Fire Department Upgrades and Island Fire Readiness
Fire Commissioner Wells concludes inspections of Deer Island and Long Island facilities with Chiefs Mullen Keyes Garrity and Penal Commissioner Martin declaring the islands well equipped for ordinary fires. A new compressed air truck tested for old ladder 13 proves satisfactory. Numerous transfers and probation appointments affect Engine 26 35 Ladder 18 Chemical 10 and others across several units.
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Wells
Deer Island
Long Island
Martin
Mullen
Keyes
Garrity
Shirley Gut
Commissioner Wells
E. H. Kilday
F. L. Carroll
F. G. Avery
J. J. Devine
J. M. Elliott
Thomas Brady
W. A. Porter
J. J. Murphy
J. F. Baumeister
D. J. Mahoney
Malone Accused of Interfering in Disbanding Case
New England Commercial Travellers' Association members accuse Attorney General Malone of blocking their plan to distribute 30 000 in the society treasury among 510 members after votes to disband. They say he refused to allow internal settlement and chose an outside lawyer. The group urges consideration by the attorney general.
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New England Commercial Travellers’ Association
Malone
Society
Clapp
Association
Summer Street
E. J. H. Estabrook
East Boston Land Bought for 5 Million Mills Project
The Draper Company and Draper partners with Lockwood Greene engineers chose 35 acres along Chelsea Creek in East Boston for four mills. Each mill will house 60 000 spindles and employ 6000 to 8000 workers. Construction may begin soon with completion hoped by January 1 next year. The site spans Wordsworth Street area and expands East Boston into a major mill center.
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Boston
New Cotton Corporation
Lockwood, Greene & Co
Eugene N. Foss
Draper Co
Hopedale
George B. James
Chelsea Creek
Wordsworth Street
Chelsea
East Boston
Professor Ryther at Dummer Resigns Amid Matrimony Rumors
Prof Leon Edwin Ryther principal of Dummer Academy and five instructors resign in sympathy. Trustees meet to decide whether to accept resignations and give students a vacation or let Ryther choose his own time to leave. The faculty and students rally around him despite his bachelor status being cited as a possible issue. Ryther shows little concern, returning to practice with the baseball team.
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Byfield
Leon Edwin Ryther
Historic
Dummer Academy
Dummer
Ryther
Roxbury Boy Hit by Auto in Street Accident
A 13 year old Roxbury schoolboy Lawrence Thibbetts darted into Columbus avenue to retrieve a dropped newspaper and was struck by a car. Chauffeur Dennis Mahoney stopped the vehicle, carried the boy to the police station, and he was later taken to City Hospital with a fractured leg and other injuries.
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Lawrence Thibbetts
Roxbury
Roxbury Crossing
Columbus Avenue
Dennis Mahoney
Mahoney
Williams
Fessenden
Commission Examines Fort Hill Wharf Waste Disposal
City Engineer William Jackson MIT professor William Sedgwick and Henry Goodnough of the State Board of Health visited Fort Hill wharf to study disposal conditions. They met in the city engineer’s office and planned another meeting with a report due within days before the 10 day legal limit expires.
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William Jackson
William T. Sedgwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry Goodnough
State Board of Health
Fort Hill
Cape Cod Canal Advances With Construction Bid
The Cape Cod Canal plan moves toward reality as the joint harbor land and railroad boards near approval. The Cape Cod Canal Construction Company bid $11.9 million to build an eight mile canal from Buzzards Bay to Barnstable with four mile approaches. William Barclay Pearson of New York will design and supervise, with McDonald directing construction and August Belmont among company officers.
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Cape Cod
Harbor and Land Commissioners
Railroad Commissioners
Douglas says he is not seeking Democratic Governor nomination
Former Massachusetts Governor Douglas says he would consider serving again if the people request it but is not actively seeking the Democratic nomination. He notes the question is premature with six months to the contest and cites John B. Moran's withdrawal as fueling speculation.
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New York
Douglas
Massachusetts
Brockton
Florida
Democratic Party
John B. Moran
Bishop Fitzgerald Dies on Mission Tour in Hongkong
News reached New York of the death in Hongkong of Bishop James N. Fitzgerald a general superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Pleurisy caused his death as he was visiting mission stations after leaving Montreal October 27 with Mrs. Fitzgerald and children.
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New York
Hongkong
James N. Fitzgerald
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Book Concern
St. Louis
Fitzgerald
Methodist Church
Montreal
Ray
Asia
Cornelia
Penang
India
Would Abolish Grade Crossing in Malden Tonight
A Malden hearing in the City Council chamber examined abolishing the Pleasant street grade crossing. Commissioners Fred Joy Edward Turner and George Wiggin heard from railroad and city officials plus Ward 3 residents seeking a subway. The two hour session was adjourned with the matter under advisement.
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Malden
Pleasant Street
Fred Joy
Winchester
Edward R. Turner
Boston
George W. Wiggin
William B. Lawrence
McCarthy
Boutwell
Estey
Eugene Upton
Roxbury Tragedy Links Hoodoo to Class Reunion Night
Walter Stock shot his sweetheart Agnes Bates in Roxbury Crossing waiting room and wounded himself. Seventeen others who attended the Bellevue reunion are mentioned. Stock lies in City Hospital awaiting arraignment for murder as police guard his bedside.
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Walter Stock
Agnes Bates
Roxbury Crossing
Stock
Roxbury Court
Deserter in Philippines Leads Night Attacks on Comrades
A U S infantry deserter, Darto Dodds, who enlisted in 1899, deserted to join insurgents in the Philippines. He reportedly married into the Dalto Tantung family and was raised to chief by his father in law. Dodds allegedly led repeated night raids on his former battalion, which hunted him but could not capture him.
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Philippines
Nineteenth
United States Infantry
Darto Dodds
Daugh Dalto Tantung
Dodds
Company I
Dying man confesses wrecking clergyman's home
In Lebanon Connecticut William P Herbert who is dying of consumption at his wife's parents home says he wrecked the home of Reverend A W Weeks of Worcester and admits to perjury in prior court testimony. Weeks, once wealthy, now fights to regain custody of his children amid a divorce case. He says the confession vindicates him and that his wife is missing.
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Worcester
Lebanon
Conn
William P. Herbert
Dewey Street Baptist Church
Weekses
Post
Hermon and
Beacon Streets
Captain Dalton Lectures on The Life Savers of Cape Cod
Captain John W. Dalton addressed a large audience at Lincoln House Emerald Street last night. The noted life saving expert shared graphic stories of Cape Cod heroes and drew strong applause after a preceding dramatic entertainment.
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John W. Dalton
Lincoln House
Emerald Street
Cape Cod
Disassociation Clarified By Eastern Accident Association
The Commercial Travellers' Eastern Accident Association states through secretary treasurer Edward A. Towne that it has no connection with the disbanded New England Commercial Travellers' Association. The two are distinct and separate organizations and the latter has closed its affairs.
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New England Commercial Travellers’ Association
Commercial Travellers’ Eastern Accident Association
Edward A. Towne
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Holland
Norcy
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Pride of Aden
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Milwaukee
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Captain Dalton
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Spear Co
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Eton
Wien
Elcort
Oxford
Gibson
Cminy
Somerville
Cambridge
Edward Spence
Cherry Street
East Cambridge
Hartford
Hartford, Conn
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Henry Siegel Co
House of Kuppenheimer
Castoria
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