Baxter Attacks Railroad Board Over Boston & Eastern
Charles S. Baxter counsel for the Boston & Eastern Electric Railway assails Railroad Commissioners White and Bishop as unfit for their duties and accuses them of withholding the certificate of exigency. He says the public distrusts them and urges Legislature action to force approval amid railroad opposition. Hearing set for March 8 to hear the opposition.
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White
Bishop
Railroad Board
Boston & Eastern Electric Railway Company
Charles S. Baxter
Essex County Rail Route Seeks Certificate From Legislature
Advocates from southern Essex County urged immediate action by the Legislature directing the Railroad Commission to issue the certificate for a road planned to run to Boston with a harbor tunnel access and a terminus at Postoffice Square. Counsel Baxter reviewed the road’s efforts to obtain authority and said the Legislature last year told the commission to grant the certificate, criticizing the commission as acting above its creation.
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Railroad Commission
Essex County
Boston
Postoffice Square
Baxter
Three Women Arrested in Shoplifting Ring
Three women posing as Mrs Minnie Wentworth and her daughter Hazel aged 17 and Mrs Flora Davis of Salem were arrested by police and store detectives for larceny valued at 40 dollars. Police say Mrs Davis carried a large handbag while the others took goods from counters into the bag. Mrs Davis denies involvement, claiming the others secured the items.
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Minnie Wentworth
Hazel
Flora Davis
Salem
Newton Man Wins In Divorce Court
Columbus G. Carley of Newton was granted a decree nisi and custody of his four children in his petition for divorce from Hattie G. Carley by Judge Bell in the East Cambridge Divorce Court yesterday. He charged her with a statutory offense with Mary Berry at Prospect, Me. The couple were married in Newton on May 15, 1894 and have lived in Newton and Bucksport Maine, including a summer cottage.
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Columbus G. Carley
Newton
Hattie G. Carley
Bell
East Cambridge
Berry
Prospect
Bucksport
Old Boston streets to bear historic names on signs
Boston signs will display original street names such as Hog Lane Turn-Again Alley Frog Lane Cow Lane on existing boards. Chief engineer James H. Sullivan of the public works overhead division says new signs will show these old names in small letters below current names as replacements occur.
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Boston
James H. Sullivan
Public Works Department
Mr. Sullivan
Sullivan
the Daughters of the Revolution
Temple Place
Boylston Street
High Street
Cow Lane
Blackhorse Lane
Parkman Fund Bandstand Design Contest In City
The Music Commission invites city architects to compete for the best design of a proposed bandstand on the Common as a memorial to the late George F. Parkman. The prize will be awarded in a few days by the Music and Art Commission and the superintendent of Public Grounds.
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Parkman
George F. Parkman
Music Commission
Music and Art Commission
Former Newsboy Leader Will Wed Former Newsboy Leader
Simon Robinson longtime newsboy leader and current Washington street merchant will marry Eva B Blacklow next Tuesday evening in Commonwealth Hall East Boston Robinson known as Sheppy sold papers at Park Street subway entrance and led the Newsboys Union He now works with Tamere Robinson on Washington Street Eva is daughter of Nathan and Maplewood Blacklow
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Simon Robinson
Newsboy
Washington Street
Eva B. Blacklow
Commonwealth Hall
Boston
Park Street
Newsboys’ Union
Sheppy
Robinson
Tamere & Robinson
Nathan Blacklow
Maplewood
Taft Awards Medal to 10-Year-Old Nettie Caskey
President Taft awarded Nettie Caskey of Fairmount Indiana a life saving medal on Interstate Commerce Commission recommendation. He sent a personal commendation letter for her bravery after she pulled her niece Marielle from a railroad track as a train approached in March 1910.
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Washington
Taft
Nettie Caskey
Fairmount
Ind
Interstate Commerce Commission
Miss Caskey
Caskey
Sairmount
Pennsylvania Railroad
Marielle Caskey
Lent Regulations Read In Catholic Churches
The 1911 Lent circular outlines fast days and exemptions for those over 21, with allowances for meals and meat on certain days. It specifies abstinence rules, dispensation details, and urges devotions, prayer, and sacramental participation throughout the diocese.
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Holy See
$500 000 Alienation Suit To Be Heard Monday
Frederick I. Small of Boston brings a $500000 alienation suit against Arthur H. Soden of Montana and former National League magnate. The case, tied to a 1908 divorce suit, will be heard in Superior Court before a jury. Ex mayor Thomas J. Boynton of Everett aids Small with George Libbey. Soden employs two firms of lawyers.
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Frederick I. Small
Boston
Arthur H. Soden
Montana Copper King
Superior
Small
Soden
George Libbey
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Nien
Fry
Boston & Eastern
Massachusetts
New Road
Lynn
William P. Connery
Roscoe Walsworth
Revere
Thomas J. Giblin
East
Saltonstall and MacDonald
Beverly
Hurd
Cogswell
Newton Man
John T
Connor
UNION
Greater Boston
Selil Wall Market
Brookside Pure Creamery
Brookside
Ey Pee Annes
Hanover
Portland
Woll’s
Oxford
Csing
Art Commission
Notich
Ben
Wolf's
My Clothier
Portland Streets
Will
Eva Blacklow
Adamson
Splaine
Mm. J. Splaine
AAD
Sveden
Washington& Hanover Sts
Washington ST
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