First Woman Cast Vote in Ward 26 Wyde Park
Mrs. Kathleen EB Kiggen president of the Ladies' Progressive League became the first voter in Ward 26 at Waverley Hall. She led a small group to yield to her bid for the first ballot. The club she organized at 123 West Street grew to 200 members with Kiggen as president and Mrs Patrick Crowley as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen EB. Kiggen
Ladies’ Progressive League
Wyde Park
Kiggen
A. m
Waverley Hall
Patrick Crowley
French
Opera House
John A. Kiggen
Democratic State Committee
Elevator Operator Dies Saving Lives at Four-Alarm Fire
A four alarm blaze in the Miller building and adjacent structures on Federal street killed elevator operator Stanley O. Reynolds who sacrificed himself to free smoke trapped workers. Firemen battled flaming fronts across air shafts, while five women and eight men were rescued by aerial ladders and fire escapes amid freezing temperatures and crowds.
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Globe-Wernicke Company
Miller
Federal Street
Mullen
Stanley O. Reynolds
Reynolds
Miller Building
South
Russell Street
Illinois
Oklahoma City
John Loughlin
Sennett
Triangle Shirt Waist Company
New York
S. Harold Greene
Lockwood-Greene Company
Harold Panton
Ross Place
Boston
Fred M. Goss
Melrose
George L. Schubarth
Fire ravages Miller and Franklin buildings injuring fireman
Thomas Toomey of Ladder 8 suffered a chopped hand and was taken to Relief Hospital. Captain Frank J. Sweeney’s Engine 6 crew narrowly escaped in a smoke filled Miller building basement. Fire caused smoke and water damage to multiple tenants including Edward E. Babb Co. and National Sportsman. losses exceed $1000. Theodore Gallipeau of Ladder 14 rescued a terrified girl on Sullivan court.
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Miller
Sullivan Court
Thomas Toomey
Ladder 8
Frank J. Sweeney
Engine 6
Miller Building
Reynolds
Theodore Gallipeau
Edward E. Babb & Co
Lothrop, Lee & Co
I. J. Mutty Company
Kendall, Taylor & Co
Herbert L. Wardner
Lockwood, Greene & Co
Franklin Building
National Sportsman
Trapped in West End Fire Five Die in Blaze
Fire on Barton street and 10 Willard street trapped multiple families in a crowded tenement. A heroic chain rescued Mrs Bernstein and children, while several residents perished including Azuro Mariano and his wife. Loss pegged at about 5000 dollars.
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Ander
Station 4
Peter Dolan
Leverett Street
Ethel Bernstein
Katherine
Samuel
Mollie Gross
Benjamin
Downey
Alexander
Willard Street
Barton Street
Gross
David
Leonard Puccia
Phillip Bernstein
Mothr
Rosalie Marian
Philip Bernstein
Vincenzo Mariano
Daniel J. Kelliher
David Walsh
Morris Tittlebaum
George B. Magrath
North Grove Street
Azuro Mariano
Paul Revere Trust Company Elects Officers and Directors
At its annual meeting held yesterday the Paul Revere Trust Company elected officers President Edmund Billings Vice President Julius Rottenberg Treasurer W E Moreland to serve. Directors include Charles Baker Francis N Balch Isaac Berg Edward J Butler Isaac Cohen Alfred H Colby Charles H Dexter Walter C English Robert H Gardiner Jr A Morris Greenblatt William Hoag Colman Levin A V Lincoln B Lipsky Frank L Locke Robert Luce Max Markowitz William Minot William M Prest Isaac B Reinherz Louis Rosenberg Julius Rottenberg MiltonS Thompson H Ulin Arthur Wallace B Wendell Jr Alexander Whiteside.
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Paul Revere Trust Company
Edmund Billings
Julius Rottenberg
W. E. Moreland
Charles Baker
Francis N. Balch
Isaac Berg
Edward J. Butler
Isaac Cohen
Alfred H. Colby
Charles H. Dexter
Walter C. English
Robert H
Gardiner, Jr
A. Morris Greenblatt
William Hoag
Colman Levin
Three Held in Assault as Woman Dies in Boston
Three men are held at Lagrange street station and a fourth suspect sought after an attack on an unidentified young woman in Eliot street South End. The victim lies unconscious and on the dangerous list at Boston City Hospital with a fractured skull. Arrested are William J. Sullivan 24 Fayette street Charles Williams 24 Melrose street and John Cronin 17 Melrose street.
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Lagrange Street
Eliot Street
South End
Boston City Hospital
William J. Sullivan
Fayette Street
Charles Williams
Melrose Street
John Cronin
Doukhobors to Move to Southern California
The entire Doukhobor colony of about 12,000 peaceful anarchists will relocate from Saskatchewan to Southern California, according to Russians in Los Angeles. The move is planned to take place soon, with California as the destination for the community.
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California
Los Angeles
Cal
Saskatchewan
Infantry Ordered to China to Aid Railroad Access
Washington dispatch reports that after more than a decade American troops will land in China to help keep the Pekin to sea railroad open. About 500 regular infantry will be disembarked in Chinwangtao within eight to nine days amid cautious policy deliberations on foreign deployment.
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Washington
China
Pekin
Chinwangtao
U S to Send 500 Troops for Treaty Compliance and China Watch
The State Department approves dispatch of 500 U S troops to fulfill obligations, with the Fifteenth Infantry and hospital corps aboard transport Thomas. Amid talks of China peace and Russia’s Mongolia move, officials fear the empire’s division and a loosening of Manchu suzerainty.
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Calhoun
United States
State Department
War Department
Bell
Stimson
Wood
Thomas
China
Russia
Mongolia
Veteran Stebbins Believed Drowned In Canal
William H H Stebbins aged 72 a longtime Connecticut Valley Grand Army of the Republic figure is believed accidentally drowned in the Third Level Canal at Holyoke after slipping on ice near the bank. He was dam watchman and former commander of Kilpatrick Post and South Deerfield Post G A R. Search by day and night failed to locate the body. He was a widower with no children.
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Holyoke
William H. H. Stebbins
Connecticut Valley
Grand Army
Police raid Chinatown targets gambling dens in New York
An army of 125 police raided Chinatown in a major crackdown on gambling arresting over 200 Chinese nationals and destroying more than twenty dens. The operation was led by a young Japanese missionary-turned-informer masked and guarded by two detectives. Mock Duck's on Pell Street housed about 50 gamblers.
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New York
Chinatown
Elsie Siegel
Boston
Pell Street
Democrat Elected to Congress in Kansas Fight
George E. Neeley a Democrat was elected to the United States Congress from Kansas seventh district to succeed the late Edmund H. Madison Republican. John M. Kinkle conceded Neeley victory by about 1200 to 1500 votes in Hutchinson Kansas.
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Hutchinson, Kas
George E. Neeley
United States Congress
Kansas
Edmund H. Madison
John M. Kinkle
Neeley
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Georges Nodel
Washington St
Cor. Franklin
Buffalo
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Loughlin
Devonshire Street
Carter-Rice Company
Franklin
Brewer
Devonshire
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High
Federal
Lftczy
Portland and
Sudbury
SIS
THE
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Siegel
West End
Mariano
Rosalie
Vincenzo
Brigida
Engine 4
Silva
Bridgin
Axora Mariano, Jr
Paul Revere Trust Co
Holland Wine Company
Irelan Holland Wine Company
H. A. Shepard & CO
Stationers Corensive
Fifteenth Infantry
Jason Weiler & Son Direct
Antwerp
Jason Weiler & Son
Washington Street Car
Paris
Buenos Ayres
Haass
U. S
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Summer St
U. S. District Court
Alexander Whiteside
John S. Slater
Coats
Wolf's
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