Spite shutters case settles over Devonshire Street walls
Real estate maneuver ends court dispute between owner J Murray Howe and Cosmopolitan Trust Company. Howe leases back eight inches of wall above the trust building at 70 and 72 Devonshire to block light through Parker building windows. Shutters will cover the northern wing and then the Parker facade as tenants seek privacy.
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Devonshire Street
Chauncy D. Parker
Supreme Court
Trust Company
J. Murray Howe
Parker Building
Cosmopolitan Trust Company
Parker
Mr. Howe
Cosmopolitan Trust Company Rights Case Report
A notice reports rights involving The Cosmopolitan Trust Company, detailing a claim or action affecting its legal interests. The brief outlines the party in question and the procedural context of the dispute.
Pay Raise for Boston Customs Laborers Reaches 840 Year
About 20 laborers in the Boston customs department learned their annual pay would rise to 840 from 700. Collector Billings and Assistant Secretary Peters pursued the increase for eight months, aligning with a policy to raise the lowest salaries. Economies elsewhere enabled the move.
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Boston Customs Department
Billings
Calve Postpones Appearance at Keith's
Mme Emma Calve withdraws from B F Keith's Theatre next week due to indisposition. Trixie Friganza fills the bill in the interim. Calve will definitely perform the week of May 3 at the same venue.
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Calve
Keith
Mme
Emma Calve
B. F. Keith
Trixie Friganza
Market Report Notes Mixed Prices Across Goods
The report describes plentiful fruit vegetables and fish with meats remaining high. Butter fell two cents a pound while flour rose twenty five cents a barrel.
Market Prices Report from Local Grocery and Produce Sales
Prices listed for staples and seafood include Pillsbury's at 9 25 a barrel and King Arthur at 9 75. Eggs vary from 24 to 32 cents a dozen, butter ranges 30 to 36 cents a pound, pork chops at 25 cents and roast at 18 to 20. Fresh fish and seafood items priced per pound or piece, vegetables by bunch or head, fruit by box or dozen, with regional variations in citrus and bananas.
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Pillsbury’s
King Arthur
Florida
California
Woman is badly burned in kitchen fire at home
Mrs. Mattie Troy of 28 Montgomery Street South End started a fire with burning paper in her kitchen range. Her husband and a domestic extinguished the flames and wrapped rugs about her. She was hospitalized with serious burns to her hands and lower limbs and listed as dangerous.
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Mattie Troy
Montgomery Street
South End
City Hospital
Medicated Venosol Advertises Bust Enhancement Cream
An advertisement promotes Medicated Venosol as a three in one product: a cold creme cleanser and tissue builder. It claims to reduce wrinkles on face neck and hands and to develop a fuller bust through stimulating oils that improve circulation and nourish tissues.
Cook May Be Governor Candidate
State Auditor Alonzo B. Cook may run for the Republican nomination for Governor. He is considering the move and will decide, but cannot state a definite entry at present. He has agreed to respond to a committee after they visited him several days ago.
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Alonzo B. Cook
Cook
Four Cornered Fight Possible in Republican Nominatio
Mr. Cook offered no comment on candidacy yesterday. If he runs it would intensify Republican divisions with exGovernors Foss in the field creating a four cornered nomination battle. The Cook campaign plans an anti machine stance. Secretary Davis urged adoption of a Prohibition plank at the Massachusetts Club yesterday.
Prisoners Battle Hot Wood Blaze Near Bridgewater
Bridgewater April 22 three hundred prisoners from the State farm with 16 guards fought a wood fire between the farm and town. Superintendent H M Blackstone said no escape attempts occurred. Sixteen prisoners remained under guard to monitor the blaze all night. Half a million feet of cut lumber and substantial timber were destroyed.
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Bridgewater
State Farm
H. M. Blackstone
Worst Fire Ravages Middleboro Woods In Massive Blaze
A forest fire near Wood Pond in Middleboro swept eight miles of timber with a five and a half mile front reaching into North Carver. By night, the blaze was beyond control and described as the worst in a generation though no homes burned, raising fears for nearby cranberry bogs.
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Middleboro
Wood Pond
North Carver
Damaged Report Lists Local Losers Including Shaw Family
The damaged text names Benjamin C. Shaw Dana Shaw and Albert T. Favery among the losers. No further details are readable.
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Benjamin C. Shaw
Dana Shaw
Albert T. Favery
Grass and brush fire in Readville prompts two alarms
Two alarms sounded yesterday afternoon for a grass and brush fire in Readville. Firefighters fought a stubborn blaze that threatened a section of stables at the Readville race track but were able to keep it from spreading beyond the end stable.
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Readville
Fires Ravage Canton Woods Across 25 Acres
Two forest fires burned about 25 acres in Canton and Norwood on April 22. The first blaze started at Canton Meadows and spread into Norwood, burning over 15 acres before being stopped. A second fire on Walpole street began from a rubbish burn by town farm inmates.
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Canton
Norwood
Canton Meadows
Walpole Street
Mayor Haines Demands Sealer's Resignation
Medford mayor Haines demands the resignation of Winslow Joyce Sealer of Weights and Measures after Joyce refused department books audit prompting the ultimatum under threat of removal.
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Haines
Sealer
Medford
Weights and
Winslow Joyce
Somerville Aldermen Overrule Mayor on Police Patrol Request
The Somerville Board of Aldermen voted to override Mayor Cliff's veto and order that the police automobile patrol be summoned to transport aldermen home after late sessions.
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Somerville Board of Aldermen
Cliff
City Hall
Police Automobile Patrol
Fire Loss at East Boston Plant Reaches $2500
The Musgrave Machine Company wooden building at 10 May Street East Boston burned last night to the extent of $2500 in damages.
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Boston
Musgrave Machine Company
May Street
Casey released as attachments dissolved in equity session
John H. Casey argued before Judge Jenney in the equity motion session for the discharge of attachments in the suit by Mrs. Mary A. Magenis. The attachments were dissolved after the hearing and review of papers. Casey said the funds and real estate tied to him and his wife Ellen G. Casey were involved.
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John H. Casey
Jenney
Superior Court
Mary A. Magenis
Mr. Casey
Casey
Federal Trust Company
Ellen G. Casey
Legal arguers clash over motions in Magenis case
Mrs. Magenis and her husband the Hon. James P. Magenis sat in a courtroom with John Wentworth acting as counsel for the couple. The session centered on three motions argued before the court.
Train your child before birth Read how one mother did this
A mother shares her approach to early education and maternal preparation. The article outlines practices begun before birth aimed at nurturing language development and cognitive skills in the child, highlighting the mother’s routines and beliefs.
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