Crucial Day for Roosevelt in National Politics
This delegate week in national politics outlines 160 delegates to the Republican convention in Chicago. Six delegates-at-large were pledged for Taft in Louisiana amid talk of a bolting faction of colored delegates barred from attendance. Illinois holds direct primaries today whose outcome will influence the Roosevelt campaign and could determine his standing in the party.
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Illinois
Chicago
Taft
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Republican convention schedule across states listed
The despatch outlines a week of political activity with a lineup of state and district conventions in New York Vermont Kentucky Illinois Michigan Missouri Maine and Pennsylvania. Sessions include state party meetings and district primaries leading to St Louis ward primaries and Pennsylvania polls.
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New York
Vermont
Kentucky
Illinois
Maine
Michigan
Tennessee
Missouri
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Campaign managers claim victories ahead of Illinois primary
Eleventh hour statements from Taft Roosevelt Wilson and LaFollette camps claim victory or large majorities in Illinois while Hearst seeking to control the Democratic delegation. A test vote on woman’s suffrage will be held at 1341 Chicago polling places under county supervision.
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Chicago
Frank L. Smith
Edwin W. Sims
Roosevelt
Wilson
Clark
Smith
Taft
Illinois
TV Am
Sims
Champ Clark
William Randolph Hearst
New York
Owens
Counterfeiting Plant Seized in Brockton Cellar
Federal agents had searched New England for over two years for a counterfeit operation. Police seized a fully equipped plant in the cellar of 17 Packard Street after arresting Patrick J. McGrath of Fall River for passing counterfeit half dollars.
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Brockton
New England
Packard Street
Patrick J. McGrath
Fall River
Counterfeit Coin Ring Bust Ties Family Plant
Police raid links Joseph McGrath age 18 and his father Patrick J. McGrath to a counterfeit half dollar operation. United States Secret Service agent J E Murphy led Brockton officers to the Packard street home where 22 moulds and metalwork were seized. Officers found furnaces in operation and between 18 and 199 counterfeit halves recovered.
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Joseph McGrath
Patrick McGrath
Patrick J. McGrath
Fall River
Drummond
J. E. Murphy
United States Secret Service of
Boston
Murphy
Brockton
McGrath
Packard Street
Betsy Ross Reworks Flag With Six Stars for Women’s Vote Parade
The new flag for the suffragette parade on May 4 will keep the stripes but show only six stars on the blue field. Betsy Ross remodeled the flag to represent the states granting women suffrage, with forty-two stars removed.
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New York
Betsy Ross
Oust Chief at Watertown
Watertown Board of Selectmen removed Police Chief David A. Bolton at a special meeting. Lieutenant Thomas F. Lyons, with 28 years on the force, was named chief to succeed him.
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David A. Bolton
Watertown
Board of Selectmen
Thomas F. Lyons
Force
Ex-Senator Joseph O Neill Dies in Florida Home
Ex senator Joseph O Neill died of heart disease at his winter home in Orlando Florida where he had lived with Mrs Neill since October He was 74 a native of Calais Maine Survived by his widow and three daughters
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Fall River
Joseph O. Neill
Orlando
Fla
Fire Gutts Hansen Type Foundry in Downtown Blaze
A morning fire gutted the H. C. Hansen type foundry building at 190 and 192 Congress street. Patrolman Alexander Lindsay spotted flames prompting three alarms that sent downtown fire crews racing to the scene. The upper floors burned as a floor collapse sent heavy press machinery crashing through to lower levels.
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H. C. Hansen Type Foundry
Congress Street
Alexander Lindsay
Fire Devours City Foundry As Firefighters Fight From Bridges
Chief Mullen orders rapid alarms as flames shoot skyward illuminating the neighborhood. Water pours on from ladder towers and overhead lines as crews work from fragile steel bridges toward the upper floors. Fire spreads to nearby Parker & Co and Arnold Roberts Company structures, with hot air explosions breaking panes. Fire discovered 1 30 a m and controlled by 2 o clock.
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Congress Place
A. P. Tapley
Hansen
Do Aes Parker & Co
Congress Street
Parker Company
Arnold Roberts Company
Henry Wiggin
Boseman
Engine Company 7
Teehan
Tapley Building
Captain Hines
Hoseman Lawlor
Hoseman Locke
Fox
Locke
Tapley
Sued broker to marry New York socialite at home ceremony
Arthur F. Luke of Luke Banks Weeks and Miss Anna Fleck obtained a marriage license at City Hall. Luke, 59, and Fleck, 39, planned to wed April 15 at the bride’s parents home 626 West One Hundred Forty-seventh street. Luke faces a $150000 breach of promise suit from Miss Ellie Haydn. Fleck’s father Michael Fleck approved the match.
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New York
Arthur F. Luke
Luke, Banks & Weeks
Wall Street
Ellie F. Haydn
Anna Fleck
West One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street
Miss Fleck
Michael Fleck
Luke
City Hall
Mr. Luke
Fleck
Death of Louis G. Parma Shocks Harlem Conservatory
Louis G. Parma, aged musician and director of the New York Conservatory of Music in Harlem, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage and acute nephritis. His body was found in a locked room at the conservatory with a mentally strained woman nearby, later taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation. Coroner Hellenstein noted natural causes but the circumstances puzzled authorities.
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New York
Louis G. Parma
New York Conservatory of Music
Harlem
Conservatory
Bellevue Hospital
Parma
Hellenstein
Lina Cavalieri to Wed Paris Opera Tenor Muratore
The Paris Journal reports Mme Lina Cavalieri former wife of Robert Winthrop Chanler will wed Lucien Muratore a tenor at the Paris Opera. After marriage they plan to sing together in American opera engagements. Muratore born 1878 in Marseilles has long been with Paris Opera and has performed at the Opera Comique.
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Paris
Paris Journal
Mme
Lina Cavalieri
Robert Winthrop Chanler
New York
Lucien Muratore
Paris Opera
America
Muratore
Marseilles
Opera
Opera Comique
Red Sox Home On New Park Today
Harvard opposes Boston in debut at the new park with lineups featuring Hooper Yerkes Speaker Stahl Gardner Lewis Krug Wagner Thomas Cady Leonard Bedient and Clarke Desha Babson Potter Reynolds Wingate Wigglesworth Reeves Young Felton Bartholf Hitchcock.
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RED Sox
New Park
Hooper
F. Yerkes
Speaker
C. F. Stahl
Gardner
Lewis
I. F. Krug
Wagner
Ss. Thomas
Cady
C. Leonard
Hageman
Bedient
S. Clarke
Desha
Ss. Babson
Potter
Reynolds
R. F. Wingate
Wigglesworth
C. F. Reeves
Young
C. Felton
Bartholf
Hitchcock
Red Sox Return Home For First Look At Stahl’s Strong Team
The Red Sox return to their home grounds after spring training in the South. Jake Stahl and his players arrived at nine last night, and this afternoon Boston fans will see a powerful lineup clash with the Crimson team in town.
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Red Sox
Jake “Stahl
Boston
Big Jake
The
Crimson
Rubber Glove Saves Lineman From Electrocution
John J. Carty a 31 year old lineman for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company in Jamaica Plain narrowly escaped death when a charged wire knocked him from a pole at 62 Quincy Street Roxbury yesterday afternoon. He burned severely but is expected to recover after using a rubber glove as a head rest before the fall.
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John J. Carty
Jamaica Plain
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Quincey Street
Roxbury
Carty
Pilots Suit Denies Marriage Validity in Suffolk Court
Clarence A. Martin of Winthrop a Lewis Wharf pilot sues in Suffolk County Superior Court seeking to annul his marriage to Gertrude A. McDowell Austin Martin. He says he married on Navy Day last year but never lived with her after learning she was divorced from Herbert Z. Austin of Reading in 18 for a 186? divorce he questions the legality of.
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Clarence’ A. Martin
Winthrop
Lewis Wharf
Suffolk County Superior Court
Gertrude A. McDowell Austin Martin
Oni Navy
Herbert Z. Austin
Reading
South Dakota
Yale Students Die After Auto Crash Near Radnor
John Louis Hoffman 21 and his Yale classmate Arthur W. Ryerson of Haverford died in Bryn Mawr Hospital after Hoffmans car struck a telegraph pole near his Radnor home. Both were Yale University students.
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YALE
AUTO
Philadelphia
John Louis Hoffman
J. Ogden Hoffman
Radnor
Arthur W. Ryerson
Haverford
Hoffman
Bryn Mawr
Yale University
Suffrage Passes in Arizona House in 21 to 4 Vote
Phenix Arizona April The Arizona House approved a bill granting women full suffrage by 21 to 4 and sent it to the Senate where leaders announced public hearings before any action.
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Phenix
Ariz
Arizona House
Senate
Folk Song Recital by Misses Fuller in Boston Hall
Misses Oriska Dorothy and Rosalind Fuller English folk song singers will perform next Wednesday afternoon in Jacob Sleeper Hall Boston University. The programme features English Scottish and Irish songs with harp accompaniment for music students from Massachusetts Extension Courses and the music appreciation class. Limited tickets available to the public.
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Dorothy
Rosalind Fuller
Jacob Sleeper
Boylston Street
Massachusetts Extension
Boston University
Ontario passengers sail from Baltimore to unknown destination
The Ontario lists passengers that sailed from Baltimore including Miss Katherine E. Schwartz Washington D C Miss Nellie F Sheehan Cleveland Ohio Mr and Mrs T H Gray Jr 25 Davis Avenue Brookline Mr and Mrs Hiram W Sanborn Dover New Hampshire Mr and Mrs Arthur E Cahill North Weymouth Mrs William J Bond wife of the captain Frank Bowden Troy Maine Timothy Carney Stoughton Ten steerage passengers
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Land
T. H. Gray, Jr
Davis Avenue
Brookline
Hiram W. Sanborn
Dover
N. H
Arthur E. Cahill
North Weymouth
William J. Bond
Baltimore
Ontario
Frank Bowden
Troy
Timothy Carney
Stoughton
Montauk Point Heroic Rescue After Ship Fire
The Merchants and Miners line steamship Ontario lay wrecked off Montauk Light as 32 passengers were rescued by First Engineer Disney Wireless Operator Ingalls Captain Bond and crew who stayed at their posts in smoke and heat. Women first, the skipper ordered, and the crew obeyed. The piece contrasts with the Larchmont disaster five years earlier off Block Island.
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L. L
Merchants & Miners’ Line Steamship Ontario
Montauk Light
Disney
Ingalls
Bond
Toy Line
Larchmont
Block Island
Sentenced for Sister Death in South Boston Firepot Incident
John Sheehan was found guilty of killing his sister Mary Greenhalge by pouring boiling water over her in her home in South Boston. He received a 10 to 15 year term at the State Prison. The defendant reportedly said there, I got you now. Henry B. Brooks received five to six years for breaking into carpenter shops and stealing tools.
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John Sheehan
Mary Greenhalge
Boston
Anniversary of Sebastopol and Pleasant Hill Battles
The note recalls 1864 anniversaries for English and French batteries at Sebastopol and the Battle of Pleasant Hill in Louisiana. It mentions Day 13 hours and long day length, Jupiter rising around 11 p.m. and Venus before dawn.
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Jupiter
Venus
Sebastopol
Pleasant Hill
Boston Area Weather Forecast Fair and Warmer
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair weather and rising temperatures. Tuesday and Wednesday will bring light to moderate west and southwest winds.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Red Sox Open Home Park Against Harvard Today
Cold weather cancels the Braves game while Princeton faces a national boxing championships in Sanford. Yale defeats Johns Hopkins as preliminary rounds proceed with McVey contest looming in round a, and Harvard and Red Sox set to host a college matchup.
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New Park
Harvard
Princeton
Sanford
McVey
Yale
Johns Hopkine
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