Suffolk Bar seeks disbarment of attorney Davis over securities theft
The Suffolk Bar petitions the Superior Court to disbar Simon Devis, admitted 1880, after alleged theft of Mary K. Flint’s securities. He allegedly accessed Flint’s security box before 1899, pledged assets for a margin loan with Edgerly & Crocker, and later faced a $34,500 final decree plus costs in 1915 after Flint’s suit.
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Simon Devis
Suffolk
Mary K. Flint
The
Bar Association
Edgerly & Crocker
Davis
Mercantile Trust Company
Labor Leaders Resign From Peace Association
Two AFL officials resign from the Friends of Peace Association. John Golden general president United Textile Workers of America and John Sullivan of New York announced the move at AFL headquarters. William E Webb of New York dies suddenly at his Siasconsett summer home in Nantucket due to heart disease.
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Peace Association
Washington
Peace
American Federation of Labor
John Golden
United Textile Workers of America
John Sullivan
New York
Friends of Peace Association
Nantucket
Mass
William E. Webb
J. H. Dunham Company
Siasconsett
Sage of Concord Guest at National Negro League Convention
Professor Frank Sanborn the last of the Abolitionists spoke at a forenoon session of the National Negro Business League in Boston. He warned that accumulation of capital can propel unrighteousness and praised progress while urging black merchants to deliver goods and compete as equals. The gathering drew nearly 4000 attendees and featured talks by C C Spaulding A L Lewis G W Franklin and Miss Nannie Burroughs among others.
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Frank Sanborn
National Negro Business League
Sanborn
Sage of
Booker T. Washington
The
League
Boston
Free Press of
Lincoln
Convention Hall
St. Botolph Street
Greater
Concord
Negro Insurance Companies
C. C. Spaulding
Durham
N. C
Industrial Insurance
A. L. Lewis
Jacksonville
National Negro Undertakers’ Association
G. W. Franklin
Chattanooga
National Negro Bankers’ Association
R. L. Smith
Waco
Texas
National Negro Press Association
Henry Allen Boyd
Nashville
National Negro Bar Association
P. W. Howard
Jackson
Miss
National Negro Insurance Association
W. P. Burrell
East Orange
N. J
Providence
Brockton
New York
Philadelphia
Philip Payton
Wat Terry
Frank Howard
George E. Beckett
Alice Hinto
Andover
Nannie H. Burroughs
National Training School
Washington, D. C
J. H. Dillard
Charlottesville
James E. Kefford
Waterbury
Conn
E. W. Anderson
R. R. Moton
Hampton Institute
Gandy
State Normal School
Virginia
Nannie Burroughs
Planned New York Women Strike Tested by Journal Leaders
Miss Agnes E. Ryan of the Woman's Journal and Howard L. Blackwell weighed a New York strike plan for suffrage day. A despatch says the Empire State campaign committee would call a one day strike of business and home workers to expose the claim that a woman's place is in the home.
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Agnes E. Ryan
Woman's Journal
Howard L. Blackwell
Miss Ryan
New York
Empire State Campaign Committee
Suffragists Push for Office Roles Not Strikes Says Miss Ryan
Miss Ryan says New York suffragists will not strike but seek to prove women belong in offices and factories. She argues business leaders value women workers and would be wary of actions that threaten employer relations. Mr. Blackwell notes a business shift and doubts a demonstration is needed.
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New York
Miss Ryan
Blackwell
Walsh Nearly a Movie Actor at Lenox Hotel Scene
Governor Walsh and guests watched Horatio and William Slater play background roles in a romance at the Lenox Hotel. Marie Post and John Randall acted as eloping lovers before a camera in the palm room, with Randall in evening clothes and tan shoes noted beneath the table.
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Governor Walsh
Horatio
William Slater
Horatio N. Slater
Beacon Street
Lenox
Slater Boys
Lenox Palm Room
Marie Post
John Randall
Miss Post
Randall
George A. Crittenden
Vaudeville Trio Book Passage on the Arabic
Trenton report says vaudeville performers Christopher McTamney John Nolan and John Olschewski wired friends that they booked passage on the Arabic. T. H. Phillips learned his wife and four children also booked the voyage. No word from the eight Tren tomas said to be aboard had been received.
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Trenton
N. J
Christopher McTamney
John Nolan
John Olschewski
T. H. Phillips
Training Camp Work At Plattsburg Covers Varied Tasks
Military training camp at Plattsburg New York on August 19 had companies engaged in target range open order and skirmish drill, with others hiking and practicing road combat problems under varied instruction.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Harvard recruits endure hard field training at camp
The report details seven mile hikes and skirmishes through rough terrain as Company C recruits carry 35 pound packs. It notes notable figures like J Wentworth Picker ing and General Wood visiting, with the aeroplane test flight and evening parade marking progress in advanced cavalry class work.
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J. Wentworth Pickering
Mr. Pickering
Pickering
Harvard
General Wood
Robert Bacon
Boston
C. L. Pitkin
R. C. Foster
E. H. Sleeper
R. Griswold
J. C. Fox
Portland
C. H. Blagden
John G. Glidden
Newcastle
R. T. Holt
John C. Hallowell
C. P. Millman
William Brown Meloney
Jonah
Saturday Evening Post
C. H Blagden
Wood
National Defence
Funeral of F G Davis Held in Lexington
Frederick Gardner Davis, a Boston banker residing at the Hotel Lenox, died Tuesday of heart trouble in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His funeral is set for 2 45 this afternoon at his brother Charles B. Davis’s residence, 65 Hancock street.
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Frederick Gardner Davis
Lenox
Boston
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Lexington
Charles B. Davis
Hancock Pircek
Missing New York Woman Sought. Believed In Boston
A New York City woman is reported missing from her home since August 4 and authorities believe she may be in Boston. Her husband has made a public appeal for information.
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New York City
Boston
Abduction probe for Carrie Koster sought in Boston case
Mrs. Carrie Koster of 146 West 54th Street New York is sought in Boston after her husband Harry Koster said she was last heard from in Bridgeport Conn en route home. He fears abduction by an actor who left Boston around her disappearance. He notes she used stage names Carrie Smith and Winsome Winnie and may have traveled with a woman named Woods. She is 20, 5 feet 4 inches, 140 pounds with dark complexion and brown eyes. Her description includes a black and white striped skirt a white shirt waist and a white sailor hat.
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Carrie Koster
West 54Th Street
New York
Boston
Harry Koster
Bridgeport
Conn
Carrie Smith
Winnie
Woods
Koster
Schooner Fannie F Hall Makes 48 Day Coastal Trip
Forty eight years after its launch, the two masted schooner Fannie F Hall arrived in port from Bangor Me after 48 days at sea. Captain Hutchins injured his foot slipping on deck lumber and was treated at Boothbay hospital. the vessel lay idle for three weeks.
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Fannie F. Hall
Bangor
Hutchins
Boothbay
Schoner
Captai
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