New cattle board bill advances while labor and canal plans loom
The House votes 94 to 12 to read again the bill creating a cattle commission and tightening tuberculin law. debate touches milk from uninspected cows and public health. Separate measures pass or fail on railroad gate requirements, contract abolitions, and a Cape Cod canal charter with detailed financials and prior charters cited.
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Smith
Waltham
Bennett
Saugus
Severance
Shelburne
Cattle Commission
Sr. Norton
Rehoboth
Boylston
Princeton
Fitchburg
Messrs. Tolman
Pittsfield
J. J. McCarthy
Boston
Haskins
Rockport
Yolman
Carey
Haverhill
Cullinane
Lawrence
Robert Salmon
New Bedford
Fairhaven
Chamberlain
Plymouth
George
Essex
Middlesex
Washburn
Worcester
International Construction Company
Joy
Reed
Committee On Railroads
Douglas, Milbury & Sutton
Whittlesey
Berkshire
Olympia to Dock in Boston for Refitting at Navy Yard
Officials at the navy yard announce the Olympia Dewey's flagship will arrive for repair and refitting after returning home. Secretary Long and Chief Constructors Hichborn Feaster Baxter confirm the plan, with Baxter to lead Olympia work before Feaster retires in August.
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Navy Yard
Olympia
Dewey
Long
Hichborn
Feaster
Baxter
New York
Charlestown Yard
League Island
Vicksburg
Bosun
BE. A. Anderson
Marblehead
Portsmouth
Alvarado
Sandoval
Newport
F.T. Evans
Berkshire & Canaan Street Railway Bill Moves Amid Debates
The House considers a motion and passes the Berkshire and Canaan Street Railway Company incorporation bill with no debate. The session suspends rules to admit a Tyner petition for Holyoke Public Library property worth $500,000 and a Parsons resolve for $5,000 for the Westield practice school building.
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Berkshire & Canaan Street Railway Company
Tyner
Hampden
Holyoke
House passes stronger anti trust bill in Texas
A private telegram from Austin reports the House of Representatives passed the anti trust bill last evening, as did the Senate. The measure is more drastic than the Arkansas law and includes Arkansas fire and life insurance provisions. It also aims to break up the Associated News Trust in Texas.
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Dallas
Tex
Austin
House of Representatives
Senate
Associated News Trust
Texas
Forms of Apparitions in West Africa Presented
The American branch of the Society for Psychical Research met at Allston Hall with many members and friends present. President H P Bowditch presided as Richard Hodgson read Miss Mary H Kingsley’s paper on The Forms of Apparitions in West Africa.
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Society For Psychical Research
Allston Hall
H. P. Bowditeh
West Africa
Mary H. Kingsley
Richard Hodgson
Hostess Prepares Surprises For Cradley Martins Farewell Dinner
INIOW YORK May 19 The Cradley Martins plan a farewell dinner at the Waldorf Astoria next Tuesday with vaudeville and a grand supper. Rumors speak of a post dinner dance for younger guests and a lavish souvenir distribution. Mrs Bradley Martin, heiress to a $50 million fortune, and her husband will soon live in London with their grandson the future Earl of Craven, leaving New York for several years.
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INIOW
York
Cradley Martins
Waldorf-Astoria
Bradley Martin
Isaac Sherman
Martin
London
Countess of Craven
Earl of Craven
Mrs. Martin
Scottish Highlands
Bal-ma-Caan
Lord Craven
Cornelia Martin
Annual Panabe School Cadets Drill Parade on the Common
Governor Welcalt and Mayor Quincy review the 150 cadets of the High School Brigade in Boston. The annual parade showcased three regiments, with formation from English High and Boston Latin, marching at 10:10 under Colonel H. E. Pray amid cheers, flags, and propitious weather.
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Boston
Franklin Park
Montgomery Street
Clarendon Street
Columbus Avenue
Stone
H. E. Pray
L. Me Hallet
G. B. Tracy
W. D. Haven
C. A. Drake
A. L. Young
E. Hmerson
H. G. Cutler
G. D. F. Nickerson
Dorchester
Brighton
Thomas J. Ball
B. S
H. V. Ball
J. H. Lynch
W. RB. Wright
William G. Dunbar
Augustus IL. Rich
Boston Cadets Parade Through City Streets in 1899 Review
Regimental officers led cadets through Clarendon and Columbus streets to the Common with Mayor Quincy on the steps of City Hall and Governor Wolcott on the State House steps. The review included cadet inspection, a passage in review, and battalion parade marking a historic school event.
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Ards
B. L
C. Phipps
M. Hy
State
Washington
School
Beacon Streets
Washington Street
Quincy
Leary
City Hall
State House
Wolcott
Dalton
Carter
Coneverse
Bradley
Sohier
Jewett
Robbins
Sprague
Nelson A. Miles
Keith’s Biograph camera captures Wolcott at parade
Keith’s Biograph camera stationed on Beacon Street across from the State House photographed Governor Wolcott and staff reviewing the parade. His operators worked to ensure clear pictures of each regiment while Keith’s presence underscored his interest in the schoolboys. Pictures likely exhibited at Keith’s during the week of May 22.
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Bfef
Keith
Biograph
Beacon Street
State House
Governor Wolcott
Wolcott
Keith's
Elevator Death at Fall River Claims Branley
Royal D Branley 38 a laborer at D M Anthony pork works was killed instantly at 2 pm when an elevator fell at the plant He leaves a widow and two children.
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Fall River
Royal D. Branley
D. M
Anthony
Pork Works
Twelfth Evangelistic Association Conference in Park Street Church
The twelfth annual conference of pastors evangelists and business men under the Evangelistic Association of New England will be May 15 to 17 at Park Street Church. Sessions run forenoon afternoon and evening with speakers Rev Edward Judson Rev L B Bates Rev Alexander McKenzie Henry Varley and others. Monday evening features J M Dick with a stereopticon lecture on With the Masters using 15 lantern slides valued over 1000. Everyone is invited.
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Evangelistic Association
The
Evangelistic Associateion of
New Weneland
Park Street Church
Edward Judson
D. D
L. B. Bates
D. I
Alexander McKenzie
Henry Varley
J. A. Haines
S. Saford College
Howard L. Porter
J. M. Dick
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Panabe School
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