Missing East Boston Clerk Allen Feared Dead at Sea
Police search for Willard St. Allen the East Boston court clerk who defaulted and vanished. Investigators consider death by his own action and suspect he may have sailed on the steamer Manitoba or fled to the Canadian Northwest. Scotland Yard contacted to inspect the Liverpool arrival. Local brokers and Allen's financial troubles are noted as context for the mystery. A Wesleyan Hall meeting of the Preachers' Aid Society is slated for 4 pm with possible revelations during the discussion. Some members question officers for not enforcing bond filing.
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Willard St. Allen
East Boston
Allen
Canadian Northwest
Manitoba
Montreal
Scotland Yard
Liverpool
M. J. Morrissey
William Burte
Bank Squad
Boston
Congress Street
Sunday Post
Friends
Preachers’ Aid Society
Wesleyan Hall
Prominent Boston Colored Men Disapprove Views of Yale Orator
Boston leaders of the colored race denounce William Pickens of Yale for urging blacks to shun Boston and Chicago and for his miscegenation and suffrage remarks. William H. Lewis says miscegenation laws do not bar intermarriage. migration West may ease Southern congestion. suffrage for freedmen was justice. Clergymen Simon Drew and Benjamin Farris defend Boston and reject Pickens as inexperienced. emphasize equality, gospel of race unity, and that freedom requires the ballot.
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William Pickens
Yale
Boston
Chicago
Commonwealth
Pickens
Simon P. W. Drew
St. Paul’s Baptist Church
New England
Massachusetts
Benjamin W. Farris
St. Paul's Baptist Church
Booker T. Washington
South
Mitchell Stays in a Trance in Boston
Edward Mitchell, 21, born in Belgium, was identified at a city hospital after being found unconscious on East First street, South Boston, Saturday night. Surgeons report a fractured right hip and note previous similar episodes, with tests planned to awaken him from an apparent trance.
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East First Street
South Boston
Edward Mitchell
Belgium
Jenkins Street
Mitchell
N. Y
Auto Dives Over Cliff Near Easyport
Bromley, chief engineer of a canning factory, and his 38 year old son were riding when the car failed near a cliff. It plunged 50 feet into water, exploded on impact, leaving Bromley unconscious with broken legs and hips. His son was unconscious with a severely cut face needing 18 stitches. Both survived initial treatment. Bromley’s prognosis was guarded.
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Easyport
Mr. Bromley
Magoun Estate Contested by Nephews and Nieces
In Medford a court fight looms over Thatcher Magoun's will as nephews and nieces of his adopted daughter Margaret Magoun prepare to challenge the will. James O'Hare and Theresa Walsh, beneficiaries, say Miss Magoun knew whom to leave her money. Local attorney Judge Wilfred Bolster represents the relatives. the fight centers on inheritance claims and Miss Magoun's will.
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Margaret Magoun
Thatcher Magoun
Medford
Mr. Magoun
Miss Magoun
Magoun
James O'Hare
Theresa (O'Hare) Walsh
James O’hare
Eldora Street
Roxbury
Wilfred Bolster
Municipal Court
Dunshee & Hill
Everett
Plans for New Public School Building for Ward 20
Plans reveal a new public school for Ward 20 Dorchester to be built on Parish East and Church streets fronting Parish Street. Construction starts immediately. The three story brick iron stone building will measure 154 feet frontage and sit 400 feet back from the street.
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Ward 20
Dorchester
Parish
Church Streets
Big fight on for senators in Democratic city slate
Democratic leaders plan a solid city delegation to the Senate with close districts expected to swing Democrat on election day. Key battles involve Fitzgerald in 2 6 8 and Harrington versus Sullivan in Charlestown, plus Gartland Mansfield contest for 7 9 17 and Gore vs Callender in 16 20 24 with party unity shaping outcomes.
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Senate
Henry&. Fitzgerald
Lomasney
Fitzgerald
Charlestown
Arthur Harrington
C.S. Sullivan
Harrington
East Cambridge
John H. Pence
Sullivan
Ponce
Edward L. Quigley
Joseph A. Dennison
Wiliam H. Hayes
James E. Hayes
Harrington and Sullivan
Hayes
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
John J. Gartland, Jr
Ward
John J. Mansfield
Ward 17
James F. Curley
Gartland
Mansfield
South Boston
Daniel V. Mce Isaacs
BE. L. Logan
W. J. Sullivan
Norris
Creed
McNary
Fred
Gore
Callender
Miller
Dorchester
Seaver
Clerke
David Leahy
Leahy
Dyar
McInerney
Daniel W. Lane
Common Council
Attempted assassination targets French premier in Marseilles
Premier Combes escaped two pistol shots as he returned from a teachers banquet. Police detained a man in fisherman's clothes, identified as Sauvaire Picolo, who denied firing but a revolver with two discharged chambers was found. His companion escaped. both suspected anarchists.
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Marseilles
Combes
Friendly Society of Teachers
M. Pelletan
Marine
Henri Brisson
M. Combes
Sauvaire Picolo
Picoio
No Bail Yet for Mrs. Childs
Mrs Eva Childs a Somerville bookkeeper accused by Washburn Credit Co of embezzling nearly 3500 is detained in Charles Street jail. Her brother in law and friends search for bonds while Somerville residents express sympathy and anger at the decision to arrest her. The accused woman's mother Mrs Oliver suffers shock and is confined to her room.
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Eva Childs
Somerville
Washburn Credit Company
Charles Street
Reverend Henson to Speak at Tremont Temple Pulpit
The Brooklyn preacher Dr P S Henson will occupy Tremont Temple’s pulpit this month. In his sermon “The Pauper and the Plutocrat” he denounced wealth inequality and the sin of hoarding money while noting no special merit in poverty. He framed hell as a conscience, not fire.
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P. S. Henson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Tremont Temple
Challenge for Mayor Collins in Boston Primary
James A. Watson announces his Democratic primary candidacy for Boston mayor. He argues opposition to Mayor Collins and pledges debates, calls for municipal ownership of utilities, reform at City Hall, and home rule while promising to oust alleged dishonest officials. He seeks a joint debate on renomination.
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James A. Watson
Democrats of
Boston
Collins
City Hall
Russell
Long Island
Subway
Heart Removal by Surgeons Marks Rare Operation
In St Louis on August 9 surgeons at City Hospital removed Alma Toomey’s heart after a stabbing by her lover Thomas Barnes. They laid the heart on her breast, examined it, found no injury, and replaced it. Officials report the operation as the tenth of its kind in surgical history.
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ST. Louis
City Hospital
Alma Toomey
Thomas Barnes
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Magoun Estate
Catherine Ohare
Marigaret Ohare
Smart, Durable Sicilienne
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Premier Combes
France
Mrs. Childs
DR. Henson
Watson
Ingraham
Davie J. Woraham
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