Attleboro farmer seeks wife as letters pour in
A Boston area item describes farmer and drummer Thomas Fairbanks seeking a wife via General Delivery Boston. Extracts from letters show diverse applicants from ages 18 to 30, all eager for country life, with varying backgrounds. Most express desires for companionship, farming, and rural happiness, some noting hair color heights and skills.
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Attleboro
Thomas Fairbanks
General Delivery
Station A
Boston
Mass
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Promoted as All Purpose Digestive Cure
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a perfect medicine for digestion and absorption, claiming they repair the body’s internal machinery and prolong life. It urges immediate use for after eating distress, hunger, thirst, and loss of appetite, and offers a free book with the Marshall Michigan address for F. A. Stuart Co.
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Stuart
F. A. Stuart Co
Marshall, Mich
Great mass meeting for Irish home rule in Boston
Preparations for a large mass meeting at Faneuil Hall next Thursday evening in support of the Irish Parliamentary party and home rule. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald to preside. Charles R. Devlin M P Galway comes from Ottawa to speak along with Rt Rev Dennis O Callaghan D D Hon Thomas J Gargan and others. The meeting is open to the public galleries reserved for ladies and escorts until 7 45 p m A band will be present.
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Faneuil Hall
Irish Parliamentary Party
Ireland
Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
Charles R. Devlin
Galway
Ottawa
Mer
Denis O'Callaghan
Thomas J. Gargan
Philip J. O’donnell
P Atrick J. Duane
Waltham
Willard Pleads Not Guilty At Reading
E B Willard, the Revere young writer accused of attempting to wreck trains on the Boston and Maine at Reading, pleads not guilty as the government is not ready. The case is continued to January 9 with bail set at 2090. Willard, unrepresented, remained calm in court.
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Reading
E. B. Willard
Revere
Boston & Maine
Willard
Banquet Honors McFarland Returning to Panama
At the Cecil Hotel on Wednesday evening a complimentary banquet honored William McFarland a Panama canal official. He visits his native city a short time and plans to return to Panama tomorrow with his wife and children. He spoke on the canal question and shared many facts. Attendees included George Wardrop Joseph Ke Lewis Richard Walsh Hugh Devine Simon Devine Frank Wells Albert Pitts William Birch and M Desmond.
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Cecil Hotel
William McFarland
Panama
George W. Wardrop
Joseph Ke, Lewis
Richard EK. Walsh
Hugh Devine
Simon Devine
Frank Wells
Albert Pitts
William Birch
M. J. Desmond
Japanese poet Nezei Noguchi murder solved in strange anthropology
Victoria B C January 4 The Japanese police at Tokyo solved a strange crime by proving Osaburo Noguchi an adopted son murdered a boy years ago and cut flesh from the victim to make soup fed to his leprous foster parents who hoped the soup would cure their disease He read that human flesh soup could cure leprosy and carried out the act.
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Victoria
B. C
Tokio
Nezei Noguchi
Osaburo Noguchi
Osaburo
Society Belle Foils Street Thieves On Sargent Street
Miss Katherine Emery of 18 Ivanhoe street, a prominent Newton socialite from a wealthy family, fought off two young assailants on Sargent street as they tried to steal her chatelaine bag containing money and valuables. She, aided by a quick defense, chased them away and sought a police arrest, noting their ages as about 18 and 14 and their well dressed appearance.
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Newton
Katherine Emery
Ivanhoe Street
Sargent Street
Miss Emery
William H. Emery
Post
Worcester Millionaire Martin Green to Wed Mrs Sampson
Worcester wealth, aged Martin Green, plans to marry Mrs. Joseph Sampson of Wareham, widow of a Chicago merchant. The romance spans decades, with Green once living with the Sampsons in Chicago and renewed ties in Wareham and Worcester.
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Worcester
New England
Martin Green
Joseph Sampson
Chicago
Andrew Green
Greater New York
Wareham
Ward 10 Democratic Committee Officers Named
The Ward 10 Democratic committee lists Jeremiah E. McCarty as chairman Michael Mooney as treasurer Martin F. Quigley as secretary and members Arthur O Neil John J Clifford Edward Lieneman Jeremiah J Keane Michael J Shea Daniel J Horgan and J A Sullivan.
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Democratic Committee
Ward 10
Jeremiah E. McCarty
Michael Mooney
Martin F. Quigley
Arthur O'Neil
John J. Clifford
Edward Lieneman
Jeremiah J. Keane
Michael J. Shea
Daniel J. Horgan
J. A. Sullivan
Brothers Draw Straws For Bride in Davis County
In Davis County North Carolina two brothers, John William and Henry Mack, both handsome and well to do, vied for Miss Nellie Despass. Nellie loved both but could not choose. She held a wedding party where the brothers drew straws. the younger won and married Nellie immediately, with the elder serving as best man.
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Richmond
John William
Henry Mack
Davis County
N. C
Nellie Depass
Nellie
Do Not Fear Tuberculosis Says Rutland Doctor
Dr Vincent Y Bowditch consulting physician of Rutland Sanatorium spoke at a tuberculosis exhibition in Horticultural Hall. He cited a case of a man wary of infection who closed his windows when wind blew from the sanatorium and urged that strict cleanliness and destruction of sputum prevent danger to caregivers and neighbors.
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Vincent Y. Bowditch
Rutland Sanatorium
Horticultural Hall
Rutland Hospital
St Josephs Holy Name Society Elects Officers
St Josephs Holy Name Society of St Josephs Church announces officer elections led by President David Miller and Vice President William Barry. A men’s retreat starts next Sunday Jan 7 at 10:30 mass with speaker Rev M F Fallon. Plans include lectures, smoke talks, whist parties and entertainments afterward.
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West End
Holy Name Society
St. Joseph's Church
David Miller
William EF. Barry
James B. McKenna
George W. Stevens
Charles A. McGinley
William H. Cunningham
John Kelly
George F. Wentworth
John Lynch
M. F. Fallon
Buffalo
N. Y
P. J. McCormack
Widow Awarded Five Thousand Dollars in Horse Kick Case
Norah Sullivan was awarded 5000 dollars after noon yesterday in a suit against Franklin Wyman of Arlington for 20000 dollars over her husband’s death. Sullivan’s husband died about 50 hours after the injury from a kick by a horse owned by Wyman, with the claim based on pain and suffering before death.
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Norah Sullivan
Franklin Wyman
Arlington
Sullivan
Aged detective traps Lynn jewelry thief in farce of fix
Otis E. White a 75 year old retired Boston and Saugus police officer visited Lynn to fix his watch. A peculiar chain of events led him to spend the afternoon and evening tracking two Lynn thieves. He spotted the pair in a store observed two rings stolen, then located one suspect, Haskell C. Coffin of Sanford Maine, who confessed. The suspect was jailed and sentenced to three months in the House of Correction by Judge Berry.
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Lynn
Otis E. White
Boston
Saugus
House of Correction
Berry
Haskell C. Coffin
Sanford, Me
Nicaragua Town Ruins From Earthquake and Volcano
Vice-Consul Wallace wires the State Department that a terrible earthquake hit Nicaragua. Massaya, a town of about 18 000 mostly Indian inhabitants, was reported ruined by the eruption of San Diego volcano, located roughly ten miles from Lake Nicaragua.
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Washington, D. C
Wallace
Managua
State Department
Nicaragua
Massaya
San Diego
Lake Nicaragua
He Came From Missouri X Zalia Free Booklet
A 16 page booklet promises a simple cure for skin troubles sore throats catarrh and scalp itching by keeping the part wet with X Zalia antiseptic liquid mailed free to all who write the X Zalia Corp Boston address.
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X-Zalia
X-Zalia Corp
Batterymarch St
Boston
Mrs L Graham Crozier Urges Chloroform for Starving Babies
The young New York settlement lecturer, Mrs L Graham Crozier, advocates using chloroform on babies to prevent starvation, drawing sharp debate on ethical treatment and welfare.
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L. Graham Crozier
New York Settlement
Stark plea by Miss Crozier on chloroform for city children
New York City lecturer Miss Jl Crozier denounces officials and institutions over urban poverty and child starvation. She advocates administering chloroform to starving children, claiming many youths 60,000 died last summer from cold and hunger while authorities remained passive.
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New York
JL. Graham Crozier
Fifth Avenue
Mother Earth
Nature
Escaping Gas Almost Kills Three Sleepers
Early yesterday morning escaping gas in the cellar of a three story wooden building at 61 Harrison Avenue near Hamburg Street endangered three people. Carl Wosemann, a baker who runs a shop in front and lives in the rear, and his assistants Mrs Clara Bartella aged 32 and Lillie Fountain aged 16 were affected.
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Harrison Avenue
Hamburg Street
Carl Wosemann
Clara Bartella
Lillie Fountain
Heirs Attach $50,000 Estate in Boston Area Trust Battle
Phebe H. Slocum and coheirs file two attachments in Middlesex registry of deeds totaling 300000 against Malcolm McLoud and Charles D. Lyford as Hayward trust trustees. Suit seeks to block transfer of a prized Newton Boston real estate parcel near Chestnut Hill reservoir, part of a large estate of Phebe Hayward. Heirs urge retention while trustees appear poised to dispose of the property amid secrecy over the case.
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Middlesex Registry of
Phebe H. Slocum
New Bedford
Alice C. H. Judkins
New York City
Nathan Hayward
Brockton
Walter S. Hayward
Rochester
N. H
Malcolm McLoud
Charles D. Lyford
Watertown
Hayward Trust
Phebe Hayward
Newton
Boston
Chestnut 1Ill
Northwest Buried in Snow Cripples Midwest Rail
The storm, the heaviest since 1898, sweeps the Northwest with snow up to 158 inches in St Paul. Northern Wisconsin reports railroad traffic tied up, North Dakota wires blockade warnings, and Iowa is buried under six inches of snow in some areas.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Iowa
Me Him and I Club Dance at Tremont Street Hall
The Me Him and I Club of Roxbury will host a dance in People's Hall located at 1171 Tremont Street on January 22.
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Him and
Him
Roxbury
People’s Hall
Tremont Street
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