McCall Repaids $235000 and May Quit Poor NY
John A. McCall president of New York Life Insurance Co repaid 235000 to the company from Andrew Hamilton funds. He sent 85000 in cash and a 160000 note to the investigation committee. A board meeting was called for tomorrow as talk spread that McCall would leave office nearly penniless despite a 500000 life policy.
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New York
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Andrew Hamilton
Hamilton
Thomas P. Fowler
McCall
Square Deal Movement Against Labor Trust Power
A critical essay argues that labor strikes harm the common people by halting coal bread and meat supplies and driving the population to pressure employers. It cites the 1902 coal strike, a presidential commission, and calls for citizen associations to curb trusts while preserving rights. The piece promotes the Citizens' Industrial Association and the Square Deal Magazine led by C. W. Post.
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Labor Trust
Coal Miners’ Union
United States
Alll the People
The
Coal Commission
National Citizens’ Industrial Association
Citizens’ Associations
Square Deal
Citizens
Citizens’ Industrial Ass'n
Giorgione Painting Mystery Solved Story
Mrs John L Gardner bought Giorgione Christ With the Cross in Italy eight years ago from a Loschi Palace contact in Vicenza. Art critics and Berenson knew of the sale, which was lawful but kept from Italian public. The painting now rests in the Gardner collection in Boston amid dispute.
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John L. Gardner
Giorgione
Christ With the
Cross
Italy
Loschi Palace
Vicenza
Bates and Guild
Gardner Collection
Boston
Bryan
Dictionary of Painters
Gardner Palace
Herbert Cook
Attleboro farmer seeks wife as hundreds reply
A Boston Post ad by a rural Attleboro farmer drew over a hundred replies from would be brides. He says many show education and refinement and he has answered only two letters. He plans to meet some in person after reviewing photos, stating he wants to see a picture before a possible interview.
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Attleboro
Boston Post
Harvard Square
Digestive Marvels and Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets
An extended medical sales pitch extols the body as intricate machinery needing digestion and absorption. It touts Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal cure built on scientific rules, promising relief from stomach and digestion issues, urging readers to try them and request a free book from F. A. Stuart Co. in Marshall, Michigan.
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Stuart
F. A. Stuart Co
Marshall, Mich
Cash Aflo at Swampscott Bay
A Boston bag containing 100 dollars, jewelry, and a note of $27 is missing after Otis C Chandler a 23 year old window washer stole from Lynn milliner Mrs Kate Greenhalge and fled toward Swampscott. He pawned the items in several towns then surrendered in New York and is held for Superior Court.
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Boston
Swampscott Bay
Otis C. Chandler
Kate Greenhalge
Lynn
Swampscott
Marblehead
Salem
Lawrence
Worcester
New York
Chandler
Berry
Superior Court
John J Foley Surrenders After Long Diamond Heist Case
John J Foley age 27 of 413 East Eighth street turned himself in to detectives after 138 months on the run for allegedly stealing diamonds valued at 400 from three loan offices. The firms named are Nathan and Hurst Howard and Pollard and Davis Bros. at 683 Washington street.
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John J. Foley
East Eighth Street
Nathan & Hurst
Washington Street
Howard & Pollard
Tremont Street
Davis Bros
Laxative Bromo Quinine Claim on Cold Headache Relief
An advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine, branded as Gold and Grip remedy, asserts it removes the cause of headaches and neuralgia from colds. It cites a call for the full name and signature of kL W Grove, with a price of 25e.
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Kl. W. Grove
Return of Boy Broker
Rockland reports J. Harry Mansfield, the boy financier once linked to a European trip and a collapsed brokerage, has arrived in Boston after his New York firm suddenly closed. Authorities pursued him amid public uproar and rumors of substantial cash linked to the affair.
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Mr. Mansfield
Mansfield
Rockland
Red Letter
New York
sWizard
Steel
Jan
J. Harry Mansfield
Monte Carlo
Boston
Europe
Jerome
Alvah H. Peters Retires After Long City Service
Alvah H. Peters quits service of the city after thirty eight years as a messenger to the Boston school committee and twenty five years as city messenger before being succeeded by Edward J. Leary.
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Alvah H. Peters
Boston
Peters
Edward J. Leary
Veteran school messenger retires after long tenure
He began as assistant school committee messenger on March 23, 1868 and took full duties on April 1, 1872. When he started there were under 20,000 pupils. now over 93,000. In 1865 there were 90 board members, a number reduced during his service. The veteran messenger leaves with best wishes and declined re election.
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Peters
Henry Prew Elected Express Co. President
Edward A Taft resigns as director president and GM of New York Boston Despatch Express Company to join Adams Express Company. Henry Prew, board member, elected president. Walton C Taft, brother of the retiring president, becomes vice president and general manager.
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Edward A. Taft
New York & Boston Despatch Express Company
Adams Express Company
Henry Prew
Walton C. Taft
Aged Swede Samuelson In Court On Murder Charge
Samuel Samuelson an aged Swede faced District Court in Quincy on a murder charge for killing his longtime friend John Domenico Savoretti Italian. He denied the accusation and was held without bail until next Tuesday as Harvard Professor Whitney examines the clothes alleged to be worn at the time. Police doubt the tale that a lamp set Savoretti’s clothes on fire and Samuelson saved him by throwing him out, with Savoretti’s head smashed and hair and blood on a nearby stone. Samuelson's son from Leicester testified the two were longtime friends with no known motive.
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Quincy
Samuel Samuelson
John Domenico Savoretti
Il’rench
Samuelson
Savoretti
Whitney
Harvard
Leicester
Contest of Will of H G Houghton Settled
The will contest over Henry G. Houghton who died at 26 Cunningham Street Dorchester last September and valued his estate at 45000 has been settled by counsel. Mary J Leland of New York city his sister and only legal heir contested the will which left her nothing. Susan J Blodgett his housekeeper Charles T Dunham who worked for him and Haviland O Goodwin had been given the estate.
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Henry G. Houghton
Cunningham Street
Dorchester
Mary JL. C. Leland
New York City
Houghton
Susan J. Blodgett
Charles T. Dunham
Bankruptcy petitions filed against Coe Ray Creelman Co
Two involuntary bankruptcy petitions were filed yesterday morning against Coe Ray Creelman Company a hat glove dealer with addresses 27 29 Otis street and 106 108 Arch street The petitioners Weeks Real Estate Company F A Horle Max Rubin and H T Selif allege insolvency and that the firm made an assignment on December 30.
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Coe, Ray, Creelman Company
Otis Street
Arch Street
Weeks Real Estate Company
F. A. Horle
Max Rubin
H. T. Selif
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Pors
Say Foley
Rockland’s
Elected Express CO. President
Quincy Quarryman
H. G. Houghton
Prince ST
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