Boston Merchants Back City Subway Plan in Substantial View
J Richard Carter for the Boston Merchants Association argued to the legislative committee that Boston should build its Washington Street subway for itself rather than accept the Citizens' Association bill, predicting $6 million savings and a self-liquidating debt. Amendments by Louis Brandeis would allow city bonds, a 17 year lease, and tie to Tremont Street subway terms, with independent operators possible if the Elevated company does not cooperate. The city, not Legislature, should control subway transit pending how the lease and routes develop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Richard Carter
Boston Merchants’ Association
Washington Street
Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Boston
Citizens’ Association
Post
Merchants’ Association
The
Trémont Street
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston Associated Board of Trade
Tremont Street
Gound
Herbert L. Harding
Elevated
Beveridge’s Porto Rico free trade push under fire
A critical editorial denounces Senator Beveridge of Indiana for advocating broad congressional power over U S territories and argues his stance on Porto Rico misdefines its status. The piece questions his constitutional interpretation and labels his rhetoric overly progressive and unfit to guide policy.
Constitutional Question Left for Saner Minds to Decide
A fragment ends with a remark that the constitutional question should be left to saner minds for decision, signaling a cautionary stance amid ongoing legal debate.
Plain Duty and McKinley At Philadelphia Convention
A Washington dispute within the Republican ranks grows over McKinley’s tariff stance on Porto Rico. Senator Davis criticizes the president’s shifting position while party members decry wavering and question the path to renomination in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William McKinley
United States
Washington
Davis
Minnesota
Porto Rico
McKinley
Hanna
Police Salaries Spark City Budget Debate
The Common Council rejected raising police salaries and redirected funds to City Hospital service amid hospital funding shortages. Officials argue the move preserves essential public services while hospital wards risk closure without adequate support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Kingman remembered for public service and integrity
Tributes honor Judge Kingman for leadership as chairman of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission and his helpful counsel to young lawyers. A Beacon Street music gathering featured J Hallett Gilbert, with performers Sands Brewer and Ella Chamberlain, drawing Boston arts circles. A conductor forecast safety concerns as open cars begin on Washington Street under the elevated structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sochas Kingman
Massachusetts
Metropolitan Sewerage Commission
J. Hallett Gilberte
Beacon _ street
Miss Sands
L Road
Washington Street
Pierce of Fitchburg named to fill Dewey vacancy
The selection of E P Pierce of Fitchburg to fill the Superior Court vacancy caused by Judge Dewey’s death has drawn unanimous approval from local lawyers. Pierce is expected to add weight and dignity to the court. The piece notes local chatter about names and a separate quoted anecdote about a boy nicknamed in the same era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitchburg
Dewey
Pierce
Colors taught by white light lesson at district school
A teacher demonstrates white light blending with colored tops to show colors mix to white. One black pupil is teased after the lesson, smeared with paints, crying that she will turn white. The tale ends with her questioning why she cannot become white.
Whitney ordained amid Roxbury church ceremony
Ex Councilman W Bradley Whitney was ordained to the ministry at Bethany Baptist Church Roxbury in a full service. The ceremony featured remarks by Rev George C Lorimer Tremont Temple with other clergy including Rev Herbert White and Rev A Hughes. The benediction closed a service attended by church members and Baptist delegates.
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W. Bradley Whitney
Bethany Baptist Church
West Cottage
Judson Streets
Roxbury
W. N. Donovan
Charles W. Marston
Nathan
Wood
D. D
Newton Theological School
M. A. Levy
George C. Lorimer
Tremont Temple
Lorimer
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Herbert J. White
Beverly
A. J. Hughes
Central Square Church
Boston
Astor
W. Bradey
Whitney
Arcane Dossier of Lords and Generals From Historic Witness
The passage recounts anecdotes about Lord Salisbury’s tobacco ban at Hatfield House and wartime orders. It notes Baden-Powell’s arrest for shooting a native thief, a tale of the Marquis of Queensberry reading Booth, and Villebois de Mareuil’s monthly Kruger payments. It mentions Sir William Walrond’s parliamentary duties and Sir Charles Hastings’s burial wish to aid an oak. It closes with Dr. Maunsell Van Rensselaer, descendant of the early Van Rensselaer line, dying at Lakewood after a brief illness. born Albany 1815.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Salisbury
Hatfield House
Baden-Powell
Frederick Carrington
Marquis-of- Queensberry
General Booth
England
Booth
London
Villebois de Mareuil
William Walrond
House of ‘Commons
Charles Hastings
Maunsell
van Rensselaer
Hobart
Lakewood
Albany
Editors' Spectacles on Kruger Peace Terms
Editorials from the Indianapolis Journal and Cleveland Leader discuss Kruger seeking peace terms as unlikely to yield victory. They note the high cost of daily army gun salutes at U S posts and welcome noncommittal moves toward South African peace, though outcome remains uncertain.
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Kruger
Indianapolis Journal
United States
Cleveland
South Africa
Buffalo Courier
Paul Kruger Symbol of Patriotism in Boer Struggle
The article portrays Paul Kruger as the central spirit of the Transvaal defense against British invasion. It notes General Louis Botha leads military actions from Pretoria while Kruger remains the driving moral force, unwavering in support of self government despite rumors of peace terms and possible defeat.
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Joubert
Kruger
Pretoria
Transvaal Republic
Louis Botha
Buller
Spion Kop
Biggarsberg Range
Republic
Paul Kruger
Organ breakdown fades amid Ro tolI i Roman Mass
The Observant Citizen reports Tremont Temple's audience faced a major organ failure during Signor Ro toli's Roman Mass and Easter offertory Terra Tremun but praised the composer’s music as beautiful and impressive despite the disruption.
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Signor Rotoli
Terra ‘Tremun
Tremont Temple
Waifs o' Fun Puzzle and Punchlines Across Papers
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from early 20th century papers. It cites lines about a child’s weight on scales, a Sunday school invitation, independent voters, Thespis on Falstaff, a chef’s joke about gods food, a somnambulist nickname, and a cartoonish banter on atheism.
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Bessie
Chicago Tribune
John
John Wah Lee
Faidee
New York Weekly
Chicago News
Thespis
Philadelphia Press
Morton
Boston Transcript
Dollie
Rufus
Byles
Bulger
Kiyn
Notable British Figures Linked by Nile Trip and Scandal
About Some Women reports Lord and Lady Crewe and Annabel Crewe Milnes traveling hundreds of miles up the Nile in a dahabeah and not returning until late May. It notes plans to Naples in April and a villa stay at Posilipo, while Queen Victoria acquires a new automobile for stables.
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May Jackson
Edward Weston
Jasmine
Eleanor
Forbes
Eleanor May Jackson Forbes
Jackson Forbes
Miss May Jackson
Forbes Mansion
Jackson
Miss Jackson
E. May Jackson Forbes
May
Lord
Lady Crewe
Annabel Crewe-Milnes
Nile
England
Lord Rosebery
Naples
Egypt
Posilipo
Berlin
Herr Schumann
America
Captain Salisbury
Chester
Emily Cunninghame
Breakfast and Dinner Menu With Homemade Recipes
A historical listing shows daily table hints including breakfast items like rolled oats and cream, lamb chops, lyonnaise potatoes, and desserts such as lemon and cranberry pie. It includes a school of kitchen instructions for biscuits and molasses wafers and concludes with a recipe note attributed to Mrs. G. L. Bruce of Greenwood Massachusetts.
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G. L. Bruce
Greenwood
Mass
Mrs Roosevelt Returns to New York from Cuba
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt wife of the governor has returned to New York City from Cuba aboard the transport CPherson.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Cuba
cPherson
Odd Bits of News From Across the World
A collage of brief notes: Nome, Alaska starts a four page paper priced at 60 cents. German fleets prompt pride in Hamburg and Bremen. iron ore, coal, and cotton mill counts rise in the United States between 1870 and 1899. Yorkshire brewers switch to motor traction cars. Bullah of Turkey reads world papers. railway accidents claim 113 lives. Transbaikal railway opens. Hawaii plans 100000 rubber trees. Iona Island may host a naval magazine. Russian fleet remains largely unchanged abroad.
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Yorkshire
England
Bullah
Turkey
See the Result in Our Custom Department Offer
The notice invites new customers to try the Custom Department without obligation. Measures can be taken and suits delivered in April or May with prices matching last season. Those who never ordered are urged to leave measurements and place a suit request to see the result in a risk free trial.
Rare Books Sale Reveals Historic Library Holdings
Theoore Irwin of Oswego sold his England-envied library for 200000 to George H. Richmond. Richmond resold yesterday to Frederick K. Trowbridge, including The Golden Gospels once given to Henry VIII, first folios of Shakespeare, Gutenberg Bible, and Aiken Bible, among other rare works.
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New York
Theoore Irwin
Oswego
England
Henry VIII
Onvy VIII
Luther
St. John
Virgil Grace
Aiken
America
Dr Francis Barbarin Dies Curator of Corcoran Gallery
Dr Francis Sinclair Barbarin longtime curator of the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington died at his Georgetown home. Born in Newport Rhode Island sixty seven years ago he was a well known figure in national art circles.
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Washington
Francis Sinclair Barbarin
Corcoran Art Gallery
Georgetown
Newport
R. I
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the Sunday Rest
Lao
Tetal
Sunday Post
Beveridge
Indiana
the United
Congress
Daniel Webster
Supreme Court
Jordan
Marsh
Pas Ncore
Bertowsig
Gamin
Heacton
2Ussie Resuat
Tha Oy
Andrew Banana
Alessandro
Frank Scott
Corey Wicks
Church of Brighton
Newso
Worcester Telegram
W. H. ‘Walsh
Boston and Park Theatres
Young’s
Walsh
Kennedy’s Branch Biscuit
Kennedy Biscuit Works
Cambridgeport
the Post
East Boston
Mercie
Higgins
Princeton Street
Waxtonith
Si ‘Whitney
Baptist
Rey
Spectacles
Observant Citizen
Chain of
Cambridge
Hamplin
Oogue
B. F. Keith
Nit
Table
Ruthern
We Philadelp
Keith
Sampson
Charlestown Navy Yards
Vine Weet
Hosea Kingman
Bridgewater
Bay
Eton
Springer Bros. CO
Mrs. Roosevelt
Nome City
Alaskan
Hamburg
Bremen
Germany
Alabama
Transbaikal
Department of Agriculture
Hawaiian Islands
Iona Island
Hudson River
New York City
St. Petersburg
Oak Hall Clothing Company
Corner Elm Street
Irwin
DR. Barbarin
Potter Drug and Chem, Corp
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