Dress Fire Destroys Home of Roxbury Neighbor
Mrs Harriet Smith of 26 Sussex Street Roxbury escaped her burning house and ran into her friend Henry Hodgate at 12 Sussex Street. Her dress, caught by an open grate, set furnishings and draperies ablaze in Hodgate’s parlor. Smith was hospitalized, condition listed as critical. Hodgate home sustained minor blight damage from the spreading flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Smith
Sussex Street
Roxbury
Henry Hodgate
Hodgate
Hodgate House
Fire Damages Welch and Zandregan Shoe Factory
A small fire at the Welch and Zandregan shoe factory in Lynn caused major damage when automatic sprinklers released water late tonight. Estimated losses reach $8000. Local firefighters contained the blaze with minimal injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Welch & Zandregan
United Improvement Association Rejects School House Funding Plan
At the City Club last night the United Improvement Association declined to endorse the current bill seeking 2 506 6ne for new schoolhouses. It supported the $1,000,000 ask for 1910, took no stance on the rest, and backed a move to add 10 cents per $1000 tax for repair of old schoolhouses in addition to the 25 cents already allowed. Charles Logue urged caution over the two and a half million Boston School Board proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Ellis
Stratton DL. Brooks
United Improvement Association
City Club
Charles Logue
Schoolhouse Commission
Boston School Board
Coats in Multiple Fabrics and Sizes Offered
Inverseys Broadcloths Cheviots Tweeds and Men's Mixtures available for women misses and small women. If the 100 coats sell out early there are many other chances including coats priced at 6.05 7.85 9.85 and 11.75.
Stomach Focus Promotes Health in Cooper Cure Claims
An article promoting L. T. Cooper’s theory that the stomach is the seat of health and that its restoration within six weeks via the Cooper New Discovery cures chronic illness. It cites Mrs. Lottie L. Miner’s recovery after five bottles and urges readers to seek the Cooper Medicine Co. remedy through local druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. T. Cooper
Cooper
Lottie L. Miner
Henniker
N. 11
Susan Parkins
Cooper Medicine Co
Dayton
Ohio
Unpaid Water Bills Could Lead City Land Auction
An unpaid water bill and related service pipes meters and repairs create a lien on the property. The city may sell land to recover the debt and applies laws similar to unpaid real estate taxes to collect the bill.
Vow Faces City Land Sale Bill in Legal Affairs Panel
The Legislature's legal affairs committee debates a small bill allowing cities to sell land of residents with unpaid water bills. The measure seeks to authorize municipal authorities to seize property for delinquent charges, raising questions about due process and scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Legal Affairs
Collectors Back Bill on Water Meter Tax in Commonwealth
A hearing drew broad support from collectors across the state while Boston City Solicitor Spring and Water Commissioner Hannan supported the measure. Real estate owners near Boston opposed, arguing the act is confiscatory. The bill targets meters installed in recent years, changing payment timing from advance to usage based, enabling liens and potential property sales if bills not paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Spring
Boston
Hannan
Valedictory Tonight as Boston Common Council Ends
Tonight marks the farewell session of Boston's Common Council after about 75 years of municipal affairs. A special committee has organized a solemn event with invites to past presidents, Mayor elect Fitzgerald, Navy Secretary Meyer, ex-Governor Bates, and ex-Mayor Hart. The chamber will be decorated and the municipal orchestra may provide music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Boston
Fitzgerald
Meyer
Navy
Bates
Thomas N. Hart
Lincoln Day Proclamation by Governor Draper Sets Feb 12
Massachusetts Governor Eben S. Draper proclaims February 12 Lincoln Day urging schoolchildren to commemorate Abraham Lincoln. The document, dated January 29, 1910, calls Lincoln a key figure in abolition and national reunification and urges broad dissemination of his life and character.
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Draper
Lincoln
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Abraham Lincoln
Boston
United States of America
Eben S. Draper
William M. Olin
God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Engagement between Harcourt and Cunard ends abruptly
London reports the engagement of Robert Vernon Harcourt to Miss Margery Cunard has been broken off without stated reason. Society reacts to the sudden romance termination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robert Vernon Harcourt
Margery Cunard
New Chief School Physician Named for Boston
Boston’s Board of Health creates the position chief school physician with the first appointee Dr. Silas Hibbard Ayer, a cousin of Mayor Hib bard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Ayer
Boston
Board of Health
Silas Hibbard Ayer
Hibbard
Engagement ends in surprise for Cunard founder kin
The engagement concludes with unexpected news as the Cunard Steamship founder's granddaughter becomes betrothed to Robert V. Harcourt, grandson of historian Motley, and with Lewis Harcourt, his half brother, wed to a niece of J Pierpont Morgan, linking prominent American and British families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard Steamship Line
Sir William Harcourt
Robert V. Harcourt
Motley
Lewis Harcourt
J. Pierpont Morgan
Appointment of city school physician in Ayer's charge
Dr Ayer at 318 Shaw mut avenue will oversee all city school physicians with a yearly salary of 1000 dollars. The Board of Health has supervised school physicians for over a decade and has now appointed a physician to lead its school work as the responsibilities have grown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayer
Shawmut Avenue
Board of Health
Health Board
Schooner J Henry Edmunds Sunk Off Sandy Hook
The three masted schooner J Henry Edmunds of Boothbay Harbor Maine was sunk by a tow of barges off Sandy Hook early today. Captain Edward Greenleaf and four crew including Mate John Chambers escaped in a small boat to New York. Owned by Simpson and Perkins of Boothbay and valued at 10000 dollars, the sand laden craft was bound from Morris River to Everett Massachusetts and built at Dennysville New Jersey in 1889.
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New York
J. Henry Edmunds
Boothbay Harbor
Sandy Hook
Edward Greenleaf
John Chambers
Boothbay
Simpson and Perkins
Morris River
Everett
Mass
Dennysville
N. J
Runaway Elevator Kills One in Boston Building
An elevator accident in the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company building at Franklin and Devonshire streets killed 33 year old William Wicker and seriously injured another man while a third occupant was saved by the quick action of superintendent Thomas J. Hopkins. Wicker lived with George Schofield at 77 Vernon Street Roxbury. John Flynn of 57 Franklin Street Somerville and Mark Porter of Erie and Pear Streets Cambridge escaped with their lives.
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Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Franklin and
Devonshire Streets
William Wicker
George Schofield
Vernon Street
Roxbury
John Flynn
Franklin Street
Somerville
Mark Porter
Erie and
Pear Streets
Cambridge
Thomas J. Hopkins
Fatal Elevator Accident In Ipswich Mills Building
Four men employed by Yolden, Smith & Hopkins Company were moving a 100 pound safe to the Ipswich Mills Company on the building’s eighth floor. As the safe was hoisted to the eighth floor, the passenger elevator car began rising and Porter, confused, was tossed to safety by Hopkins. Wicker jumped too late and was crushed between the car floor and street door casing, killed instantly. The exact cause remains under investigation.
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Porter
Hopkins
Yolden, Smith & Hopkins Company
Ipswich Mills Company
T. R. Armstrong
Flynn
Wicker
Fortune Mystery in Barnstable Probate Inquiry
In Barnstable on February 2 the question arises who was Seth Sears of Massachusetts and where he lived. The query, triggered by a letter to judge of probate C. A. Freeman from Mrs. George Sears of Milan Michigan, asks for help locating a fortune and the amount left.
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Barnstable
Seth Sears
Massachusetts
C. A. Freeman
George Sears
Milan
Mich
Sears brothers offered 20000 each to relinquish estate claim
George and Elmer Sears of Milan refused a stranger's offer of 20000 apiece to sign away all claim to Seth Sears's Massachusetts estate. The man vanished. investigators found no estate in the county. Mrs. Sears sought guidance from Judge Freeman, hoping for a fortune to secure a home, while noting the Barnstable link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Elmer Sears
Seth Sears
Massachusetts
Milan
Sears Brothers
Sears
Freeman
Barnstable
Train Strikes 77-Year-Old Man at Orient Heights
William Brown of St Collins street was struck by a train on the narrow gauge line at Orient Heights last night. He suffered multiple fractures and a scalp wound but is expected to recover with treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brown
St Collins Street
Orient Heights
Pape's Diuretic Promises Quick Kidney Relief
A 50 cent treatment of Pape's Diuretic is touted to cure kidney and bladder troubles quickly. The ad claims relief from back pain, nervousness, headaches, and urinary symptoms by cleansing and strengthening the kidneys and urinary system with a few days of use. It cites the Cincinnati firm Pape Thompson & Pape as a trusted medical concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Pape, Thompson & Pape
Cincinnati
Novelty Song Ad Copy Read
Fragmentary ad promotes a novelty tune with a 10 cent copy price and a quirky title about loving and steady affection. Contains garbled OCR text but signals a song promotion and cheap sale.
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Washington and
Winter Sts
Erty
THE
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Miss Margery Cunard
Hibbard’s
NEW Post
Michigan “Heirs
Seth
Hamburg
Melton
Glove Bargains
Children’s Rev Colored
Oxford
Smallwares
Cardinal
Hair Goods Dept
Bull & Co
Santa Maria
Spain
Newngland
Paneuil Hall
Thos. Snow & Son
North Market Street
Het Fm
Tivrey Music
Washington Street
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