Beauty novel ties mystery to Rupert Hughes readers
Rupert Hughes teases a dramatic solution to Clelia Blakeney’s icy Adirondack death in a long read to appear in The Red Book Magazine. The tale centers on the glamorous society figure found frozen in lake ice after a blizzard while Larrick, Coykendall, Miss Fleet, and others search furiously for clues amid a web of rumors and jealousy.
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Clelia Blakeney
Mountain Resort
Red Book
Adirondack
Miss Blakeney
Larrick
Nancy Fleet
New York
Blakeney
Yarrick
Clella Blakeney
Rupert Hughes
America
Hughes
Duel Ends in Comical Thwarted Shootout at Readville
Mule Calagaro, a Readville meat customer, and Bonifacio Laltanzeo, shop owner, fought a duel from behind telegraph poles. Twenty shots were fired with no hits. Laltanzeo finally won by swinging the revolver butt to mule and striking him on the head from behind the pole.
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Colagaro
Lalanzeo
John J. Flaherty
Mule
Readville Street
Lalanzee
Sicily
Chesterton Street
Mach
Charles F. Stack
Lalan
West Roxbury
Mule Calagaro
Bonifacio Laltanzeo
Readville
Prohib Chief Breaks Still Near Greenville South Carolina
John F. Kramer federal prohibition commissioner led a raid with state officers into a county dark corner on February 23. They located a moonshine still but fled before capture, leaving Kramer to break up the apparatus with the mash stirring tool. A copper condenser was saved as a souvenir of his first raid, an education on what a still looks like.
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Greenville
S. C
John F. Kramer
Kramer
Washington
Japanese Couple Engaged From Simmons College Circle
Miss Kay Ninomiya of Tokioka Japan and Ken Hashimoto MJ 9 of Tokio engaged after two years in Simmons College children’s library program and Tech engineering degree. They plan a March wedding and two years of travel in Europe before returning to Japan.
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Boston
Kay Ninomiya
Simmons College
Ken Hashimoto
Tokioka
Japan
Miss Ninomiya
Simmons
Hashimoto
Tokio
Tech
Europe
Kay. .Ninomiya
Two Children Die in Gas Poisoning Tragedy
In South Boston, James 10 and John 4 Coughlin died after a gas-filled flat incident. Police found them with parents and a third brother unconscious. mother Elizabeth near death, father Richard and 9-year-old Thomas improving, all in local hospitals.
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James Coughlin
John Coughlin
Lincoln Park
Boston
Carney Hospital
Elizabeth Coughlin
City Hospital
Richard Coughlin
Thomas
Carney
Roxbury Woman Ann Howlett Missing Ten Days
Friends report 80 year old Roxbury resident Ann Howlett missing for ten days from 13 Springdale street Malden where she stayed a month. She is Newfoundland born, deaf and prone to intermittent memory loss.
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Ann Howlett
Newfoundland
Roxbury
Ethel McLoud
Springdale Street
Malden
Cadet Flyers Die in Tex. Plane Crash Near Austin
Two cadet flyers L. F. Allen and Virgil W. Beach of Kelly Field No. 2 San Antonio were killed when their aircraft crashed on Penn Field just south of Austin as they were taking off for San Antonio.
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Austin
Texas
L. F. Allen
Virgil W. Beach
Kelly Field No. 2
San Antonio
Penn Field
Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine Ad Claim
An advertising blurb promotes Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as a cure for a cold in one day. It asserts the genuine product bears E. W. Grove’s signature and urges buyers to ensure they get Bromo Quinine, pricing 30 cents.
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Grove
E. W. Grove
Nickerson of South Boston Helped Build the Santa Fe Line
Tom Nickerson, longtime South Boston resident and former superintendent of the South Baptist Sunday school, played a pivotal role in financing and leading the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. As president during crucial years, he helped expand the road to 850 miles, from Atchison to the Pacific, and later influenced the Mexican Central line. The piece frames Boston’s rise with three rail lines and lauds Nickerson for expanding national development through Western rail networks and grand canyon scenery narratives.
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Tom Nickerson
South Boston
South Baptist Sunday School
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Boston
Great West
America
Glenn Danfora ‘Bradley
Toledo University
Santa Fe
Atchison
Hutchison
Kansas
Thomas
Joseph Nickerson
Tom
South
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Road
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Nickerson
Mexican Central Railroad
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Funeral services for John E Gilman at Hyde Park home
Prominent men from various walks attended the funeral yesterday morning for John E Gilman past national commander of the G A R Held from the home of his son William L F Gilman 1268 River Street Hyde Park with state and city officials and delegations from patriotic societies present.
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John E. Gilman
John BE. Gilman
William L. F. Gilman
River Street
Hyde Park
State issues for new trial in three defendants
Exceptions in the cases of Godfrey IL. Cabot Robert D. Weston and Hector M. Holmes setting forth grounds on law issues for a new trial were filed. The three were tried again on Jan. 95 on charges of conspiring to steal papers from Daniel H. Coakley. Weston and Holmes were charged with receiving the stolen papers. all were found not guilty of conspiracy, while Cabot was released. A motion for a new trial remains pending and Judge Fessenden has not ruled on sentence.
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Godfrey IL. Cabot
Robert D. Weston
Hector M. Holmes
Superior Criminal Court
Daniel
Weston
Holmes
Fessenden
Mr. Cabot
Good Cheer Curtis to Campaign in Orange
Frank Curtis the evangelist has been invited by the pastor of the M E Church at Orange Mass to conduct an eight day evangelical campaign from Feb 27 to March 7 He has accepted and will be assisted by Rev Clive I Dorman First M E Church Boston and Miss Myra L Eekhoff gospel singer
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Good Cheer Curtis
Orange
Frank Curtis
M. E. Church
Mass
Curtis
Clive I. Dorman
M. E
Boston
Myra L. Eékhoff
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Norry Frewin
Mrs. Roantree
Laverick
Roantree
Roy Coykendall
Burney
Randel
Miss Fleet
Friends
Coughlin
Lloyd's
Washington St
Boylston St
Summer St
Tremont St
Cambridge, Salem and
Brockton
Andrew U Ikxlovyvp Company
BY William Justin Mann
Yanger
Jaeger
Dr. Jaeger’s Company
Fifth Avenue
Michigan Ave
Chicago
Maiden Lane
Chestnut ST
Philadelphia
Falr
Alreatt
Mytandard
Dio
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