Sketch of the Proposed New Bridge from Scollay Square
Mayor Fitzgerald reports strong support from Bostonians for reviving a bridge to East Boston and may seek a state loan outside the debt limit. City Engineer Jackson favors Adams square as the Boston end, with plans to cross from North street over docks to East Boston north of the North ferry and then split into routes toward Maverick Border and Bennington Saratoga streets.
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Boston
Adams and Scollay Squares
Central Square
Jackson
Fitzgerald
Scollay Square
Adams Square
Dock Square
North Street
Hanover Street
Richmond Street
North Ferry
Merchants & Miners’ Transportation Company
Bridgeould
Border
Liverpool Streets
Ruggles Street Boys Win Two Clean Basketball Games
The Roxbury neighborhood teams triumphed last night at Roxbury Athletic Club events. Roxbury Athletic Juniors beat Pirate A. C. 6 to 2, while Roxbury Athletic Midgets defeated Fenway A. C., scoring two baskets and shutting out the opponents.
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Ruggles Street
Roxbury
Roxbury Athletic
Pirate A. C
Fenway A. C
Armory A. A. Announces 10 Mile Birthday Run Course
Armory Athletic Association outlines the Washington’s birthday open handicap cross country race. Start and finish at 541 Tremont Street clubhouse. The 10 mile course runs from Montgomery Street to Dartmouth Street to Beacon Street to Chestnut Hill Reservoir and returns over the same route.
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Armory Athletic Association
Tremont Street
Montgomery Street
Dartmouth Street
Beacon Street
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Heirs Claim Possible $6,000,000 Bresnahan Estate
Haverhill reports Daniel Bresnahan an railroad baggage employee and his sister Mrs Bessie Callahan of 40 North street Kerry Ireland have learned they are among heirs to a rumored $6,000,000 estate left by John Bresnahan born in Kerry and who died in Riverside California about four months ago.
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Haverhill
Daniel Bresnahan
Baggage Department
Boston & Maine Railroad
Bessie Callahan
North Street
Kerry
South
Ireland
John Bresnahan
Riverside
Cal
Sturdevant jailed for three years as impostor bishop
Jonas Samuel Sturdevant, a black bishop of the Holy Church of the Living God and leader of the Holy Ghosters, was jailed for three years by Judge Grannan after being convicted of beating Mrs. Rose Demmerd, a white disciple. In Danvers, the state hospital for the insane was placed under quarantine due to diphtheria and scarlet fever cases.
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Baltimore
Jonas Samuel Sturdevant
Holy Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth
Holy Ghosters
Grannan
Central
Sturdevant
Rose Demmerd
Danvers
Danvers State Hospital For
Danvers Board of Health
Heirs Sought for Riverside Man by New York Lawyer
A California minister and a New York lawyer investigate to locate rightful descendants of a Riverside man. Bresnahan and Callahan had many relatives, but tracing them failed. Recently a George Bresnahan of New York claimed John Bresnahan, born in Kerry Ireland, died and sought heirs on behalf of the Riverside minister. The case is now handled by the New York intermediary.
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California
New York
Bresnahan
Callahan
George Bresnahan
John Bresnahan
Kerry
Ireland
Riverside, Cal
Brooklyn wife deeds life under a dominant negro spell
Mrs. Demmerd testified that Sturdevant influenced her to abandon husband and children and flee to follow a black man. She described eight months living in quarters where white women were under the man’s control in a disturbing, revolting tale of exploitation.
Gloucester site chosen for Philadelphia immigration station
Secretary Nagel selects the Thompson property in Gloucester New Jersey across the Delaware River from Philadelphia as the Philadelphia immigration station site.
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Washington
Nagel
Gloucester
N. J
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Diphtheria Epidemic Leads to Medical Precautions at Danvers
State authorities and Danvers health board cooperate to curb spread. Judges notified and hospital commitments paused. Staff under surveillance and restricted from leaving. Visitors refused admission. About 50 cases reported among a 1500 inmate population. Officials expect containment within current limits.
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Danvers Health Board
Ex-Mayor Curtis Washington Pleads For Reimbursement
Former Boston mayor Edwin J. Curtis testifies before the House claims committee about the 3000 dollars taken from the Boston sub-treasury while he oversaw the office in 197. One teller was tried twice and acquitted. The committee favours Curtis’s claim for reimbursement of the amount he had to cover under his bond and will act at the next meeting.
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Washington
Edwin J. Curtis
Boston
House Committee On Claims
Spanish cabinet resigns as Liberal factions split
Madrid February 9 internal Liberal dissensions culminated in the resignation of the Spanish Cabinet led by Moret y Prendergast. The King assigned Jose Canalejas y Mendes, a Democrat and leader of the Extreme Liberal Left, to form a new ministry.
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Madrid
Moret Y Prendergast
Jose Canalejas Vy Mendes
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Gray's Club
Tral Square
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City Engineer's
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Moto Pen CO. OF America
Broadway
Paris
Chusetts
Praia
M. R. Jefferson
Breas Ci. Richardson
Tt. C. Allen
H. WW
Paris Flood Relief Committee of
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Seca
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Elena
RSC
Yue Brody
Church of Christ
A. M. Goodwin
Arthur B. Chase
Cohasset
George Kryder
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