Judge Takes Case of Pickford of North End
Judge Murray took under advisement for a month the Velanti abduction case involving Gemme Signorelli known as the Mary Pickford of the North End. Evidence showed Velanti enticed the girl from Cushman School on Parmenter Street and reputedly took her to Hooksett.
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Pickford
North End
Antonio Velanti
Gemme Signorelli
Ang
Mary Pickford
Murray
Velanti
Cushman
Parmenter Street
Hooksett, N
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills Ad
Advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills as endorsed by U S Pharmacopoeia and U S Dispensatory. Claims use of roots barks herbs and pepsin and lists conditions like scrofula rheumatism dyspepsia and debility. Presents 200 doses for $2 at all druggists.
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U. S
Hood
Funeral Held For X ray Pioneer Dr Walter J Dodd
Delegations from X ray societies and Massachusetts General Hospital staff attended the King's Chapel funeral of Dr Walter J Dodd noted as a foremost X ray expert and martyr to the field. The service was led by Rev Howard N Brown and Rev Dr Christopher R Eliot with music by Malcom Lang and a St Botolph Club quartet. honorary bearers included Harvard Medical School dean Henry P Walcott and MGH administrator Frederick A Washburn among others. The body was taken to Mt. Auburn for cremation and burial.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
King’s Chapel
Walter J. Dodd
Dodd
Howard N. Brown
Christopher R. Eliot
Bulfinch Street Unitarian Church
Malcolm Lang
St. Botolph Club
J. Collins Warren
Samuel J. Mixter
Henry P. Walcott
George Wigglesworth
Edward H. Bradford
Harvard Medical School
Herbert Burr Howard
J. Homer Wright
Charles Allen Porter
Elliott G. Brackett
Hugh Cabot
Harvard
Richard ©. Cabot
Eugene Caldwell
New York
Gregory Cole
American X-ray Society
Frederick A. Washburn
Carpenter Boy Reunites With Mother After 16 Months
Ralph G. Carpenter Jr. returns to his mother Marguerite Paul Carpenter in Concord New Hampshire after a long separation. The custody order from Judge Kivel places the child with the mother until January 28 while Major Ralph G. Carpenter remains away for a Boston trip. Senator Nathaniel E. Martin and General Streeter assisted the handoff in Concord with private secretary Ray Burkett present.
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Concord
N. H
Ralph G. Carpenter, Jr
Marguerite Paul Carpenter
Magnolia
Mags
Ralph G. Carpenter
Nathaniel E. Martin
General Streeter
Carpenter
Poston
Ray E. Burkett
Eagle
Martin
Ralph
Burkett
Major Carpenter
Boston
Kivel
A Christmas Truce in the Trenches in War Chronicle
A French officer recounts a remarkable Christmas truce on the Western Front. The narrative details an improvised pause in fighting, festive exchanges, and shared humanity amid the Great War.
Russian Sunk In Big Gale
A detailed cable from Consul Kep linger at Malta reports the British horse ship Russian sunk in a Mediterranean gale. Seventeen American muleteers died and 28 men perished when a lifeboat capsized after being abandoned. The vessel was struck stern by a torpedo and later sank after towing efforts failed.
Russian steamer Russian torpedoed near Malta loses nine lives
Consul reports British steamer Russian of Leyland line struck by a torpedo about 200 miles east of Malta on Dec 14 while returning to Newport News after discharging mules at Saloniki. Lifeboats capsized in a southeast gale, 28 drowned including 17 American muleteers. nine survivors rescued by British trawlers and Malta crews. Russian not under admiralty charter. ship later sunk. Affidavits by mail.
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Saloniki
Greece
Keplinger
Leyland Line
Newport News
Malta
Man Held in $2000 Bail for Brutal Horse Beating
Irving Dinsmore a Portland truckman was held in $2000 bail by Recorder Nixon after beating a horse with an iron shod cantdog. The Municpal Court bound him over to higher jurisdiction for grand jury action.
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Portland
Irving Dinsmore
Nixon
Harvard Man Tests Reveal Varied Mentality at Harvard
Munsterberg with 240 Harvard students used 12 tests to gauge attention memory imagination and reasoning. Abernethy led all men with high scores while some members scored as low as 25 percent. Tests included letter strings city and animal rearrangements and rapid grouping of letters.
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Munsterberg
Harvard
Ogcaich
Chicago
Abernethy
T. J. Abernethy
City Official Named in Money Charges
City official admits taking gratuities for filling out marriage license applications for visitors to City Hall and says he never demanded money for the service. He produced two witnesses in the case in which he is charged with demanding a fee, part of an ongoing probe by Superintendent Kneeland that began last Monday. Arduino Ferretti of 43 Cranston Street is mentioned in the report.
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Coffey
City Hall Annex
McGleneah
Slattery
Kneeland
Ferretti
John Mahan
Fuller Street
Dorchester
City Hall
Michael Regan
McGlewen
Ferrett
Miss Lahaise
Arduino Ferretti
Cranston Street
Belgians Shot Imprisoned and Deported by German Courts
Amsterdam dispatch reports 20 Belgians sentenced to death by a German court martial at Hasselt with 40 four others given penal servitude and 64 ordered deported to Germany. A second court martial opened for 192 Belgians charged with espionage. Reports from Ghent say deported residents faced death or wounds at the Somme front and 1000 men from Ghent toil on the front with 4000 more to follow. Large numbers of Luxemburg province villagers and workers are slated for deportation and 800 Belgians are imprisoned at Aix la Chapelle.
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Amsterdam
London
Des
Hasselt
Maastricht Les Nouvelles
Germany
Ghent
Les Nouvelles
Luxemburg
Virton
Grand Duchy of
Aix la Chapelle
Hat Inspires South End Drug Raid Leads to Arrest
A department store detective recognized a hat on Bertha Moore and prompted police to arraign Bertha Moore and Charles Lewis in Police Court. They face narcotics possession charges after officers found drugs in a Union Park Street room. The woman is also charged with hat larceny. The seizure includes the hat 200 morphine pills heroin cocaine and six hypodermic syringes.
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Bertha Moore
Bertha
Charles Lewis
Union Park Street
Pa Van Loon Spreads Christmas Spirit in Sunday Post
Pa Van Loon brings Christmas joy in a humorous feature set to appear in the upcoming Sunday Post. The page promises a festive comic strip that captures holiday warmth and lighthearted misadventure.
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Pa van Loon
Next Sunday Post
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