Farewell to Captain Bordman as Council meets amid Rainsford Island report
Last evening's Common Council session drew a large attendance and focused on Captain John Bordman Jr. bidding farewell before departing for Plattsburg after a brief stop in Concord. The meeting also reviewed a harsh special committee report on Rainsford Island Reform School detailing gross mismanagement, sanitation failures, and financial recklessness, signed by Linehan Chamberlain Stone Cuddy and Bordman.
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Common Council
Ioan
Tain John Bordman, Jr
Ward 10
Twenty-sixth
United States Volunteers
Philippines
Colonelce
Bordman
Plattsburg
Rainsford Island
Linehan
Quincy
Chamberlain
Stone
Cuddy
Meyer Quincy
Anthony
Fareswell
Concord
Oer
State Gop selects Adams as presiding officer at Music Hall
The Republican State Committee named Music Hall Boston as the convention site for Oct 6 and Melvin O Adams elected presiding officer The meeting signaled college-favor for General Guild while Bates faction objections were noted The list of committee members and caucus dates were also published with dozens of officials named for future roles
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Music Hall
State Committee
Bates-Guild
Melvin O. Adams
Guild
Adams
Boston Machine
General Guild
Bates
Boston
William H. Halle
Springfield
John S. Richardson
William Reynolds
Marblehead
Frank L. Dean
Worcester
William B. Lawrence
Medford
Chester Snow
Harwich
Joseph N. Paterson
Salem
Augustus P. Sanders
Hamilton
Frederic N. Abbott
Lawrence
A. H. Goetting
Charles F. Ensworth
Westfield
Harvey B. May
Natick
Thorndike Spalding
Cambridge
John H. Cullis
Belmont
Alfred E. Cox
Malden
Caleb K. Sullivan
George W. Poore
Lowell
E. C. Miller
Wakefield
Frank F. Prescott
Quincy
Lemuel W. Standish
Stoughton
George H. Garfield
Brockton
George H. Sanborn
Chelsea
James F. Morgan
Charles B. Woolley
Stephen M. Marshall
Findings of the Committee on Civil Service Evading Boston Jobs
The Common Council side of the committee finds that civil service laws have been evaded to exclude Boston people from employment. The report criticizes this practice as severely unjust. It also suggests that the work of three island employees could be done by one, based on testimony from three individuals.
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Institute of Technology
Leopold L. Cayvan
Irving Weeks
Harriet Noyen
Rainsford Island
Boston
Common Council
Bostoh
Weather Forecast For Friday And Saturday In New England
Washington dispatch reports a forecast for Friday and Saturday in New England and Eastern New York. Threatening conditions expected Friday with possible showers in the north, followed by fair weather Saturday and variable winds.
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Washington
New England
New York
Father sought help to recover hypnotized daughter in New York
Charles Cochranes, once General Miles assistant, plans to consult District Attorney Gardiner to locate Adelaide Cochranes aged 18 who vanished over two months ago. He alleges hypnotic coercion by 23-year-old Charles Pond Jr near 215 West 120th Street as police and a prior marriage notice to Pond were reported. The father sent a messenger with three photos of his daughter to the address.
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New York
Charles M. Cochrane
Miles
Gardiner
Adelaide
Charles M. Pond, Jr
West One Hundred and Twentieth Street
Young Pond
Cochranes
Miss Cochrane
Pond
Cochrane
Father fights alleged hypnotic marriage of Adelaide Cochrane
Adelaide Cochrane vanishes amid claims she was hypnotized by Charles M Pond Jr. in New York. Her father, distraught, says no record of any marriage exists and accuses Pond of luring his daughter away. Adelaide, an accomplished violinist, was once engaged to Y M C A instructor John Ford.
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Adelaide Cochrane
Charles M. Pond, Jr
Cochrane
Bureau of Vital Ee
Adelaide
New York Board of Health
Hudson County
N. J
Young Pond
Cunard Leases East Boston Wharf for 600-Foot Steamers
The Cunard Steamship Company and the Boston & Maine Railroad have struck a major wharf transfer. Cunard gains Shed No 1 and adjacent land, a 600-foot dock, and a car float removal to Mystic Dock to accommodate the 600-foot liners Saxonia and Ibernia, with dock work to extend toward Marginal Street and reshuffle loading operations.
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Cunard Steamship Company
East Boston
Eastern Packet Pier
Steamship Company
Boston & Maine Railroad
Mystic
Cunard
Cunard Company
Saxonia
Ibernia
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
East
Boston
Cunard Lines
England
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Boston & Maine Road
New England
Hayes & Co
Mystic Dock
Boston & Maine
Charlestown
Railroad Company
St. John
Dominion Line
Warren Company
South Ferry
Canada
Brittan
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Charles C. Taft
George W. B. Sisson
John A.dickerman
Ashburnham
George R. Marble
Webster
Lowell E. Fales
Milford
Atauuvat
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WB .Lawrence
F. S.richards
Willliam Reynolds
S. Vorenberg & Co
Washington & Hanover Sts
Departments
Shuman
South Boston Loan CO
Broadway
C Street
Talk OF
Havana
Hare
Danielifr
NE &Copton St
Mystic Docks
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