Fugitive Embezzler Captured After Four Months
James Ralph Hackett a confidential clerk accused of embezzling $12000 from W C Edmonds a Baltimore wholesale hardware dealer was captured in New York after four months on the run He was traced from Buenos Aires to Montevideo by Baltimore detectives aboard the Verdi and arrested after hidden searches in Bahia Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.
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New York
W. C. Edmonds
Baltimore
James Ralph Hackett
Verdi
Buenos Ayres
Bahia
Rio de Janeiro
Montevideo
Hackett
Warning Against Raw Pork Amid Christmas Season
Washington on December 21 reports the Department of Agriculture issued a warning against eating raw or uncooked pork to curb trichinosis. The notice notes higher pork consumption in districts with large foreign populations could lead to serious illness or fatalities.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Amusing Cure Told By Wife With Pint Of Beer
London report recounts a wife under the insurance act describing how she used a barometer on her husband's chest to raise the temperature to very dry and then gave him a pint of beer. He reportedly recovered enough to return to work.
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London
Baby left at St Peter's Lithuanian Church South Boston
A female infant about 1 day old was abandoned Sunday afternoon at St Peter's Lithuanian Church 8 West Sixth Street South Boston and taken to the Char don Street Home for identification. A woman seen leaving church is believed to be responsible, described as about 22, five feet three, 115 pounds, light hair with a smallpox mark, wearing a long black coat a red sweater and a light shirtwaist.
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St. Peter's Lithuanian Church
West Sixth Street
Boston
Chardon Street
Hog Kil's Horse Attacked by Aggressive Hog in Louisiana
In La on December 21 a large hog owned by J S Smith ran loose, attacked and killed a valuable horse and almost fatally injured a mule. The two year old hog, noted for its vicious temper, escaped from its enclosure and terrorized the streets.
Sleeping sickness in beasts and human health ties
Harvard Professor R P Strong reports in a Harvard Medical School lecture that sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases affect lions tigers crocodiles and even dogs and monkeys. He notes shared parasites between animals and humans and that treating animals may aid people and that goat handlers in Texas and Mexico faced Malta fever from animal contact.
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Tropics
R. P. Strong
Harvard
Harvard Medical School
Professor Strong
Africa
Strong
Malta
Texas
Mexico
Christmas Services and Carols Across Boston Churches
East Boston parishioners plan to prepare the Christmas tree and host children's entertainment as the choir roams the streets singing carols. Kings Chapel is decorated, while noonday sermons are scheduled at Maverick Church and St Pauls Cathedral with multiple preachers and a Christmas cantata. Christmas Eve and Day services feature special prayers, cantatas, nativity plays, and noon and midnight rites led by Rev. Lee S McCollester Rev Palfrey Perkins Rev Abbott Peterson and others.
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Maverick Church
East Boston
King’s Chapel
Tremont
School
Lee S. McCollester
D. D
Crane Theological School
Tufts College
Palfrey Perkins
Brighton
Abbott Peterson
Brookline
Robin
B. F. McDaniel
Bethlehem
Howard N. Brown
St. Paul's Cathedral
John McG. Foster
Church of the Messiah
Boston
F. J. Walton
Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys
The
Holycommuunion
Kissing Tent Scandal Shocks Church Fair
At a Ladies' Aid Society fair in Coupe New York the Miss Emily Lawson kissing tent sold 26 cent kisses and raised 43 dollars before a fraud was exposed. Peter I Broderick disguised as a girl caused the shave joke and raid, which the society disavowed.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Baptist Church
Coupe
Emily Lawson
Joe
Peter I. Broderick
Wyman Refuses to Talk About Harvard New Haven Row
Professor Bruce Wyman of Harvard resigns chair amid criticism over salary from the New Haven road. He tells the Post he has little to say publicly now and will discuss the ethical aspects after the hearing review. He notes a favorable interview with Public Service Commission Chairman Macleod.
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Bruce Wyman
Harvard University
New Haven Road
Post
Professor Wyman
New Haven
Fred J. Macleod
Public Service Commission
Wyman
Mellen
Macleod
Two Girls Die From Gas Fumes in Pittsburg Home
Rose Rogow aged 12 and Bertha Shpowitz aged 14 were asphyxiated by fumes from a gas stove in the home of Isaac Rogow. The incident occurred in Pittsburg as investigators reviewed how the stove fumes entered the house.
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Pittsburg
Rose Rogow
Bertha Shpowitz
Isaac Rogow
Fire at Neponset frame building causes $2000 damage
Fire in an unoccupied frame building at 69 Walnut Street Neponset did $2000 damage late yesterday afternoon. The 212 story structure sits near car barns of the Elevated and Bay State companies in the business and residential heart. neighbors say the blaze was intentional.
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Walnut Street
Neponset
Elevated
Bay State
Man Wears Same Shoes 36 Years in Gary
Gary Ind December 21. Conrad Fabyan of West Gary wears a single pair of shoes he bought thirty six years ago and has worn continually. He took them to a cobbler for the sixth resoling and expects to wear them for at least four more years.
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Gary
Ind
Conrad Fabyan
West Gary
Conrad
Death of Alexander Sheehan Found in Home at Leighton Street
Alexander Sheehan aged 53 was found dead on the kitchen floor of his home at 40 Leighton Street by his sister Mrs Ellen Burke. He had suffered from grippe and a weak heart.
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Glouceester
Alexander Sheehan
Leighton Street
Ellen Burke
Sheehan
Grippe
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