Legislature Faces Electric Light Law Reform
The Board of Metered Light Commissioners seeks new legislation to extend state policy protecting the public from electric companies. The proposed bill aims to fix deficiencies revealed by a Boston consolidation, aligning law with existing public protection principles and paving a broader reform path for public service statutes and stock watering.
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S &Ate House
Board of
Céa
Mectric Light Commissioners
Siectria Light Companies
Lawa
Boston
City printing plant urged wiped from city budget
Mayor Hart suggests dissolving the municipal printing plant after a four year test. An expert accountant finds a deficit of 21 848 dollars, costs totaling 63 084 dollars since purchase, and current assets of 44 659 dollars. The plant has seen delays, with most revenue from internal charges seen as flexible. The report argues for elimination as a business measure.
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Hart
Use of voting machines to reform state and municipal elections
The author argues constitutional obstacles to voting machines can be removed by amendment and cites that written ballots do not bar machines. It notes permissive municipal legislation already exists and urges cities and towns to adopt machine voting to build broader legislative confidence.
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House of Representatives
Supreme Court
A TreatY For Eternity And The Clayton Bond
The article argues that the Clayton Bulwer treaty of 1850 cannot bind the United States forever noting that the treaty is inoperative in practice and could be abrogated by either party on six months notice after canal completion. It warns against clinging to an outmoded neutrality guarantee given changing international conditions.
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Lord Lansdowne
United States
United States Senate
William P. Frye
George F. Edmunds
John Sherman
William M. Evarts
Isthmus
Black Eye for the Civil Service Ex-Congressman Rodenburg
Former Illinois congressman William A. Rodenburg wins a civil service post after losing re election. He is appointed United States civil service commissioner with a salary of 3500 dollars, replacing the late Mark Brewer. The note cites Rodenburg’s single term and reforms in civil service. On Feb 19, 1900, at...
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William A. Rodenburg
Illinois
McKinley
United States Civil Service
Mark 8. Brewer
Rodenburg
Rodenburg Vote Seen as Bluff Against Merit System
A House vote by Mr. Rodenburg and 76 allies aimed to strike salaries from the legislative, judicial and executive appropriation bill, effectively threatening the commission. Critics call the move a hostile blow to reform and warn of future spoilsman influence if Rodenburg succeeds Proctor as chairman.
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House of Representatives
Rodenburg
Proctor
Observant Citizen John Stetson's 9th Birthday Celebration
The Observant Citizen notes Charlestown's John Stetson marked his ninth birthday with a small gathering despite ill health. It also mentions Adams precepts from As You Like It as a playful aside about his son.
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John Stetson
Charlestown
Mr. Stetson
Adam
Uncle Sam waits as world powers seek grabs across Asia
A Baltimore American quatrain laments great powers pressing for spheres of influence in Manchuria and Asia. It contrasts Chinese, Japanese, English, German aims with U S restraint, noting Li Hongzhang and the pledge to wait until provoked.
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Manchuria
Li Hung Chang
Uncle Sam
Baltimore
War between the Art Museum and a peanut stand
Yesterday's Post highlights include a clash between the Art Museum and a peanut stand, Quaint Lenten penances of Wellsley girls, and photos of school drill contestants. Also noted are pilots challenging America's racing ambitions and Dr Perin's $58,000 push. Superintendent Wheeler's new discharges are listed.
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Art Museum
Wellesley
Odd Bits Of News From Around The World
The itemized notes cover Berlin girls learning cooking, global tobacco use, Australia wheat output at 14 million bushels, Hudson icehouses capacity, Narragansett m sickuatash, US farmer income gain of 185 million, London tennis courts and games, cricket tally, US silk industry rise, and US milk consumption surpassing France in recent years.
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Berlin
Earth
Australia
Hudson
United States
London
France
Baseball Lovers Welcome Somers to the Editor
A letter from Ralph Ellis voices support for Somers against established baseball clubs. He claims the “triumvirs” have profited while fans paid high prices and received poor accommodations. Ellis urges prospering the American League and denounces the old baseball regime.
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Sir
Somers
Ralph Ellis
Engagement Ends In Pranks Not Quarrel
In a light hearted piece by Charlotte Strauss a longtime couple avoids serious fights. Mabel resists a demanded rival photograph and a hidden letter, while a burst of jealousy ends with a comic curtain call as a sister and boots reveal a playful ruse. Jacob reflects that quarrels may exist but the make up still leaves a bad taste.
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Jacob
Mabel
Cambridge girl faces will trial over grandfather's estate
Miss Isabel Clarke, granddaughter of John Milton Clarke, contests a will leaving the estate to her with two surviving uncles claiming undue influence. The Cambridge property at Fiorenc Place is involved. The case, in Middlesex Probate Court, was continued to Thursday.
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John Milton Clarke
Isabel Clarke
Cambridge
Boston
Fiorenc Place
Miss.Clarke
Theodore P. Clarke
Eugene Clarke
New England Conservatory of Music
Purdy
Parlor quarrel and wits in a 19th century humor page
A Chicago Tribune style dialogue mocks gender jokes and editor banter about why a woman is like an umbrella. The piece uses quick quips and a labor editor interruption to end the joke. It also includes brief humorous vignettes about paradoxes presidential Tyler’s sons and a pun about oil painting.
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Chicago Tribune
Sunday Breakfast Menu and Dessert Recipes
The page lists a full day menu with breakfast, dinner, and supper items including oranges, shredded wheat, scrambled eggs, baked macaroni and cheese, scalloped oysters, and chocolate cake. It provides recipes for butter cakes and chocolate pudding with steps and ingredients, and credits Mrs. J. Clark of Box 194 Arlington, Massachusetts.
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J. Clark
Arlington
Mass
Social Season Receives Several Matinee and Evening Honors
A recent Somerset reception hosted by Mrs Stephen M Crosby and Miss Hayden drew hundreds. Miss Helen Henschel performed while a pink tea decor delighted guests. Society plans a Lenox fair for the Sarah Fuller Home with multiple tables and a doll display. Other events include concerts by Miss Orvis and Mr Arthur Farwell, a Bruns wick dinner for the Club of Odd Volumes, and weddings at Christ Church with plans for Whit ney Hall. Numerous Boston residents are noted traveling to Palm Beach, Lakewood, and Atlantic City with spring returns planned through May.
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Somerset
Stephen M. Crosby
Marlboro Street
Miss Hayden
Helen Henschel
Anita Calef
Esther Hayden
Eleanor Allen
Eleanor Ames
Helen Harding
Edmund Wheelwright
Louise W. Brooks
Kempton
Lenox
Sarah Fuller
Malden
Wheelwright
Miss Brookss
Franz Zerrahn
Samuel Hammond
James Putnam
Hannah Stevenson
Esther Hallowell
Katharine Sherwood
Kate Greenaway
Alice Bates Rice
Lucie Tucker
Arthur Farwell
Cornell University
Pierce Hall
Brunswick
William G. Shillaber
Brookline
Christ ‘Church
Colchester Street
Longwood
Mabel Hamet Holden
Charles W. Holden
Beacon Street
William Harry Furber
Whitney Hall
Coolidge Corner
Miss Holden
Edith S. Holden
Francis Allen Howard
Furber
William Atherton
Commonwealth Avenue
Miss Atherton
Palm Beach
Washington
Charles H. Bond
The
Tulleries
Elisham
Converse
George H. Adams
Atlantic City
Lakewood
N. J
Munroe Ayer
James A. Garland
Garland
Frederic Tudor
Regent Circle
Hamilton
Meadowbrook
Charles S. Sargent
Holm Lea
Edward P. Stone
Boston Society Witnesses Unconventional Wedding Tonight
Mrs. Rachael Holmes Hyde and George Edmund Dwight plan a markedly informal ceremony at the First Unitarian Church in Copley Square with Verbal invitations. Rev. Thomas Van Ness will officiate as Rev. Mr. Stebbins is ill.
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Boston
Rachael Holmes Hyde
Pangesee
John H. Holmes
Mt.ernon Street
George Edmund Dwight
Springfield
First Unitarian Church
Copley Square
Thomas van Ness
Stebbins
Bee
Illess
Hyde
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Warren Strest
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Johnson
Vanity Fair
Tyler
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Dauber
Yeast
Yonkers Statesman
Long Island
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