Freeman Award Overturned in $15000 Suit Against Harmon
In New York a Supreme Court jury awarded Miss Blanche B. Freeman $15000 from Clifford B. Harmon for breach of promise to pay $100 monthly for life and to provide a home. Justice Erlanger set the award aside as excessive. Freeman had sued for $21000 alleging Harmon jilted her to wed Benedict’s daughter.
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Blanche B. Freeman
Philadelphia
Supreme Court Today
Clifford B. Harmon
Justice Erlanger
Miss Freeman
Harmon
E. C. Benedict
Trusts Win On Cheapest Bids In Canal Construction
Washington April 19 The Attorney General's opinion says trusts can bind other concerns supplying canal construction materials to buy only the cheapest bids. The ruling also bears on an pending oil purchase worth about 2 million dollars.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Judge Joseph E. Spink Dies After Operation
Providence R I April 19 Judge Joseph E Spink 67 longtime Municipal Court judge since 1884 died at Rhode Island Hospital from complications after an operation performed last Saturday
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Joseph E. Spink
Rhode Island Hospital
Downey Sister Death Man Charged as Brother Is Accused
In Jamaica Plain last night a quarrel over a keg of beer at 15 Meehan Street led to Agnes Downey’s death. P Joseph Downey, 19, is jailed for killing his sister while family members and witnesses contest the injury source and autopsy results. The scene involved Patriots' Day liquor and a strained family dispute with alcohol.
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Jamaica Plain
P. Joseph Downey
Agnes
Rose
Downey
Timothy S. Leary
Post
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Dennis Downey
Thomas
Joseph
Meehan Street
Rose’ Downey
Martin Downey
Ross Twine
Keyes Street
Thomas F. Shea
Dennis
Taft Autographed Photo to Be Auctioned at Boston Benefit
President Taft will not attend the actors' fund benefit at the Boston Theatre on Thursday. His autographed photograph, secured by Lawrence McCarty and Fred N. Carpenter, will go to the highest bidder as a tribute to the fund and to bidders for a charitable cause. Mayor Fitzgerald will auction the photo amid expectations of a spirited bidding war.
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William H. Taft
Boston Theatre
Actors’ Fund
Fitzgerald
Lawrence McCarty
Fred N. Carpenter
Tufts Aero Club Glider Flight Trials at Medford Field
Tufts College conducted the first trial of its Aero Club glider on the Medford athletic field. E P Bugbee led the test as the craft rose several feet and flew 20 to 30 yards at a time despite light wind. The 34 pound chanute type glider with 20 foot wings resembles Wright Curtiss Farman models. Club plans to add an engine. T T Greenwood is building a 25 horsepower revolving cylinder engine. Captain H G Chase of the U S Army Signal Corps observed and assisted the flight efforts.
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Medford
E. P. Bugbee
Methuen
Tufts
Wright Brothers
Curtiss
Farman
T. T. Greenwood
East Templeton
H. G. Chase
U. S. A. Signal Corps
Miss Hibbard Weds Henry Fogarty in Simple Roxbury Rite
Miss Adelaide Frances Hibbard eldest daughter of ex mayor George A Hibbard and Mrs Hibbard of Beaumont Street Ashmont and Henry W Fogarty former secretary to the ex mayor were married yesterday morning in the rectory of St Pauls Roman Catholic Church Roxbury The ceremony conducted by Rev Fr Alchin was at the bride parents request and very simple.
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Harry Fogarty
Hibbard
Adelaide Frances Hibbard
George A. Hibbard
Beaumont Street
Ashmont
Henry W. Fogarty
Train Victim Not Husband In Beverly Mix Up
In Beverly a woman was told her husband, a Boston and Maine railroad employee, had been run over and leg amputated. At Massachusetts General Hospital she learned the victim was Walter E. Jones of Beverly, a former Boston and Maine worker now with Boston and Albany, who fell from a train near Back Bay station. Hospital staff misread his name as Charles A Keene before amputation.
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Charles A. Keene
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Walter E. Jones
Jones
Boston & Maine
Boston & Albany
Back Bay
Charles A Keene
Walter FE. Jones
Summer Street
Bever LY
Wedding of Fogarty Couple Recalls Ashmont Ceremony
Miss Mary Hersey of Mattapan acted as bridesmaid and Augustus Andrews Jr. of Roxbury was best man. The bride wore cream and carried American Beauty roses. The bridal party traveled in the ex-Mayor's car to the church and back to the Hibbard home for a noon dinner. The couple left for New York on a two week honeymoon.
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Mary Hersey
Mattapan
Augustus Andrews, Jr
Roxbury
Hibbard
Beaumont Street
Ashmont
New Hampshire Man Dies in Capitol
Dr. George A. Bailey of Manchester New Hampshire collapsed and died of heart failure in the Capitol building during a committee session on April 19.
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Capitol
Washington
George A. Bailey
Manchester
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Arbitrators Close Hearing in New York Wage Dispute
The wage dispute between the New York Central & Hudson River railroad and its conductors and trainmen reached arbitration after testimony ended at Grand Central station. P. H. Morris sey and B. E. Clark expect to render judgment by week’s end, with C. E. Schaff of the Vanderbilt lines present signaling potential broader settlements.
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New York
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
P. H. Morrissey
B. E. Clark
Grand Central Station
C. E. Schaff
Vanderbilt Lines
Buffalo
Longtime House committee aide dies at 64
The assistant clerk of the Room of the House committee on invalid pensions at the Capitol died at age 64. He served nearly 20 years in the role and his family resides in Manchester, where the body will be taken for burial.
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Capitol
Manchester
Vahey and Mayor Meet After Invitation in Malden
Mayor Fitzgerald and James H. Vahey met for the first time since inviting the candidate to a Democratic event in Malden last night. They exchanged cordial remarks and a handshake as they discussed ongoing politics quietly.
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James H. Vahey
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Vahey
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