Philadelphia officials praise Boston Hub transit system visit
A Philadelphia Board of Special Councils team plus officials toured Boston Elevated lines and transfer points. They praised Boston’s system as commendable while noting higher fares and a lack of dividends in Philadelphia. The group visited Harvard Square and Marine Park, then returned to India Wharf after a full day of observing traffic conditions.
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Boston
Board of Special Councils of
Philadelphia
John Dever
City Hall
J. A. Hile
C. S. Sergeant
Yale
Charles Seger
Post
Seger
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Detroit
Buffalo
New York
Brooklyn
Young’s Hotel
Dudley Street Terminal
Bellevue
Harvard Square
Harvard
City Point
Marine Park
India Wharf
Trapped by Boy Detective in Plymouth Farm Raid
The case centers on Andress S. Floyd proprietor of Self-Mastery Farm in North Carver and his secretary Miss Lilian B. Kline. Boston Ray Detective Agency agents posed as philanthropists and used a child undercover to infiltrate the farm leading to their arrest on a statutory offence.
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Plymouth
Floyd
Ray Agency
Miss Kline
Milk price rise anticipated by Boston dairy interests
Farmers in western Massachusetts discuss withholding milk to Boston contractors unless prices rise by one cent per quart. Walker of Walker Gordon laboratories notes high feed and labor costs justify higher milk prices, while Boston contractors have not yet rejected the request.
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Boston
Walker
Walker-Gordon Laboratories
Republican Party
Roosevelt
Notable Accidents and Investigations Across Cities
Wire brief reports from Buffalo Catskill Lawton Washington Solingen and Manila detail a fatal trapeze fall injury a arsenic food incident a US marshal wounded a rockbound cruiser damage to the Colorado a bank embezzlement arrest and a Manila merchants group urging President Roosevelt to visit the Philippines ahead of a hunting trip to Africa.
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Lawton
Oklo
John Abernathy
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Wichita Forest Reserve
Washington
Colorado
Double Bluff
Puget Sound
Solingen
Otto Becker
Solinger Bank
Manila
Merchants’ Association of Manila
Philippine Islands
Africa
Sherman Accepts Republican Nomination for Vice Presidency
Utica dispatch notes James Schoolcraft Sherman accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination and endorsed Roosevelt era policies. He argued the central issue is approving Roosevelt's administration and asserted that Bryan is not a real issue. He praised protectionism, tariff revision, and Republican record while denouncing Democratic aims as experimental and untrustworthy.
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Utica
N. Y
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Chicago
Taft
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Sherman
Bryan
Republican Party
Democratic
Conductor’s Locker Room Larceny Suspect Arraigned
Arthur Milliken, 88, arraigned in Municipal Criminal Court on larceny charges for stealing rebate checks and conductor wear from South Station. He allegedly wore part of a conductor’s uniform to access lockers, punched rebates, and redeemed them at windows. He received 14 months in the House of Correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Milliken
Municipal Criminal Court
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
South Station
Milliken
House of Correction
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Gen. Butler Veteran Firemen’s Association
Mass
Humphrey O’sullivan
Circuit Court
Quaker City
Henry Siegel Co
Washington and
Essex Streets
Fifth Ave
Axminster
Imperial Axminster
Royal Axminster
Ogpoey
Alexander Estry Smith
A Sanford’s
Brussels
Arthur Laine
Catskill
James Curtin
Tarriff Revision
Dingley
Wolf
Withie
Butler
Gilchrist Co
Brine’s
Houghton & Dutton Co
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