Long Lost Son Reunited With Mother After 24 Years
Thomas Henry Myers of Lynn, formerly known as Thomas Edward Coveney, was separated from his parents as a child when his father, a sea captain, was lost in a wreck. Raised by the Coveneys in Boston and Lynn, he learned harness fitting before discovering his mother in New Orleans and being brought to Boston by a friend's son. She plans to take him to New Orleans where she has wealth and intends to start him in business.
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Thomas Henry Myers
Lynn
Myers
Thomas Edward Coveney
Thomas Myers
New York
South American
Coveney
Revere Place
Charter Street
Boston
New Orleans
Cape Cod
Lisbon
Coveneys
Middleboro Town Meeting Approves Dredge Fund and Reforms
Middleboro voters authorize light commissioners to dredge the Nemasket and appropriate 2000 dollars. They adopt electricity sale regulations, allocate 500 for Water Street Bridge repairs, adopt plumbing rules from the Board of Health, plan to elect a Board of Health next annual meeting, and approve 407 for the overdrawn West End schoolhouse appropriation.
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Middleboro
Water Street
Board of Health
West End
Bears in a Window Crowd At Summer Street Store
The life of two small black bears chained by day and kept in a cellar at 4 Summer Street is a dull routine of eating sleeping and pacing. Passers by watch from the plate glass window as the bears endure confinement in a Maine born display by the International Fur Company.
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Summer Street
Maine
International Fur Company
Depews BHOYS Invitation at Union League Club
New York report describes Thomas Bashee and Bobby Kilboy planning attire and jokes for a Union League Club gathering. Campaign figures like Alderman candidates Kilboy and Sharboro mingle with General Porter and Choate as guests, with humor about spiked-tail coats and political edges.
Depew Hosts Reception For Election District Captains
Mr Chauncey M Depew invites forty eight Republican captains of election districts in the second Assembly district to a reception at the Union League Club next Friday night General Horace Porter will assist Depew to receive his guests The piece notes Depews aim to show camaraderie with party workers and recounts past political night scenes in Bowery and Armory Hall contexts.
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Nick Brown
Patrick Driver
Water Street
Kilboy
Harris Cohen
Chatham Square
Union League
C. H. T. Collis
de Secon
A. Sharboro
Sharboro
Mulberry Street
Joseph H. Choate
Depew
Thomas Bashee
Chaunce
Chauncey M. Depew
Union League Club
Billy” MecGlory
Armory Hall
Brunswick
John J. O’brien
Barney Rourke
Silver Dollar Smith
Bowery
Windsor Theatre
Union Leaguers
de Boys
Bhoy
Murray Hill
Cherry Hill
Horace Porter
Mr. Depew
Mickey the Shy
Forest Fires Rage Across Tennessee and Arkansas
West Tennessee and western Arkansas endure raging fires with a thick smoky haze over Memphis. The steamer Lady Lee reports dire losses and tenants displaced as plantations burn across Mississippi county Arkansas. Dry conditions and a stiff wind fuel spreading flames. only heavy rain can stop the blazes.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi County
Ark
Boston doctor claims cure for throat and lung diseases
J L Wesley of 845 Boylston Street Boston announces a cure for throat and lung ailments after years of practice. He lists office hours as 18 to 18 and 1 to 4 and 7 to 8 pm and claims success within city limits.
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J. L. Wesley
Boylston Street
Boston
Meas
M. Telen
Michael J. Kelly Funeral Arrangements Detailed
The late Michael J. Kelly will lie in state at Elks Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a funeral service will be held at St James Church on Harrison Avenue at 1:30 p.m. The procession will proceed to Mt. Hope Cemetery for interment. Ball players are asked to report to Captain William Nash at 12:30 p.m. The Elks conduct grave-side ceremonies and mourners are asked to enter by the bier and exit to allow all to view the deceased. A London Gaiety Girls engagement led to his arrival. a large turnout of friends and a party from New York including Nick Engel and John Kelly will attend.
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Michael J. Kelly
St. James Catholic Church
Harrison Avenue
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Elks’ Hall
Hayward Place
William Nash
Elks
The
Mr. Kelly
Palace Theatre
London Gaiety Girls
Nick Engel
John Kelly
James McCormack
Fallon Indicted for Manslaughter in Cambridge Street Death
Suffolk grand jury reports before Judge Bishop. Martin Fallon faces manslaughter charges for the death of T. H. Mitchell on Cambridge Street in September. Other indictments include Max Pearlstein for larceny of cloth from G. W. Simmons and Louis Pearlstein with David Pearlstein for receiving it.
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Suffolk
Bishop
Martin Fallon
T. H. Mitchell
Cambridge Street
Max Pearlstein
G. W. Simmons
North Street
Louis Pearlstein
David Pearlstein
J. M. Wales
E. D. Cooper
Solomon Viner
Simon Nuddleman
David Starr
Salem Street
Glover Laboratory and White Gym Dedicated at Thayer Academy
Thayer Academy in Braintree dedicated the Glover Laboratory and White gymnasium. The building opens for inspection at 1 pm, dedicatory exercises at 2 pm led by Asa French. Governor John D. Long accepted for trustees and entrusted to Principal J. B. Sewall. Donor Mrs. Sarah W. Glover, a native of the town, died January 1892. Building cost $56,000 with a $100,000 endowment fund.
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Braintree
Glover Laboratory
Thayer Academy
Academy
Asa French
John D. Long
J. B. Sewall
F. A. Walker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Capen
Tufts College
A. A Ellsworth
John W. Scollard
Sarah W. Glover
November agricultural yields show record low corn per acre
From Washington report the November yield per acre for corn averages 17.7 bushels, the lowest since 1881, with buckwheat at 16.1 and potatoes at 62.3. Hay yields average 1.15 tons per acre with high quality, apples at 41.7 percent of average.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Bones of Heroes on Boylston Street Burial Ground Found
Work to lay electric wires on Boylston Street uncovered human bones and a four inch spearhead near a gravestone inscription for Mrs Ann Blake who died in 1762 age 28. The find supports the historic burial ground as resting place of men at Bunker Hill. further trenching may reveal more remains as wires extend through the site.
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Boylston Street
Bunker Hill
Boston
Ann Blake
Increase Blake
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Young
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