Mrs Van Weik Suicide Linked to Possible Gambling
Campbell Royston of Baltimore arrived in Jersey City to take charge of the body of Mrs Louise Ames Van Weik who killed herself in the Washington Hotel. He said she inherited about 75000 dollars and suggested she may have been speculating in stocks or gambling on races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Campbell Royston
Baltimore
Jersey City
Louise Ames van Weik
Washington Hotel
D. Royston
VanWeik
Louise Vanweik
Aldermen Balk Mayor Loan Bill in City Council Vote
In a clash between Aldermen Lomasney and Slattery the Lomasney substitute loan bill won 8 to 5. The debate focused on a $620,000 Old Colony roadbed item and a plan to replace the J Putnam Bradlee with a $75,000 steamer. The mayor’s vetoes on a Hale Street bay window and a Mystic Wharf land sale were discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lomasney
Slattery
Board of Aldermen
Alderman Lomasney
Alderman Slattery
Finance Committee
Merrimac and
Stamford Streets
Ward 8
Slattery and
Old Colony
Ramapo
New York
Atlantic Avenue
Congress
Mt. Washington Avenue
J. Putnam Bradlee
New York, New Haven & Harford Railroad
Collins
Jacob Levin
Hale Street
Slaciery
Mystic Wharf
Charlestown
F. W. Lawrence
H. H. Wiggin
W A. Morrison
Princeton Street
East
Boston
Startling Charge Against Pennell Linked to Burdick Inquest
Inquest coverage ties Pennell to the Burdick case with letters and papers cited by authorities. Officers seek documents from witnesses to illuminate Burdick life and death, while rights to refuse may be asserted. Carrie L Pennell leaves 50 000 in personal property and 3000 in real estate. J Fred Pennell reports Arthur R Pennell estate values with 175 000 personal property and 3000 real estate and a 300 000 bond set by Judge Marcus.
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Pennell
Burdick
Burdicks
Marcus
Henry W. Lamb
New Haven
ODD SCHEME IN CHELSEA GOES TO HIGHWAY PANEL
Alderman Young proposes empowering City Engineer Maggs to hire elderly former city workers at daily wages to cover light tasks. Driscoll protests citing organized labor opposition. Cheney moves to refer to the highway committee. Central Labor Union members attend and hint at forthcoming action due to the $1 per day hiring plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alderman Young
Chelsea Board of Aldermen
Maggs
Chelsea
Driscoll
Cheney
Highway Committee
Central Labor Union
Anti Vaccinationists Move to US Supreme Court
Anti Compulsory Vaccination Society leaders held an indignation meeting in Chipman Hall Tremont Temple to protest the Supreme Court ruling upholding compulsory vaccination and announced plans to pursue the case to the United States Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Chipman Hall
Tremont Temple
Supreme Court of the United States
Panic and Firefront At Union Street Block Narrow Escape
A basement blaze on Union Street driven by stack of packed furniture sent Joseph Carter fleeing with severe burns while female workers on upper floors escaped via fire escapes. a bystander, John Baham, caught a jumping woman. Fire crews contained the blaze with unknown total loss. Several other incidents followed including a home kitchen fire at 514 Commercial Street injuring Mrs. Eliza Hallowell and a Jamaica Plain roof fire at 95 Green Street.
Fire multiple blazes across East Boston and Dorchester park
Citizens saw flames on a two story frame house roof and smoke drove Mrs Walters and her children to the street. Firemen arrived to find the roof ablaze and after a lively fight extinguished the flames with 500 dollars damage. Alarm 6 40 p m from 106 London street East Boston. Overturned lamp caused a small fire in Mrs Halletts apartments at 37 Hancock street. Dr E H Allen fire damage 50 dollars from gas jet. Chimney fire at 73 Myrtle street slight damage. Fire on roof of vacant building behind 7 Lincoln street Brighton caused by locomotive sparks. damage not estimated. Brush fire in Dorchester park extinguished by Engine 16 and Ladder 6. no damage. Stable fire at 1 Francis street Roxbury choked horses to safety. damage trifling. No arrests.
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Boston
Myrtle Street
Harris Schultz
Lincoln Street
Brighton
Jacob Taylor
Engine 16
Ladder Company 6
Dorchester Park
Francis Street
Roxbury
Jeremiah Hurley
New England Methodist Conference Faces Appointments and Debates
The Brookline gathering heard speeches and reports as Bishop Andrews prepared to announce the year’s appointments. G W Coon was placed on the superannuated list after a heated debate. Governor Bates addressed the conference, praising Methodism and urging success.
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New England Methodist
Brookline
Andrews
G. W. Coon
Coon
Mallalieu
Bates
Preachers’ Aid
St. Mark's Church
Secretary of Statistics
Harvard Street Church to Announce Pastor in Cambridge
The Rev Raymond F Holway is expected to be named pastor of the Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge barring any unexpected conference developments in Brookline. He now pastors Trinity Church Charlestown and would succeed Rev Francis J McConnell if appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond F. Holway
Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Cambridge
Conference of Churches
Brookline
Harvard Street
Holway
Trinity Methodist Church
Charlestown
Francis J. McConnell
Russian temptress’s rise and ruin in early 1900s Europe
Kronstadt Colonel Schafrow found guilty of corruption and stripped of rank. Ryfka Oppenheim, 27, sentenced to three years for fraud in Vienna and Carlsbad after a life of romance, elopements, and daring deception, ends with imprisonment in Stein on the Danube.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Schafrow
Kronstadt
Russia
Stein
Danube
Ryfka Oppenheim
Carlsbad
Piotrkow
Lodz
Stamo
Lowell Strike Death Sparks New Ulterior Issues
Ann Meehan, 40, a former Massachusetts mill operative, died after ingesting bug poison amid the mills shutdown near Hildreth Cemetery in Centralville. Authorities and textile leaders report surface signs of internal strife within the Textile Council as mule spinners resist joining the broad strike.
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Lowell
Ann Meehan
Massachusetts
Hildreth
Centralville
St. John's Hospital
Corporation
Richard Hayes
Hayes
Textile Council
Shaw
New England
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Geher Halls
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Houghton & Dutton
Yorenbergs
Bostonia
Washington, Hanover and
Elm Streets
Batley
Abson
Hall
Benton
Bowen
Bresnahan
Farwell
Flanagan
Nolan
Quigley
Stewart
Bolton
Bromberg
Doyle
Frothingham
Committee On Public Improvements
Browning
Washington St
Union ST
Excelsior
Joseph Carter
National Paper and Stationery Company
John Baham
Baham
General Express
J. M. Dean
Eliza Hallowell
Commercial Street
Robert Crim
Dr. Leland
Crim
Jamaica Plain
John Walters
Green Street
Rorsy
van Noorden
Massachusetts Ave
Ferry St
North St
The
Plimpton-Hervey CO
Bellabie House Furnishers
Faneull Hall
Union St. Faneuil Hall
MR. Holway
Jambridge
Rubin
Ryfka
Siberia
Mse
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