Robber and forger sentenced in Boston Superior Court
Charles Born, a desperate robber and adroit forger, drew 10 years six months to 14 years in state prison for forgery and assault with intent to rob. He forged Spaulding’s name to a $25 check and attempted a Dec. 31 heist, with earlier New York prison time cited. Several others received prison terms for breaking and entering and related crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Born
Superior Criminal Court
Richardson
Edward Pike
W. F. Spaulding
State Street Safe Deposit & Trust Company
Sing Sing
Louis Masees
House of Correction
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Michael Powers
Joseph C. Smith
James Millbrick
Thomas J. Powers
John Brown
William H. Carlen
Tirmine Smith
Bunting & Emery
Commercial National Bank
Potter & Wrightington
Faneuil Hall National Bank
Thomas J. Renwick
Tremont Street
William T. Dudley
Thomas Hayes
New York State
Walter H. Rice
George B. Roberts
Metropolitan National Bank
Waterfront Dispatches From Boston Harbor News
Vessels report delayed arrivals from Liverpool due to fierce gales. The Emma M. Dyer and Kate Jones collide off Long Island with repairs ahead for both. Tug H. W. Hills sinks into a leak and is saved by William H. Gallison. Cargo ships, salvage claims, and buoy replacements are noted along with several abandonments and shipboard fires.
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Warren Line
Michigan
Oxford
Liverpool
Gloucester
Emma M. Dyer
Svensen
Cape Shore
Kate Jones
Evans
Long Island
Jones
Knighthead
East Boston
H. W. Hills
Union Towboat Company
Gove
East
Boston
William H. Gallison
Lockwood’s
Marine Railway
William EE. Cleary
Philadelphia
Salem
Lighthouse Board
Nix
Centurion Ledge
Boston Harbor
Poster design prizes offered by The Century Company
The Century Company announces three poster prizes of 125, 75, and 50 dollars for the best designs advertising the midsummer number of Century Magazine. Open to all, designs must be color finished, 15 by 21 inches, and include the phrases Midsummer Holiday Number August The Century. Submissions due April 30, 1896, 5 pm, at Union Square New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Century Company
Century
Union Square
New York
General John Gibbon Buried With Full Military Honors
The remains of General John Gibbon were interred at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. A grand funeral cortege through Washington was led by two companies of the Sixth Cavalry, a mounted band, and an escort of honor from the Fourth Artillery with its battalion and band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Gibbon
Arlington National Cemetery
Sixth Cavalry
Fourth Artillery
Tremont 764 Offers Repairs for Wringers and Sweepers
The American Wringer Company lists products at 13 and 1 Broadway extension and 29 and 31 Corn Hill Boston. They provide all kinds of wringers and Bissell carpet sweepers with repairs called for and delivered at no extra charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Wringer Company
Broadway Extension
Cornhill
Boston
Bissell
Hill's Ambumatism and Goat Cure Remedy Ad
An old advertisement for Hill Medicine Company offers Hill's Ambumatism and Goat Cure as a universal remedy. The copy promises a single bottle cures and invites readers to request a circular from the New York City firm at 38 East Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HILL
Hill Medicine Co
York City
Prizes For Inventors Spark Flight Lab Plan Near Boston
The Boston Aeronautical Society plans a late fall competition of aeronautical apparatus near Boston to advance practical flying. Eminent aeronauts discuss experiments in The Aeronautical Annual edited by James Means, noting practical soaring principles with driving power likely limited to a later stage.
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Aeronautical Annual
James Means
Boston Aeronautical Society
Boston
Soaring Machines and Aeronautics Advances Explored
The article surveys aeronautics progress with Hiram Maxim Octave Chanute and William H Pickering assessing natural and artificial flight. Prizes set for kite lift and drift, wind-range performance, and soaring machines in free flight. Samuel Cabot details an aerial screw propulsion device using leg power or engine force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram S. Maxim
Octave Chanute
William H. Pickering
Harvard
Ion
Samuel Cabot
Lilienthal Recounts Double Surface Gliding Experiments
Otto Lilienthal describes experiments with a dual surface soaring machine giving favorable results. The setup uses two 97 square foot wings on an 18 foot span to balance wind forces, enabling horizontal lift and potential circled flight as a path to controlled flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert A. Merrill
Lilienthal
Otto Lillenthal
English actor Wilson Barrett may bring The Sign of the Cross to Boston
A Boston movement seeks to book Wilson Barrett for limited performances of The Sign of the Cross at the Boston Theatre then New York. Four wealthy locals back a syndicate to engage Barrett after London audiences immense praise for his religious drama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
America
Wilson Barrett
Lyric Theatre
London
New York
Barrett
Cooper case settled in Rhode Island alien labor suits
Providence February 10 nine suits against Robert W Cooper of the British Hosiery Company at Thornton were settled when the defendant submitted to judgment for 3243.69. The suits alleged violations of the alien contract labor laws with workers obtained from Nottingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Robert W. Cooper
British Hosiery
Thornto
Nottingham
Teaspoonful of Rheumatic Salts Offered for Sale
An advertisement claims one half glass of water cures rheumatism and offers the remedy for sale by Cutler Bros at 89 Broad Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutler Brog
Broad St
Expose Cruelty Claims Against Medical College Official
Philip G. Peabody, president of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, alleges a Boston medical college official bribed youths to steal pets for vivisection. He reports student testimony of cruel practices, lack of anesthesia, and widespread animal mistreatment, urging removal of the implicated authority.
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Post
Medical College
Boston
Medical School
Highth
Pasteur Institute
Philip G. Peabody
N. E. Anti-Vivisection Society
New Encyclopedic Dictionary Distribution Expanded This Week
The New England Newspaper Syndicate offers a supplemental distribution of the American Encyclopedic Dictionary this week only. Those unable to order early now have a chance to obtain the set at the special terms before regular subscription price of 42 dollars per set applies.
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New England
Reduced Boston and Albany Excursion to Hot Springs
The Boston and Albany railroad offers ninety day excursion tickets to Hot Springs Arkansas with through sleeping car service from Boston via one change in St. Louis Union station. Hot Springs is described as government endorsed with a climate like Italy and many hotels ready for visitors. The waters are claimed to aid rheumatic and other ailments, with agents available for full information.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Boston
St. Louis Union Station
United States
Italy
Boston & Albany Ra Lroat
Albany
Wagner Buffet
Wagner
Chiccago
R. BR
Utica
Wagner Burtfet
Chicago
Michigan Central R. R
L. 8
M.S. R. KR
Insinnati
St. Louis
Detroit
Ghiorgo
Waszner
Hartford
New Haven
New York
Springfield
NEW York Limited
Washington St
Kneeland St
Hanson
Missionary Conference Held by Southeastern Massachusetts Auxiliaries
In Bridgewater on February 10 the Woman's Auxiliary Episcopal churches held its southeast Massachusetts missionary conference at Trinity Church. The program opened with communion at 9:45 and featured Rev. Isaac Dooman of Japan delivering the annual address, plus reports from parish auxiliaries. Rev. G A Strong of Brockton spoke on systematic giving followed by a panel and remarks from Miss Julia Rodman New Bedford and others including Rev F B Allen Boston Mrs Van Rensselaer Thayer Boston Miss A R Loring Boston and Rev Herman Page Fall River.
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Bridgewater
Mass
Woman’s Auxiliary of Episcopal Churches
New Bedford
Woman's Auxiliary
Massachusetts
F. B. Allen
Boston
van Renssalaer Thayer
A. R. Loring
Herman Page
Fall River
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
The
Equitable
State of
Insurance Department
Newark
Thomas D. Jordan
Francis W. Jackson
J. G. van Cise
Endow
Dee
the Equitable Society
E. Boupinot CoLt, T. S. Young
W. B. Kendall
G. W. Carleton
H. J. Fairchild
the Board of Directors
Louis Fitzgerald
Henry A. Hurlbout
Henry G. Marquand
WM. A. Wheelock Marcellus Hartley
H. M. Alexander
Chauncey M. Depew
Cornelius N. Bliss
Thos. D. Jordan
Charles S Smith
John Sloane
Horace J. Fairchild
Levi P. Morton
Gage E. Tarbell
Marvin Hughitt
Frank Thomson
George J. Gould
Samuel M. Inman
Sir W. C van Horne
Chas. B. Alexander
Edward W. Lambert
John J. McCook
WM. Alexander
James H. Hyde
Horace Porter
H. B. Hyde
James W. Alexander
John A. Stewart
Jacob H. Schiff
A. van Santvoord
Melville E. Ingalls
Thomas S. Young
A. van Bergen
John E. Searles
David H. Moffat
James H. Dunham
T. DE Witt Cuyler
Joseph T. Low
Daniel Lord
Henry R. Wolcott
August Belmont
WM. B. Kendall
Henry S. Terrell
George W. Phillips
Geo. W. Carleton
Samuel Borrowe
E. Boudinot
Colt Daniel R. Noyes
Alanson Trask
Brayton Ives
Sidney D. Ripley
J. F. de Navarro
Equitable Building
Milk and
Devonshire Streets
Cedar Keys
Caroline Hall
Savannah
Isaac Shoal
Maggie J. Lawrence
Norfolk
Charleston
S. C
Pea Island
Scotsman
Portland
Halifax
N. S
England
Leander W. Beete
Horse Island
Shelter Island
N. Y
Helen H. Benedict
J. W. Hawkins
Cuba
J. A. Melvin
Blackstone St
General Gibbon
Menting
Hood
Burri OR
President Peabody
Is Medical College
Woman's Missionary Conference
Warry ME
Francis
Wilson Bros
Tremont Row
Loyd
Christopher Lloyd
Cambridge Street
Flowers
J.newman & Sons
Tremont ST
Puritana
Henry A. Emerson
Contocook Valley Paper Company
California
Belle W. Cale
Charlestown
Puri‘onn
Henry W. Craigue
Concord
N. H
Her
Chance
George H. Dunning
Fancul Hall Market
James
J. F. Scott
H. Q. Nelson
Portsmouth
Puritana Coupound Co
New England Railroad Co
Park Square
Norwich
Brooklyn
West
Erie
West Shore R
Newburg
Fishkill
Landing
Hopewell Junction
Poughk Fepste
Brewster
Hawk
U'Lle
Plain J
Danle
Needham
Highlandvillf
Upper Falls
Pascoag
Old State House
Summerst
J. T. Odelt
W. R. Barcock
Farough Car Service
Nefbrouyp
New Yorters
Park Square Station
Eairoad Shore Line
New London
State Limited
Air Line Limited
Pall River
Newport
Plymouth
Stonington
New Hampshire
Maine
City OF Lowell
City OF Worcester
Philso
Geo. L. Connor
A. C. Kendall
Gen
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