Save California giant trees through stronger laws and protection
The piece argues for robust state and national legislation to protect California giant sequoias. It notes only Mariposa Grove is fully protected, with about 700 trees, while other groves suffer from vague park reservations and ongoing commercial exploitation. The sequoias, ancient survivors from the glacial era, demand preservation.
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California
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Placer County
Tulare County
Nippur
Bel
Mero- Gach
The Russian Students and Educational Reform
A discussion on suspending education with Cossacks at Kiev and St Petersburg universities. The move appears to relax military drafting of students and hints at deeper policy change. Critics argue the reform could transform Russia from within, contrasting with Hague peace rhetoric.
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Kieff
St. Petersburg
The
Hague
Russia
Prince Kropotkin
Telephone growth and public access under Bell and AT&T
The article notes rapid U S growth in Bell system telephony from 1880s subscribers to nearly 809 thousand exchange stations and nearly two million miles of wire by 1900. It argues the service remains costly and elitist, limiting universal use and lags behind other nations in popularization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone Company
Massachusetts
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States
The Trouble in the East and US Neutrality
An editorial argues the United States cannot afford war over the Chinese question. It notes limited Pe kin troops, Russia's Manchuria claims since 1897, and warns England Japan and Europe to keep the US out of conflict amid imperial tensions.
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United States
Pekin
Washington
England
Russia
South Africa
Edward
Japan
Korea
Manchuria
Europe
Committee Recommends Leave to Withdraw on Representative
A legislative judiciary committee recommends leave to withdraw a representative from consideration. The action follows committee review and aligns with procedural rules. Stakeholders weigh potential impacts on ongoing proceedings and party balance.
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Legislative Committee On the Judiciary
Golfers Press Sunday Privilege Bill Ambiguity
The piece argues for a law allowing quiet recreation on Sundays without disturbing private rights or public worship. It notes dissent from three committee members and questions current statutes that only prohibit public character sports and diversions. If no law passes, golfers may seek adjudication to define their rights.
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Gale
Haskell
Beverly
Mansfield
Sullivan
Boston
Supreme Court
United States Hotel Survivals and Local anecdotes
The article recalls the United States Hotel as a cherished Berkshires landmark saved from decline by Tilly Haynes and notes a near fire incident. It retells a Boston misdirected fare story, comments on school regiment appointments, dairy milk tensions, and theater plans. It also mentions a benefit for Rachel Noah and a North End Neptune Associates rowing effort ahead of summer regatta.
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Neptune Associates
North End
the Charles
Bradford Boat Club
Admiral Boat Club
East Boston Athletic Association
Breakfast and Dinner Recipes from Somerville Help
Daily Table hints with breakfast dinner and supper menus listing items such as ripe bananas cream of wheat and baked ham. Includes two full recipes for quince apples and baked ham attributed to Marietta Kelley of Somerville Massachusetts.
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Betty Feeung
Marietta Kelley
Hanson Street
Somerville
Mass
Boston elocution class presents fifteenth annual entertainment
Last evening the Boston Young Men's Christian Union elocution class directed by Professor Charles Bickford gave their fifteenth annual entertainment in Union Hall. Bickford opened with a brief welcome followed by a varied programme of recitation and recital.
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Boston Young Men's Christian Union Elocution
Charles Bickford
Union Hall
Wealth and Marriage Change in a Bank Contract
Miss Phranie, a skilled woman contractor, negotiates a tense bank loan with Cecil Haynes to outmaneuver Farnum. She secures timely funding then wed by arrangement, only to confront moral conflict and a aching confession of love as Farnum faces true regret.
Hobson Engaged to Miss Grigsby of New York
Greensboro Ala March 27 Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson hero of the Merrimac is engaged to Miss Grigsby of New York The engagement followed a presentation of a engraved silver service bearing Santiago heroism sketches from Hobson’s book The service was a free will offering from admirers nationwide with notable New York contributor John Jacob Astor among donors.
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Greensboro
Ala
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Captain Hobson
New York
John Jacob Astor
Senator Hanna backs male clerical appointments to win votes
Washington reports Senator Hanna endorsement of hiring men for government clerical posts, arguing one man equals one vote. He is seen as a leader in the drive to employ fewer women and to allot a vote to every office, a view now echoed by many members of Congress.
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Washington
Hanna
Congress
President to Visit New England on June Trip
The President plans to attend Wesleyan class day exercises June 25 and Harvard commencement the next day. He will visit Concord and Lexington Thursday, be the guest of Senator McMillan at Manchester Saturday and Sunday, then stay with Senator Lodge at Nahant Monday. A government warship will take him to Hingham, home of Secretary Long, for a ten day trip return. Mrs. McKinley will accompany him.
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Wesleyan
Harvard
Concord
Lexington
Senator McMillan
Michigan
Manchester
Nahant
Senator Lodge
Bay
Hingham
Secretary Long
New England
McKinley
Marriage of Miss Elsa Williamson and Robert Anderson
Invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Elsa R Williamson of New York to Mr Robert Emery Anderson of Boston. Ceremony at St Andrew's Episcopal Church followed by a reception at the bride's home with a full choir and social duties by family and guests.
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Christ Church
Colchester
Longwood
Mabel Holden
C. W. Holden
Beacon Street
William Harry Furber
Miss Holden
Edith S. Holden
Miss Furber
Miss Harmon
Rockwell
Emerson
Miss Brigham
Miss Clapp
Miss McAloon
Miss Eastman
Francis Allen Howard
Edward Furber
Everett Furber
Frank Ames
Frank Stearns
Leslie W. Miller
Henry Hildreth
Whitney Hall
Coolidge Corner
Furber
Winifred Kay
Eva D. Corey
Carrie W. Mann
Lucy Pearson
Edith Belches
Miss Shepard
Miss Young
Alice Bouve
Hmilie Descombes
Julia Ward Howe
Mary A. Livermore
Helen M. Winslow
D. Baker Flint
Harry E. Converse
Arthur Dehon Hill
Anna E. Stoddard
Thomas Mack
Sarah J. Farmer
Sarah Boyden
Charlotte Kitson
Mary S. Hewes
A. J. George
Lillian Whiting
Grace Wolcott
George S. Sumner
Hunnewell Club
Edmund W. Converse
Albion B. Turner
John K. Taylor
Lenox
William F. Apthorp
Eng
Amanuel Club
Charles P. Searle
Commonwealth Avenue
Tulleries
George Hatch Quincy
The
Vendome
Switzerland
Henry G. Nichols
Commonwealth
George Norman Williamson
New York
Elsa R. Williamson
Robert Emery Anderson
St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Margarette Williamson
Mararet Chalmers Holbrook
Mss Evelynsborne
Harrie Reynolds Gale
Mary
Thomas Amory DeBlois
Gloucester Street
Newport
Charles M. Baker
Ivy Street
M. I. Stanton
Washington
Ethel Henry
Pa Lage
Justice
Josiah T. Marean
Brooklyn
Heathe Gregory
Madelaine Stuart
Hood Coolidge union links Brookline and Illinois families
Last evening Miss Linda G. Coolidge of Harvard street Brookline married Louis H. Hood of Seneca Falls Illinois at the Coolidge home on Columbia street. Rev Avery A Shaw of the First Baptist Brookline officiated with Marion Shailer and John H. Baker as attendants. A reception followed the ceremony.
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Brookline
Linda G. Coolidge
Harvard Street
Louis H. Hood
Seneca Falls
Ill
Henry S. Coolidge
C.S. Hood
Columbia Street
Avery A. Shaw
First Baptist Church of
Marion Shailer
Newark
N. J
John H. Baker
Glens Falls
Russell Coolidge
Harri E. Chase
Harry Walker
Frank Utt
Constable Honored At Brookline Banquet
Carl M. Goodapood, newly elected constable, hosted a Brookline gathering with about a dozen supporters. Retiring official William Dexter Paine received a gold filled watch as the centerpiece of the evening.
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Brookline
Carl M. Goodapood
William Dexter Paine
Paine
Fusileer Band Hosts First Social Dance at Hollis Hall
Three hundred people filled Hollis Hall last night for the Fusileer Band social dance. The seven piece group provided music and plans to hold a social dance every two weeks thereafter.
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Hollis Hall
Fusileer
Burns memorial meeting features a Scottish singer and Senator Hoar
A young Scottish singer, Miss Margaret Wither, will share the Burns memorial platform with Senator Hoar. She rose from a Scottish town to study music in Boston, becoming soloist at Warren Avenue Baptist Church to fund her education. Wither, a rich soprano with a birdlike high register, lives at the Conservatory home and earns admiration for her musical struggle.
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Margaret Wither
Senator Hoar
America
Boston
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Little Fable and Parlor Jokes From Baltimore
A fable contrasts a good man reproving a bad man with a parable about trusts. The Baltimore American notes the ridiculous use of the word parlors in headlines and jokes, asking about dental parlors and others. The Moral suggests someone forms the trusts.
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Baltimore American
Drawing Rooms and Readiness in Historic Headlines
A compiled fragment highlights quotes from newspapers including Philadelphia Record and Baltimore American with dramatic lines. The text references a detective hawkshaw figure and a witty shoe strings exchange, then mentions a fairy helper speeding an A D T messenger boy across a block.
Careless remark sparks sensitivity on stage
The Detroit Journal cites a humorous exchange where Miss Cayenne fears hurting an actor by saying he "played his part very well" implying he is not the whole show. The gag centers on being sensitive to word choice and public perception.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Conscientious Philadelphia Cop Recalled By Times
The Philadelphia Times hails a city officer as one of its most conscientious. It recalls a night when he reportedly arrested his own hand near a saloon door, noting the unusual restraint and vigilant conduct.
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Philadelphia Times
The Value of the Kiss
A Chicago Post item notes an Indiana man paid $1500 for a kiss, highlighting the idea that a kiss’s value is inverse to its cost. The piece praises a free kiss as the true source of delight and wonders why heaven seems unattainable in life.
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Indiana
Chicago
Holt Will Case Reversed by Supreme Court Remanded
Washington March 27 By a decision of the United States Supreme Court the district court rulings against the Holt will are reversed and the case remanded for retrial It is believed this will establish the validity of the mysterious document and pass most of the Holt estate to Miss Elizabeth Hynes of Kentucky and Miss Josephine Throckmorton of this city Judge Holt died in August 1894 at age 87 He left no children and his estate was thought to be worth several hundred thousand dollars</analysis>
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
District Courts
Holt
Elizabeth Hynes
Kentucky
Josephine Throckmorton
Joseph Holt
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