Boston Leader Edward J Donovan Dies After Illness
Edward J Donovan died after a two month illness of stomach catarrh and heart weakness. A Boston native born 1864, he served in the Legislature and Massachusetts Senate, held many city posts, and was a noted public speaker and community leader. He was married in 1891 to Margaret McGivney and left four children.
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Mr. Donovan
Donovan
Margaret McGivney
Boston
West End
Brown, Durrell & Co
Suffolk
House
Massachusetts Senate
State House
J. Mitchell Galvin
Democratic City Committee
William 3H. Russell
Nathan Matthews, Jr
Matthews
Internal Revenue Collector
Cleveland
State Street
Knights of Columbus
Massachusetts Order of Foresters
Boston Lodge of Elks
The
Press Club
Boston Athletic Association
Clover Club
Boston Yacht Club
Workmen
Hendricks Club
John F. Fitzgerald
Senate
Omaha
McKinley
Life of a Boston lawyer and political figure Baker
The piece traces the career of Baker a prominent New England lawyer and political aspirant. It details his early campaigns for Congress and mayor of Newton his marriage in Boston to a Denver woman and subsequent divorce and remarriage, a 1905 fraud accusation tied to a mining receivership, a 1906 bankruptcy of 84386.94 then claims of vindicated honesty and a decline in health.
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Baker
Denver
Boston
Edward Everett Hale
Oakland
Red Rover Mining Company of
Colorado
Hill
Funeral Planned for Mr Donovan at St Anthony's Allston
Mr Donovan aged 43 died after illness and will lie in state before a solemn requiem high mass at St Anthony's Church Allston on Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Archbishop O'Connell who once officiated at his 1930 marriage at St Joseph's West End visited him Saturday morning.
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Mr. Donovan
St. Joseph’s Church
West End
William H. O'Connell
Boston
Archbishop O'Connell
St. Anthony’s Church
Allston
Tributes Pour In For Edward J Donovan In Boston Obituary
Boston politicians and friends expressed shock and praise at the death of Edward J Donovan. They recalled his twenty years of friendship and service, calling him honest, principled, and a capable public figure, with tributes from Mayor Fitzgerald and others.
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Boston
Edward J. Donovan
Donovan
Biks’ Rest
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Fitzgerald
Wilson H. Fairbank Dies Noted Massachusetts Politician
Warren Massachusetts reports the death of Wilson H. Fairbank a longtime Republican leader. He served in the Massachusetts House and Senate and held posts with the Governors Council. Fairbank directed commissions for Lewis and Clark Jamestown and Louisiana Purchase expositions. He faced forgery charges in Oregon later dropped and sued DA Moran for slander. Born April 8 1836 he built a telegraph and telephone line business before politics.
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Portland
Ore
Massachusetts
American Telegraph Company
Independent Telegraph Company
Insulated Lines Telegraph
Monongahela Valley Telegraph Company
United States Telegraph Company
William H Baker Dies Amid Poverty and Public Fame
William H Baker 1865 64 Rutland Square Boston lawyer and Democratic politician dies at 64 Rutland square after a short illness. Services in Colbert's 481 Shawmut Ave then funeral in Norridgewock Maine at 9 20 Wednesday. Born Somerset County Maine he moved to Boston studied at Boston University admitted to Suffolk bar.
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William H. Baker
Rutland Square
Maine
Norridgewock, Me
Mr. Baker
Somerset County
Boston
Boston University
Suffolk
Lottie B. Stevens
Oaklaw
Family Row Ends in Gunfire. Two Wounded in North Adams
After a family dispute in North Adams on January 5, Frank Parrino, 37, is hospitalized with a bullet wound to the neck and Paola Parrino has a probable fractured skull. Police in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont seek Pasquale Marconda, the alleged shooter.
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North Adams
Frank Parrino
Paola Parrino
Massachusetts
Vermont
Pasquale Marconda
Labor unions elect officers across Boston area
Multiple unions in Hyde Park Somerville Chelsea Brookline Medford and Fall River elect presidents vice presidents secretaries treasurers and stewards. A Kennewick donation to the Colen Driscoll fund noted along with planned installations and upcoming 1908 union activities.
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John R. Morgan
Hyde Park
Painters’ District Council
Massachusetts
A. W. Mischler
Quincy
George L. Robinson
Somerville
A. B. Outram
Chelsea Financial
Pp. A. Devaney
Boston Union
Henry G. Gerritson
Ed Leahy
Medford
E. Frank Moorehouse
T. Cunning
Milton
J. R. Abercrombie
Brookline
Brookline Town Employees’ Union
A. F
L.hig
Colen-Driscoll
BE. H. Smith
John J. O'Brien
Thomas Waters
John Tynan
John McNamera
Joseph Kelly
Thomas O’neil
Michael O'Neil
William Norton
James Norton
Union 70
Thomas F. Shea
James Donovan
Michael Brennan
John Clancy
Joan Buckley
Jeremiah Murray
John Coffey
William Hooper
George White
Michael F. O’brien
Federation of State, City and Town Employees' Unions
William Malone
John Barter
James Wilson
William Murphy
William Plant
Daniel Harrington
United Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steamfitters and Helpers
Boston C. L
Antonio Chiota
Giacomo Kolami
Amadio Pesce
Francesco Garro
Francesco di Gennaro
Guiseppe Mancuso
Guiseppe Trevisone
Antonio Messinese
Zazara Giovanni
Guiseppe Lo Consolo
Raffaele Navgaroli
Antonio Ferrera
Vincenzo Panaresi
Vincenzo Scipione
Colen- Driscoll
Vrades Council
Cement and Asphalt Workers’ Union
Southbuilding
Eliot Attacks on Union Labor Draw Fire at Harvard
President Eliot of Harvard criticized labor movements last night calling unions a great interference to trade freedom. It marked his second such attack in recent years with emphasis on restricting movement between trades and the liberty for a man to educate his son in trades.
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Eliot
Harvard
The Free Citizen by President Eliot Lecture
President Eliot discusses liberty in commerce and art, opposing monopolies and stressing freedom of region speech travel and thought. He warns that education and government need fuller freedom and critiques party division as limiting democracy.
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Eliot
Boylston
Berkeley
Democratic Idea
Monster whist party for Columbus Day Nursery
A monster whist and dancing party will be hosted tonight in Bernice and Bethesda Halls South Boston by the Columbus Day Nursery Guild to reduce the home mortgage. A 60 member committee led by Mrs C James Connelly Miss Mary Higgins and Mrs W J Kelley run the event. Also promotional copy for Brown's Bronchial Traches claims long proven efficacy and boxed sales at 25 50 and 1.
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Bernice and
Bethesda Halls
Boston
Columbus Day Nursery Guild
C. James Connelly
Guild
Mary Higgins
W. J. Kelley
Kennedy Cleared by Boston Labor Union after Island visit
John F. Kennedy, labor representative on the Finance Commission, was yesterday cleared by the Boston Central Labor Union of charges from Frank J. Linehan. Kennedy’s visit to Deer Island followed an review of wall construction work by Atlas Construction Company.
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John F. Kennedy
Organized Labor
Finance Commission
Boston Central Labor Union
Frank J. Linehan
Kennedy
Deer Island
Atlas Construction Company
Union probes island job findings and labor reform move
Commissioner's readiness to accept a payoff discussion surfaces as the Central Labor Union executive committee investigates charges after hearings. Delegates hear Rev. John I. Sewell of the New England Sabbath Protective League and Norman E. McPhail of Boston Typographical Union 18 urge reforms to limit lending on chattel mortgages and wage assignments. The union endorses the reform push and asks AF of L legislative help. Governor Guild responds to Cohen-Driscoll tragedy resolutions.
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Kennedy
Central Labor Union
John I. Sewell
New England Sabbath Protective League
A. F. of L
Prince Helie Sagan Sues Boni de Castellane for 20 Cents
Paris January 5 Prince Helie de Sagan files assault suit against Count Boni de Castellane demanding 20 cents in damages. The action arises from a street altercation last week and highlights Castellane’s reduced fortune after Anna Gould divorce. The case set for January 21 in the criminal court.
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Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Prince Helie de Sagan
Anna Gould
Prince de Sagan
Count Boni
Human chain saves boy from drowning on Lake Wickaboag
Jan 5 on Lake Wickaboag a hockey game led to Harl D. Sibley falling through thin ice. Companions formed a quick human chain to reach him. They pulled him to solid ice. no one was hurt.
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West Brookfield
Harl D. Sibley
Lake Wickaboag
Sibley
Murdered Weaver Mary Eddy in Greenville Pay Day Attack
In Greenville an unknown assailant killed Mary Eddy, a weaver, for 13.13 from her pay envelope. Police pursuit failed, the weapon, a copper tipped yarn stick, shattered, with slight blood noted. Eddy died at 11 pm after two head wounds. she did not reveal the attacker before dying. The killer is believed to have waited behind a mill fence on pay day.
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Greenville
R. 1
Mary Eddy
Charles A. Phillips
Brazil
Miss Eddy
Greenville Mill Company
Dorchester Catholic Club Elects New Officers
The Dorchester Catholic Club at Eaton Square elected officers for the coming year. New president is John T. Cavanaugh with vice presidents John A. Cahalan and Walter J. Dayton, and officers including Richard F. Sheehan and Simon J. Long. January 27 was set as opening night for their new Bowdoin Street social hall.
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Dorchester Catholic Club
Eaton Square
Meeting House Hill
Fitzgerald
Joseph F. O'Connell
John T. Cavanaugh
John A. Cahalan
Walter J. Dayton
Richard F. Sheehan
Simon J. Long
Francis S. Devlin
James A. McIlaney, Jr
Joseph F. Costello
John F. Donovan
Bowdoin Street
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George Fred Williams
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Newton
Charles F. Sprague
Col
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Owen J. Sweet
Twenty-first United States Infantry
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Denver Belle
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W. F. McClellan
Mran
John H. Lee
Republican Party
John B. Moran
Warren Steam Pump Company
Warren Improvement Society
Warren Savings Bank
Warren Public Library
Quabeag Historical Society
Grange and Farmers’ Club
Republican Club of
Middlesex Club
Masons and Odd Fellows
Pituresque
LABOR
Bnondes
Washington and
Essex Streets
Henry Siegel
Free Citizen
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C.L. U
Linehan
Prince Helie
Boni
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