Exceptions Taken A Boston Man's Experience at the Emergency Hospital
A Boston paper published a letter by Irving P. Fox condemning a recent article on poisonous drugs in patent medicines. The Post recalls a tale of a man nearly dying after taking pills for sleeplessness, with an opiate found that could kill several people. Father John's Medicine is touted as safe, without narcotics, claiming cure for bronchial trouble and consumption with testimonials from Alfred Michaud of Lawrence Mass.
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Boston
Irving P. Fox
Spatula Publishing Co
the Post
Father John
Carleton & Hovey
Lowell
Mass
Alfred Michaud
Lowell St
Lawrence
Wakefield indicted for perjury and multiple larceny counts
William C. Wakefield son of Police Justice Wakefield of South Framingham was indicted by the Middlesex grand jury in East Cambridge. He pleads not guilty and faces trial in Superior Court for perjury and 10 larceny counts stemming from alleged thefts in Warren Wilder, Charles Whittier, Harry Porter, and others totaling several hundred dollars. Wakefield also faced a separate indictment tied to a prior London financial intrigue.
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Wakefield
South Framingham
Middlesex Grand Jury
East Cambridge
International Copper Syndicates Company
England
Warren P. Wilder
Charles H. Whittier
Harry D. Porter
George W. Cutter
Boston
New York
London
Herbert S. Dudley
Albert Reynolds
Dudley
Middlesex House of Correction
Charles I. Nevarro
Cambridge
Ginty
Timothy Murphy
James P. Timilty
Middlesex Court
James Kilfoil
Franklin Street
Cambridge Eres
Six Die in Street Fight Reported at Navy Yard
Washington February 14 Secretary Long was at the Navy Department today while a street fight left six dead. He remained at his desk long hours as details emerged about the fatal clash near the yard.
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Washington
Alice Roosevelt
Groton
Mass
White House
Long
Navy Department
Tolstoi Death Rumor Circulates In 1910s Sheets
VIPNNA February reports unconfirmed rumor of Count Tolstoi's death from Neues Wiener Journal. Moscow Courier notes hopeless condition while St Petersburg Viedomosti relays a physician telegram claiming inflammation of lungs and pleura began February 6 with gradual improvement since.
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Vipnna
Neues Wiener Journal
Count Tolstoi
ST. Petersburg
Moscow
Lieutenant Colonel Pope Dead in Manila
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin F. Pope, chief surgeon of the Julepine army, died in Manila today from Bright's disease.
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Pope
Manila
Benjamin F. Pope
Shopworn Shoes Odd Lots and Broken Sizes Ad
Odd lots and broken sizes including ladies lace boots 3.60 and 4.00, Oxford ties 4.00 to 5.00, men calf shoes 3.50 to 5.00, ladies and boys boots 1.95 to 2.95, 50 cents. Shoes described as slightly shopworn but wearing qualities not injured.
James B Thayer Harvard Law professor dies at 71
Weld professor of law James Bradley Thayer died suddenly of heart trouble at his Cambridge home at 7 last evening. A Harvard Law School veteran of over 25 years he studied and taught at Harvard after a early career in Boston. He was born January 13 1831 in Havrehill Massachusetts and educated at Harvard Law School.
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Weld
Harvard Law School
Phillips Place
Cambridge
Thayer
Boston
Peleg W. Chandler
Harvard
Haverhill
Mass
Old Academy
Milton
Lil. B
Suffolk Bar
William J. Hubbard
Towa State Istasi
Law School
Austin
Boston Daily Advertiser
Sophia Bradford Ripley
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Historical Society
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Daniel Shea In An Asylum
Daniel Shea the prominent Boston liquor dealer and former Kearsargs Veterans commander is an inmate at McLean Asylum in Waverly Massachusetts. Once a self made financier he faced a long decline and a precarious health ending in this last resort institutionalization.
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Daniel Shea
Kearsarge Naval Veterans
Boston
McLean Asylum
Waverly
Mass
Mr. Shea
Shea
Ireland
Navy
Lee
Richmond
Merrimac Street
Blackstone Street
State Street
Reading Railroad
Kearsargs
Washington Street
Him Hill District
Roxbury
Smallpox hits Weymouth church infects priest
Rev. J J Murphy of Sacred Heart Church in Weymouth is ill with smallpox. The church and rectory are quarantined and Ash Wednesday services were attended by many parishioners. The town ferries a pest-house at the Town Hall as vaccination rush follows. The parish includes part of Braintree and about 700 parishioners. 500 attended Ash Wednesday services.
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Weymouth
J. J. Murphy
Sacred Heart Church
Father Murphy
Fath Murphy
Braintree
J. C. Frazer
East Weymouth
Frazer
Shea
Boston Board of Health
J. B. Holland
Pat Ghe
Dr Pfeiffer in Fever as Bedford Schools Close
In Bedford on February 14, Dr Pfeiffer remains very feverish with temps near 105 to 106 requiring constant ice. He sleeps poorly, restless and coughing much. Schools closed for a week as children struggle with work after the vaccination prompted by the smallpox discovery.
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Bedford
Russia's hostile reply to Anglo Japanese treaty
Russia responds to the Anglo Japanese treaty with evident hostility. It says if England and Japan seek war they may have it while claiming a pacific aim. Russia asserts it will safeguard its interests in the Orient and notes it has allied with America to preserve China’s integrity and Corea's independence.
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ST. Petersburg
Russia
England
Japan
Associated Press
China
Corea
Pacific
Kurinoe
America
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