Forty ninth Congress adjourns sine die after chaotic session
The House, amid repeated quorums and a back and forth on conference reports, adjourned sine die as Speaker Carlisle presided and members thanked him for fair leadership. A committee was appointed to inform the President Congress was ready to adjourn shuve die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Miller
Texas
Lafayette
Morrison
Illinois
Reed
Maine
Hatch
Missouri
John G. Carlisle
Forney
Alabama
Committee of Conference
Randall
Pennsylvania
Senate
Barnes
Congress
House of Representatives
Mysterious To Let Sign Raises Brooklyn Interest
A vacant house at 37 Monroe Place Brooklyn draws attention as neighbors discuss the cause. Mrs Mary G Green and her two children occupy the home while an elder daughter’s husband Ferdinand Ward’s infamous 1884 downfall is recalled. Mrs Green’s mental decline leads to a plan to return home with family and servant. she remains sane aside from rare conversations and is cared for at home.
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New York
Monroe Place
Brooklyn
Heights
Mary G. Green
Ferdinand Ward
Mrs. Green
Striking Quarrymen at Andrews Son Quarry Vote to Stay Out
Brpperorp Maine March 4 The striking quarrymen at Andrews Son's quarry remain out with nearly all stone cutters leaving for lack of work James M Andrews junior member of the firm returned home and attended the strikers meeting He offered to pay January wages and part of December if they returned tomorrow They voted to stay out until December and January wages are paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brpperorp
Andrews & Son
James M. Andrews
Knights of Labor Hall
Rumsey Bros. Factory Faces Walkout Over Staffing Change
A labor conference involving Knights of Labor Mackay Stitchers Union and Lasters' Union addressed unrest at Rumsey Bros shoe factory. Employees protested Nova Scotia hires, with strikers quitting and threats to move the business. A crowd tailed women workers as police protected them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynnx
Knights of Labor
Mackay Stitchers’ Union
Lasters’ Union
Lasters
Rumsey Bros
Nova Scotia
Philadelphia Syndicate Buys Chicago Gasworks Stake
A Philadelphia syndicate led by United Gas Improvement Company has gained a controlling interest in the Chicago Gaslight and Coke Company with a $5,000,000 capital. The group aims to seize three more Chicago gas concerns, with over $10,000,000 involved and brisk stock purchases reported in Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Parmapetonia
Penn
Philadelphia
Chicago
United Gas Improvement Company
Philadelphia E
Chi
Ry Cago Gaslight and Coke Company
Legislation Delayed As House Postpones Sunday Law Bills
A stalled legislative day with no progress on poll tax orders or eight hour petition. The House adjourned for March town meetings after delays on Sunday observance and Boston petitions while Senate reports opposed eight hour work and district changes. Bills passed to be engrossed include bank and cemetery acts, church name changes, and various municipal and corporate provisions.
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House of Representatives
Boston
House
Senate
Senate actions on labor probate and port bills before adjournment
The senate reported leave to withdraw the Boston mayor petition eight hour workday for city employees and set a probate recording cap at 2800 dollars yearly in Suffolk. It advanced a state aid bill for certain veterans widows and extended the time by ten years. Other measures covered charter amendments for Long Wharf Corporation water company consolidations and water sales, aldermanic district equalization, and street railway regulations. The body adjourned until Tuesday.
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Committee On Education
Munroe Chickering
Commonwealth
Chickering
Clark
Massachusetts
Board of Education
Hartford
Friends
Horace Mann
Clarke Institution
Northampton
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Horatio B. Knight
Leaver
Boston
Hitchcock
Amherst College
Cape Cod Canal
Wadleigh
Pillsbury
Fox
Messrs
Brooks
Judge Harriman
Bourne
Tobey
Morse
Glines
Committee On Labor
O’brien
Shea
Suffolk County
Welch
Alger
Mercantile Affairs
Long Wharf Corporation
Keith
Plymouth
Dedham Water Company
Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corporation
Wilbur
Committee On Cities
City of
Milliken
Senate
Committee On
Suffolk
Alfred Nash
Boston Pilots
Boston Pilots’ Relief Society
Sammel Stubbs
John J. Haley
Franklin Savings Bank
Roxbury
County of
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Cabot Place
Fuller & Whitney
Warwick Street
Stubbs
Gro
WM. Estranroox
Taxation and public works items on Massachusetts House agenda
The committee reports include tax changes on stock in foreign corporations and real estate occupied by savings banks, and exp expedients on water supply bills. Debates touch Sunday laws and poll tax orders as the House adjourns to Tuesday with several reports and engrossed bills noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Committee On Water Supply
George Alexander
Barnstable County Water Supply Company
J.D. Richards
J. Moriarty
Thornton K. Ware
McDonough
New Bedford
Ayer
Walworth
Newton
Kent
Worcester
Walker
Committee On Agriculture
Commonwealth
Soldiers and Sailors’ Memorial Hall Association
Newburyport
Western District
Junction Water Company of
Pittsfield
Harvard Calendar for the Week Opens with Chapel and Lectures
Harvard University schedules a week of religious services and academic events from March 6 to 12. Appleton Chapel services start at 7 30 p.m. Sunday with Rev Philip Maxon. daily prayers 8 45 p.m.. lectures and readings from March 7 to 12 include philology and Semitic studies, German readings, forensic lectures, and Bowdoin prize work. An orchestral concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra is set for Sanders Theatre at 7 45 p.m. Friday.
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Harvard University
Appleton Chapel
Philip
Maxom
Boston
F. G. Peabody
Mr. Peabody
Wadsworth House
Schiller
Hochdiérfer
Sever
Lyon
Upper Boylston
Royce
Divinity School
G. D. Latimer
E. C. Smith
Bowdoin Prize
C. F. A. Currier
Sevel
Lovering
Jefferson Physical Laboratory
Mathematical Seminary
Maxime Bécher
University
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre
E. E. Atkinson
Pope
A. S. Hill
Sever Li
Forty eighth Boston Lunatic Hospital report details costs and caseload
The report shows 111 admissions in the past year with a daily average of 256 inmates. Weekly gross per patient was 503 dollars and net 447 dollars, vs 850 and 473 the year before, totaling 61 744 dollars. Melancholia leads diseases with 28 cases, acute mania 26, 94 never before in any hospital, 29 recoveries, 38 deaths. Of 60 male patients laborers totaled 4, of 56 female patients 21 were housewives. The city insanity ratio is about 1 in 400. The hospital has treated 3424 cases in forty eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Lunatic Hospital
Jackson & Co Hatters Offer Latest New York Boston Styles
The spring style data praises the season as attractive in shape and quality. Messrs Jackson and Co at 59 Tremont street present latest New York and Boston fashions and guarantee correct goods. They are the sole Boston agents for Dunlap Co of New York.
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Messrs. Jackson & Co
59 Tremont Street
New York
Boston
Messrs. Dunlap & Co
Legal Telephone Marriage and Whiskey Order Notice
A marriage by telephone is claimed legal in 1832 context. An order by telephone for G QO Taylor old bourbon or pure rye whiskey can be obtained from leading drug and grocery trades or from the proprietors Chester H Graves & Sons Boston MA, whose firm name is on the cork bottle. Unbranded cases sent on request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
G. QO. Taylor
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Boston
Mass
Antoinette Rigaud to headline Boston stage week
The Boston Theatre and Park venues announce a busy week with Antoinette Rigaud at the Museum in a new production by M. Raymond Deslandes adapted for London stage and a strong support bill. Rosina Vokes company continues at the Park with multiple plays, while other venues feature Solon Shingle, In Honor Bound, My Milliner's Bill, and A Pan tomime Rehearsal among titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Museum
Antoinette Rigaud
M. Raymond Deslandes
Comédie Française
Ernest Warren
Mrs. Kendal
St. James's Theatre
Mies Evesson
Antoinette
Mr. Vanderfelt
London
Boston
Cora Tanner
Ace
Messrs
W. A. Sands
8. C. Craig
Harry Danes
Ww. T. Grover
Leonard Grover, Jr
Ada Dwyer
Eleanor Lane
R. B. Mantel
The
Globe
Mr. Boucicault
Holls Street
Kerry
Bijou
Helen Adeli
Eight Boston Theatres Offer Day and Night Shows
Afternoon and evening performances across Boston venues feature Lady Clancarty and Pygmalion and Galatea in Boston. Park Theatre hosts The Schoolmistress with Miss Rosina Vokes, Globe presents Tangled Lives, and Museum stages Held by the Enemy final weeks. Awaiting Miss Genevieve Ward at Park for Get-Me-Not in a week, with The Queen's Favorite and a strong supporting cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bijou
Howard
Daniel Sully
Daddy Nolan
Genevieve Ward
Boston Post reborn as eight page quarto with new presses
The Boston Post announces new ownership and upgraded equipment including presses and type. It promises fearless political and social coverage with expanded departments, strong literary criticism, and a semi weekly marine report. The paper aims to be a leading New England daily with rapid circulation growth and wide advertising reach.
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Boston Post
New England
Cable and Telegraph
Boston
POST
Citizen
The
Post Publishing CD
Milk Street
Shares and Trusts Ledger Entry from 1891 Auction
By order of E iyan shares issued for Boston and Albany Railroad Luconia Mig Co Gt Falggife Co Everett Mills Columbian Mills Washington Mills Mt Pleasant Coal Co Lancereg Mig Co $1000 St Louis and San Francisco Trusts October 1891.
Stock Auctioneers and Brokers Address Listing
The listing notes offices for stock auctioneers and brokers located in the Merchants' Exchange Building on the first floor room eight at No. Sistate Street and mentions the firms eV BR DAW COM PAN and Socaanee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Henshaw & CO
State Street
Merchants’ Exchange
Ev BR
DAW & Com
PAN Stock Auctioneers, Brokers & Socaanee No. Sistate
Merchants’ Exchange Building
Securities offered on a March 5 sale list
A historical listing details numerous shares and bonds offered, including Boston Wharf Co 5, Merchants' Nail Bank, Boston Marine Ins Co, City of Charlestown 6s, American Screw Co Providence, Washington Natl Bank, Mass Natl Bank, Old Boston Natl Bank, Market Natl Bank, Mt. Vernon Natl Bank, Salem Gas Light Co, Lyman Mills, Og. and Lake Champlain items, Winchester & Potomac Rd 6s, Middlesex Horse Rd 6s, and multiple railroad and company holdings, with executors’ orders and options noted.
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Boston Wharf Co
Merchants’ Nail Bank
Kansas City
Boston Marine Ins. Co
City of
Charlestown
M. S
American Screw Co
Providence
R. I
Washington
City Bank
Mass
Old Boston
Market
Mt. Vernon
Salem Gas Light Co
Res Portsmouth Cos S
Pittsfield & No. Adams
Do Lyman Mills
Lake Champ
Winchester & Potomac
Boston Horse
Middlesex Horse
Lake Champ, Ka. Inc
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Lynn
Boston Order
Russell & Co
Conway Savings Bank
Conway
Central Cemetery Association
Middleboro
Hassanamisco Water Company
Clark University
Court House
West Newton
Norfolk
George H. Cannon
Thomas J. Cannon
Josiah Robinson
Benjamin F. Robinson
John Gillespie
Farnham Gillespie
Francis Jenkins
Town of
Concord
Charles O. Newell
James Burke
Ellen Madigan
Annie J. Welch
Plumb Island Bay
Ames Manufacturing Company
Harvard
Boston Insane Hospital
the Theatres
Faust
Aida
Lakmé
Mme
Janauschek
Mrs. Rendle
Colonel Linn
James A. Bailey
McCaull
Henry E. Dixey
Edward Stokes
Harrigan
Edwin Booth
San Francisco
Mr. Booth
Lyceum Theatre
David Belasco
Carlo
Novelty
Hilda Hilton
France
Willing
Henley Regatta
Standard
Bassett Roe
Julian Cross
St. James’sa
Clancarty
Tom Taylor
Prince of Wales’s
Princesa’s
Messrs. Grundy and Pettitt
Adelphi
Kate Vaughan
Henry Til
Rokewode
Katherine
Prince of Wales
Wal
Robert Downing
Hollis Street
Annie Clarke
Miss Clarke
Zorrense
Lady Dedlock
Conried
Opera
Mr. Boucicicault
Hollis Street Theatre
Gypsy Baron
New York Theatres
Mansfield
Prince Karl
Union Square
Ruddigore
Fifth Avenue
Goodwin
Erminie
Casino
Denman Thompson
Fourteenth Street
Lyceum
Walda Lamar
Helen Dauvray
Alexander Salvini
Aida Vernon
Boston Theatre
Gilmore Band
Letitia Friteh
Rossini
Gounod
Wely
Gottschalk
Liszt
Thomas
and Sullivan
Gilmore
Schubert
Bruch
Brahms
Miss Maud Powell
Mile. Bernhardt
Star Theatre
Camille
Fedora
Theodora
National Oberea Company
Post Prospectus
Duffy
Princeton
Scott Co
Tara Presbyterian
B. Mills
Rocky Mountains
Territories
Express
Duffx Malt Whiskey CO
Rochester
N. Y
Chayman Valve Mfg. Co
First National — of
Addax Basting Machine Co
Merrimac Mfg. Co
Boott Cotton Mills
Wbowker Fertilizer Co
McKay Metallc
Atlantic Cotton Mills
Cocheco Mig. Co
Chicopee Mfg
Dwight Mfg
Massachusetts Cotton Mills
National Tube Works Co, Shoe and Leather Insurance Co
Portland, Saco & Portsmouth RR
Michigan Air Line
Atchison, Troy & Santa Fe RR
Mansfield & Framingham RR
Oregon
Poston Exchange Co
de Faneuil Hall National Bank
Middlesex RR
Musicae Instruments
GEO, Steck & 60
Piangs
Tremont St
Waltham St
Lewis J. Bird & CO
Bromfield Street
Hichborn & Co
Court Street
Bradford Street
Waltham Street
Lichborn & CO
Guardian
Alvert P. Scott
Etta S. Scott
Wall Street
County of Suffolk
Charles Holmes
Said Holmes
Charles W. Plews
George A. Scott
John
Damrell
Hrenporn & Co
Albert Howe & Co
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Massachusetts Title Insurance
Tathanitel
Richards
Daniel H. Burdett
Burdett & Dennis
Burling Slip
Harbeck’s
Surinam
Joan
Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co
White St
Ity Townsend & Montant
Leonard Street
Boston Stock Exchange
Ehhares
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn RR
Boston Athenaum
Addax Boasting Machine Co
Cambridge Horse RR
Chmpion Tron Co
Plymouth Cordage Co
Ldo
Atlanitec Ny
Waltham Wwatch Co
Rutland RR
Maine Cent
Washington Mills
Douglas Axe Mfg. Co
Chicago Rolling Mills
Poston
Con
Mont. Rd
Sand. & Cleve
St. Louis
Horatio Warris & CO
Valencia Oranges
Marc
State Steet
Valencia
Pier 1
South
Childe Haslam
Noyes, Cobb & CO
Tremont Street
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