adjacent territory and covers state coastal improvements under US government supervision with officers Gillespie and Eliot. It includes papers on shoals beachines and a history of the Hotel Kensington bay window cases.
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Back Bay
Commonwealth
Boston
New York & New England Railroad Company
United States
G. L. Gillespie
G. H. Eliot
Once a Year Sale At Macallar Parker & Co
Only once in a year can such a statement appear here. A fashionable warm durable overcoat and other garments from broken lots offered at material reductions from regular prices. Macallar Parker and Company announce this special sale today.
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Macallar,arker & Company
Year of Disasters Focused on 1779 80 in South Carolina
Mr. John Fiske spoke on The American Revolution in Old South Church, detailing a year of disasters from fall 1779 to fall 1780. He covered the Savannah defeat of D EEstaing and Lincoln, the Charleston siege and surrender, and criticized Lincoln's leadership while praising Marion and Sumter. He noted currency depreciation and promised Benedict Arnold's treachery will be his next topic.
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John Fiske
Old South Church
D’estaing
Lincoln
Savannah
Flere Pulaski
Charleston
Sir Henry Clinton
Fort Washington
South Carolina
Francis Marion
Thomas Sumpter
Fiske
Benedict Arnold
Roxbury High School Holds Twelfth Annual Alumni Reunion
The Roxbury High School alumni reunion at the Boston Latin School building last evening drew many guests including notable invitees who could not attend Governor Ames and Mayor O'Brien. The event featured speeches by invited guests, Baldwin's Cadet Band, piano accompaniment by William S. Rising, dancing, and a Caterer Tufts supper. Officers and committees led by F. G. Cartwright presided with I. H. Wilde as treasurer and Miss R. F. Oliver as vice president among others.
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Roxbury High School
Boston Latin School
Ames
O’brien
5. M. Weston
C. L. Flint
J. C. Crowley
J. G. Blake
W. C. Collar
To Peabody
L. Foster Morse
H. P. Stanwood
M. T. Brown
A. Shuman
Robert Bickford
Samuel Eliot
Charles TC. Gallagher
Phineas T. Bates
J. P. Jordan
Moody Merrill
A. L. Carter
Henry Martin
F. G. Cartwright
R. F. Oliver
I. H. Wilde
H. White
G. F. Wilde, Jr
C.C. Hill
H. C. Wirt
Bertha F. Heigh
Agnes Padelford
Asthur
C. C. Hill
Aids
Augustus Bacon, Jr
Stoddard Matinees to Feature Elizabeth Lecture at Music Hall
This afternoon at Music Hall Mr. Stoddard will lecture on Queen Elizabeth, promising an entertaining talk with illustrations. In Boston yesterday the Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co directors elected Elisha Thayer president, reelected W B Dustan as treasurer, with E G Peirce as superintendent and H A McGlenan handling business.
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Stoddard
Music Hall
Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company
Elisha Thayer
W. B. Dustan
E. G. Peirce
H. A. McGlenan
Wheat and Chaff in Society Lessons and London Anecdotes
A social column critiques young men’s manners and suggests a deportment school, praises amateur theater and a Boston club scene, and notes witty vignettes from London life. It recounts a universal provider Whitely in London, a Suez incident burlesque, a tale on wedding gifts, and a candy pull anecdote ending with a boy’s cash remark.
Boston City Notes Preview of Local Affairs and Meetings
The city notes outline readiness against smallpox a New York scare is unlikely in Boston. Governor Ames and Lt Governor Brackett to dine with Massachusetts Club guests. A British Charitable Society meeting at Young's Hotel will address ladies participation in the Queen Victoria Jubilee. Streets department reports about 60 000 dollars balance on Feb 1 with labor costs and half time likely next week. Joseph Cook to lecture on Mischiefs of Irreligious Journalism. Horticultural Society program features Miss Sara J Smith of Hartford on Horticultural Education for Women with meeting at 11 o'clock in Horticultural Hall open to the public. New England Women’s Press Association February meeting to be held at epidemic w
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Board of Health
New York
Boston
Massachusetts Club
Ames
Brackett
British Charitable Society
Young’s Hotel
Queen Victoria
McDonald
Joseph Cook
Horticultural Society
Sara J. Smith
Hartford, Conn
Horticultural Hall
New England Women’s Press Association
Boston Herald Chief Delivers Personal Reminiscences
Mrs. Sallie Joy White, president of the Boston Herald, speaks on her journalism career at No 28 School Street room 68 on Tuesday afternoon February 1 at 3 p.m.
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School Street
Boston
Sallie Joy White
The
Boston Herald
Bradley v Brigham executors civil list closes
Supreme Judicial Court for Commonwealth reports that the civil case Joseph S Bradley et al v Rufus H Brigham executors and two others was argued. The court then moved to the criminal docket, adjourned to March 6 after completing the docket.
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Supreme Judicial Court For Commonwealth
Morton
C. J
Freto, Devens
W. Allen and Gardner
Joseph
Bradley Et al
Rufus H. Brigham
K. H. Tyng
W. Trowbridge
J. G. Abbott
J. T. Joslin
Personal injury cases flood Superior Court docket
The First Session notes Ellen O Shaughnessey v Swof folk Brewing Co for 10000 damages after a curbside accident in South Boston. jury awards 2000. Other actions include William H Stiles v Holt for 7293 and John Dorcey v Boston & Providence RR for 1000 plus related cases. Second and Fourth Sessions outlined with multiple civil actions and forthcoming trials.
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Superior Court
Brigham
C. J
Ellen O’shaughnessey
Swoffolk Brewing Company
Shith Street
Boston
S. B. Allen
T. J. Barry
M. F. Dickinson, Jr
H. R.bailey
William H. Stiles
Joshua S. Holt
Paris
B. Hall
F. A. Wyman
John Dorcey
Boston & Providence Railroad Company
Forest Hills
Frank Fisher
J. H. Burke
George W. Griffin
George Putnam
Thomas Russell
Sunday Notices At Union Hall And City Missionary Anniversary
Sermon to young people at Union Hall 18 Boylston Street by Rev H Price Collier subject He That Sweareth to His Own Hurt and Changeth Not Doors open at 7 and service at 730 pm Public invited Seventieth anniversary of City Missionary Society observed at Berkeley Street Church 730 pm with secretary report and addresses by Herrick Duryea Gordon Griffis Warren Street Chapel memorial service 3 pm for J Thomas Vose Association Hall Young men meeting 3 pm with Rev W B Wright chorus Mendelssohn orchestra public invited
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M. Cretan Union
Youngeople
Union Hall
Boylston Street
H. Price Collier
Hingham
Mass
Byron A. Robinson
Jabez L. Robinson
City Missionary Society
Berkeley Street
Warren Avenue
F. E. Clark
Messrs. Herrick
Duryea
Gordon and Griffis
Warren Street
Warrenton Street
J. Thomas Vose
Association Hall
Boylston
Berkeley Streets
W. B. Wright
Association
Mendelssohn
Warning on Pneumonia and Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey
A Victorian era warning touts pneumonia danger from New Year illness and promotes Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a medical stimulant. Personal anecdotes claim recovery and lasting health, urging whiskey as essential to ward off severe lung disease and boost convalescence.
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Wilton R. Palmer
New York City
America
Mr. Palmer
Duffy
BE. W. Roswell
Washington, D. C
Uffy
Weather Indications for New England and Eastern New York
For 24 hours from 7 a.m. Saturday January 29, southwest winds shifting to northwest and slightly colder conditions with rain or snow. Cautionary signals remain from Norfolk to Eastport.
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Washington, D. C
Satuday
New England
New York
Norfolk
Eastport
Meteorological Record of Yesterday at All Stations
Yesterday's weather observations up to 10 p m were collected simultaneously at all stations. The report lists readings across multiple meteorological elements recorded at the same moment, providing a synchronized snapshot of conditions.
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al Stations
Subscription Rates Displayed For Various Periods
An old newspaper notice lists rates for financial commercial and general subscriptions by mail or carrier. It details one year six months and one month pricing, though several digits are obscured in the OCR.
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