Probers Reproves Probers in City Finance Clash
Mayor Fitzgerald clashes with the Finance Commission over inquiry scope and politics. Dolan seeks to delay the eight deputy sealer hearings until Henry Lovering returns, asking aldermen not act first. Commission cautions on department heads and pushes for advance notice. Fire, park, and cemetery officers urge permanent improvements.
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Fitzgerald
Finance Commission
Arthur Dolan
Wells
Stratton
William Falion
Louis Epple Named Delegate to S W V Convention
At the regular meeting of George J. Whitten Camp No 1 United Spanish War Veterans Commander Louis Epple was elected delegate to the national convention to be held in Cedar Rapids Iowa early in September. James Leo Molloy was selected as his alternate. The resignation of Arthur G Thompson as adjutant was accepted with James Otis Leman elected his successor.
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George J. Whitten
United Spanish War Veterans
Louis Epple
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
James Leo Molloy
Arthur G. Thompson
James Otis Leman
Left by Foster Mother Leaves Marion Hayes Faxon
A short, unclear report notes Marion Hayes Faxon, adopted by Miss Hannah Louise Garfield Faxon of Brookline and Worcester, is under protection at Mt. Vernon Street, with her foster mother missing and possibly in Worcester. The piece recalls the infant being abandoned on a Lynn to Salem train in spring 1901.
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Marion Hayes Faxon
Hannah Louise Garfield Faxon
Brookline
Worcester
Miss Wilson
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Mt. Vernon Street
Marion
Hotel Raleigh
Englewood Avenue
Miss Faxon
Lynn
Salem
Marion Hayes Case Highlights Worcester Child Custody Probe
Marion Hayes was taken from state custody after being placed with Miss Faxon then Hotel Raleigh, later moved to Children's Friends Society of Worcester. She faced a neglect charge at Brookline court with a September 14 continuation, while Miss Faxon reportedly did not pay board.
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Marion Hayes
State Board of Charities
Miss Faxon
Raleigh
Children’s Friends Society of
Worcester
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Little Marion
Brookline Court
Mintor Found Not Guilty in Chelsea Case
Harry Mintor of 92 Sagamore Street Chelsea and Herman Young of 16 Harvard Place were charged with buying stolen goods from newsboys near the Record office. In Municipal Court they were discharged as not guilty after conflicting testimony and cross examination. Senator Dallinger represented Cowlishaw of 18 Harvard Place. Judge Rich acted for Mintor and Young. Officer Hart reported the alleged takings at a Washington Street store.
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Harry Mintor
Sagamore Street
Chelsea
Harvard Place
Record Office
Hart
Station 2
Washington Street
Harry Minter
Herman Young
W. E. Cowlishaw
Minter and Young
Rich
Cowlishaw
Senator Dallinger
Cambridge
St Patrick's Society Parade Plans Colorful March
At the Roxbury meeting the St Patrick's Total Abstinence and Literary Society outlined its parade participation in the Worcester Catholic Total Abstinence Union event on Monday September 2. Each member will carry a fancy parasol and wear a red white and blue bouquet. Committee members Dr Joseph L Sullivan Francis L Ball and Cornelius J Crowley spearheaded organization. The Ninth Regiment Fife Drum and Bugle Corps will accompany the group, and the society will parade through Roxbury streets before boarding cars for Worcester.
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ST. Patrick’s Total Abstinence Society
St. Patrick’s Total Abstinence and Literary Society of
Roxbury
Worcester Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Whitney Platform Appeals for Rail Merger and Tariff Reform
Political platform endorses the merger of New York New Haven and Hartford with Boston and Maine railways, calls for reciprocity with Canada, tariff revision, and regulation of telephone rates as urged by the Boston Post.
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Frank Tripp
Henry M. Whitney
Whitney
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Boston & Maine
Canada
The
Boston Post
Street Licenses Approved by Commissioners
Street commissioners received yesterday the first batch of street licenses approved by city authorities. The report notes initial approvals for several blocks with conditions and sets the stage for further licensing moves this week.
Secret of life discussed before zoological congress
At the zoological congress Alfred Mayer of the Carnegie Institution outlines how salts of calcium and magnesium may unlock life processes in marine forms. He notes magnesium alone halts vital action while calcium provokes extreme pulsation. recovery can occur with any magnesium salt similar to seawater levels.
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Alfred Mayer
Department of Marine Biology
Carnegie Institution of
Mayer
Former Boston divine dead former Boston divine dead
The Rev Charles Comfort Tiffany D D longtime archdeacon of New York and involved with the Green Fountain fund of Trinity Church died yesterday at Northeast Harbor Maine of apoplexy. He was born in Baltimore in 1829 and educated at Dickinson College Andover Theological Seminary and universities in Halle Heidelberg and Berlin. He was rector of St James Fordham 1866 1870 and later led Church of the Atonement and Zion Church in New York before his archdeacon appointment in 1880.
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Charles Comfort Tiffany
New York
Trinity Church
Northeast Harbor
Tiffany
Baltimore
Dickinson College
Carlisle
Penn
Andover Theological Seminary
University of Halle
Heidelberg
Berlin
St. James Church
Fordham
N. Y
Zion Church
Missing 9 year old boy feared kidnapped in West End
Morris Koitz of 83 Chambers Street reports his son Harry Koitz, age nine, has been missing since Sunday night. Police and the father fear kidnapping and seek any information on his whereabouts from the West End community.
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Rong
Harry Koitz
Morris Koitz
Chambers Street
West End
Britain and United States to submit Newfoundland fisheries dispute
London reports Great Britain accepts U S offer to arbitrate the Newfoundland fisheries case at The Hague. While arbitration proceeds, fisheries will continue under the same modus vivendi as last year. Sources say lengthy correspondence showed the talks could not be harmonized and reached an impasse.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Newfoundland
Hague
Boy Vanishing Case and Drought Crisis Foreseeable
Morris Koitz reports his son Harry missing since Sunday night after a woman in black with a white plume lured him away near Chambers street. Police traced the suspect to South station and a train to New York, with the boy returned to Boston. The piece closes with a stark drought warning from Forecaster Smith, noting Massachusetts endures an unprecedented dry spell, hoping for rain to avert further destruction.
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Morris Koitz
Joy Street
Little Harry
Chambers Street
South Station
New York
Keitz
Woman In Black
Philadelphia
Boston
July and August Rainfall Records
July and August rainfall records show the smallest amounts on record with 1.23 inches in July and 0.39 inches in August 1883. For the present year rainfall totals reach 1.09 inches by August 1907, about 0.48 inches to date, against normal Bureau records of 3.44 to 4.43 inches.
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Weather Bureau
Newfoundland west shore fisheries arbitration likely
Gloucester August 20 news notes the long contested Newfoundland west shore fisheries issue is likely to be submitted to arbitration. The port, though small, is deeply invested in the outcome and awaits formal decision.
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Gloucester
Newfoundland West Shore
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