Tailors Visit Watch Works at Boston Exchange Banquet
The Boston Merchant Tailors Exchange held its annual banquet at the Quincy House with 150 members present. James J. Meagher became president, Reuben K. Dyer named vice president, Samuel K. Spring secretary, after a daytime convention and a Waltham factory inspection followed by vaudeville entertainment.
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Boston Merchant Tailors’ Exchange
Quincy House
James J. Meagher
Exchange
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Waltham
Reuben K. Dyer
Samuel K. Spring
Record Price Set For Provincetown Mackerel
Provincetown traders report a new record price for fresh mackerel after the schooner Little Jennie delivered a four and three four pounds fish. It sold in New York for one dollar and fifty cents, the highest amount ever earned by a local for a single mackerel.
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Provincetown
Little Jennie
New York
Centenarians Meet for First Auto Ride in Plymouth
In Plymouth Massachusetts on January 2, centenarian Mary C Dame aged 100 and Tilden Pierce aged 101 met for the first time after reading stories about each other. Dame organized the meeting and they enjoyed an automobile ride from the Ryder home to South Hanson, arranged through the Boston Post. An initial hearing challenge was overcome as Dame led the proceedings.
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Pierce
Grandma’ Dame
Plymouth
Mary C. Dame
South Hanson
Mrs. Dame
Uncle Tilden
Grandma Dame
Ryder
Boston Post
Tilden Pierce
Mary C
Mass
Swamp Root Testimony From Pa Couple On Kidney Relief
A letter from Mrs A E Briggs of Eldred Pennsylvania details dramatic kidney and rheumatic improvements after using Kilmer Swamp Root. She notes her husband also recovered from kidney trouble after starting the remedy and urges others to try it. The letter is sworn May 25 1912 and directed to Kilmer Co with request for a sample bottle and booklet.
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A. E. Briggs
Eldred
Ira McCarthy
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Boston Daily Post
Uncle Tilden Visits Grandma Dame in South Hanson
A humorous account tells how Uncle Tilden, riding in a machine, visits the oldest Plymouth county resident called Grandma Dame at her farmhouse in South Hanson. He gifts candy and a postcard, and the two elder hosts share warm conversation before a parting joke about meeting on the road.
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Uncle Tilden
South Hanson
Plymouth County
Uncle Til
Five Day Test Of Tech Plant At Institute Of Technology
Engineering students, about 150, start a five day efficiency test of the institute plant. They will work eight hour shifts weighing coal and measuring power in the boiler room and laboratories. The test runs 8 a m Monday to 8 a m Saturday and includes testing a 600 kilowatt Westinghouse turbine and a Westinghouse compound engine to compare efficiencies and assess a new superheater.
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Institute of Technology
Westinghouse
Engine and Milk Car Derailed Near West Cambridge
The Rutland train coach and engine derailed near West Cambridge at 5:20 yesterday afternoon. Five passenger coaches remained on the rails and no injuries were reported. A faulty switch is suspected. Service restored after the locomotive and milk car were set back on track with travel diverted to the Watertown branch.
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Rutland
Boston
West Cambridge
Watertown
Woman to Face Jury as Bandit
Mrs. Gertrude Bessie Fowler formerly married to a Maine druggist was held in $1000 bonds for the Lynn District Criminal Court grand jury on charges of assault and highway robbery. She is accused of striking Miss Georgia Starkey of 524 Essex street Lynn on December 21 with a gas fixture and stealing a bag containing five dollars.
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Gertrude Bessie Fowler
Maine
Lynn
Assault and Robbery Report Near Lynn English High School
A woman was assaulted and robbed in front of Lynn English High School. She could not identify her attacker due to a mask. Footprints in the school yard matched shoes worn by Mrs. Fowler, according to police.
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Lynn English High School
Starkey
Woman’s alibi fails in assault case before grand jury
The defendant claimed she stayed home until 6 50 p m while the assault occurred at 6 20 p m Her witnesses were discredited and Associate Justice Edward B O'Brien held her for the grand jury She secured bail.
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Edward B. O’brien
Airplane First Lands on Boston Common
Harry M. Jones a 22 year old aviator landed an aeroplane on Boston Common yesterday forenoon eighteen minutes after takeoff from Saugus race track. It marked the first landing on the Common and ranks among the early aeronautic feats of 1913.
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Harry M. Jones
Boston Common
Saugus
Distracted Parents Seek News of Missing Boy
The parents of 17 year old William J. Rode report his disappearance from 451 Saratoga Street East Boston on June 3. They have contacted relatives and friends but no trace has surfaced. He last worked in a Haverhill bakery and told his landlady he was headed to Maine after leaving there October 1.
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William J. Rode
Saratoga Street
Boston
Haverhill
Maine
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Meagher
Hilton
The
Hilton Co
Hanson
Big Store
Henry Siegel CO
Washington and
Essex Streets
South Station
Kegel
Enry
Lec Streets
Zooston Men
New England
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