Enthusiasm Spurs Faneuil Hall Call for Biennial Elections
A noon meeting at Faneuil Hall with under 300 attendees grew to over 500 as business leaders and lawmakers debated Massachusetts biennial election amendments. Speakers including George von L. Meyer Winslow Warren A B Pillsbury Jerome Jones Albert Clarke Alden Speare and Jonathan A Lane urged shifting from annual to biennial elections citing efficiency costs and legislative experience.
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Faneuil Hall
F E. B. Haskell
George von Meyer
House of Representatives
Winslow Warren
A. B. Pillsbury
Jerome Jones
E. B. Haskell
Commonwealth
George von L. Meyer
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Albert Clarke
Home Market Club
Vermont
Clarke
Charles E. Adams
State Board of Trade
Alden Speare
John C. Cobb
Business Men’s Sound Money League
John Hopewell
Cambridge
Jonathan A. Lane
Peter Mellen Found Dead in Charles River
The body of Peter Mellen, a recent immigrant from Scotland, was found floating in the Charles River near Riverside Boat Club yesterday by George Young and Charles Duddy. A hospital prescription was found on him. identity was confirmed by Patrolman Mc Caffrey. He had been missing since Oct 6 and was believed to have committed suicide after a period of illness.
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Peter Mellen
Charles River
Riverside Boat Club House
George Young
Charles Duddy
City Hospital
McCaffrey
Mellen
Scotland
St. Botolph Street
Swedish heiress sues Corbin heirs for fifty thousand
Mathilde Nelson a Swedish woman sues Austin Corbin's administrators for 50 000 claiming the late railroad magnate promised to invest that amount for her. Her counsel says relations were close and notes she holds passes on Corbin controlled roads and that he paid travel expenses to Europe. Nelson appeared with her sister and several witnesses were noted outside court.
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New York
Supreme Court
Max
Mathilde Nelson
Austin Corbin
Corbin
W. F. Howe
Miss Nelson
Mr. Howe
Ethel Sprague Married in Secret July Union
San Francisco report says Dr Frank Donaldson and Miss Ethel Chase Sprague disclosed their secret July marriage. They were quietly wed by Rev W W Case after her mother opposed it. Donaldson, physiology professor, is from a prominent Baltimore family with a divorced wife and three sons.
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San Francisco
Cal
Frank Donaldson
Ethel Chase Sprague
Kate Chase Sprague
W. W. Case
Harvard Street Methodist Church
Donaldson
Baltimore
Harvard
Chevy
Boston
Stanton Foe in Bail Battle Over Bank Funds
Stanton, alleged incendiary, held in Luber Court after depositing $10,000 bail for herself, her brother, and accomplice Graham. Police seek source of funds. Graham claims conspirators victimized them and vows to spend all they have in their defense.
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Stanton
Lubor
Graham
Fair Blames Forgeries in Craven Ejectment Suit
Charles L. Fair has filed an answer and cross complaint in the ejectment suit brought by Nettie R. Craven the schoolteacher who says she is the contract wife of the late James G. Fair. Craven claims city realty valued at 1 500 000. Fair contends deeds and notarial acknowledgment are fraudulent forgeries.
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San Francisco
Charles L. Fair
Nettie R. Craven
James G. Fair
Tenor de Reszke Weds Quiet Paris Civil Ceremony
The Standard's Paris dispatch reports the civil marriage of Jean de Reszke and Nesle, Comtesse de Nailly, as a very quiet ceremony in Paris. Edouard de Reszke, brother of the groom, attended as a guest.
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Comtesse de Nailly
Paris
London
The
Standard
Jean de Reszke
Nesle
Edouard de Reszke
Foggy Mystic River collision disrupts two trolley cars
Early yesterday morning fog on the Mystic River caused a head on collision between two Medford trolley cars near College and Winter Hills. A wrecker’s collision at Tufts Street turnout injured no one seriously. property damage is about $600. Conductor and motormen were briefly laid off, then reinstated except for Cotter and the West Medford car’s motorman.
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Mystic River
Medford
College Hill
Winter Hill
Tufts Street
Salem Street
West End
Studley
Cotter
West Medford
Newfoundland fish price drop widens winter distress
The Newfoundland fish price fell 70 cents per quintal in Portuguese markets yesterday due to French and Norwegian competition. Dealers fear a market collapse will deepen the low mood and expand distress this winter in St John’s, Newfoundland.
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ST. John’s
N. F
Quarantine Payment Stirrs Salem Bank Deposit
In Salem a deposit to a bank drew attention to quarantine measures. A depositor noted the oddity of paying someone to enforce quarantine while residents in a quarantined house could still send money into circulation without fumigation.
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Salem
Flag Day Brightens Frederictown With Crimson Banners
Noonday sun overlooks Frederictown as Boston prepares for Flag Day with nearly 40 000 Star Spangled Banners. Streetcars and trains carry bundles of flags. Tremont Washington streets and windows glow with flags and streamers. little political preference shows amid widespread decor.
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Frederictown
Boston
Tremont
Washington Streets
High Street
Washington Street
The
Post
the Herald
the Globe and the Journal
North End
Oak Hall
Hitchborn
Cleveland
Back Bay
Republican State Committee
McKinley
Hobart
Chicago
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