Abuses at Massachusetts Reformatory Spark Calls for Probe
Charles Shubert, recently pardoned inmate, reveals alleged neglect and cruelty at Concord’s Massachusetts State Reformatory. He cites solitary confinement abuses, mistreatment of prisoners, maggot-ridden food, and insufficient meals, prompting questions about systemic practices and safety.
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Massachusetts State Reformatory
Concord
Charles Shubert
A. E. George
Worcester
Shubert
New York
Post
Matory
Baby Beauties Crown New England Baby with Piano
James Leslie King of Newburyport wins the Sunday Post prize, a Mason and Hamlin piano valued at $600, in a statewide beauty contest. The award ceremony draws congratulations to the King family as dozens of babies from six states are named on the honor roll.
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Sunday Post
James Leslie King
Newburyport
Mason & Hamlin
New England
Maine
Connecticut
Kewburyporton
Oupara i Central
John
John King
All the Dimpled Darlings and a Piano Factory Tale
A quirky item notes a demand for a piano factory to reward a group described as dimpled darlings. Context and specifics are limited in the fragment, but the tone hints at a promotional or humorous local feature. The piece emphasizes whimsy and grand rewards in a period-appropriate voice.
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Massachusetts
Reformatory
Tylish & Cassimere
Eviot
Vidiecu
YO Mothe
Roll OF Honor
Mary Ellen Warren
Newton Upper Falls
Louella Chadbourne
Hyde Park
Jessie Lincoln Paine
Provincetown
Herbert Engles Adams
Joseph Bonner
Boston
Helen Edwina Houghton
Plymouth
Edward Barnum Hutchinson
West Medford
Baby Wentworth
Waltham
Edith and
Alice Gill
E. A. L. Watson
Lowell
Charles Frank O’donnell
John and
Joseph Bench
Willis Smyth
Arthur Cecil Long
South Braintree
Rosa Bench
Ralph E. Atkins
Ethel
Hart
Frances MacDonald
Fall River
Baby Naum
Waverly
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