State House marks gas price cut and Haverhill charter bill
Boston June 7. Gas and electric light commissioners back a 10 cent cut in New Bedford gas price from 1.50 per thousand with large consumers’ discount reduced to 20 percent. Small users would gain, large users about steady. Manufacturers committee votes to report a bill to annul the Haverhill Gas Securities Co charter amid full dissent from several lawmakers.
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Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
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New Bedford
Manufactures
Haverhill Gas Securities Co
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Harrington
Smith
Apsey
Burlen
Green
Messrs. Smith
Boston Gas and Haverhill bills move amid clashes in House
Amendments and reports dominated a House session as an amended order demanded a report on the Boston Gas situation by June 11. McNary and Tuttle clashed over seven railroad reports. Reed of Taunton urged tabling the lobsters bill, while Carey of Haverhill pushed to remove an adverse mercantile affairs report to allow underground conduits. Carey also challenged the adverse report on repealing the Haverhill Gas Light charter, accusing the gas trust of overcapitalization and urging municipal ownership at the next election. The Westminster Chambers bill passed to enactment, probate judges' salaries were set for a third reading, and veterans of the Spanish War extendable benefits were debated with Blood's amendment adopted. The session adjourned with the bill to a third reading.
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Read
Carey
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Haverhill
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Haverhill Gas Securities Company
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Essex
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Blood
Fitchburg
Adams
Melrose
Hagberg
Senate
Civil Service Commission
Senate Ways and Means Reports On Bridges and Welfare
The Senate favors a Connecticut river bridge between Springfield and West Springfield and a Worcester grade crossing separation. It approves paying Chief Justice Field’s widow the balance of his salary, while appointing conferencères on disputed amendments. Recessed bills include express company terms, harbor anchorage study, and a legacy tax postponement.
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Atwill
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Luscombe
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Boston Police Relief Association
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Woodman
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Marsh
Chas
Ayer
House
Nicholas B. Kenyon
Ray
Middlesex
Jague
Suffolk
Soule
Bristol
Jay
Maxwell
Tolman
Funeral for Joseph Watkins in Foxboro after town house fire
In Foxboro on June 7 funeral rites were held at Joseph Watkins residence on Rock Hill street for the second fire victim. United Workmen and Foxboro Mansfield fire departments attended. burial occurred at Walpole. Earlier, bones found in ruins misled locals into fearing another death, later explained as an old skeleton from the High School.
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Joseph Watkins
Rock Hill Street
United Workmen
Mansfield
Walpole
Remarkable moa feathers reach the National Museum
Government naturalists celebrate the arrival of moa feathers at the National Museum. The dinornis, a giant flightless bird once 14 feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, roamed New Zealand's islands and vanished centuries ago. Fossil caches and cave finds illuminate its history, extinction likely tied to prehistoric peoples, and a single dinornis egg sits in New York's American Museum of Natural History.
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New Zealand
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Zealand
Europe
South Island
British Museum
Museum of Natural History
New York
Madagascar
Sinbad
Aladdin
Washingto
Suffered Burns Brought Relief by Dean's Ointment
A Bowling Green resident states a burning itching leg sore was relieved by Dean's Ointment after torturous days, claiming a permanent cure from the remedy.
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W. Lenhart
Bowling Green
Season of Stranded Boarders and Deserted House Cats Nears
The society with the long name prepares for upcoming season focusing on caring for stranded boarders and abandoned cats, outlining responsibilities and coordinated efforts to shelter and aid both groups.
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