Collins Sentenced to Death for New Ireland Murder
Thomas Collins was found guilty in the Supreme Court of murdering Miss Mary Ann Mac Auley at Rev. Father MacAuley’s home in New Ireland on Aug 19 1906. He was sentenced to hang on April 2. The jury deliberated about two hours after a 10 day trial in Hopewell Cape New Brunswick. The case drew provincial interest.
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Hopewell Cape
N. B
Thomas Collins
Supreme Court
Mary Ann MacAuley
New Ireland
Father MacAuley
Gregory
Collins
Miss MacAuley
MacAuley
Debate on Telephone Companies in Boston City Club
A packed Boston City Club heard ex Congressman Samuel L. Powers argue that the telephone business is a natural monopoly to be regulated, while Alfred S. Hayes urged competition and automatic systems. The event featured demolition of delays by independents and data comparing rates and penetration in New England versus Bell systems.
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Samuel L. Powers
Newton
New England Telephone Company
Alfred S. Hayes
Hopkinton
New Metropolitan Home Telephone Company
Boston City Club
Geneen Street
David A. Wis
Tie
Hayes
Powers
Mr. Mayes
Bell
Bell Telephones
Bell Telephone Company
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Western Electrice Company
Western Electric Company
Boston
New England
Albany
Los Angeles
Boston Elevated
New Bedford
Fall River
Wall River
Bell Telephone
Hayes~n
Lincoln
Nebraska
Stockholm
Sweden
City's Telephone Bill May Total Over Eighty Thousand
The latest directory shows 53 more city paid phones than last year. At last month's rate of 6714.71 the annual bill would exceed 80000. Seventy five new telephones were installed in city schoolhouses and all department heads have city paid phones at home.
Widow Seeks Info After Husband Dies From Subway Injury
Mrs. Myles Gunn of South Boston complains that her husband, a subway workman, was injured Wednesday afternoon and died six hours later, but she was notified of neither the accident nor the death until five hours after the latter. A hospital official cited policy on notifying police and medical examiner. an assistant treasurer suggested avoidance of troubling relatives.
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Myles Gunn
Ninth Street
Boston
Gunn
Gas poisoning sickens nine in Cambridge houses
Nine residents of 381 Otis Street and 36 Second Street East Cambridge fell ill from suspected gas poisoning after a broken main near Second and Otis allowed gas to seep into cellars. Mrs Ellen McCarthy and Miss Annie L Newington remain in serious condition.
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Otis Street
Second Street
East Cambridge
Ellen McCarthy
Annie L. Newington
Second
Otis Streets
Col Blake Found Dead In New York Boarding House
Colonel John F Y Blake Irish brigade commander in the Boer War was found asphyxiated in a New York boarding house when a gas stove pipe was detached. He had lectured on South Africa and military life and leaves a wife and two sons in Fall River.
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New York
John F. Y. Blake
Blake
Great Britain
South Africa
Boston Sunday Post
West
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Fall River
Mass
Boston Catholic Seniors elects Hednett to third term
The East Boston branch held its annual officer election last evening reelecting Mrs Sarah A Hednett for a third term. Mrs Hednett is a renowned charity worker in the Noddle Island district. The Rev Denis T O Sullivan SJ president of the Sailors In? will lecture before the society next Sunday evening.
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Theast
Boston
Catholic Seniors’Club
Sarah A. Hednett
Hednett
Noddle Island
Denis T. O'Sullivan
S. J
Sailors’ ‘Inb
Safich
New Tech Head Promised Soon At MIT
President W H Pritchett, in his annual report, says he may resign and will not report as president again. The board faces changes from deaths of Charles Merriam Samuel Cabot and resignations of George Gardner and Thornton Lothrop. He notes alumni term members and urges student-interest methods. He calls for return to fundamental sciences, warns over-differentiation, and cites MIT’s near-term site decision and focus on graduate research.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. H. Pritchett
Pritchett
Charles Merriam
Samuel Cabot
George A. Gardner
Thornton K. Lothrop
Boston Woman Launches Bluejackets Friend Society
Mrs. Abbie Fosdick Ransom of Boston starts a national group to entertain visiting Navy sailors nicknamed jackies. The Bluejackets Friend Society aims to provide open homes in port towns for sailors during ship stays, promoting social betterment and refining influences.
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Boston
Jackies
Port
United States Navy
Abbie Fosdick Ransom
O’-Warsman
Bluejackets’ Friend Society
Uncle Sam
P. E. I. Club Ball Draws 500 Guests in Paul Revere Hall
Five hundred members and guests attended the Prince Edward Island Club 11th annual reunion and ball in Paul Revere Hall. Mayor Fitzgerald and Police Commissioner O Meara were invited as special guests. Other dignitaries included Intercolonial Club President John A Campbell and Maritime Provincial Club President Michael McPherson, plus Miss Nellie Mitchell of the ladies auxiliary and Canadian Club President McIntyre.
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Prince Edward Island
Paul Revere Hall
Fitzgerald
O'Meara
John A. Campbell
Intercolonial Club
Michael McPherson
Maritime Provincial Club
Nellie Mitchell
Ladies
McIntyre
Canadian Club
Bring Alleged Bigamist Here
James Sullivan alias Connor 40 of 161 East Thirty-ninth street New York was arrested for bigamy in Roxbury and brought back by Inspector Shields of Chief Watts office Sullivan married Miss Mary J Kelly in Boston November 25 1896 while a wife and four children lived in Ireland A brother of Kelly aided in the arrest
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James Sullivan
Connor
East Thirty-ninth Street
New York
Boston
Inspector Shields
Watts
Sullivan
Mary J. Kelly
Roxbury
Ireland
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Sanborn
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Cluett
Washington, Hanover and
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Aps
Stretty
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Cambridge
Col. Blake
Unified States
Military Academy
Missouri
Sixth Cavalry
Montana
Idaho
Arizona
New Mexico
Fpot
Fort Leavenworth
Kathryn Aldrich
Grand Rapids
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Pres. Pritchett
He Sevethe
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