Massachusetts Second Regiment Musters Out After Santiago Campaign
The Second Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment was mustered out in Springfield after twelve companies served in Cuba and at El Caney and San Juan. The roll honors deaths from battle and disease, with named Springfield men among the fallen and wounded. The unit sailed June 8 to 13, landed near Santiago, marched into the interior, endured days of heavy combat, and returned home via New London after a detention camp stay.
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Santiago
South Framingham
el Caney
Cuba
Orizaba
Concho
Seneca
Knickerbocker
Manteo
Basquiri
Company NI of
Orange
E. J. Laferrier
Adams
Ludlow
Capron
Clark
Whipple
Major Fairbanks
Company I
Fl Pozo
San Juan
Robert G. Kelley
Peter N. White
Montauk
New London
Wolcott
State Armory
Worcester
Union Station
Holyoke
Gardner
Greenfield
Northampton
Liberty Street
Main
Court Square
City Hall
Main Street
Armory
Howard Street
Weaver
Wellington
Morgan
Governor’s Staf
Dalton
Second Massachusetts
Fifth Army Corps
Woratt
State Camp Ground
Framingham
United States
Newport
R. 1
New York
Lake
Twenty-second
McDonald
Warriner
Barber
Pierce
Leonard
Croster
Hicks
Charles H. Field
Brooks
G Company
Arthur Packard
Eficers
Eers
Second
Massachusetts Volant
Boston Subway Taxpayers Challenge 1897 Tunnel Plan
A legal opinion by Nathan Matthews Jr and others questions the 1897 act forcing Boston to fund a East Boston tunnel via the Transit Commission. It argues the project burdens municipal debt, fails voter assent, and benefits a private company, weakening city revenues and altering the subway plan that was to repay costs through user tolls and corporate support.
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Colonel Livermore
Causten Browne
Nathan Matthews, Jr
William G. Thompson
Herbert L. Harding
Boston
Transit Commission
Hanover Street
Fleet Street
Fleet
Elevated Railroad Company
East Boston
East Poston
West End Street Railway Company
Mast
General Court
Seventeen Cuban ex-prisoners of war arrive in New York
Seventeen Cubans released from Spanish Ceuta prison arrive in New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm. They are ex-prisoners of war, sent to the United States at government expense, many sentenced to 30 years or life. They report ill-treatment and brutality by captors during the war and say they will return to Cuba to start anew. Fernandino Mendez Sierra, born Cuban but an American citizen, speaks English.
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New York
Ceuta
United States
Fernandino Mendez Sierra
Spain
Sierra
Cuba
Baker At Newtonville Ends Speech Amid Loud Applause
William H. Baker the Democratic candidate for Congress spoke in Newtonville on November 3, drawing strong support after praising the post office location. He recalled his prior campaign in which he was defeated by the current opponent on a platform he now says differs from the wishes of a large majority in the district.
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Newtonville
William H.baker
Congress
Sprague
Commonwealth
National House
Massachusets
New United States of Central America Formed
Washington reports a new republic formed on November 1 uniting Nicaragua El Salvador and Honduras into the United States of Central America with about 2 000 000 people and 110 600 square miles. Guatemala and Costa Rica may join. executive power initially held by a three member council. presidential election set for the first Sunday in December with a two house Congress to follow.
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Washington
United States of Central America
Nicaragua
Salvador
Honduras
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Army
United States
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Congress
Senate
Central America
United Staates of America
Campaign Speech Attacks Sprague and Post Office Location
A heated address denounces Mr. Sprague for silence in Congress and failure to serve district needs. The speaker pledges to relocate the district post office near population centers, denounces imperialism, and calls for investigations into the War Department and a secretive commission.
Aid for Spiger Family by Boston Worker Fund
A. M. Thomas contributes 8 to the Spicer family fund for Walter E H Spicer a Boston postal employee who died of yellow fever at Guantanamo. The note appears amid readers letters and humorous quotes from newspapers about dictionaries and a Spanish peak commission.
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A. M. Thomas
Walter EH. Spicer
Boston
Guantanamo
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Arthur H. Packard
George A. Richard
Frank 4. Moody
George I. Brooks
Anatole Dugas
John J. Malone
John M. Lanois
Robert G. Kelly
Springfeld
H. C. Bowen
Harry J. Wesner
R. H. Bearse
Wagoner
Kingston
Paul L. Vesper
H. B. Wentworth
Rt. H. Dowse
F. B. Taft
J. W. Wheeler
S. I. Mayo
Cou
Embury P
CIARK
Shyumwep
EL Canhy
Charlies Hfield
Apie
Vate F
A. ©. Hale
G. M. Brooks
Pd. Campbell
PL A. Grenta
BE. C. Lague
BF. P. Norton
G. H. Pathode
J. J. Sullivan
Ds Thyine, Jr
Otto Zlegier
G. E. Whipple
W. H. Duggan
Benjamin Riley
D. C. Ferguson
Joseph Gravel
J. M. Smith
R. W. Truce
W. C. Grockwell
A. A. Thiel
FF. W. Manning
George Alderman
Reuben Swhipple
B. Fairbanks
Sou
Newton
Congressman Sprague
Japan
El-Ryad
Royal
Cleveland
Kingsford
Lea & Perris
Courtenay & Co
FANCY
Elcin Creamery
Taratr
Eliot St
Broadway
Chelsea
PAC
Orient
War Department
Spiger
Philadelphia
North Americcan
Tre
Jon
Pray & Sor
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