McKenna Runs Up Checks After Boston Infatuation
Francis K. McKenna, 19, son of a Chicago army major, fled Rosenbaum Preparatory School Milford Conn to Boston, where he passed near 400 dollars in worthless checks. Police say his infatuation with a Boston schoolgirl and love for bright lights drove the act. He refuses to disclose the girl’s name.
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Francis K. McKenna
Chicago
Rosenbaum Preparatory School
Milford
Conn
Crimson Warriors Saluted by 500 Fans at South Station
Victorious squad greeted by 500 cheering admirers who wait in South Station after midnight. The Crimson Warriors arrive in fine shape as celebrations continue late into the night.
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South Station
Crimson Warriors
Boston Tax Liens Planned for January 15 Sale
City Collector Frank S. Deland announced that ads will list unpaid real estate taxes for 1919 and 1918 in Boston. The aggressive move targets delinquent taxpayers, with a public sale scheduled for January 15.
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Boston
Frank S. Deland
Babe Ruth 10 Get 45,000 in New Yankee Deal
New York dispatch reports Babe Ruth signed a two year contract with the Yankees for 10,000 dollars per year plus a 16,000 dollar annual bonus and a 1,000 dollar signing check. Miller Huggins traveled to confirm the deal and Ruth seeks 20,000 for signing from the Boston club while Frazee holds part of the purchase price.
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New York
Miller Huggins
New York Yankees
Los Angeles
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Huggins
Frazee
Boston
Hannagan urges Finn parole from hospital bed
Paul Hannagan former commissioner of public works lying ill in a hospital dictated a letter to the Governor's Council urging parole for Dennis H Finn former city assessor. He had twice refused to intercede for the man who attacked him and now faces death threats as the assailant’s murderous assault is cited.
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Lawrence
Paul Hannagan
Dennis H. Finn
Finn Sentenced to Eight to Nine Years for 1915 City Hall Shooting
Finn, convicted of assault with intent to kill Hannagan, serves an eight to nine year prison term after a February 23, 1915 shooting at Hannagan's City Hall office. The act followed political clashes over Finn's bid for re-election as city assessor, with sentences handed down on April 25, 1915.
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Finn
Hannagan
Clothing Burns Fire Traps Elderly Woman in Provincetown
Mrs Boise Brown eight years old? No, eight years old seems wrong. The elderly Mrs Boise Brown was severely burned at 403 Commercial Street Provincetown as a lighted match ignited her clothing while lighting a lamp. Rescued by family downstairs, she suffered burns to the body and hands while her son Alfred H. Brown, a Boston fish buyer, is noted in the report.
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Provincetown
Boise Brown
Alfred H. Brown
T Wharf
Boston
Commercial Street
Great Suit for Breach of Promise
Elsie Eleanor Waldo of Nyack New York files a breach of promise suit for 250000 against Frederick Melvin Brown a prominent New York lawyer. After seven years of courtship she says he promised to wed in December 1907 and later married Mabel Heloise Stokes in October 1913 while she believed the engagement remained in effect.
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New York
Elsie Eleanor Waldo
Nyack
N. Y
Frederick Melvin Brown
Miss Waldo
Brown
Mabel Heloise Stokes
Waldo sues Brown over repeated engagement delays
Miss Waldo claims seven years of life with Brown, alleging he rejected other suitors of wealth and status. She says he confessed happiness in being engaged kept him from breaking the charm. She met him in November 19 while 20 years old. Brown is Harvard educated and holds multiple maritime law affiliations in Paris and New York law firm links.
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Harvard
Comite Internationale de Droit Maritime
Internationale Maritime Law Conference of Paris
New York
Butler, Brown,, Wyckoff & Campbell
Boy Charged With Seven Bad Checks After Arrest
A youth was arrested by Inspectors Finn and Flaherty after he allegedly uttered seven bad checks while using an expensive suite. The case details cited charges of uttering bad checks and the early arrest followed the alleged financial misdeed.
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Finn and
Flaherty
Unidentified Traveler Dies After Being Found Shot on New York Train
An unidentified man, 5 ft 7 in, 133 pounds, gray suit and overcoat, was found with a bullet wound in a toilet at South oe Station and died at Haymarket Relief Hospital. A pistol lay beside him. Yale key and brass tag 308 were found in his pocket. Police offered no official news or theory on the case.
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South Oe
Haymarket
Yale
Curtis
Arrested Russian Baritone Baklanoff Fails Allegations
George Baklanoff famed Russian baritone with the Chicago Grand Opera Company was arrested at the Congress Hotel on a deportation warrant issued by Secretary of Labor Wilson for improper conduct with Vera Amazer. Amazer says he toured the country claiming to be unmarried. she discovered his wife and children in Russia. He was released on $1000 bail pending deportation hearings.
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George Baklanoff
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Congress Hotel
Wilson
Vera Amazer
Miss Amazer
Baklanoff
Russia
Hoover says no further loans needed for Europe relief
Herbert Hoover, en route east for relief work in Europe, telegraphed from New York stating he rejects European propagandists claims that Europe needs vast U.S. funds and that ordinary commercial credits cannot meet the demand.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Europe
United States
Hoover says taxes exceed prior rates and no new Treasury loans needed
President Hoover asserts that tax levels are 60 percent higher than before, eliminating the need to draw on the United States Treasury for additional loans. The remark appears in a continued report on page five of the Fifth Column section.
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United States Treasury
Hoover
Taft Divorce Granted in Reno Case
Helen Draper Taft, daughter of former Governor Draper of Massachusetts, was granted a divorce from Walbridge Smith Taft in Reno. Taft, nephew of former President Taft, practiced law in New York with Wickersham’s association. They wed in Boston on February 10, 1917 and separated in Cleveland in June 1918.
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Helen Draper Taft
Draper
Massachusetts
Walbridge Smith Taft
Taft
United States
Wickersham
New York City
Tafts
Boston
Cleveland
Ohio
President Gompers Arrives in Boston
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor arrived in Boston late last night from New York with his secretary Guy H. Oyster and went at once to the Hotel Touraine.
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American Federation of Labor
Guy HW. Oyster
Boston
New York City
Touraine
Two American oil men murdered in Tampico district
State Department advises embassy in Mexico City to press Mexican authorities for full steps to capture and punish the killers of F. J. Roney and Earl Bowles in the Tampico area, as U.S. confirms deaths and seeks action.
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Washington
State Department
Todas
F. J. Roney
Earl Bowles
Tampico
Mexico
Mexico City
Killing in Tampico District Raises American Death Toll
The first word of the killing of two Americans in the Tampico district raised the American citizen death toll to 19 since April 1917. Washington received similar advices via private sources and the State Department announced steps taken. Bodies of Roney and Bowles, employed by International Petroleum Company, were found yesterday.
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Washington
State Department
Department
Roney and
Harvard Crimson welcomed after transcontinental trip home
Nearly five hundred Harvard collegians and guests waited for over three and a half hours in South Station to greet the victorious Crimson football eleven returning from an 8000 mile journey from Chicago. The train finally pulled in around 12:10 AM, reducing the crowd from about 1000 to roughly 500 loyal supporters.
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Harvard
South Station
Crimson
Chicago
Unsettled Weather Forecast for Boston and Northeast
Union weather bulletin reports unsettled conditions for Boston and vicinity with warmer temperatures and rain or snow by night. East New York and South New England should be cloudy and warmer Wednesday with snow or rain by night and Thursday. North New England also cloudy and warmer with possible snow in Vermont. Moderate southwest winds prevail north of Sandy Hook and across Sandy Hook to Hatteras with rain by Wednesday night.
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Washington
East New York
South New England
North New England
Vermont
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Mississippi River
Weather fragment reports temperatures and averages
Fragmentary weather note cites yesterday's average temperature 29.5 and last year's 20.9. It also mentions 234 as a number and references Thompson's Spa in a garbled passage. No clear location, date, or full findings are discernible beyond the two temperature figures.
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