Impressions of the Tucker Trial in Boston Court
Herbert D. Ward muses on a murder trial's spectacle and its moral effects. He contrasts crowd hunger for sensation with the solemnity of justice, notes the judge, jury, and defense, and portrays defendant Charles L. Tucker and counsel James H. Vahey amid a tense courtroom rite.
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Stock Exchange
Massachusetts
Maybrick
Dreyfus
Zola
Tucker
Charles L. Tucker
Library of Law
Equity
Jackson Club of Ward 20 Reorganizes in Dorchester Meeting
The Jackson Club of Ward 20 Dorchester held a large reorganizing meeting last evening in their hall with over 250 voters present indicating intent to join. A musical entertainment preceded a German supper and Thomas Glynn presided.
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Jackson Club
Ward 20
Dorchester
Thomas Glynn
Allston Railroad Workers Injured In Roundhouse Crash
Michael Crane aged 28 and John Brennan aged 21 from Allston were seriously injured while cleaning an engine at the Boston and Albany roundhouse in Allston. A backing train crushed Crane’s ankle and mangled Brennan after being caught between the car and locomotive.
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Michael Crane
Riverdale Street
John Brennan
Allston
Boston & Albany Roundhouse
Crane
Brennan
Five Cent Fare Favored in Metropolitan District
Melrose January meeting reports Aldermen vote directing Mayor Buttrick to petition the Legislature for an act changing the Boston & Northern Street Railway and the Boston Elevated Railway to require carrying passengers within the metropolitan district for a total fare not exceeding five cents.
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Melrose
Buttrick
Boston & Northern Street Railway Company
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Reward of merit awarded to Harry H. White at Dover Street
Harry H. White, winner of the Boston Post proverb contest first prize, was found at his duties as a drawbridge tender on Dover Street yesterday. A Post representative delivered him $100 in bright yellow gold coins as his prize.
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POST
Harry H. White
Boston
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Melrose
Belmont
Arlington
Woodland Park
Harvard
Lynn
Portland
Dartmouth
Brown
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Prudence Simmons
Broadway
City Hospital
Prize Proverb Contest Winner Receives Gold Reward
Harry H. White, 88, longtime Boston bridge tender and former office worker, won first prize in the Boston Post Proverb Contest earning 1000 in gold. He plans to fund his wife and two children with the prize, deposit 200 for daughter Marion, and use the rest for family needs. White, once mocked as a Jonah, reads widely and credits the win with renewed courage amid hard times.
Lomasney Questions Mayor's Counsel in Bond Debate
Representative M. M. Lomasney pressed Mayor Collins' law counsel Arthur L. Spring on issuing 500 000 in new bonds for the Charles River dam project and related parkway work. The discussion covered betterments assessments, legal authority, and who should pay for the Beacon Street property, with city engineers noting the work is essential and should proceed.
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Martin M. Lomasney
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Collins
Arthur L. Spring
Boston
Charles River
Spring
City Law Department
Cambridge Bridge
Bay State Road
Boston Park Commission
Park Department
Jackson
Callender
Lomasney
Mr. Lomasney
Beacon Street
George F. Clark
City Park Department
Youngman
Basin Commission
Senator Rounds
Mr. Youngman
Park Commissioners
Clark
Charlesbank
Bennett
Tuesday Double Stamp Day
A brief notice noting a Tuesday event called Double Stamp Day. Details are limited in the readable text. The item indicates a scheduled activity or promotion with no further context or participants specified.
Representative Dowd Seeks AG Opinion on Strike Insurance Contracts
Dowd of Fall River in the Legislature asked the attorney general to inform the General Court whether contracts of insurance or similar arrangements that benefit or harm a person or corporation due to a strike or lockout among employees would be constitutional and legal.
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Fall River
Attorney-General
General Court
WANTS TOWNS LIABLE FOR LIQUOR DAMAGES
Two more liquor bills are before the Legislature. One from Samuel W. Hook would make cities and towns granting licenses for intoxicating liquors liable for damages resulting from such sale. The other from John T. Barrington would abolish sixth class liquor licenses.
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Samuel W. Hook
John T. Barrington
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