Two More Stories in 10 000 Prize Contest
The Sun day Post Magazine announces two new contest entries by Roy Norton and Viola Roseboro for the 10 000 prize. Norton's The Quaker is hailed as his best work, drawing on his varied career from Iowa to Alaska. Roseboro's Aaron Westcott's Funeral grips readers with vivid detail, reflecting her long writing career and McClure's Magazine editorship.
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Viola Roseboro
Sunday Post
Tomorrow
Tovers
New England
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lloyd Osborne
Mabel Herbert Urner
Herman Scheffauer
William
Tom Brooks
San Bernardino
Daily Sun
San Francisco
Alaska
North
Oregon
Golconda
Aaron Westcott
Big Corporation
Pulaski
Tennessee
McClure
Redistricting in Mass. Likely Postponed Says Clerk
Asher C. Hinds of Maine, clerk of the House, believes Massachusetts redistricting to add two Congressmen will not occur in the current Congress due to Senate filibuster tactics. He stated this in a letter to Dudley M. Holman, secretary to Governor Foss.
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Massachusetts
Senate
Washington
Asher C. Hinds
Maine
House
Dudley M. Holman
Foss
Ante-Nuptial Pact Revealed In Cambridge Will
The late Sullivan Niles of Cambridge disclosed an ante nuptial agreement naming Mrs Amelia Mackinster as beneficiary of property upon his death. The will, filed in East Cambridge Probate Court, leaves 10 000 in trust to his widow and 3 000 to Cambridge Hospital and 1 000 to Cambridge Home for Aged People. Niles valued his estate at 500 000 with most bequests to family. A 1910 codicil directs 10 000 be invested with income paid to his wife.
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Sullivan Niles
Cambridge
Amelia Mackinster
East Cambridge
Cambridge Hospital
Howard B. Niles
Egg prices ease slightly from last year
A Tuesday report from the fruit and produce exchange shows eggs down at most ten cents from the same date last year. Fancy hennery and extras lead the decline with declines of five to six cents and nine cents for prime and firsts respectively.
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Fruit and Produce Exchange
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Walling Engagement Suit Details Dismiss Ring Loss
New York date Feb 24 Miss Annette Grinspan testifies Walling repeatedly called her future wife and she sues for 100 000 breach of promise. She cannot produce the marquise ring and says she lost it along with a gold watch and a diamond and pearl ring given by Walling.
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New York
William English Walling
Annette Berthe Grunspan
Walling
Grinspan
Woman testifies in Walling case about marriage plans
In cross examination the witness, described as keen minded and adroit, recalls Walling’s remarks about marrying a Jewish girl and her letters proving his intent. She notes his view of Gentile versus Jewish women and questions of experience and worldliness arise in court. Mr. Walling, his wife, and her sister attend as Emil Fuchs questions the witness.
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Mr. Walling
Paris
Walling
Mr. Fuchs
Life Saver Rule Shows New Contention In House
Washington February 24 The House rejected a cloture motion and advanced a 140 million dollar sundry civil appropriation bill. O Connell of Massachusetts won a proviso barring life saving funds from paying the City Point Boston Harbor keeper amid drownings reports. Other actions included approving the Presidents tariff board 400000 dollar appropriation and striking 75000 for the economy board. Fortifications for the Panama Canal faced delay with tomorrow’s expected debate. Chairman Tawney signals an amendment tying fort money to neutrality treaties with major maritime powers.
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Washington
O'Connell
Massachusetts
City Point
Boston Harbor
O’connell
Pauline Wayne
Panama Canal
Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Concord Lieutenant West dies aiding woman in Alaska blizzard
Concord native Lieutenant Solomon B. West U S Army dies five miles from Tishou Alaska while breaking a trail for Mrs Davenport deputy marshal along one of the season's worst blizzards. A rescuing party found the body and brought it in. West served in the Spanish American War and Philippines campaign.
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N. H
Nome
Alaska
Ss. B. West
Fort Davis
Tishou
Solomon B. West
Concord High School
First
New Hampshire Volunteers
Chickamauga
United States
West
Forty-sixth
United States Volunteers
Philippines
Twenty-second Infantry
San Francisco
Twenty-second
Captain Hunt
New Hampshire State College
Lieutenant West
New Bedford Mayor Denies Corruption Charges
Mayor Charles S. Ashley publicly denies Boston Common allegations of widespread corruption and illegal vote selling in New Bedford during his 14 mayoral elections. He claims the city has no gambling houses or corrupt practices and asserts New Bedford is well governed with transparent finances.
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New Bedford
Charles S. Ashley
Boston Common
Ashley
The
Massachusetts
Woolen mill customs case settled for sixty six thousand
The Neponset Woolen Mill at Canton Junction faced a $200,000 attachment by the Treasury. A compromise of $66,000 was accepted by Washington to satisfy government claims against owner Joseph Brooke of England. Brooke, then in England, avoided arrest and the attachment will be discharged once the payment is received.
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Neponset
Canton Junction
United States
Garland
Treasury Department
Washington
Joseph Brooke
England
Brooke
Archbishop urges Catholic confraternities during Lent
In a pastoral letter read across Catholic churches Archbishop O Connell urges forming confraternities of the blessed sacrament and frequent church visits during Lent. He warns against unbelief and false philanthropy and asks all the faithful to unite in prayer adoration and holy communion to strengthen faith and charity.
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O’connell
Christ
Electric Shock Kills 17 Year Old Moth Nest Worker
Thomas O'Donnell aged 17 died instantly at his Chase Street home in Clinton after 2500 volts of electricity passed through his body while removing brown tail moth nests. He used a long handled cutter with a steel rod that touched a live Connecticut Valley Transmission Company line. He recently left school and worked at a local mill.
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Clinton
Thomas O'Donnell
Chase Street
Connecticut Valley Transmission Company
O'Donnell
Russian Orthodox rite to mark new Holy Trinity church
Monsignor Plato, archbishop of New York, will dedicate the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity at 6-8 Dearborn Street Roxbury tomorrow at 10 AM. He will be assisted by Monsignor Raphael and Father Alexander Hatovitsky plus eight priests and two deacons before 6000 parishioners from Russian Syrian and Albanian Boston communities.
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New York
Dearborn Street
Roxbury
Raphael
Brooklyn
Alexander Hatovitzky
Boston
Back Bay
Church of the Holy Trinity
Father Gregoriev
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