Safeguarding Fire Vehicles After Parker Street Accident
Fire Commissioner Charles H. Cole outlines measures to prevent repeat of Ladder Truck 12 crash in Roxbury. He cites adding auto like hand brakes, iron shoes or skids, extra ropes and chains, and proposes changing Parker Hill avenue to a wider curve to improve safety for Boston fire trucks.
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Parker Street
Roxbury
George F. Doyle
Charles H. Cole
Boston
Cole
Parker Hill Avenue
Mission Street
Calumet Street
Malden Man Weds Miss Ethel Gilmore in Home Ceremony
Edwin Treland a Malden hardware dealer married Miss Ethel Gilmore daughter of Mr and Mrs Luther Gilmore of Brewer Maine. The ceremony occurred Monday at the bride’s parents home. Miss Gilmore taught at Center Grammar School and the couple will live at 11 Beltram Street Malden.
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Malden
Edwin Treland
Ethel Gilmore
Luther VY. Gilmore
Brewer, Me
Gilmore
Centre Grammar School
Beltram Street
Curious Features in News of the Day
In New York on February 21 a party game turned dangerous when a kiss in a dark room fractured Miss Mary Cassack's skull. The incident involved May O Connor and Cassack amid a jolly gathering as stenographer Harry Rieche attempted to kiss both women. Cassack, from Yonkers, and her friend face recovery. The piece also notes Sidney J R Francis and companions wanderers, with backgrounds in Yale, Deutsche Bank London, and the du Pont family, plus Heywood Brown of New York.
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New York
Mary Cassack
Elm Street
Yonkers
Miss Cassack
Harry Rieche
Sten
May O'Connor
Rieche
Maryland
Sidney J. R. Francis
D. R. Francis
Missouri
Yale
M. H. Cecil Meltzer
Deutschland Bank
London
Albert R. du Pont
Aime du Pont
Harvard
Heywood Brown
Columbia
Boy of 14 Becomes Farm Manager in Baraboo Area
Floyd Carlente aged fourteen has closed a deal to buy a 135 acre farm near Baraboo Wisconsin for about 18000 dollars. He will pay in installments and his father has guaranteed the price. The boy has hired two families to run the farm under his direction.
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Baraboo
Wis
Floyd’ Carlente
Will disputes over donation for everlasting life
In Penn Yan on February 21 relatives challenged the will of Mary F. Johnson who died at Bellona Yates County. She left $100000 to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions of New York and $50000 to Bellona Memorial Church claiming she sought favor from God and election to everlasting life. The court upheld the will concluding undue influence did not come from a human source.
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Penn Yan
Mary F. Johnson
Bellona
Yates County
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions of New York
Bellona Memorial Church
Leprosy Experiments On Monkeys In Pittsburgh
Yee Sul a leprous Chinese man volunteers for science at Allegheny General Hospital. Under Dr. Frederick Proescher microbes from Yee Sul are bred in monkeys. Some monkeys died but eight survive and provide virus for further injections into Yee Sul.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Yee Sul
Allegheny General Hospital
Frederick Proescher
Yee Sui
Proescher
Woman Awarded 250 In Dental Malpractice Suit
Mrs Susie V Brewer received 250 in a case against Dr W T Schlosser she said extracted 13 upper teeth against her directions to remove those on the lower jaw She sought 5000 in damages in the Maryland suit filed in Hagerstown February 21.
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Hagerstown
Susie V. Brewer
W. T. Schlosser
Strong 85 year old orders coffin in ready mood
G. W. Allen, Civil War veteran, 85, declares he is not ill and orders a Cypress coffin from F. C. Cox planing mill. He specifies simple construction with brass screws and hinges, no ornaments, to be stored by an undertaker until needed, estimated cost under 25 dollars.
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Pera
G. W. Allen
F. C. Cox
Mr. Allen
Allen
Wedded in Jest Ends in No Divorce for Debnam Pair
Mrs Dorothy Debnam formerly Dorothy Opperman of 238 Whitehall Street Atlanta sued for divorce after a three day marriage begun as a joke. Chancery judge Alfred Benners in Birmingham denied the petition, ruling no legal separation despite the joking intent.
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Atlanta
Dorothy Debnam
Dorothy Opperman
Whitehall Street
Chancery
Birmingham
Debnam
Alfred Benners
Two Women Hissed From Stage After Stokes Shooting
In Cleveland on February 21 Miss Ethel Conrad and Miss Lillian Graham, accused in the shooting of W. E. R. D. Stokes of the Ambassador Hotel in New York, were hissed from the theatre stage during the performance.
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Hiss Stokes
Cleveland
Ethel Conrad
Lillian Graham
W. ER. D. Stokes
Ansonia
New York City
Changes in Cast for Saturday Opera at Boston House
Due to Mme Claessens illness Florence Wickham and Marie Mattfeld will sing the aunt and the witch in Haensel and Gretel today. Madeline d Olige to debut as Micaela in Carmen next Saturday night in America.
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Boston
Mme. Claessens
Florence Wickham
Marie Mattfeld
Aunt
Witch
Haensel Und
Gretel
State Board Rules Clarence Greenleaf sane after insanity findings
In Brockton, Clarence H. Greenleaf was declared sane by the state board after prior insanity adjudications. He shot at a street car motorman in 1909, injuring him and a high school girl, was confined in asylums, escaped twice, and is now released on probation. The case featured legal arguments and witness disputes as a retrial proceeds.
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Brockton
Clarence H. Greenleaf
State Board of Insanity
Aiken
Superior Court
Greenleaf
William Amero
Jennie Swabsky
Plymouth
Bertram G. Spencer
Boston port urged to be free from special interests
Baurat Wendemuth, a German harbor expert, spoke at a City Club luncheon hosted by the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange. He praised Boston's location and urged that the port be kept free from special interests, noting it as a model harbor project in cooperation with German experience.
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Baurat Wendemuth
Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
Herr Wendemuth
Boston
United States
Germany
Hamburg
Mother Found Dead In Malden Home
Mrs. Julia Williams aged 60 was found dead in bed by her son at 126 Avon street Malden yesterday morning. Her husband John Williams died five weeks earlier in an accident.
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Julia Williams
Avon Street
Malden
John Williams
A Healthy Happy Old Age Laxative Remedy
A health note promotes gentle cleansing for a healthy old age using Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It touts natural action, safety for all ages, and warming effects on internal organs. The genuine product bears the California Fig Syrup Co. name on the front.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Boston Court Schedules Washington Birthday Session
For the first time in over 120 years the U S District Court at Boston will hold sessions on Washington's Birthday to hear the retrial of William De Graff cook on the coal barge Glendower. He is charged with murdering Captain Charles D Wyman in his bunk while the barge towed on the high seas June 9 last.
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William N. Putnam
Edwin M.wyman
John P. Feeney
Feeney
Wyman
Captain Camp
Monocacy
Glendower
George B. Magrath
Suffolk County
George F. McCausland
Harbor Police
McCausland
Putnam
United States District Court
Boston
Washington
William de Graff
Charles D. Wyman
High Seas
Deer Delivers Surprise Run Through Manchester Store Window
A deer wandered from Rock Rimmon into Manchester city streets today. It fled downtown, leaping a park wall and dashing through the window of McQuestion & Lewis Co. at Main Street. Store workers captured it and it was later killed by authorities.
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Manchester
N. H
Rock Rimmon
Lafayette Park
McQuestion & Lewis Co
Washington's Birthday Observed at Bridgewater Farm
Bridgewater State Farm in Natal Day ceremonies marks Washington's Birthday with a day off for 2930 inmates. The program includes readings on Washington, an oration, a large roast pork dinner, 2800 loaves of bread and 700 mince pies, and a minstrel show featuring inmates and attending officials.
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Bridgewater
Washington
State Farm
Two Men Get Six Years For Assault On Woman
William J. Sullivan and Thomas Shinkwin were sentenced to six years each at the Massachusetts Reformatory for assaulting an unknown woman found unconscious in a doorway on Eliot Street. She died later at City Hospital. Her identity had not been established. Both men were described as about 24 to 28 years old.
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William J. Sullivan
Thomas Shinkwin
Massachusetts Reformatory
Eliot Street
City Hospital
Friday Special Clothing and Accessories Sale Highlights
A Friday only sale enumerates tailored linings, silks, embroideries, and knit underwear with deep discounts. Featured items include wool blankets, corsets, petticoats, and shoes from Goodyear and Daniel Green, plus coats and suits in silk plush and wool blends.
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Dresden
Six Year Term for Presidents Proposed
Washington February 21. Representative Curley of Massachusetts introduced a bill to limit the President and Vice-President to a single six year term.
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Washington
Curley
Massachusetts
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