Children Celebrating Plant Day At Boston Churches
The June Children’s Day event fills city churches with happy boys and girls carrying potted plants and watching a pyramid of Bibles rise. At Clarendon Street Church eight declaimers perform while sisters and brothers, in kilts and bows, recite verses and join in the floral gift. The day, a long held Boston tradition, centers on children and ends with plant presentations that brighten a summer ahead.
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Boston
Clarendon Street Church
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Children’s Sunday Observed in Chelsea Churches
Chelsea churches held Children’s Sunday with nearly all congregations participating. At the First Congregational Church decorations featured potted plants and wildflowers as Rev. clergy led morning services.
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Chelsea
Anniversary Highlights At Local Churches
Ross C Houghton preached on What shall we do with the child. Central Congregational marked the Sunday schools fifty fourth anniversary with singing by the church quartet and children's exercises. Mt Bellingham Methodist heard Elwain Hitchcock preach a short sermon and baptize six children followed by an evening Sunday school concert.
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Ross C. Houghton
George H. Buck
Mt. Bellingham Methodist
Elwain Hitchcock
Children’s Day Observed by Boston Sunday Schools 1895
The article describes Boston Sunday schools celebrating children’s day with processions and flowers. Miss Mary Harris charms the crowd with Forget Me Not, while Union Church scholars build a Bible pyramid on Columbus Avenue. The event marks a yearly tradition uniting religion and nature’s symbols.
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Boston
Christ
Mary Harris
Clarendon Street
Union Church
Union Church School
Columbus Avenue
Labor Council Notes and Union Actions Involving George
At a regular Building Trades Council meeting, resolution denounces Massachusetts legislator George of Haverhill as false for accusing Central Labor Union members of lobbyist ties. Council backs CLU members and criticizes George’s prior Bell Telephone stance. Discussion covers Franklin Brewery strike, non-union threats, and a committee tasked with compromise. Also noted are a planned July 27 picnic to Lovell’s Grove, a book and job branch organizer appointment, barbers union plans, and officers for the Lithographers’ Protective and Insurance Association with next convention in Cincinnati.
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Building of Council
Mr. George
Haverhill
W. George
Central Labor Union
State House
Build Trades Council
George
Bell Telephone
Building Trades Council
Avert
Franklin Brewery
Ution
Eliot Street
No. 18
No. 13
Lovell's Grove
Snow's Arch Wharf
Protective and Insurance Association
Joseph K. Keogh
New York
A.C. Zimmerman
Boston
J. G. Kieber
Cincinnati
Harmon on Trusts and Money Policy from Judge Harmon
Cincinnati June 9 Judson Harmon new Attorney General said trusts require a concrete case for opinion. He noted large capital alone not a trust violation and favored sound money opposing free coinage while questioning use of gold and silver together. He aligned with administration on finances and supported Storer’s stance in Congress.
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Cincinnati
Judson Harmon
A. B
Harmon
Bellamy Storer
Congress
Perilous Day At Sea And Fire On Steamer
The Kenilworth arrived from Honolulu after a diverged voyage. Seaman Nathaniel H. Smith of Boston drowned after going overboard on January 22 during the San Francisco to Honolulu passage. The Alice Reed was spoken near 37 8 N 73 33 W. The Frances A. Barstow cruised for whales near 67 48 N 72 W. The British steamer Boston showed new flags on her way to Nova Scotia. The Venetian wreck displayed flags as if ready to depart for London. Early morning fire on the Governor Andrew caused $200 damage. fire room scorched, engines not in use, and the ship tied up for repairs at Nantasket.
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Kenilworth
New York
Honolulu
Baker
San Francisco
Nathaniel H. Smith
Boston
Alice Reed
Cardenas
Cuba
New Bedford
Frances A. Barstow
Nova Scotia
London
Governor Andrew
Nantasket
Press Club
Very
Wollaston Cycle Club
Newburyport
Lynn Turnpike
Massachusetts
Post
Joseph Goodman
Trenton
Goodman
Spooner
Abbott
Chicago
Waltham
Charles M. Murphy
Holbein
Stocks
Plainfield
N. J
E. T. Hand
Louisville
Mike Dirnberger
Buffalo
N. Y
E. F. Leonart
Children’s Day Observed Across Waltham Churches
Yesterday Waltham churches observed Children’s Day with special musical programs in nearly all places of worship and pastors delivering sermons appropriate to the occasion.
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Waltham
Ten Thousand Workers Clash With Police in Vienna Prater
Vienna reports a mass meeting in the Prater halted by mounted and foot police. Speakers including Dagelbert Pernerstorfer and Socialists denounced the ministry's franchise plan and demanded public assembly rights. Arrests followed as police fought to disperse the crowd and protect ministerial offices and the Parliament.
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Vienna
Prater
Dagelbert Pernerstorfer
Reichsrath
Prater-Strasse
Parliament House
Parliament Hardens Stand to Pass Irish and Welsh Bills
London dispatch reports a Liberal majority reduced to six with two seats vacant in Inverness and Cork. The government aims to rush Irish land, local veto, Welsh church disestablishment, and one man one vote bills through in six weeks using practical closure. Attendance will be compulsory, mutiny among ministers feared, Unionists poised to challenge. Lord Northcote urged to attack Rosebery's Armenian policy to gain support.
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London
Inverness
Cork
House of Lords
Commons
Lordry
Rosebery
Silver Fight Hails Harmon Nomination as Money Policy Push
Silver Washington notes President Cleveland tapped Judge Harmon for attorney general to extend sound money doctrine westward and court silver supporters. Harmon praised for intellect and party loyalty, linked to Brice and Campbell influence, seen aiding silvers opposition in Ohio. Olney to State Department welcomed as steadfast Democrat.
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Washington
Judge Harmon
Cleveland
Allen W. Thurman
Ohio
Brice
Campbell
Carlisle
Kentucky
Tennessee
Olney
State Department
Gresham
Harmon
Widow of Jim Fisk Lingers in Poverty in South Boston
In a dim South Boston house at 673 East Eighth Street lives Mrs. James Fisk, widow of the famed financier Jim Fisk. She has not received any of his millions, surviving on $60 a month from Vermont property and a $17 monthly rent for four rooms. She refutes the will on his deathbed, mentions Gould’s alleged theft of property, and says she plans to live in quiet obscurity rather than pursue further wealth.
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Boston
James Fisk
Jim” Fisk
Erie
New York
Jay Gould
Jim
Fisk
Sanderson
Commonwealth Avenue
Lucy Moore
Chester Square
Grand Central Hotel
Vermont
Grand Opera House
Gould
Erie Railroad
Fall River
Mr. Clark
James D. Clarke
Mr. Fisk
Hepburn Attacks Free Coinage At Bankers Meeting
In Poughkeepsie on June 9 the former comptroller of the currency, A. B. Hepburn, spoke to Group 7 of the New York Bankers Association. He warned that free coinage would harm the monetary system, calling the drive dishonest and noting a double standard in honesty between individuals and corporations. He urged public judgment to block such repudiation of debt.
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Poughkeepsie
A. B. Hepburn
New York Bankers’ Association
Elder Suiderquist to Puget Sound Mission Field
Elder Suiderquist of the Christian Advent Church of Emerald Street leaves Tuesday June 18 for the Puget Sound missionary field to work independently until January next. He travels via the Northern Pacific to Victoria for four months, visits Vancouver and Westminster, then goes to California for two months before returning to Boston. Dr. Suiderquist, a Lynn native, has long engaged in missionary work and spent two years ago stationed in Washington and nearby British provinces.
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Suiderquist
Christian Advent Church of
Emerald Street
Puget Sound
Washington
Pacific Coast
Ringling Brothers Circus to Camp on Huntington Avenue Grounds
The Singling Brothers circus arrives in Boston in two weeks at Huntington avenue grounds with ten music varieties and new feats. It promises premier aerial acts by DaComas and Minco family clowns, exotic animal displays, a giraffe and the largest hippopotamus, and a Liberati band concert preceding performances.
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Singling Brothers
Huntington Avenue
Boston
Ringling Brothers
Africa
Pampas
Europe
Hippodrome
Minco
Landauer
Eddy
Mile
Elena
Julia Lowande
Marian Lesle
Mike Rooney
Mons
Natalie
Orient
Akimoto
America
Liberati
Rome
Deaths Hancock At Entrance Boston June 8
John Hodget Hancock of Everett died in Boston on June 8 at age unspecified. The obituary notes his passing and city of residence, with limited readable details due to damaged text.
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Hancock
Ens
Boston
John Hodget A. Hancock
Everett A
Unitarians on the Common Sunday Services Highlight Open Air Appeal
About 300 attendees gathered beneath a big tree near the bandstand for Unitarian services led by Rev. C. F. Dole Rev. James Huxtable and Archibald M. Howe. Addresses focused on seeing God, bridging class divides, generosity over dividends, and practical religious witness. Next week Rev. C. S. Ames and Rev. Nehemiah Boynton will speak.
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C. F. Dole
Jamaica Plain
James Huxtable
South Boston
Archibald M. Howe
Cambridge
Harvard Street
Charles Billings
Archie McDonald
Almon Fairbanks
James Soliday
Mr. Huxtable
Zaccheus
West End
Mr. Howe
Franklin
Dole
C. S. Ames
Nehemiah Boynton
National Cadets of Temperance Session Opens in Boston
The National Cadets of Temperance of North America convene in D Hall South Boston for their annual session with delegates from Massachusetts New York Connecticut New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Liberia Africa. Morning 9 o clock Dahlgren Hall reports and elections, dinner at 6 and afternoon officer installation. Delegates hosted Tuesday evening by Most Worthy Grand Patron C S Dodge of Cambridgeport.
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Cadets of Temeperance of
North America
D Hall
South Boston
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticu
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Liberia
Africa
Boston
Dahlgren Hall
P. Dodge
Cambridgeport
National Section
Cadets of Temperance
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