Veto Sustained In City Council Actions Over Paving and Repairs
The city council debated sidewalk funding and paving plans including a $41,900 smooth paving contract and a $7,100 Aiken street paving loan. Referred matters covered sewer work on Oak street, Ellsworth street, and a request for two additional health board telephones. Adjourned for lack of a quorum after late votes and tabled motions.
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Oak Street
Carryichael
School Street
Charles Foley
Ellsworth Street
Barton
Arch
Middlesex Streets
Princeton Street
Common Council
Lebrun
Farrell
Butler School
Carmichael
Taylor
Howe
Badger
Packer
Board of Health
Alderman Taylor
General Treasury Fund
Department of the Inspector of
Committee On Appropriations
Jackson Street
Brousseau
West Sixth Street
Commons
Edson
Varnum
Lands and Buildings Department
Aiken Street
Lakeview Avenue
Special city council session faces charges and votes
The common council held a special session with heated debate over a 42000 smooth paying loan as councilmen clashed on tabling records and a disputed land purchase for Butler school. A joint committee was formed to probe the education committee amid resignations and vetoed appropriations.
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Common Council
Walker
Mullaney
Pickering
Casey
Appleton
Chelmsford
Ward 7
Mr. Lebrun
Committee On Education
Butler School
Lebrun
Brown
Paige
Pickering, Emsley
Education Committee
R ‘Or
General Treasury
Willard and
Humey Streets
Desperate Church Fight Ends in Fenton's Death
In Hartford at the Church of the Good Shepherd workers Denis Fenton and James Balfour Jr. fought in a hand to hand struggle over a dispute. Fenton was fatally struck and later died from a ruptured spleen after an ambulance rushed him to hospital. Balfour was arrested and claims self-defense. Fenton leaves a widow and five children.
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Hartford
Fenton
Balfour
John Foley
Charles Flynn
Chilren
Electric Combine Narrows New England Power Field
Manchester Electric company buys Union Electric of Manchester and Merrimac Electric Light Heat Power of Hooksett for over 500000 dollars. The three firms operate under one management, with officers including P L Saltonstall of Boston and J Brodie Smith of Manchester. The merger controls about 15400 horsepower and serves Manchester Street Railway and mill power needs.
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Manchester
N. H
New England
Boston
Manchester Electric Company
Union Electric Company
Merrimac Electric Light, Heat & Power Company
Hooksett
Hooksett Company
P. L. Saltonstall
William A. Tucker
J. Brodie Smith
G. Byron Chandler
Harry E. Parker
Roger G. Sullivan
G. H. Hood
D. A. Taggart
Arthur E. Mason
Manchester Street Railway Company
Manchester Mills
Mary Hamptons Injury Sidelines Lead in Great Ruby
Denver August 7 Actress Mary Hampton was thrown from a horse and will need crutches for at least three weeks. She finished her Denver engagement and heads to New York with Mr and Mrs Robert Drouet. Her ankle swelled to double, delaying rehearsal for The Great Ruby.
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Col
Mary Hampton
Robert Drouet
New York
J. T. Sullivan
Miss Hampton
American Theatre Stock Company
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Forty-second Street
Seventh Avenue
This City
Reverend Lake Dies at Ocean City Founder and Leader
New York Aug 7 The Rev Lake aged 66 one of the founders of Owen and superintendent of the Ocean City association died at Ocean City today His death marks a significant loss for the group and its regional projects The Courier reminds readers to tell advertisers they saw the notice.
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New York
Lake
Owen
Ocean City Association
Love and Deception Across Generations in a Summer Tale
A heiress Rhoda Newport meets Rodney Wallace in Newport, learns Elsie was misled about fidelity by a forged letter. Rodney discovers Elsie’s death and true confession, vows to support Rhoda. Years later, with marriage near, truth reshapes love and trust amid family secrets. Meanwhile Ned Audley pursues Cora aboard a ship, negotiating a path to romance and approval with bold wit.
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Aunt Ryder
Elsie
Ryder
Rodney Wallace
Newport
Paris
Rhoda
R. W
Rodney
Bayard Woolstan
Ned's Wife on the Vanguard Aboard Shanghai Run
On the Vanguard Ned Grayling, the popular hand, is secretly in love with Cora, the skipper's daughter engaged to Audley of Whom ownership. The captain dislikes Ned despite his duty, while Cora sails home toward her betrothed, prompting a tense exchange about discipline at sea.
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Cora
Maryin
Philadelphia
Calcutta
Seth Audley
Old Audley
Ned Audley
Shanghai
Ned Grayling
Captain Marvin
Ned Grayling Audley
New York News
Vanguard
Pretty Cora
Audley
Guerrilla rhetoric in Bengal barrister court address
A Bengal native Indian barrister delivers a flamboyant court address insulted as wind from a teapot while likening the case to guerrilla warfare. He defends a widow client, mocks opposing counsel’s witness, and questions truthfulness, closing by trusting British justice.
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Bengal
Prince of Wales Refuses To Sign Album In Jest
The Gem recounts the Prince of Wales playfully declining to inscribe a lady's album. He recalls spending an hour composing verses, which were later sold to fund the Society For the Restoration of the Stuarts, then quips the album would fund abolition of the monarchy if he wrote in it.
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Prince of Wales
Society For the Restoration of the Stuarts
Prince
England
Life’s duties yield the permanent pleasure sought
The passage emphasizes that true, lasting happiness comes not from chasing pleasure but from faithfully fulfilling life’s duties and obligations. It argues that pursuit of pleasure is fruitless, as happiness follows from duty, while selfishness and enjoyment coexist briefly before the latter withers under selfish influence.
The Loan of a Lover Excites a Dinner Plot
Mrs Denison decides to find an affair to save her marriage and enlists her young admirer Algie Owen. Denison pretends indifference but plans to force a divorce by shifting the scene to a Soho restaurant. A clever ruse leads to a splendid dinner with champagne, and the anticipated divorce never occurs. The trio intertwines romance and vanity as Denison toys with the arrangement.
Fashion and satire via Diet Hair and Harpers menus
An irreverent column mocks fashion figures Miss Greenery Yallery of Boston and Miss Highnose of New York while lampooning diet fads. It jokes about indigestion caused by poor fits and promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a stomach tonic. A quip fantasizes President Harper living on 15 cents a day and sharing menus for board houses.
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Greenery Yallery
Boston
Harper
Corporation
Do Not Spread Mental Distress, Heed Calm Advice
In an August Woman's Home Companion feature, an aging sage warns against worry as a toxin to the mind. He urges elimination of anxious thoughts through vigilance, calm study, and positive ideas, comparing worry to spreading illness and stressing self control and benevolence.
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Adam
Sweet
German Waiters At The Paris Exposition
The German Emperor assembled a trusted corps of waiters to represent Germany at the Paris Exposition. The dispatch, praised by observers, marks the waiters as the best behaved group at the show, reflecting the Emperor’s fatherly admonitions and inspiring commission.
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Germany
St. James’s Gazette
Hood's Pills for Liver Ills Quick Relief
Advertisement for Hood's Pills claiming cures for liver ills biliousness indigestion and headaches. Describes pills as easy to take and operate with a price of 25 cents.
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Hood
Excursions sailings from Boston and Canada advertised
Sailings announced for August 15 and September 12 by New England and October 17 for the immense New Twin Screw Commonwealth. Canada trips to be announced. Modern, safe saloon passage from $60 average voyage. second saloon under seven days $37.60. third class $25.50. Plans and info at 77 State Street Boston or contacts Dennis Murphy 18 Appleton St and others.
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Hoosac Tunnel
Boston
New England
Commonwealth Sails
Canada
State Firet
Mass
Dennis Murphy
Appleton St
O. R. Bernson
Gorham ,St
F. B. Leeds
Bridge St
J. F. O'Donnel
Market
Cor
Worthen Sts
Thomasson
Central St
Grand Summer Excursion Boston to Philadelphia Steamship Co
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Co offers tri weekly sailings between Boston and Philadelphia. Steamers leave Boston Tue Thu Sat at 8 p.m. and Philadelphia Mon Wed Fri at 3 p.m. Ships include Grecian Indian Parthian and Spartan with high speed comfort and meals included. Fare $10 round trip $18 excursion. Agents E P Wing Boston and George Eckhardt Philadelphia.
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Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Co
Boston
Philadelphia
Bea
Philadelpia
Atlantic Seaboard
E. P. Wing
Central Wharf
Mass
George ©. Eckhardt
South
Delaware Ave
A New Light from Welsbach Mantle at Lowell Office
The Lowell Gas Light Co announces the latest Welsbach light with a Yusea mantle, claiming 50 percent more light and three times the strength, lasting longer and costing under half a cent per hour for about 100 candle power per lamp. Also offering first class gas cooking ranges on installment.
Price of Gas With Discount for Prompt Payment
A notice states gas priced at one dollar per thousand feet with a discount offered for prompt payment. The brief lists terms and eligibility for customers to save on this gas rate by paying promptly.
Delivery and Meter Fees for Water Service Noted
The notice lists rates of $4.50 per chaldron and $2.25 per half chaldron for delivered service. It states no charge for meter use and no charge for running supply from street main into consumers’ cells when orders are left at the office, with prompt attention.
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Fom Street
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