Mystery disappearance of John W Cox linked to found belongings
In Providence a mail box discovery ties the Auburn man John W Cox to his sudden vanishing on November 10, 1994. Relatives found his money bag, pistol, bicycle, wrench, oilers, and a card in a female hand along the fence in front of his home. Detectives had searched the city for weeks without locating him. The items were placed in boxes last night, but no trace of Cox has emerged.
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Providence
R. I
John W. ¢Ox
Auburn
John W. Wil
Whiskey Trust Affairs Ad April 6 Receiver Talks
Receiver McNulta reported the whiskey property ready for immediate transfer to stockholders if court orders. He cited the American Distributing Company joining the Spirits Distilling Association as removing the last obstacle to trust prosperity. General McNulta signed the agreement this morning. terms were not public but favorable to the trust. Stockholders may seek court relief by June 1 as the receivership unfolds. Control shifts April 17 with the annual election.
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McNulta
American Distributing Company
Spirits Distilling Association
Neeey
Yie Browe
Belding Bros and Co announces wage raise plan
The notice states wages will rise from April 1 by 5 percent with a further adjustment after the July 1 inventory if business conditions allow. It cites very low product prices and fierce competition as reasons and says the company aims to treat employees fairly. Signed Belding Bros and Co.
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Belding Ee
Belding Bros, & CO
Winged tables bring library comfort at low cost
The Paine furniture Company reports winged tables now stocked for libraries and clubs. These overhanging tables offer convenient use and are available at a very low price, pleasing students and those aiming to furnish a home library.
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Paine Furniture Company
Colonel Whiting Resigns Guard Post For Hawaii Superior Court
Colonel W Austin Whiting, who left the judgeship to lead the national guard of Hawaii, has resigned the colonelcy and is reappointed as judge of the Hawaii Superior Court. Born in Charles Town and Harvard educated, he captained the football team in his senior year.
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W. Austin Whiting
National Guard
Hapaii
Honolulu
Superior Court of
Hawaii
Whiting
Fire damages bakery and store in Rochester
Rochester New Hampshire April 6 fire started by kettle of lard on a stove. Fire at H Burnham bakery and restaurant on Hanson street destroyed almost the building and damaged the adjoining Salinger property occupied by Charles Willey as a bakery store. Burnham's loss about 1500 insured. Salinger property loss about 200 insured.
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Rochester
N. H
H. Burnham
Hanson Street
Isadore Salinger
Charles W. Willey
Burnham
Balinger
Train collision slows Worcester Northern line at Windham Junction
At Windham Junction New Hampshire a Worcester Quashua and Rochester railroad train pushed into an m switch near the station. The engine and feeder slid halfway onto an embankment with wheels buried in sand. Crews are building a side track to allow trains to pass. No injuries reported.
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Windham Junction
N. H
Worcester, Qashua & Rochester Railroad
Local man Albert Troschle dies after morphine dose
Albert E. Troschle, 38, of 1 Cobb Street, died yesterday after taking a large morphine amount around Thursday afternoon. Dr. Clayton of 1000 Washington Street treated him for several hours but could not save him. Police believe the death may have been intentional.
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Albert E. Troschle
Kvone
Cobb Street
Clayton
Washington Street
Spolgon
Wheeler Held for Embezzlement in Municipal Case
H Wheeler, linked to Zeyler & Co, faced embezzlement charges after a $2200 check dated Sept 1894. He waived examination and was held in $3000 bond for the May grand jury. American Wringer Co. advertised city manufacturing wringers and related goods with mail orders and telephone service.
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Wheeler
An .Em- Zeyler & Col
Wisiter
Das American ,Wringer_Co
Dewey Medical Scene Offers Comprehensive Care
Daytime and evening appointments announced for all diseases at 7th Street rooms. Examinations and treatments available through a medical service described as accessible and comprehensive for residents seeking general health care and disease management.
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Dewey Medical Eeene
Ae DY
New Telephone Aliance Aims to Beat Bell Company
A sweeping plan organizes the Standard Telephone Company of New York with a claimed 960 million dollars in capital to install $2 yearly phones nationwide. State licenses span New York New England New Jersey Pennsylvania District of Columbia Maryland Ohio Indiana Michigan Illinois Minnesota Missouri and more with numerous regional Standard companies forming under Griffith Colt and George Q Cannon.
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Chicago
New Telephone Company
American Bell
John W. Candler
Boston
Colonel Conger
Ohio
Congressman Cannon
Utah
Mormon Church
Louis Windmueller
New York
Franklin Fairbanks
Vermont
Leon Abbott
New Jersey
Felix Agnus
Baltimore
Charles A. Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Illinois
W. J. Campbell
Standard Oil
Johns. Runnells
Pullman
W. W. Tracey
Springfield
Standard Telephone Company of
New York Standard Telephone Company
Capital
Eastern Standard Telephone Company
New England
New Jersey Standard Telephone Company
Jersey City
Delaware
Pennsylvania Standard Telephone Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Columbian Standard Telephone Company
Washington
D. C
Richmond
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
Indiana
Standard Telephone Company
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Michigan Standard Telephone Company
Detroit
Michigan
Northwestern Standard Telephone Company
Davenport
Milwaukee
Iowa
Wisconsin
Northern Standard Telephone Company
St. Paul
Pierre
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Central Standard Telephone Company
St. Louis
Kansas City
Lincoln
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Arkansas
Griffith Colt
Union Trust Company
Mountain Standard Telephone Company
Denver
Albuquerque
Salt Lake City
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
George Q. Cannon
Southern Standard Telephone Company
Nashville
Louisville
Charleston
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Carolina
Gulf States Standard Telephone Company
New Orleans
Atlanta
St. Augustine
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas Standard Telephone Company
Austin
Galveston
Guthrie
Texas
Indian Terriitory
Oklahoma
Pacific Standard Telephone Company
Portland
Tacoma
Andelena
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Alaska
California Standard Telephone Company
San Francisco
California
Nevada
Intercolonial Standard Telephone Company
Quebec
St. John’s
Halifax
Ontario
Canadian Standard Telephone Company
Montreal
Ottawa
Province of
British Columbian Standard Telephone Company
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Victoria
Mexican Standard Telephone Company
City of Mexico
Republic of Mexico
New Standard Telephone Co Plans Summer Service in New York
Thurlow Weed Barnes leads the Standard Telephone Company with offices at 68 Broad Street. He confirms the parent company has a paid in capital of 160 million dollars and fifty chartered subsidiaries. About 200 prominent U.S. capitalists back the venture aiming to launch service in New York this summer at three dollars a month. Barnes says the project has been kept quiet for three years after securing the franchise. Searles is not a director and left for Arizona after being bought out. his nephew and son in law remain linked to the New York group. J E Searles once led the local company. C H Aldrich, also counsel for Kellogg, is in the city with his client negotiating efforts.
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New York
Thurlow Weed Barnes
New Standard Telehone Company
Broad Street
Mr. Searles
Sugar Company
Searles
Arizona
E. M. Searles
Winthrop Murray Tuttle
J. E. Searles
C. H. Aldrich
M. G. Kellogg
Bell
Bell Telephone
Chicago
New Telephone Company
American Bell Company
State Street
John W. Candler
Bell stock signals doubt on Chicago telephone rumour
Bell Telephone stock traded lightly with about 700 of 200000 shares changing hands. The price fell early but mostly recovered by close, reflecting investor skepticism toward Chicago competition. A telephone expert called the new company a quixotic venture by adventurers seeking personal gain.
Spring Cleaning and Hood's Sarsaparilla Health Claim
An advertisement urges homemakers to cleanse the body during spring cleaning. It claims impure blood causes fatigue and nervousness and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier to enrich and energize the bloodstream for better health and strength.
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Hood
Together Will Master the Trials of House Cleaning
A patient describes years of frail health caused by rheumatism neuralgia and lingering weakness. She details poor appetite fatigue and nervousness then notes seeking relief and a potential cure after trying various remedies.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Endorsed by Mrs Andrews
Mrs F H Andrews of South Woodstock Conn says Hood's Sarsaparilla keeps her energetic at home and on the farm all summer. She notes improvement in heart palpitations and calls Hood's Sarsaparilla the medicine for everyone. She also praises Hood's Pills as the best she has tried.
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Hood
F. H. Andrews
South Woodstock
Conn
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Blood Purity and Strength
A testimonial heavy ad asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood, improves appetite, restores strength to exhausted nerves, and aids sleep. It claims cures for blood origin diseases like crofula and rheumatic eruptions, with personal endorsements from Helen Hilferd of New York and Mrs. T. J. Williams of Iowa and DuLay of Vermont.
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Hood
Along the Water Front: Vessels and Wreck News
The Longfellow sails to Provincetown at 9 this morning. The Ella from Port Spain loses foretopmast and mainmast head in a March mishap. Winslow Morse, ashore at Lynn Beach, floated and beached at East Boston. hull damaged. Kennett to be cleaned and repaired in Simpson's dock. Wreck survey on Venetian. cargo disposition pending. Barge 202 discharges 1370 tons coal in record 5.5 hours. Eclipse observed on March 10. Claverdon seen off Thitcher’s Island. 2462 ton net British ship to Boston crew reports.
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Longfellow
John Smith
Provincetown
Underwriter
New York
Adderley
Ella
Port Spain
Winslow Morse
Lynn Beach
Winterport
Boston
Wesley A. Gove
Marquand’s
Smith and
Sorensen
Atlantic Avenue
Kennett
Davies
Progreso
Mexico
Simpson’s
Marquand
M. C. Moseley
R. F. G. Candage
Oliver Shaw
Boston Towboat Company
Edgewater
Dudley Pray
Mystic Wharf
Bangor
Penobscot
Gilkey
C. P. Dixon
Kelway
Calcutta
Hali
Prof Green Astrologist Degen at Park Square
An unsigned item lists Prof Green as an astrologist at 58 Park Square near Prov oe eee St and 218 Boylston Street with rooms and services described as past and future readings. Minor garbled text mentions love and law.
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Park Square
Provoe Eee St
Boylston Street
Iin
Japan Presses for Corean Independence and Indemnities
London report cites good authority on peace terms with China including Corean independence, 400 million yen indemnity, and cession of Formosa and Li-Tung Port Arthur. China objects to Li-Tung and Port Arthur. Japan dispatches infantry and cavalry as armistice nears while Pekin corridor battles unfold. Chinese forces in North Formosa estimated at 80,000 with 50,000 regular troops.
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London
Chir
Corea
Japan
Formosa
Lo-Tung
Port Arthur
Li-Tung
China
Times
Shimonoshi
Pekin
Japanese Colonel Aoki under fire near Chinese border
A Tokyo despatch reports General Nodzu in Hai Cheng saying a Chinese messenger was sent April 1 to seek truce talks, and a Chinese messenger with a trumpeter was sent April 2. When no return by April 3, Colonel Aoki attempted a flag truce advance, prompting Chinese firing that wounded the Japanese flag bearer and forced retreat.
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London
Tokio
Centra
Nodzu
Aoki
O'Brien Confesses Identity in Bunco Case at Paris
In Paris on April 5 the man known as American bunco steer O'Brien admitted to Judge Tranqueville that he is really O'Brien, the fugitive. This marks his first admission of guilt in the March 27 shooting of his companion Addel.
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Paris
O'Brien
Porter Buys Cleveland World Newspaper Deal
Robert P. Porter former census chief and ex head of the Philadelphia and New York presses has purchased the Cleveland World, a Republican daily. He will assume control immediately, with the price reported near 200 dollars.
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Cleveland
Robert P. Porter
Census Bureau
Ear
Philadelphia Press
Fouth
New York Press
Cleveland World
Gould settles Newton bonds with Powowiver Bank officials
Amesbury April Hervey N Gould appeared at the Powowiver Bank this afternoon and settled her relative to his note. The bank officials turned over the 0 of town of Newton bonds to him, central as collateral, settling the matter for the bank.
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Amesbury
Hervey N. Gould
Powowiver Bank
Town of
Railroads push improvements and new stations emerge
Amid rail industry gloom, Boston area lines announce modern stations at Westboro and Stoneham, plus a new Manchester and Milford company with 300000 capital. Quebec and Lake St John issues fishing book as trout season opens. Other items note whistle chimes on Pennsylvania locomotives, re elections at Southern Pacific, London railway congress, Mexican Central hiring in Boston, and price moves on grain and dairy freight. The Trackman reports these updates.
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Boston
Quebec & Lake St. John Road
Pennsylvania
Huntington
International Railway Congress
London
American Railroad Association
F. P. McIntyre
Mexican Central Road
E. W. Barker
Grand Trunk Road
Chicago
New York
Western Freight Association
Minneapolis
Ex-Police Commissioner Sheehan Cleared by Special Grand Jury
New York reports that a special grand jury has dismissed charges against ex-Police Commissioner Sheehan. The accusations included trying to coax Captain Schmitt berger to permit a gambler to run a gambling house and persuading a ballot clerk to violate election law by withholding constitutional amendment ballots unless voters requested them.
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New York
Special Grand Jury
Sheehan
Schmittberger
District attorney serves notice on appeal in forgery case
New York April 5 The district attorney has served notice upon Tracy Boardman and Platt of the appeal from the decision of the general term of the Supreme Court which reversed the jury verdict in the Court of Oyer and Terminer convicting Erastus Wiman of forgery.
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New York
Tracy, Boardman and Platt
Supreme Court
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Erast
Wiman
British Columbia Premier Seeks 2 Million Loan in London
Montreal April 6 H J Turner premier of British Columbia arrived in Montreal on his way to London to float a loan of 2 000 000 dollars for provincial purposes.
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British Columbia
Montreal
H. J. Turner
London
Unknown Boston man probes Adams House death case
A tall, 60 year old stranger with a long black beard and modest clothes sparked fresh interest in the Adams House death by his own action. He questioned reporters, traced routes through Boston, visited Moulton Loring & Loring and the Savings Bank on School Street, and carried a Pittsburg mail, suggesting possible ties to Laird of Pittsburg and Miss Hathaway.
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Boston
Pemberton Square
Moulton, Loring & Loring
Savings Bank
School Street
Jones
Sampson
Jones’s
Wemberton Square
Pittsburg, Fenn
Laird
Miss Hathaway
Casket hardware trust proposed by New York seller
William C. Thompson of Sargent & Co proposes a casket hardware trust to unite about two dozen firms. The plan calls for a stock corporation with capital equal to member firms’ assets and for conveying property to the new company in exchange for stock. Boston leaders dismiss the move as unlikely and impractical.
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William C. Thompson
New York
Sargent & Co
New Haven
Conn
Thompson
Boston
Heintz
National Casket Company
Portland Street
Heath
Dorntee Casket Company
Blackstone Street
Mr. Thompson
Cincinnati
W. N. Lockhart
Lockhart Company
Stamford Street
The Arno Rescue at Sea Near Southampton
The Normannia rescued 29 crew members and a baby from the sinking British ship Arno after an eight hour effort in heavy thirty foot seas. Lifesaving included a canvas bag cradle for the infant and life buoy lines for jumping into the sea. Rescuees received 2000 marks in reward.
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Southampton
Arno
Crushed by Falling Stones Kills Worker in Portland
Hans Johnson aged 35 of Middletown was instantly killed at the Connecticut Steam Brownstone Works in Portland when a pile of stone fell from a travelling crane as he adjusted a chain. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Middletown
Conn
Hans Johnson
Connecticut Steam Brownstone Works
Portland
Meeting of People's Institute elects officers at Roxbury hall
The annual meeting of the People's Institute was held last evening in People's Hall Roxbury. Reports from the superintendent and treasurer were heard on their work. Members of the managing committee for the ensuing year were elected and miscellaneous business was transacted.
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The
People’s Institute
People’s Hall
Tremont Street
Roxbury
Shiel Literary Association
Grand Army Hall
John P. J
St. Rose Hall
Quincy House
Curtis
John F. Fitzgerald
Thomas J. Gargan
Edward J. Flynn
John F. Dever
John J. Boyle
Why use Warner's Safe Cure for kidney troubles
Questioning the springtime drowsiness and aches as signs of kidney poison in the blood. Encourages curing kidneys with Warner's Safe Cure as the only known specific to purify the blood and restore health and happiness.
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Warner
Death of Joseph W Chickey Herald circulation chief dies
Joseph W Chickey superintendent of circulation on the Boston Herald died at his residence 627 Massachusetts avenue at age 60. He came from Boston as a marble cutter and served in the Forty second Massachusetts during the New Orleans campaign. He later joined the State Militia and was active with Company BE Seventh Regiment. A charter member of G A R Post 7 Bea ton he was also active in Odd Fellowship and related orders. Death followed a second paralysis shock after one in November.
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Joseph W. Chickey
Boston Herald
Massachusetts Avenue
Mr. Chickey
Boston
Forty-second
Massachusetts Regiment
New Orleans
Beaton
Odd Fellowship
Herald
Hopkins Hopkins Wedding Unites Maude Hopkinson and Louis Hopkinson
In New York City at 1045 Madison Avenue on Thursday April 4, Maude Hopkinson daughter of Mrs D H Hopkinson wed Louis Hopkinson of this city in a ceremony performed by Rev Abbot BE Kittredge. Death notices span Dunlap Galvin Gillespie Gilman Goodnow Hatch Hathaway Hill with ages and dates from April 2 to April 8 across several local figures.
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Hopkins — Hopkinson
Madison Avenue
New York City
Abbot BE. Kittredge
Maude
D. H. Hopkinson
Louis Lawton Hopekins
Dunlap
H. Atossa
Galvin
Malden
James Galvin
Gillespie
Sarah Gillespie
Gilman
Edna W. Gilman
Goodnow
Framingham
Mass
Edward Goodnow
Hatch
Charlestown
A. Hatch
Hathaway
Adoniram Hathaway
Hill
Soldiers’ Home
Simon D. Hill
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