Wife and Son Missing in Roxbury Case
Boston police are asked to locate Mrs. Katherine F. Burkitt and her five year old son who disappeared from 40 Lenox street Roxbury on December 8. Her husband Richard F. Burkitt fears foul play. She left with her son three weeks ago without a word. Her trunk was sent to a distant city by American Express but delivery location unknown. Mrs Burkitt is 29, 5 feet 4 inches, 115 pounds with a light complexion.
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Boston
Katherine F. Burkitt
Lenox Street
Roxbury
Richard F. Burkitt
American Express
Burkitt
Dynamite Found Near Thebes Bridge In Illinois
Children uncovered 14 sticks of dynamite with fuse attached beneath the wagon bridge on the approaches to the Mississippi River bridge at Thebes Illinois. Chicago & Eastern Illinois officials reported the find and said the explosive could threaten track usage and the bridge.
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Chicago
Hebes
Mississippi River
Thebes
Ill
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
C. W. Mogg
YW. J. Jackson
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
O'Meara Adds Hyde Park Policing To Boston Force
Police Commissioner Stephen O'Meara announced a general order placing Hyde Park policing under the Boston department effective after midnight December 31. Hyde Park officers and equipment will transfer in days, with Captain Grant and Lieutenant Welch joining Boston with current ratings. A 24 hour three shift schedule will replace two shifts, needing new lieutenant and sergeant to fill Hyde Park vacancies. Beds secured at West Roxbury substation under Sergeant Rideout.
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Stephen O’meara
Police Department
Hyde Park
William H. Pierce
Grant
Robert Grant
Edward J. Welch
Boston
West Roxbury
Roslindale
Jamaica Plain
Rideout
O'Meara
Woman Indicted for Murder of Infant Son in Bath
Sagadahoc County grand jury returns ten indictments including murder against Mrs Mildred I Keefe of Bath charged with drowning her infant son Martin Howard Keefe in a mill pond on Oct 20. Trial set for next Tuesday. Other indictments are minor.
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Bath
Sagadahoc County
Mildred I. Keefe
Martin Howard Keefe
Saloon Robber Held for Grand Jury in Four Breakings
Daniel McDonald, 50, was held for the grand jury by Judge Parmenter in the police court on four counts of breaking and entering four liquor saloons in the South End. Unable to post 1200 dollars bond, he was sent to Charles Street jail.
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Daniel McDonald
Parmenter
South End
Charles Street
Actress Dorothy Donnelly Finds Joy in Governess Dream
Miss Dorothy Donnelly, star of The Princess Zim Zim at the Plymouth Theatre, reveals she loves caring for children and would be happy to work as a governess in Boston. She notes her hobbies include outdoor sports, walking, skating at the Arena, and maintaining fitness after weight loss from Madame X.
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Zim-Zim
Plymouth Theatre
Dorothy Donnelly
Boston
Push Mothers Pension Bill Explained At Ford Hall
Rabbi Stephen S Wise will keynote a meeting at Ford Hall to explain a proposed pension bill for widowed mothers acting as both father and mother. Speakers include Dr Richard Cabot Judge Harvey N Baker and Edward T Hartman with many club leaders backing the effort.
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Stephen S. Wise
New York
Ford Hall
Massachusetts Congress of Mothers
Fathers and Mothers’ Club of
Boston
Legislative Committee
Massachusetts
Congress of Mothers
Illinois
Missouri
Richard Cabot
Harvey N. Baker
Edward T. Hartman
Friend of Emerson Back in Native Land
Professor Edward Payson Evans aged eighty a former companion of Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell has returned from Europe where he lived since 1870 to spend his remaining years in Medford His home will be with his son Professor Lawrence B Evans of Tufts College at 58 Summit Road Evans arrived Wednesday night aboard the Red Star liner Marquette from Munich He is at present composing a five volume history of German literature the first two volumes are complete He plans to revisit the haunts of his old friends and other noted Americans
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Edward Payson Evans
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Russell Lowell
Europe
Lawrence B. Evans
Tufts College
Summit Road
Medford
Evans
Red Star
Marquette
Munich
Emerson
Lowell
Holmes
Steamship rules blasted as unfair at public hearing
Fifty representatives from steamship lines insurers and shipbuilders urged reform of steamboat inspection rules at a public hearing before the Committee on Maritime Affairs. Captain H L Hopkins called for uniform safety regulations across ports and criticized local inspectors’ requirements after fitting lifeboats and fire gear. A resolution favored tighter cooperation between the inspection bureau and the American Bureau of Shipping and a push to revise rules and reorganize the service, to be presented in Washington on January 17.
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Committee On Maritime Affairs
Chamber of Commerce
H. L. Hopkins
Massachusetts Mates and Pilots’ Association
Philadelphia
Boston
L. H. Lavender
Miles Hillary
Edwin Sherlock
Robert C. Monteagle
Frank G. Macomber
Steamboat Inspection Bureau
American Bureau of Shipping
United States
Washington
Inspection Service
Beeks Given 15 Year Term After Battleship Murder
James Beeks a 31 year old mess attendant on the battleship Nebraska received a 15 year hard labor sentence in the Atlanta federal pen for the May 8 killing of Alexander Allen during dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. The court noted provocation from a prior beating and Beeks danced a hornpipe in the marshal's office after sentencing.
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Federal
Atlanta
James Beeks
Nebraska
United States Circuit Court
Alexander Allen
Charlestown Navy Yard
Beeks
William JL. Putnam
Allen
Putnam
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New England
America
Hart, Schaffner Arx
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Oxfords
Chesterfield
Norfolk
D. B
Egular
Washington St
Col. Boylston
Hitch
Rice & Hutchins
All-America Shoe Shops
Tremont Street
Summer Street
Willson’s Shoe Shop
Washington Street
Old South Church
O’meara
Boston Police
Wolf’s
My Clothier
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Puritan Loan Co
Slayer
Hornpipe
Rhodes Bros CO
Massachusetts Avenue
Warren St
Harvard
Rhodes Bros. Co
M. Y
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