Andrew Carnegie repays debt with 25000 gift in New York
In New York on March 4 Andrew Carnegie gave 25000 to Mrs. Henry Sanger Snow. Her husband, once treasurer of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, is a fugitive charged with embezzling 29000. Snow’s family, left with little, had appealed to relatives after his disappearance. The gift honors a favor done years earlier by Mrs. Snow’s father David Brooks, a Baltimore manufacturer and banker who died about twenty years ago.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Sanger Snow
New York & New Jersey
Pany
Snow
David Brooks
Baltimore
Remarkable Cooper remedy endorsement from Capt Paine
Captain Edw E Paine of Franklin Massachusetts praised Cooper's New Discovery after thirty years of chronic indigestion. He described exhaustive prior trials with no relief before the remedy provided immediate improvement and ultimately full recovery. He urged others to seek the treatment at Jaynes Drug Stores.
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Edw. E. Paine
Franklin, Mass
School Street
Franklin
Mass
Cooper
Boston
Discovery
Jaynes Drug Stores
Knights of Pythias restrict lottery sales in Massachusetts
Grand Chancellor John Ballantyne refused permission to sell lottery tickets at fairs and entertainments citing Pythian and state law. Lodges raise funds for the supreme lodge meeting in Boston anticipated to draw about 500 000 members with a grand parade and national attendees.
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Knights of Pythias
John Ballantyne
Domain
Massachusetts
Supreme Lodge
Boston
Mayor Finds Cheaper Stable Lease in South Boston
Mayor Hibbard discovers a stable in South Boston assessed at 1600 dollars used by the city for 900 dollars yearly rent. The lease, made late in Mayor Hart’s term, has cost the city 5400 dollars in six years. He will not renew and seeks a better deal from Jaynes Devine’s Ellery and Boston streets stable in Ward 16 at a lower rent.
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Hibbard
Boston
Hart
Jaynes Devine
Ellery and
Boston Streets
Fund Raised To Aid Dorchester Mother In Custody Case
Boston Post readers respond to a call for help for Mrs. Susan Nason sheltering her children at Pope's Hill Dorchester flats. A child signed letter sent 10 dimes and F W Hill of 88 Neponset Ave Kinney Manufacturing Co contributed 1 dollar with others urged to donate. Funds and goods will be delivered to the Nason family.
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Susan Nason
Pope’s Hill
Dorchester
Boston
Dorchester Maybelle
Boston Post
Dorchester Flats
Pope’s Hill Station
F. W. Hill
Neponset Avenue
Kinney Manufacturing Company
The
Post
Vahey Backs Referendum To End Capital Punishment
Senator James H. Vahey scored a point in the Senate by backing a referendum on abolishing the death penalty. A pair of bills to allow jury verdict qualification and to abolish capital punishment were defeated, with President Chapple breaking a tied vote on one measure. The refer endment won 16 to 19 as the Senate adjourned.
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James H. Vahey
Senate
Chapple
Butler
Dixon
Grimes
Halley
Linehan
McEttrick
Mitchell
Monahan
Schuster
Shaw
Stevens
Vahey
Willams
Abbott
Bell
Cowee
Dean
Dickinson
Faxon
Galland
Garfield
Hall
Hibbard
Jenney
Johnson
Keith
Mahoney
Morse
Norcross
Potter
Richmond
Riley
Sowle
Spalding
Treadway
Turner
Wheatley
Fiske
Salter
Hibbard and Guild Split Over Uniform City Charter
Mayor Hibbard and Governor Guild diverge on municipal government policy as Corporation Counsel Babson opposes a single charter for all Massachusetts cities. He argues a charter cannot fit both Newburyport with 12 000 inhabitants and Boston with 600 000. John B Crocker of Boston supports appointing a commission.
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Hibbard
Guild
Babson
Legislative Committee On
Massachusetts
Newburyport
Boston
John 8. Crocker
Boston Pullman Car Derailed in Maine Wreck
East bound Washington County railroad train No 1 with about 50 passengers and a Pullman car from Boston last night was derailed 112 miles east of Franklin station. All cars left rails save engine, Pullman car on its side, passengers suffered only slight bruises and a shaking up.
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Franklin
Washington County Railroad
Boston
Franklin Station
Marmola Prescription Promised To Melt Fat Quickly
An old advice column touts Marmola as a fat reducing remedy claiming it makes fat people thin while used with Casava Aromatic and Simplex syrup. It promises safety and general tonic benefits with a specific dose and routine after meals and at night.
Civil service extension raised before public service committee
Richard H. Dana and ex Speaker James J. Myers urged extending civil service to department heads before the committee on public service. James J. Myers called for fitness exams for streets superintendents, while Mayor Wood of Flaverhill opposed the bill and demanded a referendum if it passed.
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Richard H. Dana
James J. Myers
Committee On Public Service
Myers
Wood of
Flaverhill
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