Senate Rejects Antitrust Addition to Tariff Bill
In a pointed stance against economic protections, critics argue the Senate should not couple antitrust limits with tariff measures. Secretary Sherman cites possible restraint laws, while Democrats push for action. If a Democratic Congress passes such a law, President McKinley could face a choice between a sensible tariff and an anti trust bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Sugar Trust
Beef Trust
Great
Coal Combine
Lumber Kings
Sherman
St. Louis
McKinley
No Revenue From Senate Tariff Bill Critique
A harsh critique asserts the Senate neared completion of a tariff bill but revenue measures collapsed. It accuses Republicans of incompetence, warns trusts will reap profits while the public bears costs, and calls the conference committee to craft a real tariff bill. The piece questions Congress’s usefulness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Congress
Conference
Republican Congress
Clemency Granted for Ill Prisoner Jeremiah O Sullivan
Governor Wolcott commends the humane pardon action for Jeremiah T. O Sullivan based on his serious illness. The jail confinement worsened his condition, and the governor intervened to prevent capital punishment. The medical staff highlighted the danger to his life, while O Sullivan showed commendable fortitude and supporters wish him a speedy recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolcott
Jeremiah T. O’sullivan
O’sullivan
Salem
Massachusetts
Cornell Wins Orgy of Rowing Glory at Poughkeepsie
The Cornell crews dominate the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate rowing meet claiming a historic string of victories. Experts note times vary by course and conditions, but Cornell's prestige rests on consistent wins. The piece suggests a post-season meeting with Yale and Harvard on a familiar New England course such as New London to capitalize on shared conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Poughkeepsie
New England
New London
Yale
Harvard
The Men Who Dig the Coal Strike Threat Looms
An anticipated general strike by 160000 bituminous coal miners in the West is planned for Monday to press for higher wages. The dispute centers on a 22 cent per ton tax burden on coal paid by New England industry, which critics say enriches railroads and coal operators rather than the miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
New England
Aunt Margeret Dorothy and the Old Elm Grave Tale
Aunt Margeret recounts a Civil War era memory of Dorothy the elder, a Confederate versus Union tension, a grave by the elm, a prisoner lieutenant, a volley and Dorothy’s death. The narrator recalls the haunting scene at the old homestead with the pine casket beside the grave and tears among relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plac
Emsion
Drothy
Marguret
Detectives Target Strike as Tariff Fuels Wage Move
Hundreds of detectives monitor the desperate miners amid a strike. Republicans argue tariffs will shift costs to New England manufacturers and workers, saying 150,000 men in Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois Ohio and West Virginia are driven to demand higher wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
West Virginia
Portrait of Curtis Guild by Jean Paul Selinger Exhibits in Doll & Richards Gallery
Observant Citizen notes eminent artist Jean Paul Selinger has completed a life sized portrait of Curtis Guild. The Boston scene shows the sitter at a table with an open book, praising the likeness, pose, and detail. Also mentions Roosevelt style civic notes, local events, and the Boston Park cleanup efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Paul Selinger
Curtis Guild
Doll & Richards
Mixed 19th century notices span translation, births and honors
A compilation of brief items notes Mrs. Phebe Rowe translating Ruth into Hindi and Urdu, Mrs. Charles H. Spurgeon laying a chapel’s first stone at Bexhill, and Prof A Wagner’s election to Kenyon College. It also mentions antiquarian burials at St Bride’s, bequests to Bowdoin, Armenian relief giving, Queen Victoria’s visit to Mrs Reese, and a Nimble tie between the German Emperor’s birth, marriage dates, and a numerical nine.
Daily Table Hints Breakfast and Dinner Menus
Menu notes list daily meals breakfast with ham and baked eggs fried potatoes and coffee dinner features tomato soup fruit lettuce peas and roast beef with baked eggs and coffee supper includes lamb tomatoes and bread with strawberries and cream plus a pie and crackers and cheese. A baking recipe for pie and bread is included attributed to Mrs George H Sharp of 198 St Botolph Street city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Sharp
St. Botolph Street
City
Impertocs Digestion and Inacttmasixe Liver
Product note for a tonic labeled for sick headache and constipation. Claims occasional use maintains health and aids foal digestion to assimilate nutrients. Ends with distributor claim for 60 years and 60g packaging.
Jamaica Plain Fourth Parade Planned with Historic Features
The Jamaica Plain Carnival Association plans a Fourth of July parade starting 8:30 a.m. Monday. The route winds through Centre, Green, Washington, Amory, Boylston, and more ending at the park for reviews. Judges include Senator W. W. Davis and Rev. Lott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica Plain District
Jamaica Plain Carnival Association
Centre
Green Street
Washington
Atherton
Amory
Boylston
Lamartine
Mozart
Chestnut
Wyman Avenue
Wyman
Pond
Jamaica Way
Dorchester Fourth Parade and Races Planned by Association
Dorchester Carnival Association hosts a large Fourth of July celebration with a morning parade along Pleasant Street to Mattapan Square, reviewed by Mayor Quincy. A ten mile handicap road race offers $600 in prizes, with bike races for boys, sports at Mattapan, and evening fireworks in Franklin Field. Notable judges include George A. Richardson Sol Bacharach and M Ordway Daly. chief marshal is Senator Charles E. Folsom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester Carnival Association
Pleasant Street
Upham’s Corner
Monadnock
Bird
Mine Trouse Hill
Field's Corner
Mattapan
Franklin Field
Finneran Defrauding City Case Goes to Supreme Court
The People v Thomas F Finneran will go to the Supreme Court after Judge Blodgett allowed defense exceptions from the recent trial. The November sitting will hear the case with printed submissions and early arguments. Finneran remains at the House of Correction awaiting further court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
People
Thomas F. Finneran
Boston
Supreme Court
Blodgett
Superior Court
Finneran
House of Correction
Vermont woman Eliza Shafter dies at 99 in Montpelier
Mrs Eliza Jewett Shafter died in Montpelier at the age of 99 years and 6 months. She was sister to Colonel EB Jewett who died three years earlier. Her husband passed away about fifty years ago and she was step mother to James Shafter a former Vermont Secretary of State and Oscar Shafter a former California Supreme Court judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier VI
Eliza Jewett Shafter
EB. P. Jewett
James Shafter
Vermont
Oscar Shafter
Supreme Court of
California
Cambridge Chief strict on fireworks after hours
Chief Cloyes of Cambridge orders captains to enforce all statutes and ordinances. He directs arrests for anyone setting off fireworks before midnight Sunday or after midnight Monday. A $20 fine is imposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloyes
Cambridge
Greeks Repulsed Near Metsovo In Ottoman Clash
Greek raiders and Ottoman detachments clashed near Metsovo. About 400 Greeks attacked. 120 were killed and eighty were captured. Captives sent to Janina, Epirus, as Ottoman authorities consolidate gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Metsovo
Janina
Epirus
Fatal heat claims sailor on steamer in Chicago
Government reads 89 degrees at noon in Chicago with private thermometers higher. Sailor James Williams found dead from heat in his bunk aboard the steamer Sioux City as business on the Board of Trade and stock exchange nearly suspended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James Williams
Sioux City
Board of Trade
The
Stock Exchange
Annual festival aids destitute Catholic children on Harrigan
The annual fundraiser for the Home for Destitute Catholic Children on Harrigan Avenue will be held this year at the Fair Building on Saturday. Proceeds support the shelter and its young residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrigan Avenue
Sec Qpion
Admiral Miller Hurries Home From Jubilee
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Miller, naval representative at the Queen's jubilee ceremonies, cabled the Navy Department that he would sail home to New York aboard the cruiser Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washiton
Joseph B. Miler
Spec
United States
Navy
New York
Brooklyn
Idol Buddha missing in Wareham linked to Theosophists
Henry B. Foulke reports his idol Buddha vanished from a sacred temple at Onset Bay. Clarence Crane, a claimed reporter, is detained then bailed after a pursuit with Foulke that spanned Wareham. Foulke hints of a plot by Tingleyites while planning a warrant to recover the statue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wareham
Buddha
Henry B. Foulke
Clarence Crane
Foulke
Mr. Crane
Onset Bay
Theosophical Society
America
Crane
Mr. Foulke
Annie Besant
Mme. Blavatsky
Besant
London
Blavatsky
Mahatma
Mario
New Bedford Strikes Highlight Tariff and Textile Market Ties
R G Dun and Co reports second quarter 1897 failures total 2931 with liabilities 48.4 million across banking brokers manufacturers and traders. Textiles wait on demand and tariff passage, with iron and coal sectors facing mid summer strain and prices edging lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
New Bedford
New England
Amalgamated Iron Workers
Illinois
Virginia
Ersons
Iron and
Bradstreet Hopeful on Trade Signals Despite July Caution
Bradstreet notes better weather boosting sale of seasonal clothing and gear while merchants expect higher autumn business. Fourth of July slowdown seen in some lines. Wool demand rising and higher prices for skins and leather. iron and steel quote declines persist. Wheat supplies tighten and bank clearings show increased speculative activity though six months totals lag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Seaboard
United States
Canada
New York
Bradstreet’s
Augusta
Kansas City
St. Louis
Omaha
Memphis
New Orleans
Western
Bessemer
Europe
Southwestern
New England
Boston
Ancient and Horritable Artillery Guests Enjoy Walking Delegate
Nearly eighty members of the Ancient and Horritable Artillery Company attended the Tremonti Theatre by invitation to witness The Walking Delegate. Colonel Henry Walker Captain William Hatch Jones and Mr. George J. Raymond led the committee coordinating the event at Clark's Hotel and onward to the theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremonti Theatre
Ancient
Opera performance delights audience with lively debut
The show featured a notable debut in a typhoon bonnet among four professional ancestors. Visitors received frequent remarks from the stage and Oscar Girard's "Let's Arbitrate" was encores so often the comedian nearly exhausted. The reception was warm and the opera energized players and spectators alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sation
Oscar Girard
Boston ministers pledge temperance at Temple meeting
A large group of ministers including Rev. Ward Everett Hale and Rev. Dr. Black gather at Temple in Cambridge to sign a temperance pledge. The Cambridge Berkeley Temple event features leaders from several churches pledging support and detailing ongoing evangelical efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Presephy
Ward Everett Hale
Cambridge
Sey
Berkeley
Murphy
Francis Mar
Trey
Religious services listed for Sunday in Boston area churches
Sunday services at Tremont Temple and nearby churches include 10:36 a.m. worship led by Rev J maps, 12:15 p.m. Sunday school, 5:30 p.m. temperance service, and 7:30 p.m. evening sermons by Rev Haynes and others. multiple churches open for morning prayer, communion, and youth activities with schedule details across Tremont Street, Bromfield Street, Park Square, and Boston Common venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Street
Tremons
Concord
Pworth League
Bromfield Street
Stranger’s Church
D. D
Deposit
First Presbyterian CH
Columbus Avenue
Berkeleytreet
Scott F. Hershey
William Brenton Greene
Fourth Presbyterian
Dorchester Street
Boston
Charles J. Cameron
Boston Common
Charles Street Mall
9Th Tree
Charles F. Dold
John M. Pullman
Lynd
B. Y. M. Christian Union
The
Union Ll
Boylston Street
Thomas van Ness
Second Church
F. P. Whitney
Anha Clitford Breed
F. E. Barry
Henry Donlan
Hoy Rane
Domizetti
Mrs. Breed
Mrs. Barry
Bunker Hill
Master Donlan
Mrs. Whitney
Mendelssohn
America
Millard
Donlan
Handel
Whitney
Barry
George Mendall Taylor
Sanenese
Also Mentioned on This Page
Boston Post
Democratic
Antl Trust
Royal Baking Powder 60
By Mre
C. J. Avenad
Margeret
Dorothy
Margaret Dorothy
Othy
Dor
Ginalries
Nicoleon
Tory
Eadow
Boston Atheneum
Captain Withington
West Roxbury High School
Myrtle Street
Omahca Plain
Mechanics
C. H B. Folsom
Dorchester
A. S. Gumbart
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Liverpool
Albany
Emily
Franklin Park
Washington Street
Hollis
Roxbury
Dr. Webb
Shawmut Congregational Church
Dudley Buck
H. B. H. Carter
Sawyer
W. H. Fessenden
Fryder
Weill
Ben In
W. Neil
Www
Fl & Co
England
Ireland
France
Phebe Rowe
India
Ruth, the
Charles H. Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Londo
Bexhil
Bexhills
Lon
Charles H. A. Wagner
Kenyon College
Colgate
Centre College
Anthony Hope
Re. F. C. Hawkins
St. Bride’s
Leet Stree
Richardson E Novelist
Lovelace
Earl of Dorset
Dryden
Wynken de Worde
Flaxman
Bowdoin College
F. Reese
Cleveland
Queen Victoria
Eese
John McLean
Fort Monkton
Hampshire
McLean
Germany
Prussia
Selezer
Frootbeer
Jamaica Plain
Admiral Miller
Bradstreet
Porras
Dave Ayo
Donald
Francis Murphy
Baptia
OLD South
Methodist
Presbyterian
Unitarian
Minnie Mw Ule
Appleton Hall
Appleton Street
Paine Memorial Building
John W. Echols
D. C
American Protective Association
Gert. Walker
Percy Jewett Burrell
B. O
Walter Baker
Gold Curb
Washington, Corner Park Street
Institute
B. B. of G. Club
Christadelphians
Arcade Hall
Park Square
God
Woodbury’ S
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!