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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 27, 1913

Page

2

Patrolman Horgan Upheld by O Meara

The Boston police board dismissed the complaint against Patrolman John Horgan of Division 15 after a lengthy trial over an accusation of falsely charging a Chelsea woman with intoxication. The document details the arrest of the unidentified complainant near City Square Charlestown, testimony from officers, witnesses, and the matron, and discusses implications for police accountability and the role of the courts.

City Square Charlestown Annie Cash Monument Square Chelsea Boston Lynn Horgan Miss Brewer Fred L. Norton Sullivan Harnm Goodwin John Horgan Division 15 Commonwealth Superior Court Supreme Court Police Department

Orchestral Classics at Nominal Prices in Boston

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra led by Charles Frank will start Sunday concerts at the St James Theatre on January 4. The group of Greater Boston theatre orchestra players aims to offer Handel to Wagner at modest prices, with 60 musicians and many soloists, not for profit, with tickets possibly 10 to 15 cents.

Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Frank St. James Theatre Greater Boston Boston Symphony Orchestra

Bromo Quinine Claim in E W Grove Letter

A fragment notes a claim for Bromo Quinine laxative with a signature by E W Grove. It mentions cures for a gold in one day and grip in two days, ending abruptly with ew a.

E. W. Grove

Chubb Flees Hotel in Fire Amid Courtroom Turmoil

In a dramatic sequence at the Hotel Landor at 17 Yarmouth street Chubb fled by taxicab after a hotel fire started during a staged photo scene with Miss Chandler and her baby Eleanor May Chubb. Miss Chandler, heir to an estate worth over 100000, resisted speaking to reporters while alleging psychic influence from Anna Laura Chubb. Chubb, aiming to pursue a new divorce action, claimed owed services and warned where to find him, as Miss Chandler’s trustee J Butler Studley faces possible dissolution of the trustee arrangement.

Miss Chandler Chubb Lander Yarmouth Street Anna Laura Chubb New York Daughters of the Revolution Landor Eleanor May Chubb Eleanor Warren Avenue Anna Laura Chubbob J. Butler Studley Louis D. Brandeis Roger Sherman Hoar

The Federal Reserve Plan Faces City Hearings

The City Boards meet over the reserve amid illness of Secretary McAdoo and Secretary Houston. Hearings will occur in New York Boston Washington Chicago St Louis Denver and other cities from January to March to decide district boundaries and bank headquarters without local city favoritism. New applicants include Leominster Providence and Fitchburg.

McAdoo Houston Senate House Wilson Congress Federal Reserve Organization Committee Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Agriculture Organization Committee Federal Reserve Federal Reserve Banks Federal Reserve Act Custom House New York City Boston New York Washington Chicago St. Louis Denver Leominster Mass Providence R. L Fitchburg

Whipping Post Urged in Haverhill Court

City Marshal John J. Mack urged a public whipping post be erected in front of City Hall during the trial of Richard W. Daley for beating his wife in Haverhill. Judge Wind heard the suggestion in court this morning.

Haverhill John J. Mack Mack Wind Richard W. Daley

High Tide Follows Hub's Near Blizzard

A coastal storm battered Boston with a near blizzard, flooding streets and tossing wreckage into the harbor. The tide surged to a high level, winds shifted northward, and temperatures fell toward freezing as the weather calmed but colder conditions prevailed.

Hub Boston

High Tide Wrecks Boats and Homes at Quincy Waterfront

A four year high tide caused huge breakers that swept launches from their pins and wrecked seaside cottages in Quincy and nearby towns. Water cover washed land joins between promontories, threatened goods at the wharf and along the waterfront, and exhausted its fury between 9 and 2 yesterday.

Quincy T Wharf

Storm wrecks hit Salisbury Beach cottages and moves old schooner

The December storm battered Salisbury Beach with high tide the strongest in four years. Cottages along the shore were undermined and roads at Salisbury and Plum Island flooded, halting streetcar service. The wreck of the five masted schooner William Groucher, previously buried in sand, was displaced four miles toward the Merrimac River mouth.

Salisbury Beach Newburyport Salisbury Plum Island William Groucher Isles of Shoals Merrimac River

Chelsea Captain Lost in Storm

A Chelsea sailor perished when a storm struck during a coal barge voyage. Both vessels, the A. G. Ropes and the Undaunted, carried coal for the New York New Haven Hartford line. The A. G. Ropes was built at Bath Maine thirty years ago as a full rigged schooner and the Undaunted at Bath in 1859.

Chelsea New York, New Haven & Hartford A. G. Ropes Bath

Storm rips New York area as two barges sink in sea

A nor’easter floods Seabright New Jersey with widespread damage. Two three masted barges towed by the tug Edgar F Luckenbach drifted ashore near Seaside Park, leaving nine known missing crewmen and two drowned in the East River. Property losses are estimated at about 1 million dollars with bulkheads overwhelmed.

New York East River New Jersey Seabright N. J New Jerseyy Edgar F. Luckenbach Seaside Park

Houghs Neck Cut Off by High Tide Flooding

An abnormally high tide and heavy rain yesterday morning isolated Houghs Neck Rock Island and Port Island from Quincy for over two hours. The tide rose two feet above the Sea Street bridge cutting road traffic. boats served residents while electric cars and other vehicles were stranded. Many Neck residents stayed put during the disruption.

Quinncy Hough's Neck Rock Island Port Island Quincy Sea Street Hough’s Neck Neck Quincy Centre the Neck

Northeast Storm Submerges Wharves Four Feet

A heavy northeast storm raised Boston harbor tides four feet above normal, flooding wharves and Atlantic avenue. One wharf floated with 18 inches of water on the big fish pier, sections lifted from foundations, boats drifted, wagons sank, and rats fled onto Atlantic avenue as high water receded.

Boston Harbor Atlantic Avenue

Sea Washes Over Winthrop Water Front

A powerful northwest gale drove the sea against Winthrop with the tide rising to 40 feet above the breakwater. Water flooded the water front streets and swamped cellars, extinguishing furnace fires as residents fled to warmth. Streets Cutler Moore Tewksbury Perkins Underhill were affected.

Winthrop Cutler Moore Charles Tewksbury Perkins

Two Frozen to Death Near Philadelphia

Deaths from storms across Eastern Pennsylvania leave two men, Michael Clark an Almshouse inmate and Dennis McFadden a farmer, found frozen in snow near Pottsville. Property damage reported as storms raged overnight and into today.

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Michael Clark Schuylkill County Almshouse Dennis McFadden Pottsville

Revenue Cutter Sends Help to Distressed Schooner Pollard

The revenue cutter Onondaga was dispatched to aid the schooner Thomas F P Pollard eight miles southeast of the Winter Quarter Shoal lightship off the Delaware Breakwater. The Pollard, owned in New York, had sailed for Southern points days earlier with a crew aboard.

Washington Onondaga Thomas FP. Pollard Delaware New York

Roxbury Prominent Woman Ella Mulligan Dies

Mrs Ella L Mulligan wife of James T Mulligan of 121 Corey Street Roxbury dies early yesterday morning She was a Roxbury High School graduate and attended the Ursuline Convent Quebec She survived by her husband mother Mary Sweeney and one sister and brother Funeral services at St Theresa's Church Roxbury Monday with high mass at 8 AM.

Ella L. Mulligan James T. Mulligan Corey Street Roxbury

Rush Aid To Lightkeeper At Brent Island

The revenue cutter Pamlico was dispatched from New Bern tonight to Brent Island in Pamlico Sound to aid Alonzo J. English lightkeeper who is ill and unattended. Acting Commandant Emery ordered fast action with medical supplies and provisions for the island station.

Washington Pamlico Newbern Alonzo J. English Brent Island Pamlico Sound Lish Emery Revenue Cutter Services

Perfect Biscuit Perfectly Delivered Across the Nation

At the grocery store you will find many varieties of biscuit baked by National Biscuit Company. Each variety of biscuit sweetened or unsweetened, whether known as crackers or cookies wafers or snaps cakes or jumbles, is the best of its kind. The extensive distributing service of the National Biscuit Company extends from coast to coast.

National Biscuit Company

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