Call to revoke Haverhill Gas Securities charter
The gas and electric light commissioners urge prompt action by the Legislature to revoke the Haverhill Gas Securities Company charter. They condemn its stock and bond schemes aimed at expanding capital from 75,000 to 1,000,000 and distributing public dividends, describing it as defying Massachusetts law.
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Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Haverhill Gas Securities Company
Massachusetts
American Bell Telephone Company
Fortifications or Fleets on the Canal Question
The piece argues that pledges of neutrality for the canal alone are meaningless if the United States can seal it with naval power. It contends the treaty should declare the canal an American, under American control, to avoid European interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
United States
Admiral Dewey
Europe
Boston Evacuation Anniversary and Irish Celebration
The piece recalls the 1776 Boston evacuation by British forces as a turning point in the rebel cause and links it with a Saint Patrick’s Day celebration. It notes Irish-national sentiment gains and predicts a strengthened Irish presence in the city’s civic life this year.
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Boston
Concord
Lexington
Bunker Hill
Howe
Ireland
Great Britain
St Patrick’s Day Celebrations Promised for United Community
Community leaders promise a grand St Patrick’s Day celebration after years of unified effort and public enthusiasm. Organizers urge participation from residents and local organizations to showcase local culture and camaraderie.
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United
St. Patrick’s Day
The Wolf and the Lamb in Stinging Transvaal Debate
A critical quip on Lord Salisbury and Kruger Steyn follows a lengthy denouncement of Britain for aggression after Jameson’s raid. The piece argues the Transvaal line is a reaction to prior invasion, and notes a moral fault in Britain’s stance amid broader imperial fault lines.
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Lord Salisbury
Esop
Transvaal
Jameson
Great Britain
Orange Free State
Steyn
Kruger
Hoar's Queer Position On Aguinaldo Letter Noted
A Senate document raises a July 1898 Aguinaldo letter claim, suggesting Hoar seeks to expose McKinley’s alleged duplicity toward the Philippines. The piece argues Hoar backs McKinley’s renomination while denouncing his policy, urging consistency or opposition to the president’s re election.
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Hoar
Senate
Aguinaldo
United States
McKinley
Cach
The Windsor Fire and Beacon Street Anecdotes
The Observant Citizen recalls the Windsor Hotel fire a year ago and its mystery of causes and deaths. The piece notes a barrel used for umbrellas near the State House, a wind damaged fence at a women’s club, a marquee for The Girl From Maxim’s, an otter sighting, and a rainstorm’s impact on pedestrians. It ends with a tale of Sam Roads and a former governor’s poll tax and a remark on Maine travelers to hotels.
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New York
Windsor
New York Fire Department
State House
Mt. Vernon Street
Beacon Street
Maxim's
Sam” Roads
Russell
Sacred trust and diplomacy ripple through editorials
Editors condemn premature publication of the Philippine Commission report as a sacred trust violation. The piece notes risk to press freedom and cites reactions from Atlanta, New Bedford, and Kansas City papers. It adds reflections on government consent, militia use, and global wheat trade implications.
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The
Washington Post
Philippine Commission
Atlanta: Constitution
State House
New Bedford Mercury
China
Japan
Kansas City Journal
The Sweet Spring Swallow and Emerald Isle Yearning
A poem by Patrick Coleman in the Gael laments emigration from Ireland. The speaker mourns leaving the homeland for stranger cities and sees the spring swallow guiding hearts toward the west while Ireland’s shamrock and thrush sing in memory.
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Golden West
Patrick Coleman
The
Menu and dessert recipe from Miss Marie Bradford
The list shows a Luncheon and Dinner menu with dishes like Scalloped Macaroni with Oysters, Irish Stew, Roast Lamb and Creamed Potatoes. A Cocoanut Pudding recipe uses rice sugar milk and coconut with a lemon sauce, plus notes about quantities and bake time. Miss Marie Bradford of Everett Massachusetts is credited.
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Marie Bradford
Tremont Street
Everett
Mass
Duty and Love in a Hospital Promise
Daisy Dare, a poor but beautiful nurse hopeful for advancement, cares for Chester Osbone after a near fatal appendicitis. He survives with her faithful bedside care and the two reveal mutual love, planning marriage as she nears graduation and he vows to be her life partner.
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Daisy Dare
West Street
Cambridge
Daisy
Daltsy
Post
Paron
John
Dix
Dr. Daniels
Beacon Street
Miss Myers
Chester Osbone
Miss Dare
Chester's
Chester
Daniels
Dave
Mr. Osbone
Quirky 1900s Jokes and Social Quips Collapse Into Snippets
A collage of jokes and social vignettes from early 20th century papers. Banter on stag parties women work and dating flubs frames a string of quick humor lines with brisk, period gossip tone. Notable bits include trainmen cooks and a pacemaker remark amid playful barbs.
Carrie Chapman Catt Leads National Woman Suffrage Association
The new president Carrie Chapman Catt, married to George W. Catt, a respected engineer, asserts her suffrage leadership while her husband vouches for her housekeeping and cooking. Contemporaries note other figures: Mrs. Ennis, Mrs. Briggs, and Mrs. Haven claim Ichabod Crane lineage. Miss Beatrix Jones pursues landscape gardening. Miss Alice C. Fietcher, a Shaw fellow at Beabody Museum, advances Indian studies. Anna Held buys Daisy, the New York dog show’s smallest exhibit, highlighting her wealth and taste.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman Suffrage Assocition
George W. Catt
W. W., Ennis
F. L. Briggs
William Haven
Ottumwa
Ichabod Crane
Washington
Irving
Sleepy, Hollow
Jesse
Merwin
Winter Woes and Oddities from Old News Clippings
The excerpt surveys frigid Christmas scenes in Jerusalem with hotels unheated and tourists chilled, a miner recalling whiskey sales in Alaska, school book fees in Yankton, a Kansas jackrabbit chase winter sport, sugar market woes, and a Marquette waterworks electrical stove to prevent ice in pipes, plus a Louis XIV era note on table manners and shared utensils.
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Jerusalem
Yankton
Kansas
The
Water Board
Maruette
Mich
Superior
Louis Quatorze
France
Food Finds Fortune in Gelatine and Other Foods
An advertisement touts food products as enduring money makers. It promises healthful lines and rapid growth with substantial profits, urging investments at 10 dollars a share. Readers are invited to contact Sherman-Wok Company at 302 Congregational House in Beacon Street, Boston, or request a booklet by mail.
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Gowoay
Sys Cae
Crete
Congregational House
Beacon “ Luston
Mass
Census volume reports shifts in Massachusetts occupations
Horace G Wadlin chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor issues Volume 4 Part 2 of the 189 census returns for Massachusetts detailing occupations across Barnstable Berkshire Bristol and Dukes counties. The report compares 1885 figures, notes gains and losses in productive work and population, with Cottage City and Gosnold the only towns progressing in both.
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Horace
Wadlin
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
Barnstable
Berkshire
Bristol
Dukes
Cottage ‘City
Gosnold
Men of Many Callings in War and Letters
Senator Thomas B Bard of California owns a notable collection of modern French art in America. Lieutenant Raphael, the first Hebrew officer killed in the present war, served with the South Lancashire Regiment at Spion Kop. Over 300 Hebrews now serve in British forces in South Africa. Cronwright Schreiner, recently arrived from Cape Town, married Olive Schreiner taking her surname. General Joubert is praised by the London Leader for studied military theory. B. R. Crockett, writer, keeps indexed secret books and clippings for research with many subscriptions.
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Thomas B. Bard
California
America
Raphael
South Lancashire Regiment
Spion
Olive Schreiner
Cyonwright
London
Joubert
Crockett
Charles
Aboard North German Lloyd Ship Port of New York
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for New York reports on a North German Lloyd steamship arrival in port. The brief note references maritime activity and a named official in connection with the vessel.
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Aparen
Webster Davie
Asaisent
Ae Tet Fed
New York
Bos 'Pour Athe
North German Lloyd Seamship
Williams College elects new editors and officers
Williams College Weekly holds a meeting in Williamsport Williamsport? electing new members to the Williams College Weekly editorial board and Literary Monthly. The Mills Y M C A officers for the ensuing year are named with William P Schell as president and Edward Calvin Peterson as vice president.
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Williamstown
Williams College Weekly
William Henry Stanley
New York
C City
Arthur Roy Leonard
North Pomfret
Stanley Herbert Wheelock
Uxbridge
George Frederick Hurd
Syracuse
N. Y
James Angell
Hardman
North Adams
William P. Schell
Harrisburg
Penn
Williams Literary Monthly
Knight Willison Marvin
Philadelphia
Joseph Meeker Ross
Dover
N. J
John Clarkson Jay, Jr
New York City
Royal Edward Trumbull Riggs
Brooklyn
Harry James Smith
Berlin
MIT Class of ’03 Revels At Youngs Hotel
The class of 1903 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held a social at Youngs Hotel last night with about seventy five attendees. Mortimer Yale Ferris served as toastmaster and introduced responses from R. M. Field G. B. Leyis G. B. Wood and C. J. McIntosh.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Young’s Hotel
Mortimer Yale Ferris
R. M. Field
G. B. Leyis
G. B. Wood
C. J. McIntosh
Death by self destruction of Boston physician discussed
The Haverhill Gazette notes The Boston Post praised for reporting the physician’s death by suicide despite Medical Examiner Draper withholding details. It argues the rich man should not escape scrutiny and obloquy, just as any poor individual would.
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Haverhill Gazette
The
Boston Post
Boston
Draper
Gazette
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