Bram Denied Second Motion for New Trial in Halifax Case
Judges rule new evidence is largely cumulative and not sufficient for a further trial. Bram, hopeful in court, shows nervous tension as Judge Colt denies the motion and sets further hearings on the original and potential new bill of exceptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bram
Herbert Fuller
New York
Supreme Court
Cotter
Washington
Colt
Spencer
Messenger
Brown
Halifax
South America
Mr. French
Mr. Hoar
Mr. Colt
Corbett's Column Chalk Talk at People's Temple
Tomorrow at 3 o clock in the People's Temple on Columbus avenue a chalk talk titled The we of Man will be given admission is free. Artist Charles A. Jackson returns to his Providence studio Tuesday to reopen his oil paintings exhibit at 372 Boylston street with Dr Gordon's portrait drawing notable. Mrs John Rockefeller continues strong hospital charity efforts parallel to her husband s university focus.
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People’s Temple
Columbus Avenue
We of Man
Woolly West
Charles A. Jackson
Providence
Boylston Street
Gordon
State House
Boston
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Charles River Valley
Nepnenset Valley
Quincy
Frederick W. Dallinger
David B. Shaw
M. R. W. Irwin
P. J. Kennedy
Norcross Reports Strong Progress for Old Glory Mining
Mr. C. O. Norcross, treasurer and manager of the Old Glory Gold Mining and Smelting Company, returns from Idaho praising current work and future prospects. He recounts six years of study, original methods, and a high ore quality. Stock stands at 60 cents a share, with a planned rise to $1 next week and a May dividend anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. O. Norcross
Old Glory Gold Mining & Smelting Company
Idaho
Milk Street
Norcross
Co. O. Norcross
Minister Claims Marriage Prevents Self-Destruction
A minister argues marriage stops suicide, while a married man counters that death by own hand ends marriage, seemingly ending the debate.
White Crest Floating Soap Crafted by Curtis Davis Co
An all round pure soap named White Crest from Curtis Davis & Co is praised for shaving face use and as a toilet soap. It excels in washing delicate fabrics and bath luxury and is recommended as the best choice for general cleanliness with insistence on White Crest floating soap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Davis & Co
Kentucky Bank Collapse Seeks Missing Cashier Amid Fallout
A Kentucky bank ruination exposes a missing cashier described as a heavy borrower from the bank, illustrating how a heavy borrower may emerge as the de facto successor to an embezzler in modern finance and bank insolvency scenarios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Piano Chairs Sale Notice at A. M. Lelands
A. M. Lelands at No. 120 Boylston street advertises compensation for examining and leaving order for piano chairs, inviting customers to visit the shop and arrange purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Leland’s
Boylston Street
Valador Water Promoted as Healthful Choice
The piece argues against drinking tainted water and extols Valador spring water as a pure, healthful option that would tone the body, urging readers to insist on Valador water each time.
Aetna Insurance Company Tops Fire Coverage Leaders
A Boston report highlights the Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford Conn as leading fire insurer with cash capital of 4 million dollars assets totaling 11.4 million and net surplus of 3.85 million. It notes the enlarged Kilby street branch under General Manager Whittemore to improve public access and claims handling.
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Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
Company of America
B. B. Whittemore
Metropolitan Department
Kilby Street
Aetna
Actice
Whittemore
Associated Board of Trade
Balloon ascent reaches near nine and a half miles
A Paris air exploration note reports a free balloon with self recording instruments achieving 49 200 feet altitude. The column then shifts to local ads for chiropody and manicure services at Dr J Parker Buntin in Temple Place and a playful closing signoff by E A Corbett referencing the New York bowl.
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Paris
Fifty Years A Church At Watertown Plans Move To New Building
St Patrick's Catholic Church in Watertown marks fifty years since laying its cornerstone. The old church remains in use though too small, with plans for a new edifice this year. The cemetery and Taylor house debts are being cleared, Henry Chase property acquired, and funds in the treasury for construction. Pastor Rev J S Cullen is aided by Rev Dr J J Salmon and Rev J F Klel...
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St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Watertown
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
R. P. Stack
Taylor
Main
Chestnut Streets
J. 8. Cullen
J. J. Salmon
J. F. Kellegher
Two Steamers Leave Port for Europe With Passengers
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia under Captain Watt and the Canada under Captain McAulay depart Saturday for Liverpool with numerous cabin and second cabin passengers including Mrs Carley and Mrs King. Captain Nelson Hammond heads to Glasgow to command another vessel on the same line. Cephalonia sailed Sept 5 with Captain Pierce on the Servia. Watt may swap commands after connections abroad as the Cephalonia had 22 000 navigable miles of service.
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Liverpool
Cunard
Cephalonia
Watt
Canada
McAulay
Pierce
Servia
Admiralty
Southampton
Gage Urges Tolerance and Steady Policy at Chicago Banquet
Lyman J. Gage, speaking at the Commercial Club banquet, discusses coping with disturbing US economic conditions through broad citizenship and mental impressions. He criticizes zeal without specifics, warns against emotional overreaction, and calls for temperance, justice, and unity in guiding the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Commercial Club
Lyman J. Gage
United States
Mr. Gage
Republic
Fifteenth Winter Reunion of First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
The First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Association held its fifteenth annual winter reunion at American House. Seventy five veterans attended a banquet followed by speeches from Colonel J P Bradley Captain Jack Adams General Kimball and others. An excursion is planned to Virginia battlefields leaving Boston April 24.
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First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Association
American House
Lincoln
Sterling
Frank K. Farnham
Association
J.P. Bradley
Wolcott
Copperless coinage idea sparks political remark
A Philadelphia contemporary suggests nickels be made of nickel instead of copper to remove copper from coinage but notes only civil service reform can remove the copper from politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Questioning a Socialist's Flea Data in the Nation
A reader doubts a Socialist's claim about forty seven flea types in the country asking how the data were gathered and whether any flea found here could be confidently classified without reference to another country.
Ladies Night At Dorchester Church Banquet
Last Wednesday the Virginia Street Universalist Church in Dorchester held its first ladies night with a reception and banquet. The event proved a signal success, highlighting community involvement and social activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social League
Virginia Street Universalist Church
Dorchester
Water front reports buoy missing and wreckage sighted
Towboat captains complain of the gas buoy on Nix's Mate not sighted for a week while Captain Sears reports a large timber piece attached to submerged wreckage about one mile northwest of Harding's Ledge. Other ships report gales, ship damages, and vessels saved or ashore with various incidents along the coast.
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Nix
Roger Sears
N. P. Doane
Harding
Charles Stearns
Lewis Wharf
Everett
Grip
F. Harnden
Mediterranean
Liverpool
Mizpah
Fort Warren
Viola Reppard
Boston
Norfolk
Hampton Bar
Brookline
Jamaica
Barnstable
Bay State
Portland
City of
Postoffice Progress and Senate Action Reported
The House approves 196000 for Boston to New Orleans mail facilities while cutting Boston New York funding and defeats a proposed rural free delivery increase. Senate approves a resolution urging help for Cuban correspondent Sylvester Scovel and his transfer to Havana with State Department aid.
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Washington
Postoffice
House
Boston
New Orleans
Simpkins
Rep
Mass
New York
Senate
Hill
Cuba
Sylvester Scovel
Scovel
Havana
Tariff Schedules Pared in Iron and Steel Items Redux
Washington February 12 Republican members of the ways and means committee reviewed iron and steel items. Nickel remains free. type metal and new types revert to McKinley rates 11 2 cents per pound and 2 percent ad valorem. Zinc rates adjusted. paper schedule set for ground wood pulp and printing paper retains 15 percent ad valorem.
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Washington
Iron and Steel
Ways and Means Committee
Hungry and in rags as four children left by mother and father
In South Boston Police Court Judge Fallon held Michael OConnell on non support of his four minor children after his wife, injured, was hospitalized. The three older children were placed at Harrison Avenue and the youngest sent to St Marys Infant Asylum. the case was continued for three months.
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South Boston
Fallon
Michael O’connell
West Second Street
City Hospital
Mann
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Harrison Avenue
St. Mary’s Infant Asylum
Bull's Head Tavern Ad Describes Rooms and Amenities
Neatly furnished rooms with steam heat and electric lights listed for 8 Friend Street and 27 and 28 Washington Street in a compact tavern advertisement.
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Bull’s Head Tavern
Friend St
Washington St
The Science of Life or Self-Preservation book promotion
A long advertisement for The Science of Life or Self-Preservation published by the Peabody Medical Institute. It touts an 870 page medical treatise for manhood issues, claims expert authorship, Harvard training, and offers mail or in person consultations from 9 to 6 daily with a Boston address.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Medical Review
Boston Herald
England
Harvard Medical College
Massachusetts Volunteers
America
National Medical Association
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Peson
Mall
P. O. Box
Boston
Mass
Chinese Immigrants Held at Grand Central Depot
New York authorities led by Inspector Scharf arrested several Chinese men at Grand Central depot for alleged illegal entry from Montreal. Eight with papers were discharged after arraignment before United States Commissioner Shields. eight without papers were held $250 for examination. The men claimed relatives paid sums from 11 to 290 dollars in Montreal to secure admission.
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New York
Scharf
Grand Central Depot
Montreal
United States
Shields
Richford
Clark v City of Boston Injuries From Icy Sidewalk
In Suffolk Superior Court the case Etta Clark versus the city of Boston seeks 4000 dollars for injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk at 57 Perkins Street Charlestown. The jury disagreed. Attorneys: 8S for plaintiff S H Hudson for defendant.
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Suffolk
Maynard
Etta Clark
City of
Boston
Perkins Street
Charlestown
A. Fuller
S. H. Hudson
Alburn F. T Pearl
West End Street Railway Company
G. R. Swasey
A. P. Worthen
M. F. Dickinson, Jr
Gambler raid arrestees plead guilty in Quincy
Sixteen men held in a gambling raid at Quincy House were arraigned in Municipal Court and pleaded guilty to being present where gambling implements were found. Each received a ten dollar fine after attorney Charles H. Pattee argued for leniency, noting most were respectable professionals.
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Quincy
Charles H. Pattee
Post
Pattee
Ely
Notable Clerical Figures Mourned in Obituaries
The Rev William Kincaid 56 secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary Society died of anemia in Brooklyn New York He was born in London March 8 1841 and graduated Oberlin 1867 He later served as district secretary for A B C F M and became corresponding secretary of the home mission society in 1888 Dr C D Hendrickson 51 noted physician died of heart failure in Orange on Prospect Street in his home Dr Henry Hartshorne 73 died in Tokyo after a tour of Japan He studied at Haverford 1834 and Penn Medicine six years later He had returned to U S two years ago to work with Society of Friends missions.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
William Kincaid
Congregational Home Missionary Society
London
Eng
Oberlin Theological Seminary
New York
Philadelphia
Tokio
Japan
Henry Hartshorne
Hartshorne
United States
Society of Friends
Haverford College
University of Pennsylvania
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Ldoes
John Rockefeller
North Dakota
Trinity Court
Dartmouth Street
Sharpe
Messrs. T. D. Cook & Co
E. A. Corbett
St. Patrick’s of
Europe
Artillery
Virginia
Postoffice Progress
Senate and Foreign Issues
Michael O'Connell
the Peabody
Medigal Institute
Bulfinch St
Revere House
Shipping News
Powhatan
Harnden
Whelps Bros
St. Croix
Pike
St. John
N. B
Eastport
E. A. Waldron
Fairfax
March
Baltimore
A. M. Graham
Parthian
Snow
E. B. Sampson
H. M. Whitney
Hallett
Snowman
City of Gloucester
Godfrey
Gloucester
Dudley Pray
Coffin
South Amboy
Alice
Bessie
Hercules
P. J. Carleton
Chalmette
McAuley
Cto
Smith
Yarmouth
N. S
George W. Clyde
Robinson
Charleston
Jacksonville
Samuel Dilloway
Strathdon
Reading
Harrisburg
Portsmouth
Gold Mining and Smelting CO
Milk St
Col. J. 8. Avery
George A. Crawford
Special
P. O
Big Jack Pot
Quincy House
Warren Line
Sagamore
Fitchburg Docks
Warren & CO
Kansas
American Line
St. Louis
St. Paul
Havre
International Navigation Co
Bowling Green
L. H. Palmer
Old State House
Cunard Line
State St
Alexander Martin
Merchants & Miners Transportation Co
Newport News
Hurs
Mday
Tenn. & Ga. Air Line
Atlantic Coast and Seaboard Air Line
Kanawha
Southern R. R
Baltimore & Ohio R. R
Cumberland Gap
Company
A. M
A. D. Stebbins
W. P. Turner
J. ©. Whitney
Traffic
Southern Pacific Company
Morgan Line
Mississippi River
Texas
Arizona
New and
Old Mexico
Colorado
California
E. E. Currier
N. E
State Street
Edwin Hawley
Broadway
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Line
Phila
Savannah
Wilmington
F. P. Wing
Central Wharf
Wiske Building
New England
Richardson & Barnard
Atlantic Ave
The
Yarmouth Steamship Co
Nova Scotia
J. F. Spinney
Washington Street
Chatham Street
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Wolkf Goldberg
Pemberton Uare
Jeremiah G. Fennessey
Railways
R. W. Irwin
Hingham Street Railway Company
K. W. Irwin
Boards of License Commissioners
W. H. Cook
B. B. Estes
E. B. Estes
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Industrial Aid Society
F. Barker
William Odlin
Railroads
Aes Oe
Park Square Station
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Shore Line
New London
New Haven
Bay State Limited
Willimantic
Air Line Limited
Fall River
Rail
Sound
Newport
Pilgrim
Plymouth
Stonington
Metdore
New Hampshire
Norwich
Rail and Sound
Lowell
City OF Worcester
Pennsylvania R. R
Maryland Transfer
Colonial Express
Federal Express
Geo. L. Connor
A. C. Kendall
Pass
Gen
Seas
L. WH Palmer
Loston Pass
Commonwealth OF Massachu
H. Dunn
Court House
Pemberton Square
Augustus W. Turner
Orang
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