Phelps Appeal Wins Funds to Seek Supreme Court Review
A flood of support raises funds to enable attorney Davenport to push Phelps’s death sentence befor the United States Supreme Court. Governor Voss grants a stay while bond funds are arranged, and petitions for commutation surface in Franklin County as volunteers pledge 200 signatures each.
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Phelps
Davenport
Supreme Court
United States Court
Franklin County
Greenfield
Miles
United States Supreme Court
Bridges
Voss
Youth Endures Unlikely Mouth Stunt In Philadelphia
Robert Wilson, a youth, bet he had the largest mouth in the crowd and clenched a pool ball between his jaws. The ball was stuck for two hours until doctors at the Children's Homeopathic Hospital removed it, costing him five front teeth.
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Philadelphia
Robert Wilson
Children’s Homeopathic Hospital
Body of 16 year old ice victim found in Saugus pond
After hours of searching the body of Herbert McIntyre age 16 of Wakefield was recovered from about three feet of water in Dan's pond Saugus. He was the second victim in the Saturday accident that sent nearly 30 into the icy waters. Police and volunteers used a garden rake to recover him. His death followed the earlier drowning of Sargent Vilage 12 of Melrose.
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Herbert McIntyre
Wakefield
Dan’s Pond
Saugus
Penny
Frank Martin
Greenwood
Donald McIntyre
Main Street
Melrose
McIntyre
Sargent Vilage
Gardner Flagg
Melrose Street
Dettmar Jones
Melrose High School
Six Men Arrested in Canton Street Gambling Raid
Six men were arrested in a police raid at 35 West Canton Street early yesterday morning. Authorities seized large quantities of playing cards and poker chips. Arrested were Charles Mark 49 James Marshall 48 John Sweeney 39 Arthur Johnson 45 Frank Jones 34 and Robert Sweet 30.
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West Canton Street
Charles Mark
James Marshall
John Sweeney
Arthur Johnson
Frank Jones
Robert Sweet
An Upbeat New Year Cheer Urges Self Help and Action
A decades old verse urges readers to abandon idle wishes and take active toil. It urges youths to work hard, harvest their own success, and craft their fortunes through diligence, early rising, and persistent effort to gain lasting honor and wealth.
Opera Star Marcoux Mourns New Year Solitude
Boston Opera Company bass Vanni Marcoux, to debut as Golaud in Pelleras et Melisande, laments being away from wife and child on New Year’s Eve. He jokes about crossing the ocean in an airship and notes homesickness as he prepares for the production.
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Vanni Marcoux
Boston Opera Company
Golaud
Marcoux
Girl Belated by Snow Married at Midnight
Delayed by heavy snow storms in Utah and Nevada, Miss Gertrude J. Gardiner reached Oakland late Saturday night and wed Leo A. Smith, former Lynn newspaperman, just before midnight, ending a four year courtship that began in Lynn English High School. She was valedictorian in 1910. he wrote the class hymn and later worked for the San Francisco Chronicle in Berkeley. The couple's romance endured long distance and mail, with a diamond ring sent last summer before the September engagement announcement. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Keane at St Francis Church.
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Utah
Nevada
Gertrude JL. Gardiner
Lynn
Oakland
Cal
Leo A. Smith
South Pacific
Father Keane
St. Francis’ Catholic Church
Lynn English High School
Gardiner
Smith
West
Los
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Boylston St
Touraine
Horlick’s
Horlick
Castoria
Infante
By Walt Mason
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Snow
Scarpia
Mefistofeles
Boito
Italy
Europa
A. Shuman
Carr
Melton
Shuman Corner
Boston
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