Newton minstrel show to feature young women performers
The Nonantum Athletic Association plans a minstrel show at Lafayette Hall Newton on January 9 and 10 with new jokes music and dancing. Several young women from Watertown Cambridge and Waltham will participate as soloists while Berkley and Murray and others provide dance and illustrated songs. Edwin QO Childs Jr Boston lawyer will act as interlocutor and John E Thomas directs the musical features with high hopes for a record crowd.
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Lafayette Hall
Newton
Nonantum Athletic Association
Nonantum A. A
Ida Jarvis
Watertown
Nellie Mahoney
Cambridge
Bessie Horrigan
Bessie Williams
Dorothy Campbell
Waltham
Berkley and Murray
Buck
Lewis and Miller
Messrs
Guy Myers
John Leonard
Samuel Longbotham
Thomas Colliton
Wilfred Boudrot
Charles Shea
Edwin QO. Childs, Jr
Boston
John E. Thomas
Copper King Heinze Placed Under Arrest
Indictment accuses F Augustus Heinze as Mercantile Bank president of over certifying 15 checks. Each count criminalizes over certification with intent to misrepresent bank funds. 16th count alleges misapplication of bank funds to cover those checks. Background links to Otto Heinze & Co and United Copper stock dealings.
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Heinze
Mercantile National Bank
Otto Heinze & Co
F. Augustus Heinze
Bull
United Copper Company
Amalgamated
Montana
United Copper
Heinzes
Brooklyn
Columbia School of Mines
British Columbia
Minnie Healy
Marcus Daly
Amalgamated Copper Company
Prominent Hub Lawyer Henry A Richardson Dies
Henry A Richardson a Suffolk bar member with offices in the Kimball building and in Cambridge died of heart disease at 47 at his Cambridge home 12 Mason Street He leaves a widow and one child Born in Concord he lived in Hingham and Cambridge He counseledScotians in the teaming frauds and was ex president and a trustee of the Mercantile Library Association Funeral in St Johns Chapel at 11 a m Thursday with interment in Concord.
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Henry A. Richardson
Suffolk Bar
Kimball
Cambridge
Mason Street
Mr. Richardson
Concord
Samuel Richardson
Hingham
Mercantile Library Association
St. John's Chapel
White versus Merritt in Park Square rink showdown
Veteran skater Fred White accepts a challenge from Canadian Billy Merritt for a three heat race at Park Square Rink tonight. The event uses a best two of three format for a $100 purse.
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Skater White
Merritt Fred ‘White
Billy Merritt
Quincy and Rice School Rivalry Leads to Violent Attacks
Rivalry between Quincy and Rice School pupils escalates after a fist fight. A crowd ambushed Quincy boys near Washington and Castle streets, injuring Bennie Shuman who was struck on the head. Patrolman Ochs confined the injured boy to Cherry’s drug store and the City Hospital. Police and school officials began an investigation with no arrests announced at nightfall.
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Quincy
Rice School
Quincy School
Bennie Shuman
Seneca Street
George Botteman
Washington and
Castle Streets
Shuman
Charles Ochs
Castle Street
Washington
Cherry
City
Nine Thaw Jurors Dismissed By Mutual Consent
On the first day of the Thaw trial, nine jurors were seated at 10 30 am. By noon two were dropped and by 5 30 pm replacement and three more replacements were selected reaching 12 jurors. Peremptory challenges opened with four strikes by the prosecution and four by the defense. By mutual consent the process paused until 8 pm.
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Harry Thaw
Jerome
Caryan
Charles E. Gremmels
Arthur P. Naething
George W. Cary
Mr. Jerome
Mr. Littleton
George C. Rupprecht
Moses Greenbaum
John R. Maginn
Josiah Thaw
Talesman
Thomas JL. Crafton
Rengo fat reducer promoted in early 1900s ad claims
An advertisement extols Rengo as a fat reducer and health booster using a tropical fruit mixture. It warns against starvation diets and anti fat remedies, claims the product normalizes weight, and lists Detroit and other drugstores for purchase with trial offers by mail.
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Bright
Ite
Detroit
Man seeks mother's body in probate suit in Providence
J E Brinckley of Providence sues to gain possession of Mrs Susan Lamond's body, named by the son as issue in a case against Mrs Minnie P Simpson of Chelsea Mass. Lamond died in Chelsea and was buried by Simpson in Providence's North Burial Ground. Simpson paid burial costs. The city of Providence is named as defendant in the lawsuit.
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Providence
Minnie P. Simpson
Chelsea
Mass
J. E. Brinckley
Susan FE. Lamond
Mosquito Indians End Rebellion Against Zelaya Regime
In Granada Nicaragua on January 7 the Mosquito Indians rose against President Zelaya alleging his role in their chief's death. the uprising has now ended.
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Granada
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Grove Cure Ad Claims Cold Cure By Bromo Quin ine
An old advertisement touts E. W. Grove’s cold cure titled One Way for curing a cold. It emphasizes the laxative Bromo Quinine to remove the cause and features Grove’s signature on the product box.
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E. W. Grove
Priest Refuses Funeral at St Marys Over Hibernians
In Philadelphia on January 7, Rev D I McDermott rector of St Marys refused to permit funeral services for parishioner John Daly at his church because Hibernians were invited. He cited alleged documents about the Molly Maguire era and said Arch Bishop Ryan would block the submission to a Baltimore council. Archbishop Ryan declined to comment.
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Philadelphia
Order of Hibernians
D. I. McDermott
St. Mary's
John Daly
Hibernians
Father McDermott
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Ryan
Order of
Mer. Turner
Eminent Physicians Endorse Hood's for the Grip
Prominent New York doctors including the late Drs Geo Shrady and Cyrus Edson advise warmth and a cathartic at onset of the grip. Hood's Pills are praised as easy to take and tonic unlike other cathartics. Hood's Sarsaparilla is recommended to prevent the grip by improving blood and digestion. Afterward Hood's Sarsaparilla is touted as the best tonic to restore strength and vitality.
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Drs. Geo
F. Shrady
Cyrus Edson
New York
Hood
Memorial Notices for McCallion and Mullen
Michael McCallion of East Boston dies from his brother’s residence 241 Webster Street and a Requiem Mass at Church of the Assumption at 9 am. Nora Mullen widow of Thomas Mullen from 49 Baldwin Street to depart for St Francis de Sales Church for a 9 am Mass. Relatives invited.
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McCallion
Michael McCallion
Boston
Pinniel T. McCallion
Webster Street
Church of the Assumption
St. Francis de Saies
Moving Mountain and Sea Osmo-Chemic Cure Claims for Asthma
An advertisement touts a new Osmo-Chemic treatment claiming to bring mountain and sea air benefits to home use. It offers free trial through Jan 15, 1908, with testimonials from patients across Massachusetts and New England about cures for asthma bronchitis consumption catarrh deafness stomach and liver ailments.
Osmo-Chemic Physicians Advertise with Cured Patients
Special Officer Judson Hunt of Old Colony Trust Co. Wakefield Mass reports neurasthenia cure by the Osmo-Chemic treatment. The testimonial emphasizes patient success as the agency’s strongest advertisement.
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Old Colony Trust Co
Judson Hunt
Jopkins St
Wakefield
Mass
Opening Days at Thaw Trial Not Unlike Theatrical Premiere
New York reports the opening of Harry Thaw's second trial for murder resembled a theater premiere with familiar faces among the lawyers writers and artists. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw appeared transformed healthy and confident in a blue gown while Thaw himself appeared thinner paler and more composed in court alongside his counsel and relatives.
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New York
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Justice Dowling
Justice Fitzgerald
Martin W. Littleton
Delphin Delmas
Daniel O'Reilly
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
A. Russell Peabody
Evelyn Thaw
Josiah
Mrs. Carnegie
Carnegie
Ex-Gold King Treadwell jailed in San Francisco
James Treadwell once famed as the gold king of Alaska and a prominent financier is held in San Francisco county jail after being indicted on embezzlement charges. He surrendered after failing to raise a $75,000 bond and was taken to jail by Sheriff O'Neil.
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San Francisco
James Treadwell
Alaska
Cecil Rhodes
Barney Barnato
Treadwell
O'Neil
Norway Names Gude as U.S. Minister
Christiania January 7 M Gude who will succeed M Hauge as Norway’s minister to the United States will assume duties April 1 following Hauge’s death on December 19.
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Christiania
M. Gude
Norway
United States
M. Hauge
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