Boston police prepare summonses for Sunday law violators
Less than 100 names will be submitted to courts in Boston this morning by Boston police officers for summonses as alleged violators of the Sunday law. Yesterday the police secured the names and addresses of those found performing work deemed unlawful the past week. All day the Hub was quiet.
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Boston
Ames Building
Coleman Bros
Milton E. Bailey
Station 7
Cunard
Sylvania
Boston & Albany
Winlifredian
Leyland Line
Pallas
Ned Evans
Boston Towboat Company
John A. Briggs
New York
Metropolitan Coal Company
Congress Street
Evans
Armstrong Company
Subways Work Halted by Weather Police Patrol Tracks Fewer
Movements of theater movers and street workers paused by Sabbath ice cream rulings and police scrutiny. Caterers faced fines, wagon crews had names recorded, and some crews were sent away as conditions limited transport and deliveries along Boston streets and wharves.
Beachmont Protest Over Dog Shot by Officer
Beachmont residents plan to seek a warrant for Patrolman Claire P. Chainey after he shot a muzzled dog and beat its brains when confronted by children and undogged behavior. The dog belonged to Mrs. Mary E. Mahoney of Beachmont and neighbors demand action despite the lawful muzzle exemption. Witnesses from Beachmont provide the protest with their statements.
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Beachmont
Claire P. Chainey
Revere
Mary E. Mahoney
Unity Avenue
Boston
Mahoneys
Edgar Clark
Bradstreet Avenue
George Yeomans
Bellingham Avenue
Alfred Riley
Crescent Avenue
Henry Drury
Winthrop Avenue
Pullman Car Fire Kills Irrigation Clerk in Iowa
Louis de Lario, clerk for the House committee on irrigation, is dead after a fire in a sleeping car attached to the eastbound Los Angeles Limited on the Chicago and Northwestern. Three others are injured as the car near Loveland Indiana ignites, with origin undetermined but likely smoldering from a berth. A passenger reportedly used an alcohol lamp to heat milk for a baby in a berth before the blaze.
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Council Bluffs
Louis de Lario
House Committee On
Los Angeles
Chicago & Northwestern
Loveland
Redfield
de Lario
Laramie
Wyo
Washington
Weather Forecast for Boston and Eastern New York
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for Monday partly cloudy to cloudy weather and Tuesday generally fair. Eastern New York expects partly cloudy Monday with local rain in the south and rain or snow in the north, followed by a Tuesday of fair, colder conditions.
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Boston and Vicinity
Washington
New York
Steamer Ponce Missing After Christmas Voyage
Three revenue cutters Seminole Mohawk and Algonquin search the steamer Ponce of the New York and Porto Rico line seven days overdue with 60 souls aboard including seven passengers and 53 crew. Officials fear loss while line managers hope she is disabled but afloat and will reach port.
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New York
United States Revenue
Ponce
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company
Ponce Sails from San Juan With Passengers and Cargo
The steamship Ponce commanded by Captain Harvey sailed from San Juan on Christmas Day with 52 crew and seven passengers. The vessel, built in 1899, measures 3503 tons gross and 2519 net, rated 100A1 by marine underwriters, and carries 1500 boxes of oranges and 750 bags of coffee.
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New York
Ponce
Harvey
San Juan
P. R
G. D. Campbell
D. A. Fox
T. P. Kidd
Henry W. Rogers
Gregorio Santiago
H. Bates
Mario R. Mayoral
Harlan & Hollingsworth
Wilmington
Del
Father Gannon Leaves Boston for New York Field
The Rev. William F. Gannon S J president of Boston College and rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception departs after three and a half years to a larger field of labor in New York. He is succeeded by the Rev. Thomas I. Gasson S J, noted Boston lecturer and preacher. Miss Katherine Conway of Jamaica Plain, assistant editor of the Pilot, praises the departing pastor.
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Conlin
William F. Gannon
S. J
Boston College
Church of the Immaculate. Conception
New York
Chickering
Thomas I. Gasson
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Boston
Father Gannon
Young Men’s Catholic Association of
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Katherine Conway
Jamaica Plain
Pilot
Gannon
Cambridge
Thomas J. Gannon
New York-Maryland
Autos for Collecting Mail Planned for Boston and Other Large Cities
First Assistant Postmaster-General Frank H Hitchcock reports success of automobile collection in Baltimore and plans to expand to New York Boston Chicago and other cities. Automobiles may replace horse cars to speed mail collection without extra cost and could extend to other city postal operations.
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Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Baltimore
New York
Boston
Chicago
Ponce Steamer Reported Safe En Route to New York
Captain Chapman of the Shenandoah brought news the missing steamer Ponce of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co was sighted Dec 28 and proceeding toward New York. The vessel was about halfway from Ponce to New York, 550 miles north of Porto Rico and 2506 miles northeast of the Bahama Islands.
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New York
Van
Ponce
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Company
Porto Rico
Chapman
Port Blakely
Bahama Islands
Panama Arrives in Port Mexico City After Rough Crossing
The Panama reached Port Mexico City at 6 p m today per a Mazatlan telegram to the Associated Press. The vessel had a rough voyage but only slight damage, and all on board are safe. The ship had been missing for days with wreckage mistaken for its loss.
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Mexico City
Mazatlan
Associated Press
Panama
Man Arrested After Standoff At North End Church
Neil A. Nelson of Winchester, 26, described as violently insane, fought police on the steps of St. Mary’s Church in Boston’s North End at 6 30 last night and declared he would shoot those inside. He fled to the church and was captured after a chaotic scene with worshippers present. He was later taken to Winchester for restraint and observation.
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East
Boston
G. A. Webster
C. H. Atkinson
Columbia Rowing Association
Neil A. Nelson
Winchester
St. Mary’s Church
North End
Nelson
Man confronts church door raid as police arrive
A man attacked by pounding and shouting at a church door charges his would be captors. Despite his small size he fights fiercely with fists feet and teeth until several officers subdue him and take him to station 1. Neighbors recall his previously good reputation in Winchester.
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Polices
Sweeney
Station 1
Winchester
Nelson
Wild chase ends in arrest of Boston escapee Nelson
Neil A Nelson once confined in Danvers asylum fled from Winchester officers to Boston. After a fierce pursuit and brief escape he was captured near Endicott place and brought to the Tombs. He may be returned to Danvers for further confinement as his mind is described as overstretched by ambition.
Mayor Becomes Elk After Eager Initiation
Boston Lodge of Elks welcomed Mayor Fitzgerald as a member in a lively initiation at the Lawrence Encampment Hall on Washington Street. Daniel Lehan led the ceremony with playful rituals, ending when the mayor could endure no more torture.
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Fitzgerald
Boston Lodge of Elks
Lawrence
Washington Street
Daniel Lehan
Harvard Instructor Reported Missing Reappears at Home
Professor Walter B. Cannon of Cambridge and Harvard was reported missing to Cambridge police yesterday. He returned home last evening explaining he spent the night at a friend's house after finding the door locked while his wife and family were at the theatre.
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Walter B. Cannon
Avon Place
Harvard
Cambridge
Mra. Cannon
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