Women Plan A Market Opposite Copley Hall
The Women's Municipal League backs Back Bay and Faneuil Hall marketmen with plan and financing for an E shaped market building. A ten member committee will form a stock company at 3 dollars per square foot, with rent projected at 1.75 dollars. Theresa Norton cites unsanitary conditions and cats near food as motivation for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copley Hall
Back Bay
Faneuil Hall
Women’s Municipal League
Charles W. Dabney
State Street
T. J. Bowlker
League
Theresa Norton
Matthews in U. S. Service and Sanitary Market Plans
William C. Matthews, Harvard athlete and lawyer, sworn in as special assistant U S district attorney at Boston by Taft order. Separately the league backs a private sanitary market plan with stock subscriptions and a board including market owners and the Women’s Municipal League to govern strict sanitary rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Matthews
Harvard
United States
Boston
Taft
Cambridge
Matthews
Andover Academy
Dave Campbell
Dan Hurley
Boston University
Suffolk Bar
Gerome Mystery Man Dead on Nova Scotia Beach
In Digby Nova Scotia April 23 death claims the legless silent foreigner known as Gerome. Found on Mink Cove beach in 1863 he never spoke a word though linguists believed he could. His identity nationality and abandonment remain a mystery after fifty years of silence.
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Digby
N. S
Gerome
Mink Cove
New Brunswick
Mar
Gloucester Fish Fleet Reports Strong Groundfish Run
Thirteen schooners, some with large fares, brought abundant groundfish to local dealers yesterday while extra catches of herring and pollock were reported off Thatcher's Island. Prices for haddock and cod were listed as dealers assessed fishery values. several vessels discharged 700 pounds of halibut and 500 pounds on other craft. Fog delayed the Canopic and the Laconia was en route with nearly 1700 passengers. Immigration officials eyed bids for a new station. ships faced rough seas and a busy harbor amid cargo movements and tonnage shifts. The week’s customs totals showed imports at 2,565,400 dollars and exports at 1,821,800 dollars compared with 1911 figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thatcher’s
Shenandoah
T Wharf
Boston Harbor
Genoa
Naples
Boston Light
Cunard
Liverpool
Queenstown
Daniel J. Keefe
Immigration
Boston
Long Wharf
Keefe
Nottingham
Port Johnson
Goshen Reef
Ellen Little
Port Arthur
Bird Island Flats
William H. Sprague
Vesta
Consolidated Coal Company
East Boston Flats
Custom House
The Silent Man of Mereghan Bay Mystery
Refusing to speak or reveal his past the man known as Gerome died in a farm house near Mereghan on St. Marys Bay. A mid 19th century incident began when a ship neared the harbor and a dory carried away a wounded, legless man who moaned the name Gerome. For decades investigators offered theories from Mafia involvement to deliberate abandonment, yet the truth remained hidden.
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Gerome
Mereghan
St. Mary’s Bay
Captain Rescues Self by Tying Knot with Teeth
Gloucester April 238 Captain John Martin of the fishing sloop Little Addie fell overboard five miles from land while lowering the mainsail. He became entangled in a rope fender but used a loop tied with his teeth to hold on until rescued by crewmate Robert Carter who returned in a boat.
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Gloucester
John Martin
Little Addie
Robert Carter
Martin
Carter
Fried cooking recipes and Uncle Sam cheese book pages
A note announces a full page of fried cooking recipes, another installment of Uncle Sam's Cheese Book, and a page of everyday helps in next Sunday’s Post.
Shipping News Miniature Almanac for April 24
Sun rises 4 49 a m sets 6 36 p m length of day 13 hours 47 minutes. High tide times and rise of tide noted. Arrivals include steamers Indradeo Alexander Manila and numerous others with trips to Gloucester Newport News and Boston. Sailed list shows Berwind Yarmouth Port Simon and many others sailing to New York Norfolk and Philadelphia. Several tugs and schooners noted with in port movements and tows.
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Indradeo
Alexander
Manila
Etcc
Bngland
Gunderson
Preston
Cuba
Gloucester
McDorman
Norfolk
Camden
Brown
Bangor
Bay State
Ianscott
Portland
City of Gloucester
Godfrey
Penobscot
Nickerson
Newport News
Vesta
Kemp
Lynn
Sycamore
Charles T. Gallagher
Guilmet
Salem
Edwin Ll. Pillsbury
Swim
Charles H. Klinck
Mehaffey
Philadelphia
Addie Fuller
Machias
New York
Berwind
Boston
Yarmouth
N. S
Sanose
Port Simon
Suffolk
City of
Scituate
Franklin
Nantasket Roads
Orton
Searsport
Boylston
Clara
Pillsbury
Flora
Nemasket
Joseph Clinton
Tamaqua
Newport
W. H. Moody
Rockport
Mass
J. Kennedy
Calais
Irving F. Ross
Ervin J. Luce
Machius
Tomorrow We Disappear Into the Unknown
The Sunday Post Magazine previews the opening chapter of A. Conan Doyle's The Lost World to air next Sunday. The tale promises remarkable twists beyond the chapter title and teases readers with new adventures and discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Conan Doyle
Sunday Post
Six foot boy undone by drink of stretch
Charles Dunn a nearly six foot, 175 pound youth appeared in Taunton juvenile court on a drunkenness charge. His mother testified he is 14. He was placed on probation after admitting he bought a pint of stretch at a Polish wedding in Brockton and drank most of it. Dunn promised to reform and left with his mother.
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Brockton
Charles Dunn
Taunton
Dunn
Postman Wilkins Arrested Over Detained Mail Case
Walter E. Wilkins a nine year veteran of the central post office was arrested by Deputy Marshal James C. Ruhl on charges of detaining nine letters addressed to the Peoples Credit Company on Washington street He pleaded not guilty at arraignment before United States Commissioner Hayes and was committed to East Cambridge jail in default of 1000 bail with a hearing set for April 26 His home is Beachmont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Wilkins
Central Post Office
United States
James C. Ruhl
Peoples’ Credit Company
Washington Street
Hayes
East Cambridge
Beachmont
New Record Price Set in City Real Estate Deal
The property at 541 Washington Street, a premier business location, was sold yesterday by Charles H. Ditson of New York to Simon Vorenberg of Boston. The purchase price is said to exceed $500,000, potentially establishing a new land-value record.
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Dabney
Back Bay
Brookline
Jamaica Plain
South End
Roxbury
Stewart Street
Clarendon
Berkeley Streets
Park Square Trust Co
Faneuil Hall
Boston
Callahan
New
New England
South Station
Washington Street
Charles H. Ditson
New York
Simon Vorenberg
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John F. Callahan & CO
Federal Street
Mystery Man Dead
Fulong
Sadie Nunan
Sears Ee
Jessie P
Avina
Rose Standish
Dixie
Maury Sears
Elizabeth Nunan
Goodrich
Shipping News
Wilkins
Sesy B.F. Goodrich
Akron
Ohio
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