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Even in the wake of national tragedy, the editors of the Chronicle were playing up one item of local concern. Describing the recently formed Charles River Railway Company, they offered the following observation...
...conveniences, rail transportation had come to the city. The Union Railroad was the first to enter the market, and had established itself as the prime form of mass transportation. In 1881, however, Charles E. Raymond put together some capital and a Board of Directors, and formed the Charles River Railway Company to get a piece of the burgeoning market...
...officials projected a balanced budget, allowing the city to proceed with much needed repairs and widely desired improvements. But a petition drive was underway aimed at construction of a bridge that would cost at least a million dollars. And the Chronicle suspected the railway was behind it: "If the Charles River Railway is to depend on plundering the city treasury as well as the Union road, the people should rise against it and crush it before it gets any larger...
...London to buy some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding. Once in control, the flamboyant Leahy rejuvenated the event, paving walkways, bringing in rides, building a model New England village with wooden fronts bought from the Grand Central railway, placing hundreds of gargantuan plastic animals and figures around the fairground. It was a unique blend of 4-H club, carnival and circus...
...publishing. One such paper was Responsibility, published by the rather grandly titled National Federation of Unofficial Publications. When a group of ten federation members from various cities assembled in Peking last April to discuss strategy, they were nabbed by police. Among the seized was Xu Wenli, 36, a railway electrician who had edited the April 5th Forum and was one of the democracy movement's most articulate spokesmen. Neither Xu nor any of the others has been seen or heard from. In the weeks that followed that roundup, provincial police swept down on various other editors outside Peking, putting...