Richard Stone Boston Lawyer Dead at 74
Richard Stone 74 a prominent Boston attorney died yesterday at his summer home in Manchester after long illness. He practiced in Boston with Greenough Morse Stone and later as Stone & Stone with his son Robert B Stone and others. Survived by wife a daughter Miss Mary Gray Stone and three sons Malcolm Jamai ca Plain Robert B Stone and Ing ersoll B Stone.
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Richard Stone
Boston
Marlboro Street
Smith’s Point
Manchester
North Shore
Mr. Stone
State Street
Newburyport
Dummer Academy
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Peleg Chandler
Charles P. Greenough
Robert M. Morse
Greenough, Morse and Stone
Robert B. Stone
Stone
Bankers Meet in Secret Session at Copley Plaza
Twenty two prominent bankers from across the country attended the Investment Bankers Association of America quarterly meeting at the Copley Plaza. The session considered all financial and business conditions including the European war. reports were kept confidential. An outing on the steam yacht Griswold was planned with luncheon on board and dinner at the Point Shirley Club.
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Investment Bankers’ Association of America
Copley Plaza
Griswold
Point Shirley
Two Fined for Driving Unfit Horse
Sears Rid of 18 Nashua Street was fined 75 dollars by Judge Creed in Municipal Court for driving a horse unfit for service. Louis L. Kleynen of 23 Knowlton Street Somerville, driver of the horse, was fined 25 dollars for the same offense after veterinarians from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals declared the horse unfit for service.
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Sears
Nashua Street
Creed
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Louis L. Kleynen
Knowlton Street
Somerville
Prize likely for German steamer Schneefels amid war
Captain McKenzie of the British steamer Keeling reports the German steamer Schneefels likely seized as a prize of war after sailing from Calcutta and bound for Boston with oriental goods. The Keeling met American warships Tennessee and North Carolina en route to London. Schneefels cargo valued amid $2,000,000 for Lombard & Co.
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Boston
McKenzie
Keeling
Keelung
Calcutta
Suez Canal
Consignees, L. C. Lombard & Co
British to Charter Steamer for German Prisoners
Brussels dispatch reports at 5 02 p m August 14 that the British government will charter a steamer to move German prisoners to England via Paris and Brussels.
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England
Brussels
Paris
South Station Traffic Drops for Fiscal Year 1914
Official figures show 24,978,000 passengers passed through South Station in the year ending June 30, 1914, a decline of 144,000 from 1912-13. The New Haven and Boston & Albany carried 17,411,165 into Boston, down 147,885, while outward passengers reached 17,567,278, up 4,247.
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South Station
New Haven
Boston & Albany
Boston
New Peruvian Cabinet Resigns After Two Weeks
In Lima on August 14, Premier Meliton Carbajal’s cabinet, formed on August 2, resigned today. The move follows initial reshuffles as Peru’s government faces early instability.
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Dima
Peru
Meliton Carbajal
British deny South American coal famine threat
Reports of a threatened coal famine in South America due to the European war were denied today at the British embassy. A British diplomat said conditions on the Continent will not be allowed to affect the coal trade with exterior points.
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Washington
South America
United Fruit Bowden Held Up By British War Vessel
The United Fruit steamship Bowden, flying a British flag, reported being held up last Sunday between Cuba and Castle Island Bahamas by an English warship. The ship was halted at gun point and questioned on identity. after Captain M. H. Henriksen answered, the Bowden was allowed to proceed. Fog prevented naming the cruiser, and the international code system was used for signaling.
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United Fruit
Bowden
Cuba
Castle Island
Bahamas
M. H. Henriksen
Henriksen
Watertown Man to Wed Waltham Girl
Mr and Mrs Herbert W Torsleff of Lowell avenue Waltham yesterday announced the engagement of their daughter Bertha E Torsleff to Carl Granville Fuller son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Fuller of Palfrey st Watertown
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Herbert W. Torsleff
Lowell Avenue
Waltham
Bertha E. Torsleff
Carl Granville Fuller
Herbert Fuller
Palfrey St
Watertown
German Americans Plan Protest Meeting at Faneuil Hall
Boston branch of the German American Alliance has secured use of Faneuil Hall for a Sunday meeting to protest what members view as anti German attitudes in the press.
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Boston
The
Clark Drops Injunction Against New Haven Railroad
New Jersey resident Clark consented to the dismissal without prejudice of his stockholders injunction suit filed August 3 in federal court against the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad. He alleged a Morgan Rockefeller Mellen trio sought to control New Haven affairs and monopolize New England commerce.
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New York
Tisla PD
Clark
Federal District Court
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New Jersey
J. P. Morgan
William Rockefeller
Charles S. Mellen
New Haven
Traffic League Men Enjoy Plymouth Trip
Ten members of the National Industrial Traffic League at a Boston convention canceled formal meetings to tour Plymouth by car. They visited historic sites, dined, and began the return drive to Boston. The convention wraps up today.
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Traffic League
Plymouth
National Industrial Traffic League
Boston
Frank Venn Located Safe in Stockholm Source Says
Frank Venn of Summer Avenue Malden has notified relatives he is safe in Stockholm Sweden. The last report placed him in Germany prior to his current location.
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Frank Venn
Summer Avenue, Malden
Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
Death by Self Inflicted Shotgun Fatality in New Bedford
Asa Jones aged 65 former postmaster of South Westport near New Bedford committed suicide this morning by placing a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. He staggered about his barn before a neighbor found him and he died later at Union Hospital in Fall River.
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New Bedford
Asa Jones
South Westport
Union
Fall River
Boston Socialists Plan War Protest Meeting
Boston Socialists will protest the European war at a public meeting Sunday afternoon. Principal speakers include James O Nea1 of Indiana author of The Workers in American History and Edmund T Dana grandson of Longfellow. The Boston Socialist Club sponsors the event.
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Boston
James O'Neal
Indiana
Edmund T. Dana
Longfellow
Boston Socialist Club
Elevator Fatality Claims Hyde Park Teen
Edward I. Barrett 18 of 688 River street Hyde Park died after being caught between the first floor and an elevator at 71 Harrison avenue. He expired at City Hospital as the ambulance reached the main gate shortly after the incident occurred yesterday.
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Edward I. Barrett
River Street
Hyde Park
Harrison Avenue
City Hospital
Army Mule Out of Job in Great War
Memphis officials report the American mule is barred from the European war. Neutrality laws and the designation of males as contraband by combatant nations have halted purchases by French, German, and English buyers at the great horse and mule market system.
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Memphis
Tenn
France
Germany
England
Oriental Mail Routed Through Pacific Coast Points
New England post offices announce routing all Oriental destination mail via the Pacific coast instead of Europe due to European turmoil. Officials warn Atlantic routes face stoppages and delays making timely delivery unlikely.
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New
Bermuda Line Stays On Schedule Despite War
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company announced no disruption to Bermuda line sailings Caribean and Bermudian continue on regular schedules despite the European war. Officials issued notice yesterday confirming continued operations and timetables.
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Bermuda
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Caribean
Bermudian
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