City Hall hearing probes public institutions management
Last evening at City Hall the probe into the management of board of directors for public institutions continued. Witnesses described sales to city bodies, including beavers and satinets, with disputes over testimony scope and records. Alderman Murphy sought to strike Cushman's evidence and pressed for full disclosure, while others urged the investigation proceed without delay.
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Board of Directors of Public Institutions
City Hall
Murphy
Pillsbury and Gargan
George W. Boynton
Ward 9
Boynton
Jackson, Mandell & Daniell
Pontusac
John B. Martin
Deer Island
Walsh
Cushman
Alderman Murphy
Reed
Ufus S. Frost & Co
Eddy
Councilman Reed
J. S. Mahoney
Yras
Mahoney
Nunan
Shaw and Reed
R. S. Frost & Co
Pillsbury
Mongovan and Lynch
Auditor’s Office
Liam Prior, Jr
Fish
M. T. Donahue
Board of Directors
Board of Public Institutions
H. B. Clay & Co
Bing, Basiene & Co
Clay & Co
Bine
Bastene & Co
Leander M. Haskins
R. John ©. Small
Haskins
John K. Martin
Hearing Minutes Note Adjournment to Committee Call
The record indicates the session was conducted by Mr Haskins at the prior hearing and the proceeding adjourned to the call of the committee. The text provides no further details on votes actions or agenda items discussed.
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Haskins
Eclectic Doctors Dine at Massachusetts Society Luncheon
The Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Society met at Revere House at 11 AM with papers on Diseases of the Rectum Typhoid Fever and Prolonged Pregnancy. Prof R S Newton spoke on brain physiology and localization of paralyses. Dr F L Gerald gave the annual oration on The Future of Women.
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Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Society
Revere House
A. L. Chase
E. Miles
London
E. E. Spencer
A. E. Miller
R. 8. Newton
New York
F. L. Gerald
LT. Jackson
Orange
H. A. Williams
Dartmouth
F. W. Abbott
Taunton
American Student Fund Proposed for Egypt Explorations
Letter to the Post proposes funding an American student to assist the Egypt Exploration Fund in England and America. It cites expertise at Harvard and Yale figures, access to museum facilities, and aims to appoint a trained investigator to join Naville in Egypt. Subscriptions sought from readers with initial $100 from the Archaeological Institute of America and ongoing gifts to support 1888-9.
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Sir
Egypt Exploration Fund
England
America
Griffith
British Museum
Egypt
Times
Joseph
Naville
Bubastis
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
Farley B. Goddard
Cyrenaica
Poole
Murray
Fund
Museum
Maspero
Fund For
France
Louvre
Comin
Ip Saseed
Archeological Institute of America
C. G. Loring
Museum of Fine Arts
Nortom
Elijahs
Elishas
Barnard
Columbia College
William_C. WINSLOW
Beacon Street
Boston
Massachusetts Monthly Crop Bulletin Project Initiated
The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture plans a regular monthly crop bulletin starting next month. About 160 farmers clubs and granges will receive a patterned circular to collect detailed crop data, weather peculiarities, and insect information. The first bulletin should go out the first week of July, with annual costs estimated at 400 to 500 dollars funded from current incidental land funds, subject to future legislative appropriations.
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Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture
Commonwealth
Board of Agriculture
Eony
Lasell Seminary adopts household sanitation instruction
The new sanitation instruction introduced this year at Lasell Seminary has become a notable success among the students. Several other schools are considering adding the course to their curricula as a result of the positive reception.
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Lasell Seminary
Hanscom's Case Ahead of Defense Arguments
Police commissioners finished testimony in the Hanscom investigation. Superintendent brought charges against Chief Inspector Hanscom. Defense counsel to present arguments on Thursday morning June 28. Only witness yesterday was D J McGrath of the Globe, not especially pivotal.
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Hanscom
D. J. McGrath
The
Globe
New 1130 A.M. Train Adds Convenience for Travelers
Travelers will find the new 1130 A. M. train on the New York and New England route convenient allowing them to spend the evening at home and reach New ark early the following morning.
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New York & New England
Newark
Obituary of Ezra H Baker Boston business leader dies abroad
Ezra H Baker a leading Boston businessman died at his Beverly summer home after a brief illness. Born in Barnstable he built a career at Hardy Baker Morrill and later Laker Morrill, becoming a director and vice president of railroad and bank interests. He left a widow three sons and a daughter and was noted for conservatism and enterprise.
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Ezra H. Baker
Boston
Beverly
Commonwealth Avenue
Mr. Baker
Barnstable
Cape Cod
East Indies
Captain Baker
Alpheus Hardy
Hardy & Baker
Commercial Street
Charles J. Morrill
Hardy, Baker & Morrill
Ezra Baker
School of Trade
Hardy
Laker & Morrill
Baker
Union Pacific Railway
American Loan and Trust Company
Provident Institution
Tremont National Bank
West End Railroad Company
House of Chase & Barstow
Devonshire Street
House of Lee, Higginson & Co
Europe
L MILES STANDISH Died In Boston At Commonwealth Avenue Residence
Lemuel Miles Standish born August 15 1808 in Bath Missouri died at his Commonwealth avenue home yesterday morning. A Boston resident since age 22 he was senior partner of Standish Woodbury masons and builders for four decades. He served in local and state government including common council alderman and state representative. He connected with Massachusetts Charitable Association and held trustee and vice president roles. He chaired the tripartite commission guiding Back Bay water and laid groundwork for Back Bay district. At death he was president of the Revere House Corporation.
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L. Miles Standish
Lemuel Miles Standish
Commonwealth Avenue
Mr. Standish
Bath
Boston
Standish & Woodbury
Masons and Builders
Standish
Massachusetts Charitable Association
Tripartite Commission
Boston Water Power Company
Back Bay
Revere House Corporation
Nathaniel Knowles Dies. Pioneer Boston Clothier Passes
Nathaniel Knowles formerly of Knowles Leland Co died at his Newbury Street home after years of brain paralysis. Born 1823 in Orleans Mass he built a self made career from clerk to founder of Knowles Leland Co, later Knowles Leland Co. He left a widow and daughter with a son who died earlier. Funeral Monday at Emmanuel Church with interment Forest Hills.
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Nathaniel Knowles
Knowles, Leland & Co
Newbury Street
Mr. Or Knowles
Orleans
Mass
Boston
Nickerson & Emory
Clinton Street
Linnell
Edmund F. Leland
Knowles, Leland & Hodgdon
Knowles, Leland & Hodgdon. Mr. Hodgdon
Knowles
Emmanuel Church
John C. Pratt dies in Jamaica Plain at 70
John C. Pratt a Boston business figure died at his Jamaica Plain home aged seventy. A Mayhew school Franklin medalist, he helped found the Jamaica Plain Gaslight Company and led the Granite Railway. He also served as president of the Jamaica Plain Savings Bank and held multiple director roles. He is survived by a widow and four sons.
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John
H.H. Hunnewell
Wellesley
Little Rocert Smith
Ogdensburg
Lake Champlain
Granite Railway Company
The
Jamaica Plain Savings Bank
Franklin Insurance Company
Jor Gotoruwai and Co Offer Bargains in New York
A fragment from a trade notice lists Jor Gotoruwai and Co at 169 Washington Street offering axe alteration bargains. The readable text hints at discount pricing and service terms, with no full details available. Readers are left with a generic shopper’s note from a local supplier.
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Jor, Gotoruwai & Co
Washington
Nee
Opposition to Gresham Leaders dine with Massachusetts delegates
A gathering of about fifty Republican delegates and alternates in Boston discussed rival candidates for Chicago. Anti Gresham sentiment emerged amid Blaine support, with no clear consensus. Samuel Fessenden contested first district delegate votes, while the state committee prepared logistics for Chicago.
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Republican 3
Chicago
Burden
Republican State Committee
Beard
Noyes
Gile
Worcester
J. H. Manley
Augusta
Blaine
Gresham
Massachusetts
W. W. Crapp
National Republican Committee
Samuel Fessenden
Fessenden
R. Fessenden
Washington Street
J. Otis Wardwell
New Cambridge Church Planned by Charles River Baptist Society
A new brick church in Cambridgeport is planned on Magazine street and Putnam avenue, with 110 foot length and 63 foot breadth. The Romanesque design includes a 20 by 71 foot corner tower and a 630-seat auditorium without pillars, semi circular pews, hammer beam roofs, oak pews and doors, cathedral glass windows, plus space for a future vestry expansion.
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Cambridge
Charles River Baptist Society
Magazine Street
Putnaim Avenue
Cambridgeport
Putnam Avenue
Oat
Pennsylvania Railroads Summer Tour to Virginia
The Pennsylvania Railroad repeats its successful Southern pleasure tours with a ten day trip starting June 20. The New England party travels from Boston to Gettysburg, Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, Richmond and Washington aboard Eastlake cars, with meals, lodging, and transport included for 60 dollars adults and 50 dollars children. Details and itineraries are available from tourist agent S. W. Draper in Boston.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Gettysburg
Caverns of
Luray
Natural Bridge
Virginia
Richmond
Washington
New England
Boston
Jersey City
Eastlake
Tri
W. F. Draper
Washington Street
Boston Mass
Dorchester Republican Club Elects West to State League
Dorchester Republican Club met at Field's Corner with Vice-President G H Ide presiding to elect a member for the State league. William H A West, club president, was unanimously chosen. A National Republican League notice said the league issued a campaign button for members, prompting a quip about a button syndicate.
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Dorchester
Republican Club
Field’s Corner
G. H. Ide
William HA. West
National Republican League
Christ Entering Jerusalem Painting Draws Crowds at Horti Hall
Morgan presents Christ Entering Jerusalem at Horti Cultural Hall in an ongoing exhibit with a nearly free admission. The display draws large crowds as the sacred scene inspires broad public interest.
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Morgan
Christ
Jerusalem
Horticultural Hall
Advert for Horsford's Acid Phosphate by Dr Sveur
Syracuse physician Dr O C Sveur reports giving Horsford's Acid Phosphate to a patient whose brain was tired and confused after minor mental exertion. He says immediate benefit and eventual recovery followed.
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Horsford
O. C. Sveur
Syracuse
N. Y
Sunday Notices from Boston Churches and Unions
Sunday religious notices list vesper services across Union Hall 158 Boylston St and Arlington Street Church with sermons by Francis B. Hornbrooke Brooke Herford and Emory J. Haynes. Bible classes and youth meetings at Boston Young Men's Christian Association plus Alpha Tau Alpha Bible lectures at Chandler Hall.
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B. Y. M. Cynistian Union
Union Hall
Boylston Street
Francis B. Hornbrooke
Chaunling Church
Newton
Mass
Laura L. Jeck
Milas Avutek. Cilley
Arthur J. Burnett
Karl S. Hackett
R. J. Clousson
George
Avery
Chandler Hall
Essex Street
New
Irips
Boston Notes on City Meetings and Local Deeds
A Boston items row reports a special 2 PM meeting of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange to discuss forming a joint Merchants Week with New England exchanges. It also notes the Pomeroy prison rumor is unfounded, funeral notices for Rowland couple, and various society and municipal updates including park bids and wholesale grocers’ Merchants Week committee appointments.
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Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange
New England
Boston
Jesse Pomeroy
State Prison
Thomas Rowland
Charlestown
John Reade
Main Street
Canon Sprague
Woodlawn
Erving Winslow
Concord
Mass
Nahant
ABC Pathfinder Express
Expressmen’s League
State Board of Arbitration
P. P. Sherry
Lynn
Back Bay
Charles River
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Boston Merchants’ Association
O. T. Boyd
Howard W. Spurr
R. A. Flanders
J. F. Nickerson
J. F. Crocker
Bostonian Society
Council Chamber
Old State House
Richard J. Monks
Chicago
Fitchburg
Niagara Falls
Erie
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Water Board
Robert F. Grant
George F. Follansbee
Meter Department
Smart
Doherty
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Henry Canning
Samuel A. D. Sheppard
William C. Durkee
Charles C. Williams
Henry K. Appleton, Jr
Linus D. Drury
Warren B. Potter
John G. Godding
William F. Sawyer
George M. Hoyt
E. H. LaPierre
William W. Bartlet
Charles A. Sieremund
John G. Benedict
E. C. Marshall
Indignant Notes To Taverner On Urban Nuisances
A collection of letters from 1888 Boston readers critiquing local tram conductors behavior and public safety. Topics include indiscriminate tree trimming, rude conductors, smoking on Jamaica Plain cars, lamplighter hazards from broken glass, and calls for improved public manners and complaint procedures.
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Taverner
THE
Post
Boston
Music Hall Promenades by Kneisel Orchestra Tonight
Large fashionable audiences attend each evening as Mr Kneisel and his orchestra perform bright varied programmes. Tonight's programme is listed in full in another column, promising continued public favor and refined entertainment.
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Music Hall
Mr. Kneisel
Seaside Resort Sippican Noted for First Class Stay
The Delightful Seaside resort Marion hosts Mrs. Cleveland for part of the summer. The Sippican, run by Charlies W. Ripley, offers superb bathing boating and fishing. Rooms are pleasant and airy with first rate cuisine.
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Marion
Cleveland
Charlies W. Ripley
Rebuilt Well and Favorable Pawnee House at Cottage City
The Well and Favorably known Pawnee House at Cottage City has been entirely rebuilt and painted. The dining hall has been doubled in size by the adjoining building. The house presents an attractive appearance and is a desirable place to spend the summer.
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Cottage City
Sherburne House Named Nantucket Family Resort
Among Nantucket resorts, the Sherburne House remains best known as a family house with attentive service from its genial landlord Iie Patterson. Its elevated hilltop location offers a fine ocean view.
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Nantucket
Sherburne House
Iie Patterson
Court cases jumble tort actions in Newburyport 1886 session
The June session lists multiple actions in tort and contract from Brookly to Osterville. Plaintiffs seek damages for libel slander personal injuries and property losses while defendants dispute liability and intent. Several verdicts and dam ages are noted alongside case numbers and attorney names.
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United States Circuit Court—Jaunes
Newson
Orville D. Lovell
Howard Marston
Brookly
N. Y
Ella Marston
Osterville
W. Chaplin
H. P. Harriman
W. B. Gale
Charles G. Pope
Superior Court
PirmMan
Charles Nichols
Ann McBarron
Griggs Place
J. L. Aldredge
D. F. Fitz
George J. Tuits
Ernest D. Blackwell
George W. Furniss
Beachmont House
George H. Fa
Alexander H. Author
City of
Newburyport
Merrimac Street
George E. Curry
F. L. Evans
N. N. Jones
Lynn Superior Court Docket Summary June 8
Essex County Superior Court judge Bishop sees a real action to determine title to South Street property in Lynn. Case No 4532 Chase v Smith settled out of court with W A Niles for plaintiff and H P Moulton for defense. includes citations to prior cases and judgments involving Lynn, Marblehead, and related entities.
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Chase
Phinney versus Town of Everett on trial in Middlesex Court
Superior Court in Middlesex County reports the Phinney case against the Town of Everett remains on trial. Trial list remains unchanged as of June 8 with Judge Hammond presiding.
Adulterated Lard Case In Liverpool Police Court
A Liverpool Police Court heard a complaint that lard sold in England did not meet the buyer's demanded nature and quality. An adjournment was granted for a fortnight as the manufacturer, en route from America, was deemed essential to the defence.
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England
Liverpool
Eng
America
Burial of Robert Weir From The Post
The funeral of Robert Weir, long associated with the Post, was held yesterday at the home of his son in Roxbury. He rests in the family vault at the foot of Boston Common. A large turnout included Franklin Typographical Society delegates, of which he served as secretary in 1837 to 1844. Notables present included James H. Beal and Joshua G. Beals, former Post proprietors, along with George W. Lakin Isaac Huff maser Daniel F. Jones and Cornelius J. Kelley of the Post job office.
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Robert Weir
George N. Hill
Warren Street
Roxbury
Boston Common
Tranklin Typographical Society
James H. Beal
Joshua G. Beals
Th Post
George W. Lakin
Isaac Huffmaser
Daniel F. Jones
Cornelius J. Kelley
Post
Nan Tucket Opening This Season At Popular Island House
The well known Nan Tucket on the island of the same name will open for the season on June 30. The house offers prime bluefishing and shark fishing terrain attracting many sportsmen to Nanturke. Proprietor W Tupper offers special season or weekly terms.
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Nantucket
Nanturke
W. Tupper
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