Fire claims four lives and injures many in Cambridge
In Cambridge yesterday a devastating fire killed a four year old boy and a baby, injured eight children, and left a laborer with serious subway injuries. Firemen suffered frostbite while battling the blaze that destroyed a two story wooden house and caused about 3000 dollars in losses.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Minnie Nelson
Fourth Street Place
East Cambridge
Tawrence
Henry
Isabelle
Fitzsimmons
David Rogers
Pioneer Street
Washington
Main Streets
Courts to Decide Andrews Appointment Sealing Weights Case
The Supreme court will determine if Manuel Andrews is lawfully the sealer of weights and measures in Cambridge. Judge Richardson ruled that the full bench should hear the matter, brought by the Civil Service Commission.
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Manuel Andrews
Cambridge
Supreme Court
Richardson
Civil Service Commission
Shorty McCabe Delivers Delightful Stage Char ms
When Shorty McCabe truly hits top form, he proves hard to beat in performance. The next Sunday Post Magazine teases his lively act with a playful subtitle about a sub on for Favvy, hinting at his engaging stage presence.
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Shorty
McCabe
Next
Post
Uncle Ben
Sunday Post
Darius Mills Dies Leaving Vast Estate to Granddaughters
Darius Ogden Mills dies at 84 in San Francisco leaving an estate estimated between 25 and 100 million dollars. Granddaughters Mrs. John Hubert Ward and Countess Granard, plus Miss Gladys Mills, are expected to inherit sizable sums. Mills founded the Bank of California and built Mills Hotels, while serving as trustee or president of major institutions before retirement. Funeral plans point to New York or Sleepy Hollow burial.
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San Francisco
England
Darius Ogden Mills
John Hubert Ward
Whitelaw Reid
Countess Granard
Ogden Mills
Reid
Jean Reid
Dudley
Beatrice Mills
Earl of
Ogden. Mills
Ward
Countess of Granard
Gladys Mills
Earl of Granard
Great Britain
Mrs. Reid
East
Mr. Mills
London
New York
New York City
California
Sacramento
Bank of California
Mills
Ogden
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Bank of New York
Morton Trust Company
United States Trust Company
University of California
University
Santiago
Chile
School of Millionaires
Metropolitan
Century
Union
Union League
Knickerbocker
DIES OF HUNGER IN NEWBURYPORT WOMAN 79
Mrs. Johanna Freeman aged 79 died in Newburyport from starvation and exposure despite having over $1000 saved in local banks. The case prompts questions on hunger, poverty, and care in the area.
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Newburyport
Johanna Freeman
Taft Declares War on Insurgent Republicans
Insurgent Republican leaders in the House face growing pressure from the national party to oppose renomination in several districts. Representative Miller of Minnesota exposed that Postmaster General Hitchcock halted Miller’s postmaster appointments over insurgent actions, while others anticipate fund backed challenges, primaries, and possible general elections to oust insurgent incumbents.
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Miller
Minnesota
Hitchcock
Department
Mr. Miller
House
Congress
National Party
Cannon
Kansas City
Lincoln
Cummins
la Follette
Bristow
Bryan
Taft
Record Cold Spell Breaks Across Eastern Cities
The blizzard advances as Boston shatters its cold record since 1871 with 16 below in Greenville and New York at 10 above. A 40 mile per hour gale disrupts traffic while harbor ice forms. storms threaten the coast with easing winds bringing a freeze over time.
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Boston Weather Bureau
Mercury
New York
Boston
New England
Greenville
United States
Toledo
Central Weather Bureau
Washington
Eastport
Northfield
Block Island
Million cost of strike in Barre granite conflict
James Duncan of the Granite Cutters' International Association says the Barre strike has cost his union about 1 million dollars in wages lost and aid payouts. He estimates manufacturers face a similar financial impact, though exact figures are unavailable.
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Quincy
James Duncan
American Federation of Labor
Granite Cutters’ International Association of America
Barre Granite Manufacturers’ Association
Barre
Granite Cutters’ Association
Granite Lockout Halts Vermont County Industry
Washington county Vermont faces a total granite labor shutdown with about 6000 workers idle including 3000 locked out cutters and 3000 unattached quarrymen, jumpers, boxers and others. The dispute centers on the hand surfacing machine and has trapped the industry in a prolonged deadlock.
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Washington County
Vermont
Duncan
Trains Delayed by Cold Grips New Haven South Station
Thousands of commuters at New York New Haven and Hartford South station faced 16 to 30 minute delays as extreme cold froze brake shoes and stiffened couplings. About 10 000 people waited amid cold and crowding while 90 trains depart in an hour from 5 18 to 6 15. The disruption stretched to congestion due to rapid departures and heavy arrivals.
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Cambridge
Boston
Chicago
New York, New Haven & Hartford
South Station
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Cooper’s
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