Chicago Powers Rally Behind Carlisle in Gold Crisis
Washington reports show Chicago banks hold about 14.8 million in gold with New York at 12.5 million. Western banks total 54 million versus 39 million in the East, as Chicago San Francisco and St Louis aid the government to bolster Treasury funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carlisle
Chicago
New York
Lyman J. Gage
First National Bank
Gresham
Treasury Department
National Banks
New York City
National Banks of the West
National Banks of the East
San Francisco
St. Louis
Boston
Pittsburg
Heedless Bridegroom Repeats Vow In Double Wedding
In Trenton on April 30 Frank Pryor and Miss Gertrude Taylor wed twice due to Pryor forgetting a Pennsylvania marriage license. A planned large New Jersey ceremony became a delayed affair as officials performed a legal ceremony across the river, then repeated the knot at the church without a certificate.
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Trenton
N. J
Frank €. Pryor
Morrisville
Penn
Gertrude Taylor
New Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
H. H. Studdiford
Third Presbyterian Church
William Caldwell
Baltimore
Caldwell
Beacon Society hosts first ladies night at Brunswick dinner
At the Brunswick the Beacon Society held a historic ladies night during its 84th dinner. President Albert A. Pope chaired with Rev. Alexander McKenzie and Rev. Louis A. Banks among speakers on Woman Past Present and Future. Pope praised women and urged annual ladies’ days, recounting mothers wives sisters and daughters with affectionate tributes and humor.
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Beacon Society
Brunswick
Albert A. Pope
Goodspeed
Alexander McKenzie
Cambridge
Louis A. Banks
Emory J. Haynes
Five Designs Selected for Copley Square Beautification
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor F W Chandler and others choose five meritorious designs for Copley Square. Walker & Kimball lead, offering a garden center with shade trees, diagonal avenues, and moderate costs. Other schemes feature sunken courts, central monuments, and varied layouts with differing advantages.
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F. W. Chandler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. R. Ware
Columbia College
E. M. Wheelwright
Boston Society of Architects
Copley Square
Co. Howard Walker
Walker & Kimball
Messrs
Rothh & Tilden
Messrs. Andrews
Jacques & Rantoul
H. L. Warren
W. G. Preston
Huntington Avenue
Boylston Street
Messrs. Rothh & Tilden
Bostonians Headed to World's Fair Opening
A large group of prominent Boston residents will attend the opening of the World's Fair. Among those departing include Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. Wolcott with their three sons, C. C. Jackson family, Miss Jackson, and many others from Boston and nearby towns leaving on Friday and Saturday to gather in the city by the lake.
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E. A. Williams
Boston
Walter Channing
T. B. Ferguson
A. H. Latham
M. C. Storrow
Henry M. Whitney
Brookline
Charles C. Foster
E. M. Hoppin
F. B. Taussig
Alice R. Wells
A. L. Wier
Will of John Trich Disposes Wealth to Faith Care Bodies
Boston shares in will of John Trich of McKeesport. The $125000 fortune is left to two benevolent institutions in Bristol and Boston, with widow and children omitted. Executors named Robert Taylor. lawsuits anticipated as heirs file exceptions to probate.
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Pittsburg
John Trich
McKeesport
Bristol
Eng
George Muller
Boston
Mass
Charles Cullis
Mr. Trich
Robert Taylor
Workingmen and Churches in Chautauqua Season
The next Chautauqua season features a two sided study of church relations with workers. Chicago Socialist Thomas J. Mogan will discuss "The Attitude of the Workingmen toward the Churches" and University of Chicago professor Charles R. Henderson will present "The Attitude of the Churches Toward the Workingmen."
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Thomas J. Mogan
Chicago
Charles R. Henderson
University of Chicago
Wiman Faces Creditors in Staten Island Affairs
Erastus Wiman and wife file an assignment for creditors in Richmond County claiming liabilities may exceed one million dollars. Wiman, a noted promoter of reciprocity with Canada, denies any general assignment and says trusts were created to protect a Staten Island estate held in his wife’s name due to his British subject status. He denies owing Dun & Co. and any suit by the firm.
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New York
Erastus Wiman
Staten Island
Canada
New York Chamber of Commerce
New York Board of ‘Trade
R. G. Dun & Co
Wiman
Eleanor Wiman
Richmond County
Ferastina
R.G. Dun & Co
Fire alarms and boiler room blaze report in Roxbury and Bowdoin Square
Yesterday's incidents include needless alarm from Box 129 at 9 59 a m and a reported chimney fire at Patrick McAdams home on Washington Street West Roxbury. A rear first floor fire at Cobb Bates Yerxa stores 3 Bowdoin Square caused about 300 dollars damage. Engine 4 quickly contained it on Bulfinch Street.
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Patrick McAdams
Washington Street
West Roxbury
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa’s
Bowdoin Square
Engine 4
Bulfinch Street
Michael Cunniff
Embezzlement Arrest of Local Man William Good
William R. Good, 36, of 1316 Washington Street, arrested yesterday afternoon on embezzlement charges for $267 from Daniel P. Nichols of 118 West Brookline Street.
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William R. Good
Washington Street
Daniel P. Nichols
West Brookline Street
Testimony of Long Illness and Recovery
A claimant describes five years of severe lung and kidney distress with stomach pain, salt rheum, a coughing spell, and lung bleeding. He recalls weakness, inability to work as a mason, and a shingles attack that confined him for three months before seeking testimony.
Recount updates and political notes in Charlestown and nearby
Election recounts reduce Everett's lead from 14 to 10 as Ward 4 adds 5 for Barrett and Ward 5 loses 1. Barrett’s side was represented by Mc Carthy while Everett relied on Hogan and Furie. Wakefield recounts show no change. Postmaster Hart resigns. Coveney expected as successor. Other GOP offices likely to serve out terms. Gas investigation advances with new arguments and exhibits presented by Mayor Matthews and counsel.
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Everett
Charlestown
Barrett
J. J. McCarthy
Dr. Everett
John J. Hogan
Michael J. Furie
Cary
Banks
Returning Board
McCarthy
Wakefield
Hart
Washington
J. W. Coveney
Beard
Josiah Quincey
Gresham
Children’s Progressive Lyceum May Festival Dance
The Children’s Progressive Lyceum of Boston will hold a May festival on Saturday the 6th at Music Hall. A grand march opens the program followed by seasonal dances and solos featuring Master Joseph Carpenter Jenkins and a group of young performers including Miss Louise Horner Miss Hilda Drew Nellie Smith and others in a variety of dances.
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Children’s Progressive Lyceum of
Boston
W. 5S. Butler
Carrie Hatch
Charles Wood
M. T. Lingley
J. B. Hatch, Jr
C. ‘S T. Wood
Lilla Wiles Wyman
Music Hall
Jack In the
Joseph Carpenter Jenkins
Louise Horner
Hilda Drew
Nellie Smith
Aimee Barbier
Juliette Caze
Alice Barnes
Daisy Sawteile
Society of Colonial Wars incorporated in Massachusetts
A new antiquarian society is incorporated as the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Congressman W. F. Draper is Seer Abijah Thompson, treasurer, K. Watkins is secretary, with stockholders Francis BE. Abbott, Arthur W. Clark, James A. Noyes, Edward F. Barker and Walter H. Draper.
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Society of Colonial Wars
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
W. F. Draper
Seer Abijah Thompson
K. Watkins
Francis BE. Abbott
Arthur W. Clark
James A. Noyes
Edward F. Barker
Walter H. Draper
Retirement Ovation for Chairman Thomas Hills after 28 Years
Chairman Thomas Hills of the board of principal assessors received an ovation on his retirement after twenty eight years of service to the city. Mayor Matthews praised his long public service and Hills, who instructed new assessors in his final farewell, was joined by George E. Hall as the new chairman of the assessors board. Hills was born in Boston on August eighteenth 1828 and began as assessor in 1865 and as chairman in 1868.
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Thomas Hills
Board of
Matthews
Hills
Mr. Hills
Boston
South Boston Savings Bank
George E. Hall
Board of Assessors
Governor Russell Returns Home After New York Visit
Governor Russell spent Sunday at Cambridge recovering from a slight cold caught in New York. He declined the Enterprise invitation and toured Philadelphia Blake and Enterprise with Mrs Russell, sister-in-law Miss Ewan, and General Dalton before boarding the 12 o'clock train to Boston.
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Governor Russell
Cambridge
New York
Enterprise
Russell
Ewan
General Dalton
Philadelphia
Blake
Merry
Boston
Woman severely burned lighting kerosene at home
Mrs Margaret McCarthy 32 a widow with four children was badly burned at 21 Greenwich Place Dorchester when kerosene oil ignited her clothing. She was taken to City Hospital where doctors feared she would not survive. Her husband had died recently.
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Margaret McCarthy
Greenwich Place
Dorchester
Eleventh Meeting Of Church Temperance Society
Subscriptions for the church temperance coffee rooms total 279,948 dollars. The eleventh annual meeting of the Church Temperance Society New England department will be held at Trinity Chapel tomorrow at 8 p.m. Bishop of Rhode Island Rt Rev Thomas M Clark will preside and deliver the opening address. Also expected to speak are Rt Rev Henry C Potter, Rev E Winchester Donald, Esq Robert H Gardiner, and Rev John T McGrath.
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Church Temperance Coffee Rooms
Church Temperance Society
New England
Trinity Chapel
Thomas M. Clark
D.D
Rhode Island
Henry C. Potter
E. Winchester Donald
Robert H. Gardiner
John T. McGrath
Services for General Corse Held at Residence Then Public Obsequies
Services over General John M. Corse’s remains take place today at noon at the family home at the corner of Washington and Walnut in Winchester before the body is moved to the city for public obsequies. The Rev. John W. Suter presides. The public service is at 3 30 p m in the New Old South Church with the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion in charge, with the Rev. Dr. A J Gordon officiating.
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John M. Corse
Washington and
Walnut Streets
Winchester
John W. Suter
New Old South Church
Massachusetts Commandery
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
A. J. Gordon
New Police Commissioner Clark Takes Office Amid Ceremony
After a morning conference with Superintendent Eldridge, captains and officers formed a line to the Board of Police where they met Robert F. Clark and bade farewell to Commissioner Osborne in formal remarks and an informal reception.
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Osborne
Clark
Eldridge
Board of Police
Robert F. Clark
Bade Goodby
Complimentary dinner for A. C. Kendall at United States Hotel
Thirty five friends hosted a dinner Saturday evening at the United States Hotel to honor A. C. Kendall for his faithful service with the New York & New England railroad as he leaves to join the New York, New Haven & Hartford Old Colony. Warm tributes highlighted his valued career.
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A. C. Kendall
United States Hotel
New York & New England Railroad
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Old Colony
Mr. Kendall
A Remedy Worth Having At Paine's Cabinet Sale
A shopper is urged to buy a fine French dressing cabinet at Paine's 48 Canal street to ensure a well made toilet and avoid uneasy doubts about appearance. The piece promises comfort and practical use for a woman concerned with grooming.
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Paine’s
Canal Street
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