This Is Ames Year in Battle for renomination
Boston dispatch analyzes autumn political maneuvering in Massachusetts as Col Ames seeks renomination while Speaker Myers faces a tougher path. Spalding, Bates, Gaston, Lovering, Manning, Slade, Greene, and others are positioned as campaigns unfold across Beacon Hill and congressional districts.
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Boston
Col
Butler Ames
Mount Washington
Lowell
Senator Sparks
Bruce
Col. Ames
Myers
Spalding
Republican State Committee
Cambridge
Beacon Hill
William A. Gaston
New York
Col. Gaston
Massachusetts
National Democracy
J. Pierpont Morgan
Charles S. Hamlin
Cleveland Democracy
Gaston
Executive Department
Bates
Lovering
Gen. Blackmar
Ledfyard Bill
Paxton
Manning
Bill
Worcester County
Worcester
Gardner Shaw race intensifies in ninth district campaign
An old campaigner Gardner is shown as a durable figure in a heated battle with E P Shaw in the ninth district. The contest features large nightly rallies by both sides plus Joseph A Dennison entering as a potential dark horse. Also noted are smallpox case counts and a Toronto extradition hearing for a Lynn embezzlement suspect.
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Capt. Gardner
E. P. Shaw
Gardner
Shaw
Conry-Kelcher
Joseph A. Dennison
Charlestown
Massachusetts
Speaker Bates
Malden Electric seeks capital increase and harbor talks set
The Malden Electric company petitions to raise capital by 140000 with a hearing scheduled Sept 17. Officials will meet with interested parties on dredging Orionter Bay per this year’s legislation. A Cambridge bridge license hearing is planned for Tuesday, while Wednesday covers a wharf license in Lake Chaugogagogmuchaugogagechaubunhagungamaug Worcester county. Other notices include Misery Island water pipe, Edgar town pile wharf, Salem harbor filling, Taunton wharf, East Boston wharf extension, Pocasset harbor, and other Lovejoy’s wharf changes.
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Charter and Land Commissioners
Orchester Bay
City of
Cambridge
Lechmere Canal
Charles River
Clarence M. Nash
James L. Barnes
Lake Chaugogagogmuchaugogage Gchaubunhagungamaug
Worcester County
Misery Island Club
Misery Island
Salem Harbor
John D. Dickenson
Lcense
Edgartown Harbor
E. C. Battis
City of Taunton
Taunton River
Easern Wharf and Storage Company
East Boston
Tobey Club
Pocasset Harbor
Bourne
E. D. Codman
J. B. Russll
Lovejoy
C. L. Eaton
Clifton
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Local Reader
A Lowell resident, James E. McCaffery of 81 Bartlett Street, testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills, bought at Ellingwood & Co. on Merrimack and Central, cured his backache. He praises the remedy for its tonic effects on the rising generation and benefits to national health. Sold for 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo, NY, sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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James E. McCaffery
Courier- Citizen
Bartlett Street
Dean
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central Streets
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
M. Y
United
Local Graniteville event features lawn party and six inning baseball game
The Graniteville Cornet Band sponsored a lawn party drawing crowds from nearby villages. Abbott Worsted versus G Sargent's Sons Machine Shop played a six inning baseball game tied 5–5 after six innings, then S M S won 6–5 in extra. Umpire Eddie Defoe officiated as crowd enjoyed bike races, sprints, and long jumps followed by lunch, concert, and social dancing at Healy hall and school grounds.
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Graniteville Cornet Band
Abbott Worsted Company
G. Sargent’s Sons
A. W
Shattuck
Daly
A.W. G
Eddie Defoe
Jim Healy
Jim
Warren Wright
Westford
Harvey Drew
Joe Gauthier
North Chelmsford
Defoe
Gauthier
Harry Hartford
Hartford
Alan Leland
Leland
Carkin
Healy Hall
Odeon Orchestra
Ayer
C. W. Milliken
W. G. Blodgett
Fred Longbottom
John R. Healy
Bert Wall
F. L. Furbush
Frank Riney
B. Carmichael
Mary Bell Moran
Della Blodgett
Annie Ledwith
Lizzie Provost
Fred Provost
Nelson
Wyman
Rose Hemen
North Chelmsford Outing and Local News Highlights
An afternoon outing at Nabnasset grove for Chelmsford foundry workers included a barge trip, baseball, and a clam bake for about 50 attendees with guests from Lowell. Community notices cover the Catholic Total Abstinence union convention in Malden, church services, Fr. Fidelis recovery, and local mill elevator accident involving Adolph Ballabe.
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Nabnasset Grove
Chelmsford
the Grove
Hall Dining
Lowell
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Archdiocese of Boston
Columbus Hall
Highland Avenue
Charles Street
Malden
St. John’s Total Abstinence Society
Michael Connolly
Second Congregational Church
Fidelis
St. Anselm's College
Manchester
N. H
St. John’s Church
Fred McEnaney
Daniel Ready
Adolph Ballabe
George C. Moore
Dracut News Notes and Local Rumors
James Shaw of Ashland visits Dracut while Beaver Brook search for a drowning victim yields no body. Police suspect a man bought new clothes before vanishing. New Boston residents complain of bullets flying past homes from the nearby rifle range, echoing a past shooting incident involving Herman Gunther.
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James Shaw
Swam Lake Woolen Mills
Ashlind
N. H
Beaver Brook
New Boston
Herman Gunther
Washington team loses ten-inning game at hospital
Tewksbury notes a ten inning game at the State hospital between the Washington baseball team from Lowell and hospital doctors ending in a 15 to 11 defeat. William Farmer returns from York Beach Me. Grace Barris visits cousin Ethel Fairgrieve in Centre village. Samuel Levey returns from a week in New York City. The town’s primary intermediate and algebra schools open today.
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Washington
Lowell
State Hospital
William Farmer
York Beach
Grace Barris
Ethel Fairgrieve
Centre Village
Samuel Levey
New York City
Biltmore Village and Estate on Asheville Southern Railway
A detailed description of Biltmore Village near Asheville on the Southern Railway shows its village facilities, the Biltmore House chateau, extensive forests, agricultural operations, and landscape work. The sprawling estate spans about eleven thousand acres around the French Broad, linking to a larger tract of over one hundred ten thousand acres, home to red deer, black bear, wild turkeys and mountain trout, protected over years.
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Appalachians
Asheville
Asheville and
Salisbury
Southern Railway
Biltmore
George W. Vanderbilt
Biltmore House
Mount Pisgah
America
New York's Greatest Club University Club’s grandeur described
Arthur Reed Kimball in The Pilgrim highlights the University club at Fifth Avenue and Fifty fourth Street as unmatched in New York. It details land and building costs, a staff of about 200, and annual restaurant and service revenues. Members receive palatial surroundings, extensive amenities, and extensive libraries for modest dues.
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University Club
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fourth Street
New York
New York Athletic
Union
Metropolitan
America
Arthur Reed Kimball
The Japanese Legend of Creation and Japan’s Birth
A condensed excerpt from Harper's Magazine recounts a myth of creation where god Yzanaghi and spouse Yzanuma form the island Cusokorosima after a spear bears seven salt drops. They populate the land and establish eight surrounding islands while praising Japan’s culture, then notes a contrast with Chinese language lacking terms for public spirit and patriotism, and briefly mentions Vesuvius in 79 with Spartacus and gladiators camping there.
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Yzanaghi
Yzanuma
Cusokorosima
Uzanaghi
Awadsi
Foam
Cho
Yamato
Yyo
Heaven
Japan
Fujiyama
Harper’s Magazine
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Mann
Ames
Slade
Congressman Greene
Fall River
New Bedford
Cape Cod
Billy” Greene
Cook, Taylor & CO
Central Street
Boston Bags
New England
State Board of Health
Fitchburg
Quincy
Gloucester
George Neal
District Police
Young Clark
Lynn
Toronto
State Department
Crane
Neal
Annapolis
Senator Lodge
Senator Hoar
Pasing
Herbert N. Kelley
Mason
Dalton
Newport
The
Gas and Electric Light Commissioners
Attleboro Steam
Lowing
Doan's
Suburban News
Graniteville
Dracut
Tewksbury
Lowell Business College
Nerimack Square
Albert C. Blaisdell
Louise Reynolds
Wakefield High School
Salem Commercial School
Miller School of
Smith Premier
Remington
Vesuvius
Spartacus
Gladiators
Lowell Textile School
Wm. W. Crosby
Mass
Miss Wooop
Central Block
Entral Stc
Lowell Conservatory OF Music
Appleton Street
Isabelle Willey
Teachei
Frederick H. Haywood
Central Building
Fifth Street Baptist Church
Miss Hard
Hildreth
PRP
Devine
Merrimack Street
Telephone
Ely
Font
Fevel
Young’s
Hildreth Building
Ben
A. Gilbert
Colonial Building
Boylston St
Rom
W. C._ HINCKLEY
Middle Street
Lowell Opera House
E. Harris
Harcourt Comedy Co
Oire
Matinees Daily
Harbor Lights
Don Cesar de Bazaudeville
Earth
Pricelivenine
Boston Theatre
City Hall
J. H. Tibbetts
Mgr
Chas
Florence Naylor
Clara Adams
Tom White
Ellis and
Raymond
Marshall
Mystic
Boston Bioscope
New Moving Pictures
the People's Theatre
Dutton St
Lakeview Park
D. Kl. Page Company
Hibbard’s
Lakeview Theatre
Joseph J. Flynn
Herald Square
Eldora
Norine
AH Ling Foo
Jobe Hardman
TH Loudan
Palace-Observation
Newton
Lexington and
Boston St
Lexington & Boston Street Railway
Lexington
Mechanics Building
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
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