Cotton Picker plant in East Waco marks progress
The Cotton Picker factory in East Waco reports rapid growth as it concentrates on cotton picking machines. Since 1889 the invention has progressed from crude to highly refined, with a large factory workforce and payroll near the city’s top among manufacturers. The firm plans to expand shop capacity and produce many machines for the upcoming cotton season.
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Waco
Angus Campbell
East
Tex
Te Tentent Timelines and Merchant Holiday Proposal
A fragment indicates employees demand changes and a push for shorter workdays. Some support a coordinated plan among merchants in their lines. One proposal favors making Saturday a full holiday for all.
Boston Merchants Consider Summer Closing Hours
A survey of Boston retailers shows many plan to extend summer half-days and early closings adding 5 pm weekdays and 1 pm Saturdays. Firms like Jordan, Marsh & Co R H White Co Filene and others report past practice and possible continuation with varied hours from 1 to 6 pm for June to September.
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Boston
J. H. Rimgot
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Kramer
R. H. White & Co
Houghton & Dutton
Filene
W. H. Brine
Tremont Street
Butler
Remont Street
Simmons
A. Schuman & Co
Macallar, Parker & Co
Oliver Ditson & Co
John C. Haynes & Co
Secretary Foster Replies On Ellis Island Expenditures
Secretary Charles Foster answers Chandler and Stump on head money use for immigrant landing station at Ellis Island. He notes Attorney General's opinion, questions their wording, declines legal interpretation, affirms overall Treasury responsibility and calls the project well and wisely done.
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Ellis Island
Tsubmit
Kilis Island
the Treasury
Nettleton
Eacn
Charles Fostrer
From Prison to Banquet Ezra Heywood Released After Prison Term
Ezra H Heywood editor of the Word was freed from Charlestown State Prison after a July 1890 sentence for illegal mail use. A Quincy House banquet honored him with readers: Adams of Montreal presiding, letters from Lowe Davidson Bolles Coleman Pillsbury Meachum and others. Heywood praised his views on physiology and liberty while a $108 check arrived for his sister in law.
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Canadian Secular Society
Nehemiah Adams
Boston
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Universal Peace Society
Andrew Jackson Davidson
Ellen Bolles
Providence
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Syracuse
Parker Pillsbury
Concord
Ernest Meachum
Samuel P. Putnam
San Francisco
A. Gilbert
New England Institute of Heredity
Luce
Iowa
Messrs. Wilcox
McKenzie
Heywood
New York
E. B. Foote, Jr
The Cincinnati and St. Louis Special Opens May 15
The Boston and Albany railroad announces a daily May 15 start for a new Cincinnati and St. Louis Special. The line will use Wagner vestibuled buffet sleeping cars and promise two hours faster service to Cincinnati and St. Louis.
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Cincinnati and St. Louis
Boston
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Tanners propose total shutdown and 50 percent curtailment plan
A committee formed at a Thursday meeting drafted a paper declaring the signers intend an absolute shutdown for sixty days and a curtailment of production by 50 percent for four months. All committee members have signed the document.
Springfield Line Limited Sets New Boston New York Route
The finest train between Boston and New York is the Springfield Line limited leaving each city at 12 noon and arriving at 5 40 p m. It features drawing room cars and costs $6 including a drawing room seat.
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New York
New Boston Theatre Attractions Include Salvini and Mantell
Alexander Salvini opens his third week at Boston Theatre in Don Cesar de Bazan with new costumes and scenic effects. Robert Mantell heads to Bowdoin Square Theatre, featuring Monbars Corsican Brothers and two new pieces The Louisianian and Parrhasars with a strong company. The season also highlights Old Jed Prouty at Hollis Street and a busy Museum and Palace lineup with Parisian acts, dance troupes, and several special engagements.
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Boston Theatre
Robert Mantell
Boston
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Don Cesar de Bazan
D’ennery
Salvini
Charles
Don Ciesar
Colleen Bawn
Field
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Lamps Forld
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Granite cutters strike in Worcester yards for 34 cents an hour
May 13 Worcester granite cutters in all city yards quit work demanding thirty four cents an hour. About one hundred men involved. Yard owners vow to resist, warning concessions could cut off granite from New England quarries. Applicants seek seats on the Shore Line Flyer bound for New York next week, a parlor car train leaving Boston at 2 p.m.
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New York
Boston
the Post
Waterspout Tragedy Strikes Fuenfkirchen Mines
A massive waterspout tore through the area near the Fuenfkirchen collieries flooding mines and trapping miners. Twenty two dead in one pit with many others missing. rescue crews pump water while crowds gather, grieving relatives identify drowned workers.
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Herring Hall Marvin Company stock subscription opens May 16
The Herring Hall Marvin Company unites three leading safemaking firms Herring Co Marvin Safe and Hall Safe and Lock into a single entity with substantial assets and projected high returns. Subscription lists open Monday May 16 and close by Thursday May 19 with details in ads and the bankers prospectus.
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They Were Brave Men Reminisces from Leading Physicians
A compilation of quotes from eminent doctors in England and America praising Warner's Safe Cure. Dr Radcliff, Queen Anne’s physician, refuses to disturb the dying queen. Other physicians extol the cure’s effectiveness and safety, praising its virtues and independence. All honor to them.
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Scribner's Monthly
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Yale Spring Regatta Opens With Buck Upset In Single
Yale spring regatta prelims at Lake Whitney draw about a thousand spectators. Buck defeats Hodge in the single scull for the 6500 trophy cup, freshmen lead early but coxswain costs second crew, juniors favored for tomorrow class championship. Results: first heat Buck 9m 1.68s, freshmen first vs second crew 6m 50s, juniors beat sophomores by two lengths, second heat Strong 10m 13s.
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Baltimore Races Report With Fast Times
May 13 Baltimore races feature trotting and pacing events. Linkwood wins the 2:27 class trotting with Pansy second and Bay State third. Etta Wilkes of Providence fifth. Glendennis tops the 2:25 pacing, Rube Barrows second, Bud Doble third. best 2:23. Nellie Souther wins the 2:37 trotting with Favor Wilkes second and H. Clay third, while Hamlin’s Belle Hamlin and Globe drive a mile in 2:15. Myrtle Peek also enters a pacer for a mile.
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Races at Guttenberg Headline Field and Weights
Special to the Post from Guttenberg notes that tomorrow is the last day of entries with a large field expected. The article lists entries and weights carried by each entrant for the impending races.
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