Free transfers urged in Boston platform clash over elevated lease
The Platform Adopted by the Republican Party of Bestennet Evening calls for free transfers within Boston. Democratic leaders must respond with a strong free transfer plank. The elevated railroad lease terms were cut from ninety nine to twenty five years and the guaranteed dividend reduced from 8 to 7 percent. The changes are praised as balancing public benefit with investor risk and will provide employment during construction.
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Republican Party
Bestennet
Republican Party of
Boston
Vicinity
Publication of the Pension List Honors Veterans on Rolls
The Commissioner of Pensions reports a list of all War of 1812 survivors and Revolution wives and daughters on pension rolls. It shows names ages and residences, with service ties and states of conti gents. The roll totals nearly a million names with 100 000 more expected. pensions exceed 140 million dollars this year. The piece urges yearly local publication to honor veterans and teach patriotism to new generations.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Bliss
Revised West End lease proposal to Boston Elevated Railroad
A new lease term proposes twenty five years instead of ninety nine for the West End street railway to the Boston Elevated Railroad Company with a dividend rate cut from 8 to 7 percent on West End common stock. The Elevated company holds a controlling interest and stockholders favor the change.
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West End Street Railway
Boston Elevated Railroad Company
West End Company
Elevated Company
West End
William Gaston
Ew Elevated Railroad Company
Yesteray
Washington Street
Penny of Platform Precedents in Boston Campaign
The article argues that municipal platforms are standard practice, citing Boston and New York precedents. It urges the Boston Democratic mayoralty convention to adopt a strong platform to guide the campaign and align with party sentiment.
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Boston
Democracy
Boston Democracy
New York
Tammany
Greater
Boston Republicans
Boston Notes On Cunard Ships And Local Happenings
Observant Citizen reports Cunard plans to place the Servia and Aurania on the Boston service with more ships to follow. Scythia sold to English capitalists for Alaska travel. Also notes Lt Peary’s Arctic lecture tour to England and Scotland, Dartmouth’s Wilder bequest for a 500 seat physics lab, and local transit delays on Blue Hill avenue.
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Alexander Martin
Boston
Cunard Steamship Company
Servia
Aurania
Cunard
Scythia
New York
Alaska
Curious Cambridge transit scene and library crowd in Public Garden
A party of over twenty rode a Cambridge car to the mouth of the subway in the Public Garden then returned on another car. The Public Library and nearby buildings expect a throng this week with about 500 strangers observed at 9 am. The Young Men’s Christian Union offers rooms for visitors, and 48 Boylston Street near the Common provides ample facilities. The London cable notes a fashion trend for ladies’ hair. Boston residents face limited personal wealth as investors anticipate December dividends of 5 161923? 4 percent on outside securities.
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Cambridge
P Street
Boston
Love Undefined Across the Spheres and Time
A poetic reflection on the word love, arguing it defies definition. It suggests love awakens the heart beyond measure, surpassing poets, prophets, and all knowledge, and urges feelings to remain untarnished by analysis.
Daily Table Hints Breakfast Dinner and Supper Menus
A Camdenport household recipe column lists breakfast lunch and supper items with details for fruit cake gumbo soup cream biscuits and more. It includes a fruit cake recipe with ingredients and instructions and a gumbo soup recipe plus baking notes and a name and street address for M E Lassell 69 Bristol Street Cambridgeport.
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M. E. Lassell
Bristol Street
Cambridgeport
Klondike Rebates at Oak Hall During Merchants Week
Oak Hall Clothing Co offers rebates on railroad certificates during Merchants Week at 95 to 105 Washington Street. Visitors to Boston are invited to view a Klondike Camp window display and pick up Klondike Circulars with travel information for Alaska.
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Washington Street
OAK Hall Clothing
Boston
Klondike Camp
Alaska
Post Short Story Submissions Rules at The Post
Notices warn contributors to include full postage for return of manuscripts and sufficient return postage for rejections. The item emphasizes following submission rules to ensure consideration by The Post's Short Story Column.
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Post
Inverness Cloak Sparks A Morality Play Of Love
Mr. and Mrs. Atherton, a refined New York couple, sacrifice for a Christmas gift a costly Inverness cloak. His pride and envy haunt him until a near tragedy at home ends with forgiveness and a wry remark about reuse from the garment’s remains.
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Sidney Atherton
Hey
Mr. Atherton
New York
Miss Hamilton
Mrs. Atherton
Atherton
Sidney
Mr. Therton
Kings Daughters and Sons Postpones November Show
Entertainment by the Kings Daughters and Sons is postponed from November 30 to February 23 at Association Hall . Berkeley and Boylston streets. Tickets will be valid on the new date.
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King’s Daughters and Sons
Association Hall
Orkeley
Boylston
Throng Fills Union Station For Cape Cod Shopping Week
Crowds of women and a few men gather at Union Station as the Cape Cod shopping week begins. The Boston Retail Merchants Association reports record turnout, reduced fare excursions, and certificates redeemable at participating stores to encourage customers.
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Boston Retail Merchants’ Association
Boston
Cape
Union Depot
Retail Merchants’ Association
Albion Building
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston & Maine Road
Old South Clothing Company
New England Piano Company
Knight’s Lining Store
Fitchburg
New Bedford
Taunton
Attlee
Mansfield
Yeahs
Yarmouth
Est Barnstable
Sandwich
Plymouth
Kingston
New York
New Haven
North Lawrence
South Lawrence
Union Station
Lawrence
West End
Open House at Y M C U in Merchants' Week
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union invites visitors to its 48 Boylston street rooms during Merchants' Week. The reading room holds over 14 000 volumes and leading illustrated papers. Parlors overlook the Boston Common and offer a pleasant retreat for guests.
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Board of Government
The
Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
Boylston Street
Tremont
Boston
Boston Common
Humbert Likely to Abdicate as Prince of Naples Viewed
Reports from Rome on November 29 indicate King Humbert plans abdication in favor of his son. Foreign ministers Goluchowski and von Buelow reportedly visited to deter the move. The Prince of Naples, heir to the throne, is seen as more Russia-leaning and politically decisive than Humbert.
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Rome
Humbert
Count Goluchowski
Monsen
Baron von Bulew
Naples
Russia
Austria
Germany
Victor Emmanueli
Europe
General Snnowaege declines resignation as police chairman
The article notes General Martin Snnowaege will not resign as chairman of the Board of Police and has declined offers to return to business life. It also mentions Dean Hodges speaking at the archdeaconry of Lowell event, a Blake family reunion in Foxboro at Mr. Marcus Dean’s home with 41 of 58 expected attendees, and a marble bust for Judge Joseph Allison planned for Dec 6 in Philadelphia. Also referenced are Captain Henry Henley’s wartime information on the Knights of the Golden Circle and a French family lineage tied to John Peter Gagelin De Fonteny who died in Cleveland at age seven, with ties to General Wolseley.
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Bessie Seaverns
Trinity Court
G. M. Taylor
Otto Burkhardt
B. B. Seaverns
Pollo
Wight
Sears
Ezra Palmer
Miss Palmer
Liliuokalani
William Lee
Kate Hastings
Commonwealth Avenue
New York
Maratta
Fomerly Belle Brewer
Melbourne
Australia
William Seymour
May Davenport
Winthrop Street
Dorchester
F. Marion Crawferd
Parker’s
Crawford Gose
Cambridge
Sanders Theatre
Leo XIII
Vatican
Crawford
St. Peter's
the Vatican
Century Magazine
Papal Palace
Edward B. Staples
Dornback
Malden
Washington
Gannett Street
Roxbury
Edwin G. Kramer
Tuilleries
Bentien
Ellen Beale Morey
Europe
Bayreuth
Tyre
Munich
Rhenish
Morey
Martin Snnowaege
Board of Police
Blake
Marcus Dean
Foxboro
Henry Henley
Knights of the Golden Circle
Indiana
Bloomington
Ind
John Peter Gagelin de Fonteny
Cleveland
Napoleon
Montreal
General Wolseley
Pope praises Archbishop Keane for renouncing New Orleans bid
In Rome Archbishop Keane of Washington was received by the Pope who praised his refusal to be considered for the New Orleans archbishopric. The Pope also lauded Keane's English sermons begun for Advent at the Church of St. Silvestre in Capite, a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The sermon topic was The Incarnation.
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Rome
Keane
Catholic University At
Washington
Coe
New Orleans
Church of St. Silvestre
Capite
John the Baptist
Boston Retail Clerks urged to organize for better pay
Letter to the editor appeals to Boston retail clerks to form a union under the Retail and National Protective Association. The writer cites wages of about 10 dollars weekly for clerks and 40 to 75 hour weeks, pointing to benefits seen by street cleaners and city clerks who already enjoy partial holidays and shorter hours. He notes neighboring areas and other trades achieving moves toward shorter hours and early closing, urging clerks in grocery and dry goods to join for mutual improvement.
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Boston
Lynn
National Protective Association
Charles T. Scott
Corner Stone Laying for Beacon Street Congregational House
His Excellency Roger Wolcott led the noon ceremonies for the corner stone of the new Congregational house on Beacon Street beside the Atheneum, opposite the Unitarian house. The event included speeches by Governor Wolcott and Rev. Charles Albert Berry, with hymns and a Pilgrim Hall reception. Contained within the stone were items from 1870 to 1897 including church histories, reports, and periodicals.
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Roger Wolcott
Congregational House
Beacon Street
Atheneum
Unitarian House
Pilgrim Hall
Old Congregational House
Beacon and
Somerset Streets
Samuel B. Capen
Capen
Wolcott
Commonwealth
Charles Albert Berry
Wolverton
Eng
Massachusetts
England
Alexander McKenzie
Cambridge
William E. Barton
D. D
Quint
American Congregational Association
The
Congregationalist
the Advance and the Pacific
Our Benevolent Societies
Boston Daily Papers
A Banquet for Protectionists by Mass Single Tax League
The Massachusetts Single Tax League hosts a banquet for New England Ice Trade League officers at the American House in Boston on Saturday evening December 4 at 6 o clock. Ex Congresssman Tom L Johnson of Cleveland will speak on free trade with no tariff or customs houses. He will take questions afterward and address protectionists. Tickets $1 per plate. RSVP to C B Fillebrown 85 Essex Street Boston by December 3. Boston November 29 Revenue Reformer.
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Massachusetts Single Tax League
New England
American House
Boston
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
C. B. Fillebrown
Essex Street
Iconoclasts and curious quips from old papers
A collage of jokes and snippets from Cleveland Plain Dealer Washington Star and North American including a Tongue in cheek jab at iconoclasts and an anecdote about a taple girl nicknamed Good Digestion. Also a note on a Klondike miners and a police detective exchange from various papers.
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Yaas
Iconoclasts
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Blinkersbury
Sultan
Vienna
Reichsrath
Washington Star
Boston Police
North American
Clifford sisters debut with The Post song at Dover and Washington
At Lothrop's playhouse in Dover and Washington streets the Clifford sisters debut the Post song Just for the Sake of Our Daughter written by Monroe H. Rosenfeld. The duo receive a strong reception and plan to perform this week alongside Rosenfeld ballads I ll Marry the Man I ve and other works.
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Lothrop
Dover
Washington Streets
Clifford Sisters
Post
Monroe H. Rosenfeld
Fair Singers
Alice Clifford
Lizzie Crawford
The
Rosenfeld
Quizzical Portrait of Smithers in Cincinnati Echo
A fragment from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune quotes sharp dialogue about Smithers. The speaker calls him the most inhes itable man seen, while another notes never knowing him to entertain an idea.
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Smithers
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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Royal Baking Powder
George G. Hall
Hall
Robert E. Peary
Royal Geographical Society
London
Scottish Geographical Society
Edinburgh
Peary
Dartmouth College
Charles Tf. Wilder
Dorchester District
Blue Hill Avenue
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Bijou
Electric Dramatic Club
Young Oe Christian Union
Tove
Heaven
Earth
Mars
Lischen
Maude Miller
Society
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Goodwin & Rimbach
Prop’ra
Klondike
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Washington St
Cormer of
the Post
Grace B. Faxon
Danvers, Mass
Dean Hodges
Clerby
Lowell
Joseph Allison
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
R. Hollings & CO
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Castoria
Porrar D. &C. Corp
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