Gas firm faces widening reach as Boston plans loom
A Boston Gas light contract with the Waltham Gas Light Co signals Consolidated Gas Co aims to expand control beyond Boston. Critics warn of asset absorption across Watertown Newton Chelsea East Boston and possibly Lynn Newburyport, while James L. Richards defends the deal as a two year supply arrangement not an takeover.
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Consolidated Gas Company
The
Gas Commission
Waltham Gaslight Company
State House
Greater
Boston
Boston Gaslight Company
Post
Consolidated Company
Watertown and
Newton Company
Waltham Company
Waltham
Kane
Wal.com Gas Light Company
Suburban Electric Company
James L. Richards
Ne Consolidated Gas Company
Waltham Gas Light Company
Consolidated Concern
Massachusetts
Lynn
Newburyport
Canadians Quit Proposed Trip
The Forty third Regiment Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles of Ottawa abandon plans to visit Providence Rhode Island for a British residents celebration. Difficulty with state authorities blocks passage since Massachusetts law forbids foreign armed troops crossing without special legislative permission.
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Montreal
Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles
Ottawa
Providence
R. I
United States
Massachusetts
Vacations school salaries cut by $50 for director and $1 daily for principals
Due to a smaller appropriation the school committee reduced pay for district staff. The director's season salary drops from 250 to 200 dollars while principals fall from 5 to 4 dollars per day. Other positions including teachers assistants playground heads and helpers see adjusted rates. Names affected include Michael F Fitzgerald Weymouth and principals such as Charles F Merrick Edward F O Dowd Joseph T Burrell Charles C Haines James E Thomas Albert S Ames John J Sheehan James M Murdock Lincoln Owen and Edwin F Kimball.
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Michael F. Fitzgerald
Weymouth
Charles F. Merrick
Edward Fef
O’dowd
Joseph T. F. Burrell
Charles C. Haines
James E. Thomas
Albert S. Ames
John J. Sheehan
James M. Murdock
Lincoln Owen
Edwin F. Kimball
Taft Party Guests of the Mikado at Tokyo
The Emperor and Empress welcomed Secretary Taft's party in Tokyo. Secretary Taft rode to the imperial palace in state carriage as crowds lined the streets. Lloyd C. Griscom escorted Miss Alice Roosevelt to the palace for the audi ence and luncheon with official Taft party members.
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Tokio
Japan
Taft
Imperial Palace
Lloyd C. Griscom
Alice Roosevelt
New Chicago Chief Leads Large Downtown Gambling Raids
Chicago July 26 John Collins recently installed chief of police led a sweeping raid on four major downtown poker rooms arresting about 100 men and confiscating gambling paraphernalia while destroying furniture in the establishments.
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Chicago
John Collins
Collins
Farmer Elijah Miller Dies After Hay Load Fall
Brattleboro Vermont reports Elijah P. Miller a 70 year old West Brattleboro farmer fell from a load of hay and was killed instantly. He leaves a widow and six children.
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Brattleboro, Vt
Elijah P. Miller
West Brattleboro
Kisses Prove Costly in Multiple City Cases
A Boston region round of kiss related incidents spotlights legal penalties. In Denver R E McDonegle faced 30 days for assault on landlady Mary Martenson, with sentence later suspended. In Lynn Michael Smith paid $50 after kissing Mary Jurska despite no consent. Cambridge dealer Charles L Mix fined $40 for stealing two kisses from Hannah W Anderson. The era sees kisses valued highly, with warnings from Queen Caroline and Italian proverb quotes amid a wave of court actions.
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Charity
Cambridge
Lynn
Denver
Col
Malden
R. E. McDonegle
Mary Martenson
McDonegle
Josh Billings
Michael Smith
Mary Jurska
Mary
Michael
Marie Jurska
Post
Miss Jurska
Caroline
Heaven
Hell
Charles L. Mix
Hannah W. Anderson
Greater Boston
Team Drivers Hit Aldermen Over East Boston Franchise
The 160 delegates of the Team Drivers Unions of Boston and vicinity condemned the Board of Aldermen for granting the National Dock Trust a right to locate railroad tracks in East Boston. They praised Alderman Linehan for opposing the franchise and adopted a resolution opposing the grant, citing public safety, grade-crossing issues, and potential job losses for teamsters.
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District Council of
Boston
Vicinity
Eliot Street
Linehan
National Dock Trust
East
Board of Aldermen
Teamsters
Knights of Labor Sets Labour Day Parade Rate
The Knights of Labor Musicians Assembly decided last night that the minimum rate for Labour Day parade work will be five dollars per man. The group raised its scale to nearly match the Boston Musicians Protective Union. The Painters Decorators and Paperhangers Assembly 1849 changed its meeting place to 164 Canal Street.
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Knights of Labor Musicians’ Assembly
Assembly
Boston Musicians’ Protective Union
Knights of Labor
Canal Street
Dunne May Attend Tammany Pow Wow in Boston
Chicago mayor Dunne may address the Tammany club at Caledonia Grove in Boston amid controversy over a likely fake telegram. The club plans a Springfield train greeting and Parker House dinner with Mayor Collins noted for entertainment and a park drive.
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Dunne
Chicago
Boston
Tammany Associates
Ward 17
Caledonia Grove
Tammany
Committee of Arrangements
Collins
Democratic City Committee
Tammany Club
Springfield
Michael
Drew
Curleys
Parker House
Cambridge Labor Day Parade Canceled
The Cambridge City Council committee on Labor Day and the Cambridge Central Labor Union announced no parade on Labor Day In its place a city field day will feature athletic events baseball and other sports along with speeches The city has appropriated 400 for the festivities
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Cambridge
Cambridge Central Labor Union
Cambridge Field
Dunne Names John M Collins Chicago Police Chief
Mayor Dunne appoints Captain John M Collins as Chicago police chief succeeding Francis ONeill who resigned recently The new chief has risen from the ranks and is to lead the force in the city now.
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Dunne
Chicago
John M. Collins
City of
Collins
Francis O’neill
Illness in Hospital Reveals Runaway Medford Girl
Geneva Greenlaw an 18 year old Medford girl who fell ill in Boston and was treated at City Hospital is linked to her aunt Mrs F W Marshall of Temple Street Medford. She gave 426 Main Street Malden as her home but an employment office was there. Typhoid fever diagnosed at the hospital.
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Medford
Geneva Greenlaw
Boston
Lagrange Street
City Hospital
F. W. Marshall
Temple Street
Main Street
Malden
Post
Geneva
Mystery in Woman's Death at North Station
An unidentified woman about 50 was found ill in the North station waiting room and died at Relief station hospital. She wore a wedding ring, white attire, and carried a black leather bag. autopsy may determine if poison was involved.
Two Patrolmen Punished by Police Board
Patrolman John E. Toomey of Division 14 was fined five days' pay for failing to pull his relief call on time and not reporting at the station at the end of his July 21 tour. Patrolman Frank Tays of Division 4 was found guilty of leaving his route and entering a house for 15 minutes, forfeiting one day's pay and receiving a reprimand.
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John E. Toomey
Division 14
Board of Police
Frank Tays
Division 4
Fire horse saves man but crashes into telegraph pole
Cambridge fireman John H. Dardis of Chemical 1 narrowly saved a pedestrian on Norfolk street after spotting a crossing man. The horse bolted onto a curb, the buggy toppled, and a horse was injured while two crewmen avoided more harm. A later incident on Union Street involved a clothes fire and Chief Bunker escaping injury by leaping aside.
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John H. Dardis
Chemical 1
Cambridge
Lieutenant Clarke
Union Street
Bunker
Pearl Street
Yellow Fever Deaths Reach 45 In New Orleans
Six more deaths from yellow fever today bring the tally to 45 in New Orleans as 165 cases are recorded to date. The city arranged a large sanitation drive with 100 extra workers and 350 sanitation staff, ward clubs forming precinct groups, and a house to house canvass to screen cisterns and oil cesspools and ponds. The effort is funded by local business leaders and supported by widespread quarantines from other states.
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New Orleans
Texas
Louisiana
Man Drowns While Swimming at Chatham
Chatham July 26 Marshall A. Redding 25 of 70 Harvard avenue West Medford drowned this afternoon while bathing cramps seized him. He cried for help as he drifted 15 feet from shore undertow heavy Moulton of Arlington tried to reach him but he disappeared local police are dragging for the body. Redding born in Medford worked in the grocery business with his father Grenville S. Redding survives his father a sister Miss Anna M. Redding a noted contralto singer.
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Chatham
Marshall A. Redding
Harvard Avenue
West
Medford
Redding
Arthur W. Moulton
Arlington
Moulton
Hawthorne House
Grenville S. Redding
Anna M. Redding
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George Washington
W. J. Bryan
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H. T. Marshall Publishing Company
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Rueter’s
Sterling Ale
New England
Rueter
Highland Spring Brewery
Ali
Michael S. Drew
Committee On Oratory
Jeremiah Good
James M. Curley
Boston City Hospital
Bacon’s
W. & A. Bacon
Washington St., Cor. of Ruggles
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