Treasury deficit looms over end of fiscal year
The United States Treasury faces a looming 30 million dollar deficit by year end. Early Shaw estimates miss the mark as the surplus falls rapidly and banks are tapped for 25 million. With a strengthened House majority, the new Congress may back reckless spending, risking disregard for alarm in the president’s message and Shaw’s figures.
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United States Treasury
Shaw
Congress
House of Representatives
Gas Extortion in Boston Gas Company Capitalization
Mr. George W. Anderson at the Twentieth Century Club argues that returns beyond a fair dividend are extortion when public service profits are built on consumer contributions. He supports Mayor Collins’s petition for 60-cent gas, warning consolidation would force residents to pay interest on their own payments to the gas companies.
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Boston
George W. Anderson
Twentieth Century Club
Anderson
Collins
The Football Casualty List Analysis of a Fatal Season
The season closed with 18 fatal football casualties and 310 serious injuries. Broken collar bones lead the nonfatal injuries, followed by dislocated shoulders and broken limbs. The piece contrasts football's risks with those of hunting, prize fighting, canoeing, and trolley rides, noting the high cost in youth.
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Army and Navy Cadets
Maine
The
Charles
Football sacrifices prompt call to reform practices
The author notes that most football deaths come from untrained or undertrained players and argues fatalities are rare among major college teams with proper training. He urges promoters to discourage youth participation and long training demands, leaving the sport to those capable of withstanding its strain.
Peaceful settlement in Hague resolves North Sea dispute
The Hague peace conference yields a Britain Russia agreement to submit the North Sea incident to impartial inquiry. An international Paris commission will investigate facts, with one naval officer from each of the United States Great Britain Russia France and a fifth chosen by agreement or by Emperor Franz Joseph. Roosevelt may name Admiral Dewey or Schley as the US member.
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Hague
Great Britain
Russia
North Sea
St. Petersburg
Paris
United States
England
France
Francis Joseph
Roosevelt
Admiral Dewey
Dewey
Schley
Morgan Aims to Build Great Art Palace in New York
A report suggests J J Morgan plans a grand New York art palace with extensive overseas collections and public weekly access, seeking duty relief on imported works. The piece compares his aim with Mrs Gardner, notes the larger scope, and questions tariff taxes on art versus benefiting industrial magnates.
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J. J. Morgan
New York City
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Chicago Beef Trust
Boston Property Valuation for 1904 Totals Over One Billion
Reports from the State House show Boston's 1904 total assessed value at 1,237,038,851 dollars. Real estate 1,006,122,900. personal property 230,915,951 with building value 399,016,450 and land 607,106,450. Poll tax totals 19,165,794.52. 224,678 people were assessed, including 66,500 dwellings and 14,700 acres of land.
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State House
Boston
Brackett Outlines Social Workers School Aim
Professor Jeffrey R. Brackett explained in South Congregational Church vestry that the School for Social Workers offers opportunities for men and women to study social problems by practical methods. It aims to prepare officers of institutions and agencies and to train volunteers for service in this field.
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Jeffrey R. Brackett
South Congregational Church
School For Social Workers
Advent Church Marks Sixtieth Anniversary
In memory of the parish sixtieth anniversary impressive services were held at the Church of the Advent in Mt Vernon and Brimmer streets. The pastor Rev William Harman Van Allen spoke on growth in a sermon titled After 60 Years. The usual services followed.
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Church of the Advent
Mt. Vernon
Brimmer Streets
William Harman van Allen
President Teddy at the fair in St Louis travelogue
All Sorts reports from St Louis on November 26 recounts the President and party visiting fair grounds. Teddy rides an elephant, mocks a shooting gallery, and praises displays including a baby incubator while promising a safe conservative administration and a square deal for all, including trusts.
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ST. Louis
Fair Grounds
Teddy
Mr. Parker
Hagenbeck
United States
Pullman Pete
PERVERTED PROVERBS AND WRY SAYINGS IN ONE QUOTE LIST
A collage of humorous and twisted proverbs spans topics from holidays and rents to work, luck, and temper. It reworks familiar adages with playful twists about luck, shopping, charity, speech, and money, ending with cautions about good deeds and discretion.
Spine to Give for His Team Inspires Grin
A brutal football scrimmage ends with a player severely injured as an ambulance arrives. The head surgeon diagnoses a broken spine, yet the grateful athlete jokes that he has only one spine to give to his team, reflecting stoic sportsmanship despite disaster.
New Superintendent Takes Charge of Waltham Mills
The Boston Manufacturing Company cotton mills at Waltham will be run by new agent William H Rankin starting tomorrow. Rankin arrives from Columbus Georgia where he supervised the Eagle and Phenix mills. He replaces Arthur H Gulliver who resigned due to ill health.
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Waltham
Boston Manufacturing Company
William H. Rankin
Rankin
Columbus
Eagle and Phenix Mills
Arthur H. Gulliver
Pastor Tells Life Lessons From Football at YMCA
Paul Rader of East Boston, a noted football coach formerly of California, spoke at the YMCA on life lessons from the game. Sarah Belle Huff, contralto, and F. F. Chipman, cornetist, assisted at the Sunday symphony.
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Paul Rader
East Boston
California
Sarah Belle Huff
F. F. Chipman
Holiday crowds and trade rise in city streets
Observant Citizen notes holiday bustle as shop windows lack full Christmas dress while business leaders predict stronger trade than last year. Many topics follow, from Signor Rotoli’s death and a Boston telegraph pay hike to road extensions, a Lexing ton winter home, and plans by a theosophist in Beacon Hill. A child writes to Santa, and street dangers prompt calls to curb bonfires.
Tramp profit scheme drives Silas Ware to profit on lodging
Silas Ware mines opportunity from roaming tramps to boost earnings by offering rides and meals at his Meredith home and via a Clinton wood haul scheme. Maria supports the plan as they chase higher profits, turning to the turnpike as a source of guests and income.
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Maria
Silas
Silas Ware
Meredith
Clinton
Return of Heirlooms Sparks Quiet Sentimental Debate
A note on a misdemeanor case hints at lingering sentimentality for cherished past possessions. The speaker suggests humor in the request for their return, indicating a tension between legal action and personal attachment to items once valued.
Society Notes Highlight Boston Elite Movements and Events
Mrs. Albert R. Whittier plans a 4:30 to 6 reception at Commonwealth avenue residence with limited invitations. The Bigelows, formerly on Commonwealth, now reside in Brookline near Alanson Bigelow, Miss May Rice becoming Mrs. Homer Lane Bigelow. Frederic J. Stimson expands Two Rivers estate at Dedham with new land on the Charles. Edith Tyler King and Herbert Thorn King, abroad since September, expect return early next year. Dedham Polo Club mourns James G. Averell, typhoid death of a Harvard graduate and heir to a large fortune. Clareline Chase to debut at a tea hosted by Mrs. P. Coggeshall Chase at Buckminster due to uncertain weather. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Summers Kniffin to host callers at 152 East Thirty-fifth Street, New York. Mrs. Kniffin formerly Florence Aldrich of Brookline. Mrs. W. O. Trowbridge and Miriam Trowbridge wintering at the Lenox after Europe. Brookline society awaits Carroll D. Wright’s lecture in Whitney Hall. Noted subscribers listed. Japanese paintings and bric-a-brac exhibit ends with tea at Mrs. Ole Bull’s Cambridge residence, aided by notable women including Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Fenollosa.
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Albert R. Whittier
Commonwealth Avenue
Homer Lane Bigelow
Brookline
Mr. Bigelow
Alanson Bigelo
Two Rivers
Dedham
Herbert Thorn King
Edith Tyler
Beacon Street
America
King
E. Royall Tyler
Dedham Polo Club
James G. Averell
Averell
Harvard
Clareline Chase
Milton
P. Coggeshall Chase
Florence M. Aldrich
Edgar Aldrich
Washington Street
Littleton
N. H
Aldriches
Three Oaks
Europe
W. O. Trowbridge
Newton
Miriam Trowbridge
Lenox
Brookline Society
Carroll D. Wright
Whitney Hall
Theodore Lyman
Leonard K. Storrs
Maurice W. Turner
Henry M. Whitney
Richard M. Saltonstall
Daniel Dulaney Addison
Fred B. Percy
L. Shannon Davis
Edward A. Horton
Waldo Richards
Otis H. Marion
Rough Riders Guard of Honor planned for 1905 inauguration
Washington notes presidents and officials envision a grand guard of honor for the 1905 inauguration. The Rough Rider Regiment is to be revived and drawn from across the nation. It remains undecided whether they will head or follow in the guard, with President Roosevelt at the center of planning discussions.
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Chelsea
Santa Claus
Washington
White House
Rough Rider
Union
Guard of Honor
Roosevelt
Roxbury Man Found with Broken Leg Near Shawmut Avenue
Charles C. Kinead, 43, of 51 Chadwick Street Roxbury, was found yesterday morning about 4 o clock lying in the street near 744 Shawmut Avenue with a broken right leg below the knee. He was taken to City Hospital in Station 10 ambulance.
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Charles C. Kinead
Chadwick Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
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