Mayoralty contest debates over balloting method
The Democratic mayoralty nomination fight heats up with Galvin pressing for Australian style secret ballots and Matthews opposing. Letters from Galvin and Matthews reveal strong ward support and debate over whether roll call or secret ballot should decide the nomination.
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Charlestown
Quincy House
Mitchell
Matthews
East Boston
E. J. Fiynn
Ward
Bridges McLaughlin
Boston
Dorchester
Owen A. Galvin
Mr. Galvin
Court Street
Democratic City Committee
Boston Mayors Circulars Review Party Conduct
Boston Mayor Nathan Matthews presses departments to enforce a 1892 ordinance barring city workers from political conventions. Many employees have resigned. others are replaced. Liquor dealers shift allegiances as Democrats refuse direct intervention, eyeing a no license vote and political leverage.
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City of
Boston
Nathan Matthews, JR
Matthews
Weaver attacks future GOP rival on silver and currency policy
General Weaver issues an address congratulating his followers on the People’s Party strong showing and warns of coming legislation from the ascendancy. He argues the new regime will ignore land, money, and transportation reform, oppose free coinage of silver, and favor banking interests over government issued currency, urging vigilance against power and oppression.
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Des Moines
Weaver
H. E. Taubeneck
National Committee
People’s Party
Republican Party
Andrew Jackson
Victory for the Casino Bowlers in Norfolk clash
The Norfolk House casino bowlers defeated the Waverleys last evening by a score of 2441 to 2276.
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Norfolk House Casino
Waverleys
Home Market Club celebrates after landslide defeat
The Home Market Club held its annual meeting with President Draper absent. Secretary Clarke reported a 625-member gain to 1924 and proposed a tariff information bureau. Officers including President William H. Bent and a large executive slate were elected as the club declared it still lives amid post election humor.
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William F. Draper
Timothy Merrick
Holyoke
Harrison
New York World
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William Lloyd Garrison
Edward Atkinson
Gamaliel Bradford
Draper
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Taunton
Rufus S. Frost
Chelsea
John D. Long
Hingham
William A. Russell
Lawrence
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Lynn
Hopedale
Alanson W. Beard
Lexington
Levi K. Fuller
Brattleboro
Walter E. Parker
Henry B. Metcalf
Pawtucket
R. I. George M. Harmon
New Haven
Conn
James H. McMullan
Biddeford
William Barbour
New York
N. Y
H. G. Knight
Easthampton
Arnold B. Sanford
Fall River
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Boston
Royal E. Robbins
Charles A. Stott
Lowell
David Hall Rice
Brookline
William C. Lovering
Lewis Anderson
Skowhegan
Person C. Cheney
Manchester
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Ephraim Morris
Hartford
Henry F. Lippitt
Providence
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Fitchburg
O. H. Sampson
William H. Haile
Springfield
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Curtis Guild, Jr
William Whiting
Joseph H. Walker
Worcester
Elijah A. Morse
Canton
Charles H. Sawyer
Dover
Philip W. Moen
Charles Fletcher
R.I
G. M. Whitin
Whitinsville
H. N. Daggett
Attle
Tragic Italian Family Mass Suicide and Double Filicide
Giuseppe Patone, a Sicilian fruit stand operator in Boston, killed his two young daughters Atenea 12 and Veenie 6 and wounded himself after his wife’s death left him destitute. Neighbors found the scene as Patone lay near a razor with the children dead from a single stroke apiece. He had written two letters in Italian expressing misery and intent to join his wife in the cemetery, then attempted to die at MGH while his brother-in-law Rosario Inbricato and others mourned.
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East Malden
Rosario Inbricato
Patone
Ateena
Veenie
Inbricato
Thatcher Court
Rosetta
Station 1
Boston
Mass
Giuseppe Patone
Patrone
Massachusetts
Winthrop Post 35 Banquet Guests Include City Leaders
Winthrop Post 35 of Chelsea held its annual grand banquet in the hall near the square. Mayor Converse and the city government attended with Colonel Andrews and Colonel Cunningham from the Governor's staff, Major Cushman, Senior Vice Commander Hall of Ann, and Junior Vice Commander Wetherbee of Newton. The Winthrop Sons of Veterans Band performed lively tunes, followed by speeches from the Mayor and others. Charles B. Yeaton spoke among songs, readings, and recitations as the event closed after a late hour.
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Winthrop Post 35
Chelsea
Converse
Andrews
Cunningham
Cushman
Hall
Ann
Wetherbee
Newton
Winthrop Sons of Veterans
Charles B. Yeaton
The Russell chair idea for Massachusetts governor
The Post urges supporters to gift a new elegant gubernatorial chair bearing state arms and the year 1892. The proposed chair would become a historic symbol of Russell, inviting public response and possible committee action to initiate the project.
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Russell
State House
Massachusetts
Newton Club In Newtonville Hosts 1000 Guests In Festive Inauguration
The Newton Club opened on Walnut street in Newtonville with 1000 guests touring the new quarters. Prominent figures including Germania Orchestra, Mr and Mrs Powers, Mayor and Mrs Hibbard, and Mr and Mrs Follett welcomed attendees. Governor Russell and Lt Governor Haile sent regrets. The event featured a lavish assembly hall and elite Boston Newton society arrivals amid bright lighting.
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Walnut Street
Newton Club
Germania Orchestra
Samuel L. Powers
Herman E. Hibbard
William J. Follett
Assembly Hall
Boston
Brookline
Newton
Russell
Haile
Wife’s testimony on G G Hamilton debated in court
Long account questions if the arrest of G G Hamilton, alleged Cambridge counterfeiter, stemmed from a conspiracy with his wife Maria Pike. It details her possible falsehoods, plans for revenge, and claims coins were planted by two men, amid a dramatic Cambridge/Boston saga with family tensions and public notices.
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Cambridge
A. Hamilton
Shurtleff Street
Chelsea
Maria Pike
St. John
Worcester
Mass
Boston
Hamilton
Parson Seeks Time for Move to City Parish
A country cleric with a call to a large city parish asks for time to decide. On the street his youngest son is asked if their father will move. The boy, weighing options, says the father is yet praying for light but most of the things are packed.
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Democratic Party
N. Matthews, JR
Josiah
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