Shepard’s Name Excluded From Ballot For Attorney General
Harvey N. Shepard of Boston will not appear on the primaries ballot for attorney general after failing to file the required signatures under the new direct primary law. The Secretary of State announced that Shepard met three counties but Essex County signatures were insufficient, leaving him off the ticket for the September 26 primary.
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Harvey N. Shepard
Boston
Democratic State Committee
Shepard
Secretary of State
Essex County
Colonel Parker Resigns From Massachusetts Highway Board
Late yesterday Colonel Harold Parker, chairman of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, tendered his resignation to Governor Foss. The Governor accepted with regret, noting Parker’s pivotal role in perfecting the state highway system and leading the nation in the good roads movement.
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Harold Parker
Massachusetts Highway Commission
Foss
Massachusetts
Charleston Earthquake and Notable Anniversaries Highlighted
The notice lists a Charleston South Carolina earthquake of 1886 as a major event. It also marks today’s anniversaries for Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward born 1844 and Nathan Haskell Dole born 1852, plus General Fremont’s 1861 order freeing slaves in Missouri.
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Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) Ward
Nathan Haskell Dole
Fremont
Missouri
Charleston
8. C
Boston Area Rain Then Warmer Weekend Forecast
Forecast for New England shows Thursday rain in Boston and vicinity with cloudy skies. Friday expected fair and slightly warmer with light to moderate variable winds and brisk northeast winds in the extreme south portion.
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Boston
Vicinity
Washington
New England
Baseball results from the National and American Leagues
In Pittsburg Boston won the first game and Pittsburg won the second. Other league games were postponed by rain. Cleveland beat Washington 4 to 0 in ten innings. Marty O'Toole earned his first major league win. Wells outboxes Bieth in the Athletics vs Red Sox opener.
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Pittsburg
Boston
Cleveland
Washington
Marty O'Toole
Wells
Red Sox
Beattie Defense Adds Witness On Bearded Highwayman
In Chesterfield Va on August 30 the defense in the Beattie murder trial presented W A Holland who testified a bearded man with a shotgun was seen near the Midlothian Turnpike about five hours before the killing of Henry Clay Beattie Jr s wife.
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Chesterfield Court House
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr
Beattie
W. A. Holland
Midlothian Turnpike
Defense Opens After Prosecution Rest in Local Murder Case
The defense began its move after the prosecution rested at noon to challenge the prisoner’s veracity. Holland testified about a man with a shotgun, while farmer Eugene Henshaw said he saw a strange man prowling on three separate days before the murder. Tonight the prosecution plans rebuttal, aiming to call the man who walked along the railroad tracks where Holland claimed spotting a shotgun man, who will say he was squirrel hunting that day.
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Holland
Eugene Henshaw
Midlothian
Margolis Accepts New York Rabbi Position
Chief Rabbi Wolf M. Margolis of Boston has signed a contract to lead Congregation Adath Israel of New York after mourning period ends. A 14 member New York delegation urged him to move, including leaders from the Jewish Morning Journal and Jewish Daily News. Boston orthodoxy expresses regret at his decision.
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Wolf M. Margolis
Boston
Adath Israel of
New York
J. Saperstein
P. Wernick
Jewish Morning Journal of
P. H. Bublick
Jewish Daily News of
Margolis
Glidden Sets New World Record For Corn Eating
Charles W. Glidden devoured 58 ears of corn in 1 hour 55 minutes in Atlantic Avenue restaurant, surpassing Dugan of New York. The 6 foot 2½ inch sign painter weighed 172½ pounds and says he could eat eight dozen eggs or five pounds of steak in challenges.
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Charles W. Glidden
Atlantic Avenue
Dugan
New York
Mr. Glidden
Lawrence
Glidden
Ter
John Salvanus
Martin F. Hasselton
Protests Over Antitrust Legislation Debate at ABA Session
William B. Hornblower of New York argued against drastic future antitrust laws at the American Bar Association session in Huntington Hall urging business to adjust to current law as interpreted by the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court
William B. Hornblower
New York
American Bar Association
Huntington Hall
Taft to address lawyers at Huntington Hall session
President Taft is expected to address the lawyers this morning at the final business session in Huntington Hall. Officers will be elected. The annual dinner tonight at the Hotel Somer set will bring the convention to a close. Mr Hornblower urged the Sherman anti trust law be applied by its reasonable meaning to avoid chaos and injustice in commerce.
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Taft
Huntington Hall
Somerset
Hornblower
Boston and Worcester Trolley Line Holiday Ad
Advertisement touts Saturday Sunday and Labor Day trips on the Boston and Worcester Trolley Line with “Beautiful Country Low Fares Good Service” and promotion of a holiday excursion.
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New England
Boston & Worcester
Ady
Programme at Air Meet for Thursday at Squantum
The aviation meet at Squantum features a biplane cross country race from the field to the Blue Hills and back with eight top aviators including Atwood and Sopwith. A large crowd was turned away yesterday when weather forced cancellation, leaving 2500 to 3000 disappointed spectators. Continued on Page 3 First Column.
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Harvard
Squantum
Blue Hills
Return
Boston
Dorchester
Mattapan
Quincy
Harry N. Atwood
Gill
Prince
Beachey
Ely
Sopwith
Beatty
Coffyn
Squantum Aviation Field
Atlantic
Soath
Woman Dies by Gas In Mourning With Photo In Hand
Mrs Isabella Adams a widow of 11 Plain Street Neponset aged years dressed in deep mourning locked herself in a closet and died from gas after kissing plants and bidding neighbors goodbye Her husband died a year earlier and the bereaved widow had traveled to Broad Cove Maine to visit her brother Willis Hilton before returning to Boston to end her life with the photograph of her husband in her grasp
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Isabella Adams
Plain Street
Neponset
Broad Cove
Willis Hilton
Boston
Dr. N. A.kins
Maurice Hilton
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Parker
Thompson’s Spa
Rabbi Wolf M. Margolis
Fall
Boston Telephone Directory
Milk Street
Tremont Street
Fort Hill
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Blue Hill
Atwood
Cere
Onmeegels
Supreme
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