Black Hand Letter Threatens Child Over $50 Demand
Jacob Goldstein of 86 Phillips Street received a letter at his home demanding $50 to be left at a Charles Street address or his year old daughter would be kidnapped. The note, signed The Black Hand, prompted police to investigate at Station 3 and the Charles Street location.
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Rose
Charles Street
Jacob Goldstein
Phillips Street
Goldstein
Mamie Goldstein
Mulligan
Dunlap
Black Hand
Illiterate handwriting found on letter addressed to Goldstein
A young man named Goldstein, who worked on a building at the corner of Green and Hale streets, finished at six and found a sealed pencil written letter at home. The note bore his name and raised questions due to the writer's apparent illiteracy or disguise.
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Goldstein
Green Od
Hale Streets
Winthrop Circus Delights 3000 as Mayor Headlines Ring
Crowds fill River road and the Elks circus tents with more than 3000 residents and visitors. Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald serves as ringmaster, greets cheers, and declares the show a success amid clowns, trained animals, and bold acrobats. The parade and opening draw sweeping crowds, fierce applause, and comic antics.
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Elks’ Circus
River Road
Boston
Beach
Fitzgerald
William H. Barter
Mr. Fitzgerald
Winthrop Elks
MacDonald
Parsons
Jocko
Howard Wheeler
RE. D. Fitzpatrick
Equestrienne
J. A. Webster
W. W. Colson
Dockville
Arthur Wilson
G. B. Parsons
Robert Merrill
Martin Conway
Wellington Bond
E. McDuffee
A. J. Mulrey
W. H. Fielding
Joseph Mittenhal
George W. Touhey
J. W. Powers
Frank Tiffany
Jesse
Turner
Harry
Pease
W. M. MacDonald
Gem thief sentenced after jewelry theft and shooting
John C. Leahy age 18, held on 11 000 bond, pleaded guilty to larceny of 400 dollars in jewelry from 371 Commonwealth avenue apartment. He fired at Officer Loring during an attempted arrest in Braintree, then was sent from Dedham jail to Concord Reformatory to begin his sentence. He will be brought to Dedham on a writ of habeas corpus when the Braintree case goes to trial.
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John C. Leahy
Loring
Braintree
Superior Criminal Court
Concord Reformatory
Commonwealth Avenue
Dedham
Leahy
Anna C. Meeks
Pilgrim monument dedication lit by battleship searchlights
Provincetown reports readiness for the Pilgrim monument dedication on Friday. Tonight the monument is illuminated by bright searchlights from battleships in the harbor while crowds gather, yachts circle the point, and visitors arrive by train and boat.
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Provincetown
Cape Cod dedicates Aug 5 with Taft in attendance
Fleet officers meet with Selectmen to finalize shore reception plans for President Taft and other dignitaries on Cape Cod. The banquet will seat 450 in Town Hall after dedication exercises, with Taft at the head table and numerous officials and guests listed. Carriages await at the pier for dignitaries disembarking from ships.
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Secretary of the Navy
Massachusetts
Boston
Cape Cod
Walter Welsh
Artemus P. Hannum
Caleb Fisher
Henry A. Cusling
New England Association
Howland Davis
Mayflower Descendants
New York
M. van Weede
The
Netherlands
Dr. Normandie
J. Henry Sears
Pilgrim Monument Association
Beerenden
Louis A. Frothingham
Eliot
Harvard
Eben §. Draper
William Howard Taft
Henry Cabot Lodge
Navy
George’ von I. Meyer
Seaton Schroeder
Fitzgerald
Yankton
Beverly
Taft
Admiral Schroeder
Fifty Houses Collapse in Saragossa Area
Fifty houses near Huesca collapsed today due to Ebro Canal infiltrations. No casualties are reported.
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Saragossa
Spain
Huesca
Ebro
Wireless Man Weds His Clerk Despite Indictment
Christopher Columbus Wilson, president of United Wireless, aged 64, married Stella Lewis, 19, a stenographer, after obtaining a marriage license at City Hall. The ceremony occurred at 8 pm with a rabbi, and Stella said their romance began when they first met. she denied the indictment affected their marriage.
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New York
Christopher Columbus Wilson
United Wireless Company
City Hall
Stella Lewis
Lewis
Stella
Standpatters Defeated as Taft Loyalists Win Iowa Fight
Delegates supporting Taft's policies in Iowa remain loyal as stand-patters lose influence. The minority report endorses Taft and his administration, praising railroad regulation conservation and tariff action. Former Congressman Hepburn reads the report amid jeers, and a motion to replace the majority report fails by 568 to 815.
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Roosevelt
Taft
Platform Committee
Nis
Republican Congress
Iowa
Congress
Hepburn
Dolliver
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