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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 06, 1886

Page

2

Gathering of Knights at Richmond Faces Racial Tension

The Knights of Labor convention in Ricamono Virginia opened with long credential debates and a bitterly divided roll call. Powderly read telegrams from supporters while a large audience debated admitting eight or ten disputed delegates. Controversy over seating and racial integration loomed as plans for a Monday entertainment ball were discussed amid the controversy.

Ricamono Knights of Labor Powderly Terre Haute Ind Locomotive Firemen Richmond James D. Townsend Post Daniel Lee General Assembly Cleveland Washington Ralph Beaumont United States House of Representatives Congress District 49 New York Academy of Music Frank Farrell Farrell Workman Powderly

Record of Fires In Charlestown And Washington Street

An alarm from Box 456 reported a fire in a three story wooden building at 433 Main Street Charlestown owned by the Hall estate and occupied by Hall and Sherman spring bed and mattress manufacturers. Damage to stock and building about 1500 dollars. Later an alarm from Box 73 reported a fire in a five story brick building at 1391 and 1393 Washington Street. The blaze was on the first floor in Wadham's store and Clancy's gas fitting shop origin unclear from old papers. Damage about 75 dollars.

Main © Street Charlestown Hall Estate Hall & Sherman, Spring Bed and Matters Manufacturers Washington Street Wadham’s Clancy James Terrell Washington St Devonshire St State St Devonshire Street State Street Wm. A. Hayes

Fires Reported Across Several Towns Highlight Insurance Status

Fire damage occurred in multiple New England towns as Oct 5 reports describe Cape Ann forge works partial loss with 300 policy, machinery 4500 insured. Boston Branch Store South Berwick stock 1000 damaged, insured. Assonet First Christian Church 1000, two houses 1000, uninsured. Centre street dwelling 500 insured. Vinton's building 800 with stock 1500, others insured. Pembroke saw mill 10000 loss, no insurance.

Groverstree Cape Ann Dover N. H Boston South Berwick F. W. Rowe John 3 B. Nealley Taunton Assonet First Christian Church E. W. Pierce Wosurn John Smith Centre Street Bratztileroro Vinton

Mexican Village at Horticultural Hall Draws Crowds

The Mexican Village enters its third week at Horticultural Hall and has attracted about 10,000 visitors. New additions enhance the fair with rag figure statuettes, expanded music, novel fabrics from the weavers, and a revived ancient curiosities exhibit. Children can enter at reduced rates with school tickets.

Horticultural Hall Lextoc

World’s Dispensary Medical Association Pamphlet Offer

A promotional note promises treatment for rupture breach or hernia with permanent cure and no pay if unsuccessful. It advertises a pamphlet with references priced at 10 cents in stamps and lists 663 Main St Buffalo as the contact.

World’s Dispensary Medical Association Main St Buffalo

Infringement Case Over Time Lock Mounting Patents

United States Circuit Court October hears Henry F Newbury et al against Chauncy Squaires et al about patents 284040 and 4142 for time lock mounting. Court finds invention extends an old idea, no substantial novelty or infringement, bill dismissed. Also outlines temporary injunctions and various civil docket entries across multiple cases with notices and orders dated October.

United States Circuit Court Coir.dé Henry F. Newbury Chauncy Squaires Newbury Bill Bb. F. Thurston Samuel A. Duncan W. Leggett Jesse M. Gove

New England patent trust case in grocers packing company suit

Judgment follows a complex insolvency dispute over patents and trademarks held by the Grocers' Packing Company. Treat is found to hold the patents in trust for the assignee, after a failed plan that would have made him general manager with stock and a salary. The court orders a decree for the plaintiff.

Arthur B. Dennison W. W. Treat Grocers’ Packing Company Potter & Wrightington New England Beamg Treat Henry Mayo & Co H. Mayo & Co J. Lowell W. D. Sohier J. R. Clark Charles N. Carter E. Burt Phillips Winterstreet B. F. Brooks H. G. Nichols E.R. Hoar W. E. Jewell Sarah Chamberlain Lowell W.W. Chamberlain Charlestown N. Morse P. J. Doherty Franklin N. West Melville S. Gibbs D. F. Kimball T. H. Hoyt

Wallace Willett suit to recover sugar cargo value

Superior Court first session opened with prayer by Rev. Emory J. Haynes. Case No. 768 Wallace P Willett et al versus Bay State Sugar Refinery seeks 35725.5 dollars for a cargo of sugar alleged sold by plaintiffs. defendants argue memorandum to take the sale invalid.

J. S. Dabney R. D. Smith Lincoln Julian D'Este Et al George H. Lathrop R. Li. Hutchinson S. W. Creech Este Lothrop O' Connor Osgood Johnson Crockett Grant Bishop Simonds French Welch Eckert Kenrick Nichols Boston Hammond J. No John Tigley Onset Bay Grove Association Wareham T. Weston, Jr A. Hemenway Tigley Gannett Wheelright Chould Slater W. Co McLauglin Monigie Worster Chauncey Fanneil Hall Ins. Co McCarthy Kenney SvFrrour' Ss Knowlton Emory J. Haynes Wallace P. Willett

Stock holdings and bond listings across banks and railroads

A compiled list of securities includes shares in Globe National Bank Massachusetts National Bank and merchandise National Bank. It lists amounts in various banks and companies, railroads such as Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain and Boston and Maine, with bond maturities from 1888 to 1905 and prices in pounds, dollars, and other units.

Nares Merchandise National Bank Newburyport Tremont Natl Bank National Bank of Commerce New England Natl. Bank Blackstone Natl Bank Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co Iowa Falls & Sioux City RR Co Boston & Albany RR Northern RR Boston Con Street Ry Co Charlestown Zanesville Ohio Con. RR Rutland RR Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Co Boston Con. Street Ry Co S Hares South Boston Horse RR Globe Nat] Bank Massachusetts National Bank Merchandise Natl. Bank State National Bank Tremont National Bank Washington National Bank National City Bank Webster National Bank Great Falls Mfg. Co Chemical Electric Light and Power Co Firemen’s Fire Insurance Co Northern RR. Co N.H Chicopee Mfg Lowell Maine & Texas Land Co Cambridge RR. Co Charles River RR Cambridge RR Freeman's Natl. Bank Dwight Mfg. Co Lowell Mfg

Ward Registration Offices and deadlines in City Wards

A listing of ward registration locations from Ward 1 through Ward 25 including schoolhouses courts city halls police stations and other public rooms. Registration closes Tuesday October 19 at 10 PM with no additions after. Board of Registrars Linus E Pearson Michael Carney Cyrus S Haldeman.

Boston Pemberton Square Chapman Eutaw Street Court Meridian Street City Hall City Square Charlestown Harvard Street North Bennet Street Hawkins Street Broadway B Street Fourth Street Dorchester Street Washington Street Concord Street Cabot Street Corner Vine Dudley Streets Court House Roxbury Street Smith Street Curtis Halls South Street Court Room Adams Street Linus E. Pearson Michael Carney Cyrus 5S. Haldeman Board of Registrars of Voters

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Ir. Powderty General Executive Board Hamilton Federation of Trades Order United Labor Labor Atzec Siebert Cylinder Oil Cup Company S. C. Nightingale Hoard T. W. Clarke C. M. Peck Cincinnati James McDonald Joseph Dugan W. Clarke J. H. Millett William 8. Gettsberger S. Dana Estes Et. al Same The Aldine Publishing Company Ebers F. P. Fish Partlett Quackenbush Bath J. M. and Manufacturing Company Safford Butler Crandall Gode Rinele Dacey Arnold White Boston Loan Company Parkinson Celef Boo— Boston Loan Company Ireland James Canfield Rich Robinson McGlynn Williamson Moor Orcutt Old South Society Wainwright Wilson Haynes Wallace Kellogg Johnseonu Rice Supreme Judicial Court Devens. J Tontine Insurance Policy Agents of the Equitable Life Assurance Eevirasce Life Assurance Society Corner of Milk & Devonshire Sts Mass Hollis ST. Theatre Isaac B. Rich America Henry E DIXEY RE Sc Z Wig Burlesque Company Adonis London Erminte Rudolph Aronson New York Casino Opera Company Helen Dauvray Bronson Howard Maggie Mitchell Boston Theatre Eugene Tompkins L. R. Shewell Superboast Sustin McCarthy Boston Museum K. M. Field Pliny Sims and Pettitt Harbor Lichts Samuel Hatch & Co Richardson's Building Devonshire Sts Federal Street Freestone George. C. Shattuck Moses W. Richardson George Ki Guied Howard Atheneum Howard Atheneum Star Specialty Co Tremont Temple Adirondack CW H. i Murray Adirondack Carin Bros. & Nichols’s Azlec Fale Beacon Street Water Side George C. Richardson Chartes River Poplar Street George C. Shattuck George K. Guild Business Directory BAY State Electrotype Foundry Arch St Bernepure Rott ‘Fop Deska & Orice Paine’s Manufactory Canal Street R. H. Eddy Pargn Safe and Iron Works Co Elg Sudbury Sullivan Bros., Auctioneers No. S. School Street Hoston Harrison Avenue Essex and Beach Sts Worcester Square S. R. Knights & CO Cambridgeport Dudley Street Ihe National Car. Co Blackstone National Bank Old Colony RR Ath & Pac. RR Western Division Oregon Railway & Navigation Fort Scott Equipment Co Chicago & West Michigan Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Union Pacific Central Branch Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Dixon, Peoria & Nannibal Northern Pacific RR Toneka & Santa Fe RR Washington Natl. Bank St Louis Allen Co Atlantic & Pacific RR Columbian Natl. Bank Union Stock Yard & Transit Co Chicago Rolling Mills Chicago & West Michigan RR City OF Soard Registrars OF Voters Pemberton Squakk L. Foster Morse Warren Street City Land Sale Boylston Street Board of Street Commissioners of Boston & Albany Railroad West Chester Park Back Bay Dorchester District Suffolk Charles H. Leach Dorchester Dorchester Avenue Mt. Vernon Street Crotty Hanley Kimball McKay Buttonwood Shelburne Streets L. Briggs & Co Buttonwood Street Shelburne Street Leach Addie A. Pinkham Moseley Hayes Annie L. Leach Grorce 7 Adams Counsel Holbrook & Fox Post Office Massachusetts Title Insurance Company Milk Street Nathaniel J. Bradlee Arnold A. Rand John C. Wilmerding Hy Wilmerding Hoguet & CO Townsend «& Montant Auctioneers St Leonard Street Philadelphia Samuel Bunting’s Lippincott, Son & CO Market Street Credifpf R. L. Day & CO Merchants’ Exchange It Exchange Place Boston Stock Exchange Quincey Market Cold Storage Co Merrimack Mfg. Co Chicago, Wilmington & Vermilion Coal Co Boston & Maine RR Boston & Lowell RR Chicago Burlington & Quincy RR Consul Mart Wichita & So. W — RR Massachusetts Natl. Bank Continental Natl. Bank First Natl. Bank Woburn Holliston Natl. Bank Holliston Ofao Manufacturers’ Natl. Bank Webster Natl Bank Lockwood Mfg. Co Waterville Hamilton Woollen Co Lyman Mills Charles River St. By. Co Howard Natl. Bank Charles River Street New Mexico & So. Pac Ee Mortgage Security Co Old Colony Railroad Metropolitan Horse Railroad Cambridge Horse Railroad Lockwood Co City of Portland Naumkeag RR. Co Ctl Mon Air Ling Natl. Bank Francis Henshaw & CO Kroom L Rockport Granite Co Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants Almeria Steamship Palestine Albert Howe C@e AUCTIONEERS Brighton Warren Avenue
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