Tragic Ice Floe Trip Ends With Teen's Death
The body of Rena Carbonneau 17 a Boston maid was found on Taylor River beach. Merle Flanders 17 is missing after the pair rode a cake of ice toward a motor boat, the ice likely broke midstream in 40 foot deep, current. searchers probe river bottom for his body.
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Hampton
N. H
Rena Carbonneau
Boston
Lester Flanders
Taylor River
Merle Flanders
Flanders
Free Mail Ban on Seed Labels Questioned by Post Office
The Post Office Department rules seed package labels are not public documents under the congressional franking law, so they cannot be mailed free of charge. The ruling affects many members of Congress who have been sending seed labels to postmasters with instructions to mail seeds and free packages to recipients.
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Washington
Jan
Congressional Frank
Post Office Department
Congress
Despondent pair in Salem: wife follows husband in death
In Salem on January 25 Mrs John H Hinkley aged 40 died by poisoning after four months since her husband John H Hinkley shot himself on September 25. The wife had been recovering from nervous prostration following his suicide.
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Salem
John H. Hinkley
Cabot Chosen P S A Treasurer At Annual Meeting
Randall G. Morris was elected president at the Public School Association annual meeting held in the Paddock building yesterday afternoon. Philip Cabot was elected treasurer with other officers reelected from last year.
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Public School Association
Paddock Building
Randall G. Morris
Philip Cabot
Cross-Examination Delayed At Russell Hearing Over Rousseau Letters
Detective Herbert Walker of the Montreal Pinkerton unit faced cross examination in the East Cambridge Probate Court as Leslie A. Simpson alleged Walker planted letters in the Early Leavitt affair to aid Daniel Blake Russell. Other witnesses included Inspector Perkins and Police Chief Benjamin Demo as the case focused on the authenticity and handling of contested Rousseau letters and related photographs.
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Montreal
Pinkerton Agency
Russell
East Cambridge
Leslie A. Simpson
Walker
Rousseau
New York State
Jim Rousseau
Daniel Blake Russell
Simpson
Perkins
Mr. Simpson
Uncle Sam
Benjamin Demo
Massena
Demo
Pinketton
Chase
New York
Dan Russell
West
Fielding
Attorney Simpson
Judge bars questions on Early-Leavitt affair in case
Judge Lawton refused to let the attorney question the witness about the Early-Leavitt affair. He said the trial focuses on the claimant's identity in the Russell case, not other cases the detective may have handled, as Simpson pressed questions about the detective's operations.
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Lawton
Russell
Simpson
Subways Case Seeks To Shield Post Office Site
United States District Judge Dodge issued a restraining order against the Boston Elevated and Hugh Nawn Constructing Co to stop trespass on postoffice property at Boylston and Brattle streets Cambridge. The court action concerns taking part of the premises for the Cambridge subway under eminent domain claims and a pending agreement that may be broken. Notice was served for 2 PM hearing in the U S Circuit Court to show cause why an injunction should not issue.
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United States
Asa P. French
Dodge
United States District Court
Boston
Hugh Nawn
Boylston and
Brattle Streets
Cambridge
French
United States Circuit Court
Idle strike idles 800 at Barnaby Mills Benet
Seven hundred workers at the Barnaby Company textile plant in Benet led a strike by quillers beamers and slasher tenders halting 175 weavers and 20 loom fixers. A general walkout is feared at the Borden plant where 100 weavers left No 2 mill. The mood across mills appears serious with growing strike sentiment.
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Fall River
Barnaby Company
Borden
Mills face wage demands and material shortages amid unrest
Beamer and quiller workers seek a guaranteed 12 dollars weekly while Barnaby plant weavers press for better warp and filling. Strikes stall carders and spinners at Borden mill unless a conference with Superintendent Makepeace occurs. Labor tension rises as higher cotton costs drive use of waste and lower grade material, threatening wages and productivity.
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Barnaby
Borden Mill
Makepeace
Whitehead
Utah Copper Company Wins Merger Plan Approval
Judges Lanning and Cross filed a memorandum dissolving the injunction restraining Utah Copper Company stockholders from meeting to vote on acquiring Boston Consolidated Mining. The decision permits the planned merger of the two firms.
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Trenton
N. J
Lanning
Cross
Utah Copper Company
Boston Consolidated Mining Company
Wilson Installed as Commander in South Boston Ceremony
W. F. Wilson was installed commander of Hope Commandery 12 United Order of the Golden Star Monday night in Pilgrim Hall South Boston. Harry O. Baker was named to a second term as representative to the grand commandery with Grand Commander Charles Steere and other grand officers in attendance.
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W. F. Wilson
Hope Commandery
United Order of the Golden Star
Pilgrim Hall
Boston
Harry O. Baker
Charles Steere
Indicted Slayer Sent to Asylum in Life Sentence
Henri Ferron of Lowell, indicted for the July 1 murder of Flora Rivers, was sentenced by Judge Bond in the East Cambridge Superior Criminal Court to Bridgewater Asylum for the Criminal Insane for life.
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Henri Ferron
Lowell
Flora Rivers
Bond
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
Bridgewater Asylum
Fishermen in Harwich Spear Eels and Ice Pickering
In Harwich on January 25 fishermen work under sunrise to spear eels and pluckered pickerel through the ice. Men use many flaga to indicate bites, earning about ten dollars daily from their catches on frozen creeks and lakes.
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Harwich
Mayor Hibbard Reports Campaign Cost at 3250
Mayor Hibbard filed with the city clerk a statement showing his campaign cost for the failed bid to win reelection totaled 3250 above personal expenses. The document outlines the amount spent and sources of funds.
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Hibbard
Messrs. Storrow
Taylor
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