Estate Can't Pay Legacies in Great Barrington Will
Pittsfield officials report the estate of the late Dr. F Pearson of Great Barrington holds Mexico investments that have depreciated. Even under ideal conditions the trust fund of 4 million would be insufficient to pay the family first, risking all legacies to the House of Mercy Tufts College and Lowell General Hospital.
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Pittsfield
Pittsfield House of Mercy
Storey
Thorndike, Palmer and Dodge
Fearson
Great Barrington
Mexico
Pearson
Nerviest Prisoner Nabbed by Cambridge Police
Cambridge police report arrest of a nervy 23 year old man who claimed to be Harry Williams from South Boston after attempting to gain his liberty while in custody.
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Cambridge
Harry Williams
South
Boston
Harris Williams and Henry Smith Stop Police Harbors Silk Goods
Williams and a 19 year old companion were halted in Harvard Square with heavily laden suitcases containing silk shirts underwear and other apparel worth hundreds of dollars. Williams claimed they were visiting a family nearby and were headed home while Bourgett and Mullin led them to Beech street and stopped at No 10.
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Williams
Henry Smith
F Street
Boston
Harvard Square
Bourgett and
Mullin
Bourgett
Beech Street
No. 10
Williams Held After Break-In at Hastings Home
Williams and Smith used false keys to enter Mrs. Merrill G Hastings’s house on Chauncey terrace and steal dresses and toiletries. Officers arouse the occupants. Williams claims he was visiting and on his way home. Letters suggest the alias Henry A. Davis. both men held $1500 for the grand jury.
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Smith
Merrill G. Hastings
At & Chauncey Terrace
Williams
Henry A. Davis
Davis
Sayre Attends Grenfell Association Meeting
Francis Bowes Sayre son-in-law of President Wilson arrived by steamer Florizel in St John s Newfoundland to attend the International Grenfell Association annual meeting. The group supports medical missionary stations led by Dr Wilfred T Grenfell along Labrador and Newfoundland coasts in session this week.
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ST. John's
N. F
Francis Bowes Sayre
Wilson
Florizel
International Grenfell Association
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Labrador
Newfoundland
Hearing for Sawin Ralph D. Lawin in larceny case
Ralph D. Sawin of Huntington Avenue was brought before the Central Court yesterday by Inspectors Burr and Farrell on a charge of larceny of ten dollars from the office of Louis A. Coolidge, treasurer of the United Shoe Machinery Company. A hearing is set for next Wednesday.
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Ralph D. Lawin
Huntington Avenue
Central Court
Burr and
Farrell
Louis A. Coolidge
United Shoe Machinery Company
Eighteen Missing Fishermen Rescued After Fog
Eighteen fishermen, crewmen from the Mary captained by Whalen, were rescued from dories in the South Channel and brought to Boston within hours of the Mary dock arrival. The Helen B. Thomas later reported 146 more missing men rescued, as the Annie Perry found the remaining two dory sailors. the Perry is expected today.
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Boston
Mary
Captain Whalen
T Wharf
Whalen
Helen B. Thomas
Thomas
Annie Perry
Perry
Sunday Post Picks Up Screamingly Funny Wit Section
The upcoming issue highlights a humor section filled with sharp wit and laughs for readers seeking light, entertaining features this Sunday.
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Sunday Post
Photographers Convention Highlights and Motion Picture Attempt
The Wollensak trophy went to Partridge Fenway Studio with a salon hanging. Carl Ackman shot a motion picture drawing about 100 young women as applicants, with Miss Sadie Doucet singled out as Boston’s Mary Pickford. Election results and upcoming 1916 Boston convention noted among other prize winnings and portraits.
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Orrin Champlain
P. A. of
N. E
Carl Ackman
Sadie Doucet
Boston
Mary Pickford
Mr. Ackman
Mrs. Vernon Castle
Dolly Varden
Marguerite
Becky Sharp
W. H. Partridge
George H. Hastings
Newtonville
Frank Hutchins
Sanford
C. L. Powers
Clremont
N. H
A. Allyn
Newport
J. W. Godchaux
Adelboro
Mass
J. Sabine
Providence
R. I
W. F. Donnelly
New Haven
George B. Tingley
Mystic
Aged Woman Killed by Portland Bound Electric Car
Freeport Maine reports that Mrs. Mary Welsh a 75 year old resident of Brunswick was struck and killed by an electric car bound for Portland at the foot of a grade near the Universalist Church on Main street. Traffic halted for about an hour as her body was removed from under the vehicle.
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Freeport
Mary Welsh
Brunswick
Universalist Church
Huntington School Post Goes to M KAY
Lester W. MacKay appointed head of the manual training department at Huntington School to succeed Edward M. McCracken who resigned to take a similar post at New Bedford Industrial School. MacKay attended Lowell High School and Lowell Textile School and taught in Porto Rico before Harvard.
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Lester W. MacKay
Huntington School
Edward M. McCracken
New Bedford Industrial School
Mr. MacKay
Lowell High School
Lowell Textile School
Porto Rico
Harvard
Carter Answers Cushing In Religious Politics Charge
Philip W. Carter former Progressive State committee member accuses Lieutenant Governor Cushing of injecting race and religious issues into politics. He objects to the use of a seemingly innocent title like the sectarian amendment to cover hostility to a sect.
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Philip W. Carter
Progressive State Committee
Cushing
Carter on Groton school funding and constitutional limits
Mr. Carter questions Mr. Cushing's stance on Groton like church schools and note that Article 18 of the 1855 constitution already prohibits appropriations to church schools. The discussion cites a unanimous Supreme Court ruling affirming the prohibition and warns against using school funding to divide by religion or creed.
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Cushing
Episcopal School
Groton
Gushing
Mr. Carter
Joel Parker
Supreme Court
13 Autos for Mail Service
Uncle Sam introduces 13 new electric mail trucks at South station awaiting unloading for inspection by Superintendent of Mails County and Postmaster Murray. They will begin service at 12:15 a.m. next Sunday, replacing nine small White electric cars. Surplus postal staff will move to other duties. Boston Elevated to reassign stations for 18 motormen and conductors. Nine trucks will shuttle mail between central and substations. two collect from boxes. two kept in reserve.
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Uncle Sam
South Station
Mails County
Murray
Elevated
Boston Elevated
Auto Driver Rescued After Steering Wheel Breaks
Albert L. Catton of 22 Dunkham Street Somerville was pinned to his seat in a light delivery truck owned by Ward Baking Company on Mount Auburn Street near Craime Hall Cambridge. Firemen freed him after chopping away part of the seat and he was taken to Cambridge Relief Hospital with cuts bruises and possible internal injuries.
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Albert L. Catton
Durnkham Street
Somerville
Ward Baking Company
Mt. Auburn Street
Craime Hall
White
Harvard Square
Catton
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Boy Drowned While Fishing at Roberts Pond
James Knowles twelve of 216 Grove street Auburndale drowned in Roberts pond near noon while fishing with his brother George sixteen. He fell from the pier into ten feet of water and sank at once. Neighbors from the Roberts paper mill and police from Waltham and Riverside searched, finding the body after a half hour. Dr A L Stone aided with a pulmotor but could not revive him.
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Weston
James Knowles
Grove Street
Auburndale
Roberts Pond
George
Young Knowles
Roberts Paper
Waltham
Riverside
A. L. Stone
Waltham Board of Health
Police Probe Two Fires in Dorchester Homes
Dorchester police investigate two incendiary fires on Richfield Street early yesterday at numbers 66 and 68. Basements were the origin in both blazes. John Rohan of Engine 18 discovered the fires on his way home. Total loss not to exceed 125 dollars.
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Dorchester
Richfield Street
John Rohan
Massive Argentinian Freight Arrives on Themis
The Norwegian steamer Themis docked yesterday bringing a 10 000 ton cargo from Argentina valued at about 2 million dollars. Among the goods is a complete South American railway locomotive plus 5000 bales of wool 2000 tons of linseed hides glycerine caseine and other freight.
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South America
Themis
Argentina
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