Swift and Burns in Uptown Robbery Case
Samuel Swift, a Chicago Swift family member, was held up in uptown New York as Edward Burns, a Tenderloin resident, faced assault and attempted robbery charges. Swift resisted and shouted for help while a street car pursuit ended with Burns jailed on $2000 bail. Swift was escorting a young woman and chaperon home. the woman is said to be an actress. Swift & Co. later denied any knowledge of Samuel Swift.
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New York
Samuel Swift
Swift
Chicago
Edward Burns
Burns
MOTHER SEES CHILD CROWN HOPE VALLEY TRAGEDY
In Hope Valley Rhode Island on February 21 Mrs Mabel Sherman 25 tied a rope to a tree and jumped into Wood River her mother tried to pull her ashore she died of the plunge The Sherman family is known in Worcester and about a dozen years earlier another daughter shot herself in her sick room.
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Hope Valley
R. I
Mabel Sherman
Wood River
Worcester
Dance officers postponed funeral duties at Boston Latin School
The annual officers dance at Boston Latin School Drill Hall is postponed due to the death of head master Dr Arthur I Fiske. The five dance committee officers will serve as ushers at the funeral services today at New Old South Church.
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Boston Latin School
Arthur I. Fiske
New Old South Church
Conners Refuses to Resign as State Democratic Chair
William J. Conners amid a Thursday Albany meeting rejects resigning as Democratic State committee chair. He vows to fight removal, says he will remain a member and continue to influence affairs despite calls from upstate members to curb Tammany Hall’s grip and stop Murphy from steering the fall election.
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New York
William J. Conners
Albany
Democratic State Committee
Weill
State Committee
Conners
Tammany Hall
Murphy
Taft to Speak in New York and Newark
President Taft will leave tomorrow for New York to address the Washington Birthday banquet of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati at the Plaza Hotel. He then spends the night with his brother Henry W. Taft before traveling to Newark for a Newark Board of Trade banquet that evening. He will return to Washington early Thursday morning.
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Washington
Feb
Taft
New York
New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
Plaza Hotel
Henry W. Taft
Newark
N. J
Newark Board of Trade
Hogs Set Record High at Chicago Stockyards
Chicago February 21 hogs sold at nine dollars fifty cents per hundred pounds, the highest price since 1870 when ten dollars was reached. Small receipts at the main packing centers spurred the advance.
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Chicago
Kerr Crowned Prettiest Gil in Tech Show 1910 Cast
The 1911 Catonsville athlete Charles Phillips Kerr portrayed Roberta Schlick in the Tech Show The Queen of the Cannibal Isles. The cast includes Ralph Nelson Doble Henry Schlick Henrietta Dean Harold Kemp and others from Boston Pittsburg Newtonville Lugano Somerville and Boxford with roles such as Handi Singh Datto Gohr and Togo native official.
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Tech
Charles Phillips Kerr
Catonsville
Roberta Schlick
Pittsburg
Kerr
Henry Schlick
Roberta
Ralph Nelson Doble
Quincy
Henrietta Dean
Harold Donald Kemp
West Roxbury
Bluffem Jones
Boston
William
McNabbe Schofield
Newtonville
Lord Lengthleigh
Allen Russell Atwater
Lugano
Switzerland
Liliokakooka
Munroe Rhodes Pevear
Boxford
Mass
Handi Singh
Carl Dixon Fernstrom
Norfolk
Katimarai
Sidney Malcom
Somerville
Sing Singh
War Vets and Sons Rally Tonight in Faneuil Hall
Tonight a large meeting in Faneuil Hall will feature a G A R reception organized by the Sons of Veterans. Senior Vice-Commander J Willard Brown leads the G A R delegation with Arthur J Boutwell and past division commanders. Massachusetts division commander rank BE Warren will attend with staff. About 100 candidates will be initiated by the Sons of Veterans' Club.
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Faneuil Hall
Sons of Veterans
Grand Army
Faneuil Wall
Sons of Veterans’ Club
Department of the
J. Willard Brown
The
Arthur J. Boutwell
Massachusetts
BE. Warren
Card and Mann Cleared in Portland Robbery Case
Fred C. Card of Portland and Carl B. Mann of Worcester were discharged in municipal court after being linked to a sandbagging and attempted robbery of Harold Perry, a typewriter agent, in January. Only witness Morris Glickman testified, stating the plan originated at Card's Old Orchard cottage and that both men were present.
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Fred C. Card
Carl B. Mann
Worcester
Mass
Brookline
Harold Ii. Perry
Morris Glickman
Roxbury
Glickman
Card
Old Orchard
Mann
Perry
Among the Churches of Greater Boston Rally and Events
Boston area churches host multiple events. The young people's missionary rally meets at New Old South Church with sessions at 10:30 AM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Baptist youth rally at Clarendon Street Baptist Church at 4 PM. Colonel Adam Gifford speaks at Tremont Temple Men's League on Following the Wing. Codman Cadets anniversary at Kenwood Street tonight. Washington's Birthday sale aids Rosemary cottage at Shawmut Church. St George's Wollaston consecration and confirmation by Bishop Lawrence at 10:30 AM. Reverend George Hodges speaks in Waltham Tales Club on George Washington.
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Young People’s
Boston
New Old, South Church
The
Baptist Young People
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Adam Gifford
Salvation Army
New England
Men’s League of
Codman
Second Congregational Church
Dorchester
Frank H. Viele
Mr. Viele
Kenwood Street
St. George’s Episcopal Church
Wollaston
Lawrence
Hamlin waits to be asked for fourteenth district bid
Charlies S. Hamlin remains silent on a possible Democratic bid for Congress in the fourteenth district. He says he has not been asked by residents and will respond only after such a request is made.
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Charlies S. Hamlin
Fourteenth District
Congress
Second Wife Wins Restraining Order in New York
In New York on February 21 an injunction was issued by the Supreme Court restraining Mrs Grace Herbert Guggenheim Wahl, the former wife of William Guggenheim, from pursuing further Illinois proceedings to challenge the validity of a prior matter, following an application by the present Mrs Guggenheim.
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New York
Supreme Court
Grace Herbert Guggenheim Wahl
William Guggenheim
Illinois
Guggenheim
Granite Cutters Strike Ends in Barre Vermont
The three month idle period ends as 5000 granite workers return to work after the International Granite Cutters Union announces a return to employment on Wednesday. The confirmation comes from the local union headquarters in Barre Vermont.
Miss Browning Scorches Cherry Tree Tale With Tact
Miss Roberta Barrett Browning a public school teacher in Massachusetts argues in an interview that the cherry tree legend about George Washington is likely exaggerated. She mocks the tale and suggests the moral is to practice tact even in telling a story.
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Miss Browning
Cherry Tree
Roberta Barrett Browning
Good Old
30Ston
Mass
George
Women Held for Big Steal
New York February 21 The cases of Bessie Roberts alias Kid Dowdell and Mary Williams for robbing banker Warner M Van Norden Jr of 28 000 were called for trial The defendant’s trial was adjourned for two weeks while Van Norden is in Carlsbad Bohemia with a nervous breakdown.
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New York
Bessie Roberts
Kid Dowdell
Mary Williams
Warner M. van Norden, Jr
van Norden
Carlsbad
Bohemia
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