Paine Jr. Captain-Ready for Home Guard Service in Boston
Robert Treat Paine Jr leads a provisional Home Guard company in Boston with about fifty men registered at 14 Merchants Row. Recruits undergo medical exams by Dr. Malcolm Storer and Dr. Howard A. Lothrop as officers are yet to be chosen. The Wyandotte monitor receives refitting plans, boilers, and a new supply ship Southery prepares for Key West deployment. Public improvements consider Deer Island fortifications with possible condemnation if needed.
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Home Guard
Robert Treat Paine, Jr
Merchants’ Row
Paine
Boston
United States
Malcolm Storer
Howard A. Lothrop
Posse Gymnasium
Irvington Street
New South Armory
Wolcott
Navy Department
Wyandotte
Coast Patrol
Colby
Southery
Wessel
Navy Yard
Key West
Sturdy
Pompey
Brooklyn Navy Yard
White Wharf
Anmpgon
City Board Hears Deer Island Military Use Request
A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen met yesterday at the mayor’s call to discuss the U.S. government request for a portion of Deer Island for military purposes. The mayor's communication emphasizes prioritizing harbor development needs while considering the request.
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Al@ermen
United States
Deer Island
Harvard seniors drop class poem on memorial day
Last night the Harvard senior class voted to go without a class poem. The event will be a quiet performance at Memorial Hall in the delta with no tree rush this year. Several Harvard men in Roosevelt's rough riders are abroad and others are in the hospital.
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Harvard
Guy M. Scull
South
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Delta
Memorial Hall
Goodrich
War Notes and Local O B A Lodge Actions
The Broad way and A streets flag raising in South Boston was postponed due to weather. Forward Lodge O B A pledges to keep members free on books while in service and to pay sickness and death benefits. Russell Lodge 223 resolves to keep enlisted members on rolls and provide weekly support to dependents while they serve.
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Broadway
Boston
Forward Lodge
Chelsea
Everett
Maplewood
L. Cohn
I. J. Shear H. Skirkel
J. Lowry
William E. Russell Lodge 223
Harbor War Notes Move Monitors and Cruisers at Sea
At about 7 pm Monday the cruiser Columbia left Delaware Breakwater and steered to sea to an unknown destination, followed two hours later by the despatch boat Oneida, formerly Illawar ra. The monitor Catskill, from Gloucester Harbor, sailed at 10:30 am and is en route for extensive repairs before return to duty.
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Columbia
Delaware
Oneida
Illawarra
Catskill
Gloucester Harbor
Unitarian Association Holds Annual Meeting in Tremont Temple
The American Unitarian Association convened its annual gathering at Tremont Temple with welcome by Carroll D. Wright of Washington. The treasurer reported 190? expenditures of 62 000 and receipts about 73 000, an 11 000 excess. Officers elected include President Carroll D. Wright and Vice Presidents Joseph W. Symonds Samuel Hoar Dorman B. Faton Thomas J. Morris Horace Davis. Secretary Samuel A. Eliot. Assistant Secretary George W. Fox. Treasurer Francis H. Lincoln. Directors Samuel Bowles John Mason Little John Forbes Mary A. Safford Adelbert Moot and George Hutchinson among others.
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American Unitarian Association
Tremont Temple
Carroll D. Wright
Washington, D. C
Washington, dC
Joseph W. Symonds
Portland
Samuel Hoar
Concord
Dorman B. Faton
New York
Thomas J. Morris
Baltimore
Daniel L. Shorty
Chicago
Ill
Horace Davis
San Francisco
Cal
Samuel A. Eliot
Cambridge
George W. Fox
Boston
Francis H. Lincoln
Hingham
Samuel Bowles
Springfield
John Mason Little
John P. Forbes
Taunton
Thomas Talbot
North Billerica
Adelbert Moot
Buffalo
N. Y
Mary A. Safford
Sioux City
George Hutchinson
West Newton
Doctor Cleared of Neglect Charge in Carhart Death
The indictment against Dr. Trumbull W. Cleveland of New York was dismissed by Judge Cowing in General Sessions. Dr Cleveland was charged with criminal negligence in the death of Viola Irene Carhart, daughter of theatrical manager James L. Carhart. A Boston Press Club reception will honor Dr A Monae Lesser of New York who will speak on Red Cross work in Cuba.
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New York
Trumbull W. Cleveland
Cowing
Cleveland
Viola Irene Carhart
James L. Carhart
Boston Press Club
Bosworth Street
A. Monae Lesser
Lesser
McGill University
University of Berlin
Red Cross Society
Red Cross Hospital and Training School
Red Cross
Cuba
United States
Press Club
Washington full of war rumors and Spanish fleet doubts
Washington rumors swirled about a Spanish fleet, Mangrove capture, and Sampson Schley actions. Navy officials denied engagements in the Windward Passage while noting activity in Spanish yards and possible moves toward Cadiz. Coal shipments from Hawaii threaten neutrality and potential U S control of the islands amid the Philippines expedition. The Oregon location remained unclear as cable cuts near Santiago and Puerto Rico complicate communications.
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Washington
Little ‘Mangrove
Sampson
Schley
Navy Department
West Indies
Department
Long
Santiago de Cuba
War Board
Madrid
Cervera
Cadiz Harbor
Oregon
Key West
Santiago
San Juan de Porto Rico
Blanco
San Juan
Spain
Cuba
Santiago Harbor
Philippines
Charleston
Hawaii
Hayward
Law of Nations
United States
Entomb Lee couple at Arlington with monument plan
Representative Brewer introduced a resolution authorizing entombment of General Robert B. Lee and his wife Mary Custis Lee at Arlington National Cemetery and a monument, to be erected when authorities request it. General Miles urged Secretary Alger to promote First Lieutenant A B Rowan to lieutenant colonel for his Cuba mission and information secured for the U S government.
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Washington
Brewer
Alabama
Robert B. Lee
Mary Custis Lee
Arlington National Cemetery
Old Lee Homestead
Miles
Alger
A. 8
Rowan
Nineteenth Infantry
Cuba
United States
Fitzhugh Lee
War Department
Tampa
Lee
Death by hanging in Waterville Maine at home
Mr George F Healey of Waterville committed suicide today by hanging at his Front Street home. His body was found by his wife in the shed. no motive or reason has been stated.
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Watdervilld
George F. Healey
Front Street
Spain finances in satisfactory condition says minister
In Madrid the minister of finance Senor Pulcerver told the Chamber of Deputies that Spain can pay all war expenses and rejected critics from Marquis de Villaverde. He asserted the finances are in a satisfactory condition and pledged support for wartime costs.
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Pulgcerver
Spain
Madrid
Chamber of Deputies
Senor Pulgcerver
Marquis de Villaverde
Spain in a Bad Way Riots Show Strain in Madrid
May reports from Madrid describe a worsening crisis as broad questions threaten grave complications. Riots erupt amid widespread taxation and scandal over Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines, blamed on ruined Spanish grandees who profited while the people suffered.
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Madrid
Spain
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Pope deplores riots in Italy in a papal letter
The Vatican paper publishes a Pope letter to Cardinal Ferrari lamenting grave disorder in Italy. He calls the unrest the fruit of evil seed and warns that calm citizens misinterpret church support, asserting Catholics did not provoke the disturbances.
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Rome
Ofservatore Romano
Andrea Ferrari
Milan
Italy
Church
Holy See
Doctoring Spain's Cabinet Shuffles in Madrid
May 24 report states Duke Almodovar de Rio accepts foreign affairs on patriotic grounds while Senor Leon y Castillo declines. Senor Puig cerver, minister of finance, refuses income tax and plans to resign. Senor Gamazo likely to replace him and push the tax. Troop concentration near Gibraltar linked to British military moves.
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Madrid
Almodovar de Rio
Senor Leon Y Castillo
Paris
Senor Gamazo
Senor Puigcerver
Gibraltar
Harbor of Santiago de Cuba Narrow Entrance Narrow Channel
The harbor entrance to Santiago de Cuba is very narrow about a quarter mile wide with a tortuous channel only 540 feet at its narrowest. The city lies five miles inland from the harbor mouth.
Ancient Flag Unfurled at Morro Castle Ceremony
A delegation from T M K Lee Post Merchantville New Jersey presented Secretary Alger with a historic 1861 flag bought by Philadelphia Corn Exchange. The flag, linked to a Civil War regiment, later passed to Alexander G Catell a Grant associate who raised it in notable events. Henry L Hartshorn urged Alger to order the flag first unfurled when Havana is seized by the United States.
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Washington
May
T. M. K. Lee
Merchantville
N. J
Alger
Corn Exchange of
Philadelphia
Alexander G. Catell
Ulysses S. Grant
Post Department
Henry L. Hartshorn
Grand Army
Morro Castle
Havana
United States
War Tax Debate in Senate On Corporate Levy
Senate sessions address a one quarter of one percent tax on corporate gross receipts amid discussion of a bank deposit tax. Senators Platt of Connecticut and Lindsay of Kentucky attacked the plan while Lindsay objected to legal tender notes and warned it would worsen the present financial conditions.
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Washington
Senate
Platt
Conn
Lindsay
Salvation Army Opens Third Workingmen Hotel in Boston
The Salvation Army opened its third workingmen’s hotel at 87 Green Street yesterday at 8 pm with dedicatory services. The Green Street home can house over 100 men with beds and baths at 16 to 30 cents daily, joining two prior sites at 8% Washington Street and 187 Hanover Street which have proven self supporting. They seek small furniture and books to furnish the new facility, and many Salvation Army members attended the opening.
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Green Street
Salvation Army
Washington Street
Hanover Street
Bonanza of Mackerel Harvest From Yarmouth Nets
Nova Scotia fishermen reap a bumper mackerel catch as winds push fish into nets. Yar mouth traps report the season’s largest haul in years with about 2011 barrels sent to market aboard the Prince Howard. Cargo includes 3011 barrels of fresh mackerel and 211 crates of lobsters, plus halibut and other dried fish. wholesale value around 11,750 dollars with freight about 100 dollars.
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Nova Scotia
Gloucester
Cape Hatteras
Yarmouth
N. 8
Moray
Long Wharf
Steamship Company
Governor Blac Returns to Troy As Van Wyck Charges Loom
New York May 24 Governor Blac returns to his Troy home and says he will act if charges against Mayor Van Wyck are laid before him yet will not forecast action. A conference with General Tracy Edward Lauterbach and Fred Gibbs produced no decision but noted the governor’s non appealable power. City Club to hold a Friday social to discuss the matter as debate grows over Van Wyck removing two Republican police commissioners and hastening Chief McCullagh’s retirement.
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New York
Blac
Troy
van Wyck
Jamin F. Tracy
Edward Lauterbach
Fred
Gibbs
Tracy
Hunt for Burglars In Boston Suburbs
Boston police led by Insp Glidden and Tryder search for burglars who have raided summer homes of B. F. Motley and Mr Mudge at P Crossing since Sunday. The thefts totaled hundreds of dollars and the Mudges and Motleys are said to live in Boston.
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Boston
Glidden
Tryder
Headquart Beverly
Lars
B. F. Motley
Mr. Mudge
P Crossing
Occo
Mudges
Motleys
Pine Tree State Club Holds Annual Brunswick Dinner
Over seventy Maine sons gathered at the Brunswick for the Pine Tree State Club annual dinner at 7 PM. General Charles H. Taylor of the Globe delivered his speech on Journalism while officers for the year were elected at a brief business meeting and reception to close.
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Maine
Brunswick
Pine Tree State Club
Charles H. Taylor
The
Globe
Moeting
Burglars Steal Watches From Washington Watch Co
Burglars smashed a window at the Washington Watch Company store on Newspaper Row Monday night and took between 30 and 40 cheap watches. The theft occurred between 3:30 and 4:00 am with losses estimated from 200 to 300 dollars, the priciest watch seen being 39.60 and the cheapest 2.60.
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Newspaper Row
State
Washington Streets
Washington Watch Company
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