A Useful Life: Patrick Donahoe at Eighty Still Guides The Pilot
The profile honors Patrick Donahoe on his eightieth birthday as founder of The Pilot in 1836. It recounts his decades of hard work, bold acts for Ireland and Catholics, and repeated business catastrophes including fires and panics, yet his determination kept him tied to the newspaper and mission. The piece notes Galvin and Doogue organizing jubilee decorations and places Donahoe among Boston’s notable Irish figures.
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Patrick Donahoe
Galvin
Doogue
Ireland
Boston
Donahoe
Honor to the Grand Old Man of Boston journalism
More than two hundred prominent men from Boston and New England will honor the veteran Donahoe at a Tremont House banquet Tuesday night. The note celebrates his lifelong patriotism, Irish influence, Civil War efforts, and the revival of Donahoe's Magazine and the Pilot.
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Cass
Donahoe
New England
Franklin Street
Boylston Street
Archbishop Williams
John Boyle O'Reilly
City
Donahoe’s Magazine
Pilot
Tremont House
Immigration crackdown targets cattlemen on steam voyages
Immigration Inspector Skeffington proposes tightening laws to regulate cattlemen moving between the United States and Britain. A new requirement demands cattle care papers with detailed personal descriptions to prevent stowaway return on U S ships, affecting Prussian and Roman operators and their crews.
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Skeffington
United States
Great Britain
Glasgow
Liverpool
London
Highway Robber Strikes Allston Woman
Migg Florence Stearns was attacked on a Allston street at about 8 10 p m Saturday night. The robber struck her on the head and took an opal and diamond ring marked G R to F 8 and her pocketbook containing 12 dollars. She could not give a clear description of the thief.
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Allston
Florence Stearns
Miss Stearns
Yacht Built On Land Near Shawmut Avenue In Boston
A steam yacht named the Pleasure is under construction on a vacant Ruggles Street lot near Shawmut Avenue. Built to the owner Simon Goldsmith’s specifications with Ira Densmore, the ship will be towed to Chelsea for engine work and is designed for self use with a 12 mph top speed. It measures 56 feet overall, 45 feet at the water line, 10 feet 9 inches amidships, and 4 feet draft. it accommodates thirty and features movable seating, rear and forward cabins, a boiler room, store, pilot house, and brass piping. The project began in December and should be usable in about three weeks.
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Simon Goldsmith
Ruggles Street
Shawmut Avenue
Goldsmith
Swett Street
Post
Chelsea
City Point
Marine Park
Striking mill workers leeched by tin can collectors
King Philip mill strikers in Fall River have collectors visiting citizens, delivering tin cans with brass lock keys to access funds. Three men posing as striking weavers reportedly drank heavily after soliciting stores on South Main street and used a key to pilfer contributions. The episode angered business owners and harmed the strike’s public image.
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Fall River
King Philip Mill
Association
Decorative Morris chair ad from Paine's Furniture
Paine's Furniture Company promotes a carved Morris chair as a decorative, stately piece. They warn against cheap bargain chairs whose upholstery uses inferior materials and cushions lose shape, wasting the purchase price.
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Morris
Paine’s Furniture Company
A Charming Woman Endorses Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey
A leading ladies club member touts American women as weak and run down and claims Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey can restore health and vigor. She says she was once run down and found continuous use of the whiskey beneficial, promoting it as a tonic for complexion and energy.
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Duffy
Working Girls Convention to Meet in Boston
The second national convention of the Working Girls' Clubs arrives in Boston this week for three days of sessions starting Wednesday. Delegates from Massachusetts New York Connecticut and Pennsylvania will attend with 180 from outside Massachusetts. Topics include club life community lunch clubs Noonday Rest and cooperative housekeeping with speakers from New Haven Waterbury Springfield and Boston. Social tours and a harbor excursion are planned with events at Music Hall and Deer Island.
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Boston
Parker Memorial Hall
Berkeley and
Appleton Streets
Working Girls’ Clubs
Massachusetts
New York
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Edith Woolsey
New Haven
Kate W. Noble
Waterbury
Alice BE. Fraser
Springfield
M. C. B. Munford
Richmond
Mary R. Sanford
Troy
Minnie E. Lewis
Hartford
Marian F. Young
C. C. Merriam
Katherine Head
Chicago
Bernard Whitman
Kate Gannett Wells
Grace Dodge
Massachusetts Association
Music Hall
Alice Freeman Palmer
Carroll D. Wright
William J. Tucker
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Faneuil Hall
Art Museum
Edith Longfellow
Cambridge
J. Putnam Bradlee
Deer Island
Edith M. Howes
O. M. E. Rowe
Emily G. Denny
8. E. Gardiner
Lillie Hetzer
Florence Richards
H. C. Ernest
Mary BE. Shore
Mary Crosby
Cc. Cc. Merriam
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California
Boston Pilot
New Orleans Picayune
New York Herald
Mr. Goldsmith
St. Veronica
The
Catholic Educational Union
Katherine Barry
Woonsocket
Columbian Reading Union
Katherine E. Conway
Chautauqua
Kate F. Kimball
England
Hartford, Hartford, Conn
A. A. Pocock
Frank Leslie
Illustrated Weekly
Theo Martial Rusic
Thane
Musketrry
Gettysburg
A. Berghaus
Beaufort
W. T. Crane
Chickamauga
J. F. Hillen
Bull Run
H. Lovie
Jackson and
Phillips
Wm. Waud
Battle of
Cedar Mountain
Edwin Forbes
Hilton Head
Port Royal
Island No
Spottsylvania Court House
Grant
Mayfield Bridge
Custer
Pittsburg Landing
Shiloh
Rosecrans
H. Lovie. Y
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