City measures and notable events from July 1850 Chronicle notes
The aldermen authorize a loan up to 20000 for the new almshouse and approve a survey of Appian Way extension. Prof John W Webster petitions for sentence commutation, admitting the murder but claiming passion not premeditation. Opening ceremonies at the Brattle House honor proprietor L Willard with Edward Everett and James D Green in attendance. Temperance meeting set for July 11. Strawberry harvest over 100 quarts gathered at the city farm. Editor thanks Swett & Boyer for a desk gift. Marriages and deaths noted, including Martha H Walker and Capt Sullivan Balcom. Middlesex county advertises court house contracts. Cambridge cattle market prices soften. Mayor Willard seeks fuel proposals by Aug 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle
Standing Committee
Brattle
Mt. Auburn
John W. Webster
Parkman
Webster
Brattle House
Edward Everett
James D. Green
Newell
L. Willard
Baptist Church
White
Messrs. Swett & Boyer
Austin K. Jones
Brattleboro
Stevens
Albro
Martha H. Walker
Williamstown
Boston
Sullivan Balcom
Middlesex County
Concord
Cambridge
Willard
Keiths Theatre at Lockhart Week of July 2 Presents Elephants and Night Show
Keiths Theatre in Lockhart continues its star attraction the elephants famed for training music and dancing, plus a strong Varieties bill headlined by Wright Huntington as a naval officer role in A Stolen Kiss. The program features California actress Jane Irving, Gager Midgly Gertie Carlisle and more, with the Biograph presenting a Viper torpedo boat speed trial and Warren’s soda stand offering fruit punches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith's
Lockhart
Wright Huntington
W. H. Sinclair
Jane Irving
California
Broadhurst
Jones
Barnes and Sisson
Gager Midgly
Gertie Carlisle
Field and Ward
DeForest Sisters
Newell
Pat
Mattie Rooney
Walt and
Ardell
Lozells
Viper
Atlantic Monthly and Other July Magazine Highlights
The July Atlantic Monthly presents President Cleveland on executive independence and Howells new fiction, with Scribner’s on Lady Smith, Spears on the slave trade, Hoar on Harvard fifty eight years ago, and more. Ladies' Home Journal features Seton-Thompson play and revolutionary heroine stories, with Outing and Woman's Home Companion covering sports, travel, and domestic life. The Popular Science Monthly and Leslie's Weekly add scientific and political perspectives, including McKinley’s portrait at the Philadelphia convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic
Cleveland
Congress
James W. Alexander
Great Equitable Assurance Company
Life Assurance
William D. Howells
New England
Martha Baker Dunn
J. D. Wheipley
Cuba
Thomas F. Millard
Senator Hoar
Harvard College
Quincy
Everett
Walker
Longfellow, Peirce, Channing
Judge Story
Ladies' Home Journal
Ernest Seton-Thompson
Ladies’ Home Journal
Seton- Thompson
Edward Bok
Edward B. Rawson
Unique One-Line Portrait and Convention Hall Image
A single continuous line portrait of the Ohio statesman and nation’s chief magistrate is praised for its life likeness. A double page illustration shows the convention hall at Wolcott’s address, capturing delegates’ faces clearly for use as a convention memento. The issue also reviews June editions of Bmart Bset and North American Review highlighting literary and political content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio States
Wolcott
North American Review
W. J. Bryan
Edmund Barton
Australasia
J. R. Straton
New Books Spotlight Political Novel and Accident Study
New Books section reviews Francis A. Adams Transgressors a political novel set at the dawn of the twentieth century with a female political role and a Syndicate of Annihilation. details of price and publisher. Also introduces George E McNeill’s A Study of Accidents and Accident Insurance, noting it as the first book focused on the subject, with surprising facts and potential impact for readers and insurers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis A. Adams
America
George E. McNeill
International Association of Accident Underwriters
Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association
Insurance Topics Publishing Co
Boston
Fourth of July Sports In Cambridge Featured In City Plans
A Cambridge fourth of July celebration will center on athletic and aquatic events at Holmes Field and Captain's Island. Alderman John J. Ahern chairs the sports committee with entry fees at 25 cents. Prizes include gold watches for firsts and valuable prizes for winners of the team and boys races. Entries close today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle
John J. Ahern
Cambridge
Holmes Field
New England Association
The
Amateur Athletic Union
Kilburn Adame
Captain's Island
Magazine Street
Hamilton H. Perkins
Albert H. Hall
William J. Rounds
Fred A. Gilligan
J. Frank Facey
Hood's Pills and Cambridge Real Estate Ad Notice
Hood's Pills cure liver ills biliousness indigestion and headache. Easy to take and operate. Cambridge Real Estate promotes advantages for residence or investment. J Lewis Hayden Tremont Building Boston offers bridge real estate sales management and loans with telephone Haymarket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Cambridge Real Estate
J. Lewis Hayden
Tremont Building
Tremont Street
Boston
Marriages Recorded in City June Nineteen Twenties
A list of clandestine style marriage notices from this city notes couples paired in venues including Bennington Cambridge Arlington Somerville Marlboro and Boston with ceremony dates from June 11 to June 24 conducted by several reverends. Names include Webster Everett Corcoran White Johansson Gustafson Fordy Byrd Dacy Rick Hun son Urquhart Arbing Kingston Tinkham Elliott Donahue Comerford Casey Davis Swift Woodbury Cranweat Gill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster-Everett
A. C. Swain
Homer Harris Webster
Bennington
Fannie Jane Everett
Caster
Corcoran-White
Arlington
J. M. Mulcahy
Timothy Charles Corcoran
Peer Tacey Annie Josephine White
Weaver-Anderson
Boston
E. Breen
Loren Mangfield Weaver
Minnie Isabelle
Anderson
Cambridge
Johansson-Gustaison
T. O. Linell
Frans Oscar Johansson
Amanda Gustafson
Fordy-Byrd
J. H. Duckrey
John Forey
Mary Byrd
Allston
Richard Dacy
Somerville
M. J. Welch
Alphonse Philip Richard
Helen Terese Dacy
Rick-Hunson
Brookline
R. H. Howe
George Francis Rick
Lynn
Sophia Angle Alice Hungon
Urquhart-Arbing
Samuel McNaugher
Angus Cameron Urquhart
Emma Serenah Arbing
Kingston-Kingston
Marlboro
I. B. Lowney
Daniel Kingston
Nora Kingston
Tinkham-Elliott
Arlington Heights
J. G. Taylor
Harry Kvge Tinkham
Mary Elliott
Lexington
Donahue-Comerford
P. J
Obituary Notices From This City June Deaths List Several Names
A series of death notices dated June recall residents in this city. Eben McMahon 66 years 9 months Small 70 years 1 month Rebecca Blackwell 43 years 2 months 11 days Henry White 48 years Richard Silliphant 25 years 2 months 16 days Henry R Davidson 1e years 6 months 1 day Martha E March 87 years 6 months 28 days Carl Anderson 19 years 11 months 3 days Hannah A Dee 74 years 10 days Rosannah D Mara ton 87 years 6 months 28 days Frank Banks 11 years months day Cornelius J Mahoney years 6 months 29 days Cordelia Dumalone 68 years 9 months 18 days Frank W Little 65 years U1 months 19 days Jeremiah ONeill 38 years The notices cite ages and addresses across the city hospitals and streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Ete Nam Silliphant
Davidson
Lowell Street
Henry R. Davidson
Brookline Street
Martha E. March
Anderson
Chestnut Street
Carl
Depwhurst
Mahoney
Dumaine
Porter Road
Cordelia
Dumalone
Little
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W. H. Lerned & Son
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Arthur S. Cummings & Co
West St
F.G. Allnutt
J. H. Wyeth & CO
J. A. Hubbard
F. L. Burnham
J.O. Taylor
Old Cambridge
Osgood and Newtowne
North Cambridge
ACME
Cambridgeport
Ave
Cambridge Gas Light Company
Mass. Ave
Harvard Sq
Oxford
T. W. Hillier & CO
Cor
Oxford and
Eustis Sts
Prospect Stables
Ralph Smith & CO
Green St
Prospect House
Massachusetts Ave
Glenbrook Rye
C. F. Sullivan & CO
Charles ST
Haymarket
Hip Stake Sas
Warren
Bonito Banka
Our ‘Bank
Nervita
Clinton & Jackson Sts
Chicaco
Ill
John We Derby
He “Taylor
Ad Sq
Inman St
Lue Bae
Coeen
Bae
Lever Hicken
Hing
John Fox, Jr
Kentucky
E. M. Ashe
Wm. B. Curtis
Woman's Home Companion
Woman’s Home Companion
Paris
Franklin
Lafayette
Washington
Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co
Springfield
Ohio
Popular Science Monthly
Appletons
James McKeen Cattell
Columbia University
McClure, Phillips & Co
Cattell
Science
Simon Newcomb
Haftkine
Sears P. Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Massachusetts Institute Ofechnology
Patrick Manson
Om “Washington
Leslie's Weekly
Philadelphia
Leslie’s Weekly
McKinley
BMART
Louise Winter
Times
New York
NEW Books
Bock
Rubafer
N. Cambridge T
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Ridifer
N. Cambridge Te
Mt. Auburn Marble and Granite Works
MT. Auburn ST
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F. D. Bartlett
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