The Woman Reporter in Boston Society and Power
Amy Robsart surveys women in journalism across clubs, offices, and political hubs. She recounts encounters with Colonel Coveney, Henry Cabot Lodge, Governor Russell, Mayor Matthews, Sir Edwin Arnold, Dr. Everett, and others, noting varied receptions from cordial to wary, yet overall acceptance of women reporters in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newspaper Row
Colonel Coveney
Boston
Henry Cabot Lodge
Beacon Street
School Street
Tremont
Mr. Lodge
Mayor Matthews
Governor Russell
Brattle and
Channing Streets
Cambridge
Swan
Speaker Barrett
Barrett
Advertiser
Sir Edwin Arnold
Parker House
Nabobs
Sir Edwin
William Everett
Everett
Quincy
Cunarder Cephalonia Arrives From Liverpool
The Cunard liner Cephalonia under Captain Seecombe has arrived from Liverpool. The saloon passenger list includes D F Anderson J McMillan Ayer H S Ball Benjamin G B Bennett E K Booth J E Caceia J T Coolidge Jr C H Dow J C Drury E Eberly Samuel Morrell Gordon Morrell F Gordon Morrell Mrs Morrell W H Myers W Preston Mrs Preston E P Richardson Richardson C Rodgers B Rodgers Gorham Rogers E L Rogers Don F A Y Silva Gertrude Lise Slater P B Smith M M Smith Goodwin Birkbeck Hill Mrs Birkbeck Hill Horstock Edmund Jenner E C Jones Gilbert Kapp Lee Longcake S S Lowther F N Stackpole M W B Stoddard Nora F Sullivan M L Sumner A F Sumner W E Whineray Eva White W T Whitman W B Wise
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Cephalonia
Seecombe
Cunard Line
Liverpool
D. F. Anderson
J. McMillan Ayer
H. S. Ball
Benjamin
G. B. Bennett
E. K. Booth
J. E. Caceia
J. T. Coolidge, Jr
C. H. Dow
J. C. Drury
E. Eberly
Samuel Morrell
Gordon Morrell
F. Gordon Morrell
Morrell
W. H. Myers
W. Preston
Preston
E. P. Richardson
Mr. Richardson
C. Rodgers
B. Rodgers
Gorham Rogers
E. L. Rogers
Don F. A. Y. Silva
Nora F. Sullivan
M.L. Sumner
A. F. Sumner
W. E. Whineray
Eva White
W. T. Whitman
W. B. Wise
Disturbing the Peace Arrests In South Boston Couple
Delia Boyle of 400 West Second street South Boston was arrested yesterday for disturbing the peace by Patrolman Mann of Station 6. Her husband J Boyle was jailed the night before for drunkenness but released as a first offender. Returning home he was barred out by Delia and Patsy OBrien and assaulted by both. Delia and Patsy face assault and battery charges this morning.
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Delia Boyle
West Second Street
Boston
Mann
Station 6
J. Boyle
Patsy O’brien
Patsy
Delia
Haverhill Sees Record Night of Drunkenness and Gambling
In Haverhill on Saturday night a historic surge of intoxicated men overwhelmed the police. Thirty-three intoxicated individuals and sixteen gamblers were jailed, tracing to multiple cities. City Marshal Dole declares no leniency and promises full enforcement of laws against drunkards and gamblers.
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Haverhill
Bacehus
Lawrence
Heading
Nor Andover
Salem
Boston
Mass
West Concord
N. H
Dole
Big blaze destroys Brown & Douglass block in Tyler
Fire yesterday wiped out the Brown & Douglass block in Tyler. Loss set at 50,000 with 30,000 insured. Buildings housed Brown & Douglass general merchandise Gaston & Patterson general merchandise Mrs. Kelly and Miss Johnston and Edwards millinery. No further details provided.
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Tyler
Tex
Brown & Douglass
General Merchandise
Gaston & Patterson
Kelly
War Renewed as Labor Unions Clash Over Pfaff Boycott
Central Labor Union reaffirms boycott of Pfaff's brewery products in a widening rift with the Knights of Labor. Boston cigar makers press to curb New York tenement-house cigars, seeking to end low-paid foreign labor, or push New York firms out of Boston. Committees report on free baths, ship Enterprise crew issues, shorter hours for retail clothing salesmen, and a nine hour talk at Greystone Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Pfaff
Central Labor Union
Boston
New England
New York
S. Ottenburg & Bros
George Vaughn
Board of Police
Atlantic Coast Seamen’s Union
Enterprise
Boston Waiters’ Alliance
D. P. Nichols & Co
C. Russ & Co
Greystone Hall
Anderson
International Brass Workers’ Union
Frank K. Foster
Museum of Fine Arts
Tracey
Indignation Meeting at Shawmut Church in Boston
The Massachusetts Sunday Protective League held a meeting at Shawmut Church to denounce Chicago World’s Fair Sunday opening. Speakers included Congressman Elijah Morse and Ex Mayor Hall of Cambridge who urged Sabbath observance and legal action to close the fair on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Sunday Protective League
Shawmut Church
Brookline
Tremont Streets
Elijah Morse
Shawmut
W. B. Barton
Congressman Morse
Chicago
Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Harrison
Dublin
Berlin
Congress of the
United States
America
Boston
Old Boston
A. J. Gordon
Wilbur F. Crafts
Massachusetts
Olney
New England
Cleveland
Building Laborers Union 6 Votes to Stand by Contract
A meeting at 45 Eliot Street discussed Local Union 15’s demand for 30 cents an hour. Union 6 voted to reject involvement in the movement, noting a current contract with Master Builders and intent to honor it. Fifteen new members were initiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building Laborers’ Union 6
Eliot Street
Union 15
Bakers Plan Torchlight Procession After Meeting
Local Union 4 members at 45 Eliot Street voted to organize trade action and hold a public meeting and torchlight procession next Saturday evening to press demands on the bosses.
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Union 4
Eliot Street
Union Meeting Plans July National Convention in New York
In lower Columbus Hall yesterday morning United Garment Workers Local Union No 1 discussed trade labels and voted to attend the National Association convention in New York in July. The executive board reported it had reemployed a member previously refused work by bosses for union connections.
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Lower
Columbus Hall
United Garment Workers
National Association
New York
Knights of Labor denounce Pfaff brewery boycott
Dexter Hall hosts Local Assembly No. 479 water works employees as State Master Workman P C Kelley speaks against the Central Labor Union boycott on Pfaff's beer. The group votes to back the stance and plans an August picnic at Highland Lake Grove to be the largest yet.
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Dexter Hall
Assembly of Knights of Labor No
P. C. Kelley
Central Labor Union
Pfaff
Knights of Labor
Highland Lake Grove
Strike Ends Nine Hour Day Move After Big Boiler Makers
The strike by boiler makers ends with workers returning to posts on nine hour days. A large Pressmen's Hall meeting approved the report from the strike committee and set August 14 for a Lake Walden Grove picnic at Concord. President P J Murray was elected delegate to the international union convention in Chicago and will depart next Thursday. Twenty five new members were initiated.
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Pressmen's Hall
Lake Walden Grove
Concord
P. J. Murray
International Union
Chicago
Wirdy
Stonemasons Union Seeks Unity at Carroll Hall Meeting
The Practical Stonemasons' Union in this city met at Carroll Hall yesterday to discuss uniting the two factions and harmonizing the trade, aiming to strengthen the craft and improve collective action.
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Practical Stonemasons’ Union
Carroll Hall
Settlement Hinted After Union Committee Meeting
A committee appointed a week ago to confer with a similar group from the other union reported that it looks very much like a settlement of all old troubles will result. The report suggests progress toward resolving longstanding disputes between unions.
Whiskey Death After Saloon Drink Ends Italian Woman
An Italian woman dies from acute alcoholic poisoning after a saloon drink given via a dipper at Portland street. Her husband, Diorato Colaresso, and bartender William J. Lyons are involved. Lyons is arrested but deemed not criminally liable due to lack of intent. the husband recovers after a painful illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Nevins Blaine
William T. Bull
New York
Blaine
Diorato Colaresso
Mary
Portland Street
William J. Lyons
Lyons
Portland
Sudbury Streets
Harvey
Elliott
Women’s Department
Tombs
City Hospital
Watts
Rossato
Draper
Burrill
Tremont Temple Sunday School Celebrates 29th Anniversary
A solid Sunday school celebration fills Music Hall for Tremont Temple as sixty two classes and eighty officers teach 1225 scholars, totaling 1305 in the Sabbath school. Miss Alice Bailey sings, A. C. Boyd conducts, with Thomas's Cambridge Orchestra and Temple Choral Union assisting.
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Music Hall
Tremont Temple Sunday School
Alice Bailey
A. C. Boyd
Thomas
Cambridge Orchestra
Temple Choral Union
Evangelist Dunnett to Lead Week of Bromfield Park Street Meetings
The Rev Walter A Dunnett a Canadian singing evangelist conducts noon meetings at Bromfield Street Church this week with Park Street Church services Tuesday and Wednesday at noon for the Evangelistic Association of New England annual conference. Blind singers Mr and Mrs W V Baker give solos at all services until further notice.
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Walter A. Dunnett
Bromfield Street Church
Park Street Church
The
Evangelistic Association of New England
W. V. Baker
Careless shooter endangers Kernwood window vase
In Salem on May 21 a 44 calibre bullet from the river shore glanced off a rock, shattered a stained glass window at Endicott Peabody's Kernwood residence and broke a valuable vase. Police traced the ball’s path across the Danvers River and believe the shot came from the opposite bank. Mrs Peabody had stood at the window moments before.
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Salem
Danvers
Endicott Peabody
Kernwood
Pacific steamer reports on Japan unrest and Japan missions
From San Francisco May 21 the City of Rio Janeiro reports Madrid’s claim of Pelow Island seizure by Japan is baseless. Fire at Togomura, Japan, on May 1 destroyed 122 buildings and three temples after five hours. Violent anti missionary acts emerge in Japan with assaults on Catholic mission children near Ozakas. Nine Japanese men taunt the procession. one sister strangled and beaten. police arrest ringleaders. Other incidents include attackers at Chiebbsin flexing knives on rescuers and a Christian teacher beaten. magistrates ignore pleas and underlings revile Christians.
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San Francisco
Rio Janeiro
Yokohama
Madrid
Japan
Pelow Island
North Pacific
Spain
Togomura
Ozakas
Chiebbsin
Begnal
Jentsun
Medical Examiner George W. Snow Dies in Newburyport
George W. Snow, Medical Examiner for the district and long time Essex North Medical Society secretary, died in Newburyport at age 84 after a two day illness from heart trouble. Born October 1836 in Chelsea, he served in the Civil War, commanded hospitals of the Ninth Army Corps, and practiced medicine here since 1866. He leaves a widow and one son.
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Newburyport
George W. Snow
Chelsea
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
United States Army
Ninth Army Corps
Loyal Legion
Royal Arcanum
Grand Army of the Republic
Essex North Medical Society
Gas accident finds man at Quincy works
At about seven this evening Benjamin Bass aged around fifty was found unconscious in a room at the Citizens' Gas Light Company works in Quincy A rubber tube lay near his head connected to an open gas pipe cock He was moved to City Hospital and remained unconscious though resting comfortably Doctors deem the incident an accident and ongoing inquiry is unlikely
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Quincy
Benjamin Bass
Citizens’ Gas Light Company
Portsmith man James M. Rundlett Found Dead in Outbuilding
Portsmouth New Hampshire May 21 Saturday night the body of James M. Rundlett was found in an outbuilding on South School street. An inquest by Coroner Rider and Medical Examiner Hefflinger determined death from heart failure. Rundlett aged 68 was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of Stover Post G A R. He was among early California pioneers leaving Portsmouth in 1849.
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Portsmouth
N. H
James M. Rundlett
South School Street
Rider
Hefflinger
Stover Post
Rundlett
California
Taunton Liquor Dealers in Trouble
Taunton authorities raided seven unlicensed liquor outlets Saturday night and Sunday morning, gathering evidence against six dealers in a crackdown on illegal sales.
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Taunton
Fire Damages Hurlburt Paper Mills in Lee Area
Great Barrington May 21 The stock in the stock rooms of the Hurlburt Paper Company at South Lee was damaged last night by fire and water amounting to 25000. The blaze originated in the attic and was ruled incendiary with a third attempted arson on the mills.
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Great Barrington
Hurlburt Paper Company
South Lee
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Amy Robsart
Dr. Everett
Henry M. Whitney
West End Street Railway
William F. Warren
Warren
Boston University
Cambridgeport
Clark
Eldredge
William Henry Brooks
Donald
Trinity
Patrick Donahoe
General Bridges
Charlestown
Scott
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
Cunarder Cephalonia
Texas
Harie Nevins Blaine
Crime E
Baec le Ae
Morse
William Tillinghast Bull
Dr. Bull
Newport
R. C
Henry Bull
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Bull Street
Bull
Harvard
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Europe
Hall
Drs. Little, Gordon and Crafts
Faith In Olney
Samuel W. Clifford
Maynard Fr. Stiles
Court Street
Post
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Rrap
Devonshire St
Landaus
Broughams
Goddard
Henry Killam O
Col. Stamford and
Merrimac Sts
Lowell Depot
DR. Schenck
Dre Schenck
J. MH. Schenck
Salvator Beer
Burkhardt Brewing Co. Bottling Dept
Hallock Street
Tel
Rox
Kentucky
Chardon Street
T. E. Houtchens
Old Colony
Wilson Bros
Tremont Row
Boston Wharf Co
Boston Postoffice
Joseph B. Russell
State ST
Tearmster
B. Wilkins
Devonshire Street
Hamilton
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