Will of Teschemacher funds Harvard scholarships and trusts
The Boston testator leaves 20000 to Cobbe and Leeds for Harvard scholarships and annuities. One quarter goes to Phillips Academy for Harvard scholarships at about 250 dollars yearly, with Exeter students favored. The remaining three quarters fund annuities, Harvard prizes, anthropology, foreign study scholarships, and a racquet court, with executors Cobbe and Leeds.
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Hubert I. Teschemacher
Boston
Suffolk County
Charles K. Cobbe
Brookline
Herbert C. Leeds
Harvard
Ro Ella Borland
New York
Beatrice Cairns
Ireland
Ella Borland
Phillips Academy
Exeter
N. H
Harvard College
Messrs
Mesars
Cobbe
Leeds
Bunco Man Fleeces Two Strangers on State Street
A slick con artist orients near the Custom House in Boston, claims to be a Scottish merchant, and pockets William Black and James McNight of $50 each after showing a counterfeit $1000 bill. He hurries away and vanishes, leaving the men stranded.
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William Black
James McNight
Boston
State Street
Custom House
Black
New York
Glasgow
Scotland
McNight
Buicher
Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Roth
Banco Steerer
Governor Urges Expanded Highway Commission Power
Governor Guild asks Legislature to broaden Highway Commission authority to regulate telephone and telegraph rates. The mercantile affairs committee held a hearing on the governor's proposal, but no parties appeared. The plan, already giving the Highway Commission supervision of telephone companies last year, reportedly worked well and is now proposed for extension.
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Guild
State Highway Commission
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Highway Commission
Grandfather Reverend to Wed Boston Waitress in Medford
Formal notices announce the marriage on the twelfth of the month of Sadie Gertrude Slayton a market district waitress in Boston and the Rev William W Downs once pastor of Bowdoin Square Baptist Church now living at 11 Medford Street Medford He is a grandfather with nine children and the bride will be a step mother and step grandmother to his children and grandchildren The bride is known in the market district as a Cotrells waitress and lived at 61 Myrtle Street Boston She is about 30 dark skinned of medium height The town and family reactions are noted with some neighbors saying the children are not thrilled by the match.
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Medford
Sadie Gertrude Slayton
Boston
William W. Downs
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church
Downs
Medford Street
Sign Tariff Petition Circulated by Governor and Legislature
Governor Guild's tariff petition to President Roosevelt and Congress sought immediate revision. Luce of Somerville and Dean of Wakefield withdrew their resolves and urged House members to sign, while Senators Hayes and Taft did likewise in the Senate. The petitions gained wide signatures with the Governor hoping for full legislative support.
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Guild
Roosevelt
Congress
Luce
Somerville
Dean of
Wakefield
House
Hayes
Taft
Senate
Rev William W Downs Engaged to Market District Waitress
The Rev William W Downs former Bowdoin Square Baptist Church pastor is reported engaged to a waitress from the market district. The couple’s status accumulates local attention amid ministerial career changes.
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William W. Downs
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church
Democratic Court Members Seize Proposi It Pleases Members
Democratic court members expressed pleasure at the manner in which they took hold of the proposition. They praised the approach and indicated confidence in the outcome as discussions progressed.
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Cents Court
Calve Arrival Sparks Interest At New York Pier
A North German Lloyd liner Koenigen Luise docks in Hoboken with opera star Calve aboard misidentified as Miss Maud M Nelson. She and rumored fiancé Eugene Higgins depart with a male escort while Oscar Hammerstein confirms her U.S. tour plans but declines to name appearances.
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New York
Hoboken
Maud M. Nelson
Mme. Calve
Eugene Higgins
Paris
Smuggled Men Forfeit Bail In Federal Case
In Providence on January 31 the 21 Chinamen charged with illegal entry aboard the schooner Frolic last October forfeited a total $10,500 in bonds after failing to appear in U S District Court. Bondsman Isaac Hahn faces forfeiture as the men were identified by crew photographs. Immediate steps were taken to arrest the Chinamen and bring them to justice.
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Providence
R. I
United States District Court
Isaac Hahn
William Duncan
Somerville
Wakefield Petition Proposes Tax on Bachelors with Lethal Penalty
The unmarried women of Wakefield filed a bizarre petition via Senator Hayes asking the Massachusetts General Court to tax bachelors by age and to chloroform those over 40. The text, read at a Knights of Columbus banquet, argues bachelors are a societal nuisance and would be taxed up to 40 years with a deadly penalty beyond that.
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Jimmy’’ Powers
Ward 13
Wakefield
Senator Hayes
Springfield
Knights of Columbus
Town of
Great and General Court of
Massachusetts
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Moor—Trent
Long Island
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LOS
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Men’s & Boys
Lee Iueass
Wealea
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Goodyear
Russia
Black Russia
Gibson
Dolge
Mr. Downs
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Wy PeUe
Calve
Higgins
Kryptok
Andrew J. Lloyd Co
Beer Csoss
Macallar Parker Company
Washington Street
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