Investigation opens over alleged bribe of senators for elevated rail deal
Massachusetts Senate committee meets in Worcester Green Room as Mr. George Fred Williams faces charges that ten senators were offered votes for 100000 dollars by a People's Elevated Railroad Company with 10000 per senator. Williams plans to present witnesses tomorrow after delays and requests joint House-Senate review.
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Williams
Senate
Green Room
Parker
Worcester
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Smxare
Dune Il
West End
Lenny D. CouLinas
Davenport
Middlesex
Tlormer
Collin
Buffelle
Gay
George Fred Williams
Fassett
House
Committee On Rules
Privan
Lam
Ainst
J. Williams
Mr. Williams
iIt
Senator Davenport
Senator Hosmer
People’s Elevated Railroad Company
West End Railroad
West End Railroad Company
KE. W. Burdett
Willams
Corinthian Yachting Pennant Regatta Schedule Issued
The Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead releases details for the pennant race on June 17 for yachts under 21 feet waterline and the club race on June 21 with multiple classes and prizes. Entries for the special class close June 18 at 9 PM and ropes classes by 2 PM on race day.
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Corinthian Yacht Club of
Marblehead
Uower
Dangers at Roxbury Crossing Prompt Citizen Action
The Roxbury Improvement Association held a meeting to discuss Roxbury crossing dangers. Citizens' Association followed with a public meeting led by George H. Decatur as speakers urged improved lighting gates and better police presence. Mr Choate promised to explore remedies including wire screens and restricted passage, while other officials pressed for gatekeepers, police, and safer street paving. Resolutions of sympathy for John Havey were adopted.
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Roxbury
Boston & Maine Railroad
Causeway Street
Choate
Carberry
Ruggles Street
Heath Street
Charles Wooley
John #leiler
Dr. Cornbloom
W. H. French
Fred Bleiler
Oregon and Transcontinental Bonds Redemption Notice
The Oregon and Transcontinental company plans to redeem all outstanding first mortgage trust bonds on November 1, 1890 at 106 percent plus accrued interest. A exchange offer to swap for Northern Pacific 6 percent bonds may be extended to bondholders on or before July 16, with exchanges handled through E Rollins Morse & Bro. and partners in Boston and New York.
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Oregon & Transcontinental
Oregon & Transcontinental Company
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Northern Pacific Railroad
Oregon &Transcontinental
Northern Pacific
Northern Pacific Raiload Company
E. Rollins Morse & Bro
Brewster
Cobb & Estabrook
Pore Giddings & Co
Leo, Higginson & 2
All-Wool Suit Lot Offers Clearances at 6.00 to 12.00
A newspaper notice advertises wholesale and retail stock of all wool suits from Hyde Park Woollen Mill Sawyer Woollen Co. and Russell Mills. Four lots include 66.00 per Hyde Park suit, 300 Sawyer Cheviot suits, 4th lot Aberdeen Cheviot at 6.00 each, with regular sizes 34 to 42 and discounts from 10 to 12 dollars.
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Hyde Park
Sawyer Woollen CO
Dover
N. H
Russell Woollen Mills
Samples of All These Lots Highlight Special Scotch Plaid Homespun Suit
The notice advertises Lot 5 featuring a genuine Scotch plaid homespun single breasted sack suit with patch pockets and full wool, valued at about 15 dollars but offered during the sale at 7 50, claiming this price is less than half the real value. It praises the medium light brown overcoats as handsome and stylish and urges immediate purchase.
Spring Suits and Knee Pants Sale Announcement
In Our Boys and Children's Department we begin closing out spring suits at one uniform discount of one third. Two thousand pairs of children's knee pants for boys ages 4 to 12 offered at reduced prices.
Bargain Sale at Continental Boys and Children’s Dept
The Continental highlights half price on 50 cen t pairs and deep reductions on children and boys wear including two piece and three piece jersey suits and kilt suits. It touts its 16 year history, claims superior styles and invites testing Hathaway White shirts and samples from the Continental.
Spring Overcoats at Half Price in Dexter Woollen Line
The ad highlights a sale of kersey overcoats with silk facings from the Dexter Woollen Co. offered at about half the regular price. About 200 coats in sizes 86 to 44 remain, with a regular retail value of 14 dollars, now priced around ten dollars each.
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Dexter Woollen Co
South Boston Railroad Men Protest Uniform Policy
The South Boston street railroad workers met at Railroad Men's Hall to denounce management for dismissing forty six men over missing full uniforms. They note heat kept some from wearing vests and that the pay was docked for a slight offense. The dispute will be sent to the executive council of divisions.
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South Boston Street Railroad
Railroad Men’s Hall
Democratic committee proposed writers for tariff reform
A Boston morning paper reports the Democratic State committee planned to send one or two working men to England to write about free trade benefits for labor and publish letters in the press. W. E. Russell and Josiah Quincy deny knowledge of the scheme. Athan Matthews Jr. says the idea may not be true but he had not heard of it before.
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Boston
Democratic State Committee
England
W. E. Russell
Josiah Quincy
Athan Matthews, Jr
Latter June Weddings Stir Irish Parliaments in Trinity
Suburban London wedding items note the marriage of William O'Brien to Milo Sophia Raffalovitch at St. Charles Borromeo with nearly all Irish MPs in attendance. Guests included Parnell O Connor Sullivan and McCarthy. The couple honeymoon in Paris. Presents include Irish lace and linen from Dublin Cork.
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London
William O’brien
Milo
Sophia Raffalovitch
St. Charles
Weddings At Brookline And Jamaica Plain Draw Large Attendees
A large fashionable gathering attended the Fuller residence in Brookline for the wedding of Alice H. Fuller to Edward Standish Robinson with Rev. J H De Normandie officiating. Nathan Robinson served as best man as young bridesmaids carried baskets of pinks. The couple plans a Brookline home after a wedding tour. In Jamaica Plain, Annie S Curtis wed Winthrop M Pitman under a floral arch with music by the Germania Orchestra and a Canada tour planned.
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Walter Austin
H. Bemis
W. H. Rand
W. F. Vana
G. Jd. Putnam
A.C. Smith
B. Gillette
Guilmant
Wagner
Water Street
Mead
Saratoga
Cohasset Wall
Walput Street
Brookline
Elizabeth Robinson
Faille Francaise
Channing Robinson
William Eaton
G. H. Wheeler
F. &. Snow
Mrs. Robinson
Brookaine
Pitman—Curtis
Jamaica Plain
Annie
Curtis
Charles F
Amanda Curtis
Winthrop M. Pitman
Boston
Centre Street
C. F. Dole
Unitarian Church
Edna Seaverns
Thomas Evans
Russell Hyde
Warren Hills
Germania Orchestra
Canada
Cambridge
Mr. Blackman
Agassiz Street
Newton marriages unite Lawrence Whitman and Grace Whitman
Lawrence and Miss Grace Whitman were wed at the groom’s parents residence 174 Newtonville Avenue Newtonville in a 7 o'clock ceremony conducted by Rev Andrew McKeown D D. The reception featured Cheeny’s Orchestra and a floral decorated parlor with ushers George W Barber George M Weed and Alonzo R Weed. The couple will reside in Newton after a short wedding trip.
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Boston
van Bridge
Waltham
Lexington
Allston
Newtons
Cheeny
Elizabeth A. Cook
Katie Babcock
David G. Story
George A. Woods
Newburyport
Frank Bb. Currier
New York
Atlantic Avenue
Gannett Institute marks thirty sixth anniversary
The thirty six anniversary of the Gannett Institute was observed at 69 Chester Square. Miss Stella Frances Cole Faribault Minn Ida May Gardner Troy N Y and Mary De Wade Mitchell Mansfield O graduated. Diplomas were conferred by Rev George Gannett D D. Rev William Elliott Griffis spoke on life and education. A class hymn and musical pieces were performed by students.
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Gannett Institute
Chester Square
Stella Frances Cole
Faribault
Minn
Ida May
Gardner
Troy
N.Y
Mary de. Wade Mitchell
Mansfield
George Gannett
William Elliot Griffis
Stella F. Cole
Mitchell
Emma K. Butterworth
City Hall Salaries Questioned in Letter to the Editor
A reader from Boston on June 10 replies to a Post article about mayoral duties, endorsing a claim of excessive wages for laborers and urging inclusion of the high salaries paid at City Hall. The letter pressures public scrutiny of municipal pay scales.
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City Hall
W.N. Boston
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Tomore
Enator Hosmer
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Hathaway
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Catherine Mermet
William P. Wentworth
Phillips Brooks
Fred W. Whittemore
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Jayte
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Sarah A. Wood
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Carter
Charles Bacall
Plimpton
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Davis White
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Ellicott
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Carrie Rollins
Carver
J. H. Stickney
Edith Stickney
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Harry Bemis
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Martha Burrage
Bopha
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W. W. Burrage
Dodge
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H. O. Harper
George A. Bolster
E. J. Drisko
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Methodist Church
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Frank Priest
Henr Heppier
C. W. Macdonald
George
Newton
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Southgate
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F. G Southgate
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May Fuller Southgate
Er Con Cohen
C. H. Graves & Sons
Agnes Surriage
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