Thief in Women’s Clothes Haunts Dorchester Yards
Boston reports a recurring theft spree in Dorchester, with clotheslines targeted across several streets. Police Captain Hunt faces scrutiny as residents urge action against a suspected male thief dressing in women’s clothes. Multiple yard losses and one sighting are described, prompting complaints to Station 11 and concern districtwide.
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Boston
Hunt
Dorchester
Station 11
Draper Street
Captain Hunt
Capt. Hunt
Brady's Hearing on Bay State Gas Postponed Again
In Boston on December 13, the Brady v. Bay State Gas hearing to appoint a temporary receiver for the New Jersey defendant was postponed to next Thursday. The delay follows the defendant’s New York counsel's unavailability and questions of court jurisdiction. Henry J. Kelsey of Trenton was named temporary receiver, with an auxiliary receiver cited by the New York circuit court.
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Boston
Patrick J. Brady
Bay State Gas Company
New Jersey
Kirkpatrick
United States Circuit Court For
Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Whitredge
New York
Mercantile Trust Company of
Henry J. Kelsey
Trenton
New Jersey Court
Petition Denied Lincoln Street Railway Extension
Lincoln railroad commissioners refused the Lexington and Roson Street Railway request to extend tracks into the town citing public inconvenience. The contentious proposal drew leaders Charlies Francia Adame and Moorfield Storey into a heated debate over electric car service and potential disruption to Lincoln’s residential streets.
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Selectmen
Lexington & Boston Street Railway Company
Lincoln
Bowson
Charlies Francia Adame
Moorfield Storey
Lexington & Roeson Street Railway Company
Concord & Rosen
Lexington Boston
Man Shot in Lodging House in Boston
A 35 year old man is found shot in a Boston lodging house on Portland Street. He lies unconscious at Massachusetts General Hospital with a 22 caliber revolver nearby and two cartridges expended. A little girl's slippers under the bed raise suspicion. the victim's identity remains unknown.
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Boston
Dee
Union Lodging House
Portland Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Parker
West End
Joy Street
Ella White
Indictments Hit McCrillis and Several Politicians in Boston
Boston on December 13 saw Ransom F. McCrillis former deputy collector indicted on three counts of embezzlement and larceny of U S funds. Also five indictments against Representative Cornelius Minihan for false swearing in naturalization cases and others charged with false swearing or aiding citizenship. Additional indictments include mail fraud and passenger transport violations involving several individuals across Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Boston
Ransom F. McCrillis
Essex and Middlesex
McCrillis
Cornelius Minihan
Cambridge
Patrick Herbert
Maurice Galvin
Patrick Lordan
Michael Slattery
Patrick F. Sexton
William Corcoran
George W. Bristol
Thomaston, Conn
Simeon Goldberg
Bether Cotton
Lewis Stacey
United States
Hendrick W. Horee
New Medford
Azores
Tamworth Offers Reward in Dodge Murder Case
Tamworth NH offers a 900 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the death of Rea Dodge near Tamworth on Sept. 1. Peston and G F Pedge add 20 more on the same terms. Dodge were found shot near his home in Tamworth. A coroner verdict blamed unknown parties.
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Tamworth
N. H
Rera P Dodge
J.P
G. F. Pedge
Dodge
Tamworth End
Fancy work remnants offer from Pollard and Company
A. G. Pollard & Co advertises fine handkerchiefs and embroidery fabrics in yard wide remnants. Prices listed as nine cents per yard for various widths and lengths, with pieces ranging from 1 to 8 centimeters in width and 9 cents per yard for remnants.
New Bedford Loom Fixers Strike Rumor Denied
New Bedford reports little change in the South End strike as President Lynch of the National Loomfixers union denies a planned loomfixers walkout. Secretary Hart says 350 weavers are on strike, with many still at home. Operatives urge solidarity, while doubts rise about mill progress and future conferences.
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New Bedford
South End
Lynch
National Loomfixers’ Union
Associated Press
Hart
Off Her Stations Nantucket Lightship Update
The Nantucket South Shoal Lightship miles offshore remains reported off station and has not yet passed Gay Head. If it has parted cables it will steam to New Bedford for replacement arrangements at its regular station. Other nearby light ships are said to be fine. A wheel and wheel rope found on South Beach are believed to come from the barge Anderson.
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Nantucket
Nantucket South Shoal
Gay Head
New Bedford
Anderson
Hood's Sarsaparilia Purifies Blood, Aimed at Health
The advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilia as a wonderful blood purifying medicine and declares it the enemy of disease and friend of mankind. It urges readers who have never taken it to try the remedy.
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Hood
Lowell Retail Market Prices for Groceries and Grain
Prices for groceries grain and related commodities in Lowell on December 13 1900. Data supplied by Buttrick Co J B Cover Co D W Horne Co Killpartrick res F E Putnam and others. Includes figures for grocers flour coal fruit fish and vegetables.
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Lowell
Buttrick & Co
J. B. Cover & Co
D. W. Horne & Co
Killpartrick Res
F. E. Putnam
Prescott Street
Sponge Cake Recipe and Veal and Ham Pie Instructions
A reader shares a family sponge cake method using eggs sugar soda water cream of tartar flour and a 20 minute bake in a hot oven with flavoring optional. Also included is a veal and ham pie assembly with layered meat herbs lemon peel and hard boiled eggs baked under puff pastry finished with a boiled gravy jelly.
Vermicelli Mold with Ham or Tongue
A recipe instructs boiling milk with vermicelli, simmering five minutes, adding eggs and cream, seasoning with salt white pepper and a shallot. Butter a mold, line with finely cut ham or tongue, fill with the mixture and bake. Serve turned out with savory gravy or tomato sauce.
Kidney Toast Recipe From Historic Menu
Kidney toast recipe instructs splitting kidneys, mincing, sautéing with parsley shalot butter Worcester sauce and flour, then boiling briefly. Stir in kidney mince with salt and pepper, butter toast slices, top with mince and bread crumbs with grated cheese, bake quickly and serve hot.
Hog's Head Cheese Recipe From Mrs Robinson
An old time instruction describes making hogs head cheese by parboiling the head and tongues, skinning and chopping, simmering until jelly, then seasoning and setting in molds. The fat rises to the top for easy removal, producing a ready to use meat product.
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Mrs. Robinson
Currant Dumplings by Mrs Exeter
Wash and dry a pound of currants then mix flour ginger salt and finely chopped suet with the currants. Bind into a light paste with milk then roll into large balls and boil gently until done. Serve hot.
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Exeter
Palestine Soup From Jerusalem Artichokes and Vegetables
Tare and cut six pounds Jerusalem artichokes three turnips one onion and a head of celery. Cook in white stock until tender then tub through a sieve. If thick thin with paree milk. Reboil add cream or milk, sugar pepper salt and cayenne. Serve hot with fried bread dice. Jennie J.
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Jerusalem
Apple Cake From Old Cook Instructions
A historical recipe describes making a simple apple cake by creaming sugar and butter, beating eggs, adding milk flour cream of tartar and soda, baking in jelly cake tins, then topping with melted butter or whipped cream and sugar.
Bread Cake Recipe Fragment From Old Cookbook
A partial recipe describes mixing one cup batter with two cups sugar and two well beaten cups of stoned roisine, two teaspoons soda in one cup milk, and three cups light bread dough. The batter is baked in a battered paper lined pan in a warm place until light, then baked moderately for an hour or more.
Chicken Pot Pie Procedure Found in Text
A recipe fragment describes boiling chicken pieces in water until tender, seasoning with salt and pepper, and thickening gravy with butter. Toast and cut bread before serving, add to the boiling pot, and keep chicken hot on a platter once done.
Chocolate Cream Dessert Moulds by Annie B
Whip a pint of cream to stiff froth. Boil milk with vanilla and sugar, stir in gelatine soaked in warm water. Add soaked chocolate, two beaten eggs, stir until smooth. Fold in cream, pour into moulds, and chill.
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Annie B
Lobster Cutlets From Polly P
Large lobster meat cut into half inch squares cooked with butter flour crackers milk and egg then baked in a buttered square tin. Cool and cut into squares for frying in hot fat until brown. Garnish with parsley and serve.
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Polly P
Salt Cod With Eggs Stew Recipe From Tena J. L.
Pick over a pint bowlful of salt cod and simmer in water to cover then rinse. Drain, melt butter, stir in flour but do not brown, add milk, bring to a boil. Break in one egg per person, cook whites, then arrange eggs on a dish and ladle fish over them.
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Tena J. L
Beef Soup with Okra Recipe
A round steak is cut into small pieces and sautéed in butter with a sliced onion. The browned meat plus four quarts of cold water are simmered for an hour. Salt pepper and one pint of sliced okra are added, then simmered three and a half hours. Strain and serve with bread sticks.
Fruit Pudding With Bread Fragments And Fruit
Line a bowl with bread slices, fill with fresh or preserved fruit, soak gelatin in cold water for thirty minutes, then add two cups milk and one cup sugar. Boil mixture, pour over fruit and bread, chill in refrigerator, and serve with whipped cream.
Fried Cakes and Dough Method from Olivia D
A recipe describes beating an egg with sugar and cream then sour milk and soda, grate nutmeg, mix with flour to a soft dough, cut into bars, twist into shapes and fry in hot fat. The notes mention Olivia D N.
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Olivia D, N
Cabbage Salad With Hot Dressing Recipe
A cabbage salad method describes chilling half a cabbage in ice water for an hour then preparing a hot dressing. Beat ice with coxar, mix in butter mustards salt, heat until thickened, add sugar, and pour over well drained cabbage. Signed Mrs Smith.
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Mrs, Smith
Boston Brown Bread Recipe Instructions
A recipe outlines making Boston brown bread with sour milk molasses soda salt corn meal and graham. The method directs mixing in a half full tin pail, boiling three hours, then uncovering and finishing in a hot oven for ten to fifteen minutes.
Kenwood heater ad promises efficiency and bright light
The Kenwood requires no boiler but can be used with one. A heater inspection at our office shows its advantages. The Welsbach Light with the Yusea Mantle offers 50 percent more light, triple mantle strength, long life, and a bright output. First-class gas cooking ranges sold at cost.
Boston and Maine R R Timetable for Fastport and St John
Passenger schedule lists routes from Portland to Castine Veer Isle Sedgewick Bar Harbor Jonesport Machiasport via steamer Frank Jones and from Portland to Woburn Nashua Portland Amherst Greenfield Peterboro Be Hillesory Naspus and several other destinations with multiple daily departures including 9.08 and 10.39 am times, Sundays and weekdays notes, connections through White River Junction Plymouth and St Albans, Montreal via Boston Air Line and Sherbrooke daily except Saturday, with references to Dally Sheet and Central Vermont connections.
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Fastport
St. John
Portland
Castine
Veer Isle
Sedgewick
Bar Harbor
Jonesport
Machiasport
Frank Jones
Woburn
Ayer Junction
Fitchburg
Nashua
Rochester
Amherst
Miford
Aion
Greenfield
Peterboro
Hillesory
Hester
Sant ‘Lebanon
White River Junction
Franklin
Newport CN
Cisremon
Ie A. White
Bivisto
St. 5
Wells River
Ventpelter
Exsex Junction
Wilmington
I Landers
Taft
Lowell
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Tailroad
McGrillis
Dodge Murderer
A. G. Pollard
Twiss
Knowles
Manufacturers’ Committee
Japan
Tub
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Yson
Java
Rio
Neans Veneer Uniona
Loeqe
Daisy
Palestine Soup
Boston Brown Bread
Dominion Line
Quenstown
Liverpool
England
Commonwealth
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Mass
Dennis Murphy
Appleton St
O. R. Benson
Gorham St
F. B. Leeds
Bridge
J. F. O’donnell
Market
Cor. Worthen
Anders Thomasson
Central St
London
Arthur Rhodes
Merrimack Street
Courier-Citizen Building
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Kenwood
A. F. Roach
Bridge Street
Cutter
Sherwood
Taylor
Hunter
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Jones’ Ale
Harvard
Holtead
T. H Boyle & CO. Propratirs
Railroads
Boston & Maine
R. R
Chicago
St Louis, St. Paul, Minneapsliz
Pullan
D. J. Flanders
Geni Pass
Akt
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New York, New Haven & Hartford
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Taunton
Newpor Providence
Pawtucket
Marlboro
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Way
Albany R.R
Worcester
Springfiel
Albany
Concor
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Plains
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Dover
Alton Bay
Somersworth
Saco
Old Orchard
Augusta
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Waren
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Rocklaw
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Halifax
Montreal
Quebec
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Zourier Itizen Company
Printing Department
George E. Stanley Gaver
Meno
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