Fortyseven Thieves Gang Taunts Albany Street Patrols
Police brace for a new crackdown on the Forty Thieves, a youth gang 9 to 25 labeled as bold pickpockets and burglars. They lurk in dives near Albany Street and Massachusetts Avenue, use signals, and recruit young girls 15 to 19 as expert pickpockets. Patrolman Fitzmaurice was wounded when confronting the gang on Huntington Avenue.
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Albany Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Columbus Avenue
Fitzmaurice
Station 10
Huntington Avenue
Roy Howe
King’s Terrace
City May Pay Big for Roses
Floral pieces were sent to the homes of departed city officials as the Finance Commission probes city affairs stirs discussion among local florists. John R. Newman, among the city’s best known florists, says he never saw tributes for which the city paid $250 and adds that roses costing American Beauty varieties could justify such sums.
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Finance Commission
John R. Newman
Man
Newman
City Overrun With Snakes in Collinsville
Meriden Conn Aug 22 Collinsville reports a severe snake infestation with snakes found in yards cellars and streets. Residents report killing many including four foot long black snakes flat headed adders and water snakes are as common as grasshoppers.
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Meriden
Conn
Collinsville
Inspectors arrest Gladys Foley in diamond locket case
Inspectors arrested Gladys Foley aged 22 of 17 Austin street yesterday on charges that she took a diamond locket valued at 35 dollars, the property of David Kli gan of 56 East Cottage street.
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Gladys Foley
Austin Street
David Kligan
East Cottage Street
Giant corn stalk grows outside Handschumacher store
W F Handschumacher, market man, displays his prize corn stalk outside his 2% John Street store. The towering stalk stands 18% feet high and comes from a Canobie Lake, New Hampshire farm where he planted corn for the first time this year.
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W. F. Handschumacher
John Street
Remarkable Hop Pole Corn Grows Tall on Boston Exhibit
A farmer, W. F. Handschumacher, grows a freak corn stalk six feet tall beside a 13-foot high stalk. He supported the giant, dug it up when ears appeared, and brought it to Boston for exhibition. He plans to plant its seed to try a hop pole corn variety.
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W. F. Hanschumacer
Mr. Handschumacher
Fire apparatus the need of Nantasket
The Post examines summer hotels at Nantasket near Boston for fire protection after the Old Orchard blaze. It notes wooden construction, limited water supply, and sparse apparatus, urging stronger town water, more pumps, and better fire safety measures at major hotels such as Atlantic House Rockland House Hotel Nantasket Wade's Nantasket Point Hotel Pemberton and others along the beach.
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Boston
Post
Nantasket
Old Orchard
Nantasket Beach
Clem Bakes
Pemberton
Hull
Atlantic House
Rockland
Waveland
Hull Village
Atlantic Hill
Nantasket Point
Hingham
Rockland House
Rockland Cafe
Nantasket Point Hotel
Wade’s
Oakland House
Sagamore House
Weymouth
Atlantic Pavilion
B. F. Durgin
Revere House
Surfside House
Arrest of Wallace Bryant on larceny warrant
Wallace C. Bryant, 20, of 24 Tremlett Street, was arrested on a warrant yesterday for allegedly stealing 281 dollars from Stuart, Howland & Co. while employed at 5 Winthrop Square.
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Wallace C. Bryant
Tremlett Street
Stuart, Howland & Co
Winthrop Square
Marlboro Women Rally for Safer Streets at Night
In Marlboro on August 23 women organized a campaign demanding more street lights and police patrols after dark. Led by Miss Mary Collins and Alderman Ritcher, the group, now over 67 strong, plans to present their petition to the City Council.
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Liberty Street
Bill
Mary Collins
Main Street
Ritcher
Zephyr
Beach
Liberty
Te City Council
Halstat Studio
Marlboro
Mayor Fitzgerald’s Republic criticizes Maine fire safety at Old Orchard Beach
The Republic attacks the State of Maine for weak fire protection at Old Orchard Beach. It urges action over boastful claims of civic purity and praises the Post for addressing safety for summer residents.
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Fitzgerald
the Republic
Maine
Old Orchard Beach
The
Post
Manager Gianneti Ends Life After Disgrace in Toronto
A. Archimede Gianneti, head of Ban ca Gianneti with New York offices at 48 Spring Street, killed himself in the Hotel Cecil Toronto fearing to face the beloved girl. A photo of the New York fiancée worth $1,100,000 and five letters were found near the body.
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Toronto
A. Archimede Gianneti
Banca Gianneti
Spring Street
New York
Cecil
Thinks Eddy Suit Is Done
Frederick W. Peabody the local counsel for the next friends in the Eddy suit says no further public proceedings are expected. He believes any future action, if any, will come from counsel and likely remain secret. He notes Senator Chandler told them there is no money coming to their side at present.
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Eddy
Frederick W. Peabody
Chandler
Warships Headed West After Brief Japanese Caution
United States cruisers West Virginia Colorado and Pennsylvania sailed from Yokohama at 7 this morning for Honolulu and San Francisco after coaling. Japanese officers showed a curious coolness since Sunday, saying they had heard via Manila from semi official sources to deprecate the visit, but Washington orders prevailed. The ships carry ammunition.
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Yokohama
United States
West Virginia
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Honolulu
San Francisco
Manila
Wasington
Conductor Gallagher Convicted of Larceny in Cambridge Court
Conductor Peter F. Gallagher of the Boston Elevated Railway Company was found guilty of larceny of fares in the Cambridge District Court. Judge Almy sentenced him to 30 days in the House of Correction after a trial in which police evidence supported the charge.
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Peter F. Gallagher
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Almy
Cambridge District Court
House of Correction
Gallagher
Cambridge Police Authoriies
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