Jury Finds Hall Not Guilty of the Murder of His Wife
The jury clears Henry Hall of murdering Minnie Hall after a tense Wells Depot trial in a makeshift court at the Saco City Hall. The verdict follows hours of harrowing testimony, with prosecutors painting Hall as a calculating killer and defense arguing a complex web of seduction and mischance.
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Gerow
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Katie
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Inien
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Harrington
Cone Hall
Maine
Wilson
Thacher
Biddeford
Frances
Whatie
Fall
Mrs. Hall
Miss Mary Hall
Gerow Sisters
Miss Hall
Mrs. Stevens
Frances Hall
Thornton Inn
Llall
Henry
Minnie
Tie
Grace Gerow
Wells
Little River Culvert
Ernest Matthews
Henry Hall
Clerk of Courts
Tenderson
Plan to Combine Commissions Faces Support in Legislature
Supervisor of Administration Thomas W. White testified before the legislative committee in favor of abolishing the State Board of Labor and Industries and creating the Department of Labor and Industries. The new agency would absorb the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Minimum Wage Commission, building and boiler inspection, Board of Boiler Rules, and the State Board of Examiners of Weldrigians. Several supporters addressed the committee.
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Thomas W. White
Legislative Committee On Administration and Commissions
State Board of Labor and Industries
Department of Labor and Industries
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Minimum Wage Commission
District Police
Board of Boiler Rules
State Board of Examiners of
Wledrigians
Home Coming Heroes Praise Gen Edwards in Boston Return
122 wounded New England soldiers arrive from France and are taken to Base Hospital No. 10 Boston area. General Edwards praised by veterans for leadership and acts in front lines. Wounded share varied injuries from Chauteau Thierry, the Argonne, and St Mihiel with many from 26th Division and others.
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Clarence R. Edwards
Boston
New England
France
Edwards
Green Hut
New York City
New England Red Cross Woman's Motor Corps
No. 10
Parker Hill
Chauteau Thierry
Argonne
St. Mihiel
John C. Sheilhuss
Lincoln Street
Hartford
Conn
Thomas J. Whelan
Mall Street
Lynn
Sheilhuss
Verdun
Whelan
Walter J. Meeney
Cent Street
Roxbury
J. Fred Kay
John F. Kay
Adams
Mass
Kay
104Th Infantry
John D. Dunn
Danforth Street
West Framingham
Meuse Valley
James N. Jdineen
Vine Street
Argonne Forest
Cambridge
Frank Kapusky
Jefferson Street
Champagne
Ile
Richard L. Perston
Dennisville
John H. Kelliher
Cross Street
Kelliher
61St
Preston
Chateau Thierry
William Gilmore
Huntington Avenue
73D Artillery
John R. Boyle
Holmes Street
Sall River
Lajourn
Hearing on jitneys heard across Massachusetts cities
Representatives from multiple cities urged the Public Service Commission to act on nearly a dozen petitions to regulate jitneys. Bay State, Union Street, and Massachusetts Northeastern railways filed petitions covering Lawrence to Swampscott, New Bedford, and Newburyport. Chairman Macleod blamed reduced patronage, not high fares, for railway woes and warned only modest cost increases could be needed.
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Public Service Commission
Bay State Street Railway Company
Union Street Railway Company
Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Company
Macleod
Bay State Company
Lawrence
Haverhill
Malden
Lynn
Salem
Brockton
Swampscott
Union Company
New Bedford
Massachusetts Company
Newburyport
Coolidge Declines Honor Over Internationalism
Louis A. Coolidge, chair of the Massachusetts committee for returning servicemen, says he cannot accept honorary delegateship to the New England congress for a league of free nations. He rejects any movement implying entangling alliances or subordination of American interests to visions of peace abroad.
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Lincoln
Louis A. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Governor Coolidge
New England
League of Free Nations
Balkans
Orient
Mr. Coolidge
State to Create Mutual State Insurance Company for Workmen’s Compensation
A recess committee report urges forming a bona fide State owned and controlled insurer to handle all workmen’s compensation business, excluding private firms. Six endorsers, three oppose. Plan envisions a nine director mutual with Governor appointees, funded by the state at 109000, starting after 100 members join with 10000 employees.
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Recess Committee On
Cavanagh
Everett
McLane
Fall River
Foley
Boston
Buckley
Dow Named Cambridge Medical Examiner by Governor Coolidge
Dr. David C. Dow was appointed by Governor Coolidge to succeed Dr. Swan as Cambridge medical examiner. He is a U S navy surgeon at Bumkin Island training station and expects release soon. Dow, educated in Cambridge public schools, graduated Tufts Medical School in 1898 and returned after study in Europe to serve locally.
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David C. Dow
Coolidge
William D. Swan
Cambridge
Dow
Bumkin Island
Tufts Medical School
Europe
Cambridge Municipal Hospital
Suffrage Debate Ends Short of Quorum in Senate Conference
Democratic Senators failed to record a final vote on the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment after opponents blocked action citing strategy and lack of quorum. Senator Jones predicted the measure would be called again in the Senate, with hopes of edging toward a two thirds vote next week.
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Washington, D. C
Gillett
House of Representatives
House
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Graham
Philadelphia
Mann
New Zingland
Indiana
Washington
Jones
Mexico
Martin
Virginia
Woman Suffrage Committee
Senate
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Pollock
South Carolina
Friends of the
Woman Dies En Route To Hospital In City
An unidentified woman about 45 collapsed in Temple place near Tremont street likely from heart trouble. She died in the police ambulance on the way to the hospital. The description notes she was about five feet five inches tall with a medium complexion and hair, wearing a purple coat, dark blue skirt and black felt hat.
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Temple Place
Tremont Street
Ftelief Hospital
Father John's Medicine Promises Grip Protection
An advertisement urges readers to take Father John's Medicine to build energy against grip germs and drive out impurities with its gentle laxative effect. It claims the product is free from alcohol or dangerous drugs and guarantees safety for those with weak resistance.
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Father John
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