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E. A. Grozier
Boston Caucuses Under Fire Over Irregularities
The editorial criticizes irregularities in Boston Democratic caucuses especially in Ward 19. It argues for free honest votes, calls recounts a sign of weakness, and warns against harming Democracy with careless conduct. It also critiques projected military costs and cites Li Hung Chang on cost-effective governance.
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Boston
Ward 19
Collegiates Open Year with Strong Yale and Harvard Athletic Push
The article notes Harvard and Yale attract large numbers of candidates for their football teams as campuses prepare for the new athletic season. It highlights student zeal at New Haven and Cambridge, with over thirty aspirants at Yale and a full count at Harvard, signaling robust intercollegiate prospects.
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Europe
New London
Friends of the Higher Education
New England
Harvard
Yale
New Haven
Cambridge
Alaska Boundary Remains Key Item Before Joint Commission
The Joint High Commission will reconvene this fall to settle eleven of twelve points, with the Alaska boundary the critical remaining issue. Analysts note the dispute affects U S Canadian relations and caution Britain to temper its Transvaal expansion as talks resume.
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Joint High Commission
Great Britain
United States
Bering Sea
Alaska
Philippines
Transvaal
France’s Senate Trials Confront Threats to the Republic
The French Senate, once a high court against Bou langer allies, sits again to judge conspirators against the republic. The proceedings are criticized as farcical, with pretenders like the Duke of Orleans blamed for undermining France’s institutions. The piece condemns agitators Deroulede and Rochefort and notes the timing after the Dreyfus court-martial.
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Senate of
France
General Boulanger
Senate
Republic
Duke of Orleans
Jules Guerin
Paris
Deroulede
Rochefort
Local notes mix humor woes and city events
A column blends city gossip with playful banter about a pun-loving friend and a run of public happenings. Topics include Beacon street demolitions and Beccon Hill eyeing years as an eyesore, socialites Miss P P Edwards and Miss H G Richards in Paris, a humorous court anecdote, theatre plans for Hollis Street, and late city birthday flags.
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Beacon Street
Beccon Hill
Major Jones Predicts Luzon Subjugation in Six Weeks
Major Jones, quarter master at Manila, says on arriving in San Francisco that with an army of 50,000 in Luzon the island will be subjugated within six weeks. He forecasts General Otis will command that force by Christmas and that fighting may end by February.
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Major Jones
Luzon
Aguinaldo
Li Hung Chang
United States
Sulu
Manila
San Francisco
Otis
East Boston Man and Wedding Preparations Highlight Local Notes
A prominent East Boston figure, Mr. Kelly, receives a beauty ring gift from friends with a speech by Councilman Frank J. Johnson. The upcoming marriage of Philip Henry Wynne, a chief engineer's draughtsman and noted musician and critic, excites friends. Wynne is known for mentoring younger colleagues.
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Philip Henry Wynne
Mr. Wynne
Grandpa Bates’s Timeless Tale of Ruth and Love
In Harrisville a grandfather recounts his youth from Canada to Texas, his forbidden love with Ruth Ashford, her illness and dying, and their later marriage. The story ends as Ruth greets him at last, and Grandma adds her note from the doorway.
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Grandpa
Grandma
Grandpa Bates
Harrisville
Canada
Massachusetts
Ruth Ashford
Ruth
Texas
Mother
Mrs. Ashford
Darling
Harold
Daily Table Hints Dinner Menu and Cake Recipe
Daily table hints list a lunch like dinner menu with Consomme Soup Olives Green Peas Tomato Salad Coffee and Supper items Cold Pressed Chicken Baked Potatoes Tea Biscuit Plain Bread Blackberries and Creama Sponge Cake with a lemon flavor recipe and ingredients. The note cites 8 Follen street city as a source or address.
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Follen Street
City
Presh air path to health and wealth quoted in verse
A fragmentary dialogue presents a flirtatious exchange about going for a walk as a route to health and wealth. The lines juxtapose a maiden asking where to go with a gentleman urging fresh air as a path to well being and fortune.
Watermelons on Ice and Other Jest of the Day
A collection of light anecdotes from several papers. Jests about ice kept watermelons, a clerk with eyeglasses, a grocery store critique of scientists, a Dr Jacobi baby remark, a boastful master, and Noah at the ark. Includes sharp one liners and playful exchanges.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal
Noah
Ham
Chicago Tribune
Prince of Wales Attends Brackley Color Ceremony in Scotland
The Prince of Wales presented new colors to the Gordon Highlanders at Brackley Scotland and praised their capture of Dargai Heights as memorable. The Duke of York and Duke of Connaught attended. Ex Speaker Reed began law practice in New York with Simpson Thacher Barnum. President McKinley received a gavel from G W Bard made from Guan tanamo timbers. General Wood and Senor Castillo visited Santiago and hosted a dinner for Lt Brooks amid officer attendance.
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Prince of Wales
Gordon Highlanders
Brackley
Scotland
Dargai Heights
Afghanistan
Prince
Duke of York
Duke of Connaught
Thomas B. Reed
New York
Simpson, Thacher & Barnum
Reed
Maine
Cambridge Hotel
G. W. Bard
State, War and Navy
Washington
McKinley
Playa del Este
Guantanamo Bay
Spain
Dr. Gibbs
Cuba
Gardner C. Lewis
Vulcan
Leonard Wood
Senor Demetrius Castillo
Santiago
Barrett as a potential mayoral candidate and leader
The article profiles Hon. William E. Barrett born in Melrose on December 29, 1858, former Speaker of the Massachusetts House and four-term U S congressman. It notes his rise from Vermont reporter to Boston newspaper publisher and his Republican leadership in gas water and utility reforms.
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Mr. Barrett
Melrose
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Congress
Massachusetts House
William E. Barrett
Barrett
Vermont
Boston
Massachusetts
Middlesex County
Dartmouth College
St. Albans
Boston Advertiser
Washington
Advertiser
Evening Record
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate
William Everett
People’s Party
Charlestown
Saunders Celebrate Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary in Cambridge
The Hon and Mrs Charles H Saunders observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home 1627 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge. Saunders active in city government from 1853 to 1869 including mayor in 1868 and 1869. He chaired Cambridge sinking fund for 24 years paying over 3 million dollars in debt.
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Charles H. Sauneners
Cambridge
Massachusetts Avenue
B. Ball
Concord
Mass
Barzillai Frost
Saunders
Common Council
Board of Aldermen
Sinking Fund Commissioners
Carrie H. Saunders
Robert P. Clapp
Lexington
Charles R. Saunders
Boston
Milwaukee
Death of Cambridge Fire Department's Oldest Member
John H. Walker, the oldest Cambridge fire department member, died yesterday at noon after a long illness from heart and liver trouble. He had not worked for four months, and the recent death of District Chief Cade struck him hard, leading to a rapid decline.
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John H. Walker
Cambridge
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Sumner Fishing Club
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Jordan, Marsh
America
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Oxford
Apnua Us
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