Veterans' Night at the Middlesex Club dinner
Notable veterans attended the Middlesex Club Veterans Night at the American House. Guests included Major General John R. Brooke Captain Charles E. Clark Rear Admiral Mortimer M. Johnson and General W. W. Blackmar who presided. The event featured speeches songs and tributes highlighting Civil War and Spanish War service and the club voted to increase membership to 600.
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Middlesex Club
American House
John R. Brooke
Miles
Charles E. Clark
Oregon
Round the Horn
W. W. Blackmar
Curtis Guild, Jr
EB. R. Champlin
E. H. Haskell
Butler
W. H. Dyer
Horton
Mortimer M. Johnson
J. Q. A. Brackett
Soule
Senate
Myers
House
D. Murray Travis
Allison M. Stickney
Jeremiah J. McCarthy
Spain
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Berkshire Hills
Cape Cod
Abraha Lincoln
Sheridan
Custer
Shenandoah
Lincoln
McClellan
Camp Fire
Pledt McClellan
Shenandoah Valley
George B. McClellan
Democratic Party
Phil Sheridan
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party
Andrew Jackson
Tnion
Army
Navy
Clark
Admiral Johnson
Natiorial Council of Administration
General Blackmar
Myers O
Middlesex County
Olaniel Guild
Francis L. Pratt
City Messenger
Cambridge
E. R. Champlin
America
Duri
Dyer
Tho
Vanderbilt loses 71000 at Canfield's roulette
New York aged news reports that Reginald Vanderbilt, Yale senior and youngest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, wagered at Canfield's roulette table. An employee claims the Boy Crevus enriched the proprietor by 71000 rather than 125000, noting a 20000 win after a Yale dinner at Sherry's on March 14. Vanderbilt's vast fortune, estimated at 12 million, funds his railroad securities income.
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New York
Canfield
Reginald Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Canfield’s
Cresus
Aire
Yale
Sherry's
Reginald Claypool Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Subscriptions Noted for Seth L Bills Amid Acknowledgments
A clipped entry records subscriptions related to Seth L Bills with prior acknowledgment of George in a reaper context. The text is fragmented but indicates administrative or financial subscriptions and a named individual connection. Further details are unreadable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seth L. Bills
George
Duty to Insure Comfort for Sow and Daughters
A community voice asserts a duty to use all reasonable means to secure a comfortable support for a sow and her daughters. The remark underscores concern for animal welfare and family stability within local affairs.
Clarksburg Mine Riot After Mine Discharges
Clarksburg West Virginia March 27 The discharge of 15 union miners at Fairmount Coal Company mine Mount Clare escalates as five men are arrested on heavy bonds awaiting grand jury action for interfering with officers. A union man is seriously beaten with doubtful recovery. Some arrestees are accused of entering the mine to cut air risking workers lives. Officers guard the mine and workers are under orders to shoot in self defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Fairmount Coal Company
Mount Clare
Grand Jury
Normal and Evening Classes Meet in Exhibition Basketball
The Posse Gymnasium hosted an annual exhibition by the normal class followed by a fencing display by the fencing club of young men. Miss Sheridan and Miss Bibley from the graduating class staged a lively fencing bout. A basketball game between the normal and evening classes ended tied at 2 to 2 in favor of the normal class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Posse Gymnasium
Sheridan
Bibley
Winthrop Marks 60th Anniversary of Incorporation
Winthrop, March 27. The town celebrates six decades since incorporation with bells, flags, and a full afternoon and evening program at the High School hall. Readings and speeches recount Winthrop’s history, Governor John Winthrop’s connection, and the town’s schools. Warren Belcher, the first town clerk, delivered a notable address.
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Winthrop
John Winthrop
Winthrop Street
Ocean Spray
Public Library
Eichberg
George M. Whittaker
Ahrend O. Pope
Emily B. Ide
Nellie P. Rich
Annie
Visall
Leroy J. Cook
James Garrett
Nellie C. Griffin
Warren Belcher
Alcestis B. Cowell
George T. Sleeper
Willard Howland
Chelsea
Ryan and O'Brien to contest middleweight title at Louisville
The Southern Athletic Club announced a May 3 bout in Louisville pitting Tommy Ryan against Jack O'Brien for the middleweight championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryan
O'Brien
Louisville
The
Southern Athletic Club
Tommy Ryan
Jack O'Brien
Delhy
Weymouth Belle Found in Chinese Opium Den
Mildred Battles of Weymouth rose from a refined home to a Boston city prison cell in four months. A Salvation Army worker, she toured Chinatown and fell into opium dens with companion George Trackley. Police raided 9 Harrison avenue. both girls jailed as Chinaman companions, fined or held for explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wreymouth
Mildred Battles
Boston City
Harrison Avenue
Weymouth
Mildred Battle
Boston
Salvation Army
Chinatown
Army
Mildred
Miss Battles
George Trackley
Lower Tree Street
Heng Sin
Hing Wah
Battles
Allen
Station 4
Grosvenor Attacks Hay at Commercial Club Meeting
At the New Algonquin Club meeting President Lucius Tuttle presided as Professor Edwin A. Grosvenor of Amherst College delivered a speech on Russian Expansion in the East. He criticized the State Department’s Russia policy and urged balanced American conduct avoiding entangling alliances while not aligning with either Russia or Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
New Algonquin Club
Lucius Tuttle
Edwin A. Grosvenor
Amherst College
East
United States
American Department of State
Russia
Great Britain
America
State Department
Dike Amends Appeal Over Kings County Sheriff Papers
New York March 27 Counsel for Norman Dike filed an amended appeal from Justice Gaynor s order that Colonel Dike turn over the sheriff s office books to Charles Guden under jail penalty Both sheriffs were in the courthouse Guden reports new books and limited jail space but signs a new start despite cramped room
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Norman
Dike
Gaynor
Charles Guden
Sheriff's Office
Kings County
Court House
Guden
Death of Charles Re, Glasgow Archbishop and delegate
The Most Rev. Charles Re, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow and delegate apostolic of Scotland, died in London on March 2. He was aged 80.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charles Re
Arcbishop
Glasgow
Scotland
Mystery about Monahan's Gage
John Monahan of 1 Newton Court was found in his room with two knife wounds to the arm and abdomen after an assault last night. He refused to name his assailant and was taken to the City Hospital by Patrolman Mc Cormick after neighbors reported a quarrel at the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medway
McGinnis
Rufus G. Fairbanks
Lawrence McGinnis
Fairbanks
Edward F. Hollis
Boston
Margaret R. Kelly
John Monahan
Newton Court
Station 4
Monahan
McCormick
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Rapture
Cole Cele
Chemic-Electro Institute
H. B. McConnell
Boylston St
Hotel
Pelham
Washington Street
Dows
Merriam
Somerville
Albert N. Merriam
Broadway
King
Mattapan
James King
Blue Hill Avenue
Kenny
Roxbury
Esther Golden
Chia
James T
Annie E. Kenny
Wginnis
BOUVE
Sterling Shoe
Summer St
Devonshire St
Spring Lane
Hanover Pet
Water St
Vanderbilt
Monomoy Fund
Lee, Higginson & Co
Edge
Monomoy
V. ‘Russell
Srerreees Tonka Lincoln Relief
Cnereateyes
Richardson
Sowers
Labeapecauds
Jorps
Weennes
James
Massachusetts Humane Society
Joshua James
R. Weie
City of
Columbus
POSSE
Houghton & Dutton
Bhaster
Raen’s
Washington Mills
S. B
D. B. Serges
D. B
Oxford
Oxfords
Vienna
Pall Mall
OLD South Clothing CO
Old South Church
Washington St
Winthrop Hale
Grosvenor
HAY
Sheriff Guden
New York Court House
Archbishop Eyre
Gage
Hargedon & Lynch
Old Stand
Hanover ST
Blackstone
Thomas A. Edwards
M. D
D. Ps
Westminster Dept. Py
Copley Sq
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