State House to probe Brookline and Bay State Gas affairs
Efforts continue to secure a detailed investigation into gas affairs at the State House before the session ends. Senator Durant seeks a fuller inquiry into the Brookline Gas and the Boston contract plus recent legal expenses, with a rule committee filing for a special inquiry into Bay State Gas Light Company.
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State House
Brookline Gas Company
Bay State Company
Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Durant
Cambridge
Boston
Bay State Gas Light Company
Committee On Rules
Brookline Company
Brookline
Brookline gas inquiry teased by rules committee meeting
The Brookline Gas Light case dominates discussion as the rules committee weighs an inquiry. Lawyers for petitioners and the company clashed over the scope while a broader probe into all Boston gas firms loomed, with some members pressing for a full legislative examination.
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Committee On Rules
Brookline
State House
Butler
Brookline Corporation
Allen
Burrage
Brookline Gas Light Company
Senate
Durant
Middlesex
Sanger
Suffolk
Boston
Brookline Company
Roxbury Mass Mail Order Goods Ad
A brief notice advertises goods available through grocers or expressmen and invites orders from hotels and clubs, with a contact point in Roxbury Massachusetts via telephone ROXBURY 765.
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Longwood Avenue
Haverhill Street
Roxbury
Abolition Debate Highlights City Council Session
Boston council discusses abolition of the Board of Aldermen, forms a five member special committee to seek statewide city opinions on encroachments by the Legislature, and weighs charter amendments with pay and size changes. Also hears fire department twelve hour shift proposal and street widening bonds.
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Beacon Hill
Boston
Board of Aldermen
Commonwealth
Lane
Ward 17
Honorable
Boston Board of Aldermen
Reidy
Mr. Reidy
Curtis
Woman’s Educational Association
McCarthy
Martin
Police Board
James Slamin
Back
Police Department
Matthews
Beacon
Somerset
Ashburton Place
Callahan
Harrison Avenue
Beach
Dover Streets
Ward 24
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Neponset Avenue
Cuban Uprising Sparks Cuban City Exiles and Mobilization
Private reports from Havana indicate feverish excitement as steamships fill with emigrants to Key West and other ports. Jose Maceo leads 700 in battle at Arroyo Hondo defeating 400 Spanish troops. Gomez moves with 1000 toward Puerto Principe. Spanish capitalists move funds abroad. business declines amid rising insurgent support.
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Key West
Fla
Olivette
Havana
Tampa
New York
New Orleans
Mexico
Jose Maceo
Arrojo Hondo
Guantanamo
Maceo
Bosch
Santocildes
Maximo Gomez
Cammaguay
Puerto Principe
Cuba
King Solomon Lodge Social Dance at Minot Hall
King Solomon Lodge No 18 Knights of Pythias held its first informal party and social dance at Minot Hall Springfield and Washington with a grand march at eight featuring 100 couples. The event, aided by the Alpha Orchestra, continued dancing until thirteen followed by an elaborate collation.
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King Solomon Lodge No. 18
Knights of Pythias
Minot Hall
Springfield
Washington Streets
Alpha Orchestra
Maritime Canal Company Directors Elected in New York Meeting
The Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua held its annual meeting in New York on May 2 with shareholder approval of the year’s report. President Hitchcock announced expected resumption of canal work and noted no discussion of the $75,000 indemnity. A report that the company would advance funds to the Nicaraguan governor was denied.
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New York
Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua
Hitchcock
Maritime Canal Company
East Boston Man Slashed in Chelsea Attack
Hugh J. Bagley twine maker of 669 Bennington Street East Boston is in Frost Hospital Chelsea after a dirk wound to his left arm and right thigh from a scuffle with three men at Central and Eastern avenues near the East Boston bridge. John Dillon of 180 Chester Avenue Chelsea reported the event.
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Hugh J. Bagley
Bennington Street
Boston
Frost Hospital
Chelsea
Central
Eastern Avenues
East Boston Bridge
Bagley
Blaisdell
John Dillon
Chester Avenue
Striking Boston Gossamer Rubber Workers Seek Arbitration
The employees of the Boston Gossamer Rubber Company Hyde Park appeared before the State Board of Arbitration at the State House. The firm declined participation but the board heard grievances and planned a public Hyde Park hearing soon. The strikers demand no wage increase, only reversal of the recent cut and an amicable settlement.
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Boston Gossamer Rubber Company
Hyde Park
State Board of Arbitration and
State House
State Board
War Sloop Alert Heads to San Juan del Sur
Washington May 2 The war sloop Alert leaves Panama for San Juan del Sur to protect American interests. She carries outdated weaponry and faces the British gunboat Wild Swan, which sails with modern arms. Monterey may reach San Juan del Sur about the same time, viewed as equally powerful as the British fleet in the region.
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Washington
Alert
Panama
San Juan del Sur
Wild Swan
Monterey
Nicaraguan
Nicaragua Talks Turn to United States Criticism
In Managua on May 2 President Zelaya presided over a meeting where distinguished citizens blamed the United States for the trouble and vented chagrin at Washington. Fresh instructions go to a Salvadoran minister in London to seek a pacific settlement while Nicaragua denies knowledge of any U S request to England for more time. Honduras and El Salvador reportedly will open ports for Nicaraguan imports.
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Managua
Nicaragua
England
Zelaya
United States
London
Honduras
Salvador
Salvadoran minister meets officials over Nicaragua dispute
In London on May 2 the Salvadoran minister, tasked by Nicaragua to handle tensions with Great Britain, met Lord Kimberly at the foreign office, then conferred with U S Ambassador Bayard. Reports say the dispute is likely to be amicably settled.
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London
Great Britain
Lord Kimberly
Foreign Office Today
United States
Bayard
New York Legislature Backs Cuban Patriots
The New York Legislature passed a resolution expressing sympathy for Cuban patriots and urging the President to grant them belligerent rights under modern warfare rules.
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Albany
New York
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