Debating the new registration bill in Senate and House
The Senate debated a Republican registration bill aimed at nullifying the poll tax abolition. Members clashed over amendments to strip or keep poll tax links, with votes largely party lines and a third reading awarded. The House then tackled the two cent a mile fare bill, while a slate of legislative agents was listed for city work.
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Senate
McEttrick
Suffolk
Committee On Election Laws
Parkman
Himelf
Boston
McDonald
Middlesex
MecEttrick
Boston Board of Registrars
Butler
Bristol
Parker
Methuen
Burke
Quincy
Chance
F. J. Ladd
Lexington Water Company
Longmeadow
Cape Cod Maritime Canal Company
Samantha Meryfield
James Mantle
L. G. Newman
Francis K. Sweetser
Malden
Medford
Melrose
Spot Pond
Wiliam K. Stevens
Charles C. Spellman
Charles O. Wood
Charles A. Walker
Samuel A. Wright
Commonwealth
John F. White
Tilbary
Blanchard and Farrar Offer 16 to 17 Deck Sa and 31 Fanenil Hall
Four year old item appears in garbled text listing Blanchard & Farrar and a price per gallon and deck space. The readable portion notes 16 to 17 deck sa and 31 Fanenil Hall og with unclear context. No clear event or outcome is specified.
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Galion
Blanchard & Farrar
Deck Sa
Fanenil Hall Og
Tremont street car accident injures motorman
A Tremont street electric car on Battery street yesterday hit a raised rail under repair. The impact caused the brake to engage and severely injure motor man Lewis W. Donald, who was taken to his home at 757 Parker Street with internal injuries.
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Tremont Street
Battery Street
Lewis W. Donald
Parker Street
Cigar Makers Expect No Strike After Price Bill
Cigar workers foresee no strike as a price bill takes effect next Monday and has been presented to manufacturers, though no response has been received yet.
Officers of Society of Arts Elected at MIT Meeting
At last evening's annual Society of Arts meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology officers were elected General Francis A Walker became president C W Andrews was named secretary New executive committee members include George W Llodgett C J H Woodbury Henry M Howe George O Carpenter and Charles E Powers
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The
Society of Arts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francis A. Walker
C. W. Andrews
George W. Llodgett
C. J. H. Woodbury
Henry M. Howe
George O. Carpenter
Charles E. Powers
Missionary Training School Closing Exercises Held
Closing exercises of the missionary training school were held last evening at Clarendon Street Baptist Church. Addresses were delivered by Mr John Newcomb of Cumbur India the Rev A J Gordon and others.
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Clarendon Street Baptist Church
John Newcomb
Cumbur
India
A. J. Gordon
Rumors of Ninth District Nomination and Possible Runs
Gossip centers on Galvin Matthews and Flynn as potential ninth district nominees with Mayor Matthews, Le, Sullivan, and Murphy seen as power players. The piece notes uncertainty over a Matthews run for governor or congress, Flynn or Sullivan entering the race, and a hoped for Democratic unity for fall campaigns.
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Galvin
Matthews
Ninth Congress
Flynn
Commissioner Murphy
Russell
Chicago
Massachusetts
Andrew
Congress
Eighth
le and Sullivan
Mr. Galvin
Demcracy
Maine
Hull
Edward J. Flynn
John H. Sullivan
the Herald
John R. Murphy
O’ Neil
Murphy
Transatlantic Steamship Movements Reported May 12
Shipping notices list arrivals and departures in major ports including Boston New York Philadelphia Queenstown and Southampton. Vessels such as Sama Gallia Liver pool Richmond Hill Copenhagen Rotter dam Shields Germanic and Fuerst Bismarck appear with routes from New York to Europe and vice versa. times and details vary by vessel.
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Boston
Yale
Sama
Cuba
New York
Gallia
Liverpool
Richmond Hill
London
Island
Copenhagen
Ocean
Rotteram
Philadelphia
Lumen
Shields
Queenstown
Germanic
Southamption
Fuerst Bismarck
Ham
Ipoo Francaet Siemen
Havel
Dover
Werkendam
Rotterdam
Emigrant Robbed of 250 Dollars in Boston
Daniel Murphy reported to Station 2 yesterday afternoon that he, after meeting a man in the morning, lost 250 dollars. The stranger left soon after and Murphy has not found him. Murphy recently arrived from Ireland in Boston two days ago.
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Daniel Murphy
Station 2
Murphy
Boston
Ireland
Leather makers vote to halt tanneries for sixty days
Industry leaders from over seventy firms vote to suspend leather tanning and finishing for sixty days starting between June 1 and July 1. They cite years of low profits and recent price rises in sole leather as reasons, with unemployment impacts projected in multiple Massachusetts towns and Pennsylvania.
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A. G. Webster
Webster & Co
Ed H. Sina
James Pierce
Amos W. Dowling
George H. Maddock
E. D. van Tassell
James S. Skinner
Gordon Plummer
C. W. Fifield
Charles A. Haskell
Matthew Robeson
C. H. Burwell
Woburn
Salem
Peabody
Winchester
Quincy
Pennsylvania
Quickest club election in Harvard history at Dickey Club
The Dickey Club conducted an eleven hour election to elect ten members, touting ancestry money and muscle as key qualifications. Elected members include Robert Emmons football tackle James Wadsworth son of General Wadsworth captain of ’95 ball nine J A Davis family mines stroke of freshman crew A J Fassett Philadelphia millionaire horseman and ’95 ball nine James Pinder Southern family John Heard Beacon Hill Heards John Mills modest and popular Robert Shaw nephew of Colonel Shaw and son of G A Shaw and Robert Action sprinter rows on a varsity crew.
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Dickey Club
Dickey
Harvard
Adam
Robert Emmons
James Wadsworth
General Wadsworth
New York
J. A. Davis
A. J. Fassett
Philadelphia
James Pinder
John Heard
Beacon Hill
Heards
J. Potter
Robert Shaw
G. A. Shaw
John Mills
Robert Action
Women Journalists Meet for Wilkins Reception at Parker House
The New England Women’s Press Association held a reception at the Parker House yesterday afternoon for author Miss Mary C. Wilkins. About two hundred attendees included Prof. Wendell, Alfred Hemenway, and many noted editors, with readings by Mrs. Erving Winslow and ensembles at tea tables hosted by prominent matrons and young assistants.
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New England Women’s Press Association
Parker House
Mary C. Wilkins
Miss Wilkins
Erving Winslow
FE. H. Merrll
S. A. U._ Fowler
Margaret Ingersoll
Barbara N. Galpin
Mable Percy Haskell
Grace M. Hurd
Annie Prescott
Edith Perry Estes
A. F. Norcross
Florence Hunt
Miss Pickering
Professor Barrett Wendell
Oscar Fay Adams
Alfred Hemenway
Charles Follen Adams
Leon Harmer
Conrad Wes
Police reserve officers appointed by general order 101
General Order 101 from the Board of Police lists reserve appointments for Michael T. Cary George T. Halli Frank T. e Edward W. Clabane Homer I. Durkee Daniel G. Murphy Cornelius F. Regan Frederick T. Foley Henry M. Thompson John R. Gundley. The order also accepts the resignation of Edgar A. Hicks of Division 3.
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Board of Police
Michael T. Cary
George T. Halli
Frank T. E
Edward W. Clabane
Daniel G. Murphy
Cornelius F. Regan
Frederick T. Foley
Henry M. Thompson
John R. Gundley
Edgar A. Hicks
Annual Choir Guild Festival at Emmanuel Church
Next Tuesday evening the Choir Guild hosts a festival at Emmanuel Church with choirs from Advent, St John’s, Jamaica Plain, St Paul’s Newton Highlands, Redeemer, South Boston, St Paul’s Dedham, Trinity Marlboro, St James North Cambridge, and Christ Waltham. Conducted by Mr S B Whitney with organist Mr B H Gillette.
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Choir Guild
Emmanuel Church
Advent
St John’s
Jamaica Plain
St. Paul’s
Newton Hichlands
Redeemer
South Boston
Dedham
Trinity
Marlboro
St. James
North Cambridge
Christ, Waltham
S. B. Whitney
Shore Line Flyer to New York Begins Service
The Shore Line Flyer will feature two ogner parlor cars a parlor stacker and a dining car with through service to New London The departure from Park Square Station is at 2 PM and the trip will take five hours and forty minutes.
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New York
New London
Park Square
Big Bridge Opens Over Mississippi at Memphis
Memphis May 12 noon the great steel bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis was formally opened for traffic. About 30 000 visitors witnessed elaborate decorations and gala activities. A street pageant led to the bridge with 18 locomotives testing the structure as Senator Voorhees of Indiana gave an ovation and the Concord warship steamed by amid loud whistles.
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Memphis
Mississippi River
Trafic
Supreme Court
Concord
George W. Morrison
Chicago
Senator Voorhees
Indiana
American registry bill for China steamship draws attention
In Washington on May 12 the Senate discussed Mr Hiscock's bill to grant American registry to the Pacific Mail steamship China. The screw steamship of 940 tons was built in Glasgow in 1889 for D R MacGregor Co and last surveyed in San Francisco in February 1891. The terms mirror those used for City of Paris and City of New York but no speed or safety qualifiers are stated.
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Washington
Senate
Hiscock
Pacific Mail
China
Glasgow
Fairfield Scott Company
D. R. MacGregor & Co
San Francisco
Inman
City of
Paris
City of New York
Death of a rising young lawyer in Seattle links to Gale family
John P. Gale, once a city partner of his father William B. Gale, dies in Redlands Colorado. The younger Gale spent about five years in Seattle where he built a reputation as a leading lawyer and prominent citizen before his death.
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John P. Gale
William B. Gale
Redlands, Co
Seattle
Wash
Deaths in Redlands to Cambridge and New York
New England death notices list John P. Gale in Redlands aged 36 formerly of Boston and Seattle as well as William Irving Ellis 63 at Melrose James Hamilton 46 at Cambridge Sarah C. Nason widow of Joseph Nason 76 and Mary J Sanborn 58 both Cambridge Florence Wellington wife of William Witter New York aged unknown Caleb Murdock Wakefield 75 years 2 months 24 days with funeral Saturday at 1 pm from the house Aga Wellington noted in the city obituary.
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Gale
Redlands
Cal
John P. Gale
Boston
Seattle
Wash
Ellis
Melrose
William Irving Ellis
Hamilton
Cambridge
James Hamilton
Nason
New York
Sarah C
Joseph Nason
Sanborn
Mary J
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Cape Cod Ski Canal Company
Frank K. Foster
George H. Fernald
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
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Cape Cod Ship Canal
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Robert C. Nichols
New York & New England Railroad Company
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L.G. Newman
Michael C. Sullivan
G. Newman
Officers OF Society OF Arts
Missionary Training School
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Post
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Fortress Monroe
BOARD
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Boston Loan CO
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Alan Gold
Ilson Ros
Tremont Row
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Lester & Williams
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Williams
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Boston Postoffice
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America
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Mr. Charles Frohman
A. Bisson and
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John Needhaws
Joseph Hatton
A. M. Palmer
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Boston Museum
Annie M. Clarke
Annie Clarke
Boston M Ncent
Boston Baseball Grounds
Brooklyn
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Howard Atheneum
WM. Harris
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Specialty& Athletic Company
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William Harris
Charles F. Atkinson
Louis Morrison
Robert Mantell
Austin & Stone
Tremont Scollay Row
Whitaker
Somers
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Stafford
Warren H. Whitaker
Maggie H.,somers
Dorchester
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N. Y
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Mass
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Luncklee
NEW Publications
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Worcester County
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Java
Etile
Geollay Square
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