New House Members Eye Cushing in Speakership Fight
The article reports three events surrounding Speaker Cushing as his bid continues. Boston Republican Channing H. Cox urged all parties to back Cushing for re election. Cushing invited elect house members to visit him in the Speaker's room on specified days. Medford's Benjamin F. Haines noted labor support and said veterans expect no entry into the Republican caucus. Cushing plans a Republican caucus to nominate officers and a floor roll call for the final choice.
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Channing H. Cox
Boston
Cushing
Benjamin F. Haines
Medford
Waltham Administrator Wins Seven Year Stove Polish Suit
Matthew Gately administrator of Katherine Gately’s estate won a $170 verdict in a seven year legal case against Taylor and Percival grocers of Waltham over a stove polish can explosion that caused her death from burns in September 190.
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Matthew Gately
Waltham
Katherine Gately
Burns
Taylor & Percival, Waltham Grocers
Surgeon Denounces Vivisection At International Congress
Dr. Richard Cowen of the Royal College of Surgeons London condemned vivisection of animals as a research method as wrong and misleading in an address to the International Anti Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress in Washington on December 10.
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Washington
Richard Cowen
Royal College of Surgeons
London
International
Critics condemn vivisection in early cancer debates
Dr Cowen denounces vivisection as wrong after decades of practice and thousands of operations. He cites 145,000 tortured animals in two years and urges clinical study of disease in humans. Daniel C. Beard supports animal welfare but rejects sentimentality for satin coffins. Dr. Charles W. Dulles condemns a hydrophobia treatment as harmful and deadly.
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Cowen
Cancer Research Society
Man
Daniel C. Beard
Camp Fire Club of America
Charles W. Dulles
Philadelphia
Brown Must Pay His Wife in Separate Support
Mrs. George H. Brown, wife of former policeman mayor Low ell, won a separate support suit before Judge Chamberlain. The husband must pay $25 cash and $8 monthly, with later installments of $18 on the first Saturday and $20 on the third Saturday each month.
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George H. Brown
Lowell
Chamberlain
Brown
Alleged Senator's son jailed in fraud case
James M. Patterson also known as Silas M Patterson, formerly of West Chester Pennsylvania, claimed to be the son of the late Senator Patterson of North Carolina. He was sentenced in federal court to 135 months in the Atlanta penitentiary after pleading guilty to using the mails in a defraud scheme targeting Baltimore and Philadelphia men in real estate swindles.
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Wilmington
Del
James M. Patterson
Silas M Patterson
West Chester Penn
United States
Patterson
North Carolina
United States District Court
Atlanta
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Woman to Be Grange Lecturer and Master in Massachusetts
Edward E. Chapman of Ludlow was elected worthy master of the Massachusetts State Grange at Tremont Temple, defeating E Van Richardson of Mills by 315 to 135. Mrs George S Ladd unseated William Herrick for state lecturer. Senator McCumber and J H Hale spoke as 600 voting delegates attended the 41st annual meeting.
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Edward “E. Chapman
Ludlow
Massachusetts State Grange
Tremont Temple
E. van Richardson
Millis
William T. Herrick
Westboro
George S. Ladd
Porter J. McCumber
North Dakota
J. H. Hale
Glastonbury
Richardson
Leslie Rmith
Hadley
William N. Howard
North Easton
Francis A. Harrington
Worcester
A. H. Wheelock
Marlboro
Strange Stranger Found in Jail After 70 Days
Kansas City officials discovered a man unnamed in jail books in a county jail cell for 70 days. No arrest record or charge existed, prompting a habeas corpus hearing ordered by Circuit Court. The captive claimed the name Hurman Hoskins and insisted he had not committed a crime.
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Kansas City
An Atorney
Hurman Hoskins
Giblin Pleads Guilty in Maguire Assault Case
Former Massachusetts Representative Thomas J. Giblin of East Boston pleaded guilty in Suffolk Superior Court to assaulting James E. Maguire editor of the Boston Free Press. Sentence will be set after Christmas. Giblin posted $500 bail pending appeal.
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Thomas J. Giblin
East Boston
James E. Maguire
Suffolk Superior Court
Aiken
Giblin
The
Boston Free Press
Maguire
Barnes
House of Correction
George Lucey
Manning
Mr. Manning
Zimmerman asks court to recover loaned $89,000 from Milford telephonist
Martin Zimmerman claims he lent $89,000 to Mrs. Lillian Wray and seeks repayment, presenting promissory notes to show the debt. His attorney shows an outside agreement alleging she owes him $75,000 and cites a $5,600 settlement paid to end a separate alienation suit. The case continues with Zimmerman expected to testify further.
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New Haven
Martin Zimmerman
New York and Cincinnati
Lillian Wray
Milford
J. M. Gardner
New York
Gardner
George M. Gunn
Zimmerman
Mrs. Wray
Fram to Start North Monday
The Arctic exploration ship Fram is set to depart Monday for San Francisco by the Strait of Magellan. Delays through the canal force the long voyage, risking a year loss for Captain Amundsen's polar expedition unless the Fram reaches ice by autumn 1914.
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Colon
Fram
San Francisco
Strait of Magellan
Amundsen
Teamster Run Over by Own Dump Cart
Manchester New Hampshire dec 10 John J Haley 45 of 275 Main Street a city teamster was seriously injured when a dump cart he drove was run over by the cart after its horse became frightened at 4 oclock this afternoon.
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Manchester
N. H
John J. Haley
Main Street
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