Abuses Reported at Massachusetts Reformatory
Charles Shubert, newly pardoned ex-inmate, describes cruelty and neglect at Concord Massachusetts Reformatory. He alleges solitary abuse, kicks, maggots in food, rotten potatoes in soup, and insufficient nourishment, prompting calls for investigation. He details grim conditions during months imprisoned for vagrancy, aided by the Post and Rev. A E George.
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Massachusetts State Reformatory
Concord
Charles Shubert
Post
A. E. George
Worcester
Shubert
New York
Matory
Baby King Wins Sunday Post Piano Contest
James Leslie King of Newburyport is chosen as New England’s prettiest baby under six, winning the Mason & Hamlin piano valued at $600. The Sunday Post reports hundreds of entries from Maine to Connecticut and notes the happy King family, with Mr. and Mrs. King congratulating their son as a wide New England audience celebrated the result.
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Sunday Post
James Leslie King
Newburyport
Mason & Hamlin
New England
Maine
Connecticut
Gould
John
John King
Mr. King
The
Dimpled Darlings Portraits From New Year Post
A playful feature praises a batch of child photographs from Manchester to East Boston and beyond. Each caption highlights charm, features, and potential, naming many youngsters like Alice Gill Edith Gill Maud Stanley Baby Harris Arthur Long Baby McDonald William Bonner Jessie Paine Walter Lyon and others while wishing a Happy New Year.
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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
Willie Smyth
Arthur Cecil Long
South Brainlee
Rosa Bench
Ralph K
Cane Provincetown
Newbury
Frances Macdon i‘ Ald
Fall River
Baby Naum
Waverly
Manchester
N. H
Alice BH
Edith H. Gill
Watson
Tiny Maud Stanley
Baby Harris
South Braintree
Fauntleroy Order
Hotographer
Baby McDonald
Chicago
William Bonner
East Boston
Walter Mitchell Lyon
South Boston
Obscure Wartime Election Musing Reported by Local Paper
Readable fragments describe a preacher named Nehemiah Boynton voicing objections amid a divided electorate. The text hints at voters and babies as metaphors, with scattered lines about a mother and a writer observing a scene involving a Post and piano.
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Massachusetts
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Roll OF Honor
Nehemiah Boynton
Newbuy
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