Auto Barely Misses Train on Mt Auburn Street
Walter Morse of Hersum Street Watertown escapes death when his car crashes through a railroad crossing gate and nearly hits a train pulling into the station. He reports brake failure. George M. Cohan has a feature in next Sunday's Post Magazine on dramatizing best selling novels and why many fail on stage.
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Walter Morse
Hersum Street
Watertown
Mt. Auburn Street
George M. Cohan
Next Sunday
Post
Somerville High School to gain 125000 additions
The Somerville Board of Aldermen met in a special session and approved a plan by the public property committee to add to the high school on Central Hill at a cost of 125000. The decision settles months of discussion over extra accommodations for pupils.
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Somerville High School
Board of Aldermen
Public Property Committee
Central Hill
Governor's Widow Fleeced of $40,000
Mrs. Currier, widow of former New Hampshire governor Governor Currier, says she was duped by A. P. T. Elder claiming to head a National Biographical Society. Over two years she paid thousands for imagined illuminated books and miniatures. She fears court action and recalls high hopes for the volumes and a lifelike miniature of her husband. Her home at Myrtle and Beech streets remains among Manchester’s finest. Governor Currier died about 15 years ago.
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A. P. T. Elder
National Biographical Society of
Washington, D. C
Currier
Elder
Manchester
Myrtle and
Beech Streets
New Hampshire
De Luxe Swindle Ties J P Morgan To Book Scam
The case centers on a Boston New England ring using J P Morgan's name to push a limited edition Shakespeare set. The scheme also involved oriental rugs and is tied to Samuel Rosenfield and others. Authorities from federal and Suffolk counties tightening investigations may lead to arrests soon as victims’ names surface.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Samuel Rosenfield
Rosenfield
Samuel Warfield
Warfield
Supreme Court
Chicago
Boston
Suffolk County
Timayenis
New England
Peoples Credit Co
N. Sallinger
Danger in Quick Relief Drugs for Stomach Ailments
Chronic stomach sufferers rely on violent quick relief compounds causing fullness, headaches, dizziness and belching. The piece warns such treatments harm the stomach, notes catarrh as the underlying issue, and touts Cooper's New Discovery as a cure by addressing constipation and restoring stomach function. It claims the remedy cures the catarrhal state and tones the stomach, available at drugstores.
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Cooper
Captain J W Meese Dies at 71 in New York
Captain J W Meese, first business manager of the St Paul Pioneer Press and a Civil War veteran, died at his son Horace S Meese’s home in New York. He was 71 or 72, ill two years, formerly headed Pennsylvania State printing in Harrisburg for 15 years, served with the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry. He leaves a widow and three sons and will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.
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New York
J. W. Meese
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Grand Army
Circles
Horaces. Meese
Meese
Pennsylvania State Printing Office
Harrisburg
Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
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