Cambridge Fire Destroys Laundry And Damages Apartment House
A $35,000 blaze in Cambridge yesterday morning gutted the University City laundry on Binney Street and damaged a six family apartment building. No injuries were reported as three families narrowly escaped with little more than the clothes on their backs. The laundry and nearby boiler and oil facilities were destroyed, with the laundry valued at about $8,000 and machinery at $25,000. the apartment house suffered roughly $1,000 in damage.
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Cambridge
University City
Murphy
Katie
Nellie
Anna Murphy
Kilday
Bernard
Foxboro
Agnes Murphy
Walter Murphy
Theresa Murphy
Binney Street
Margaret Graham
Standard Oil
Blake's
Bunker
Oi! Company
Alden Speare's Sons’ Company
George Webster
John Keith
Websters
Mary O’brien
Samuel Banks
Minnie Sullivan
Alden Speare
Paine Family Escape From Fire At Sagamore Hill
Mr and Mrs Paine of Sagamore Hill and a visiting woman leaped from a second story window to escape flames. Injured badly, they were carried to a nearby cottage for medical care while braving the cold in night clothes. They jumped about 30 feet to the ground as the blaze progressed.
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Nantasket
Mrs. Paine
Irish History in Public Schools Touched by Boston Resolution
Delegates of the Suffolk County Board of the A O H at Hibernian Hall Revere pass a unanimous resolution thanking the Boston School Board for placing Irish history in public schools and praising its honesty. They also commend National President Matthew Cummings and acknowledge distribution of Johnston's History in schools.
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Suffolk County Board
A.O. H
Hibernian Hall
Revere
School Board of
Boston
Hibernians
Duff
Matthew Cummings
Bosto
Johnston
Iland
Boston School Board
Hack-Turned Turtle Crash on Washington Street
A hack returning from a funeral on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain turned turtle after hitting an excavation. Driver Joseph W. Burke was injured. Patrick Smith and John Joyce escaped unharmed. Patrolmen halted the horses as the wrecked vehicle lay overturned. Police investigate cause of the accident.
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Washington Street
Fore Hills
Jamaica Plain
BRB
Cook
Harrison Avenue
Joseph W. Burke
Patrick Smith
John Joyce
Turtle Burke
Joyce
Smith
McCarthy and McAdams
Runaway Electric Car Injures Dozens On Warsaw Avenue Hill
In Cincinnati a runaway electric car on Warsaw avenue hill injured at least 30 passengers, with Daniel Kernan among the dead. The motorman failed to stop the car despite emergency brakes, which were useless as it sped five blocks, struck a telegraph pole and overturned. Hiram Leister and others aided by operating the rear brake slowing the vehicle before it left the track. Several injured may die including the conductor.
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Cincinnati
Daniel Kernan
Sines
Warsaw Avenue
Hiram Leister
Rockefeller on Progress
New York December 40. John D Rockefeller discusses centralization in business noting the shift from stagecoach to railroad and inns to grand hotels as progress. He expresses sympathy for those challenged by change and says he strives to understand others while asserting adaptability is essential.
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New York
Ohn D. Rockefeller
Ris
Man shoots wife and kills self in Pittsburg suburb
Believing his wife unfaithful, Robert Ford, aged four years, shot her three times then killed himself in Homeland, a Pittsburg suburb. The wife survived. Ford had accused her of infidelity and acted on jealousy.
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Pittsburg
Wfe
Vad
Robert Ford
Homeland
Yord
Senator Caffery Dead at 75 in New Orleans
Former United States Senator Donelson L. Caffery died after a lingering illness in New Orleans on December 31. The well known lawyer and public figure had a long career in national politics and law.
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Orleans
Uited
Donelson L. Caffer
A F of L Urge Labor Laws For 1907 Session
The State branch of the A F of L met at Wells Memorial and outlined plans to press for overtime, eight hour, licensing, and safety bills at the 1907 Legislature. It backs limiting courts in industrial disputes and opposing biennial elections, with a circular urging union action statewide.
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State Branch
A. F. of L
Wells Memorial Building
State House
Malone
George Fred Williams
Central Labor Union of Boston
Legislative Committee
Dennis D. Driscoll
New England Civic Federation
Charlestown Navy Yard
State group calls hydrostatic tests for lap seam boilers
Delegates from the State executive board of steam engineers unions urge hydrostatic testing on lap seam boilers over 50 inches in diameter. They condemn lax inspections and seek state-wide, frequent checks with an expanded inspectorate. William G. Beck presided. Henry Gibbs named secretary, with Beck and Arthur M. Huddell to draft a bill for the 1997 Legislature.
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State Executive Board of Steam Engineers
William G. Beck
Boston
Henry Gibbs
Brockton
Beck
Arthur M. Huddell
Allston Car Works Strike Settled After 2 Months
After a two months strike at the Allston car shops over a proposed bonus or piece system, workers accept a 6.5 percent raise on piece work and 10 percent on day work with an option to work by day or by piece. The road will maintain the piece system to ensure consistency with other shops. About 200 men were given until Friday to return.
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Allston
B and M Rail union discusses wage schedule
Boston and Maine railroad conductors and trainmen met at Abraham Lincoln Post 11 G A R Hall in Charistown. Delegates considered a general ten percent wage increase currently granted nationwide and debated applying it to B and M workers.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Abraham Lincoln
G. A. R. Hall
Charistown
Boston & Maine Sys
Police Seek Chums of Nellie Murray
Police hunt members of the party with Nellie Murray who died after an overdose of morphine. They track two men and a girl, one in Providence, another in western Massachusetts, evading questioning to uncover how the body ended in the hospital yard. Funeral held at Murphy Turnbull funeral rooms, Woodland Cemetery final resting place.
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Blossom Street
Nellie Murray
Massachusetts General Hospital
Providence
Murphy & Turnbull
Sullivan Square
Woodland Cemetery
Cambridge Unitarian Church Marks 100th Anniversary
Cambridge church commemorates a century since dedication with a historical sermon by Rev. Henry Hallam Saunderson. The service recalls 1800s origins, the Gannett ministry, and the 1875 enlargement, with a centenary reception planned midweek for members past and present.
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Cambridge Unitarian Church
Austin Street Unitarian Church
Cambridge
Henry Hallam Saunderson
George Mendall Taylor
Saunderson
Railroad Brotherhood leader speaks on wage talks at B and M
H Morrissey grand master of the Railroad Trainmen's Brotherhood addressed members. A system meeting of locomotive engineers of the Boston and Maine was held at 164 Canal street to discuss the 1907 wage and working agreements. The final disposition of the matter was referred to a committee.
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H. Morrissey
Railroad Trainmen’s Brotherhood
Boston & Maine Railroad
Canal Street
Trade union officers named across several Boston area locals
Malden City Laborers Union 11 158 A F of L elects officers led by President Richard R Howard and others. New York New Haven Hartford Freight Handlers Union 70 votes in officers headed by John J Gallivan and John Buckley. The Journeymen Barbers Union plans an admission drive for 47 applicants and an anniversary banquet on January 27 with Mayor Fitzgerald to speak. John Love of Boston Painters Union 11 dies in Savannah. Savannah union buries him and Boston Painters Union 11 sends $50 for reimbursement.
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Malden City
A. PF
Richard R. Howard
Thomas Fogarty
Daniel Cluggett
John J. Gaffney
John Crousin
Martin J. O'Brien
Matt Comerford
St. Paul International
Steam Engineers
Boston
New York
New Haven
Frank K. Foster
Thomas M. Nolan
Wells Memorial Building
Journeymen Barbers’ Union
Fitzgerald
John Love
Boston Painters’ Union
Savannah
Painters’ Union
Savannah Union
Hunt Seeks Incendiaries After Dorchester Fires
Police Captain Hunt tightens the search for arsonists after four fires in North Dorchester around midnight. Two youths were questioned following a wide-ranging investigation, with police citing multiple suspects and suggesting the case will soon be solved. The Highland church property was among the targets in the string of incendiary incidents.
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Dorchester
Hunt
Highland Church
Resigns to Accept Pastorate in Middleboro Church
The Rev. H. W. Watiren, after 18 years as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Warren Rhode Island, read his resignation and announced acceptance of the pastorate at the Central Baptist Church in Middleboro Massachusetts.
20 Men Arrested in Washington Street Raid
Police from Hanover Street searched 121 Washington Street North with a warrant and arrested 20 men for being present where gambling implements were found. They recovered dice and a table and warned of heightened vigilance in the North and West Ends.
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Hanover Street
Washington Street North
Boys Caught Gambling At South Boston Clubroom
Police entering a boys clubroom on L207 F Street South Boston found nine youth players with money on a game. Two teens Timothy O Leary 15 and August slept 16 were held for gaming. seven others aged 16 to 6 were charged with being present where gaming occurred and later bailed out.
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F Street
South
Boston
Wescott
Hazlett
Timothy O'Leary
Statue to Governor Wolcott Unveiled in State House
A joint memorial to the late Governor Roger Wolcott and Massachusetts Spanish War Veterans will be unveiled at 11 this morning in the State house. Governor Guild will accept the memorial for the Commonwealth. Commander Frederick Walker will present for the veterans.
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Roger Wolecott
Massachusetts
State House
Lawrence
Honcben S. Draper
Guild
Commonwealth
Frederick Walker
Massachusetts Department
John J. Peabody
Roger Wolcott
Legion of Spanish War Veterans
Daniel ©. French
New York
Henry Bacon
Vassar Graduate Takes Full Charge of Realty Firm
Cleveland December 30 Miss Jim Zimmerman daughter of Frederick Zimmerman and a Vassar College alumna has been given full charge of the Zimm erman Realty Company. She undertakes duties from office work to selecting janitors and engineers stating she handles renting repairs and all essential parts of the business with enthusiasm.
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Cleveland
Jimia Zimmerman
Frederick Zimmerman
Vassar College
Zimmerman Realty Company
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Cummings
Ington St
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Tion
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the Tailor
Washington St
A. F. OF
Massachusetts Avenue
Columbia Street
Harvard Street
Broadway
Thomas RB. Gannett
LABOR
Middleboro
North End
Vassar Girl
Massachusetts Prewerbs Company
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