Bangs to pen six Sunday Post stories Shylock Homes
John Kendrick Bangs, famed American humorist, signs to write six Shylock Homes tales for the Sunday Post beginning February 8. The features, styled after his Dreamers Club parodies, promise brisk wit and satirical memory of literary figures. Bangs, Yonkers born in 1862, has long edited for Life and Harper's Weekly and authored numerous works.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Sunday Post
Post
Dreamers' Club
Mr. Bangs
Yonkers
N. Y
Columbia
Life
Harper's Weekly
Harper Publications
Bangs
Roger Camerden
Katherine
Mr. Bonaparte
Corsica
Styx
Man in Chelsea Mill Suffers Severe Injuries in Hoisting Room
At 5 30 last night John Welsh 298 years old an employee of the G D Emery Mahogany Company Chelsea was caught in the hoisting room machinery and found with a fractured skull and a broken left arm He was taken to Frost Hospital He is married and lives at 234 Everett street East Boston
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John Welsh
G. D. Emery Mahogany Company
Chelsea
Frost Hospital
Everett Street
East
Boston
Secrets of South Danvers Bank Directors Room Court
Alfred H Whidden former South Danvers Bank director testified at the Foster Dickinson misapplication trial. He recalled being asked if he told Mr Foster the bank funds were gone and if directors voted 212 percent on capital stock. He said Foster claimed the bank was temporarily embarrassed and new funds would arrive to cover dividends. The hearing resumes tomorrow before Judge Lowell.
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Foster
Alfred H. Whidden
South Danvers Bank
George W. Foster
John W. Dickinson
Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Whidden
Verdict Awarded After Revere Beach Land Take
Mrs. Florence R. Atkins won a verdict of 21 253.55 in the Superior Civil Court before Judge Holmes. The action assessed damages for the taking of 49 777 square feet at the corner of Revere street and the Revere Beach reservation including buildings such as the Atlantic House by the metropolitan park commissioners. Experts differed on value with estimates from 15 000 to 40 000. The case had been tried over several days with a jury.
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Florence R. Atkins
Revere Street
Revere Beach
Revere
Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Atlantic House
Superior Civil Court
Holmes
John Russi and Subway Accident at Adams Square
In municipal court before Judge Ely Roscoe Russi, an Italian bricklayer who goes by John, alleged an accident on November 7 in the ladies’ car at Adams Square. Gate attendants testified they saw nothing and the judge reserved decision.
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Ely
Roscoe Russi
John
Adams Square
Discharged Printer Wins No Pay Case Costs Split
Chief Justice Brown heard a civil case in which Harry A. Smith, a former worker for Mc Adams Printing Company, was dismissed without pay for seven days alleged to be lost due to his carelessness. The court ruled each side to bear its own costs and awarded Smith’s due amount to the defendants to cover alleged spoiled work.
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Smith
Adulterated Mustard Trial Ends in Not Guilty
In Chelsea, M. O Keefe faced charges of selling adulterated mustard. State Agent J F McCaffrey led the government case. E R Elder and Noble of Loring & Coolidge defended-O Keefe. Chemists testified on coloring substances but Boston and New York experts contradicted. Judge Bosson acquitted citing insufficient proof and urging safeguards against food adulteration.
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Chelsea
M. O'Keefe
J. F. McCaffrey
State Board of Health
O'Keefe
E. R. Elder
Noble
Boston
Loring & Cooldge
Dr. Leach
State Board
New York
Bosson
Young in a State of Torpor in New York Murder Trial
William Hooper Young, on trial for the murder of Anna Pulitzer, shows morbid demeanor as jury selection proceeds. Witness Joseph Pulitzer, husband of the deceased, reportedly in Detroit and avoiding the case, raises new concerns for prosecutors.
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New York
William Hooper Young
Anna Pulitzer
Talesmen
Sor
Joseph Pulitzer
Young
Pulitzer
Detroit
W. F
Hart
Molineux
Vecteral
Fire destroys two Peabody shoe factories
A February fire in South Peabody leveled the Bowers & Shaw and F. W. Lord & Co. shoe shops and adjoining houses. Total loss estimated at 70 000 dollars with 1500 dollar loss for Osgood Bros. Buildings valued at 18 000 dollars. wind aided blaze as Salem crews responded.
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Peabody
Bowers & Shaw
F. W. Lord & Co
Salem
Osgood Bros
Warren Shaw
Paradise Lost by Handel and Haydn Society at Symphony Hall
Dubois's Paradise Lost will be sung Sunday at 7 30 in Symphony Hall by a lineup of opera stars rarely heard in concert in Boston. The cast includes Camille Seygard Louise Homer Andreas Dippel Emilio de Gogorza Marcel Journet Stephen Townsend and organist Hiram G. Tucker assigned to the work.
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M. Marcel Journet
Stephen Townsend
Hiram G. Tucker
Cunarder Sylvania Tows Disabled Usher for About $40000
The Cunarder Sylvania earned about 40000 for owners and crew by towing the disabled Usher of Greenock Scotland to port after the steamer’s propeller shaft broke offshore. The Usher, a new 340 foot, 4800 ton vessel valued at 150000, was left in care of tugs at Boston Light.
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Cunarder Sylvania
Sylvania
Usher
Greenock
Scotland
Boston Harbor
Haifax
Barr
Speddy
Boston Light
Manchester
Eng
Providence
R. L
Sydney
C. B
H. Cann & Co
Cann
Friends Would Honor Crane Declining Banquet
Ex Governor Winthrop Murray Crane declines a $10 plate banquet at the Algonquin Club planned by 100 friends including Henry L Higginson and William Lawrence. In a Massachusets notice dated February 4 1908 Crane says he appreciates the gesture but requests to forego public expressions while enjoying rest.
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Crane
Henry L Higginson
George H. Lyman
William Lawrence
Charles F. Choate
Nathaniel Thayer
Charles F. Adams
Robert Winsor
Eben S. Draper
William H. Lincoln
Charles H. Washburn
Lucius Tuttle
Francis H. Appleton
Algonquin Club
Winthrop Murray Crane
Mr. Crane
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Dalton, Mass
Messrs
H. L. Higginson
W. Murray Crane
Fresh hold to health through proper food says a Dallas case
A Dallas woman details two years of illness improved by Cine Mate and Grape Nuts after failed diets. She reports restored digestion, energy, and weight, plus a clearer mind and no medicines. The letter notes Postum Co. in Battle Creek as the source.
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Zema-Cura CO
West 22d St
New York
Houghton & Datton
Dallas
Texas
Florida
Georgia
Walt
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Woman foils theft ring at vacant 16 Boylston street
Miss Margaret Woodman in tandem with her brother discovered Henry Murray and John Connors looting a long vacant building at 16 Boylston place. They found chandeliers pipes and copper boiler torn from walls and the pair were captured with the stolen metal evidence.
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Henry Murray
John Connors
Piedmont Street
Division 4
Boylston Place
Margaret Woodman
No. 15
John Woodman
Woman Defends Cellar Against Vandals
A brave Woodman sister heard vandals breaking into a cellar and warned police. She grabbed a lead pipe, barred the door, and held her post as five officers arrived from Lagrange Street station. The inmates jeered, stunned to find their captor was a woman.
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Miss Woodman
Lagrange Street
Fynes Funeral Arrangements in Boston and Back Bay
John A. Fynes dies at sixty nine. Funeral from daughter’s residence 143 Hemenway street Boston Friday February 6 at 9 a m. Services to be held at St Cecelia’s Church Back Bay.
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R. H. White Co
Frieses
Oxford
Honduras
Washington
State Department
United States
Moe
Tegucigalpa
Amapala
Bonilla
Central America
Sherlock
Baker’s Street
C. E. Davis Optical Co
Park Sq., Suite 1
Boc
John Russi
THE
Handel and Haydn Society
BE. McKay
Louisville
Zema-Cura
Koch
Edward Koch
Germany
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Baltimore
Rochester
Chicago
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Altoona
Boylston Street
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