Civic send off for Geo Dyson with social party
W R Bs evening and Miss Flora Palm presented Geo Dyson with a dress suitcase as he leaves town. A musical program and dancing followed under Samuel Stott. Ice cream cake coffee and sandwiches were served by young ladies. The Republican club whist team lost to Pine Hill Yacht club 335 to 199 in Lowell Saturday.
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Flora Palm
Geo. Dyson
Samuel Stott
Republican’ Club
Lowell
Pine Hill Yacht Club
Tewksbury Residents Protest Railroad Promises
A self appointed committee met Boston and Northern executives to air complaints over transfers five cent fares and service. Residents cite delays, lack of waiting rooms, and mischarged fares as proof promises are kept poorly. Neighboring annexation talk and Hood road electric line plans spark broader town debate.
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Boston
Boston and Northern Company
Tewksbury
South Lowell
Wigginville
Wamesit
Wilmington
William Dickson
North Chelmsford News Highlights Local Visits and Services
North Chelmsford residents host visitors from Leominster and Leominster kindergarten plans. A forceful parish sermon opened Sunday at St John’s Church by Rev Edmund T Schofield. Funeral rites for Ada Sheldon Hayward were conducted in Chelmsford and West Medford with large floral tributes. The service included sermons by Rev Robert W Dunbar and Rev Ernest C Bartlett, and a Riverside cemetery burial.
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Fred W. Park
Leominter
John S. Hall
Wallace A. Josselyn
Main Street
St. John's Church
Edmund T. Schofield
Harriet M. Hall
Leominster
West Medford
Arthur H. Sheldon
Robert W. Dunbar
Second Congregational Church
Princeton Street
Ernest C. Bartlett
Central Congregational Church
Chelmsford Centre
Hubert Bearce
Augustus E. Duncan
Charles F. Scribner
Arthur H. Salmon
J. Q. Hayward
Helen and
Sheldon
Boston
Winchester
Dedham
Worcester
North Chelmsford
High Street
Judson V. Clancy
Chelmsford
Henry L. Reynolds
Arthur H. Sweet
North Chelm
Helen
Sheldon Hayward
Jesus
Dr. Hills
South Natick
Mra
A. M. Eames
Birthday club marks Mrs Lapham sixty sixth birthday
SOUTH CHELMSFORD. The Birthday club met Wednesday afternoon the 26th with Mrs N B Lapham to celebrate her sixty sixth birthday anniversary. The event included readings songs and a social time with a dainty collation served. Thanksgiving Day family gatherings were held at several listed homes and Mr Lyman A Byam's family spent the day in Lawrence.
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N. B. Lapham
S. T. Park
D. P. Byam
Orrin Spaulding
S. J. Garland
H. H. Emerson
Pheledian club social draws large local and Lowell guest crowd
North Billerica report notes a well attended informal gathering at the Pheledian club rooms Saturday night with many members and Lowell friends. The Columbian orchestra performed and Bert Ellis James F. Gannon and Charles D Slattery sang including several of Slattery'scoon songs. A fine supper was provided by the supper committee led by John A Hannon Maurice O'Donnell and James H Gannon. Miss Katie Sheehan of Hallowell Maine visited Mr and Mrs Chan J Nugent of Wilson street. Lucy Miner, visiting relatives, left town for an unspecified destination.
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Pheledian Club
Lowell
Columbian Orchestra
Bert Ellis
James F. Gannon
Charles D. Slattery
John A. Hannon
Maurice O'Donnell
James H. Gannon
Katie Sheehan
Hallowell
Sr Valea” al
Dracut Revival Preached At Hillside Church In McKnight's Absence
Rev Samuel Worth filled the Hillside Congregational pulpit in Dracut yesterday due to Rev J A McKnight's illness in the family. Evening services started at 6 30 with the auditorium lecture omitted. Town schools resume after the Thanksgiving break.
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Samuel Worth
Collinsville Mission
Hillside Congregational Church
J. A. McKnight
Wigginville Community Notices and Local Happenings
In Wigginville William Heap bought a cottage on Epping street and Benjamin Staveley began a cottage on Lee avenue. The Roadside polo team lost to Sorosis in Huntington Hall. Mrs. Jacob Wallace of Morton street is seriously ill. A proposal to open an evening school is under discussion, with volunteer guarantors sought. J C Casters eldest son becomes telegrapher for Boston and Maine. James Whitworth underwent finger surgery after prior poor dressing caused pain. A Christmas mission committee was named and Alvin Sykes to invite Santa Claus. Superintendent John T McCoy preached his farewell sermon at the mission.
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William Heap
Wm. H. Wiggin
Epping Street
Benj. Staveley
Lee Avenue
Huntington Hall
Jacob Wallace
Morton Street
J. C. Caster
Lawrence Street
Boston & Maine R. R
James Whitworth
Susanna Wilde
Florence Wilde
Lena M. Alley
Eliza Green
Annie Croft
Alvin Sykes
Santa Claus
John T. McCoy
Allen and Prescott clash in Montreal prison scene
An account from Justin H. Smith in the Century depicts Ethan Allen captured before Montreal during Montgomery's Canadian expedition. Prescott challenges him with cane and insults, Allen retorts with defiance, and when faced with bayonets he offers to take the blame. Prescott spares them briefly, sending Allen to Gaspe and Pendennis castle instead.
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Justin H. Smith
Prescott
Montreal
Ethan Allen
Montgomery
Allen
Arnold
Ticonderoga
Tyburn
Carleton
Gaspe
Pendennis
Brave Rescue Off Cape Breton by Norwegian Steamer
In a gale near Flat Point light off Cape Breton an ailing French fishing schooner Blanke with 12 crew faced foundering. Norwegian steamer Loystakken under Captain Reinertsen stood by five hours in 50 mph winds, passing lines and finally rescuing all aboard after a lifeboat mission.
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Halifax
N. S
Reinertsen
Loostakken
Blanke
Cape Breton
St. Pierre
Mig
Sydney
C. B
Flat Point Light
Eight shipwrecked mariners rescued by Fortabelle
The Fortabelle arrived from the West Indies with eight men saved at sea after a maritime distress Saturday evening. They include Captain W G Kneeland and seven crew members from the American schooner Pendleton Brothers which departed New York November 26 bound for Mobile with cement cargo.
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New York
Quebec Company
Fortabelle
West Indies
W. G. Kneeland
Pendleton Brothers
Mobile
Jacques Cartier Wrecks Off Cape John in fierce storm
The side wheel steamer Jacques Cartier, operating between Charlottetown and Crapp, was wrecked at Cape John on the north shore of Prince Edward Island after losing its rudder in a storm. The vessel broke apart and the seven crew members made a difficult landfall with the sea crashing around them.
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Halifax
N. S
Jacques Cartier
Charlottetown
Cape John
Prince Edward Island
Fatal Railroad Collision near Carlton Pa
A Chicago and Baltimore express eastbound on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad crashed head on with a freight train after passing an open switch at Carlton Pennsylvania seven miles east of Youngstown. One man was killed and three others injured, one seriously, while passengers were shaken but unharmed.
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Youngstown
Chicago and
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Carlton
Here
New England Pasture Lands and Soil Improvement
A farm advice piece by C. W. Burkett urges renewing neglected pasture and meadow soils in New England. It recommends tillage, judicious fertilization, and growing cow peas or corn to refresh soil, increase nitrogen via legumes, and boost beef and dairy profitability.
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New England
C. W. Burkett
Juror Exclusion Plea Over Hearing Impairment
In a courtroom exchange Judge Knox considers Dunn’s request to remove a juror who is deaf in one ear. The attorney argues the juror cannot hear both sides, while the judge asks for clarification on the impairment's impact.
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Dunn
Knox
A Lofty Fad for the City’s Homeless in NY Court
In a November Century feature, a harsh look at Manhattan lodging houses shows three night tolerance, then arrest and vagrant commitment. A shabby detainee pleads of grace, quoting the Romans, while a police magistrate sentences most to workhouse confinement for periods from thirty days to six months.
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Manhattan
New York Police Court
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