Hospitals Defend Board Over Refusal of Infant
Chairman Francis X. Mahoney defended Carney Hospital officials who would not admit Alexander Jones Jr aged one who died of whooping cough on the White Star liner Cymric. He said contagion risk would endanger other children and hospitals would not admit a sick infant unless complications arose. The body may be removed at parents request and buried where desired. Olive the dead boy's sister aged three is seriously ill with the same disease. The two children were brought by steamer to join their father Alexander Jones of Medford.
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Francis X. Mahoney
Board of Health
Carney Hospital
Alexander Jones, Jr
Dr. Mahoney
Mahoney
Olive
Alexander Jones
Medford
Visionary Financing Plan Draws Skepticism in Boston
Boston bankers ridiculed a Savannah telegram claiming German capitalists would fund moving the U S cotton crop with as much as 300 million dollars. An official from a major Boston bank called the plan visionary and likened it to past efforts by planters to control the market and push cotton to fifteen cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Savannah
Southern States Cotton Corporation
United States
One Boston Banking House
Germany
America
Cuticura Remedies Featured In Asthma Eczema Cure Testimony
A Cumberland Center reader reports her four month old baby’s eczema clearing after two months of Cuticura Ointment and Soap with night and morning use. She praises the treatment as leading to a complete cure then notes Cuticura guidance for pimples and blackheads, claiming benefits with routine cleansing and bathing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Center
Geo. W. Emery
Cuticura
Dept. T
Boston
Sean
Bankers react to cotton crop finance plans and Germany deal
Thomas P Beal Jr of the Second National Bank cautions that promises of a doubled cotton crop value sound inflated. He expects steady domestic financing to move the crop and notes Boston’s strong role, while a Wadley led Southern States Cotton Corp plan to secure €300 million from German financiers heads to Germany for final talks.
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Thomas P. Beal, Jr
Second National Bank
Roosevelt
United States
Boston
New York
Germany
George Dole Wadley
Southern States Cotton Corporation
Wadley
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
South
Equitable Sells Site of Burned Building
The Equitable Life Assurance Society sold the 120 Broadway block in Manhattan to a syndicate led by General T. Coleman Du Pont. A 36 story Equitable Building will rise on the site, housing the society itself, in the heart of the financial district. The old Equitable building was New Yorks first skyscraper.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
General T. Coleman du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Broadway
Financial Section
Societt
Equitable
Carpenters Ousted From A F of L
Boston carpenters district council officials learned that the executive board of the American Federation of Labor has revoked the charter of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters. Henceforth its branches may not sit in any building trades department of the A F of L.
Strike cases debated as DA investigates re employment ties
District Attorney Pelletier led a wide probe into strike cases affecting about 70 men many former Boston Elevated workers. Half the cases heard with policemen witnesses and defendants mingling with counsel James H. Vahey. The day ended with Pelletier set to decide whether to press charges later this week.
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Pelletier
Boston Elevated
James H. Vahey
Mr. Pelletier
Tax dodging uncovered in Stockbridge estate of Charles Bullard
Assessors find taxable property worth over 226000 dollars in the estate of Charles Bullard late of Stockbridge and Boston. Bullard died last fall at Merrywood on the Lenox Stockbridge road after years of reclusive life. He paid only 188 dollars tax on 9266 dollars assessed value previously. His heir list includes his mother Mrs William Storey Bullard and brothers Francis and William Norton Bullard of Boston. Miss Heloise Meyer of Boston bought Merrywood for a summer residence. Stockbridge remains the largest taxpayer in the town.
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Pittsfield
Stockbridge
Charles Bullard
Boston
Bullard
Merrywood
Lenox-Stockbridge Road
Heloise Meyer
George von L. Meyer
Navy
William Storey Bullard
Commonwealth Avenue
Francis Bullard
William Norton Bullard
Oscar Lasigi
Seven executed at Sing Sing in electric chair
Seven murderers were taken from their cells at Sing Sing prison in Ossining New York and executed by electric chair. It marked the largest one day number of executions by electricity since the chair’s adoption. The six Italians and one African American died quietly within about an hour.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Boston Groundfish Floods Market After Meat Boycott
The sea aids Mayor Fitzgerald as a fleet unloads nearly 1,000,000 pounds of groundfish at a Boston wharf. Prices fall while demand remains strong. Skippers redirect southward to land abundant brands, flooding the market just as the mayor promotes no meat.
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Fitzgerald
Boston
Boats unload vast cod fish haul amid heavy wharf bustle
A crowded port yesterday saw vessels unloading a large mixed catch including cod haddock mackerel and swordfish. Swordfish demand dropped from the big haul headless portions sold at wholesale 3 1 2 cents per pound retail 8 10 cents. A single 1000 pound horse mackerel was landed with other species boxed and shipped to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla
New York
Haddock
Death of Horace Lewis in Roslindale Coal Yard Accident
Apoplexy caused the death of Horace Lewis age 62 of 67 Florence street Roslindale after he pitched forward from his seat in a City Fuel Company wagon yard. The wagon passed over his right leg and arm fracturing both. Clerks saw the driver topple but could not stop the vehicle. He leaves a wife and daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Lewis
Florence Street
Roslindale
City Fuel Company
Ashland Street
Lewis
Queen Maria Pia Jewelry Sale Brings 275000
The Republican government of Portugal realized 275000 by selling the late Queen Maria Pias jewelry. Proceeds will go to pay a loan left by the dethroned royal family.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Maria Pia
Track Blockade Delays Rush Hour at Dudley Street Station
About 5000 people crowded a dense mass at the Dudley street station after 6 PM when a City Point car derailed at a split switch on the lower level. The blockage stretched trains to Washington street North Cambridge Field's Corner Ashmont and Milton, with cars queued to Park street and Notts station. After 16 minutes a second track carried trains through, thinning the crowd and avoiding injuries.
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Dudley Street
City Point
Washington Street
North Cambridge
Field’s Corner
Ashmont
Milton
Park Street
Notts Station
Count John Draszhovitch Orloff Marries Amid Creditor Chase
In Chicago on August 12 Count John Draszhovitch Orloff, a Croatian-born man living at 1108 Lac Falle Ave, wed Miss Mary Henrietta Sparrow at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church after a race with his creditors. A single creditor pursued him to the wedding, and detectives later arrested him on a charge of failing to pay for a typewriter. The couple then went to the wedding supper before being released on bail.
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Chicago
Tll
John Draszhovitch Orloff
Croatia
St. Petersburg
Lac Falle Avenue
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
West Adams Street
Winchester Avenue
Mary Henrietta Sparrow
Lacaruba Pales as Murder Charge Read in Court
Guiseppe Lacaruba grew pale as Judge Dana read the charge of murdering Paolo Di Calogoro in the Superior Court yesterday. He pleaded not guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guiseppe Lacaruba
Dana
Paolo di Calogoro
Fireman Arthur W Lowe Found Dead in Lodging House
Arthur W Lowe a stationary fireman long out of work was found dead in his room at a lodging house on Revere Street yesterday morning. It is reported he had shot himself. No other persons are implicated.
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Arthur W. Lowe
Revere Street
Bumper Crop Figures Promise Broad Prosperity
The article outlines a record-breaking crop year with vast economic impact. It notes Secretary Wilson's forecast of falling living costs, rail and farm revenue, and describes crop totals from the Continental and Commercial banks of Chicago in terms of billions of bushels and bales across multiple commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary Wilson
Bureau of Agriculture
Continental
Chicago
Diamond Jim Brady Donates 220000 to Johns Hopkins
New York financier Diamond Jim Brady has given 220000 dollars to Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore in gratitude for appetite return after six months of stomach trouble. Brady enjoyed his first big meal last Thursday night featuring cantaloupe clams gumbo sea bass squab and champagne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Jim
Baltimore
Brady
New York
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Senate Paths Morton for Fall River Judge Post
The Senate judiciary committee favors James M. Morton Jr. for United States District Judge at Fall River Massachusetts after favorable reporting on August 12.
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Senate
James M. Morton, JR
Washington
United States
Fall River
Mass
Senate Judiciary Committee
Taft Described as Good Man Going Wrong in Senate
Senator Stone of Missouri criticized President Taft in the Senate over the veto of the wool tariff bill calling Taft a good man going wrong. The speech framed Taft’s stance as misalignment with Democratic and Progressive tariff aims.
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Washington
Taft
Stone
Missouri
Senate
Portrait of a President and the Bull Moose Roar
A speaker praises the President as well intentioned yet hampered by political pressures and party ties. He warns the leader risks becoming a servant of special interests rather than the people. He contrasts Wilson's calm approach with the roaming Bull Moose as a political backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Drowned man dies escaping arrest on Boston harbor barge
Patrick Welch, 50, with no fixed address, drowned while fleeing from a coal barge Boston anchored at 91 Sumner Street East Boston. Patrolman Griffin and Mate James Avery attempted rescue but failed. body recovered by harbor police after Welch went overboard by the bow ladder when the ladder tipped as he neared the wharf.
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Boston
Sumner Street
Patrick Welch
Griffin
Station 7
James Avery
Welch
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