Trial Turmoil Over South Congregational Minister
Campello nervously watches the South Congregational Church case as ex-pastor Thompson prepares for a high-stakes trial. Witnesses include reporters and a Brockton police member, with threats of testimony and political entanglements swirling around the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
South Congregational Church
W. B. Thompson
Holman
Southport
Conn
H. C. Newton
Campello
Newton
Thompson
Potter
Wood
Boston
Ropinson
Tas
E. C
Dorien
Mr. Page
Post
Page
John Morrison
Hackman
Old Colony
Mrs. Swift
Portland
Toomey
Keith
Committee of Five
Truth and Trials in Brockton Sermon by Rev Napoleon B Thompson
In Canton Hall Brockton a packed crowd hears Rev Napoleon B Thompson defend innocence and urge truth telling amid political and moral issues. He criticizes misleading claims and laments pressures on preachers while urging citizens to seek truth and act through public caucuses to end vice. The talk blends sermon with personal anecdotes and calls for accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Canton Hall
Napoleon B. Thompson
Campello
Louise Tewson
Newglad Conservatory of Music
Campella
Webster
Childood
Christ
Pilate
Thompson
Paul
Yerkes Telescope Tops World’s Refractors At Chicago Fair
At the Chicago World’s Fair, the Yerkes telescope, weighing seventy five tons with a forty inch clear aperture, leads global refractors. Built as Charles T. Yerkes’s gift to the University of Chicago, it stands in the Manufactures building with its giant steel tube and polar axis designed for declination and right ascension. After the fair, the instrument will be moved to Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, to advance astronomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Manufactures
Charles T. Yerkes
University of Chicago
Yerkes
Lick
Mt. Hamilton
California
Alvin Clark
Boston
Pulkowa
Nice
Greenwich Observatory
Paris
Vienna
University of Virginia
Washington,d. C
Geneva Lake
Wis
New England
Enterprise voyage update from Massachusetts Nautical Training School
The Enterprise and her 93 cadets, under Captain Soley, reached Southampton at 6 35 p m on July 2 after a 24 day voyage from Boston. The trip was smooth with no sickness and cadets learned navigation skills. They will study docking in port before sailing to Havre, Lisbon, Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Madeira, and the West Indies, with St. Thomas noted on the return route.
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Enterprise
Massachusetts Nautical Training School
Soley
Merry
Southampton
Boston
Havre
France
Lisbon
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Madeira Islands
West Indies
St. Thomas
Fruit Exhibit Impresses at Massachusetts Horticultural Society Show
The weekly prize show featured a large display of apples and pears of many kinds in fine condition. Berries were plentiful and well sized. Vegetables were few but of good quality. Morning rain reduced the floral exhibit, which was smaller than usual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Arkansas Negro Lynched After Ark Sheriff Wounded
News from McCreery Arkansas reports an old respectable citizen killed and Woodruff county Sheriff Chief Patterson wounded Friday night. A shackled black suspect fled to the woods but was hunted by locals and lynched.
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Memphis
Tenn
Patterson
Woodruff County
Ark
McCreery
Half Mast for Chelsea Yacht Club Disaster Victims
Chelsea Yacht Club and nearby boats flew flags at half mast for the burials of Bandmaster John P. Warren and Mrs. Augustus P. Schuman. Warren, an orphan raised on a farm, was honored at Walnut Street M E Church with a large turnout and floral tributes. Services for Schuman, a member of the Odd Fellows ladies branch, were held at her home with an Episcopalian service and Woodlawn burial.
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Chelsea Yacht Club
Club
John P. Warren
Augustus P. Schuman
Warren
Pearl Street
Walnut Street
M. E
T. C. Watkins
Perar
Hutchins
Yacht Club
Levi Butler
Joseph Hart
Frederick Prior
W. E. Quimby
P. Long
Thomas Hewin
Rock
Hancey
Marshy
Benton
Hogan
Hatch
Moseley
Kelly
Curtis
Nicholson
Waltham
House
George
Ladies’ Branch
The
Odd Fellows
Child injured after fall from second story window in city
Three year old Rosie Keating of 382 Commercial Street leaned from a second floor window and fell eighteen feet onto the sidewalk. Police and Dr Billiott at Station 8 treated severe head injuries and she was returned home shortly after.
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Rosie Keating
Commercial Street
Station 8
West
Del's
Aspinwall
City Grammar School
University of the City of New York
Marriages in Boston Somerville and Lowell
In this city Aug 8 Rev Charles I Page weds J Franklin Cram and Emeline J Ward both of Boston. In Somerville Aug 3 Rev George W Durell unites Thomas Arthur DeCelles and Eliza Hannah Galley. In Lowell July 31 Rev Father McManus joins John Goodwin of South Boston and Elizabeth A Warard of Lowell. In Somerville Aug 3 Rev George W Durell unites Samuel Griffiths and Marvy Elizabeth Ferris.
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Somerville
George W. Durell
Samuel Griffiths
Marvy Elizabeth Ferris
Obituaries Notice from New England Area Dates in August
Multiple death notices from Aug 3 to Aug 8 across Boston area cities list names and ages including Edwin Bynner Gregory Hall Samuel Bernhard Myers Alice McLellan Richard Salter Matilde Shuman Edna Peloce. Entries cover ages from 14 to 86 with causes not specified.
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Bynner
Forest Hills
Edwin Lassetter
Gregory
Longwood
Samuel Hall Gregory
Hardy
Rachel Hardy
Myers
Cambridgeport
Bernhard Biridlinemaire Myers
McLellan
Dorchester
Alice Louise
James D
F. B. McLellan
Salter
Treasury Department
Boston
City Hall
Remiereres Cort Miceten
City of Boston
Alfred T. Turner
The Story of Lloyd Aspinwall’s Downfall
New York reports detail Lloyd Aspinwall’s rise and ruin through gambling and oil speculation. Oliver Sumner Teall recounts Aspinwall’s wealth, social ascent, and subsequent collapse after sugar trust ruin and prison, highlighting debts, judgments, and lost family.
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Lloyd Aspinwall
New York
Oliver Sumner Teall
The
Recorder
Aspinwall
Teall
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MR. Thompson
Matthew
C. Delanc Otter
J. H. Page
Pastor Thompson
Yerkes Telescope
Arkansas
Oldra
Wilson Bros
Tremont Row
Emma
Newman, Florists
Pemberton
Salvator Beer
Burkhardt Brewing Co
Hallock St. el
Nantasket Hotel
Quide
Rlington House
Nantasket
Standish Cafe
FISI
al. Jones
Jemee
W. K. Wood
Taylor's
Gray
TNE Fairmaven
Lois G. Farrell
Henry Jones
VINE
Crescent Beach, Revere
Crowley's Hotel
Crescent Beach
Ailroad Cafe
Capt. Simpson
Beads Legal Agency
Seo Opanire Street
City OF Boston Bonds
Board OF Aldermen OF the City OF
Washington Street
Marcella Street
Ward 21
City of
SIS’ S OF Notre Dame
Thomas Shay
Board of Aldermen
Boston Post
Boston Journal
J. M. Galvin
West Thirty~ Second Street
Consolidat Board
Sugar Trust
Union Club
Delahunty
Richard A. Canfield
World’s Fair Hotel and Boarding Bureau of
Niagara Falls
Eastern Agency
Washington ST
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