Local Baseball Talks End in Formal Peace Effort
At a meeting of National League and American Association clubs in New York a committee was appointed to confer with the American League to seek a peaceful settlement of the baseball war. August Herman chaired the committee and the group was instructed to report back for action. Meanwhile in Jamaica Plain Louis Lyman faces murder charges after a street duel with Andrew Bruchner over Mrs. Mary Lyman. Bruchner died from stab wounds after a clash with Lyman who was armed with a club. Lyman, about 45, had separated from his wife two weeks earlier and reportedly threatened Bruchner before the fatal confrontation.
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New York
National League Baseball
Johnson
American League
National League
American Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
Victoria Hotel
Messrs. Herman
Hart
Robinson
August Herman
James Hart
Dehas Robinson
Cable Street
Jamaica Plain
Louis Lyman
Station 13
Andrew Bruchner
Lyman
Bruchner
McDonald
Bacher
Mary Lyman
Collins
George B. Grant
Dedham Street
Ofice
J. Coakley
Harrison Avenue
Metropolitan Coal Company
Causeway Street
Metropolitan Company
Record Cigars Shipment Highlights Holiday Trade
A photograph shows 1 248 400 Harvard and Pippins cigars leaving H Traiser & Co. for New England dealers. The special holiday boxes contain twenty five cigars and mark the largest one day shipment from the Union Cigar factory, underscoring the brand strength and quality value.
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Harvard
If Traiser & Co
New England
Cial
H. Traiser & Co
Union Cigar
Union Cigar Factory
Knowlton Improves in Bedford Health Update
Hosea M. Knowlton remains about the same with no worse condition, a shade better and semi conscious enough to be aroused. He slept well, takes nourishment, and the doctors report no relapse. The family remains hopeful for his recovery in New Bedford.
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New Bedford
Prescott
Hosea M. Knowlton
Knowlton
Mr. Knowlton
Converse in Maiden Resting Comfortably After Improvement
The Hon. Elisha S. Converse was reported by his physician to be resting comfortably with slight improvement over the past few days.
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Elisha S. Converse
Mother’s cough ends after Father John’s medicine
Mrs. Annie Scanlon of 4 Norwich Street Boston reports her mother could not sleep due to a cough until Father John’s medicine was used. She says the remedy cured the cough, restored sleep, and did not involve morphine or poisonous drugs. It is claimed to cure colds and prevent pneumonia and grip.
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Annie Scanlon
Norwich Street
Boston
John
Long Speaks at Harvard in Sanders Theatre
Harvard’s annual conferring of academic distinctions honored mental athletes after a season of midnight training. John D. Long praised prize winners, likening scholars to athletes who persevere to the end, and eulogized Roger Wolcott and Charles Russell Lowell for their combined scholarship and character.
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Harvard
Sanders Theatre
John D. Long
Roger Wolcott
Massachusetts
Charles Russell Lowell
Wolcott
Temperature surge ends snow storm as rails warm
The snow storm that began yesterday proved short lived as temperatures rose from near zero to 32 degrees above zero by afternoon. Morning readings were 10, 19, then 22 above. Winds reached 10 to 12 mph with a central storm over Ontario moving east. Today promises clear weather with southwest winds and trains expected on schedule after earlier rail delays.
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Ontario
Weather forecast for Boston and New England
Fair and colder conditions for Boston and vicinity with a brisk northwest wind Thursday, followed by partly cloudy skies and warmer afternoon winds Friday. Washington briefing notes New England fair Thursday with colder west and south portions and fresh to brisk west winds, then Friday fair.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Riots and naval action as Venezuela seizes fleet at La Guaira
In a tense turn from Caracas, German and British cutters captured the Venezuelan fleet at La Guaira with no resistance and sank several vessels. Marines landed, customs seized, and President Castro urged citizens to join the fight as tensions escalate between Germany, Britain, and Venezuela amid a state of war.
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Germany
England
la Guaira
Castro
Great Britain
Caracas
Venezuela
Panther
General Crespo
Tutumo
Margarita
Ossun
Quievereaux
Cardenal
Lentz
R. Schuneck
Messrs
Fieldwick
Prince and LePage
Harbor Corporation
Retribution
Quail
Carupano
Falke
Puerto Cabello
Guanta
Barcelona
Restaurador
Curacoa
Albert Cherry
Central Railway
Wallace
Blohm Valentiner
Herr Knoop
German Central Railway
Herr Simmross
Legation
Klindt
I. J
Goffart
United States
Bowen
Russell
Koehler
Mme. von Pilgrim-Baltazzi
Onsul Valentin Blohm
Edison Jr Vitalizer hailed as cure all boon to humanity
New York December reports Thomas A Edison Jr unveils the Magno Electric Vitalizer a potent curative claimed to relieve nerves blood diseases lung ailments digestive disorders and heart weakness Scientists say it stores vitality and can aid suffered individuals nationwide Edison will oversee manufacture and distribution through his own company urging readers to write for advice to his New York address The story also covers Venezuelan coast tensions and Boston coal shortages in the same issue.
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New York
Thomas A. Edison, Jr
Lorenz
Edison
Bright
Mr. Edison
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., Chemical Company
Stone Street
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Earth
H. Trailer & Co., Makers
Mass
U. S
Florence
Cabinet Register
Central Oil & Gas Stove Co
Washington St
Haymarket Sq
Converse
Long
Washington Street
Thompson’ & Spn
Bostons
Harbor
Guaira
Young Edison
Legation and Consulate
Venezuelan
Cas
Tro
Bathhouse Commissioners
M’carthy
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