Two Trains Collide At South Terminal In Boston Area Crash
Emergency whistle sounded as two passenger trains collided in the South Terminal yard. Engineer H M Gates and Fireman Mahan faced injuries from a head on impact that jammed engines, with a brakeman thrown from the last car. Debris blocked tracks and traffic delayed Boston & Albany lines for about 30 minutes while crews pried the trains apart. No other serious injuries reported.
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H. M. Gates
Mahan
Hxeter Street
Back Bay
Brookline
Bridge 9
Post
Gates
Newton Highlands
Boston & Albany Road
Great Station
New Haven
Engineer Gates
Higshand
Boston & Albany Septs
Rockefeller Revives Historic New Jersey Town Heritage
John D Rockefeller discovers the grave of his great great grandfather at Larson's Corner near Ringoes in Hunterdon county. He rehabilitates the ancient town by repairing the colonial graveyard and church, building a stone wall, and paying off church debt. A monument marks the ancestor's resting place, drawing renewed local interest.
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New York
Larson's Corner
Ringoes
Hunterdon County
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oilman
New Jersey
Presbyterian Church
Rockefeller
Working Boys Home Transfers Properties in Boston and Newton
The Working Boys' Home votes to vacate North Bennet Street property and transfer interests to St. John's Industrial School Newton, an affiliated Bennet Street entity. The Boston building sells to the Poor Clares of Cleveland Ohio for about 75000 dollars and will be occupied soon.
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Working Boys’ Home
North Bennet Street
St. John’s
Turkish note warns of uprising in Macedonia
Vienna Dec 28 The Turkish government informs Austria Hungary that Macedonian committees in Bulgaria plan an uprising in the spring. The Porte calls on the powers to note the danger and take suitable steps at Sofia.
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Vienna
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Porte
Sofia
Judge Penfield resigns as State Department solicitor
Washington December 28 Judge William S Penfield of Indiana solicitor for the state department has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted He will return to private law practice His successor has not been appointed
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Washington
William S. Penfield
Indiana
State Department
Penfield
Football reformers make first big move
In New York 68 institutions formed a permanent group to adopt and enforce new intercollegiate football rules. A seven member rules committee was named to work with Yale Princeton Harvard Pennsylvania Cornell Annapolis and Chicago. They plan to visit Philadelphia to present credentials and seek joint action with the current rules body.
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New York
Colleges and Universities of America
Institutions of Learning
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Annapolis
Chicago University
Committee On Rules
Er. K. Hull
Dartmouth
Lieutenant Daly
West Point
J. A. Babbitt
Haverford College
N. D. Williams
University of Minnesota
Co. W. Savage
Oberlin College
James L. Lees
Modern Language Association Address Debates Henry James Critique
At the MLA annual meeting Leigh R. McGregor of McGill University responded to Henry James’s critique of American English. He argued James urged vocabulary and pronunciation improvement by associating with cultured people, noting few truly cultured individuals exist locally by James’s standard. The session included a dialogue between John Bull and Brother Jonathan and papers by Harvard’s Sypherd and Fuller and McGill’s Cunliffe.
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Philadelphia
Modern Language Association of America
Leigh R. McGregor
McGill University
Montreal
Henry James
James
Standard
McGregor
John Bull
Brother Jonathan
Jonathan
W. Owen Sypherd
Harvard
Harold Dew. Fuller
John W. Cunliffe
McGill College
Cornell President Defends Football as Nation’s Great Sport
President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell urged reform rather than abolition in a Syracuse address before New York state academic principals. He argued football is the nation’s popular sport and should be modified to reduce hazards while supporting teachers and national greatness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell University
Associated Academic Principals
State of New York
Schurman
Safe blowers shoot to kill in Perrysburg ambush
Five suspected safe blowers gang members fired on Perrysburg Interurban station officers around 1 30 this morning wounding Marshal Frank Thornton in the stomach likely to die and Deputy Marshal William Scott in the foot. The officers were attempting to arrest them as 15 to 20 shots were exchanged before the gang fled. Police launched a wide search across the region.
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Perrysburg
Central Avenue
Toledo
Frank Thornton
William Scott
Thornton
Scott
Seismic Tremor Shakes Kingstown In Early Morning
A severe earthquake shock with a rumbling noise woke Kingstown residents at 1 20 this morning. A prior lighter tremor a few days earlier caused no damage and did not alarm the town.
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Kingstown
St. Vincent
Sage Loans At 90 Percent Bank Panic Feels New York
Dec 28 report shows Russell Sage bailing out Wall Street by lending about $30 million from his Fifth Avenue home to fund call loans. Rates surged to 125 percent before easing, with 100 percent briefly touched and stocks like Anaconda Mining and Amalgamated Copper volatile as money rates fell. Sage’s dramatic intervention is described as easing stringency and reviving markets.
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Russell Sage
Stock Exchange
Sage
Fifth Avenue
Wall Street
Mr. Sage
Anaconda
Amalgamated Copper
Medford Club to Build New Clubhouse by Mystic River
Medford club members plan a new clubhouse on the Mystic River bank behind the armory. A committee is appointed to study the project to provide boating and bathing access for members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medford Club
Medford
the Mystic
Cold Remedies Cited In Unclear Report
Fragmentary item mentions cold remedies and a signature reference to E. W. in a vague health note. The text is garbled and provides no clear events or persons beyond the names E. W. and Lara Bromo Quinine.
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Lara
E. W
Special Grand Jury for Life Insurers in New York
In New York a special grand jury will likely be empaneled in February to examine testimony from the insurance investigation committee. Principal witnesses include Louis F. Payn and J. Rider Cady, with Payn denying a $40,000 payment from Mutual Reserve Life and disputing a self-written 1899 report.
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New York
Jerome
Insurance Investigation Committee
Nott
Louis F. Payn
J. Rider Cady
Payn
Insurance Investigating Committee
Mr. Payn
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Redmond Urges U S L Aid in Irish Mass Meeting
At a United Irish League meeting in the American House the central branch votes to hold a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall on January 11 1906 to protest English parliamentary tactics against Irish Nationalists. A cable from John Redmond urges aid to defeat Tory plans to exhaust Irish resources.
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United Irish League
Faneuil Hall
House of Commons
Ireland
O'Callaghan
John Redmond
Redmond
McDonnell
New York
Chelsea Aldermen Honor Longtime Fire Engineer Murch
The Chelsea Aldermen closed the year with retirements and confirmations. Fire Engineer Haskett D. Murch, after 45 years of constant service, was retired on half pay. Police appointees James Mahoney John F. Dewan and Sherman T. Smalley were confirmed for a six month probation.
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Chelsea
Haskett D. Murch
James Mahoney
John F. Dewan
Sherman T. Smalley
Fred A. Cheney
Alderman Cheney
Compromise Reached in Brown Divorce Case
Gilman W. and Anna Brown of West Newbury reached a court sanctioned compromise. The Suffolk Superior Court case, formerly in Essex County and assigned before Judge Gaskill, will not be reopened.
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Gilman W
Anna Brown
West Newbury
Gaskill
Suffolk Superior Court
Essex County
Hope Young in Charlestown Jail Described as Hysterical
Mrs Kate Brodis reports Hope Young, sister of Hope Young, is in a strained mental state at Digby jail. The letter from her attorney says she shows destructive impulses, isolation since Aug 23, and lack of light. It urges transfer to a suitable institution to aid recovery.
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Kate Brodis
North Mead Street
Charlestown
Hope Young
Digby
N. S
Catarrlets Promised Relief for Catarrh and Breath
Antiseptic Catarrlets claim quick relief from nasal catarrh and other forms by soothing the mucous membrane. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised to purify blood and cure the constitutional disease. Catarrets available by mail postpaid for 50 cents from C. I. Hood Co. Lowell, Mass.
Artistic Wood and Leather Burning Class Offered
Private instruction priced with a free outfit for students. Call day or evening. Jas. Reid at 455 Columbus Ave., Boston.
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Jas. Reid
Columbus Ave
Boston
Suit in New Hampshire over alleged alienation of wife
Wendell L. Peterson of Greenland sues William P. Frink for 25000 dollars alleging Frink won the wife’s affections with expensive gifts, causing a broken home. Papers served by Sheriff Collis. Page and Bartlett and E. L. Guptill represent Peterson.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Greenland
William PP. Frink
Frink
J. S. H. Frink
M. M. Collis
Page
Bartlett
E. L. Guptill
Peterson
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