Massachusetts Man John W. W. Candler Tapped for Interstate Commission Role
Washington reports the interstate commission selection is centered on New England candidates with John W. Candler of Boston favored to join the board, while W. W. Crapo of Massachusetts declined a proffered seat. White of Cornell’s refusal allegedly blocks others from accepting despite prominence.
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Sreerau
Interstate Commission
W. W. Crapo
Massachusetts
New England
John W. Candler
Boston
Candler
Commerce Committee
Arthur
White House
New York
White
Cornell University
Supreme Court limits Atlantic Delaine stockholder liability case
The Supreme Court today affirms the Rhode Island remedy requirements for enforcing stockholder liability of the Atlantic Delaine Company. The Fourth National Bank cannot pursue an independent at law action against executors in Edward Hoyt’s estate, as the statute-prescribed form of remedy applies only to Rhode Island processes. Justice Gray author is the opinion. Blatchford did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Fourth National Bank of New York
Charles G. Franklyn
Edward Hoyt
Circuit Court of the United States
Southern District of New York
Fourth National Bank
Atlantic Delaine Company
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Circuit Court
Justice Gray
Justice Blatchford
New England Pensioners Pensions Listed by State
Pensions for Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts and Rhode Island residents listed with names towns and status notes including originals and reissues. Names include Patrick Drummond Patrick W. Doyle George T. Springer Martha A. widow Jabez Ward Lyman Francis and others across Togus Laconia Taunton Watertown Holyoke Fall River Centredale and more.
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New England
Washington
New
West Otis
John Carr
Taunton
Lyman R. Francis
Thomas E. Blakeney
Watertown
Erastus W. Burnham
Holyoke
James A. Jennings
Fall River
William H. Bennett
Fisherville
Rhode Island
William F. Allison
Centredale
Blaisdell Named U S Marshal for Rhode Island
President appoints Samuel J. Blaisdell as United States marshal for the district of Rhode Island replacing James H. Coggeshall whose term expired. Postmaster General designates Thomas McLaughlin as postmaster at East Holden Maine. New England attorneys Greene Maynard Mitchell admitted to practice before Interior Department.
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Current Capital News
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Samuel J. Blaisdell
District of Rhode Island
James H. Coggeshall
Thomas McLaughlin
East Holden
New England
Interior Department
Hamilton J. Greene
Cottage City
Mass
Hi. D. Maynard
East Middlebury
John M. Mitchell
Concord
N. H
Orchids At Boston Flower Show To Open At Horticultural Hall
The exhibition opens tomorrow at noon with a brilliant orchid display suspended on trees, surrounded by palms and foliage. A remarkable bed of hardy plants from the Cambridge Botanic Garden, forty to fifty feet long, will feature both foreign and domestic varieties in bloom this season.
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Horticultural Hall
Boston
Botanic Garden
Cambridge
Homoeopathy festival to be held at Mechanics Hall
Prominent advocates will speak at Mechanics Hall on Tuesday evening April 12 about the development of homoeopathy. An early promenade concert by the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl Zerrahn precedes dancing from 10 pm to midnight. Society ladies manage the refreshments. the event aims for social and financial success.
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Carl Zerrahn
City of Mexico
Church of Mexico
Judas
All Saints
Christ
Simon the Cyrenian
Ariest
Popocatapet
Iztaccihnatl
ALF. SC
Mrr
George L. Osgood
Cyrus Cobb
Warren
Old South
Gertrude Franklin
Misa Sopha Hall
Jules Jordan
Leandro Campanari
Carlyle Peter Silea
Campanari
Geo. L. Osgood
Lowell & Starks
Tremont Street
Keep Manufacturing Co Bargains On Gent's Furnishings
The Keep Manufacturing Co at 114 Tremont Street offers decided bargains in gent's furnishing goods this week. Their line is described as first class and customers are urged to buy a spring outfit during the remainder of the week.
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Keep Manufacturing Co
Tremont Street
Gent
Waterman’s Crime and Pardon Efforts Recap
Lawrence March 21 The case of George R Waterman embezzling from Pacific Mills is recalled detailing his rise from paymaster to fraud. He stole about 100000 by padding payrolls, fled, was arrested May 18, 1878, pleaded guilty in October and received a twelve year State prison sentence. His wife offered private funds to settle the claim.
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Pacific Mills
Waterman
Tiverton
R. I
Lawrence
Andover
M. W. Pierce & Co
Boston
W. E. Rice & Co
Superior Court
At Home Among Celebrities in Putney Literary Circle
The writer recalls a social gathering at a Putney drawing room overlooking a river terrace where novelists journalists stage stars and theosophists mingled. She confesses unease before clever people yet enjoyed the writers publishers and publishers’ calm互 presence, noting a peaceful scene despite sharp wit.
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London
Richmond
Putney
Jupiter's Moons
Jezebel
Edward C Redington Dies A Vermont Financier At 76
Edward C. Redington longtime Vermont financier died at his Bradford home aged 76. Born in Keene New Hampshire he spent years as a merchant in Keene and later held posts including Randolph district probate registrar Passumpsic Bank cashier St Johnsbury pension agent under Lincoln and Johnson Portland and Ogdensburg railroad treasurer and Chelsea Vermont bank cashier. He leaves a widow sister of Col J C Stearns and a son Edward Jr of Chicago.
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Bradford
Keene
N. H
Georgia
Randolph
West
Orange County Bank
Chelsea
Passumpsic Bank
St. Johnsbury
Lincoln
Johnson
Redington
Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad
J. C. Stearns
Internal Revenue Collector
Edward
Chicago
Adjutant-General John Robertson of Michigan Dead at 73
John Robertson longtime adjutant-general of Michigan died in Detroit aged 73 born in Scotland. He came to America as a boy after failing to join the English army and served seven years in the regular army before settling in Detroit and entering the commission business. In 1861 Governor Blair named him adjutant-general, a post he held under multiple administrations.
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Michigan
Detroit
Scotland
America
Blair
James M. Howe
Lewell
Old Residents’ Association
Butler Rifles
Ship Island
Josiah H. Stearns
Congregational Church
Epping
N. H
Fepping
Dennysville
Universalist Camel and New Departure in Creeds Debate
Monday lectureship critiqued the Andover controversy and a shift in Universalist doctrine. Mr. Cook argued against mixing revived Congregationalism with Universalism, attacking the camel metaphor for unity while fearing the new journalism venture backed by a specialist team and leaders like Frances Willard and Anthony Comstock.
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Des Moines
New England
Board of Missions
John Murray
Fisher
Christ
Frances E. Willard
Anthony Comstock
John Eaton
L. T. Townsend
Boston University
Ely
University of Pennsylvania
Mechanics Hall Transformed for Unique Kirmess Amphitheatre
Preparations for the Kirmess convert Mechanics Hall into a vast amphitheatre with 1600 seats removed for dances and marches. Prof Carl Marwig designs tableaux and national dances with group matrons steering each unit including Mrs. Ole Bull for Cambridge and Harvard men. Boston's prominent citizens back the event.
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Mechanics’ Hall
Carl Marwig
Ole Bull
Cambridge
Harvard
Boston
Sunday School Union Holds Large Monthly Meeting
The Unitarian Sunday School Union met yesterday afternoon at the Second Church on Boylston Street with a large state-wide attendance. President Richard Humphrey led as Mrs Kate Gannett Wells urged teachers to study pupils and use object lessons aided by a blackboard and even Sunday papers for illustrating class topics.
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Unitarian Sunday School Union
Boylston Street
Richard. Humphrey
Kate Gannett Wells
Rhymes for rare words spur wit and invention
The piece notes W S Gilbert’s search for rhymes to odd words like silver chilver and discusses potential coinages for rhymes to orange love and other hard-to-rhyme terms. It also lists several words with no English rhyme such as goose and azimuth, and jokes about invented names gaining poetical fame.
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W.S. Gilbert
Thackeray
Gulf
Wendition
Reed Arrives in Brockton for Arraignment on Bank Forgery Charge
William D. Reed the alleged forger arrives from San Francisco in custody of State Detective Pratt. He faces arraignment tomorrow for swindling the Brockton National Bank of $1000 last winter. Reed refuses to talk. John H. Pray, Sons & Co. opens a new upholstery department at 560 Washington.
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Brockton
William D. Reed
Brockton National Bank
San Francisco
Pratt
Reed
John H. Pray, Sons & Co
Washington Ka
Boston Theatre and Local Venues Schedule
The Ratcatcher at Boston Theatre tonight 7 45. The Gypsy Baron at Hollis Street Theatre 7 40. Antoinette Rigaud at Boston Museum 8 PM. Clito at Globe Theatre 7 45. A Rag Baby at Aren e Park Theatre 8. Siberia at Howard Atheneum 8. Mattie Vickers at ElioU Theatre daily 2 and 8.
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Auction Sale Notice Lists Various Items and Times
Sales by auction detailed for today with items including fruit and horses catalogued by Harris and associates. Time slots given for each item such as 12 m for Fruit and 10 a.m. for libraries while other items run through 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with firms like Day Co and Howe Co arranging sales at specific locations.
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Horatio Harris
Leonard & Co
Bruce
R. L. Day & Co
Francis Henshaw & Co
C. F. Libbie & Co
Albert Howe & Co
Brighton
Moss and Lauper Wed in City Ceremony
Joseph Moss of London England marries Miss Martha Lauper in a city ceremony conducted by the Rev. Mr Hamburger on March 20.
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Mr. Hamburger
Joseph Moss
London
Eng
Martha Lauper
Obituaries and Death Notices from March Readings
Citywide list of death notices for March including Josephine G Adams widow of George I Adams John H Drayton aged 61 in Adams John B Fulton 52 at East Boston John W Field 72 in Washington D C Winthrop Otis infant son of J Otis and Emma W Goodwin Isabel Crowell wife of Ernest Mendum Margaret F Murray 28 at South Boston Charles H Nye 33 at Fast Lexington Sarah A Parker 63 at Brookline Francis C Richards typhoid pneumonia Janette Cogswell Stickney 76 Grace Agnes Stevenson 21 Solomon Lovell Wildes 89 Robert Wade 67 in New York and other brief entries.
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Isabel Crowell
Ernest Mendum
Murray
South Boston
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John
Julia Murray
Nye
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Charles H. Nye
Parker
Sarah A. Parker
Richards
Brookline
Francis C. Richards
Stickney
Lawrence
Janette Cogswell Stickney
Stevenson
Grace Agnes Stevenson
Wildes
Solomon Lovell Wildes
Wade
New York
Robert Wade
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