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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1887

Page

2

Water Gas Debate Overshadows Legislature Partial Session

The Senate adjourned after twenty minutes with the Beverly Farms bill postponed to Tuesday. The House debated water gas all day but refused to alter the current law by 46 to 48. A bill to regulate telephone rates on a sliding scale was reported and the Institute of Technology received a $100,000 appropriation.

Institute of Technology Senate House

Senate Morning Session Sets Ball for Beverly Farms Bill

The Senate met at 11 and adjourned after twenty minutes. The Beverly Farms incorporation bill was moved to Tuesday at 2 30 p m. Glines sought suspensions for the Lawrence Union street bridge financing but withdrew after Wilbur objected to debt limit concerns. The harbor line amendment for Mystic River Chelsea Creek passed to be engrossed. Other calendar items were disposed of with several bills and resolves accepted or inexpedient to legislate.

Senate Beverly Farms Senator Roads Glines Lawrence Union Street Wilbur Kimball Chelsea Mystic River Chelsea Creek Chelsea Bridge Meridian Street Bridge Merrimac House City of Holyoke Hull Street Railway Company Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science Board of Road Commissioners Quincy Owe McAuiliffe Hingham Committee On Mercantile Affairs Committee On Banks and Banking Committee On Banks Fitenburg,Cooperative Bank

Massachusetts House actions review and appropriations bill actions

The House debated amendments to the Public Statutes funding, approved incorporation for the Chicopee Falls Building Company, and pressed on with the Sunday bill while tabling a repeal report. It authorized land transfers for Fairhaven cemetery and a station for Old Colony railroad, considered tech institute grants with scholarships, and discussed labor and municipal rate reforms along with state printing and gas meter inspection proposals.

Wadlin Reading Massachusetts Teachers’ Association Ward Chicopee George S. Taylor Chicopee Falls Building Company Teele Supreme Court Taft Palmer Judiciary Committee Fairhaven Old Cemetery Old Colony Committee On Education Institute of Technology Board of Education Labor Committee John M. Barry Messrs. Gunn and Sillars Boston Typographical Union Hathorne Boston Committee On Mercantile Affairs Post Lenox Senate Committee On Manufactures Messrs. Post, Smith Athol Linton Cottage City Messrs. Morey Lowell Hallett Nantucket Collison Yeas Joint Committee On the Judiciary

Massachusetts Legislature Deliberates On Health Board Abuse and Stock Trades

The House and Senate consider petitions and bills addressing alleged acts by state health officials in 1883, bans on bucket shops, costs on an award for E C Hawkes, closing licensed saloons on holidays, prison aid for discharged prisoners, Newton Club incorporation, land loans for parks, and Massachusetts School for the Feeble minded land purchase. A senate report deems naturalization voter registration reforms inexpedient.

L. C. Pennell State Board of Health Committee On E. C. Hawkes General Court H. W. Wilder Commissioners of Prisons Newton Club of Newton Boston Carney Hospital Massachusetts School Senate Cohasset Harbor Committee On Election Laws

Canadian Public Men

A portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald as Dominion leader with allies Sir Charles Tupper Sir Hector Langevin and Thomas White among the key Conservatives. It notes Macdonald’s long career with Confederation Pacific scandal and possible elevation to the peerage, and previews Tupper’s likely succession and Langevin’s role.

Dominion Sir John A. Macdonald Confederation Canada Pacific Railway Sir John Ontario Kingston Ont Disraeli John England Lord Beaconsfield Primrose Club Charles Tupper Sir Charles Joseph Howe Tupper New Brunswick Upper Tilley Fredericton WP Cee Hector Langevin Hector Thomas White Montreal Montreal Gazette Macdonald Gazette George E. Foster Sussex N. B Kings University of New Brunswick Ottawa Foster Conservative Party Canada Charles Tapper

Death at City Hospital No Foul Play Suspected

William Makin of Bacon's wood yard collapsed at Harrison avenue and South May street. John Sweeney witnessed the fall and found him unconscious after a head strike. Makin died at City Hospital with colleagues Lucey Heane Flott and Gorman assisting him.

William Makin City Hospital Makin Bacon’s Wood Yard Harrison Avenue John Sweeney South May Street Sweeney Daniel Lucey Neponset Michael J. Heane Decatur Street Thomas Flott Norwich Street Robert Gorman

Harvard Senior Crew Wins Boat Race Amid Cheers

The Harvard Senior Crew defeated the sophomore crew in a tight race near Longwood bridge and Union boat house. The finish came around 5 30 with the lead changing until 87 89 and 90 dueled for third. Time was about 10 minutes 56 seconds with Knapp Remington Knowles Coolidge Fiske Mumford Burgess Alexander captain Forcheimer in the winning boat.

Longwood Bridge Union Boat House River Street Eaton William Sprague J. J. Storrow Messrs J. T. Lee H. B. Cabot Knapp Remington Knowles Coolidge Fiske Mumford Burgess Alexander Forcheimer

Fitchburg Terminal Lands In Charlestown Public Land Grab

The Fitchburg Railroad seeks $1.566 million in taxable property for terminal facilities in Charlestown. The largest block, $1.1638 million, is mainly Hoosac Dock and Elevator Co property now absorbed by Fitchburg. An estimated 808 voters would lose their homes under the plan.

Fitchburg Railroad Company Charlestown Hoosac Dock and Elevator Company Fitchburg Tudor Company Cunningham Heirs The

Poison and pure whiskey praised as health safeguard

The Sanitary News cites Dr Charles Smart comparing typhoid death rates in New Orleans and Philadelphia to argue water as the disease medium. It extols Duffy's Malt Whiskey as pure medicine, claiming it kills germs when mixed with water, aids digestion, and promotes health according to doctors and an English Board of Examiners report.

the Sanitary News Charles Smart U.S.A New Orleans Philadelphia Sanitary News Duffy Board of Examiners

Graves and Sons Promoting Pure Whiskey Brand in Boston

The firm pledges best efforts to retain and increase its reputation for offering the public pure whiskey through the drug and grocery trade under the G. O. Taylor brand. The company name appears on each label and on every bottle cork. Unbranded cases shipped on request.

G. O. Taylor Chester H. Graves & Sons Boston

Boston Liquor License Notices From May 1887 Public Statutes

Public notices from Boston boards dated May 13 and 18 1887 announce applications to sell intoxicating liquors by various license types in multiple addresses across Boston. Applicants include Benjamin F Millward Mary J Goodwin Thomas Devlin Mary Driscoll Charles W Gurney William Jackson Patrick Costello and Hiram I Young with details on class location and premises.

Board of Pelice Boston James P. A. Higgins Leverett Street F. C. Irving Board OF Police Margaret Sheehan Broad Street Fr. C. Irving Board of Porter F.C. Irving Board of Potter Gustav FE. Ziegler Court Square Boanp John FI Moran Clinton Street C. Irving Board of Poitier Michael «S, Flatley North Street A. Gove & CO Channey Street Yald Building Board of Pource Chanter GEO. C. Goodwin & CO Hanover Street William Butler East Eighth Street Board OF Polick Edward Jd. McElroy East Sixth Street Edward J. McElroy Seaside House Beanpo George Grant Sixth Streets Grant House I C. Irving Benjamin F. Millward Q Street Beach House K. C. Irving Board of Portee Corner Street Poarl Mary J. Goodwin Eighth Street H Street BOARD OF Po_Lier Thomas Devlin West Broadway Mary Driscoll West Fourth Street Board OF Pollice Charles W. Gurney Washington Street Harvard Place Board OF Porick Starvard Place James F. Crowley Dorchester Avenue D. C Boanupor Pe Tce William Jackson Lincoln Street B. C F. ¢. Irving William Finnegan Commercial Street FF. C. Irving Board OF Poxnice Patrick Costello Belmont Street C. D Booramd Hiram Lb. Young Border Street E. B Lipston Maria L. Killion Cottage Street Beacon Street Alonzo Dexter Horace Shepard Walstein R. Chester Suffolk George E. Bales South Boston Pekin Street Bateman Place Pekin Seventh Street N Street Brackett & Roberts Congress Atreet S. R. Knights & Co Tremont Foundry Ruggles St Chas. P. Greenough Charles FE. Raymond Samuel G. Snelling

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