House Duty to Undo Senate Tariff Edits
The House is urged to enact tariff reforms by year's end by undoing Senate amendments on sugar coal and crude iron taxes. Supporters say the House reflects the people’s will and can override Senate protections for trusts and monopolies. If the House passes the changes, the tariff bill will be enacted.
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Meigs elevated railway bill delayed in State House
The State House postpones action on the Meigs bill until next Wednesday. The Legislature should take time to consider it fully and let Boston residents vote on the proposal. The issue prompts debate on public input and Sunday meditation value.
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State House of Representatives
Meigs
Meigs Bill Faces Either Kill Or Refer to Boston Voters
The proposal named Meigs bill is presented as a decisive choice: kill it now or send it to the people of Boston for a referendum. City lawmakers debate its fate amid partisan contention.
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Boston
MBIGS
Legislature Delays Spark Frustration On Beacon Hill
The column criticizes the adjournment delay in the Legislature arguing postponements push essential work to midsummer. It notes Bunker Hill Day and the looming Fourth of July while accusing lawmakers of laziness and incompetence after five months with unfinished business.
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Bunker Hill
Beacon Hill
Betrayal in Massachusetts House over Bell Telephone stock grant
The 1894 Legislature faces a planned $30,000,000 stock grant to Bell Telephone with no waterstock limits. Critics call the move a public burden and corporate favoritism as the Senate may approve, provoking Governor Greenhalge to veto for the people.
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Bell Telephone Company
Senate
Greenhalge
Massachusetts
Chief Magistrate Denounces Bill Kill It
The Commonwealth's chief magistrate condemns the bill with a blunt stance urging its defeat. He calls the measure ill-advised and harmful to governance, urging legislators to reject it.
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Distinction in Exemptions for Boston & Maine and Bell Telephone
The piece argues two rail and telecom cases show different attitudes toward law. Boston & Maine seeks to avoid a lease approval rule while negotiating a Concord & Montreal lease under prior authority. Bell Telephone seeks broad stock expansion and a $30 million gift to shareholders, reducing public access to reasonable rates and opposing equal treatment.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Bell Telephone Company
Boston & Maine
Concord & Montreal
Bell Telephone
Post
Meigs Bill Refer To Ple Eludes Kill It
Fragmentary text shows Meigs County bill referred to the pleas court amid unclear wording suggesting opposition or dismissal. No clear names, dates, or outcomes available.
Republican silver call revived in Ohio platform
The State of McKinley,republican platform pushes bimetallism to restore silver as a money metal. It denounces the Sherman act and warns that tariff-based, international silver restoration would repeat past folly and ruin.
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McKinley
Ohio
McKinley Congress
The Observant Citizen Notes Local Harbors And Personal Tales
The Observant Citizen reports Joe Haworth’s improving condition from City Hospital and notes his long Boston residence and triumphs. It contends Sadie Martinot is unsettled in marriage rumors with Max Figman and Fred Stinson, then covers Wood’s Hole spelling restoration and a gum chewing sighting in streetcars.
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City Hospital
Boston
Sadie Martinot
Fred Stinson
Max Figman
Miss Martinot
Mr. Figman
Normannia
Hummel
Sadie
The Guilty Man Caught Near Holmes Final Reveal
Sherlock Holmes reveals the killer's name as Jefferson Hope after testing poison pills on a terrier and uncovering the final clue. Lestrade and Gregson press for a true arrest while Holmes plans a delicate capture with Wiggins and the cabman. The page ends as Hope is named and the plan unfolds.
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Lestrade
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Gregson
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Wiggins
Scotland Yard
Jefferson Hope
Enoch Drebber
Joseph Stangerson
Gum Chewing, Trout, and A City Bicycle Fiasco
A vivid column notes a girl chewing gum at a Columbus Avenue parlor and a father and son doing the same at the ball grounds. Georg Freeman catches a seven pound brook trout in Appleton & Bassett's window. Charles Sett lands a five pounder at Kennebago. A Boston man known as Pet causes a street scuffle with a cyclist in Woburn, ending at the police station. The Shaw Avenue Tuba Club hosts a beauty show in Boston with a gold hand prize for the popular contestant among Governor Greenhalge’s supporters visiting nightly.
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Appleton & Bassett
Georg ¥. Freeman
Court Street Jewell Richardson Lake
Maine
Charles Sett
Kennebago
New York Sun
Shaw Avenue
Boston
Greenhalge
Storm
Boston Social Scene Contains Armchairs and Notable Figures
Commander Sidney Montmorency Hedges appears among brocade armchairs guarded by an ornamental iron fence labeled hors concours. He is said to have been the handsomest man in Boston, rivaled by Colonel Bill Stoddard now on a hen farm near Gumbo Fells. The Rev. Julian K. Smyth returns from travels and will preach at the New Jerusalem Church Roxbury with a post service reception planned.
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Julian K. Smyth
Egypt
Greece
Holy Land
New Jerusalem
Regent
St. James Streets
Roxbury
Smyth
Warren
Washington
Civil Service
Notable Figures and Hints From International Briefs
The piece surveys人物 such as Signor Crispi facing high level opposition possibly driving retirement, Pope preparing a papal reign recap, Leo as a political religious figure, and Shah of Persia mocked as a caricaturist. Lord Randolph Churchill plans a long voyage to cross America and circle the world. Pietro Mascagni reports earnings of $90,000 from Cavalleria Rusticana with the publisher earning over $500,000.
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Leo
Lord Randolph Churchill
America
San Francisco
Naples
Pietro Mascagni
Boston Artists Question Ideal Statues Declaring Mixed Views
Boston artists weigh J Wellington Ruckstuhl’s claim that no city has ideal statuary. Mrs Theo Ruggles Kitson cites Washington equestrian and war memorials as ideal, while Kitson and Churchill note other strong works by Ball Bliss and public/private pieces. Sculpture’s prestige grows but remains uneven.
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Boston
J. Wellington Ruckstuhl
Washington
Brooklyn
Theo Ruggles Kitson
Mr. Kitson
Farragut
Ober Blair
Garfield
Churchill
French
Post Office
New Public Library
Ball
Millmore Memorial
Dr. Weld
Ruths Romp at Buzzards Bay With President Cleaveland
Mrs Cleveland and her babies spend time at a Buzzards Bay summer home. The President’s family travel aboard Mr Benedict’s yacht and Oneida launch to visit Joseph Jefferson’s wharf. Ruth plays on the lawn while Esther naps at Gray Gables. The President plans July and October visits.
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Esther
Gray Gables
Joseph Jefferson
Cleveland
San Francisco Ships Out For Bluefields
Captain Waters reports by cable that the San Francisco now coaling at the port will depart for Bluefields today after a week’s stay.
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Bluefields
Washington
Waters
Navy Department
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