Tracks In East Boston Approved For Dockyard Access
The Railroad Commission approved laying tracks for steam trains across Lewis Street and along Webster and Marginal streets in East Boston to connect docks and warehouses with the New York Central system. Traffic will run only between 11 PM and 5 AM. The plan cites public benefits and port commerce gains while pledging limited street use to protect public interests.
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Railroad Commission
Lewis Street
Webster
Marginal
Boston
National Dock & Storage Warehouse Company
New York Central Railroad
Charleston Second Speed Trial Off Owl's Head Course
The cruiser Charleston underwent a second speed trial with government design propellers. On 18 runs the ship reached 21.84 knots in a burst, below the first test’s 71.50 knots, with 115 tons more displacement than in builders’ trial. Naval trial board members were satisfied and tidal corrections may boost speed.
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Rockland
Charleston
Naval Trial Board
Dillon Under Knife
John H. Dillon Suffolk County president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is confined at City Hospital after a sudden illness led to an operation planned for the forenoon. The procedure aims to relieve his ailment and return him to activity. visits to divisions to aid San Francisco sufferers are cancelled temporarily.
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John H. Dillon
Suffolk
Order of Hibernians
San Francisco
Massachusetts Tariff Reform Split May Drive Thayer to Democrats
Ex Representative John R. Thayer of Massachusetts predicts that Congress treatment of Bay State representatives on tariff reform will push the state’s delegation into the Democratic column in the November election.
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Washington
John R. Thayer
Massachusetts
Congress
Bay State
Badges Sold on School Street Prompting City Debate
A brief exchange on School street yesterday about badges valued at five cents each stoked talk in town. Thirteen badges sold for seventy five dollars to fund a local board of aldermen effort.
Dandy Dick Presented by Malden Amateur Cast
In Malden on May 2 an amateur company staged the four act comedy Dandy Dick as a testimonial to G A Campbell manager of the Malden theatre where the performance was a success.
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Campbell
Malden Auditorium
Miss Hiltz
MR. Coggan
Malden
G. A. Campbell
Theatre cast performs at deanery banquet in vivid city event
Large audience including city officials attended as Frank E. Fowle portrayed Very Rev Augustin Jedd with skill. M Sumner Coggan played Sir Tristram Mardon and Eva Hiltz gave a noted Hannah Topping role. after, Campbell hosted a cast banquet and social hour.
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Augustin Jedd
D. D
St. Marvell’s
Fowle
M. Sumner Coggan
Tristram Mardon
Eva Hiltz
Hannah Topping
Dean
Campbell
Tare
Bate
Thsteam Mardon
Bart
Sumner Coggan
Tarver
Harry
Darbey Eoeses
Frost Blore
Butle
Millaway Noah Topp
William ‘Hastings Hatcham
Tristram’s. m
Fullerton Vose
Georgiana Tidman
Jedith Bruerton Salome
Ant
Edith Evans
Sheba
Alice
Hannah Toones
Eal A Aa
Eva
Hilts
Rebekah Assembly Admits 130 New Members in Boston
At the Massachusetts I O O F Rebekah assembly morning session in Odd Fellows Hall 130 new members were admitted. About 300 attended the meeting with 1500 members in the assembly. Officers elected include President Lucy A. Godbold East Boston and Treasurer Annie L. Stanley Milford.
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Rebekah Assembly
Massachusetts
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Lucy A. Godbold
East Boston
Florence Hurn
Somerville
Sarah A. Barry
Charlestown
Annie L. Stanley
Milford
Elizabeth A. Hart
Springfield
Gadbold
Rena M. Chamberlain
Evelyn C. Smith
Ada M. Storey
Lillian A. Young
Inside Guardian
Lillian A. Barrett
Outside Guardian
Fate of Several Bills in the House
The Bennett bill for a metropolitan council was defeated 80 to 41 in the House. The Boston aldermanic bill passed to be engrossed without opposition. The anti monopoly bill was referred to the next General Court.
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Bennett
Boston
Senator Taylor Defeated Over Taxation Recess Committee Power
A motion by Senator Taylor to deprive the proposed recess committee on taxation of the power to send for papers and persons was defeated by an unusually small vote of five to one.
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Taylor
Recess Committee On Taxation
Aldermen's gilded badges spark City Hall debate
In a discussion of the annual City Auditor Mitchell report a gilded badge set for 13 Aldermen at $750 prompts critique. The 75 council badges cost $1500 total, each badge about $57.69, drawing ridicule as extravagant at City Hall while taxpayers bear the burden.
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Mitchell
City of
Boston
City Hall
Seek Runaway Franklin Miss Lillian Christie
Boston police were asked to aid in the search for 15 year old Lillian Christie who disappeared from Franklin on April 29. Her mother Mrs Wallace Christie fears she may have come to Boston. She wore a black and white shirtwaist long coat and a navy Buster Brown cap and is described as light complexioned with blue eyes.
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Boston
Lillian Christie
Franklin
Wallace Christie
National D A R Convention Elects New Officers
The Daughters of the American Revolution national convention in Philadelphia elected officers for the coming term. President is Mrs. D Phoenix Ingraham of New York. first vice president Mrs Ada line Fitz of Massachusetts. recording secretary Miss Minnie S Helper of New York. corresponding secretary Mrs Caro line P Heath of Massachusetts. treasurer Miss Mary A Kent of Pennsylvania. registrar Mrs Mary Martin Casey of New York. historian Mrs Maria F Daniels of Massachusetts. librarian Miss Clara B Adams of Massachusetts.
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Philadelphia
Daughters of the Revolution
D. Phoenix Ingraham
New York
Adaline F. Fitz
Massachusetts
Minnie S. Helper
Caroline P. Heath
Mary A. Kent
Pennsylvannia
Mary Martin Casey
Maria F. Daniels
Clara B. Adams
Natural History Prize Awarded to MIT Student
At the Boston Society of Natural History annual meeting last evening the Walker prize of 50 is awarded to Douglas Wilson Johnson a student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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TECH
Boston Society of Natural History
Douglas Wilson Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard Law School to Build 350000 Library Complex
Plans and contracts approved for a new $350,000 library building at Harvard Law School. Located northeast of Austin Hall in Cambridge, it will house the library, reading and lecture rooms, with a central stack and wings, Ionic front, Greek classical detail, amphitheatre lecture halls, and complete fireproofing.
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Harvard Law School
Cambridge
Law School
Harvard University
Austin Hall
Golden Medical Discovery praised for native herbs cure
An article extols the use of Golden Seal and allied native roots in Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It cites authorities across medical schools, notes the mix includes Golden Seal, Stone root, Queen’s root, Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot and Mandrake root, and argues broad healing benefits for digestion, catarrhal diseases, bronchial issues and liver function.
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R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Aoe
Bartholow
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Binley Ellingwood
M. D
Chicago
Materia Medica
Bennett Medical College
Ellingwood
John Pitt D
J. M. Scudder
Hale
Hahnemann Medical: College of Chicago
Abd M. D
New York
Bi Pierce
King
J. Pierce
Madicel
Barnes donation funds Whith River library project
Amos Barnes of Boston has given a public library in Whith River Vt., with a donation of 12000 dollars to support the town project and future library services. The gift covers construction and furnishings for the new facility.
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Whith River
Amos Barnes
Boston
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