Boston Post Rejects Citizens’ Subway Plan And Washington Street Doubts
The Boston Post analyzes the amended subway bill by the Citizens Association and Elevated Railway Company, arguing against extending Tremont street subway leases and against funding Washington street subway. It favors building and leasing self funding subways like Tremont and questions widening current lines with authorized additional tracks. Transit officials say funds exist to widen the Tremont street route.
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Citizens’ Association
Elevated Railway Company
The
Post
Tremont Street
City of
Boston
Tremont Street Subway
Washington Street
Mayor Hart urged to seek 75 cent gas in Boston
A memorial signed by over 600 Boston leaders urges Mayor Hart to file with the Gas and Electric Light Commission for a price reduction to 75 cents for gas and electric light. The request aims to cut living costs and boost trust in paying for utilities during his term.
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Post
Hart
Gas and Electric Light Commission
Boston
National Association of Manufacturers to Meet in Boston
The convention will bring about 1000 leading U S manufacturing firms to Boston for a three day event ending with a banquet attended by President McKinley and Secretary Long. Boston merchants back the plans as the industrial associations organize hospitality.
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National Association of Manufacturers
Boston
United States
McKinley
Secretary Long
New England
Fund Receives Strong Backing for New Englands Visitors
Letters describe visitors from outside New Englands and a provision by subscription to a fund for this purpose. The item notes the plan deserves support and will likely attract generous contributions.
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New Uenglams
End of the Gypsy Moth War in Massachusetts Debated
A legislative report urges stopping state extermination efforts against the gypsy moth. It criticizes past policy as imaginative and proposes a reduced 40 000 dollar appropriation to be matched by towns, while recommending ending state control and letting local communities handle operations.
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Massachusetts
Philippines
Case of Captain Leary and Guam constitutional extension
The article argues Captain Leary’s transfer while his decree abolishing peonage and extending the Constitution to Guam raises suspicions of imperial motives. It notes Washington’s separate approval of abolition from method and criticizes how actions by Dewey Otis Miles and McKinley affect public stance on independence and imperial policy. It suggests a need for frank American leaders to return home.
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Leary
Guam
Washington
Davy
Dewey
Aguinaldo
Manila
United States
Mr. McKinley
Otis
McKinley
Miles
Porto Rico
Congress
Captain Leary
Observant Citizen Notes Berkshire and Boston News
A collection of brief items covers a French short story contest at Radcliffe College where a boy outs his spending, Berkshire political chatter on William Turtle and H C Joyner for a Superior bench seat, Isaac B. Rich attending Maude Adams statue unveiling, President Schurman visiting Boston, a fire at Dr Sutherland’s home sparing occupants, and a ruling on the Mayflower Yarmouth collision splitting damage.
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William Turtle
Pittsfield
Berkshire
Turtle
H. C. Joyner
Great Barrington
Crane
Dalton
Dr. Sutherland
Commonwealth Avenue
Minnie Dupree
Young pastor leaves town for modern temple in Boston
A Brookline Baptist Church call brings a worthy young pastor to exchange an old town for a modern and beautiful setting. A Paris Exposition-bound pair prepares for June travel after revaccination to avoid contagion among the crowd. An elderly couple on Washington Street marvel at steel frames for a new elevated railway. The laconic attorney K A Whitman taunts a pompous colleague who claims to store books in his head. Walter Gould Lincoln rushes down State Street with a prospectus, hailed as the new Napoleon of finance, with talks of Colorado wealth. William Williams of Point Shirley finds a carrier pigeon on the beach tagged N B No 814, still alive after hours in the water. Since Leonard Babcock’s Lexington death, many seek his 20-year postmaster position, including his widow.
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Washington Street
Boston
State Street
Walter Gould Lincoln
Napoleon
Colorado
Lincoln
Denver
William Williams
Point Shirley
Lovers in Smoke: A Cigarette and a Cigar in Love
A playful verse contrasts a gay cigarette with a fat cigar both sharing a tabouret and a ginger jar. The pair, once joined, drift apart as their romance ends in smoke. The quatrain wryly notes love’s marvel and its tendency to fade into nothing.
Deep in California's Nerida Canon A Love Revelation
In a western California canyon a lone hunter Dalton is saved by Arline, wife of Jack presumed dead. A winter journey to Pasadena yields mystery, a newborn, and a tangled past. Jack’s delirious whispers reveal jealousy and a hidden love trial connected to Arline and a cousin.
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California
el Nerida
Nerida
Dalton
Pasadena
Jack
Arline
Nellie
Tony
Arne
Eve
Anne
India
Man Remembers Night Holding Arline's Hand
The fragment recalls a man content to be with Arline, holding her hand as he awoke and wondered if she had said she had always loved him. The text hints at a tender, intimate moment between two unnamed individuals.
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Arline
Crisis in Investments Fruit Foods Invites Scrutiny
Caution governs finance as old-time methods prove unsatisfactory and a genuine crisis in investments emerges. Fruit Foods presents common sense investments with growing profit potential and workable payment options. Details at the office. mentions of fruit products from ranches and factories. invitation to write for a booklet.
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Fiytt
Boston
Mase
Family Reunites as Mother Forgives Father in Public Room
A touching scene unfolds as a mother Arline forgives her husband after a difficult separation. The pair share a heartfelt exchange about love and fear, then introduce their son Jack who meekly repeats his greeting to his father, sealing a fragile reunion.
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Arne
Arline
Jack
Quaint epitaphs on a tombstone collection
A humorous, unnamed r ref collection notes epitaphs for twins Charlie and Varlie and other figures. It parodies tombstone inscriptions including Jim Shaw attorney at law and a disparaging line about his wife. The tone is satirical and macabre.
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Jim Shaw
Odd Bits of News Collage
Population of London rises by seventy thousand annually. Breslau boasts a fifty foot fireproof paper chimney. White opodiums appear in Ohio county Indiana. A free medical dispensary opens in Chinatown San Francisco. Germany's yearly gold imports estimated at thirty two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars. Camden county Georgia mills gain power from artesian well flow. Humans have over two hundred muscles with about one hundred kept in prime use.
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London
Breslau
Ohio County
Ind
Chinatown
San Francisco
Germany
Camden County
Humorous Exchanges and Daring Wits Across Papers
A mosaic of light quips and scenes from early 20th century papers. Readers trade barbs on marriage vows are rehearsed, war violence, tropical banter, church charity and a streetcar tale. A jokey exchange about poems and payments ends with a quip about five shillings.
Men of Many Callings in a Mixed News Sheet
The Turkish minister in Washington Ali Ferrough Bey asks press representatives to avoid family references as a courtesy from a man of rank. Other items note Boer War anniversaries in Pretoria and political figures Donelson Caffery Sr and Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff of New York, with mentions of party aims and public receptions.
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Washington
Ali Ferrough Bey
South Aftrica
Paul Stinger
W. H. Mullins
Sculpear
Woodruff
New York
South
Luncheon and Dinner Menu Highlights from Sheffield
Daily Table hints include Germ Meal Sugar and Cream Fish Balls Baked Pee Hot Wheat Cakes and Syrup. Luncheon features Ham Omelet on Toast Cheese Green Gage Plums Raspberry Tarts. Dinner adds Celery, Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes Corn Squash Olives Russian Cream and a custard with eggs sugar and cream. Sheffield Winthrop Mass.
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Iowa
atliiYen
Ohare Sheffield
Pisasaat
Winthrop
Mass
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the Convention OF Manufacturers
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Isaac B. Rich
Hollis
Maude Adams
Miss Adams
Mr. Rich
Schurman
Cornell University
Touraine
Mayflower
Yarmouth
Avery *A. Shaw
Windsor
Union Hat ‘Co
Hanover Street
N. S
Brook Line
K. A. Whitman
Whitman
Leonard Babcock
Lexington
Minnie Ni Hinds
Spruce Street
Maplewood, Masa
Jordan, Marsh &Co
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Jordan, Marsh
Cee
New Spring
Summer Street
Jordan
Marsh@Co
Raglan
Stree
Stab. A. Bealt
Lord & Taylor
Leven
Bichepone
Id Point
Lurny
Gettyaturg
A. d. Simmons
Royal Bilne Line
Washington Steet
Charlie
Varlie
Waifs
Chicago Evening Post
Tropics
Chicago Tribune
eCustomer
Rivers
Brooks
Rondo
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