Massachusetts Legislature exempts Spanish War veterans from civil service rules
The Legislature debated a bill to exempt veterans of the Spanish War from civil service limits, favoring Civil War veterans first. Proponents cited sacrifices and health concerns of Cuban service, while opponents argued merit should guide appointments. The bill passed the House with a decisive 1069 to 26 rising vote, and 127 yeas to 24 nays on roll call.
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Kane
Ward 6
Kelcher
Boston
Civil Service Commissioners
Lst
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Lowell
Army
Navy
Mr. Slayes
Sneaker
Traving
Committee On Military Affairs
Speaker
Santiago
Roosevelt
New York
Black
House
Hagberg
Worcester
el Caney
Tenth Cavalry
Woelan
Veymouth
Schofield
Malden
Commonwealth
Treoka
Orange
Fort Warren
Mellen
Beck and Regiment
Selfridge
Fitzgerald
Germany
Philippines
Paton
Leominster
J. J. McCarthy
Teosston
Davenport
Greenfield
Marden
Stoneham
Donan's Ointment Promises Relief for Delicate Skin
A brief notice urges use of Doan’s Ointment to treat skin discomfort. The ad claims it prevents suffering for children and fragile skin and notes availability at drug stores for 50 cents.
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Doan
Death on a Shaft at Continental Mill in Lewiston
A fatal accident occurred at the Continental Mill in Lewiston Missouri on May 12. Edgard Hayford a single man and son of Wil Hayford was killed when he became entangled on a shaft. The incident highlights dangerous working conditions at the facility and local authorities are investigating the circumstances.
Hollis Street Theatre Hosts Tech Institute Minstrels Show
The Hollis Street Theatre hosted a Tech Institute minstrels show presented by Technology students and the Athletic Association. Tickets sold out with standing room, featuring a Dusky ballet and a satire on Romeo and Juliet, with a large cast including Uncle Rastus Jones and Lorinda Lillie Jones.
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Hollis Street
Athletic Association
Institute
Jone
Back Bay
Tech Minstrels End in Military Theatrics at Parktown
A Boston theater event at Parktown features a fatal accident at Continental cotton mill when 25 year old PTE Eebbeb Hayford is killed by a belt pulley. The program mixes minstrel scenes with a blackface ballet and songs by Worley and Foote, drawing strong local support and fundraising for the institute’s athletics.
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Hayford
Whee
Bey
Baliet
WP Davis
Arthur Foote
Arthur W. Thayer
Harry G. Johnson
Lewis Emery
Derby
Mirash
Mr. Rand
Ralph Plumb
Mortimer Bristol Foster
Arthur Harold Sawyer
Charles van Merrick
Alien Winter Rowe
Tarry Lamar Grant
George Irving Cross
Burton Stedman Clark
Frederick Roy Cy. Bond
John Stanard Bronson
Mr. Johnson
Ann
Wiiza
Fr.i. Grant
Parktown
Careline
Darktown
Milly
Cnidet Corps
Confederate Veterans Oppose McKinley Graves Plan
Charleston S C May 12 The Confederate veterans in session reject the idea that the national government should take over Confederate graves, arguing the South should tend its own dead despite appreciating the offer.
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Charleston
McKinley
South
State Arbitration Board Meets in Lowell to Seek Strike Settlement
The State Board of Arbitration arrived in Lowell to mediate a strike by moulders at Nichols Eagle Foundry Union Iron Foundry and Peavy Bros. The workers demand a minimum wage of $2.50 daily. employers did not attend while workers presented their case at the Richardson House.
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Lowell
State Board of Arbitration
Richardson House
Albert F. Nichols
Eagle Foundry Company
Union Iron Foundry
Peavy Bros
Marchand Telegram Confirms Explorer Alive at Jibatil
Paris May 12 The government received a telegram from Major Marchand the French explorer stating he will reach Jibatil on the Gulf of Aden by the 17th of the month He recommends several officers for advancement due to bravery The telegram ends rumors of his death.
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Paris
Marchand
Jibatil
Gulf of Aden
Mrs Choate Opens London Charity Art Exhibition
Mrs Joseph H Choate wife of the American ambassador officiated at Cromwell House London inaugurating an amateur art show. Joseph H Choate Jr accompanied his mother as the event drew a distinguished society audience. Proceeds go to charity.
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London
Joseph JH. Choate
United States
Cromwell House
Joseph H., Choate
Juliet and Angelica Publish Quixotic Rejuvenation Claim
The fragment mentions Juliet yawning and claiming to feel 39, with Angelica joking about rejuvenation methods. The line appears in a Chicago News item, though the text is garbled and lacks a clear event or source details.
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Juliet
Angelica
Chicago News
Sare
Distressing stomach disease cured by south American remedy
A sensational patent medicine claim advertises a cure for stomach disease and indigestion. The piece asserts the tonic works from the first dose and promises permanent relief, marketed by GEO. C. GOODWIN Co. in Boston with location details and broad worldwide appeal.
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Neryine Toni
Inne Fou
GEO. C, Goodwin Co
Taneyver Ét
Boston
The Columbia to close season with major theatre changes
The Columbia will close its season tonight marking the end of R M Gulick Co management in Boston. Upon September the theatre will reopen as a larger foreign type music hall with alterations already starting. Ta Gay Pares will appear at the Hollis and Julia Arthur headlines at the Tremont along with other season plans and farewells across Boston venues.
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Columbia
Boston
Messrs. R. M. Gulick & Co
New York Casino
Hollis
Minnie Ashley
Beacon Hill
Tremont
Julia Arthur
New Haven
Virginia Harned
E. H. Sothern
New York
Nantasket Beach
Nantasket Hotel
Lizzie B. Raymond
E. D. Price
Manhattan Theatre
E Europe
Brady
Ziegfeld
Mr. Smooth
The
Park Theatre
Willie Collier
Mexico
I. i. Sothern
Hollis Street Theatre
Sos wEertten
Mr. Sothers
Abby Sage Richardson
Grace Livingstone Furniss
Cumberland
Castle Square
Hoyt
Messrs
George Richards
Eugene Canfield
George Ober
George W. Wilson
Grand Opera House
Wilson
Atone
Toondon
Tremont Theatre
Messrs. Barnet and Thompson
Sam
Rm, Gulick & Co
Viola Allen
Christian
the Couristan
Unitarian
Vicinity
Bowdoin Square
Papinti
Weith
Rose Melville
Sis Hopkins
Cohansin
Belle Davis
Octoroons
the Monard
Gus Hill
Gay Masqueraders Burlesque Company
Jess Dandy
Randal
Blanca
Naples
Austin& Stone's
Myrtle Fern
Chicago
Nickelodeon
the Turtle
Three Dragoons
Charles J. Rich
Hollis Street
Andrew Mack
Rohans
Maude Adams
Sousa
Boston Theatre
Maud Reese Davies
Dorothy Hoyle
Maron
Hermanns
E Eugene Tompkins
Leon
Adelaide
Julia Arthur's Juliet at the Boston Theatre Next Week
Julia Arthur brings a grand Shaksperian production of Romeo and Juliet to Boston Theatre beginning Monday. Demand and advance sales surpass any other season attraction except grand opera. Arthur has invested in top scenic artists and Mme Freisinger of the Metropolitan Opera House for costumes, promising unequalled design and atmosphere.
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Julia Arthur
Boston Theatre
Boston
Juliet
Miss Arthur
Mme. Freisinger
Metropolitan Opera House
Marguerite Lemon Emerges as Boston Dragoons Star
The Boston Theatre prima donna Marguerite Lemon, playing Dona Inez de Lara in The Three Dragoons, discusses her age and rapid rise. Her brief yet brilliant career spans church choir, Shamus O’Brien, Gesha, and Broadway Opera, with plans to study grand opera in London and Paris before a future return to Boston.
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Marguerite Lemon
Dona Inez de Lara
Boston
Miss Lemon
O Mimosa San
Broadway Theatre Opera Company
The
Three Dragoons
Moss Lemon
London
McCormick
Paris
Erand Opera
Opera Comique
Sands
East Boston Cadets Band Headlines Tremont Theatre Concert
Tomorrow evening at the Tremont Theatre the East Boston Cadets Band will stage an elaborate program with about twenty five artists, many from local theatres. Support comes from the Elks Knights of Columbus A O H Foresters and other fraternities. Notable names include Miss Mabel Moyrill of Maine soprano the Petts children Miss May Strong Mrs i FB Driscoll John J. Agnew Quianne Darrell Henry Waite and Sheehan and Sheehen of New York.
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Tremont Theatre
East Boston Cadets Band
Elks
Knights of Columbus
A. O. H. Foresters
East Boston
Mabel Moyrill
Maine
Petts
May Strong
Mrs. i
FB . Driscoll
John J. Agnew
Quianne Darrell
Henry T. Waite
Sheehan and Sheehen
New York
Carnegie Gift Acceptance by Birmingham University
At a Birmingham University committee meeting on May 12 the body accepted Mr. Carnegie’s offer of 259000 for the university. Public thanks were given to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and to an anonymous donor who contributed 187599.
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Birmingham
England
Birmingham University
Carnegie
Joseph Chamberlain
Corset Steel Saves Her In Milwaukee Shooting
George Hinkley a barber at the Plankinton House shot Miss Bertha Krueger and then killed himself. The corset steel deflected the first bullet and the woman escaped with only a flesh wound, the tragedy arising from a love affair in Milwacker Wisconsin.
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Milwacker
Wis
George Hinkley
Plankinton House
Bertha Krueger
Diamond mining in Brazil described by Minister Bryan
The State Department reports from Petropolis Brazil by Minister Bryan detailing diamond mining history and operations. He notes only one scientifically designed plant in the country, equipped with American machinery.
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Washington
State Department
Bryan
Petropolis
Brazil
East Boston License Refused for Prospero Astrella & Co
The East Boston Police Board refused to re issue a first and fourth class license to Prospero Astrella & Co at the Saratoga and Fort streets corner. The firm had held a license from last December that covered until May 1 this year, a period costing as much as if granted a year earlier. A well known lawyer reportedly received a large fee for pushing the winter application before the board.
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Board of Police
Prospero Astrella & Co
Saratoga and
Fort Streets
Boston
Army Navy Tablets Promise Quick Cure for Dyspepsia
An old remedy claims to relieve dyspepsia and constipation with no griping. It advertises U S Army & Navy Tablets as vegetable and safe, priced at 10 cents per package of 12, with mail order from U S Army & Navy Tablet Co New York.
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U.S. Army & Navy
U. S. Army & Navy Tab
New York
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Morse
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Frank Lippitt Cady
James Lockermann Taylor
Coleman
Louise Emery
Pas de Troit
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Allen Winter Rowe
Anthony ‘Winfred Peters
Milton W. Hall
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Roger Wolcott
Julia Ward. Howe
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Kate Sanborn
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Henrys Pic Aear
Witham T. Sedgwick
Charles R. Cross
Arlo Bates
John TD. Junkle
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John P. Sutherland
Morton Prince
Haskett Derby
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J. Montgomery Sears
Robert Treat Paine, Jr
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Quincy. A. Shaw, Jr
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Messrs. M. S. Richmond
J. R. Morse
E. W. Emery
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