Proposition to Dispense With the Central Street Depot
At a grade crossing hearing today the railroad proposed to remove the Central street depot and freight yard and run electric cars to Bleachery station for passengers. Witnesses, including Gilbert Hodges and Frank P. Rowell, testified on gates, dangerous crossings, land damages, and the cost of abolishing tracks. Rowell estimated $401,404 plus land damages. plan would shift freight to Middlesex street and create a new public highway along Board street, with mixed public support and heavy opposition from the city.
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Central street
Gilbert Hodges
Allen
Hodge
Bowers
Hogan
Rogers street
Richardson
East Merrimack street
Church street bridge
Church street
Lawrence street
Frank B. Rowell
Lowell and Andover
city of
Lowell
Andover
Middlesex street
Merrimack street
Middlesex village
Nashua
Lowell & Andover road
Lowell terminal
Meadowcroft
Framingham
Lowell & Lawrence road
Hogan cross
Rowell
Lowell and
Church and
Andover streets
Yoard street
Andover street
Wogan
Lewnford and
Billerica
City Council Approves Normal School Funding and Licenses
The city council and aldermen met in special and regular sessions last night at city hall. They passed a $25,000 measure for the normal school and named the license commissioners John A. Faulkner chair with two others. a $2,000 Fourth of July appropriation was debated amid concerns about current needs and public funds.
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Alderman Lovejoy
Louis L Fletcher
Howard street
J. W. Bennett
Tyler park
Saugus Athletic club
fair grounds
C. Wood
Beacon street
Oris Allen & Son
Mt. Vernon street
George E. Barclay
common council
Johnson
S. J. Johnson
Pickman
Lovejoy and
Bagley
Sparks
state board of education
Ryan
state normal schools
streets
Riley
O'Connor
dawn
liccense
John and Mars Gannon
Hudson cemetery
van O'Connor
O'Brien
Foster B.Carroll
committee on
O’Connor
Lowell cemetery
monument square
Councilman Killpatrick
Councilman Hills
Cartin
Councillman Custy
Labarge
Dusty
Curtin
Tremont & Suffolk mills
Tilden street
O’Brien
Gypsy Moth Arrives on Henry Call Farm
The gypsy moth has appeared on trees at Henry Call's farm in North Billerica, marking the first sighting in the area and signaling a potential pest concern for local vegetation.
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Henry Call
North Billerica
Joyce, embezzling officer, sentenced to 13 months
Judge Lilley sentenced John Joyce, an embezzling officer of Court Wamesit, A. O. F., to 13 months in the house of correction yesterday. Joyce pleaded guilty.
Cottage for sale near Salem Street with six rooms
Land along the sewer connections offers a good jet of land priced at 1800 dollars. Fish and Plummer advertise at 137 Central Street. FrOR SARE cottage includes six rooms and a pantry.
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Salem street
Fish & Plummer
Central street
Not Settled as Keypstone State Faces Complications
Troubles in multiple mining districts reveal unrest as Columbus settlement sparks recall of troops and resumption debates. Miners demand official union statements before resuming work, with local meetings hearing plans to fix regional rates. Across Illinois Indiana and Ohio the strike persists with anger at reduced scales and not signing officials.
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CisciNnati
Columbus
niners
CENTRALIA
Pane
SPRING VALLEY
Ill
Kewanee
McBride
Murray
Illinois
Adams
Ohio
DANVILLE, II
Disston
United Mine Workers of
Danville field
East St. Louis
Shouse
Miners Fear Outbreak After Unsettled Berwynd-Waite Meeting
In Pusxsurawsry Pennsylvania on June 15, 4000 miners learn no settlement came from Altoona talks between Ber wynd White representatives and a workers committee. Deputies total 173 guard Berwynd Waite mines 1 and 6 as fears of unrest rise, governor’s proclamation criticized, importation of Horatio mine workers noted.
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Pusxsurawsry
Altoona
Berwynd-Waite company
Horatio
New Probate Judge Bill Engrossed for Northern Middlesex
After a hearing before the probate and insolvency committee, a bill by Rep. Iayes to create a northern Middlesex probate judge position was engrossed. Speakers argued the current single judge is overworked. salary proposed is 4900, equal to Judge McIntyre.
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Iayes
Middlesex
McIntyre
Pevcy
Cambridge
Messrs
Trull
Nileski
Greenhalge
Lowell
Gen
Champlin
Abbott
Watertown
Martin
Medford
Farley
Hayes
Lowes
Prank on Two Young Men Over Canal Walk Night
A cimel joke played on two well known young men on Monday night near Barristers hall and Merrimack Street. After stripping to swim they found their clothing stolen by spectators and had to sprint to redress. A second prank involved a leading social club member who expected a diamond ring. friends borrowed a sister’s solitaire and presented the ring amid humorous remarks before the brother retrieved it.
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Blackstone
Kent
Barristers’ hall
Merrimack street
canal walk
Merrimack
Centralville Seeks New Normal School Site in Ward
City residents in Centralville press for the new normal school to be built in their ward. They note the former Whitney house near Seth Gage land and the French homestead on Bridge Street as premier locations likely to be offered next.
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Centralville
normal school
Whitney
Seth Gage
Boston and Maine Rail Schedules From Central Street Lowell
Boston and Maine Railroad timetable lists trains from Lowell Central Street depot to Boston and multiple destinations. Service hours include morning and afternoon departures with numerous daily, Sunday, and holiday variations. Regular routes cover Lawrence Haverhill Salem Newburyport Exeter Dover Rochester Somersworth Augusta Bath Lewiston Bangor St John Montreal Eastport and St John steam service days with specific times noted.
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Boston
AON
Lawrence
Haverhill
Salem and
Lynn
Newburyport
Exeter
Dover
Rochester
Alton Bay
Somersworth
Salmon Falls
Saco
Portland
Augusta
Bath
Lewiston
Bangor
Belfast
Waterville
Sheenhogan
Rockland
St. John N.T
Montreal
Quebec
Eastport
St John’s
New England Train Schedules from Northern and Southern Depots
A dense list of train departures from Merrimack Street Depot Lowell and Middlesox Street, with numerous destination lines including Boston, Lawrence, Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Amherst, Greenfield, Montreal, and Quebec. Totals and times vary by day, with Sunday and weekday services, plus express runs and through connections. Officials J W Sanborn, J Flanders, J Taft, and E Paige listed as executives and agents.
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Lawrence
Salewn
South Lawrence
tar'Tite
Ayer Junction
Amherst
Milford
Witton
Greenfield
Peterboro
Bennington
Billshboro
Heene
Nashua
Manchester
Concord
Penacook
Franklin
Lebanon
White Jover
Warner
Bradford
Sunapee
Newport
N. Hw
Claremont
Claremont Junction
Tor St
Johnsbhury
Lrendonville
Wells River
Montpelier
Montreal
Essex
Junction
Burlington
St. Al
J. W. TAFT
Ag’t. Western Div
E. PAIGE
Gsz. Acent So
Coal telephone for summer prices and delivery
Local coal dealer Cawley Bros offers summer price telephone orders with prompt delivery.
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frm
Cawley Bros
Wool tariff talks show possible wool schedule deal
Washington June 15 Democratic leader Harris says 43 Democratic senators ready to sustain a quorum to speed the tariff bill. Republicans and Populists may push the wool schedule to a break, but Democrats vow to negotiate for free wool and aid local manufacturers. Hoar Lodge Hawley Platt back a fair wool result, while internal revenue and income tax changes loom. Quay resumes long wool speeches as Senate debates the wool schedule and related measures.
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WasuINGTOX
Harris
Aldrich
Allison
Hoar
Sherman
senate
Lodge
Hawley
Platt
Quay
Political Appointment Delays Signal 1880s Mayors
The town reels over Mayor Pickman's slow process in naming the license commission. Reported indecision of whom to appoint, with Larkin Trull, Harry Rice, L. J. Smith, Faulkner, and James T. Smith discussed. The Meense commission faces GOP unease as ward politics stir calls for the mayor’s ouster or continued contention.
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sky
Pickman
Larkin
Trull
Harry BR, Rice
L. J. Smith
Faulkner
James T. Smith
board of trade
Charles ©. Hutchisson
Foss
Meense
g.o. p
Dress Suit Case Showdown at Low Price
A leather dress suit case with linen lining and steel frame is pitched as superior to cheaper wooden framed, unlined machine sewn cases. Priced at five dollars, it claims one fifth the cost of inferior rivals.
Putnam & Son One-Price Clothiers Ad
Putnam and Son announce a one price clothiers shop at Central Street corner Warren featuring fixed prices and a full range of garments for men and boys with emphasis on value and service for shoppers in the district.
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PUTNAM & SON
Telegraphic Brevities Snapshot Of Global Events
Brief notes report floods in Oregon yield little loss and deaths elsewhere. British Columbia chief justice Sir Matthews Baillie Degbie dies. Colonies fear English estate duties harm them. A German warship heads to Algiers and Italian laborers attacked by strikers’ sympathizers in Armot. Stambouloff visits Prince Ferdinand. Washington residents lack eastern mails two weeks. Italian deputy de Felice appeals after 18 year sentence for conspiracy. China plague deaths surge. President Cleveland slight illness dictates rest. George Pinkett to cross the English Channel June 27 by water cycle. Miss Johnson wins senior wrangler at Cambridge. Britain presses intervention at Bluefields defying Monroe doctrine. Governor Pattison warns miners against rioting, suggests military action. A black schooner with Spanish captain unsettles South Amboy. Fourteen strikers linked to Engineer Bar murder in Brazil, Ind., to stand trial. De Forest says tariff bill could keep Democrats in power if enacted. Wiman forgery case prosecutor claims confession and mercy plea.
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Oregon
Matthews Baillie Degbie
British Columbia
Algiers
Armot
Paix
Stambouloff
Bulgaria
Prince Ferdinand
Washington
de Felice
China
Cleveland
George Pinkett
English channel
Miss Johnson
ssaior wrangler
Cambridge
Eng
Great Britain
Bluefields
Pattison
Pennsylvania
South Amboy
N. J
Engineer Bar
Brazil
Ind
Representative De Forest
Connecticut
congress
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge Nearing Death
Loxdox June 13 reports the ailing Lord Chief Justice Coleridge with family at his bedside amid his declining health. A separate price note lists granulated sugar at 25 pounds for one dollar for tea and coffee customers by The U S Tea Co at the Central and Prescott Street corner.
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Coleridge
U.S. Tea Co
Central
Frescott Sts
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