Anti Tenement League Aims for Better Boston Homes
A Boston group named the Anti Tenement House League convened at Parker House to back Edwin Ginn’s plan to buy and rebuild tenements for working-class housing. They urge city officials to seize and redevelop slum properties, detailing harsh conditions in sample tenements and naming leaders Rev A A Miner Edwin Ginn and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Parker House
Edwin Ginn
League
A. A. Miner
Philip S. Moxom
D. D
Springfield
Henry F. Naphen
William E. Chenery
George E. McNeil
John Crowley
K. M. Evans
J. J. Shannon
Ginn
Henry ¥. Naphen
William P. Fowler
George E. McNeill
Eye Gouged Out After Cambridge Barroom Altercation
John McMahan of East Cambridge was arrested for drunkenness after fighting in a Boston saloon on Leverett Street. His left eye was gouged out, and he was hospitalized. Edward G. Duffy, age 2, of East Cambridge, was arrested for assaulting McMahan in the same incident.
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John McMahan
Third Street
East Cambridge
Boston
McMahan
Division 3
Edward G. Duffy
Eighth Street
Mullen
Asaulting McMahan
Leverett Street
Women Rally in Roxbury urged for School Board vote
Women filled the Dudley Street Opera House to back a school board election. Leaders urged registration and voting while praising women’s political involvement. Speakers included Mrs. E B Trask Hill and Dr. Plumb with remarks on public schools and civic duty.
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Roxbury
Dudley Street
Highland
EB. Trask Hill
Industrial Women Voters’ League
M. Bb. Shepherd
Walnut Street
Boston School Board
Plumb
Columbia
Blanche Shattuck
Plano
Kennedy
Perrin
Japan
Robert Ingersoll
Dr. Hershey
Columbus Avenue Presbyterian Church
Mayoral Rivals Francis Peabody and Edwin Curtis Profile
Colonel Francis Peabody, 40, Democratic candidate and Boston lawyer, native of Salem with Cambridge education, Harvard links, and governor’s aide. Edwin A Curtis, 34, Republican ex-city clerk of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain native, Bowdoin graduate, longtime clubman and attorney, both described as eminently good fellows.
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Francis Peabody
Edwin A. Curtis
Peabody
Curtis
Salem
S. Endicott Peabody
American Loan and Trust Company
England
Francis
Harvard
Trinity College
Cambridge
Middle Temple
London
Boston
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
C. A. Prince
Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence
Commonwealth Avenue
The
Fens
Russell
John W. Corcoran
Superior Court
George Curtis
Nelson A. Miles
Regular Army
Roxbury
Jamaica Plain
Bowdoin College
Gaston
Boston University
William G. Reed
George F. Manson
Joseph H. O’neil
Republican City Committee
General Corse
Thomas Norton Hart
Mr. Hart
Mr.Curtis
Hart
Highland Street
Roxbury District
Walker Convicted in Somerville Break In Case
John L. Walker, known also as Charles E. Wiggins and John Smith, was found guilty of an attempted breaking and entering at Somerville. He faces a twenty five year State Prison sentence. The jury previously disagreed on the June term charge.
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John L. Walker
Somerville
Walker
Rev
E. S Tead
Middlesex Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
John H. O'Neil
Fifty-ninth
Massachusetts Infantry
Utley
House of Correction
O’neil
Charles E. Wiggin
John Smith
Nutmeg Republicans Celebrate Connecticut Victory
Over 4000 Republicans gathered in Middletown to celebrate the state election win. They paraded through the principal streets then heard speeches at the Middlesex Opera House from Governor-elect Coffin Congressmen Russell ex Governor Bulkley and others.
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Middletown
Conn
Middlesex Opera House
Coffin
Russell
Bulkley
Episcopal Congress on the Combination Opens in Boston
The opening night of the sixteenth church congress drew a large, distinguished audience at Music Hall with clergy from across the country. The session debated The Church's Duty in the Matter of Secular Activities, urging public discussion and broader outreach to labor, health, housing, and education while stressing religious unity in all human affairs.
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United States
Minnesota
Maine
Lawrence
Con
Boston
F. Canedy
New Rochelle
N. Y
W. D. Maxon
Pittsburg
L. S. Osborne
Newark
Rathbone Gardner
Providence
William Bayard Hale
Middletown
Mass
Talcott Williams
Philadelphia
Joseph Hucheson
C. F. Canedy
William D. Maxon
Church Congress
Trinity Church
Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s
Nelson S. Rulison
Central Pennsy
Quincy declines mayoral nomination in unified Boston Dem push
Josiah Quincy states he will not seek the Democratic mayoralty nomination. In a Nov. 13, 1894 letter to James Donovan he emphasizes support for the party ticket, calls for unity after a recent defeat, and pledges private backing to the municipal slate.
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Boston
James Donovan
Democratic City Committee
Democracy of
Democratic Party
Democratic
Quinoy
Siah
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Edwin Upton Curtis
Anti- Tenement League
Anderson
S. H
Phillips Street
N. J
A. S
Anderson Street
E. B
E. D
Columbus Avenue Universalist Church
Philip 8. Moxom
South Congregational Church
Read's Collection Agency
Devonshire
Dudley Street Opera House
Peabody and
MR. Curtis
A.C. van Nostrand
Bunker Hill Breweries
Charlestown
Telephone
Episcopal Congress
Music Hall
William B. Hale
William E. Russell
Robert A. Holland
D. D. St. Louis
Harry P. Nichols
Minneapolis, Minn
William Kirkus
Jersey City Heights
George W. Shinn
Grace Church
Newton
Penn
N. S. Rulison
Bishop
Pennsylvania
Tor
Quincy
Josiah Quincy
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