Miss Irene Clark Engaged To Joseph H Proctor
While Helena Sumner's divorce suit against Earl Sumner was heard in Plymouth, Miss Gertrude Irene Clark of Allston and Joseph H Proctor of Brookline announced their engagement. Mrs. William F Clark disclosed the news after viewing her daughter's photo and reading the Post story.
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Pittsfield
Helena F. Sumner
Earl A. M. Sumner
Brant Rock House
Plymouth
Gertrude Irene Clark
Allston
Joseph H. Proctor
Brookline
Woman Denies Daughter Involved In Scandal Amid Divorce Case
Mrs. Clark reads a Post story with distress over her daughter Gertrude who was at the beach last summer writing of Mr. Proctor. She notes an engagement planned soon though Gertrude is a divorcee. Gertrude had a decree nisi against Amos H. Goble for cruel treatment with child custody. the decree became absolute April 7, 1906, and Goble survived a suicide attempt after the shooting.
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Mr. Proctor
Gertrude
Miss Clark
Amos H. Goble
Milton
Goble
General Electric
St. Stephen's Church
Sumner case opens with private supper testimony in divorce
Plymouth February 9. Earl A. M. Sumner proprietor of Brant Rock House and Miss Gertrude Clark of Ashmont appear in a sensational divorce suit. Mrs Sumner, suing for divorce, cites a $20 000 attachment on her husband and describes alleged engagements with Clark and two other women in a hotel cupola. She recounts overheard footsteps and a confrontation in which Sumner allegedly admits to not having anything on her.
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Plymouth
Earl A. M. Sumner
Brant Rock House
Gertrude Clark
Ashmont
South Shore
Harris
Helena F. Sumner
Sumner
Elmwood
Clark
Child Burned in Gasoline Fire at Tailor Shop
Beverly Feb 9 The four year old Harry Pocher son of Louis Pocher a tailor in the Woodbury building on Rantoul street was rescued by his mother after a gasoline bottle near a stove exploded setting the back room ablaze The fire damaged the building to the extent of 1500 dollars
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Beverly
Harry Pocher
Louis Pocher
Woodbury
Rantoul Street
Death of F. E. Bowers in Chicago Auto Show
F E Bowers head of a New Haven automobile company died in Chicago at the Congress Hotel after contracting pneumonia during his visit to supervise his firm's exhibit at the auto show. Mrs Bowers arrived yesterday and the body will be sent to New Haven tomorrow.
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Chicago
F. E. Bowers
New Haven
Congress Hotel
Missing funds at Cumberland-Mansfield Coal and Power Company
Investigators claim about $100 000 paid into the treasury vanished with only a $6 bank balance remaining and no proper records to explain the loss. President James H Cary and attorney L J Cavanaugh seek answers from Colonel Jim Dignowity and his son James V Jr regarding $1 000 000 in capital stock proceeds allocated to operating and development costs.
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Cumberland-Mansfield Coal & Power Company
James H. Cary
Cary
Mansfield
North Attleboro
Cumberland
R. I
Walter G. Morey
Morey & Co
Federal Street
Morey
Promoter Pursuit Probes Missing Funds in Cumberland Mines
President Cary traced the promoter Dignowity to various addresses in New York and learned offices for the Mexican Mining and Smelting Company had closed. Attorney Cavanaugh seeks a trustee hearing to locate missing funds and compel testimony while detailing misused funds and land acquisitions linked to Cumberland Mansfield Coal & Power. The Naica Mining venture near Felicidad Mexico is also tied to the case with substantial stock sales and promoter withdrawals flagged for future legal action.
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Cary
New York City
Mexican Mining & Smelting Company
Wall Street
Dignowity
Prince George
Twenty-eighth Street
Twenty-third Street
Bostonian
Cavanaugh
Post
Clarence A. Barnes
Cumberland-Mansfield
Naica Mining Company
Felicidad
Mexico
Delaware
Settlement Eases Will Contest Over Ex Mayor Fifield
Mrs Dora A Chase housekeeper for the late Ex Mayor George W Fifield agreed to pay Miss Abbie Fifield seventy thousand dollars to settle a possible will contest. The 500000 beneficiary under Fifield s will allegedly avoids dispute after a codicil revoked a fifty thousand legacy dated November 29 1910. The payment is in consideration of Miss Fifield not to contest.
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Lowell
Dora A. Chase
George W. Fifield
Abbie Fifield
Fifield
Settlement in Fifield will case rewards Chase with over half a million
Final stage of the Fifield estate settlement assigns Mrs. Dora A. Chase a minimum bequest exceeding $500,000. Total estate value ranges from $545,000 to $800,000 with Mrs Chase receiving most of the remainder after $70,000 to Miss Abbie M. Fifield and assorted bequests to multiple institutions and individuals totaling $148,000. The inventory lists properties in Lowell Revere and nearby towns valued at about $545,000.
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Fifield
Chase
Miss Fifield
George W. Fifield
Lowell
Abbie M. Fifield
Dora A. Chase
Marginal Street
Middlesex Street
Middlesex Village
Princeton Street
New England Motor Company
Ocean Avenue
Revere
Boulevard
Beachmont
Kelly
Oak Island
New Boulevard
Eliot Circle
Moody Street
Nellie C. Taft
Winchester
N. H
George A. Wilson
Wentworth
Albert A. Smith
Belmont
Johanna Sears
New Brunswick
Louise Ingalls
Boston
Jennie Richardson
Louis Kileski
Lowell Cemetery
William Kelly
Harold Noyes
Hope Kk. Noyes
Grace Universalist Society
Attorney Arrested in Bank Fraud Conspiracy Case
United States District Attorney French funds a bankruptcy probe leading to the arrest of William Sharak an attorney at 27 School street on charges of conspiracy to conceal assets in bankruptcy proceedings. Robert Krensky of Roxbury a grocer on Humboldt avenue also arrested as a fellow conspirator for purchasing the bankrupt estate belonging to a relative.
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United States
French
Trustees of Bankruptcy Estates
William Sharak
School Street
Robert Krensky
Humboldt Avenue
Roxbury
Sharak
Boston attorney Sharak faces fraud charges in first wave
The district attorney moves to prosecute lawyers in bankruptcy frauds alongside bankrupts. Sharak and two others are accused of a scheme to defraud creditors by padding debts and misvaluing assets. Sharak pleaded not guilty and was held on $1000 bail for Tuesday’s hearing, while a Suffolk bar member left on personal recognizance.
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Sharak
Boston
French
United States
Hayes
Suffolk Bar
Missing Quincy boy seeks Calumet mother
Police search for 14 year old Robert Nelson of 22 Buckley Street Quincy who vanished after saying he wanted to visit his mother in Calumet Michigan The boy left with only a dollar fifty and learned yesterday that his mother had died a week earlier authorities continue to look for him.
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Robert Nelson
Buckley Street
Quincy
Calumet
Mich
Ghouls Desecrate Mausoleum in Erie Cemetery
Police and relatives hide details as a 24 hour search yields no clues in the four day desecration of Congressman William L. Scott's mausoleum and the theft of his sister in law Anna M. McCollum's body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Penn
William L. Scott
Anna M. McCollum
Robbery and murder shock local area at cemetery vault
Police investigated a cemetery vault after finding a hole in the east fence and torn iron pickets. A woman’s body is believed removed through the opening while copper plates were torn and caskets tampered with. Ghouls suspected from workers familiar with vault operations.
Honeymoon in Gould's Villa Arrives in Brunswick
Lord De cies and his bride Miss Helen Vivien Gould arrive in Brunswick on the private Atlanta car and go by boat to Jekyl Island for a week of honeymoon. They plan to sail to Egypt for the coronation of King George and Queen Mary of England.
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Brunswick
Lord Decies
Helen Vivien Gould
Jekyl Island
Egypt
George
Queen Mary
England
Atlanta
Decies
Oglethorp Bay
St. Simon's Sound
Edwin Gould
Mr. Gould
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Philadelphia
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Main St
Providence
Westster St
Sumner Case
A. Shuman & Co
Plimpton- Hervey CO
Washington Street
Mrs
Dora Chase Averts Fifield
Ene 'S
MR. Fifield
Mrs. Chase
Gotham
Quincy Boy
Gould
Elgin
Waltham, Elgin
Hamilton Illinois
Howard Watches
Jason Weiler & Son Mfg
Washington St. Col
Franklin
Antwerp
Rue de Pelican
Buenos Ayres
Gaona
Rhodes
Tremont Street
Mass. Avenue
N.Y
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