Maine clergyman sermon and Kipling poem in Herald
A Maine clergyman’s Sunday sermon is noted as “Burn your own smoke” and Rudyard Kipling’s poem in the Sunday Herald titled How Hans Breitmann became President on Bicycle Ticket. The piece mocks criticism of the current administration as history may record a positive outcome. Delaware cramps impede speed. the sea lashes the shore using a coast line. Rev Dr Court claims Shakespeare as an Odd Fellow. Massachusetts’ record cited with a score of 16 knots.
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Rudyard Kipling
Sunday Herald
Hans Breitmann
C. G. Leland
Persian Powdered Philosophy and Senator Jones Heist
A quirky excerpt begins with a jumble of quirky verses about decaying objects and time. A tall man in black visits a Broadway jewelry shop and orders an expensive chronometer. The clerk shows a $200 piece, then a $1,000 chain and a special charm. The man pays with two $1,000 gold certificates, reveals his name as Senator Jones of Nevada, and exits after the clerk notes the need to ID customers.
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Broadway
Yan
Jones
Senator Jones
Nevada
Capitol
New York Sun
Flintlock guns linger in New Brunswick stores
A Forest and Stream writer notes that flintlock firearms are still in use in New Brunswick with storekeepers maintaining flints for customers. A Vermont farm hand in Pownal was chased by a panther on the 24th, fleeing to a barn to escape before the animal retreated to the woods.
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Forest and Stream
New Brunswick
Pownal
Massachusetts High School Battalion Officers to Resign
Fall River High School battalion officers must resign due to a rule requiring a 75 rank for eligibility. Meanwhile the International Sunday School Convention will be held in Boston from June 23 to 26 with about 2000 delegates from Canada and the United States attending.
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Fall River High School
Boston
Canada
United States
City Hall sewer loan faces smooth passage tomorrow night
City officials expect the sewer resolution to pass after Coburn locates the debt limit allowing a 96000 advance payment on city debt and a new loan without violating the limit. Varnum replaces janitor at Billings Street School. Salem trap rock slow to arrive. Overseers forget lodging for tramps. A mailed poem about Lowell’s Swedeville and Bleacheryville arrives with insufficient postage.
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City Hall
Coburn
Death in the chair at Sing Sing under New York law
Calvin Feigenbaum was executed at Sing Sing on April 27, starting at 11 16 with the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Julia Hoffman on September 1 1894. The current voltage was 1780, a first shock after 30 seconds, death pronounced at 11 18 30. Feigenbaum had been her boarding mistress lodger and killer with no clear motive.
Chicago Germans Oppose Bicycle Race Prize Awards
The Chicago Germans athletic societies met and voted against bicycle racing after a heated discussion on health impacts. No prizes for speed contests will be offered at future meetings, only graceful bearing and movements will be judged.
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Chicago
Mrs. Lydia Bradley Plans Million Dollar Polytechnic Institute
Peoria April 27 Lydia Bradley one of the west’s wealthiest women announces plans to erect a polytechnic institute with endowments totaling near a million dollars. The school will house 750 students and she has already endowed a hospital church home for aged women and a 145 acre public park.
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Peoria, Jr
Lydia Bradley
West
Polytechnic Institute
Young People Elect Officers At Town Hall Occasion
The Young People's union elected officers for the coming year: President Miss Hortense Parkhurst, vice president Miss Jennie G Wilson, secretary treasurer Miss Emma J Stevens, work committee Mrs J E Warren Mrs Edgar F Parkhurst Miss Bertha A Parkhurst. Community notes also report Odd Fellows events and a Japanese tea planned by Y P S C E with free admission. Household gatherings include thanks for Mrs Magoun's birthday and a house warming at Harmon Richardson's with a new carpet and a 50-person gathering with ice cream and dancing.
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Young People’s Union
Hortense Parkhurst
Jennie G. Wilson
Emma J. Stevens
J. E. Warren
Edgar F. Parkhurst
Bertha A. Parkhurst
Odd Fellows
Lowell
Chelmsford Lodge
Men Seek Return of Land Given for Pawtucket Boulevard
Edward Howe and associates sue to recover land given for the river bank park and drive alleging breach of a written condition that it be used only for public park purposes. They claim the Water Board driven well violated the agreement and that maintenance was neglected. Additional suits peg total stakes around $100,000, with actions over Princeton street land, a Pawtucket railroad crossing, the Lowell Waste property draining wells, and a city farm salary claim. Multiple cases imply a busy docket and possible land speculation aims.
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Edward 8. Howe
George L. Goodale
Thomas J. Underwood
Joseph M. Wilson
Pawtucket
Merrimack River
Water Board
Wm. E. Livingston
George W. McIntire
Martin H. Nolte
Princeton Street
Celeste Butcher Et Als
James Boyle
Daniel Gage
A. B. Woodworth
Lowell Waste Company
Hale’s Brook
Josiah Butler
Cornelius Collins
City Farm
Germanys greatest increase census shows rising population
Washington reports Germany conducts a five year census. Figures completed in December show population at 52,244,503, up 2,816,002 from five years earlier despite agricultural and industrial gloom. This marks the fastest growth since the empire’s founding.
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Washington
Germany
Cyclone Sighted in Concordia Kills Nine and Injures Many
A Concordia special reports a severe cyclone that devastated the area. Nine people were killed and more than twenty injured, some fatally. The cyclone track was about 400 feet wide and twenty miles long, lifting barns and houses from foundations as it passed.
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Kansas City
Concordia
Macdonald Named Interior Minister in Dominion Cabinet
Hugh J. Macdonald, son of Sir John Macdonald, is appointed minister for the interior in Tupper's new ministry. The Winnipeg announcement notes the appointment is popular and should bolster the conservative party's strength.
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Hugh Macdonald
Interior
Dominion
Winnipeg
Man
Hugh J. Macdonald
John Macdonald
Tupper
Grief Killed in Rail Yard Coal Car Incident
Dayton incident reports five coal cars derailed into a sleeper at Union depot injuring C O Grief of Cleveland who died and Philip Metter who suffered a broken leg. Railroad line Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton involved. Authorities investigated the unlucky yard mishap dated April 27.
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Dayton, O
Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton
Union
C. O. Grief
Cleveland
Philip Metter
Faure Seeks New French Cabinet Amid Opposition
Paris April 27 President Faure asks M Melin e to form a new cabinet. If he refuses, M Dupuy or M Freycinet may be named. Radicals and socialists oppose Meline, Goblet ministry favored by them.
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Paris
Faure
M. Meline
M. Dupuy
M. Freycinet
Meline
Arbor Day Observed in Centre Village With Improvements
Arbor Day activities in the Centre village, led by the V I A, included street improvements, thorough cleanup, and eight maple trees planted by the Unitarian Young People's union. The VSA prepared a noon dinner for about 100 attendees, supervised by Misses Stevens and Staples, with music in the evening for about 40 participants.
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Centre Village
V I. A
Young People’s Union
The
Unitarian Society
Misses Stevens
Staples
V. S. A. Executive Committee
Resignation of Treasurer Buttrick at Thorndike Manufacturing
Jas G Buttrick resigns as treasurer of Thorndike Manufacturing effective May 1 after twenty five years of service. He has disposed of his entire interest and plans a year rest before likely re entering business life possibly abroad. Arthur L Russell expected to succeed him as treasurer.
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Jas. G. Buttrick
Thorndike Manufacturing Company
Buttrick
A. L. Russell
Lowell S memoria l tribute to Gov Frederic Greenhalge
A Lowell memorial service in Huntington Hall honors Governor Frederic Greenhalge with a Handel Largo opening, an eloquent eulogy by Judge George J. Lawton, and a prayer by Rev J M Greene D D. Mayor Courtney introduces the event noting Greenhalge’s public service and personal esteem. The proceedings emphasize unity, public virtue, and the governor’s lasting memory among citizens.
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Middlesex
Lowell
Frederic Greenhalge
Massachusetts
Huntington Hall
Albert Davidson
IE. W. Champlin
Col
Percy Parker
Sheldon
Superior Court
Lilley
Hadley
Handel
Largo
Wm. F. Courtney
Frederic T. Greenhalge
Commonwealth
Greenhalge
High Street
Gertrude M. Bennyson
Blanche Burns
Thomas Wardell
William Foster
J. M. Greene
D. D
George J. Lawton
Warren
Mascagni
Courtney
George J F. Lawon
Gorham Street widened plan before county commissioners
The Gorham street petition seeks to straighten and widen a narrow crooked section north of the Chelmsford line and south of the Lowell and Andover tracks. Jerome F. Manning argues for establishing boundaries and restoring public easement with minimal grave disruption, while Rev. O'Brien’s fence boundary is challenged. The board plans a location hearing in about five weeks after engineer review.
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Gorham Street
Jerome F. Manning
Mr. Manning
Lowell & Andover Railroad
Chelmsford
Manning
Michael O’brien
O’brien
Manninng
Commissioner Read
Enright
Read
Snell
Quiet Monday Court Session Delivers Fines and Brief Sentences
Judge Hadley presided as three drunks were freed while fines were imposed on others for drunkenness including Francis Smith James Maloney and John Ledwidge at five dollars and Amy Armstrong and James Kennedy at three dollars. Crowley and Hall were sent to the work house for four months and Cassidy and Cassidy were held on adultery charges. Provisional cases for Provencal Larrabee remained in limbo with bonds set at five hundred dollars. An elderly Anne Moran faced a fifty dollar fine for liquor violations, while Frank Grey received one month probation for neglect of wife. Other cases including Maxwell Tower larceny Robertson were continued to Friday.
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Francis Smith
James Maloney
John Ledwidge
Amy Armstrong
James Kennedy
John Crowley
Elizabeth Hall
Michael J. Cassidy
Mary A. Cassidy
James S. Provencal
Clara E. Larrabee
Anne Moran
Frank Grey
Maxwell
Margaret Tower
John Robertson
Aldwell Boy Honored by State Hospital Plans
Boston April 27 1896 five sets of plans for Rutland hospital buildings were submitted anonymously and voted on after four hours. The selected plans are by William Chester Chase of Boston who will supervise erection. Chase is a Lowell boy, son of C C Chase longtime Lowell High principal.
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Boston
State Consumptive Hospital
Rutland
William Chester Chase
Chase
Lowell
C. C. Chase
Lowell High School
Police Chief and Mrs Davis Thrown From Carriage
Supt. and Mrs. George R. Davis were thrown from a carriage when a new police horse, driven by Davis, became uncontrollable near Lowell Cemetery. The horse dashed over an embankment, stopping the buggy against a boulder. No further injuries reported.
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George R. Davis
Police Department
Supt. Davis
Lowell Cemetery
Putnam and Mrs Davis Flung From Vehicle in Mishap
The superintendent and Mrs. Davis were thrown out, suffering a black eye and a deep cut on the forehead, though no serious injuries are expected. The incident left both shaken but unharmed beyond the notable facial wounds.
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Davis
Local notices reflect community moves and appointments
Rev Co W Huntington visits West Brookfield at his parents home. Joseph Donovan to address Lawrence Board of Trade on May 13. New York mentions Cosmopolitan and other names. Anna Estabrook secures stenographer post with American Bolt Co. Rev W H Thomas to guest at Butler Club banquet in Boston. Mrs John W Blodgett returns from Belmont Ave to Grand Rapids. Harrahan and Owen return from Clifton DC after three months setting up Lowell Machine Shop. Louise H Dow named Assistant Professor at Dartmouth. Leighton Brothers promote two rare dinner and chamber sets in their space.
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Co. W. Huntington
West Brookfield
Joseph Donovan
Lawrence Board of Trade
New York
Cosmopolitan
J. Dennis
Broadway Central
BE. M. MecMurtey
Mortonhouse
J. B. Whitney
Westminster
F. W. Hill
Anna Estabrook
Miss Wood
American Bolt
Savings bank deposit offer from Traders National Bank
Money deposited in the savings department at Traders National Bank locations on or before Saturday May 2 at 9 p m will draw interest at four percent per annum from May first. Interest may be withdrawn or added to principal on July 1 and January 1. Bank hours: weekdays 9 a m to 4 p m. Saturdays 9 a m to 1 p m and 7 to 9 p m. William F Hills, Cashier.
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Traders National Bank
Middlesex Street
Post Office Avenue
William F. Hills
Miss Ida Cummings Celebrates Fourth Birthday Party
Miss Ida Cummings, youngest daughter of Mr Frank G Cummings of Varnum avenue, entertained 25 little guests on Saturday afternoon for her fourth birthday. The Page company entered, and with help from Misses Cora Cummings Etta Campbell Sadie Pierce and Bessie Coburn, the young people enjoyed a merry time. The hostess received many gifts.
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Ida Cummings
Frank G. Cummings
Varnum Avenue
Page Company
Cora Cummings
Etta Campbell
Sadie Pierce
Bessie Coburn
Brush Fire Struggles Near Middlesex Village
An alarm from Box 7L shortly before 1 PM alerted the department to a stubborn brush fire in Middlesex Village. By 2 PM the blaze remained active and not extinguished.
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Middlesex
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