Haunted Houses In New England Ghost Tales
Samuel B. Kingdon describes Cambridge, Watertown, and surrounding New England haunted houses once linked to witches. The Mount Auburn area house near Cambridge features a reclusive owner John Hyde and spectral visitors, while a Watertown mansion earned fame for its ghostly inhabitants. The tale blends superstition with a vivid, decaying setting and local lore.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Samuel 8. Kingdon
Boston Transcript
New England
Cambridge
Kingdon
Mt. Auburn Street
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
John Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Watertown
Massachusetts
Waltham
King
Types at the Bathing Beach on Magazine Street
Residents debate access to the bathing beach on Magazine Street while praising its facilities. A large crowd attends daily as boys and men use granite locker rooms, showers, and river views. Lifesavers Dr Heaton and Mr Williams supervise rescues with a new raft and a growing cadre of Brownies.
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Magazine Street
Bath House
Cambridge
Heaton
Williams
Cost of Parks Sees Tax Hike Across 38 Cities
The Metropolitan park system spans 38 towns and Boston. Since 1892 a debt of 8.3175 million has grown. a 521,805 annual payment for 1900 including interest and sinking fund prompts about a five role overlay per cent to ensure funds. Tax officials must prepare August returns as sessions begin August 6 to assess taxes.
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Boston
Cambridge
Chelsea
Everett
Lynn
Malden
Medford
Newton
Quincy
Somerville
Waltham
Woburn
Arlington
Belmont
Braintree
Brookline
Canton
Dedham
Dover
Cohasset
Hingham
Hull
Hyde Park
Melrose
Milton
Nahant
Needham
Revere
Saugus
Stoneham
Swampscott
Wakefield
Watertown
Wellesley
Weston
Weymouth
Winchester
Winthrop
Brick Pavement in Boston Streets Desirable but Unlikely
Rol lin Lynde Hartt surveys brick pavement used across the nation and abroad, noting its cleanliness and ease of removal, with wear data and endorsements from cities. He concedes Boston’s aesthetic objections may block adoption despite practical merits and durability.
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Boston
Rollin Lynde Hartt
Middle West
River Yssel
Japan
England
America
Charleston
W. Va
Bloomington
Ill
St. Louis
Ohio
H. K. Landis
Cambridge Boy on the Mat Terhorn
Mr Frederick Clapp of 286 Brookline street just returned from six months abroad with an enjoyable time. He left New York February 6 on the Leyland line steamer Philadelphia, walked 225 miles to London, trained for Swiss mountain climbing, saw Shakespeare’s house and Oxford, toured Holland and Germany, and climbed Mount St Gothard and Mount Generoso on a cable road. The journey included Rhine passage, Black Forest, and Lake Lucerne.
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Frederick Clapp
Brookline Street
New York
Leyland Line
Philadelphia
Liverpool
London
Switzerland
Holly Hedges
Shakespeare’s House
Ann Hathaway Cottage
Oxford University
Holland
St. Goeschenen
Mount
St. Gothard
Mount Generoso
Mrs Pinkham Health Advice For Working Women
Working women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham for free confidential health advice. She offers help for painful periods backaches and other female ailments with the promise of discretion and wide accessibility in the English speaking world. Her Lynn Massachusetts address is provided for correspondence.
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Theresa 8. Phipps
T14
Massachusetts Avenue
Clapp’s Alpine ascent and northern Italian tour
Clapp visits Monte Carlo Genoa and Brigue then climbs peaks in the Alps including the Matterhorn Mount Rosa and Breithorn becoming the season’s first climber on Mount Rosa and second on the Matterhorn. Homeward calls at Geneva Paris and London. He reports Vesuvius eruption as grand and awe inspiring and contemplates a trip to Porto.
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Monte Carlo
Genoa
Italy
Brigue
Switzerland
Simplon Pass
Zermatter
Clapp
Matterhorn
Mount Rosa
Breithorn
Geneva
Paris
London
Mount Vesuvius
Cook
Cambridge Band Concert Honors Cuban Teachers
Cambridge City band directed by C N Phelps performs next Monday on Cambridge common. Program includes Our Cuban Friends march, Calanthe waltz, selections from Maritana, The Holy City cornet solo, Bunch of Blackberries two step, Way Down South, Fan Tan Chinese two step, Laurenter polka, Senora Mathilda Peters Cuban teacher dedicated to A E Frye, Recollections of the War overture, Cotton Blossoms finale. Other items note local merchants and remodeling notices.
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Cambridge City Band
C. N. Phelps
Cambridge Common
Phelps
Calanthe
Holzman
Wallace Cornet
Holy City
Adams
A. E. Frye
Bryer
Hall
St Marys School Alumni Select Marshals For Reunion
St Marys alumni meeting selects Thomas Sennett as marshal for the anniversary celebration. Dr Henry M Eagan and Dr Thomas Leahy named floor marshal and director with Michael Kersey as assistant director. Rev P H Riley announced rehearsals for the mass by von La Hasche with Mrs Leahy assisting. A second meeting is set for Aug 16.
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ST. Mary’s School
Joseph Smith
Thomas Sennett
Henry M. Eagan
Thomas Leahy
Michael Kersey
P. H. Riley
von la Hasche
Riley
New England
Boston Post Reaches Unmatched July Circulation Record
The Boston Post averaged 152,773 copies daily in July 1900, far surpassing rivals. No other New England paper nears 160,000, and local sales in Boston and vicinity fall short of half the Post’s circulation. The paper proclaims an unparalleled position in regional journalism.
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Boston Post
New England
Post
Poston
Boston
Lake Winnipesaukee Promises Health Pleasure to Tourists
The article extols Lake Winnipesaukee as a premier health and pleasure destination. It notes a 180 mile shoreline, about 300 islands, and varied scenery ideal for camps and summer homes. The Mt Washington steamer offers two daily round trips, stopping at Weirs Alton Bay Centre Harbor Wolfeboro and Bear and Long Islands. The Mt Washington accommodates over a thousand passengers and is famous for its dinner. The Boston and Maine railroad issues a brochure titled Lakes and Streams and offers free Winnipesaukee Tourist Folder and excursion book on request with a two cent stamp.
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Bea
Winnipesaukee
Weirs
Alton Bay
Mt. Washington
Centre Harbor
Wolfeboro
Bear
Long Islands
Boston & Maine Railroad
Keith's Theatre Week Adds Notable Impersonations
Keith's Boston program for the week of August 13 features Henry Lee the famed impersonator performing those of Rudyard Kipling Bismarck Roosevelt Grant Lee and Dewey among others. The bill includes Henri French Falke and Lemon the Blockers Wilson and Leicester Ely and Harvey J K Emmett and Lottie Gilson in Col lie's Dilemma and the Savans acrobatic team. Pictorials are highlighted with world wide camera access and the Willis family instrumentalists appear for the week starting August 20.
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Keith
Boston Theatre
Henry Lee
Mr. Lee
Rudyard Kipling
Bismarck
Guv
Roosevelt
Grant
Richard Croker
Robert E. Lee
Admiral Dewey
Henri French
Falke and Lemon
the Blockers
Wilson and
Leicester
Ely and Harvey
J. K. Emmett
Lottie Gilson
Illustrated Press
Willis
Chiropody Service Offers Painless Foot Care In Boston Area
Miss Nellie J. Henderson, a chiropody graduate, advertises painless treatment for corns bunions calluses and ingrown nails at 679 Massachusetts Avenue room 4 Also offers superfluous hair removal facial massage and toilet articles with evening appointments available Have you tried Warren's raspberry ice cream the real thing.
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Nellie J. Henderson
Massachusetta Avenue
Warren
Mortgagee to Sell Cambridge Land at Public Auction
Mortgage sale authorized by a deed dated April 15 189 and assignments, covering a Cambridge Middlesex parcel with buildings. Auction set for Monday August 27 1900 at 10 am on premises, subject to unpaid taxes and assessments. Owned by John Sewell Jr Edward Sewell and Charles B Adams, now holder Seth Clark.
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John Sewell, Jr
Edward Sewell
Charles 8
Adams
Francis R. Henderson
Middlesex South
Seth Clark
Cambridge
County of
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
John J. Henderson
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Jonathan Whittemore
Whittemore
Kennedy
TH Clark
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J. H. Kelsey
H. F. Hook
Boston Telephone
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Toleo
Conant Z Stoorwill
Pes Hattan Warket
YERXA
Becker & Torgas A.B. Abad
D. L. Tappan
Omap, Af Mae Nee
Keith's Theatre
Drovs
New ‘York
Rindge Farm
Dairies
Waverley
Mass
Brunswick
Prunswick
Oo. L. Fernaco 95 Union
Pinas
John R. Derby & CO
Edwin L. Derby
W. A. Taylor
Central Sq
Inman St
Bears
Castoria
Squire
John P. Squire & CO
Copland Baking CO
W. Somerville
Bartlett
Repible
F. D. Bartlett
Sede Yiaus
Sodan St
Oriental Tea Company
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