Comparative View of United States and European Governments
Mr. Towle’s Lowell Institute lecture compares political systems of Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, and the United States. He argues for a strict civil versus political distinction, analyzes centralization and federalism, and contrasts American republicanism with European monarchies and republics, noting sovereignty resides in the people in both nations.
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George Makepeace Towle
Lowell Institute
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
England
Achaian League
Bismarck
America
French Republic
Remusat
Perier
Say
Thiers
Senate
Mr. Gladstone
Atlantic
House of Commons
Paper Makers Seek 65 Hour Week Reduction
A night shift petition circulates to reduce weekly hours to sixty five for engineers, tenders, and second hands in paper mills. The plan, originated in Holyoke, would shift start to Monday 7 AM and finish Saturday 6 PM. Workers, unaffiliated to any union, expect support nationwide.
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Holyoke
Ang
Workmen's right to combine backed in Western rail strikes report
Chairman Curtin presents the House select committee's findings on Western rail strikes. The report supports voluntary worker combinations with free choice for nonparticipants, warns against unequal restriction, and urges equal protection under law for all labor. It calls for an enlightened interstate commerce commission and notes arbitration's limits amid transit disruptions.
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Washincrox
Curtin
House of Representatives
Western Railroad
United States
Massachusetts Veterans Club holds first dinner at Parker's
The Massachusetts Military Club formed for World War II veterans hosted a dinner at Parker's with sixty members. President W. H. H. Andrews introduced aims of promoting patriotism, civic duty, and military spirit, featuring remarks by General John M. Corse and officers from the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Massachusetts Military Club
Parker’s
W. H. H. Andrews
John M. Corse
Charles Levi Woodbury
Boardman
Noyes
George A. Bruce
Charles D. Nash
Grand Army of the Republic
A. ©. Monroe
Grand Army
Loyal Legion
Corse
General Corse
Pope
Sherman
General Grant
St. Louis
General Sherman
Congress
Sir John A. Macdonald
Canada
Great Britain
Halsey J. Boardman
State Senate
Senate
House
South
Monroe
Patch
Corsa
Allatoona
Pope Sends Benediction in McGlynn Reinstatement Hint
A telegram to St. Stephen's Church from the Pope replies to Dr. Carey's message praising his seventy six and fifty years in priesthood. Rome says the telegram was acceptable and imparts apostolic benediction to Rev. McGlynn and the parish. Friends hope this signals his reinstatement.
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New York
St. Stephen's Church
Carey
Rome
Doctor from Muncie Praises Remedy for Bilious Diseases
Dr. D. Schaub of Muncie Indiana reports using the remedy in bilious disease cases with uniformly favorable results and calls it valuable.
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D. Schaub
Muncie
Ind
Obituary of ex alderman Andrew J Hall
Ex alderman Andrew J Hall died Wednesday afternoon at his farm in South Barnstead New Hampshire where he had been visiting. Born March 22 1831 in Stafford he worked as a baker in Portsmouth and Boston later owning fifteen restaurants. He served Boston common council 1858 1838 and 1884 as a Republican alderman and wartime post sutler at Fort Warren.
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Andrew J. Hall
South Barnstead
N. H
Mr. Hall
Stafford
Samuel D. Hall
Mr. Hail
Portsmouth
Boston
Fulton Street
Fort Warren
Horace Draper
Hall
Dedham Street
Pensions Granted to New England Residents List
Washington grants pensions to residents across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts listing names and towns including Milton Appleton Rockland Gardiner Lewiston Brewer Hampden North Castine Norridgewock Damariscotta Gardiner Pembroke Augusta East Auburn Monroe Trenton Belmont Claremont Portsmouth Salisbury Centre Jeffersonville West Danville Northfield Vergennes Woodford Glover Shelburne Massachusetts towns include Mary Beach North Wilbraham Fitchburg Boston Chelsea Reading and more. Restorations and reissues noted for several names.
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Washington
March
New England
Maine
Milton
William M. Robbins
Appleton
Carrie E. Smith
Hollis Smart
Rockland
Arvilla
Hezekiah Rodley
Gardiner
William E. Cunningham
Lewiston
Otis FE. Farnham
Brewer
Peter Jennings
Hampden
Henry B. Westcott
North Castine
George A. Withee
Norridgewock
Austin Lailer
John ©. Rogers
Pembroke
Thomas C. Pease
Augusta
Lewis Bates
East Auburn
Ivory Ricker
Monroe
Thompson T. Leland
Trenton
New Hampshire
Charles H. Thompson
Belmont
Charles H. Parmelee
Claremont
Lyman H. Hartford
Portsmouth
William Vetterline
Guild
John $. Laverin
Salisbury Centre
Vermont
David C
Edwin L. Reynolds
Jeffersonville
Eliza
Charles King
West Danville
Benjamin F. Gould
Northfield
Levi C. Harris
Vergennes
Charles Bowles
Woodford
Sewell
John Garrity
Boston
Robert Leitch
Lowell
John F. Fellows
Chelsea
Levi W. Emerson
West Brimfield
Thomas A. Parker
Reading
Lewis Jones
Robert Maker
Charlestown
Anti license campaign stirs Marsburap events
March 5 Marsburap reports vigorous anti license effort. Rev T A Metcalf former Gate of Heaven South Boston pastor spoke at Abbot Hall before a large audience. A grand demonstration is planned Saturday and Hon John B Finch will speak Sunday. Churches close Sunday evening and a grand rally is at Abbot Hall. Election is Monday.
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T. A. Metcalf
Gate of Heaven Church
South Boston
Abbot Hall
John B. Finch
Telephone litigation advances pleas to add patent questions
In United States v American Bell Telephone Co the firm seeks leave to plead additional facts and determinations affecting patent validity and scope. The motion notes prior cases totaling 20 000 pages and 700 depositions, now before the Supreme Court on appeal, and argues against retrial of issues already before equity courts. Ottawa minister of agriculture also ruled against Bell Telephone, nulling the 1877 stake transmitter patent. no appeal is noted.
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American Bell Telephone Company
United States
United States Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
Court of Equity
Ont
Okhe
Bell Telephone
Bell Telephone Company
Edison
Fast Banana Steamers Boost Boston Banana Import Run
Two fast steamers built for the Boston Fruit Company will shuttle bananas from Boca del Toro to Jamaica and then to Boston, cutting travel times to seven and a half days on Boca del Toro to Boston, five and a half days Jamaica to Boston. One ship is loading, another due mid month.
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Boston Fruit Company
Boston
Boca del Toro
Central America
Jamaica
David H.ela
Suffolk
Eain
The
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim, Esquire
Elijah Gforge
Money in Elections Speech by Richard H. Dana
Richard H. Dana warned against the growing evil of money in elections at the Christian Union. He described how large interests and secret organizations sway campaigns, citing Massachusetts experience and noting the reluctance to reveal campaign spending. He praised the English anti bribery act of 15535 as a potential model.
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Richard H. Dana
Christian Union
Dana
Massachusetts
State Committee
Boston Exchange to Sell Land and Building on State Street
Stockholders at a special meeting of the Boston Exchange Company authorized the directors to sell the land and Exchange building on State street to a syndicate led by Samuel Wells James Jackson and C C Cotting for 700000. The buyers will demolish the structure after existing leases end to erect a substantial new business block.
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Boston Exchange Company
Boston Marine Society, Exchange
Boylston Market Association
Union Building
State Street
Boston
William P. K.hn
Suffolk
Herman A. Hammond
Alberi G. Rice
Hammond, Rice & Company
Court Square
Hoston
William D. Martin
Proposed Day Nursery In Ward 16
Charity appeal seeks funds and volunteers to establish a Ward 16 day nursery for working mothers. Lists multiple local managers and donation addresses across Boston and Brookline avenues. Also notes a Biddeford granite quarry strike by Fifty quarrymen over unpaid February wages and a proprietor claim.
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Board of Managers
H. C. Haven
Exeter Street
C. W. Turner
Newbury Street
M. G. Lincoln
Harvard Street
Brookline
Henry Webster
Appleton Street
Edward Twitchell
8. C. Minot
Marlboro Street
Drummond
Chestnut Street
A. C. Howard
Columbus Avenue
M. A. Jones
Pembroke Street
H. A. Joslyn
Waltham Street
C. B. Southard
L. Shannon Davis
High Street
Merritt
Dwight Clapp
Trinity Terrace
James Andrews & Sons
Granite
Biddeford
Unpaid Labor as Funds Delayed by Philly and New York Contractors
The reason given for not paying the men is that the money has not yet been received from the contractors at Philadelphia and New York.
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Philadelphia
New York
Boston Theatres Schedule Catchphrase of the Evening
The list shows performances across Boston venues with Mrs Langtry in Lady Clanmarty Boucicault in Fin Mac Cool Held by the Enemy Tangled Lives The Schoolmistress Daddy Nolan The Banker's Daughter at multiple times daily 2 and 8 at Bijou Theatre
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Boston
Mrs. Langtry
Daddy Nolan
BIJOU
Banker’s Daughter
Auction Schedule for Carpets and Stocks at Leonard and Co
Today Fruit Harris 12 in Oriental carpets and rugs with Leonard & Co at 3 pm. Saturday stocks with R. L. Day & Co at 11:30 pm. Stocks with Francis Henshaw & Co at 12 am. Oriental carpets and rugs with Leonard & Co at 3 pm.
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Horatio Harris
Ieonard & Co
R. L. Day & Co
Francis Henshaw & Co
Oriental Carpets
Leonard & Co
Marital unions recorded in city notices
In this city on March 1 Rev. B Herford joined Joseph Leforme to Florence Scott. In this city on February 23 Rev. J M Gray joined Frank Levitt to Rosa A Jerald.
Obituaries from Cambridge to New York March 1
Death notices from multiple locales list Charities Barrington 33, Joseph Bertram 65, Celia Campbell youngest daughter of James B. Campbell, Henry C. Damon 75, Nancy Fowler 1? years 10 months widow of Edmund M. Fowler, Hugo Haberlein 47, Charles Hein 38, Parker formerly Worcester 19 years 7 days, Harry Lawson Prescott late Devil’s Lake Oak, Miss Sally R. Sumner 84, Henry L. Yarrington 43. Burial details given for Prescott with funeral at Forest Hills March 4.
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Barrington
Cambridge
Charities H. Barrington
Bertram
South Boston
Joseph Bertram
Campbell
Charleston
Heberlein
New York
Hugo Haberlein
Roxbury
Charles Hein
Mort
Parker
Madon
C. Parker
Worcester
Prescott
Harry Lawson Prescott
Devil’s Lake
Oak
B. K. Moore
Forest Hills
Boston & Providence
Sumner
Hyde Park
Sally R. Sumner
Yarringon
New York City
Henry L. Yarrington
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Corner Mason
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American Insurance Co
Messrs
George Croshaw & CO
London
Francis Peabody
J. W. Field
Henry S. Bean
Deacon Street
Farlow
Merchants’ Row
John Fepfrles & Sons
Devonshire St
Coffin & Henry
OWA
Iowa
State St
Des Moines
Raeder, Adamson & CO
Oea
Avigalil C. Jackson
Samuel E. Bracketput
Notiee Eisher
Carlos XS. Eaton
Sutton
de Minead
Gilman C. George
Duartes A. Bemis
Dana Place
Mass
Robert Sanderson
Joseph A. Sanderson
Richmond
D. Baker
P.O
Corporation Notices
Post
St Watlet
Aaron BE
GAY & CQ
Commonwealth OF Massachussetts
Edwin A. Eaton
Payson E. Tucker
Main Boston
Sis Court
Joan W. Mcki
Esquire
Elisah. George
Register
Commonwealth OF Massachett
Setts
Middlesex
Charles T. Hubbard
Weston
Said
Charles W. Hubbard
Frederic W.lincoln, Jr
Hubbard
Benjamin L. Young
George M. Brooks
J. H. Tyler
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Norfolk
Sarah E. Pratt
Emma B. Prat
Nathaniel PE Ora
Dorchester
William Minot
Dedham
George Waith
Jonathan Cobb
Moremon
Massacho
Supfolk
Kit
George F. Peirce
Said County
James B. Case
Lboston
Leveby
Elijah George
Horatio W. Preston
Sarah
Somes Preston
Thomas Wattson Merrill
Alonzo F. Preston
Frances M. Preston
Sarah A. Harris
Eliza L. Kendall
Joan W. McKia
Commonwealth OF Massachuus
Charles Cellerman
Thomas Dean
Joan W. McKim
Tine
Sarah Bassett
Yomrion Wealth
Massach
Harriet K. Bayley
Witheas
Grerce Waite
Louisa J. Frost
R. IT. Lombard
Adm
Leonard Plumer
Charles 8
Plumer
Zoston
Totice
Stephen Hammond
George Warren Hammond
Helen S. Prince
Frederick
Prince
Hollis Street
Isaac B. Rich
Boucicault
Kerry
Fin Mac Cool
Eugene Tompkins
Meon
Globe Theatre
John Stetson
Robert B. Mantell
Fifth Avenue Theatre
John W. Keller
A. M. Field
William Gillette
Paris
Pinero
Rosina Vokes
the Banker’s Daughter
Howard Athenaum
Daniel Sully IN
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Gettysburg
L. W. Munhall
D. B. Towner
Hotels
Punta Gorda
Trabue
Florida
Charlott¢ Harbor
Gulf of Mexico
Jackonyville
Commonwealth of
T. G. Kent
C. C. Spelelman
Commonwealth of ‘Massachusetts
State House
Committee On Prisons
Commonwealth
Frank W. Jones
Joseph H. Gleason
Daniel A. Johnson
Chester F. Sanger
Court Street
Charles W. Curry
Henry W. Folsom
Nsolvency
Suffole Ss
Charles J. Eastman
Melvin O. Adams
Pemberton Square
the Brookline News. Illustrated
H. P. Whitcomb
Martin van Nason
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