Wakefield Moves to Open Pest House as Smallpox Spreads
Wakefield reports two new smallpox cases bringing total to four with 15 in Reading two miles away. A mass meeting of 150 townsmen urged purchasing a pest house. The Board of Health seizes Hackett house for a smallpox hospital and quarantines workers and schoolchildren. Dr. Charles F E Morse from the State Board aids local authorities.
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Wakefield
Reading
Board of Health
Hackett
Railroad Street
Anna Fallows
Chestnut Street
Mary Waters
Bertha Deland
Margaret Martin
Charles FE. Morse
State Board of Health
Divorce Granted After 48 Hour Husband Absence
Pittsburg dated report states Mrs Rosini Pasetti was granted a divorce from her husband for 48 hours absent without legitimate excuse. Judge Josiah Cohen held the wife entitled to know her husband’s whereabouts during his absence and ruled the husband failed to account for his time.
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Pittsburg
Josiah Cohen
Cohen
Rosini Pasetti
Pasetti
Revenue Cutters Search For Missing Columbia Lighter
Four revenue cutters including the Androscoggin and Algonquin sail from Portland and San Juan to hunt the steam lighter Columbia missing since Dec 24 after leaving New York for Jacmel Hayti with 11 crew led by Captain John Brooks. Weather hindrance suspected.
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Washington
Columbia
New York
Jacmel
Hayti
John 8. Brooks
Brooks
Jacob Warsen
Peter J. McCoy
Worth G. Ross
Revenue Cutter Service
Revenue
Atlantic
Androscoggin
Portland
San Juan
Porto Rico
Cape Fear River
N. C
Savannah
Hach
Storrow Voters Rescued From Burning Taxicab on Washington
Early yesterday a Storrow taxicab caught fire on Washington street Brighton in front of Precinct 7 with two men inside en route to vote. John D. Scully a Fitzgerald lieutenant rushed to aid and opened the doors suffering burns to his clothing and hands.
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Washington Street
Brighton
Precinct 7
John D. Scully
Fitzgerald
Modern society talk by Mrs Boynton shocks New York women
Mrs Charles B Boynton a San Francisco reformer spoke to the Women’s Republican Club at the Waldorf Astoria. She urged women to abandon extravagance and dress to reflect inner virtues, urging simplicity and spirituality in home life and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles B. Boynton
Women’s Republican Club
Waldorf- Astoria
Women Will Alter Divorce Laws Says Mrs O Connor
Mrs. Tay Pay O Connor wife of a noted editor and Nationalist in New York for insomnia says English women will win the right to vote before Americans. She cites insomnia baths in New York and argues divorce law is unfair to women with grounds differing for men.
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Tay
New York
England
Brgland
Mrs. O'Connor
Boston Bank Day Revises City Directors Across 23 Banks
Boston banks held annual meetings for director elections with only the Second National Bank meeting the following day. Several banks liquidated or reorganized, including Faneuil Hall, Metropolitan, and New England National, with new boards and replacements due to deaths resignations and reorganizations. The Atlantic National Bank acquired Metropolitan’s business, expanding its board, while others trimmed boards post purchase or leadership changes occurred across numerous institutions.
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Boston
Second National Bank
Faneuil Hall
Metropolitan National Banks
Beacon Trust Company
Atlantic National Bank
Mutual National Bank
New England National Bank
Commonwealth Trust Company
Noak Hallowell
National Bank of Commerce
National Bank
Henry S. Grew
National Union Bank
Webster & Atlas National Bank
Francis A. Peters
William J. Ladd
Homer B. Richardson
John Reed
Theodore G. Bremer
B. Rodman Weld
Richard S. Russell
Thomas Motley
Fourth National Bank
Messrs. Williamson, Slayton, Wright and Ripley
George D. Harvey
Merchants National Bank
Timothy E. Byrnes
George Wigglesworth
George W. Cobb
John Chandler Cobb
George A. Crocker
Edmund D. Codman
Old Boston National Bank
National Shawmut Bank
Horatio Newhall
Daniel B. Hallet
Eliot National Bank
Charles F. Ayer
F. C. McDuffie
Alfred L. Aiken
State National Board
Richard H. Stearns
Metropolitan National Bank
Increase EK. Noyes
Metropolitan Board
The
Atlantic
Metropolitan Bank
Arthur W. Haines
Charles WH. Adams
Charles H. Breck
Walter H. Roberts
William G. Shillaker
W. L. Ratcliffe
National Rockland Bank
Gilmer Clapp
Commercial Bank
Winthrop
George N. Smalley
Wilmot R. Evans, Jr
First National Bank
Frederic C. McDuffie
William Skinner
Samuel D. Warren
James J. Storrow
Mr. Storrow
New England Bank
E. J. Butler
Nurses Start Queer Strike In New York Hospital
Miss Jane Hill, supervisory nurse at the Nursery and Child's Hospital, enforces a policy to rename thirty trainee nurses as Miss with surnames. After pushback, a committee consults Superintendent Hunt, who orders the women to return in their own time if they wish to reclaim old positions.
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New York
Jane Hill
Child’s Hospital
Lexington Avenue
Witty-first Street
Mary
Jane
Lacey
Miss
Marys
Janes
Claras
M. D
J. A. Hunt
Miss Hunt
Clara
Porward
Hunt
Police feed starving family in Roxbury home
Lieutenant Lovell Sergeant Sullivan and Patrolman John Wragg of Police Station 10 Roxbury supplied food to the sick miler Frank Millet his wife and eight children after they were found starving with only a red herring for sustenance. Dr Francis Magurn had alerted authorities and the Ruggles Street Baptist Church charity sent medicine while Overseers of the Poor planned aid.
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Lovell
Sullivan
John Wragg
Roxbury
Frank Millet
Warwick Street
Millet
Francis Magurn
Tremont Street
Miller
Ruggles Street Baptist Church
Spain's Envoy Recalled From Washington to Lisbon
The Marquis de Villalobar, Spanish minister to the United States, is reassigned to Lisbon. He says he prefers remaining in Washington and denies involvement in a recent diplomatic reception incident. He was told nothing further about the transfer since his initial offer.
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Washington
Marquis de Villalobar
Lisbon
Madrid
Spain
Portugal
United States
White House
Thomas F. Walsh Shows Improvement After Illness
Washington Jan 11 The condition of Thomas F. Walsh the Colorado mine owner was much improved tonight and physicians now expect his eventual recovery. Walsh had been dangerously ill and there was anxiety during the past day or two.
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Washington
Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
Mr. Walsh
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