South Boston Dry Dock Plan Provokes Board Protest
A proposed $1,000,000 dry dock for South Boston drew strong opposition at the State Board of Trade meeting held at the Vendome. The session postponed the issue for further study amid other reports on transportation legislation and tariff inquiry.
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State Board of Trade
South Boston
Walstein R. Chester
Committee On Transportation and State Lesslation
Edward I. Sprague
Edgar Potter
South Framingham
Firemen Respond to Special Delivery Mix Up
In South Norwalk on January 11 firemen were called to a fire station after a domestic worker Mary Pedan mixed a mail box with a firm alarm box. She pulled the alarm lever and handed a special delivery letter to Fire Chief John D. Milne who arrived first at the scene.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Mary Pedan
William White
New York
John D. Milne
Plucky Society Girl Ends Runaway With Quick Thinking
Miss Hazel McMullen daughter of wealthy New York contractor Arthur McMullen saved herself and Ellen Malloy by bending a high wheeler into a brewer’s truck after a runaway horse bolted from W F Malloy’s residence in Stamford Conn The act halted near a deathtrap bridge drawing cheers from onlookers.
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Stamford
Conn
Hazel McMullen
Arthur McMullen
Park Row
New York
Miss McMullen
Atlantic Street Hill
Settlement Offers 40 Percent From Burnham Bennett Co
Creditors accepted a 40 percent settlement from Burnham Bennett Co a stock exchange house at 131 State Street after a bankruptcy petition filed November 13. The deal pays 30 percent cash and 10 percent in notes of 12 and 18 swarths with 5 percent interest. Receiver Guy W Cox named trustee with bond cut from 100000 to 50000.
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Burnham, Bennett & Co
Stock Exchange
State Street
Federal Building
Guy W. Cox
Chicago burglar admits to sixty robberies and holdups
On January 12 in Chicago Leo Adams confessed to being the perpetrator of sixty burglaries and holdups. He said at times he would drift into crime during lean periods and would also take on legitimate jobs.
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Chicago
Leo Adams
Adams
Rare breach of promise case at courthouse
Elizabeth Mendelsohn, 58, sues Elias Goldstein, 59, for 5000 alleging he broke plans to marry her. She recounts hosting a dinner for 15 friends at 1 dollar a plate in anticipation of nuptials. Goldstein, a widower, testified he sought a younger wife. case before Judge Bond in Superior Civil Court proceeds next morning.
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Elizabeth Mendelsohn
Elias Goldstein
Goldstein
Miss Mendelsohn
Superior Civil Court
Bond
Merchants Demand Modification of Boston Traffic Rules
More than 500 market district merchants at the Fruit and Produce Exchange urged changes to two new traffic rules. They argued six minutes for standing and 209 minutes for unloading hinder the market area, while praising other one way street provisions. A committee led by Francis Batchelder was formed to negotiate with the street commissioners.
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Market
Boston
Fruit & Produce Exchange
Francis Batehelder
Walter §. Glidden
F. O. Watson
George F. Mead
S. L. Burr
David Puffer
J. M. Thomas
J. Q. Lowell
F. M. Leonard
Batchelder
Contempt Case Proceeds With Labor Council Conference
Washington January 12. The American Federation executive council will meet with counsel including Judge Alton B Parker to review Judge Wrights contempt decision and its appeal. A committee of Duncan OConnell and Lennon will report on three labor leaders report. The labor stance on Sherman act as interpreted by the Supreme Court was explored to fuse Wilson and Pearce bills into a single measure.
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Washington
Wright
Executive Council of the American Federation
Alton B. Parker
New York
Executive Council
Duncan
O'Connell
Lennon
Organized Labor
Supreme Court of the
United States
Pearce
Great Britain
Gilchrist will probate sparks contest over $1 million estate
The will of Alexander J. Gilchrist of West Charlton was admitted to probate after a contest. The estate, valued at $1,000,000, comprises the savings of Thomas and Alexander Gilchrist, two bachelors who owned mortgages on several hundred farms and stocks and bonds. John F. Gilchrist, omitted from the will, plans to challenge the document.
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Saratoga
Alexander J. Gilchrist
West Charlton
Thomas
Alexander Gilchrist
John F. Gilchrist
Winchester girl 19 stricken with fish skin disease
Geneva Reynolds of near Middletown in Winchester county is critically ill from ichthyosis also called fish skin disease. In six weeks her entire skin has peeled off six times, a rare medical condition.
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Winchester
Geneva Reynolds
Middletown
Psychic Freed by Court Is Again Under Arrest
Judge Burke discharged Elmer Mansfield Jr a psychic and astrologer who had been tried for obtaining money by false pretences from Harry Goodman and Sarah French He was arrested again on a larceny charge based on the same evidence and is held on bail until January 19.
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Burke
Elmer Mansfield, Jr
Harry W. Goodman
Brockton
Sarah E. French
Mansfield
Goodman
Turkey Accepts Austro Hungarian Indemnity
Constantinople reports the Turkish government accepts Austro Hungarian offer of 2,500,000 pounds indemnity for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, removing any chance of war.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Directors of Boston Banks Hold Annual Director Meetings
All but one of Boston's 24 national banks held annual meetings for directors yesterday. The Second National Bank meets today. Bank consolidations reduced numbers and boosted overall dividends from 2.3 percent in 1898 on 57 banks to 8.08 percent on a smaller capital base today.
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Boston
Second National Bank
National Bank of the Republic
National Shawmut Bank
Freeman's National Bank
Franklin Haven
Merchants’ National Bank
5S. N. Aldrich
State National Bank
Haven
Arthur B. Silsbee
State National
Aldrich
A. P. Ripley
Charles E. Morrison
Faneuil Hall National Bank
National Bank
Henry S. Grew, 2d
National Union Bank
Indorsed Gompers by Massachusetts Stationary Firemen
The Massachusetts division of the Stationary Firemen's Union met in Holyoke for its annual convention and endorsed Samuel Gompers and his colleagues amid a Supreme Court contempt ruling. Officers elected were John F. McCarthy of Lawrence president W L Kent of North Adams vice president and Fred P. Brown of Holyoke secretary treasurer. The next convention was set for Worcester on January 13 1919.
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Holyoke
Massachusetts
Stationary Firemen's Union
Samuel Gompers
Supreme Court
Washington
John IF. McCarthy
Lawrence
W. L. Kent
North Adams
Fred P. Brown
Worcester
Escape by 77 year old Thomas Freese from Farnhurst Hospital
In Wilmington on January 12 Thomas Freese aged 77 and nearly blind fought off attendants at County Hospital Farnhurst and escaped.
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Wilmington
Del
Thomas Freese
Farnhurst
Lifeboat for Police Force in Providence
Admiral Matthews proposes a regulation lifeboat for the seventh precinct police, mounted on wheels for rapid response to drownings in local ponds. The craft will carry life preservers grappling irons and boat-hooks, with a rowing machine installed at the station for the latest stroke.
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Providence
Frank A. Matthews
Seventh Precinct
Elmwood
Matthews
Plans for Dr Chapman evangelistic campaign in Boston
Plans for the coming evangelistic campaign led by Rev Dr J Wilbur Chapman in Boston detail 25 groups across the city and suburbs. Each group will host nightly services in central churches with visiting evangelists, culminating in four central services in Mechanic's Building conducted by Chapman.
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J. Wilbur Chapman
Boston
Chapman
Indictment Stems From Forgery Case Against Sig nor
Oakland reports Fred P. Signor indicted by the grand jury on eight counts for forging the signature of millionaire James Murray. The total alleged loss in the eight counts stands at about $860,000.
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Oakland
Cal
Fred P. Signor
James Murray
Actor Carl Ahrendt Dies in Mississippi at early age
Carl Ahrendt a well known actor and former stage manager with James K Hackett company died in Greenville Mississippi last night of pneumonia He acted with Forrest Booth McCullough and others of the old school During Cleveland's first administration he served as United States consul to Berlin
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Memphis
Tenn
Carl Ahrendt
James K. Hackett
Greenville
Miss
Ahrendt
Forrest
Booth
McCullough
Old School
Cleveland
United States
Berlin
North Carolina Governor Inauguration of W. W. Kitchin
Raleigh reports the inauguration of William Walton Kitchin as governor of North Carolina. Kitchin, a Democrat who served twelve years in Congress, was sworn in today marking a new administration for the state.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
W. W. Kitchin
Congress
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Grand Canyon of
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Fred Harvey
Lane
S. W. Manning
A. T
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Washington Street
Mass
Committee On Manufactures
Plymouth
White Mountain
Appalachian Mountain
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Pacific
One
Riker-Jaynes
Houghteh & Dutton Co
Hall & Lyon Co
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Newport
Waltham
Ropes Drug Co
Salem
Lynn
Beverly
Goldthwaite’s
Taunton
THE
Emerson Home CO
Roxbury Sta
Mosiss
American Federation
Gilchrist
Henry H. Tuttle Co
Tremont ST
Meon
College
Storm H
Tan Bluchers
Menry Siegel CO
Washington and
Essex Streets
Black
Oxford
Stein-Bloch
Henry Siegel Co
Rt Iia
Boston Banks
Atlantic Bank
E. L. Rhodes
Boyiston
Edward C. Mills
Oliver E. Williams
Commercial Board of Directors
Benjamin W. Currier
Faneuil Hall
Fred P. Virgin
National Rockland
William F. Russell
Shawmut
Jacob F
Frederick Ayer
John Hogg
Indorsed
Gompers
Dr. Chapman
GOV. Kitchin
Rae
Beecham
Ioc
Ward
Oz Franklin
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