Columbus Park's Immaculate Conception Grounds Transform
The grounds around the Church of the Immaculate Conception on East Merrimack Street near Columbus Park have been redesigned. Nearly 1700 plants across 65 varieties have been planted in 15 beds, adding trees, shrubs, and diverse foliage to create a blooming, landscape feature that will mature over two to three years and rival gardens in Boston.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
Merrimack Street
Columbus Park
W. D.oyce
Eugene A. Dorgan
Salman Sirk
New England
Immaculate Conception
Boston
Thomas Kelley
Ireland
Garden Grounds Designed by Tarbell in Framingham
A description of a decorative grounds project fronting Merrimack Street with diverse plantings including white and purple roses, alpinum currant, yuca plants, a linden tree, a tulip tree and magnolia. The landscape laid out by H. W. Tarbell with foreman J. H. Despres, who hails from Worcester, and Brother Billard supervising ongoing work, plus Tarbell’s other state jobs and a $10,000 project at Phillips Academy in Andover.
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South
Framingham
H. W. Tarbell
J. H. Despres
Worcester
Mr. Tarbell
Merrimack Street
Billard
France
Tarbell
Phillip’s Academy
Andover
Bachelor Club Camp Hosts Belle Grove Minstrel Night
The Twentieth Century Bachelor club at Belle Grove opened its camp with a 7:30 PM car ride gathering and an 8:30 PM banquet. President James Dacey praised outside talent and vowed to rescue the Burkes from oblivion. The program featured buck and wing dancing, quartette songs, and a minstrel show acclaimed as the best Lowell has seen. The evening concluded with a comic sketch and afterglow at the camp, with organizers including John O Connor and Edward O'Brien coordinating.
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Bachelor Club
Belle Grove
James Dacey
Society
Lowell
Long
Robert Lindsay
J. James Carey
Buck
Wing
J. Moore
Bachelor's Quartette
Dewey Grove
Page
Halligan
H. Flynn
John O'Connor
F. Flynn
Edward O’brien
Peverrowe
P. Tiernan
Photographer Dies After Lying At Wife's Grave
In Cypress Hills cemetery Brooklyn a 2 year old photographer Lewis Abrahams of Providence Rhode Island was found unconscious at the grave of his wife Amelia Abrahams. He died at St Marys hospital with authorities holding he took laudanum though no bottle was found. Mrs Abrahams was buried three days earlier.
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New York
Lewis Abrahams
Providence
R. I
Amelia Abrahams
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Brooklyn
St. Mary’s Hospital
Five rooms to rent near mills in thorough repair
Listing offers five rooms in good repair near the mills at six fifty per month and seven rooms on Middlesex Street at eight dollars. Best furnished rooms in the city.
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Middlesex Street
Apniuta
Tornado Fury Wrecks Goliad and Roils Texas Weather
Reports from Houston and Austin describe a destructive tornado sweeping northern Goliad blowing away parts of the town, killing 50 to 100 people and injuring many. Beeville suffered high wind damage while Chicago Great Western railroad faced cloudburst losses near Oelwein. The storm also damaged crops and unroofed homes across Walters Park and surrounding Texas areas.
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Houston
Texas
Goliad
Beeville
Gulf Coast
St. Joseph
Chicago Great Western Railway
Fairbanks
Oelwein
Chicago
St. Paul
Austin
Walters Park
State Institution For the Blind
United Irish League Meets in Lowell Branch Meeting
The local United Irish League met in Jackson hall with notable enthusiasm. President Gallagher outlined plans to make Lowell a banner city, reported $150 remaining from Opera house bills, and slated remittances after Huntington hall figures. Membership topped 409 with Manchester emulating, Fr. Delaney eyed for next talk, plus speakers McAleer and M A Lee urged outreach. A planned excursion or lecture may follow reaching 600 members. Denis Bresill recited The Irish Famine in 1880. more women attended.
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United Irish League
Jackson Hall
Gallagher
League
Lowell
Opera House
Huntington Hall
Lowellians
Manchester
Lyons
Fr. Delaney
Delaney
James McAleer
M. A. Lee
P. J. Dusty
John Drain
Denis Bressill
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall review highlights Major’s romance
The piece praises Charles Major for crafting a vivid historical romance in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, comparing its allure to Winston Churchill and noting its swift, engaging narrative. It extols Dorothy as a distinct, compelling heroine and lauds Major’s character realism, period detail, and the book’s compelling storytelling.
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Charles Major
Winston Churchill
Richard Carvel
Mr. Churchill
Mr. Major
Dorothy Vernon
Haddon Hall
Major
George Vernon
Lord Rutland
Sir John Manners
Great Britain
William Peveril
William the Conqueror
Dorothy
Elizabeth
Haddon
John Manners
Mary Queen of Scots
Queen Elizabeth
Leicester
Mr. ~Aristy
Macmillan Company
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Pearson's Magazine for June offers varied reading
Pearson's Magazine for June presents personal and popular science articles plus fiction. Julius Chambers writes The Real James Gordon Bennett. other pieces include A Day in a Beehive and In the Heart of the Thunderstorm. The Pearl Maiden by H Rider Haggard is teased for July.
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Pearson's
England
James Gordon Bennett
Julius Chambers
Bennett
New York Herald
Alabama
Captain Kettle
Jerusalem
H. Rider Haggard
Miriam
Marcus
Judaea
Pharaoh and the Priest gains high praise from publishers
The Little Brown company hails The Pharaoh and the Priest as a notable Egypt novel translated from Polish. Bret Harte dies in London on May 5 at age 63, after a prolific career with 45 titles since 1869 and a lasting influence on Kipling and Twain.
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Egypt
Jeremiah Curtin
Alexander Glovatski
Little,Brown & Co
Rome
Bret Harte
London
Mark Twain
Kipling
Mr. Harte
England
Albany
N. Y
Fosdick fire-etching acquired by art academy
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts added Louis XIV fire-etching by Fosdick to its permanent collection, praising the artist who has earned international reputation in his field. George W. Cable’s new novel Bylow Hill will be published next Wednesday May 21 with strong advance orders and Yohn’s six color illustrations capturing the period atmosphere.
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Mr. Fosdick
Fosdick
George W. Cable
Bylow Hill
Mr. Yohn
Massachusetts
North
Mr. Cable
Collinsville Mission hosts games and treats evening
Middlesex County Dracut event at the Collinsville Mission led by Mr. Brown featured many games followed by ice cream and cake. Mrs. Asa Stickney continues to recover at home on the Lawrence road. Carl W. Eklund of Clark street found work in Exeter New Hampshire. Mrs. O Marchant and family, who visited from Fitchburg, returned home Saturday.
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Collinsville Mission
Brown
Asa Stickney
Lawrence Road
Carl W. Eklund
Clark Street
Exeter
New Hampshire
O. Marchant
Fitchburg
Tewksbury Church Groups Schedule Meetings
The 20th Century club will meet next Wednesday evening. Thursday afternoon the Ladies Aid society will hold a business meeting in the vestry of the First Congregational church. Next Sunday morning Rev. J Mer bert Yeoman will deliver a memorial sermon and in the evening will give one of a patriotic nature.
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20Th Century Club
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Congregational Church
J. Merbert Yeoman
Dan Daly Stars in The New Yorkers at Boston Museum
The George W Lederer organization presents The New Yorkers at the Boston Museum hailed as the season’s standout engagement. Dan Daly leads a near hundred-strong cast of comedians singers and actors in a riot of color wit and harmony with frequent matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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Boston
Dan Daly
George W. Lederer
Boston Museum
Rounders
New York
Europe
New Yorkers
Death of Col Beals famed eastern decorator at 86
RECENT DEATHS. Col. Wm. Beals a renowned public decorator died in Boston on Saturday from dropsy at age 86. Over fifty years in business his work decorated Harrison’s campaigns and Boston for public functions and presidential visits. He helped decorate Washington for Cleveland’s inauguration and was a member of the Independent Boston Fusiliers veteran association.
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Col
Wm. Beals
United States
New England
New York
Washington
Boston
Col. Beals
Henry Harrison
Harrison
Tippecanoe and Yyler
Cleveland
Veteran Association
Boston Fusiliers
Wedding and Card Engraving Services Ad
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Courier- Citizen Co
Merrimack Street
Sale on Slightly Damaged Bed Spreads at Half Price
A. G. Pollard & Co announces a sale tomorrow offering slightly damaged bed spreads at 50 cents each, half the usual price, with large sizes valued at about 1 dollar. See the window display on Palmer street and sale in the basement.
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Marseilles
Palmer Street
A. G. Pollard & CO
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Immaculate Conception Church
Anthony Waterer
Japan
China
Pride of Rochester
Gow
Tornado
Missouri
Supt. Forbes
van Vleck
Courier-Citizen Co
Merrimack St
Middle St
Boo L. Dtetary Notes
Astoria
Sears the
Quatre
Chi
Askine Grocer
Middlesex County
Dracut
Tewksbury
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