Put On Wrong Train Sues Webster and Webster Company
Anna Hubert of Webster sues the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company in Superior Court seeking 10000 dollars damages for a three days and three nights ride on an immigrant train. She alleges an employee directed her to the immigrant train while she held a different ticket and says she has not fully recovered from the trip.
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Webster
Anna Hubert
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
Hubert
Man 84 Rides Motorcycle Enthusiast Of Middleboro
Edwin Wrightington aged 84 is a Middleboro motorcycle enthusiast who rides daily, often using his son's cycle and traveling from Thomastown to Middleboro Centre about ten miles. He prefers motorcycling to driving an automobile, valuing the excitement of riding.
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Middleboro
April
Edwin Wrightington
Wrightington
Thomastown
Buffalo Car Strike Ends After Mediation in New York
Motormen and conductors on the International Railway Company lines in Buffalo and suburbs settled their strike today through Mayor Fuhrmann's mediation. Both sides made concessions. The company will confer in the Mayor's office with Amalgamated Association President William D. Mahon, while workers dropped a demand to keep wage and hour talks with a standing association committee after service resumes.
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Buffalo
N. Y
International Railway Company
Fuhrmann
William D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association
Browne asks writ of review over $1,825,000 contract
Stewart Browne of New York seeks review against Joseph Fairhall executor of John B. Brown of Ipswich. He argues a July 30 1908 contract to buy stock and bonds of Broadway Building Company for $1,825,000 survives death under New York law. Superior Court decision favored Browne but Supreme Judicial Court held no survival. Browne, citing New York law and affidavits, asks for Supreme Court adjudication.
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Salem
Stewart Browne
New York
Joseph Fairhall
John B. Brown
Ipswich
Ipswich Institute
Browne
Broadway Building Company
Maiden Lane
Broadway
Brown
Fairhall
Supreme Judicial Court
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
William A. Morse
Robert O. Harris
Methodist Office Condemned in New England Conference
Laymen of the New England conference at First Presbyterian Church condemned the present conduct of the district superintendent’s office. Speakers urged immediate reorganization of methods as a pressing necessity and emphasized the critique aimed at the system, not any person or conference.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Conference on school superintendent role ends with reform plan
Speakers urge abolishing the office as a titled rank while optimizing district superintendent duties. They push monthly salaries tied to church needs and away from routine tasks. Mayor Fitzgerald urges civic involvement as youths D H Hickley, E A Leslie, E G Hopper, and D S Smith gain full membership at People's Temple.
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F. W. Collier
Stoneham
F. D. Puller
Newtonville
Collier
Fitzgerald
People’s Temple
D. H. Hickley
E. A. Leslie
E. G. Hopper
D. S. Smith
English Girls Folk Song Concert at Hotel Tuileries
Misses Dorothy Rosalind and Cynthia Fuller sang English folk songs in old English dress with Irish harp at the Hotel Tuileries. The performers drew praise for mellow voices and clear diction, delivering material from Somersetshire Ireland and North England with notable charm.
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Dorothy
Rosalind
Cynthia Fuller
Dorset
England
Hotel Tuileries
Fuller
Somersetshire
Ireland
Hebrides
Wife Acts as Own Detective in Boston Divorce Case
Ada M. Fletcher testified in Dedham Superior Court that she spied on her husband Nathan C. Fletcher and a woman to gather evidence for her divorce suit. She described their marriage on December 17, 1895 and places in Boston and Brookline, and said she separated on January 5. She charged a statutory offense and was granted a decree nisi.
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Ada M. Fletcher
Nathan C. Fletcher
Boston
Dedham Superior Court
Fletcher
Brookline
Commonwealth Avenue
United Fruit Under Fire Investigation Opens in New York
A federal grand jury in New York has begun a probe into United Fruit Company to determine if evidence supports Sherman anti trust action. Ordered by Taft and continued under Attorney General McReynolds, the inquiry may run another week or more.
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New York
United Fruit Company
Taft
McReynolds
Grand Jury
Wife imprisoned two years in Beverly dispute case
Mrs. George J. Caram testified before Judge Fears that her husband and a Beverly boarder kept her prisoner at 8 Agate Street for two years and beat her daily with a rubber hose. Caram and the Wade woman were sentenced to four months in the reformatory.
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Salem
Margaret Wade
George J. Caram
Agate Street
Beverly
Caram
Wade
Warren line denies passenger service on Boston to Liverpool route
General Manager H L Porter of Furniss Withy says Warren line freighters Michigan Sagamore and Sachem will remain freight ships. He notes only wireless equipment is being installed to meet new law requiring wireless on freighters with crews over 50. Sachem sails for Liverpool today with wireless ready.
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Warren Line
Boston
Liverpool
H. L. Porter
Furniss, Withy & Co., Ltd
Michigan
Sagamore
Sachem
Porter
Frogs' Legs Seized in April May Spawning Crackdown
New York April 11. State Conservation Commission agents seized 192 quarts of frogs legs at cold storage houses and smaller amounts at several restaurants. The raid enforces a new law banning taking buying selling or possessing bull frogs green frogs or spring frogs during spawning months April and May.
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New York
State Conservation Commission
Commission
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