Near Death Auto Lurches Down City Hill
A sightseeing car sped down Han cock street hill in Cambridge street area last evening with four young women aboard. The driver sounded his horn as pedestrians watched the vehicle surge toward a laundry on Lynde street. A rear wheel broke and the car toppled, sending occupants flying into the street.
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Hancock Street Hill
Cambridge Street
Lynde Street
West End
Kaufman
Mollie Rottenberg
Mary Rottenberg
Minnie Greenberg
Fannie Siegel
Allen Street
Hancock
Mt. Vernon Street
Italian camp raid shocks Winter Street residents
Officers Holman and Breen seized seven and a half barrels and 130 beer bottles and arrested four Italians for card playing during a raid on an Italian shanty on Winter street. The proprietor Frank Vera escaped. The incident followed a routine check by officers and a warrant obtained without the police chief’s knowledge.
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Norwood
Winter Street
Fred Sackett
Holman and Breen
Frank Vera
Holman
Breen
C. B. Sanborn
City Lid on Tight in Atlantic City on Blue Sunday
A real Blue Sunday led Atlantic City to close all 220 saloons and hotel bars. Governor Fort’s threat to send troops helped enforce the Sunday closing law, with screens down and boardwalk cafes nearly empty as waiters watched vacant tables.
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Atlantic City
Teffi Slayer of His Wife in Westerly
James A. Tefft, a stevedore, killed his wife with a shotgun after she did not have supper ready. Neighbors found him kneeling with the gun at his neck aiming to fire the remaining charge. he was disarmed and arrested.
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Westerly
R. IL
James A. Tefft
Tefft
Widow Killer Confesses to Police in Domestic Tragedy
Tefft, 45, tells officers he killed his wife and planned suicide after marital strife. He was married 12 years to the daughter of D Horace Taylor, with no children. Authorities deem him likely insane, noting a father and sister once confined in Rhode Island Hospital for the insane.
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Rhode Island Insane Hospital
Lawson vows to appear before stock exchange committee
Thomas W. Lawson declares he will attend the New York Stock Exchange investigating committee on Tuesday. He notes his forty years in stocks and says he has always cooperated with exchanges when summoned, asserting there is no need for Wall Street to worry about his testimony.
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Wall Street
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Mr. Lawson
New York
Boston
Five Years Of Success At Davis Hardware And Cutlery
This week marks the 250th anniversary of the S H Davis Company sales at its Portland and Sudbury street store and show rooms. The hardware firm highlights five years of persistent advertising with weekly bargains in five large show windows. Thousands of customers were drawn by Davis the hardware man and more patronage is planned over the next six days with a display of home use articles at popular prices.
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S. H. Davis Company
Portland
Sudbury Streets
Davis
Post
Newport Excursion from South Station on Sept 3
Dollar excursion to Newport Rhode Island departs Thursday September 3 with a special train from South Station at 9 30 a m and from Back Bay at 9 34 a m Tickets are on sale at 362 Washington Street.
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Newport
R. I
South Station
Back Bay
Washington Street
Gas Fire and Manhole Explosion Roars Across Roxbury
A gas hydrant on Longwood avenue at St. Alphonsus street in Roxbury erupted last night sending a 20 foot blue flame into the air. An explosion blew a manhole cover high into the crowd as 2000 residents watched. Patrolman Johnson warned residents and halted the danger as crews shut off the gas and checked several nearby streets for further damage.
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Longwood Avenue
St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury
Johnson
Parochial Sschools reopen after Labor Day
Parochial schools in Boston and nearby towns begin classes after Labor Day. St Marys North End St Stephens Hanover St Mission Roxbury St Pauls Cambridge Gate of Heaven South Boston St Josephs Somerville start Sept 8. Sept 9 sees St Augustines South Boston St Francis de Sales Charlestown Leo XIII Jamaica Plain and Blessed Sacrament schools start.
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Boston
St. Mary's
North End
St. Stephen’s
Hanover Street
Mission Church
Roxbury
St. Paul’s
Cambridge
Gate of Heaven
South Boston
St. Joseph's
Somerville
St. Augustine’s
St. Francis de Sales
Charlestown
Leo XIII
Jamaica Plain
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Four Missing in Rowboat Off Holland Mich
Alarm spread in Holland Michigan after a rowboat carrying two men and two women disappeared into Lake Michigan yesterday afternoon as lifeguards saw it heads straight out. Search crews from the coast guard and local authorities widened the drag and rescue efforts along the lakefront today seeking any trace of the craft and its occupants.
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Hiolland
Mich
Lake Michigan
Delegates Gather as Civil War Vets Prepare Naval Banquet
Veterans from many states converge as the U S S Mississippi stops off Provincetown. Medal of honor recipients and Hobson crew members arrive for a banquet at the Hotel Nottingham with Admiral Schley. Discussions include a possible encampment in Tacoma and a proposed amalgamation of veteran groups.
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United States
Mississippi
Here
Washington
Provincetown
John Davis
Newport
B. F. Barker
Hermann W. Kuchmeister
Malden
Herbert Foss
Everett
Nick Ericson
Haverstrom
N. Y
R. L
Claus Clauson
U. S. S. Mississippi
U. S. S. Maine
Frank G. Thompson
Charles Bergman
Nottingham
Naval Brigade
Admiral Schley
Mechanics’ Hall
Copley Square
Dartmouth Hall
Redman’s Hall
Tremont Street
English High School
Mechanics’ Building
East Armory
Hotel Nottingham
Veteran Army of the
Philippines
H. H. Banholtz
United States Army
Constabulary
Islands
Auto throws Brighton man from bicycle in Newton collision
A collision at the junction of Highland and Washington streets West Newton between an automobile owned and operated by Alderman Frederick W. Stone and a bicycle ridden by G. F. Bronel of Brighton left Bronel bruised and his bicycle smashed at about 5 30 p m today.
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Newton
Frederick W. Stone
G. F. Bronel
Brighton
Bronel
Highland
Washington Streets
West Newton
Japan Cuts Expenditures by One Hundred Million
Tokyo set a cabinet decision to cut government spending by 100 million dollars with 30 percent from the army budget and 10 percent from the navy, as part of a broad financial policy.
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Tokio
Officer Saves 2 Canoeists Near Long Bridge
Metropolitan Park police Patrolman Daniel McLeod rescued Louis Bartow and Chester Freeman, Natick youths, after their canoe capsized on the river near Long Bridge. Freeman, unable to swim, was near unconsciousness as Bartow kept him afloat until the officer arrived and pulled them to safety.
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Riverside
Louis Bartow
Chester Freeman
Natick
Daniel McLeod
Metropolitan Park Police
Long Bridge
Freeman
Barlow
McLeod
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