Boston Gas Bill Faces Third Reading Monday
The Massachusetts House will consider the gas bill on Monday aiming for a third reading. It seeks a 90 cent rate and $15,124,600 capitalization for the Boston Consolidated Company, with the bill advanced after initial House committee actions. Frederick E. Snow of the gas company supported the measure, indicating consolidation of eight Boston gas firms if enacted.
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Committee On
Boston Consolidated Company
Cole
Andover
Collins
Dorchester
Lomasney
Frederick E. Snow
Committee On Public Lighting
Boston
Testimonial to Miss Curtis at Potter Hall
An evening testimonial honored Miss Marguerite A. Curtis at Potter Hall. Recitations featured Miss Curtis and a nine‑pupil mythological comedy in which she played Daphne, with Edward A. Page as Pygmalion and others in the cast.
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Miss Curtis
Potter Hall
Marguerite A. Curtis
Potter
Edward A. Page
Pygmalion
Joseph B. Vrandberg
Leucippe
William P. Condon
Chrysos
Harry E. Bump
Agesimos
Birthday tribute marks 80th for Boston reformer Blackwell
Poems and greetings poured in for Henry B Blackwell on his 80th birthday. Notables including Mrs Julia Ward Howe and Mrs Mary Livermore sent tributes while the Massachusetts Suffrage Association sent a plant. A late May celebration at Faneuil Hall will feature speakers such as Governor Garvin Carrie Chapman Catt and others.
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Henry B. Blackwell
Mr. Blackwell
Josephine St. P. Ruffin
M. H. Gulesian
Myer Bloomfield
Civic Service
Hebrews
Long
William Dudley Foulke
George A. Ernst
Eugene N. Foss
Mary A. Livermore
Julia Ward Howe
Mary Schles
Faneuil Hall
Garvin
Rhode Island
Carrie Chapman Catt
Mary Livermore
Moonbeam barge wreck claims four lives
The old Moonbeam barge foundered off Point Judith while towed by the Gertrude in heavy seas. Captain Halyburton, his two children, and two crewmen drowned as the 675 ton vessel vanished beneath the waves after a late torch signal and unsuccessful lifeboat launch.
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Newport
R. I
Moonbeam
Point Judith
Searsport
Gertrude
Hoboken
Providence
Halyburton
Morse Made Clothing Expands Neckwear Appeal in Boston
Morse Made Clothing, longtime Boston supplier of neckwear and suits, announces a shift toward becoming the neckwear store of Boston. As stock depletes they will add new pieces from top makers with 50c scarfs at 43c, inviting customers to view Brattle street windows for a preview. Open Saturday night until 10.
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Mien
Brattle Street
Seven year old falls twenty feet on Roxbury piazza
Florence Glover aged seven of 8 Albany street slipped on a Roxbury piazza behind 45 Randall street and plunged twenty feet. She was taken to City Hospital with contusions to head and body and is in a dangerous condition.
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Randall Street
Roxbury
Florence Glover
Albany Street
Nashua pool room closed by sheriff order
Nashua New Hampshire May 4 The Nashua Junction poolroom the only legal pool venue for running horses at New Orleans Bennings and other tracks was closed today by Sheriff Nathaniel Doane. A dozen Boston men arrived on an early train and were notified by employee English Tommy. Others warned by wire stayed in Boston.
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Nashua
N. H
Nashua Junction
New Orleans
Bennings
Nathaniel Doane
New Hampshire
Boston
Tommy
Brighton Man May Be Firebug Suspicion Grows
Brighton police seek a man confined in sanitariums with a firewatching mania after a midnight Brighton sighting linked to Boston fires. He matches a description from Newland Street, with two companions, and may be the same man seen fleeing after three incendiary fires. A prior misidentification of a painter named Mullen shows caution in naming the suspect.
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Warren
Brighton Police
Boston
Brighton
Brighton Street
Newland Street
Mullen
Batterymarch Street
Dobbyn
Curran
Morse Remains Expected in Newton From France
The body of George W. Morse eminent Newton lawyer who died in Marseilles France April 9 is expected to arrive today. Services will be held at Grace Church Newton Sunday at 1 30 pm. Charles Ward Post 62 6 A R W T Shepherd commander members will attend in a body and accompany the remains to Bedford cemetery for interment.
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Newton
George W. Morse
Marseilles
France
Grace Church
Charles Ward
A. R
W.T. Shepherd
Bedford Cemetery
Potter of Lowell Dies at Home In Early Morning
William E. Potter Sr. prominent Lowell real estate dealer died at his School street home early today. He leaves three daughters and two sons.
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Lowell
William E. Potter, Sr
School Street
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South End Green
Washington Credit CO
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J. A. Costello
Cc. H. Cronin
J. V. Drury
E. L. Costello
David A. Craig
National Union
W. E. Potter
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Wenton Mills
Hazelton
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