Benton Claims Wide Victory Across Massachusetts Delegates
Colonel Everett C. Benton announced sweeping delegate gains claiming 170 of 201 in Boston and wins in Haverhill Lowell and Belmont. He reported 1619 delegates in the state convention with over 1400 tallied and praised the Republican party for answering the call to duty.
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Everett C. Benton
Boston
Foss
Haverhill
Lowell
Belmont
Benton
Colonel Benton
Gates
Foss claims majority of Boston delegates pledged
Mr. Foss asserts a majority of Boston delegates are pledged to his cause. He cites 31 pledged locally and about 200 outside Boston, with more expected beyond Benton’s claimed 1400. He says the fight will continue at the convention and that defeat is not admitted.
Lodge Forces Sweep Massachusetts Republican Caucuses
Ex Governor Crane ex Governor Long and Colonel Benton led the Lodge faction to a sweeping victory as party machinery rallied to defeat Eugene Foss. The campaign highlighted reciprocity versus tariffs and included clashes over the Alaska Boundary Commission during the delegate selection for the State convention.
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Winthrop Murray Crane
Dalton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nahant
John D. Long
Hingham
Everett C. Benton
Belmont
Senator Lodge
Eugene N. Foss
Foss
Canada
Lodge
Crane
Benton
Curtis
Bates
Boston
Long
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Forecast for Boston and vicinity
The Fair Forecast notes Wednesday in Boston and vicinity remains fair with Thursday partly cloudy and a chance of light showers. The weather item also includes a cough remedy promotion labeled Lung Kuro as the quickest cure.
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Boston and Vicinity
Harris Dexter Admits Killing Younger Brother in Accidental Shooting
Harris Dexter, 14, confessed to killing his 11 year old brother Parker on March 27 in their home. He claimed the shooting was accidental after taking a revolver from his father’s room and firing at Parker in the bathroom. He cleaned the gun and hid it before fleeing to the Lothrop house and reporting a masked intruder.
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Randolph
Harris Dexter
Parker
Howard House
Scott
Faulkner
Dexter
Asa P. French
Boston
Harris
Lothrop
Slugger Attack in Roxbury Targets Domestic Worker
Mary Nee, a domestic at 204 Boston street, Roxbury, was seized by a man on East Cottage street at 10 p.m. He choked her until she weakened, robbed her of a pocketbook containing 94, then fled. Nee describes the assailant as 25, 6 feet 10 inches, dark complexion, dark mustache, wearing black clothes.
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Mary Nee
East Cottage Street
Miss Nee
Cleveland backs Parker in Democrat nominating move
Former President Cleveland, in a Princeton despatch to the World, says the Parker movement provides relief and satisfaction. He warns Democrats not to hesitate to accept Judge Alton B. Parker if nominated and notes doctrines of the conservative element must not be evaded at St Louis.
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New York
Princeton
N. J
Cleveland
Alton B. Parker
Parker
St. Louis
Shake up at Station 3 unsettles West End patrols
A major personnel shift in Division 3 is reported as Captain Peabody transfers 10 officers to new routes. Among those moved are Officer Jack Wyman and Patrolmen Sonneman Parmenter Norton and about twenty colleagues who have policed the West End for years.
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Division
Peabody
Jack Wyman
Sonneman, Parmenter
Norton
West End
Arrest Expected in Page Murder Mystery
Weston, April 5. An arrest in the Page murder is not far away if evidence substantiates suspicions. It may come at any moment as several links in the chain need filling, and the mystery that seemed unsolvable now appears near resolution.
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Weston
Page
Russians Await Attack at Yalu in War Time
St Petersburg report says Russia plans to lure a Japanese attack on the right bank of the Yalu while fortifying at its mouth. A bridge extends along the Wiju line to Pinhujan as Russians press river crossings. Russia also moves to appeal Russian merchant ships in Japanese prize courts with three Japanese lawyers to argue cases.
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Paris
St. Petersburg
Echo de Paris
Yalu
Wiju
Pinhujan
Tokio
Japan
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B.C. Benton
Officer Faber
Mequure
Cutter House
Whitney
Mabel Page
Dunham and Whitney
Charles Cutter
South Avenue
Helen Tyler
Susie Cutter
Cutter
Msquliffe
Dunham
Archibald
Mrs. Heten G Tyler
Amy Roberts
Uy Eetions
Sleuth Dupes
MR. Foss
Chicago
Slugger
Roxbury
Ing
Russia
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