Astor Frees Personal Taxes to Five Thousand
William Waldorf Astor, living in England, has the $745,000 personal tax assessed in New York reduced to $5,000 after he consented to pay on that amount. President Lawson Purdy of the Board of Tax Assessors approved the swearing off. Astor claimed his only personal property in New York was furniture at his West Twenty-Sixth Street estate office. The original $750,000 assessment was cut to $5,000.
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England
Lawson Purdy
Board of Tax Assessors
Astor
New York City
West Twenty-Sixth Street
Bostonian William Johnson Lewis Eyes Dublin Fair Efforts
William Johnson Lewis arrives from Queenstown to promote the Dublin world fair opening in May and lasting six months. A Kentucky native and former editor, Lewis aims to rally 12 000 visitors while supporting the Gaelic movement and Irish national interests in Boston.
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Helena
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Wilmington
N. C
Daily News
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King
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Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Londés
Johnson
Autopsy Shocks Court in Poole Murder Case
Taunton reports 17 year old Howard Poole sobbing at jail after killing his father. Medical examiner says George Poole had brain compression and damaged optic nerves, prompting sympathy for the boy while bail is denied.
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Howard Poole
Taunton
Woods
Hatherway
Rhode Island
Supreme Court Hears Hyde Park Vaccination Exclusion Suit
Mary D. Hammond and her brother J Forest Hammond sue Hyde Park claiming the town school committee wrongfully expelled them during a small pox epidemic for refusing vaccination. The case, argued before the full Supreme Court, awaits a March decision. The girl attended High School and the brother Grammar School.
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Mary D. Hammond
J. Forest Hammond
Supreme Court
Taunton Man Poole and Tragic Autopsy Spark Family Wealth Clue
Dr E J Shannon conducted an autopsy on Mr Poole noting paresis optic nerve damage and a pressed base brain due to an injury from a horse fall fifteen months prior. The Taunton family, prominent and wealthy, resided at a mansion near Whittenton where the tragedy occurred. Poole, a silversmith by trade who arrived in 1886 and partnered with Mr Roach then Louis Busiere, built a large firm employing nearly 290 people through successive growth.
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Mr. Poole
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Whittenton Village
Boston
Roach
Louis Busiere
L. M. Sullivan Trust Co sued for stock recovery
Frank S. Colton of Pittsburg filed suit in the Supreme Court against L. M. Sullivan Trust Company of Goldfield Nevada to recover 1027000 the par value of stock in the Bullfrog Rush Mining Company. Colton alleges the Arizona formed concern with 1500000 capitalization is in receivership and he paid for stock on alleged misrepresentation of value and profit.
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Frank S. Colton
Pittsburg
Supreme Court
L. M. Sullivan Trust Company
Goldfield
Nev
Bullfrog Rush Mining Company
Arizona
Colton
Bullfrog Rush
Newton Woman Charged With Deserting Babe
Mary G. Nixon of 181 Hicks Street West Newton was arrested this morning charged with abandoning her infant child. She will be arraigned tomorrow. The infant was found on Douglass Street doorstep and is in the hospital doing nicely.
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