Counterfeits Perfect Coins Exposed in Denver Bust
After a two year hunt secret service agents arrested Harry Reporter in Denver and charged him with producing highly perfected counterfeit silver dollars. About 500 coins were found at his home during a raid. Fred Milburne and Jesse Handlen are also reported, charged with passing bad half dollars, but not connected to the Denver operation.
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Washington
Secret Service
Harry Reporter
Denver
Moran
Reporter
Fred Milburne
Jesse Handlen
Indianapolis
Ladies Laxative Syrup Promotes Health and Comfort
An ad extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe, gentle laxative beneficial for ladies and children. It claims cleansing effects, relief from colds and indigestion pains, and notes counterfeit imitations from unscrupulous dealers. Sold by leading druggists at 50 cents per bottle. warn to look for California Fig Syrup Co. on package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
City Gives Lot for 5 Dollars
City Conveyancer Day uncovered a Boston ownership claim on a Milton land lot once held by Hezekiah Smith under a 600 year lease. The council approved releasing the title to John Lawton for 5 dollars, in exchange for finalizing the overdue one cent yearly rent.
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Milton
Boston
John Lawton
Lawton
Austin Street
Dorchester
Hezekiah Smith
Smith
Mr. Lawton
Day
Praise for Hitchcock at New England Postmasters Banquet
Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock received high praise at the Postmasters Association of New England banquet at the American House. W R Spillman credited Hitchcock with cutting postal expenses by 10 million dollars in one year. Other speakers included Walter Emerson and John V. Lane among Boston and Maine officials.
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Frank H. Hitchcock
Postmasters’ Association of
New England
American House
W. R. Spillman
Walter Emerson
Oakland
Washington
Department of the Mails
Lawrence Letherman
Boston
Pelletier
John V. Lane
Augusta
William H. Gulliver
Portland
Missing Boy Found At Home In Wellesley
The 9-year-old Anthony Rodgers, son of Dr. Charles W Rodgers of Dorchester, who was reported missing from Assumption Academy in Wellesley Hills, was located at his home after a long search by Wellesley police and the boy’s father.
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Wellesley
Anthony
Charles W. Rodgers
Boston
Assumption Academy
Wellesley Hills
Rodgers
Harvard Street
Dorchester
Woman Fails to Identify Suspect in Berth Invasion Trial
Miss Cecil Hill, daughter of a University of Chicago professor, could not identify Benjamin C. Barnes of Washington DC in a trial over a man forcing his way into her railway berth on a Pennsylvania train January 26. Porter Edmund Lee testified Barnes occupied the berth. Hill was en route from Richmond to Chicago. Covell family attended the hearing with Barnes.
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Barnes
Miss Hill
Richmond
Ind
Earlham College
Chicago
D. Eva Covell
W. V. Covell
Washington
Aldrich urged to name those who fueled 1907 panic
A letter to the editor from F. M. Gov ern expresses that former Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island should have identified the financiers of New York who supposedly averted the 1907 panic. He questions the praise and cites 180s era fears, calling for named accountability.
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Aldrich
Rhode Island
New York City
Mathewson Street
Providence
R. L
Youthful Slayer Trial Set for May Twenty Two in Springfield
Edwin Franklin Cook, 23, to be tried for the murder of H. H. White at White's Ludlow farm. Judge John Crosby to preside with a 100 member jury panel. The crime occurred Feb 13 last year after Cook accompanied Lydia Amey, then 12, who was housed by the Childrens Aid Society and later at White's farm. White died days after the shooting.
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Springfield
Robert O. Morris
Superior Court
Edwin Franklin Cook
H. H. White
Ludlow
John Crosby
Pittsfield
Cook
White
Young Cook
Lydia Amey
Austerlitz
Hamden County
O. G. Cash
Children’s Aid Society
Mr. White
India
Recreation bureau stresses baseball for boys and dance for girls
New York reports the first annual bureau of recreation review urges more water sports and baseball for boys over six, while recommending city purchase of two hurdy gurdies with folk dance tunes to satisfy girls fondness for dancing.
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New York
Bureau of Recreation
Department of Parks
Easthampton Man Held in Murder Case
Felix Janonis was held without bail after a brief district court hearing in Northampton on April 12. He is charged with murdering Frank Tomel in Easthampton on March 17 after a quarrel during which both men had been drinking. the case was ordered to the next grand jury session by Judge William P. Strickland.
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Northampton
District Court
Felix Janonis
Frank Tomel
Easthampton
William P. Strickland
Janonis
Tomel
Carriers Win On Grain Rate Case At ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission declined to cut ex Lake grain rates from Buffalo to Eastern destinations for domestic and export traffic. The decision upholds the lake-and-rail rate as reasonable, noting it is lower than the all rail option. The case involved the Chicago Board of Trade and New York Produce Exchange against several Eastern railways and related lines.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago Board of Trade
Atlantic City Railroad Company
New York Produce Exchange
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Boston
Chicago
Boy praises Foss for mother’s pardon bid in Brockton
Roy Baker a 16 year old Brockton boy who supports three younger sisters petitioned Governor Foss for his mother Mary Baker’s pardon. He told the governor a hard duty as father and guardian and that Grace 11 Mabel 6 and Marion 2 rely on him. Grace handles housework and Roy works in a department store while guardian duties were assigned by Judge Reed.
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Brockton
Foss
Roy Baker
Grace
Roy
Baker
Mabel
Marion
Reed
Mary Baker
Sherborn
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Lissen
Jimmy
Alu
Ub Foose
Ane
Great Ceylon Tea Co
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Amrabay
Great Ceylon Tea Company
Elm §&T
Blackstone
Purina
Penro
Milton Land
Hitchcock
the Navy
U. S. North Dakota
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Oriental Store
Boylston St
Broadway
Philadelphia
Prostate Grand
Bellevue
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Washington Street
Mena Street
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