State House Briefs Reflect Schedule and Reforms
Beacon Hill notes a two minute House session with a push for committee appointments, while key talk centers on state care of the insane, county prison control, and a Fitchburg railroad annual report showing rising traffic. Legislation includes gas pricing limits in Boston and a plan to form a Farmers suburban Jobbing Co to operate electric and motor vehicles between Boston and fields with capital up to 25000.
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State Board Recommends State Care for All Insane
Special report to Legislature urges gradual shift to state funded care and housing for all mentally ill, with separate facilities for chronic, epileptic, and convalescent patients. Proposes consolidation of costs, transfer of inmates from towns, and land and buildings owned by the Commonwealth.
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State Board of Insanity
Commonwealth
Boston Insane Hospital
Plan for Insane Asylum Colony Funding Outlined
The report urges a general, progressive plan establishing a state insanity colony with up to 25000 dollars for land purchase and up to 50000 dollars for initial organization and buildings. It argues this approach better separates acute from chronic cases than new hospitals, with long-term, phased expenditure. Signatories include Jelly, Howard, Codman, Bradford and Gardner.
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State Board of Insanity
George F. Jelly
Herbert B. Howard
Charles R. Codman
Edward S. Bradford
Francis B. Gardner
Woman attempts suicide by carbolic acid in Springfield
Mrs. Jas. Wolfe of 45 Harrison avenue drank three quarters of an ounce of carbolic acid this morning after a dispute over a theatre trip and a refused request to destroy a photo of her first husband. The narcotic was pumped from her system and she is expected to recover at a local hospital.
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Springfield
Jas. Wolfe
Harrison Avenue
State Street
Some Economics Uncle Eph Seems a car famine out west
Uncle Eph and Uncle Zeb sound a debate in the Detroit Journal about a car shortage in the West linked to railroad trusts. They frame the issue as economic stress caused by monopolistic control shaping supply and prices.
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Eph
Zeb
Detroit Journal
Woman's Devotion. Annie Hubert Near Lover's Prison
Annie Hubert, wife of William Davis, released on recognizance after counterfeiting charges. Davis sentenced to four years in Charlestown State Prison. Annie and her mother plan to run a bakery near the prison to stay close. Mrs Hubert, 72, has raised 18 children and runs bakeries in East Boston and the North End.
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Annie Hubert
William Davis
Oklahoma
Davis
Anne Hubert
Charlestown
Hubert
Cross
Endicott
New England Veteran Firemen Gather in Boston Meeting
About ninety veteran firemen attended the New England States Veteran Firemen league annual meeting in Boston with President Wm. T. Chesswell presiding. The Niagara Veteran Firemen's association application was laid over, rules amendments were debated, and several new committee assignments were made, including Wm. G. Kirschbaum as chairman. Membership actions favored Defiance Cran Firemen of Fall River and laid over Kennebunk Maine for next gathering.
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Boston
Wm. T. Chesswell
New England States
Committee of Five
Wm. G. Kirschbaum
New Bedford
John Exley
Newton
Charles A. Belford
Roxbury
John H. Davis
Pawtucket
R. T
Wm. T. King
Cambridge
Defiancecran Firemen’s Association of
Fail River
League
Kennebunk Association
Kennebunk
Maine
Tufts Remembered Endows English Professor At Tufts
Walter Scott Dickson, a Salem shoe manufacturer, endowed Tufts College with 50000 for a new professorship in English and American literature. Rev Edwin C Bolles is named professor at 2000 per year for life. Dickson previously funded a memorial chapel in Greenlawn cemetery, Salem.
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Boston
Walter Scott Dickson
Salem
Tufts College
Edwin C. Bolles
First Universalist Church of
Prohibition Party Elects Officers for 1900 Year
Boston reports the state central prohibition committee met at Tremont temple and elected Rev. Alva H. Morrill of New Bedford as chairman Willard O. Wylie of Beverly as vice chairman F W Clark of Boston as secretary and H M Small of Baldwinsville as treasurer for 1900 The note ends with a comic exchange from the Philadelphia Record about Miss Flirty’s engagements.
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New Bedford
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Beverly
F. W. Clark
H. M. Small
Baldwinsville
Deep Mystery as Mill Worker Found Under Water Wheel
Battle Creek reports Sherman Church a prominent miller found dead wedged under Augusta mills water wheel. Both hands tied behind him with a heavy iron attached to his left leg. Coroner to hear jury on cause of death.
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Chronicle
Battle Creek
Mich
Sherman Church
Augusta Mills
Henry Marvin
Marvin
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Postal Clerk Maloney Arrested In Somerville Letter Heist
Daniel F. Maloney, a Somerville post office clerk, was arrested on charges of stealing a decoy special delivery letter containing five one dollar bills. The 29 year old, married with one child, was held on $1500 bond for exam January 23. He has seven years in postal service, previously with Back Bay.
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Daniel F. Maloney
Somerville
Post Office
Maloney
United States
Fiske
Federal Building
Highland Avenue
Back Bay
Blackburn Leads In Kentucky Senator Election
Frankfort Kentucky January 9 the House balloted for United States senator Blackburn a Democrat received 57 votes while Bradley a Republican had 42 in the Senate Blackburn led with 22 to 12 for Bradley in the ballots The joint assembly will ballot tomorrow and today and tomorrow’s proceedings will be duplicated on the corresponding days next week due to doubt over timing
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Village Grippes Cure Credits Peruna Remedy
C T Hatfield and family of six in Winona Stark Co claim Peruna cured their la grippe during a winter outbreak when doctors failed. They purchased six bottles, recovered quickly, and had a remaining bottle left. Hatfield offers a free copy of Winter Catarrh with a Hartman lecture on la grippe.
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Winona, Stark Co., Inc
la Grippe
C. T. Hatfield
Dr. Hartman
Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Mor mon Church Leader Clarifies Polygamy Policy
President Lorenzo Snow of the Mormon church issues a formal statement reaffirming the 1890 Woodruff manifesto. The church has abandoned plural marriages in all states and denies any authority to perform such unions or encourage unlawful cohabitation. Members disobeying the law bear their own responsibility before the courts.
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Salt Lake City
Lorenzo Snow
Mormon Church
Wilford Woodruff
General Conference
Cuban Pardons And political shifts in Havana
Havana reports sixty more prisoners up for pardon by the prison commission as Governor General Wood advances clemency. Deputy Collector Aroustegui, linked to fraudulent import appraisals, is arrested on a $2000 bail. he is a cousin of Gonzalo de Quesada. General Masso departs for Santiago while El Cubano targets General Ludlow with a fined paper, and MenoCal becomes lighthouse inspector at $5000 per year.
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Arostegui
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Washington
Masso
Senor Gavin
la Lucha
Republic
General Masso
Santiago
General Ludlow
General Menocal
Vermont Dairymen Open Three Day Brattleboro Convention
The Vermont Dairymen's association began a three days convention in Brattleboro with welcome addresses. President Geo W Pierce described the association as the oldest of its kind and praised Vermont as leading the world in fine butter production. He spoke on dairy legislation tuberculin tests dairy schools and colleges. Ex Governor W D Hoard of Wisconsin is to address later.
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Vermont Dairymen’s Association
Geo. W. Pierce
America
Vermont
W. D. Hoard
Wisconsin
National
Organizations of Dairymen and Agriculturalists
Reichstag Reopens with Formal Session in Berlin
Berlin January 9 Reichstag again opened with routine business. Most matters handled were formal and the budget is set for discussion tomorrow.
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Reichstag
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