Swig Campaign Cards Labeled Forged Say Court Testimony
Major Casey testified the Boston printing plant label used on Swig campaign cards was unauthorized and forged. Witness Aaron Prussian admitted producing thousands of Swig cards and said Swig paid for Jewish voter registration work, with the hearing to continue.
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Boston Municipal
Simon Swig
Ward
William J. Casey
Superior Court
Swig
Walsh
Aaron Prussian
Allen
Palmer
New York State
Jerry Bresnahan
Benjamin Swig
Prussian
Benjamin
Michael J. Sughrue
Allen C. Palmer
New York
Harvard
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Commissioner of Corporations
Washington
Boston
Massachusetts Homestead Commission
Children's Bureau
Tremont Trust Company
Major Casey Receives Card from Walsh During Petition Hearing
In the courtroom, Major Casey was handed one of the cards by Attorney Joseph P. Walsh, counsel for the petitioners, triggering a brief exchange as the matter proceeded.
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Major Casey
Joseph, P. Walsh
Harrison Coats on Sale At Washington Street Store
Men's marmot lined over coats with Persian lamb collar offered at marked-down prices. Genuine broadcloth shell coats advertised as great value. Located at 662 672 Washington Street at Beach corner.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Cor. Beach
Harrison Company Sale of High Grade Suits and Overcoats
The Harrison Company will sell all their high grade suits and overcoats at 1250. These values include all our 18 20 and 25 suits and overcoats. Models in Chesterfields Ulsters and Greatcoats. Suits in heavy blue serges and worsteds. Harrison Company 662 672 Washington street cor Beach.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Cor. Beach
Harrison Company's Great Mark-Down Trousers Sale
Thousands of men's trousers from wholesale stock including worsteds serges cheviots and English stripes. Every pair guaranteed. Harrisson Company's sale at 662 672 Washington Street corner Beach Street with prices 3 50 to 1 98.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Corner Beach Street
Fear Another German Raider Is at Large
Washington reports the possibility of another formidable German cruiser at large in the Atlantic possibly guiding the Moene. The Roon, a fast 10 000 ton armored cruiser built at Kiel in 1902 with 28 guns, is alleged to be nearby off the Canary Islands, though the British embassy denies the claim.
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Washington
Atlantic
Spain
Kiel
Canary Islands
Snow Storm Costs City 30000 in Cleanup
Boston faced costly repairs as the heaviest snowfall since December 1909 shut streets. Crews began clearing roads late yesterday afternoon under oversight of street car companies and the city street department after the sun broke through the clouds.
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Boston
Park Square
Tremont Street
Newspaper Row
Weather Bureau Official Register
End of Storm Brings Mail Service Delays
Stalled traffic and delayed trains marked the storm’s end with mail service hit hardest. Half of regular trucks were out of commission and deliveries were made in halting fashion using limousines pressed into service.
Snowstorm delays ease as trains resume normal service
Early morning rail traffic slowed across lines with northern trains running up to thirty minutes behind but by evening service returned to normal. Boston & Maine reported trains on schedule with minimal delays, while New Haven trains were generally on time.
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Boston & Maine
New Haven
Newspaper Club Holds First Meeting at Crawford House
The Newspaper Club met in the Colonial room of the Crawford House with Editor-in-Chief Sibley presiding. Twenty five members attended and guests included Robert Seaver Nathan C Hamblin and Commodore Jere Taylor of the Chelsea Yacht Club.
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Newspaper Club
Crawford House
Sibley
Robert Seaver
Commodore Jere Taylor
Chelsea Yacht Club
Sailors' Day Planned Across Massachusetts Churches
Plans for the second Sunday after Easter to be observed as Sailors' Day in Massachusetts churches. The observance is organized by Sailors' Haven with cooperation from the Seamen's Church Institute of New York.
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Massachusetts
Sailors’ Haven
Seamen’s Church Institute of New York
Workmen Beaten by Strikers in Plymouth
Two Plymouth Cordage Company workers, Peter Smith and an unnamed man, were waylaid by about 20 strikers near Forest Avenue as they tried to return home. They were dragged into the snow and severely beaten shortly before 9 PM.
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Plymouth
Plymouth Cordage Company
Peter Smith
Fireland
Forest Avenue
Rich Widow Jewel Thief Case Sheds Light in California
In a San Francisco theft, $190000 in diamonds vanished from Mrs. Clara Baldwin Stocker at the St Francis Hotel after a New Year ball. Mrs Leotia K Northam widow of Col Herbert Northam of Los Angeles admits taking the jewels and travels from St Paul to LA with Omar Taft and Pinkerton detectives. authorities expect restitution and no prosecution.
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Los Angeles
Clara Baldwin Stocker
Leotia K. Northam
Herbert Northam
St. Paul
Stocker
Mrs. Stocker
St. Francis Hotel
San Francisco
Taft
Northam
Alexandria Hotel
Deacon William S. Crawford, long-time Oakham official, dies
Deacon William S. Crawford, holder of the Boston Post gold-headed cane, dies at 84 in Oakham after a 50 year carriage business. He served as town treasurer for 45 years and was active in the Congregational Church and choir for 68 years.
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South Oakham
William S. Crawford
Boston Post
Congregational Church
Inquest Finds Wilful Murder by Kaiser and Crown Prince
In Staffordshire an inquest into 13 Zeppelin victims returned a verdict of wilful murder against the Kaiser and Crown Prince of Germany as accessories to and after the fact of the deaths. A Leicestershire inquest into ten deaths attributed them to bombs dropped by a hostile airship and urged stricter light obscuring measures after sunset.
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Kaiser London
Staffordshire
Germany
Leicestershire
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Allied Printing Trades Council
Thomas McDonald
James McGregor
Arlington Street
Earl P. Blake
Rich Widow
Jewel Thief
Kornfeld
New New York
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Regal Womens
Regal Shoe Company
Summer St
Tremont St
Eveninese
Providence
Westminster St
Kathween
E.e.gray CO
Blackstone
Hanover
Tel. Se
Fadl Haymarket
Golden Gate
J. P. Squire & Co
Sunshine Biscuit
Takhoma
California
Gray
Gray’s
U. S
TEL
RICH
Express
Post
Boston Post—Main
Daily Post
Sunday Post
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