Call Upon All Smiths to Gather in Boston
The Colonial Families Society invites all Boston Smiths to a Park Street Church gathering to discuss forming a Smith Families Society. Officials note 3000 Boston Smiths with diverse ancestral roots, including countless early Smith immigrants, many undocumented or shipboard arrivals. Secretary Charles T. Smith cites John Camden Hotten and old ship manifests as main sources.
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Smiths
Colonial Families Society
Boston
Park Street
Smith Families Society
New England
Tom, Dick
Harry Smiths
John Smiths
Charles T. Smith
John Camden Hotten
ShetWeen
London
Munsell
Bankruptcy hearing set for Gilchrist Company May 6
Judge Morton will hear evidence on the Gilchrist Company bankruptcy in the U S District Court on May 6, with trial by jury waived. Judge Dodge extended the proof filing deadline for William S Butler & Co Inc from May 1 to June.
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Morton
Gilchrist Company
United States District Court
Dodge
Williams. Butler & Co., Inc
Public Tree Day at Wellesley Open By Vote
Wellesley will hold Tree Day as a public event this year after a vote by the academic council. The student government proposed the event with admission to fund the student alumnae building, but the faculty will set the price to prevent overcharging students.
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Wellesley
Student Government Association
Katherine Edwards
Humphrey
Protest of J W W Sent to Wilson
A Ware I W W protest in Paine Memorial Hall condemns Gov or and Legislature for strike bloodshed in Hopedale and Little Falls. Speaker Roland D Sawyer cites Adin Ballou on Draper influence and calls Eben Draper brutal. A telegram to President Wilson asks for national intervention.
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Hopedale
Roland D. Sawyer
Ware
Paine Memorial Hall
Little Falls
New York
Sawyer
Adin Ballou
Draper
Eben Draper
Carnegie
Homestead
Wilson
Navy cancels Harvard summer gunnery plan
Secretary Daniels informs Harvard President Lowell that the summer program to train college men in naval gunnery has been abandoned for the present. Several Harvard students who planned to spend the season on U S Navy battleships must change their plans accordingly.
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Harvard
United States Navy
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
A. Lawrence Lowell
Four High Policemen Face Trial in Graft Conspiracy
In New York on April 29 four senior police officers were placed on trial in Supreme Court. Prosecutors said they were key figures in a city police graft system and faced charges of conspiring for perversion and obstruction of justice.
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New York
Supreme Court
Ex-Inspectors Charged in Harlem Graft Plot Against Sipp
Dennis Sweeney James Hussey James Thompson and John Murtha former inspectors faced indictment for conspiring to keep hotelier George Sipp out of the state. They allegedly agreed to pay Sipp $1000 for a month away and $100 weekly thereafter to stay away, plus $3000 to policeman Eugene Fox and support for Fox’s family if he remained silent. Fox testified with corroborating details, jury seated in seven hours and adjourned, bail denied, awaiting next day.
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Dennis Sweeney
James E. Hussey
James F. Thompson
John J. Murtha
George A. Sipp
Sipp
Aldermanic Committee
Harlem
Thompson
Hussey
Martha
Sweeney
Clark
Eugene Fox
Fox
Kindergarten Experts Meet in Washington Convention
The International Kindergarten Union opens its 20th annual convention in Washington with several hundred delegates from across the United States and abroad. Four days of sessions will cover all aspects of child welfare.
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Washington
United States
International Kindergarten Union
Stray Foot Touches Futurist Portrait at Modern Art Exhibit
A terra cotta head of Baudelaire by Raymond Duchamp-Vilson valued at 162 dollars was stepped on at Copley Hall’s modern art exhibit. Visitors searched for ears that turned out to be nonexistent in this work, praised as a true futurist piece with a massive disjointed form and jagged forehead.
Postal Clerk Arrested After Test Letter Theft Probe
Frederick E. McDermott a 12 year North postal station clerk was arrested yesterday by U S Deputy Marshal Bancroft charged with rifling a test letter containing 1 50 in marked money. He was taken on the complaint of Post Office Inspector Jennings who arranged the drop to pass through McDermott at the dumping table where letters to whiskey merchants and credit houses were missed.
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Frederick E. McDermott
North
United States
Bancroft
McDermott
Post Office
Jennings
Ninth Honors General Sweetser in Boston Review
More than 1500 guests attended a review in the East Armory East Newton street by the Ninth Infantry M V M honoring Brigadier General E Le Roy Sweetser. It marked his first public appearance since becoming commander of the Second Brigade and his first full dress brigadier uniform unveiling and regimental review in Boston in five years.
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East Armory
East Newton Street
Ninth Infantry
E.leroy Sweetser
Sweetser
William A. Pew
Boston
Confession Claim Fuels Mattie Hackett Murder Mystery
Unofficial reports claim prisoner Richard F. Dunbar at Blackwell's Island may confess to the Mattie Hackett murder, prompting an immediate county investigation. The Hackett case remains a famed unsolved crime with prior trials, alleged third man, and disputed deathbed confessions.
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Richard F. Dunbar
Blackwell’s Island
New York
Colby Mitchell
Dunbar
Mattie Hackett
Elsie Hobbs Raymond
Tramps
Kennebec County
Alfred Tyler
Frank Ham
Stanley Crossing
Readfield
Hackett
Kent's Hill
Mystery of Mattie Hackett Murder Reveals Long Court Case
The 1905 Readfield murder of 18 year old Mattie Hackett remained a famed mystery as investigators pursued suspects including tramp Alfred Johnson and Mrs. Hisse Raymond. After years of legal episodes, Raymond was tried in 1912 and found Not Guilty.
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Raymond
Hurd
Kennebec County
Mattie Hackett
Levi Hackett
Kent's Hill
Readfield
Elmwood
Alfred Johnson
Hackett
Johnson
Mattie
Alfredohnson
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