Annual Festival marks close of Lent in Huntington
The 21st annual Mathew Temperance Institute ball drew about 1000 couples in Huntington Hall last night after Lent’s end. A grand procession and a Middlesex orchestra program led by T A D Sullivan featured McAloon’s March and Florodora, with 75 couples in the grand march and many encores. Officers and committees organized the event, aiming for an even larger attendance at future balls.
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Huntington Hall
Mathew Temperance Institute
Prand
Middlesex
T. A. D. Sullivan
William McAloon
McAloon
Ozilbulka
DCP
Ccc
Ceeecees
Vocs
Peters William Kinghorn
Merrymakers
de Witt
Stuart
Dennis A. Sullivan
Minnie Kelliher
Thomas H. Gallagher
Minnie Bushnell
Napoleon Provencher
Etta Fox
John Sharley
Fannie Stafford
James A. Donoghue
Maggie Maguire
Humphrey F. Sullivan
Agnes Sherry
George L. Hunt
Margaret Morris
Charles McQuade
Margaret McQuade
John J. Lyons
Margaret Begley
Michael Nestor
Anna Lyons
William Quirk
Katie Sheehan
Belshazzar Cantata for Y M C A Fund in Lowell
A Lowell production of Belshazzar the cantata will be staged April 8 9 and 10 at Huntington hall. Local youth perform with Babylonian and Persian costuming and tambourine hoop and sash drills. Patronesses include many Lowell women listed among the town’s prominent residents.
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Belshazzar
Huntington Hall
Lowell
Building Fund
Y. M. Caa
Babylon
Persia
Cyrus
Belsharks
Jehah
Walter Parker
A. G. Cumnock
A. G. Pollard
Larkin T. Trull
Mary S. Mac Brayne
A. C. Russell
C. A. R. Dimon
H. B. Shattuck
Local Social Notices List Names in Damaged OCR
A garbled OCR fragment lists many names such as Searles, Mrs. L. S. Apsett, Mrs. Wil yen Huse, Mrs. George, Mrg. enj. Walker, Mrs. Edward Hosmer, Mrs. Fred W. Jenness, Mrs. Sweetser, Mrs. Byron Cady, Bancroft, Miss Laura Jones, plus several others with unclear titles and multiple typographical errors indicating a social or community notice section.
Billerica Contests Road Surveyor Election Result
In Billerica Middlesex County Thomas Clark, defeated candidate, claims he was legally elected road surveyor despite 448 votes for Ed ward Spaulding and 10 for Clark. Ballots for Spaulding read Superintendent of Streets while Clark’s read Road Surveyor. Clark seeks recognition while Spaulding was sworn in. case to be decided by counsel.
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Billerica
Thomas Clark
Edward Spaulding
Spaulding
Clark
Board of Selectmen
Veterans' association adjourned meeting announced
Chelmsford notes an adjourned meeting of the Veterans' association at the town hall Monday evening at 7 30. The Centre school class of 1902 plans an entertainment at the town hall Wednesday evening with a Boston humorist providing the fun. A social supper and entertainment follow at the Unitarian vestry Wednesday evening.
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Veterans’ Association
Town Hall
Centre School
Town, Hall
Boston
Unitarian Vestry
North Chelmsford Brass Band Holds First Annual Concert
Daniel Ready of St Anselm s college Manchester NH spent Easter Sunday with his parents. The North Chelmsford Brass Band held its first annual concert and ball in the town hall. The event drew a large crowd and featured selections by the band before dancing. Officers included Floor director John Graham and assistant Robert Scribner with the band aiding.
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Daniel Ready
St. Anselm's College
Manchester
N. H
North
Easter Offering At Central Congregational Church
At the Easter service in Dracut Centre the Central Congregational Church collected 41 dollars and 60 cents for the New England Home for Little Wanderers.
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Central Congrestional
New England
Little Wanderers
Tewksbury bids awarded for street lighting contracts
The selectmen met at town hall last evening and opened bids naming Jas Carr Centre district Perry Griffin Wamesit and Wm E Riggs Wigginville for street lighting contracts. The 20th Century club met at Benj Spaulding’s residence. Ladies Aid sale set for Wednesday in Vestry hall. Cards issued for the wedding of Clarence E Clark and Ida S Johnson on Wednesday evening April 16 1902.
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Town Hall
Jas. Carr
Centre District
Perry Griffin
Wamesit
Wm. E. Riggs
Wigginville
Council of the 20Th Century Club
Benj. Spaulding
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Congregational Church
Vestry Hall
Clarence
Memorial parish house at Emmanuel Church dedication
In Wakefield a memorial parish house donated by Mrs. J. C. Pearson to Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal church was dedicated Sunday. The $10,000 building honors her husband, J. C. Pearson, once modest, later wealthy through a nails invention, who died in January 1901. A contest over a $240,000 life policy decided against the executrix last Friday in U. S. circuit court.
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J. C. Pearson
Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church
Pearson
New York
Boston
U. S
Fire Destroys Fitzgerald House and Barn in Lexington
In Lexington on Burlington street a house and barn owned by P. J. Fitzgerald burned to the ground Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald and their two children were away riding when the blaze started in a house chamber. Loss is estimated at 800 dollars for the house and 450 dollars for the barn. origin is under investigation.
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P. J. Fitzgerald
Burlington Street
Maynard Name Change Hearing Closes at State House
At the State House committee on towns the Maynard name change bid was heard as remonstrants argued no strong public will. Counsel Murray pressed that 60 percent of petitioners are voters with long town tenures and urged a public vote on changing from Maynard to Assabet.
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Committee On Towns
State House
Maynard
Hillis
M. J. Murray
Murray
Assabet Mills
Maynards
Assabet
Hearne
Dick bill aims to modernize Massachusetts militia
Washington March 31 report highlights the Dick bill to repeal the 1792 militia law and rearm and reorganize state militias. It envisions National Guard as second line after regulars, with regular training, modern rifles, and federal inspection to ensure readiness, citing Massachusetts volunteers' readiness and past Camp Alger experience.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
United States
Roosevelt
National Guard
Spain
House
Charles Dick
M. Va
Ohio
Senate
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Senate Committee On
United States Army
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Massachusetts
Campt Alger
Falls Church
Washington
Old Dominion
Indiana
Santiago
Sherman
Militias Would Be Put On War Footing Says Dick Bill Backers
H. H. Atherton Jr notes opposition to plans to modernize state militias and make them second in line to the regular army. He cites presidents from Washington to Roosevelt urging readiness, arguing the volunteer militia is the Republic’s strong right arm in danger and echoes Washingtonian wisdom that preparedness preserves peace.
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National Guard
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Republic
H. H. Atherton, JR
Rough Night Aboard Gloucester Fishing Smack
Excerpt from The Gloucester Fishermen by James B. Connolly in Scribner's describes a perilous night aboard a sixty ton Gloucester fishing smack. The account follows sailors bunking below deck while crushing seas lash the vessel, the ship’s nerves, and watchful crew exchanging duties amid the storm.
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Leeward
Bill
Mike
Henry
Gloucester
James B. Connolly
Scribner's
College settlement work urged by Miss Jane Addams
Miss Jane Addams argues college settlement work should inspire and energize college club girls, likening it to placing bees in their Easter bonnets. The remark highlights civic engagement as a fashionable yet purposeful pursuit for female students.
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Jane Addams
College Club
Mexico in Transition Through Moorish and Latin Ties
The piece traces Mexico’s shift from arduous prerail travel to modern comfort and tourism. It highlights linguistic blends of Aztec Moorish and Spanish influences in architecture, vocabulary, and culture, noting Moorish words in daily life and a vivid Spanish language famed for its majesty. It surveys architects, trade, and the enduring charm of old and new in Mexican life.
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Spain
Mexico
New Spain
United States
England
Vera Cruz
Texas
Morocco
Albanil
Algodon
Pacific
Constantinople
New World
Italy
North American
Dls
Mexican Herald
Real Way to Teach English Provokes Public School Debate
Harper's Weekly notes that critics fault public school English teaching for youths using I seen I have went and I knowed. It argues teachers cannot fully control after school language and that parental speech influences children, requiring adults to model proper usage to curb bad habits.
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Harper's Weekly
Burdock Bicod Bitters Promises Quick Relief for Skin Ailments
Scrofula salt rheum erysipelas and other distress eruptive diseases yield quickly and permanently to the leancing purifying power of Burdock Bicod Bitters.
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Mathews
Joseph A. Cassidy
Mary Deignan
John E. Sullivan
Minnie Sullivan
Bernard Kane
Ella McCo
Timothy Feeley
Ora Sullivan
John J. Murphy
Dennis J. Sullivan
Napoleon C. Provencher
John J. Sharkey
James A. Donohue
William P. Rourke
Charles J. McQuade
Cart
James M. Fagan
Thomas H. Nicholson
William F. Smith
P. Frank Reilly
Thomas J. Lynch
William F. McMahon
James J. Danahy
Thomas J. McDermott
James F. Rourke
James J. Gallagher
Thomas H. Donahue
Arthur McQuade
Walter BE. Flaherty
Henry J. Barrington
John J. Guthrie
Patrick F. Nestor
A. E. Rose
Edward Trull
Harry Dunlap
J. Faulkner
Geo. E. Martin
A. F. Swanton
J. C. Burke
George EB. Putnam
T. Ford
Willard Everett
Charles Morey
George Richardson
A. A. Robinson
N. §. Hanson
Frederick Speare
W. O
J. C. Marion
C. G. Coburn
F. P. Crawford
W. W. Myers
Arthur L. Butman
Henry W. Folsom
Millard F. Davis
C. T. Upton
B. A. Morse
L. A. Butnam
Geo. L. Fowler
S. H. Harvey
Frank Coburn
LeDoit E. Kimball
Edwin Nichols
W. H. Pepin
James F. Flemings
A. P. Robertson
C. C. Wheeler
Blanche Boardman
Alice Frothingham
Jettie Studley
Katherine Kelley
Corinna G. Cover
Nellie M. Cooke
Lhce Seeton
Florence Milner
Rena Fpugbee
Fannie B. Estes
Nellie Bottomly
Joseph Yorke
Leha Godin
A. P. Green
Henry Smith
J. V. Pepin
P. H. Coburn
Charles
Middlesex County
Chelmsford
North Chelmsford
Dracut Centre
Tewksbury
Wakefield
Lexington
Centralville Cash Grocery
Franklin
Franklin Mills
Purena
Old Grist
OODS
Paciac Pettijohn’s Breakfast
Ralston Breakfast
H. O
Squire
Oolong
Japan
Califor
Nia Prunes
York State
California
Maine
Clarence E. Stevens
Bridge Street
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