Senate Rejects Labor Amendment in Boston Subway Bill
Special legislative correspondence from Boston notes the Senate split into two days to advance the subway bill toward enactment. Labor clause fate remains pivotal as lawmakers weigh passage against worker protections while other bills for Sherman's harbor project Worcester station and Provincetown lands advance. Governor signs Boston district local option bill as lawmakers push several transportation and infrastructure measures.
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Province Lands
Provincetown
Harvell
Rockland
Fall River
Hayes
Lowell
New Hampshire Street Railway
Legislature debates on street railways and state land reserves
In morning sessions the House ordered the Haverhill & Southern New Hampshire Street railway extension bill to a third reading. Amendments to the constitutional petition threshold were defeated, and the Jackson measure failed. A substitute land acquisition bill for Mount Tom and Mount Nonotuck was rejected. A Boston precinct caucus bill was postponed, and a highways funding item was engrossed after a brief quorum scare.
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Senate reports clear docket and harbor bills advance
The Senate Ways and Means Committee cleared its docket with reports in favor of several harbor and infrastructure bills. Actions include funding for Apponagansett harbor improvements, Worcester hospital work, a John Hancock statue, and an investigation into the Slade's Ferry bridge cost. A labor clause in the subway bill passed. The session adjourned after voting on a bridge and district vacancy bill.
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Wood
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Dartmouth
Suffolk
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Transit Commission
Morrison
Bristol
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Taunton Great River
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Crane
McHugh Case Dominates Commons Debate in London
In London on June 20 the House of Commons crowded into discussions over Patrick A McHugh’s three month jail term for contempt of a Sligo court under the Crimes act Appointed to probe his arrest and report back the House after bitter Irish accusations of the act.
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Doctor Smith questions Paris tuberculosis inoculation claim
Boston reports that Dr. Theobald Smith of Harvard Medical School says he has no knowledge of Dr. Garnault inoculating himself with bovine tuberculosis in Paris. He cautions against assuming cross species transfer and supports rigorous animal studies as the current path for understanding bovine and human TB.
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Paul Garnault
Paris
Bordeaux
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Bussey Institute
Forest Hills
Koch
Laboratory of Comparative Pathology
Massachusetts State Board of Health
London
Medical News
New York
la Villette
Mount Holyoke Receives Major Endowments and Gifts
Boston report details Helen Gould donating 40000 for a Biblical literature chair at Mount Holyoke. The day marked by Dwight Art Memorial dedication with gifts from alumni and Springfield donor Henry Lee of 5000 for a scholarship. Degrees awarded for 1902 and others. lectures on art education highlighted by Harvard’s G H Palmer.
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Helen Gould
Elizabeth Blanchard
Dwight
Hampshire
Connecticut
Springfield
A. L. Williston
M. B. Dwight
F. C. Coburn
Newton
Bardwell Memorial Fellowship
G. H. Palmer
Harvard
Woolley
Sarah J. Agard
N. Jane Davis
E. Louise Brownbach
Dwight Art Memorial Building
M. HB. Dwight
John Dwight
Judson Smith
Georgianna Hodgkins
Mount Holyoke College
Blanchard
John H. Wright
Harvard College
Blakeley Speed Trial Ends In Scald Injuries
Newport Rhode Island June 19 during the official speed trial of the torpedo boat Blakely a leak in the high pressure steam chest caused severe scalds to engineer Henry Prior and chief mason Alexander Mason. The trial was stopped for repairs and will resume tomorrow after treatment by Navy surgeon Dr Stone.
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Henry Prior
Alexander Mason
Stone
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Board of Inspection and Survey
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