Mayor Fitzgerald Replies to Critics of Street Repairs
The Boston mayor defends street repair funding and cooperation with business groups. He notes prior administrations borrowed more for streets and cites a debt table showing current costs are modest. He invites merchants, chamber and fruit exchange leaders to discuss street conditions and budgeting.
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Fitzgerald
Good Government Association
Boston
The
Merchants’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Fruit and Produce Exchange
Hart
McKenzie Beach
Dorchester Avenue
Bowdoin Street
Doyle's letter to mayor on street conditions and weather blame
Superintendent Doyle explains street conditions in Boston and blames weather and contractor guarantees for delays. He cites Boylston, Temple Place, Park Square, Massachusetts Avenue and surface issues, noting repairs and pending appropriations, guarantees, and legal steps to compel work. He outlines a 510 mile street control and 681000 plus 68000 in expenditures.
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John F. Fitzgerald
Poston
Boylston Street
Berkeley Street
Clarendon Street
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Temple Place
United States Paving Company
Edison Company
Union Paving Company
Park Square
Boston Transit Commission
Massachusetts Avenue
Tremont Street
Columbus Avenue
Universal Coupons Offer Free Premium Savings Plan
Universal coupons are promoted as valuable vouchers redeemable for merchandise. Denver era ad claims nationwide distribution via local firms in Boston and New England including Universal Coal Co and Shapleigh Coffee Co offering ten free coupons and a catalogue.
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Universal
Bromfield Street
Boston
New England
Universal Coal Co
Bromfield St
Shapleigh Coffee Co
Sterling and Victor Coffee
Eastern Salt Co
Logan & Johnson
Baker Extract Co
Bay State Milling Co
Wingola
Paul Manufacturing Co
Whittemore Bros. & Co
Elite
J. P. & D. Plummer
Green Mountain Packing. Co
Doyle's list of streets resurfaced in 1906 07
Doyle submits a detailed street department ledger listing streets resurfaced and constructed under the 1906 07 street improvements loan. The long roster names Arnold, Berkeley, Blue Hill, Bowdoin, Washington, Hancock, Morton, Shawmut, Warren, and many other avenues and streets with individual cost tallies for each segment.
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Beach St
Freeport
Beacon St
Newton Sig
Beech St
Poplar
Washington St
Belmont St
Bunker Hill St
Berkeley St
Columbus Ave
Tre- Wat
Star
St. James
Doyle
Arnold St
Shawmut E
W. Broadway
W. Third St
Ball” St
Esenusniny St
Shawmut
Blue Hill Ave
Washington
Esmond and Morton
Callender St
Bowdoin St
Geingien
Hancock
Boylston St
Brookline
Park- Brookline Ave
Audubon Road
Audubon Road (From 1905) Ee Eee Eek A. Brooks St., Bennington St
Sarato
Byron St
Pope
Saratoga
Carolina Ave
South St
St. Centre St
Paul Gore
Elot
Beach
Cheney St
Maple St
Elm Hill
Columbus
Walnut Ave
Jack Bot
Congress St
Fort Point Channel
N. Ho
H.R
Crawford St
Warren St
Humboldt
Dacia
Dove
Woodcliff
Dorchester Ave
Crescent Ave
Wy. Pitts
Albany
Adams St
Parkman
Ashmont St
Bowdoin Ave
Eldon St
Rosseter
First St
Fargo St
Coleridge St
Wordsworth
Short St
7Th St
Old Colony Ave
Brookline St
Ton St
Har- FB
Dedham St
W. Newton
Bseed
Essex St
Hancock Sq
Rutherford Ise
Eustis St
Albert Palmer
Evans St
Nelson To
Capen
Fisher Ave
Parker
Hayden
Fleet St
Hanover
Commercial St
Hawley St
Franklin
Hemenway St
Huntington Ave
Green St
Amory
Centre St
Hampden St
Island
Howard St
Harley St
Welles Ave
Roslin St
Harrison Ave
East Newton
East Brookline
Hartford St
Howard Mont St
Harvard St
Albany Sts
R. Bridge
Asplatehon Gas Elke Sea Eas
Gainsboro St
Longwood Ave
Hyde Park Ave
Ashland St
Hyde Park
I St
E. Ninth
WE “Ave
Erode
Ste Gia
Market St
N. Beacon
Eal Guarantina Ocala
Massachusetts Ave
Southampton St
Maxwell St
Nelson To Capen
Miller St
Lawrence St
Rutherford Pew
Monmouth St
Monument St
Mt. Hope St
Canterbury St
Ashland
Poplar St
Florence St
Harris
Freeport St
Park St
Neponset Tivol
Garden Court St
North Sq
REO Co Asec Mayas
Dartmouth St
R. James St
E. Brookline
K St
E. Sixth Sts
Ee- 10
Lewis St
Sumner St
Ferry
Lynn St
Thatcher
Cooper Sts
Madison St
Shawta
Columbia Road
Maverick St
Frankfort
Jeffries St
Moon St
Palmer St
Penfield
Belgr'de Ave
Birch
Asly Goa Eilace Ik Ora
Ace Ee
Oo Peter Parley
Forest Hills
Cae
Sargent
Hartie School
Bunker I
Albany St
Perrin St
Waverly
Moreland St
Springfield St
Alphonsus
Stoughton, St
Miss Harriet Burt Emerges in Boston Stage Career
Miss Harriet Burt, now with The Time the Place and the Girl, gained fame in several notable roles after starting as a chorus girl with the Rogers Brothers in Harvard. Born in Cleveland, she quickly rose on the stage due to her voice and presence, later starring in It Happened in Noordland with Lew Fields, The Prince of Pilsen with Henry W. Savage, and the Louisiana spectacle during the St. Louis exposition.
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Harriet Burt
Boston
Rogers Brothers
Harvard
Cleveland
Noordland
Lew Fields
Henry W. Savage
New York
Miss Burt
St. Louis
Louisiana
Miss Electricity Shines in The Time Place and the Girl
The article notes Miss Electricity’s fifth year on stage and multiple hits, including a notable performance in The Time, the Place and the Girl at the Tremont Theatre, praised by Bostonians as her best work to date.
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Miss Electricity
Tremont Theatre
Richard Mansfield Sails for Europe
New York May 12 Richard Mansfield who earlier left his theatrical tour due to illness sailed for Europe on the steamer Minneapolis today. He is said to look much improved in health.
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New York
Richard Mansfield
Europe
Minneapolis
Gilchrist Company Celebration Marks Expansion in Boston
The Gilchrist Company commemorates a year since the Washington and Winter streets corner opened its latest addition. The Daylight Store showcases new departments, expanded space, and enhanced service with ample facilities while reaffirming the firm motto expansion and betterment and the policy of value and price.
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Gilchrist Company
Washington and
Winter Streets
Winter Street
George Turnbull & Co
Churchill & Watson Company
Gilchrist
Churchill, Gilchrist & Smith
R. & J. Gilchrist
Gilchrist & Co
Boston
Washington Street
New England
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Senorita Huidobro Presents The Christ of the Andes
Senorita Carolina Huidobro of Boston spoke at the Boston Young Men's Christian Union on The Christ of the Andes. Her talk featured stereoscopic views of Argentina and Chile and described the statue high in the mountains as a pledge of peace between the two nations. Mrs Christine Brown Wheeler led the hymn The Christ of the Andes and sang Disarm.
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Senorita
Carolina Huidobro
Boston
Chili
Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
Argentine
Chile
Christine Brown Wheeler
Andes
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New York State
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Peasy
Loncorn
Steass
Parker and Stington Ave
Wrachinetan
Nia Mnan
Strathmore Rd
Conglewood
Sutherland Rd
Commonwealth
En- Glen Wood
Este Tees
Talbot Ave
Dor- Chester
Ieee
Tonawanda St
Geva Ave
Green- Meretees
Vermont St
Temple
Lagrange
Wales St
Copeland St
Dudley
Moreland
Allston St
Euclid
Amandine
Townsend
Morton
Walk Hill
Milk Sts
Arnold
Eustis
Talbot Waumbeck
Warren
Wabe
Waverly St
Blue Hill
Warren Biya
Weld St
Corey
Aes St
Talbot
Wood At
Main
High
Ooo
W. 5Th St
D St
Dorchester St
Wenham St
Wela Hill
White St
Trenton
Meridian
Eee
Dorches
Ereee Court House
Franklin Union
Seres Eaenree
Charles River
Stony Brook
Esses South Union Station
Reep Seeres
Aesee
Igenti
Sean Oe
Evreom
New General Register
Ljeeeree
Erea
Tacle Island
Massachusetts
Clinton Market
City
Murillo
Mrs. Talcott
the Tremont
Senorita Huidobro
Christ OF the
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