Mayor-Elect Brown Vows Honest Lowell Administration
Lowell December 9 Mayor-elect Brown declares he remains a policeman and may seek a one year leave of absence to serve as mayor He vows to remove corrupt officials and the police commission if needed and to end corporate control and political graft He praises a strong mandate and commits to an honest, square government with only honest men in office
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Lowell
Brown
Board of Police Commissioners
Boston May Get Millions From Parkman Will
Executor Edmund J. Codman filed in Probate Court for partial distribution of George F Parkman estate. Personal property valued at least 5.5 million dollars. legacies and charitable bequests total 850 thousand dollars. Codman seeks to satisfy private bequests before city gifts, with the bulk of the fortune going to Boston for its park system.
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George F. Parkman
Boston
Edmund JD. Codman
Ann Manchester Arrested for Fire at Johnson Poor Farm
Providence reports Ann Manchester, 35, was arrested today on charges of setting fire to the barn and house at the Johnson Poor Farm. The incident prompted investigations and police actions in the area.
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Providence
Ann Manchester
Johnson Poor Farm
Brave Sergeant Carney Dies From Elevator Accident Injuries
Sergeant William H. Carney, longtime messenger at the Secretary of State office, died at City Hospital from injuries after an elevator accident at the State House. He served with Colonel Robert Gould Shaw's regiment and saved the colors at Fort Wagner, though he was wounded there.
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William H. Carney
State House
Ior
Secretary of State
Olin
Robert Gould Shaw
Fort Wagner
Beloi t mother finds diamonds in goose dinner
In Beloi t Wisconsin on December 9 Mrs. Durward Cornelius told her daughter Theresa she had found a goose that laid the golden egg. The child dissected the gizzard and uncovered two diamonds valued at about $12 each along with a piece of gold likely from a setting.
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Beloit
Wis
Escaped convict Saunders hunted between Newburyport and Ipswich
Newburyport reports an all day search for Saunders, a 19 year old prisoner from Ipswich Penitentiary who fled in prison uniform. Police from two cities and five towns pursued him but he remained at large. He was once a patient at Danvers Insane Asylum and had only a few days left to serve.
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Newburyport
Ipswich
Saunders
Danvers
New Britain Man Inherits $700,000 From Brother
John Worthner, engineer at Traut and Hine Manufacturing, rises from poverty to wealth as heir to $700,000 from the estate of his brother George Worthner a designer who died in Schandau Saxony on July 28 of this year.
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Conn
John Worthner
Traut and Hine Manufacturing Company
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George Worthner
Schandau
Saxony
LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Cold Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as a worldwide cold and headache relief. It promises to remove the cause of headaches and neuralgia from colds and asks readers to call for a signature from B. W. Grove, priced at 25 cents.
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B. W. Grove
No Death Chair Test In New Jersey Prison
Trenton New Jersey December 9 George C O Osborne head keeper of the state prison who by law is charged with the duty of seeing that death sentences by electricity are properly executed declares he will permit no experiments on the body of the next subject to revive him He will not inform County Physician Scannell until the day after the next electric chair victim has been buried It will then be too late to experiment.
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Trenton
N. J
George CO. Osborne
Osborne
Scannell
Silver dollar from 1800 found on Eastport shore portends sunken vessel
A life saver patrolling the surf at Eastport, N Y, found an American silver dollar dated 1800. Local excitement grows as residents believe a sunken vessel may lie offshore and its treasure could be washing ashore after more than a century.
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Eastport
N. Y
Woman's body found in Nashua River identified as Anna Allen
In Fitchburg on December 9 authorities identified the woman found in the Nashua River last night as Anna Allen. Police believe she lived near Springfield and are pursuing further leads in the case.
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Fitchburg
Nashua River
Here
Anna Allen
Springfield
Havifey
Nashville woman’s cow acts as rural letter carrier
Mrs Edward Martin of Nashville Arkansas owns a milk producing cow that serves as a daily rural letter carrier for the Martin family, delivering mail at their rural home.
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Little Rock
Ark
Edward Martin
Nashville, Ark
Martin
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