Free Land Petition Faces House Rules Committee
Beacon Hill March 5 reports the House rules committee will study the Lowell bill on voter enrollment drawn by Col Ames, with Democrats expected to object or approve. The mercantile affairs committee passed a bill allowing Locks and Canals to cease the upper free landing without dissent. Most committees met minimally on town meeting day as lawmakers avoided major votes.
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Beacon Hill
Committee On Rules of
House
Col. Ames
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Varney
Locks and Canals Company
Upper Free Landing
Melrose
Malden
Gloucester
Lynn
Hyde Pari Water Company
Massachusetts House Signals On Spelling Reform Debate
The House received committee reports on roads and bridges and local liquor and cider sale bills. A heated debate over Mr Fitts’s phonetic spelling bill ended with a 78 to 27 vote to reject. quorum questioned but confirmed with 127 present. Adjourned after receiving additional committee reports and expenses.
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General Court
Saugus
Salem
Frank M. Forbush
D. A Leavis
Fitts
Somerville
Howland
Chelsea
Committee On Judiciary
Stone
Springfield
Lafayette College
Congress
Selfridge
Boston
Odlin
Lynn
Massachusetts
Kyle
Plymouth
Marsh
Weeks
Fall River
Josh Billilngses
Petroleum
Nasbus
House
Back Street
Oston
Upper Free Landing
Lowell
Senate committee amends Plymouth and Sandwich Street Railway charter
The Senate committee on street railways rewrote a bill to allow the Plymouth and Sandwich Street Railway Co to operate freight and express services over certain tracks of the Plymouth and Kingston company and kept a bill enabling towns to regulate hawkers and peddlers. An adverse report on Amesbury resident Arenee Davis’s petition to protect children from fire danger in dwellings was accepted. Mann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Street Railways
Plymouth and Sandwich Street Railway Co
Plymouth and Kingston Company
Arenee Davis
Amesbury
MOOOs Pills Claim Liverile Cure All Ailments
An advertisement touts MOOOs Pills as a universal cure for Liverile Bu lverese Indigestion Meadache and other ailments with claims of easy operation and quick relief. The copy reads like a patent medicine pitch from a historic newspaper page.
Dr Pierce cures irregularities with Favorite Prescription
An article extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for regulating menstrual periods, drying up drains, and treating ulceration and inflammation in women. It cites testimonials, invites letters to Dr. Pierce in Buffalo, and offers the Common Sense Medical Adviser free with stamps.
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Switzerland
N. Y
Alice I. Holmes
Coolspring Street
Uniontown
Hay fire in Charlestown sheds and cars causes $25,000 loss
A three alarm blaze at 12.22 pm damaged a large hay shed owned by Boston and Maine on Rutherford Avenue, with about 60 carloads of hay in nearby cars. Estimated total loss reached $25,000 including shed, hay, and cars. firefighter Lieut. Pope injured. Lord and Webster operate the hay business from 250 Commercial Street. Authorities coordinated response with multiple stations and officers.
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Boston
Rutherford Avenue
Charlestown
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lord & Webster
New Hampshire
Boston Insurance Company
National Insurance Company
Merchants’ Mercantile Insurance Company
North British & Mercantile
New York Underwriters
Commercial Union
Coleman
Sheda
Boston & Maine
FE. D. Pope
Engine Company
Clark
Police Board
Russell
Street Railway Deal Expands Lynn Reston Control
Hoeton March 5 A high Lynn Reston official confirms the Wakefield Stoneham Wakefield Salem and Gloucester electric lines will join the Lynn Reston Railway. The move formalizes a plan begun eight to nine months ago with Mascachusetts Electric consolidation. No fare or staff changes are planned.
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Wakefield
Gloucester
Lynn
Lynn and Boston Rail Line to Cut Lynn Wakefield Fare
A soon announced fare reduction on the Lynn to Wakefield segment of the Lynn and Boston railroad system will drop from 15 cents to 10 cents. The change follows long-standing public demand and is expected to be confirmed shortly.
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Lynn & Boston Railroad
Lynn
Wakefield
Crooks With Rolls
Boston officials press a bill to jail known pickpockets who lack other means of support. Counsel Bangs cites New York strictness and thieves traveling to Massachusetts. Chief Inspector Watts notes one in ten crooks are punished and recounts arrests during the Dewey celebration with no hold.
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Boston
Bangs
Committee On
State House
New York
Massachusetts
Watts
Tremont Temple Meeting For British SA Fund
A Tremont Temple gathering in Boston raised between 1500 and 2000 for the British South African patriotic fund aiding widows orphans and soldiers families. Principal speaker Sir Charles Tupper led addresses with G. Herbert Windeler Harvard’s F C De Sumichrast Rev George A Gordon and Henry B Carrington. music interludes accompanied an intensely enthusiastic crowd.
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Boston
Tremont Temple
Faneuil Hall
British South African Patriotic Fund
South Africa
Charles Tupper
G. Herbert Windeler
F. C. de Sumichrast
Harvard University
George A. Gordon
D. D
Henry B. Carrington
Laid at Rest for Noted Horseman C F Bates
In Boston the body of C Francis Bates famed horseman was buried at Mt. Auburn cemetery after a private noon service. A small party of about twelve including his father and Captain Dickens of the Brooklyn navy yard attended from New York where services were held yesterday. The Arlington house hosted the gathering before the cortege moved to the family plot.
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Boston
C. Francis Bates
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
New York
Mr. Bates
Dickens
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Indiana
Arlington House
Arlington
Globe Bank Depositors to Receive First Dividend
Boston reports Receiver Wing has secured checks from Washington for the first dividend to Globe bank creditors. Depositors proved will collect 20 percent of deposits tomorrow, totaling 1,128,196.21 dollars. The funds are in the sub-treasury vaults and require comptroller signed checks to release. The clearing house also gains from collateral, receiving 600,000 dollars of the dividend and 800,000 dollars from collateral sales, totaling about 1,400,000 dollars.
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Boston
Globe Bank
Washington
Wing
Clearing House
New Weaving Scale Debated by Fall River Mills
A meeting of Fall River manufacturers' executives will discuss a new weaving scale proposed by the Textile council. Mill men report the council departures are more radical than expected, with 18 cents per weaving cut on print cloths under the old standard and 19 cents under the council plan. They worry about chaos if the old spinners' list is abandoned while seeking a compromise that preserves the standard spinners' wage and weaving rate.
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Fall River
Manufacturers' Association
Textile Council
Robert Howard
Manufacturers’ Association
Agure
Tribute to William F Courtney by Middlesex Bar Association
The Middlesex Bar Association met in the police court room to honor late ex mayor William F Courtney. Resolutions praised his 20 years in law, public service in Lowell, kindness, integrity and generosity, with tributes from Bent Pratt Pickman Conant and others.
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Middlesex Bar Association
Police Court
William F. Courtney
Hadley
William H. Bent
Nathan D. Pratt
John J. Pickman
Charles H. Conant
James H. Carmichael
John McEvoy
Charles Cowley
Jerome F. Manning
Dennis J. Murphy
James F. Owens
Peter A. Fay
John J. O'Connor
J. Joseph Hennessy
William Francis Courtney
Lowell
Sar
Congress
Sharswood
Blackstone
Courtney
Here
Mygist
Brother Courtney
Lowell Bar
Mr. Courtney
Mr. Cowley
Cowley
Judge Hadley
Luther Lawrence
Secretary Long and the Armor Question Story
Hon John D Long secretary of the navy tells how armor costs and bids stalled under a 1899 act setting price at 300 a ton Then he recounts overhearing a car discussion on McKinley s message noting how a lawyer in office may misjudge armor needs and delay ships.
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John D. Long
Congress
Long
McKinley
Henry
Cain
Department
Ainsiec
Magasine
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Free
Mr. Ames
Senate
Mann
Leon & Roston
C. F. Bates
Globe Bank Depositors
Fall River Textile Council
Hood
Bar Association
James Carmichael
William Courtney
Maseter
Oeeter
California
Chicago
Kansas City
The
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
S. W. Manning
New England
Washington St
Boston, Mass
Old Dominion Line
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Richmond
Virginia
North Carolina
OLD Dominion Steamship CO
Pier 26
N. R
H. B. Walter
J. J. Brown
Prescott St
Dell Times
Ourier
Itizen Co
Middle Street
16 & If Merri- Mack Street
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