Movement Against Offensive Posters Rises in Boston
Boston citizens led by civic leaders petition the Board of Aldermen to curb obscene show bills while theatre managers defend their printing as high toned or non immoral. The signatories include leaders from YMCA, church groups, and children’s charities voicing concern over youth morals.
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Boston
Board of Aldermen
James L. Gordon
Boston Young Men’s Christian Association
John F. Ford
Working Boys’ Home
William H. Baldwin
Young Men’s Christian Union
Macallar, Parker & Co
Torrey, Bright & Capen
A. E. George
St. Matthew’s Church
Charles W. Birtwell
Boston Children’s Aid Society
Everett D. Burr
Ruggles Street Baptist Church
Edward Everett Hale
South Congregational Church
Susan S. Fessenden
Massachusetts Women’s Christian Union
Caroline E. Hastings
Francis J. Garrison
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Damrell & Upham
A. J
E. E. Bamford
Charles J. Bishop
Frederick B. Allen
John 8. Lockwood
Mother Hubbard
Apollo Belvidere
Frank B. Fay
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Post
Harry M’glewen
Boston Theatre
Tompkins
Piper
the Park
Morkell
the Globe
Stetson
A. H. Dexter
Grand Opera House
Mr. Harris
Rich & Harris
Columbia
Hollis Street
William E. McEvoy
Palace
C. W. Currier
Bowdoin Square
Cameron
Howard Athenæum
Austin & Stone’s
English swindler Henry Cooke pled guilty in New York court
Henry Cooke alias William Wilson alias Sir Edward Cooke, a noted English swindler, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the Court of General Sessions. Recorder Smyth sentenced him to two years and four months in the penitentiary for stealing valuable witches from jewellers. His defense cited restitution and respectable connections, but the judge said education heightens, not excuses, criminal conduct.
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New York
Henry Cooke
William Wilson
Edward Cooke
Court of General Sessions
Smyth
Cooke
Earl of Derby
Lord Mandeville
British India Service
Ecorder Smyth
Senator Hill seen with Atlanta widow as rumors rise
New York reports say Senator D B Hill has chosen a Southern beauty as his partner for bachelor days. The woman, Mrs Fanny Iverson of Atlanta, widow in her eighties, has three sons, a comfortable fortune, and many friends in fashionable society.
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New York
D. B. Hill
Fanny Iverson
Atlanta
Iverson
Salvation Oil Promises Good Value At 25 Cents
A brief advertisement touts Salvation Oil as a best liniment available in the market priced at 25 cents, promising effective relief and value in every penny spent.
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Salvation Oil
Barris and Gillock Family Reunion Delights Return of Texan Killed Guard
Glascow Kentucky news tells of a thirty year missing Barris who escaped a Confederate prison after killing a guard. He returns to the Barris and Gillock families in Brown County, having remarried his wife and met his son, now a family man. Authorities expect no troubles.
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Barris
May and December Elopement Marries In Jeffersonville
Fleming Riggs aged 70 and Mahala Priddy aged 16 eloped from Montfordsville Kentucky and were wed in Jeffersonville Indiana on Saturday night with a crowd watching. Squire Keigwin officiated and the groom praised the marriage as the crowning event of his life.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Overcoats featured in Custom Dent sale this week
The special attraction offers all wool overcoats for twenty dollars from Elysians or Beavers in blue black brown and Oxford. Edges piped with tubular braid velvet collar satin sleeve lining and English check lining. Garment to be tried on in haste with fit guaranteed.
Dagger Concealed Weapons Conviction in City Court
Anthony Monahan a Cambridge Mass book canvasser who came to New York to stump for the Republicans was tried and convicted in the Court of General Sessions of carrying a dagger concealed on his person He claimed the weapon was taken from a highwayman He was remanded for sentence.
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New York
Anthony Monahan
Cambridge
Mass
Republican Party
Court of General Sessions
Monahan
New Orleans Riot Spars Arrests Focused in Exchange Alley
New Orleans police receive orders to arrest strike agitators. focus confinement on Exchange alley where strikers gathered. Ex secretary Donnegan of the Car Drivers' Association and two sugar refinery workers were seized this morning with more arrests anticipated as authorities pledge to keep the alley free of anarchistic elements.
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New OrlEans
Donnegan
Car Drivers’ Association
Showers Today and Much Colder Weather Tomorrow
Fore cast for Tuesday notes showers in New England and eastern New York with fair in eastern Maine. South winds bring much colder air by Wednesday morning.
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Washington
New England
New York
Maine
Trefethen's Chance Begins New Trial
In East Cambridge next month, James A. Trefethen faces a new trial on murder charges before three justices. The current Superior Criminal Court term lists James A. Trefethen and William A. Smith, though Smith was previously found not guilty by the same jury that convicted Trefethen of murder in the first degree. Trefethen stays cheerful.
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James A. Trefethen
East Cambridge
Superior Criminal Court
William A. Smith
Smith
Trefethen
Gibson's Whiskeys meet consumer and trade needs
Bottled under Moore and Sinnott's label for sale by druggists grocers and viable liquor dealers.
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Gibson
Moore & Sinnott
Brakeman killed by tramp on freight train
Syracuse report says a Central brakeman from East Syracuse was killed at Lyons this morning after he tried to eject a tramp from a freight train. The incident occurred during the loading run, with authorities investigating the motive and circumstances surrounding the fatal confrontation.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Lyons
Five Cholera Cases Reported Aboard Circassian
Five cases of cholera are reported on the Allan steamship Circassian now at Father Point. Orders have been issued to stop the ship at the Grosse Isle quarantine for public health inspection and containment.
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Montreal
Allan
Father Point
Grosse Isle
Boston Republicans Hold Caucuses for Delegates
Republicans in Boston held ward caucuses to pick delegates for municipal and aldermanic conventions using the Australian system. Most wards finished early with little contention and few mayoral or aldermanic preferences. Ward 11 backed C. H. Allen for mayor and N. J. Rust for alderman. Ward 16 favored E. A. Curtis for mayor and H. C. Richardson for alderman. Ward 21 supported A. C. Burrage for alderman. Wards 4 and 5 backed Major W. H. Oakes.
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Boston
C. H. Allen
N. J. Rust
E. A. Curtis
H.C. Richardson
A.C. Burrage
W. H. Oakes
City Ward Officials Listed In Complete Draft
A long list shows ward municipal and aldermanic candidates for Wards 1 2 and 3 including Wesley A Gove Frank Morrison and James Smith with many others. The notice concludes with Continued on Page 2.
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Wesley A. Gove
Charles T. Witt
Benjamin J. Campbell
Ebenezer M. McPherson
Joseph Bb. MacCabe
Johm L. Bates
Hugh L. Stalker
Jesse M. Gove
Peter Morrison
Charles I. Parker
Frank R. Morrison
James A. Cochran
John O. Atwood
Walter F. Burk
Frank Cushman
Edward Preble
Walter E. Burdakin
Henry Williams
James Smith
Frank C. Wood
Thomas Smith, Jr
James M. Simpson
John W. Dicker
William C. R. Woodside
Robert Crosbie
Charles B. Daggett
Arthur D. Rogers
Lewis Burnham
Edward Robbins
Albert I. Newhouse
John C. Nute
William H. White
George W. Burroughs
C. Dana Dunton
Geo Almeda
Joseph Daisy
Alva G. Mitchell
David Watters, Jr
Everett Torrey
William Hichborn
Bradford E. Giine
Albert H. Kimball
William E. White
John Lowell
Enjamin W
Two Poachers Attack Carles Coots
Charles Coots of No 14 Harold Street Roxbury was assaulted in the Harris estate woods on Townsend Street corner Walnut Avenue Roxbury Yesterday afternoon by two young men armed with guns They struck him on the head fracturing his left arm and inflicted a scalp wound He reported the incident at Station 9 Special officers Sawyer and Gaddis were assigned to locate the assailants and are still searching for them
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New York
Brown
Donahue
la Bourgogne
Louis Marke
Washington Territory
Charles Coots
Harold Street
Roxbury
Harris Estate
Townsend Street
Walnut Avenue
Mr. Cavis
Mr. Coots
Sawyer
Gaddis
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Boston Conservatory OF Music
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