Lowell Board of Trade Pushes 3 Million State Highways Grant
Boston Jan 28 report from the House reveals a push by the Lowell Board of Trade to raise the annual state highway appropriation to 3 million dollars. James T. Smith urged delaying action until hearings on a 3 million plan, while the committee weighed a 500 thousand dollar regular highway program.
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Lowell Board of Trade
Boston
Frothingham
Boston Associated Boards of Trade
Washington Street
Broadway
Washington Streets
Adams Square
City of
Davis
Amesbury
Massachusetts Highway Commission
James T. Smith
McClintock
Highway Commission
Roads and Bridges
Mr. Hayes
Senator Williams
Wayland
Joseph EE. Buswell
J. J. Collins
J. E. Buswell
C. F. Ames
Chelsea & Revere Street Railway Company
Chelsea
F. O. Mac-Cartney
J. A. Coulthurst
John Fleet
F. G. Creamer
C. H. Kemp Sturgeon
Justices of the Peace
Samuel Ross
F. A. Teele
J. Clifford Sherman
Senate committee reports road land take for Titicut Street widening
The Senate roads and bridges committee reported a bill allowing Plymouth county to take state farm land in Bridgewater as needed to widen and straighten Titicut street from Conant street to the Taunton river. Senator Sparks introduced a bill to incorporate the Lowell Collateral Loan Association with $20,000 capital.
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Senate
Committee On Roads and Bridges
Plymouth County
Bridgewater
Titicut
Conant Street
Taunton River
Senaor Sparks
Lowell Collateral Loan Association
Thomas H. Kelley
Williams Curtin
Arthur Kelley
George Fameus
Henry K. Noyes
John Kelley
Dennis Connors
Frank M. Forbush
Supreme Court
City Library Association of
Springfield
Robert Aldrich
Milville Cemetery Association
Blackstone
John P. Regan
House
Election Laws
Williams
Middlesex
Wreck Kills Albany Engineer as NYC Train Hits Switch Engine
A New York Central wreck at Oneida New York today left engineer Dorsey Welch of Albany dead. The late train struck a switch engine backing off track No 1, toppled the switcher into the station and sent another engine tumbling onto track No 2. Several passengers were slightly injured. no one else was seriously hurt. Coroner Knapp to investigate.
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Oneida
N. Y
New York Central
Syracuse
Dorsey Welch
Albany
Knapp
Canastota
Dig the Canal Across Nicaragua and Costa Rica Plan
A Chicago group led by Lymon Jd. Cooley proposes building an Isthmian canal across Nicaragua or Panama. They would take the project as one contract, bond required, and expect to industrially and commercially dominate a tropical arena if Nicaragua route chosen, with room for 25,000 Americans and vast coffee land. Panama offers only a canal, not town development.
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New York
Washington
Chicago
Buid
Nicaragua
Panama
Lymon Jd. Cooley
Cooley
Canal Commission
Costa Rica
United States
Nicaragua Canal
Mr. Cooley
Grey
Brito
Smallpox in Woonsocket Claims Second Infant Victim
Woonsocket Rhode Island reports the second death in the outbreak a three month old baby of Thomas Roussell died after a weeks illness. The city has 47 active cases under medical supervision and strict quarantine measures remain in force while the infection hospital is expanded to house quarantined patients.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Thomas Roussell
Bridge Across Great Salt Lake Proposed by Southern Pacific
Omaha Neb Jan 28 Fourth Vice-President Kruttschritt general manager of the Southern Pacific announces plans to build a bridge across the Great Salt Lake. The 28 mile span would include 12 miles of deep water with steel trestles and the rest over shallow water on earth foundations faced with stone. Construction would take two years and start immediately. When finished the bridge and a long high grade would save 45 miles in distance. The project, long desired, was previously deemed impracticable.
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Omaha
Neb
Great Salt Lake
Southern Pacific
Kruttschritt
Lawrence Man Pleads Not Guilty in Jewelry Store Break-In
Lawrence Jan 28 John Roach arrested in Haverhill last evening for breaking a window at John Schneider’s jewelry store and stealing watches valued at 75 dollars. He pleaded not guilty in police court and was held under 300 dollars bond for trial tomorrow.
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Lawrence
John Roach
Haverhill
John Schneider
Remarkable Cure of Croup Saves Little Boy
A father from Inwood Iowa credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with saving his son's life. He bought it in Goodwin South Dakota, used it as directed every ten minutes until vomiting, then recovered as the child expelled phlegm. He urges others to trust the medicine, noting it was available at all druggists.
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Chamberlain
A. E. Steere
Goodwin, S. D
Joel Demoni
Inwood
Iowa
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Public Franchise League
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Metropolitan Park Commission
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Exeter, Hampton & Amesbury Street Railway Company
Thomas Russell
Worcester Insane Hospital
Gas and Electric Light Commission
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Boston Teamsters
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