Man Threatens Wife On Train Near North Cambridge
A man identified as J. K. Melvin of North Adams threatened to kill his wife aboard a B and M train near Porter station in North Cambridge. Bystanders reported revolvers, a bottle of poison, and a vow to self-harm. police detained him without arrest as he rode to West Cambridge.
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Porter Station
North Cambridge
J. K. Melvin
North Adams
Barrington
Greenfield
West Cambridge
William L. Newton Taken Ill With Pneumonia
William J. Newton candidate for Alderman in South Boston lies critically ill at 260 Broadway after leaving home against doctor orders. He spoke at rallies despite a severe cold and has been confined to his residence since returning home.
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Broadway
Boston
Newton
Boston University Freshmen Initiation Ends In Ice Branding
Fifty five freshmen or 65 girls from Boston University's freshman class endured a sanctioned initiation by Gamma Delta seniors. They crawled through an icy sheet cave and were marked with ice and water by caps and gown clad sophomores. The stunt concluded with a flour face wash as the bath ritual concluded.
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Boston University
Gamma Delta Society
Woman Receives 1974 Skin Graft on Arm in Three Month Operation
In Westboro on December 6 a notable medical procedure completed yesterday placed the final of 1974 skin grafts on Mrs. J. G. Kestler. The grafts were taken from her husband’s arms and legs after severe burns. The operation spanned three months.
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Westboro
J. G. Kestler
Reduction in working time posted at New Home Sewing plant
Notices of a reduction in working time were posted tonight in the New Home Sewing Company factory in Orange. Eight hundred employees are affected.
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Orange
New Home Sewing Company
School Reform Rally Highlights for Scannell and Magennis
Republican and P S A candidates Scannell and Magennis draw strong crowds at seven city rallies. Scannell blasts a rival plan to appoint evening school nurses, arguing only hospital certified nurses ensure child safety and health.
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Hibbard
Scannell
Magenis
School Committee
Boston School Board records dispute candidate claim
Mr. Magenis counters a candidate for the school committee who asserts graduates of the Boston Normal School were worse off under the new board. He cites 1905 at 60.5 percent and 1906 at 65.9 percent appointed, arguing the board favors the square deal and school children over politics.
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Magenis
Boston Normal School
Boston
Mayor Defends Record At Rallies On City Costs And Graft
Mayor Fitzgerald in Tremont Temple speeches cites lower city lighting costs with Edison Electric. He rebuts Hibbard on alleged graft in land purchases for the Insane Hospital and cemetery departments. He calls for law amendments and more sealers to curb fraud in ice and coal scales.
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Fitzgerald
Edison Electric Company
Tremont Temple
Hibbard
Insane Hospital Department
Finance Commission
World News Summary From Global Dispatches
The St Marys steamer of the Maryland Delaware and Virginia Railroad burned at Hallowing Point with no passengers aboard. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise de Reuss announced engaged in Berlin. Judge Barhite sentenced John Joseph Kelly for illegal voting in Rochester. Copyright: Japanese exclusion bill discussed in Tokyo with doubt on passage. Charles Korn, tanning industry figure, dies in Middletown at 84. Grover Cleveland presides over life insurance presidents meeting in New York. Brazilian coasting steamer Guasca sinks off Paranagua with 30 drowned. The battleship St George breaks from moorings in Portsmouth, later docked. Lt Frank Lahm arrives in Berlin to study aeronautics. Lady Napier floated at Sandy Hook after going ashore. Chicago notes money stringency easing.
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Baltimors
St. Mary's
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railroad Company
Hallowing Point
Patuxent River
Rochester
W. Y
John A. Barhite
John Joseph Kelly
William Hickey
Lawrence
Mass
Tokio
Hayes
House of Representatives
Middletown
N. J
Charles J. P. Korn
New York
Grover Cleveland
The
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Belmont
Portsmouth
St. George
Berlin
Frank H. Lahm
United States Army
War Department
Chicago
Independence League Candidate Courting Voter Support Across Boston Areas
John A. Coulthurst spoke to crowds in Jamaica Plain West Roxbury Dorchester Forest Hills and Brighton asking if elected mayor he would end the spoil system in City Hall and reinstate ex Superintendent of Streets B T Wheeler and Payson family members amid Curtis Hart era misconduct. He drew strong cheers especially in Forest Hills carried on shoulders by supporters. Coulthurst was joined by Dobbyn Walsh Mahoney and Washington Coles the blind orator.
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Jamaica Plain
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Forest Hills
Brighton
John A. Coulthurst
Independence League
Hibbard
B. T. Wheeler
Payson
Curtis and Hart
Mr. Coulthurst
Messrs. Dobbyn
Walsh and Mahoney
Washington Coles
Auto Crash Injures Cambridge Man Near New Bridge
Edward O'Toole of 129 Pearl Street Cambridge lies in Cambridge Hospital with a fractured frontal bone and possible internal injuries while Sumner R Haulbach and Chester D Johnson are held at the station awaiting word on his condition. The collision occurred at 2 o clock this morning on Massachusetts Avenue near the new bridge when two autos struck his conveyance in a dark spot.
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Edward O'Toole
Pearl Street
Cambridge
Cambridge Hospital
Sumner R. Haulbach
Chester D. Johnson
O'’Toole
Massachusetts Avenue
New Bridge
New England News in Brief From Multiple Cities
Police raid Hotel Trafton secures whiskey and beer. Fire devastates Brockton home, $8000 loss. Milford man Patrick Sullivan dies at 69. Heath and Wheeler wed in Providence. Roswell Moffitt questioned for four fires. one fatal. United States Art Bent Glass lease in Hartford. Smith & Griggs doubles capital in Waterbury. Indian relics found at Shoreacres, Vassalboro. Talbot Mills reopening in North Billerica. Bath Trust resumes operations. Cluett Peabody announces full-time shifts for 2000 workers.
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Beverly
Trafton
Depot Square
Louis Brown
Brockton
Fred W. Packard
Marshall's Corner
Milford
Patrick Sullivan
Ireland
Hopedale
Lester W. Heath
Ellen L. Wheeler
Providence
Alexander Mitchell
Plainfield
Conn
Roswell Moffitt
William L .Appley
Hartford
United States Art Bent Glass Company
Market Street
Barbour Silver Company
Waterbury
Smith & Griggs Manufacturing Company
Vassalboro
William J. Bowe
Webber Pond
Talbot Mills
Billerica
Bath
Bath Trust Company
New York City
Leominster
Cluett-Peabody Company
Archbishop O Connell Guest at Daly School Party
Archbishop O Connell was guest of honor at a Daly Industrial School subscription party at the Hotel Vendome. Mrs Margaret M Burke and Mrs Richard A Lynch led the event which drew hundreds, raised funds for the home for destitute young girls, and featured a late dancing reception with about 20 young girls assisting.
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Archbishop O'Connell
Daly Industrial School
Hotel Vendome
Higgins
Rhode Island
Margaret M. Burke
Richard A. Lynch
Teamsters Celebrate 20th Anniversary Ball in Boston
The Boston Teamsters Benevolent Association marked its 20th anniversary with a ball and reception at Odd Fellows Hall. From 8 to 9 a concert preceded the grand march led by President John R. Freeman and his wife, with members and their ladies following. Guests included James F. Grady Dennis P. Buckley and Joseph Moore.
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Teamsters of Boston
Teamsters’ Benevolent Association
Association
Odd Fellows’ Hall
John R. Freeman
James F. Grady
Dennis P. Buckley
Joseph Moore
Southern Society hears Professor Foy on Southern Constitution
One hundred fifty members of the Southern Society of Boston gathered in the Pierce building for a reception and lecture by Professor Crawford H. Yoy of Harvard University on the aspects of the constitution of society in the South.
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Southern Society of Boston
Pierce Building
Crawford H. Yoy
LL. D
Harvard University
Virginia
South
Theatre With Two Stages Planned Near Park Square
A unique two stage theatre is planned at Pleasant and Eliot streets for Winthrop Ames. Architect Clarence H. Blackall traveled in Europe for ideas. The project, filed with the building commissioner, is estimated to cost about 300000 dollars.
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Park Square
Pleasant
Eliot Streets
Winthrop Ames
Clarence H. Blackall
Europe
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Trinity Congregational Church Neponset stages church dramas depicting Old Testament scenes from a book by Rev. Dr. Hale of Brookline. Plans for extensive January revival meetings across Boston Methodist churches. School of Theology faculty and Boston church leaders plan a special occasion with bishops Goodsell and Mallalieu to speak on the rally effort.
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Trinity Congregational Church
Neponset
Hale
Brookline
Boston
School of Theology
Goodsell and
Mallalieu
Efforts Quick to Shield Old West Roxbury Meeting House
As winter nears, preservation work accelerates on the historic Old West Roxbury Meeting House. Crews add new fittings inside and out to make the structure practically immune to severe weather.
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Old West Roxbury Meeting House
Sorenson Banquet Planned After Election
Friends of Councilman Theodore JL Sorenson of Ward 1 arrange a complimentary banquet for him to be held immediately after election. Sorenson, noted as a talker and singer, will entertain with songs and illustrated slides accompanying his political remarks.
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Theodore JL. Sorenson
Sorenson
Expressmen Enjoy Eighth Annual Hall Event in Paul Revere Hall
Three hundred expressmen with their friends attended the eighth annual hall of the Expressmen's Relief Association in Paul Revere Hall Mechanics' Building last evening. Invited guests included presidents and officers from the associations of Lowell Lawrence Providence Worcester and Springfield.
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The
Expressmen’s Relief Association
Paul Revere Hall
Mechanics’ Building
Lowell
Lawrence
Providence
Worcester
Springfield
Fire at Hood & Sons milk plant injures Lt Heffron
A fire at the H. P. Hood & Sons milk plant on Rutherford avenue Charlestown caused $100 damage. The blaze started around 10 15 last night from overheated steam pipes. Lieutenant Timothy J Heffron of Engine 27 sustained a severe scalp wound and was treated at the Relief Hospital.
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H. P. Hood & Sons
Rutherford Avenue
Charlestown
Timothy J. Heffron
Relief Hospital
FLED ACROSS SEA TO WED IN BOSTON
Aron Pinchasik and Miss Bashir Flaisher, who arrived aboard the Ivernia, wed yesterday at the Boston immigration office on Long Wharf after a romance and a perilous escape from Russia. Pinchasik, drafted into the Russian army, fled with his bride after two years’ service, crossing 50 miles to the Austrian frontier and evading army spies.
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Aron Pinchasik
Bashir Flaisher
Boston
Ivernia
Long Wharf
Pinchasik
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van Camp
New England
Zoe Ado Catae
Scannell and
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Sheafe Hall
Huntington Avenue
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Municipal Building
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DR. Scannell
Duff
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise
Reuss
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Ramos
Paranagua
Brazil
Coulthurst
Paine Furniture Co
Canal Street
Icrnecnet Square
DALY
Teamsters’ Benevolent Ass’n’s
Professor Foy
Greater Boston
Old Roxbury
Graves
Maryland
Chester H. Graves & Sons
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Hood & Sons
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Albert H. Corti
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