Boston News Briefs Highlight Local Events And Incidents
Two Boston men struggled up Blue Hill in a northwest gale but could not stand due to wind. A Field's Corner husband searched for his wife who returned home saying she visited Cambridge. Pussy willows sold for 15 cents a bunch on Tremont Street. The city hall debate shows little progress after a decade. The Cape Codders host a welcome for Missouri New Jersey and Vermont battleships on April 15. Hanover Street Station officers start spring baseball practice. Billie the horse nears retirement. A woman laments lack of ladies car on the Elevated. Court House reconstruction at Pemberton Square progresses with 50 men, rising to 150 by June. A grass fire near Harvard Bridge prompts a quick fire response. The gunboat Nashville to serve again in West Indies waters. Dr George Reinherz of the North End. a Tufts grad, to study in Berlin. A large Easter musicale is planned at Faulkner Farm Brookline. Sailors return to the South terminal. blue jackets fill trains for furloughs. The National League grounds are being prepared for spring. Ex Mayor Fitzgerald and Lincoln Steffens discuss a forthcoming pamphlet on Boston and its mayoral race.
The Blessed Lady and the Long Awaited Return
A village girl and a boy fall in love as children. He leaves to seek his fortune, whispers of a sea death spread. Years pass and she earns the nickname The Blessed Lady, content with Providence until the prodigal returns and she asks if he ever deserted her. He vows he did not, and she forgives his silence.
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Miss Champagne
Ro Man
Conductor Daniel Neal recalls rail life and a
severe Greenland crash
Daniel A. Neal of the Rockport line of the Boston & Maine describes 27 years in railroading and 12 as conductor. He recounts courteous service and handling emergencies on a Gloucester line ride, plus a 1900s crash near Greenland New Hampshire where a sealskin sack vanished and the AmEx reward led to its recovery.
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Daniel A. Neal
Rockport
Boston & Maine
Mr. Neal
Gloucester
Neal
Greenland
American Express Company
Portsmouth
Cooked fish recipe and desserts from households
A sequence of home recipes describing baked halibut with oysters and pork, a ham and cabbage salad, and a chocolate cake with glaze. Names include Mrs Mary Davis Readville Street Hyde Park, Mrs F C Vocke Roxbury, and Mrs A W Kimball Everett, with ingredient lists and instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MRS. Mary & Davis
Readville Street
Hyde Park
Father Receives Stove After New Bedford Estate Case
Mrs Laura Rogers of New Bedford died last fall leaving about 15000 in estate. Her nearest relative was her father who received a cook stove and a few trinkets while residue went to Dr William Andrew Neil.
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Taunton
Laura Rogers
New Bedford
William Andrew Neil
Will contest over Mrs Rogers estate in Probate Court
George H. Brayton of New Bedford challenges the will claiming undue influence by Dr. Neil and morphine dosing. Dr. Neil testifies Mrs. Rogers was sound minded when made, admits morphine to ease pain and notes amounts taken to bank and later held in his name. Hearing expected to extend over time.
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Neil
George H. Brayton
New Bedford
Dr. Neil
Lies Mother Cries In Court Over Pratt Larceny Case
The mother of Irving H. Pratt disrupted Police Court by shouting that Patrolman Higgins lied while testifying to theft of $8. Pratt, held for the grand jury, was recently released from Deer Island and later charged with vagrancy after a room search found coins, opera glasses, a brush set, a gold watch and chain, a stick pin, a Bible, a poetry book, a copy of The Potters Field and 14 two cent stamps.
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Irving H. Pratt
Higgins
Pratt
Deer Island
Szechenyis Return for a Brief Visit
Count and Countess Szechenyi arrive in New York in good health. Gladys Vanderbilt does not bring their baby on this voyage due to the ocean crossing. The infant remains with the mother’s family. the countess plans to visit America again with the child in the future.
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New York
Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
America
Hungary
Europe
Miss Nora Langhorne Engaged to Paul Phipps of London
Miss Nora Langhorne confirmed engagement to Paul Phipps of London, grandson of W Butler Duncan. She arrived from England aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania, becoming the sole unmarried Langhorne sister with public interest in her marriage.
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New York
Nora Langhorne
Paul Phipps
London
W. Butler Duncan
Langhorne
England
Mauretania
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