Accuse Girl of Murder in Chelsea Shoe Factory Case
Annie Oberlander, 18, is charged with murdering her newborn in Chelsea. The infant, weighing about 10 pounds, was found wrapped in a newspaper in a factory stitchers’ room at Bartels and Thelan on Webster Avenue. Police and city officials suspect the baby lived at birth and will pursue a fuller examination. Oberlander remains ill under guard at home as authorities plan further steps.
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Pretty Annie Oberlander
Chelsea
Miss Oberlander
Bartels & Thelan
Webster Avenue
Paul C. Wolfer
David M. Hudson
William H. Gaillac
Renfrew
E. F. Guild
C. A. Hearn
Harris
Guild
Oberlander
Bigelow stakes $1000 on Panama charges dispute
Poultney Bigelow has bet $1000 with the Louisville Courier Journal that his Panama government work charges can be disproved. He notes his Boston University resignation was requested without a chance to speak, regrets leaving his American dependencies course, and says relations with the dean and president remained cordial. He remains available to Senate investigators and credits his information to John R. Freeman. He supports the canal but calls it a swamp in government light.
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Poultney Bigelow
Loursville Courier-Journal
Panama
Boston University
Bigelow
Origin of Giorgione painting disputed by Padua owner
The Post reports from Padua that Hereditary Count Corniani of Algarotti Perazzolo claims to own the original Giorgione painting, a 13-figure work showing Christ under guard to Calvary. He suspects Mrs Gardner’s Fenway gallery piece is a study or copy and cites a legend on the canvas referencing Venise and Giorgione da Castelfranco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Padua
Italy
Carlo Ridolf
Heroine Rosa Naiman saves siblings from fire at Oswego Street
Rosa Naiman twelve recounts how her twin brother Joseph woke to a blaze at 12 Oswego Street and saved five-year-old Isaac and three-year-old Rachel with her help. Joseph alerted the fire station and bore Rachel down the stairs while Rosa hauled out the other child despite singed hair and burnt hands. She deflects credit to Joseph, praising his actions over her own.
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Oswego Street
Rachel
Isaac
Joseph
Rosa Naiman
Solomon
Winthrop School
Wandering Mites Found At Stowe
Lena Lundgren eleven of 595 Main street Cambridge and Anna Goodrich twelve of 8 Pine street Cambridge disappeared Friday evening from home. They were found Sunday night at the Stowe town farm and their parents were summoned. The girls had earlier ridden an all night car ride to Boston and were known to have relatives in New York. They were without money when they left home.
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Lena Lundgren
Main Street
Anna Goodrich
Pine Street
Cambridge
University City
Stowe
Mass
W. H. Lord
Selectman
Lena
Emma
Babbitt School
South Station
New York
Goodrich
Chinese revolutionists seek overthrow of Empress Tsi Ann
In Pekin on January 28 the revolt led by students, aided by university alumni in Japan, calls for a republic and expulsion of the dynasty. Missionary Rev S H Little says the party aims to incite China into conflict with foreign powers, with a radical program and a boycott drive supported by Japanese alarm and American opposition.
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Tsi
Pekin
China
Students In Missions
Forbidden City
Tsi Ann
S. H. Little
Episcopal Mission
Hankow
Revolutionary Party
Japan
Lid frozen in the Berkshires
Great Barrington Mass January 8 A reform wave sweeps the town as officers raid homes arresting several Black and white suspects for disturbing the peace and liquor violations. Ministers and business leaders join the crackdown urging a shut down of vice.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Ambrose Overhiser
O. S. Warren
William Martin
Nellise Freeman
C. Abner Gunn
Robert Williams
John Freeman
W. M. Watts
Armenian Charged In Plot To Loot Rich Homes
An Armenian resident on Washington street was arrested on larceny of a revolver and accused by a fellow Armenian laborer of belonging to a recently formed society aiming to loot homes and institutions in Massachusetts. Officers found a cloth mask, 32 caliber bullets, and letters in Armenian on the suspect, with claims of further proofs to be produced. The arrest followed a warrant from Arlington authorities and the case was turned over to Arlington police.
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Washington Street
Arlington
Massachusetts
South End
Ochs
Dedham Street
Harry Deevarian
Urquhardt
Arlington Police
Arlington Court
Deevarian
Society of Plunderers
Oranian
Boston
Black Hand Suspect Said Hidden in Boston
Boston police claim a Springfield man who moved here is the elusive Black Hand suspect threatening millionaire D B Wesson of Springfield with dynamite unless paid. Post office investigators say they have him in their grasp. officials deny warrants and discuss possible action.
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Boston
D. B. Wesson
Springfield
Post Office
Asa P. French
United States Post Office
W. R. Hinman
George M. Stebbins
Postoffice
Doctor Held for Bigamy in Worcester Case
Worcester, Jan. 28. Dr. H. Robert Surles, once a local physician, was arrested in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on a bigamy charge filed by Mrs. Sadie Slocum Surles. He had previously served an eight year State prison sentence for illegal surgery in 1895.
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Worcester
H. Robert Surles
Scranton
Penn
Sadie Slocum Surles
Providence
Surles
Aldermen Forecast Deadlock in Board Chair Vote
Aldermen express a persistent deadlock over electing a Board of Aldermen chairman with no clear winner today. Linehan and Bangs oppose breaking the deadlock, backing Alderman Whelton and opposing Fitzgerald’s camp. The Fitzgerald faction remains split on leadership, with potential candidates Logan and Sullivan as likely successors.
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Board of Aldermen
Linehan
Whelton
Francis R. Bangs
Draper
Battis
Berwin
Bromberg
Woburn's venerable city messenger active at 86
Edward Simonds, age 86, celebrated his birthday while active as Woburn’s city messenger. Since 1889 reforms, he has served in city government roles including tax collector for 30 years, constable for 56 years, and probation officer until last year. Simonds is noted for sprinting prowess in his youth.
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Massachusetts City Messengers’ Association
Boston
Edward Simonds
Woburn
Simonds
Bedford
Board of Overseers of the Poor
Fourth District Court
The Square Man Address at Boston Union Church
At the Sunday vesper service the Rev Henry F Fister of Arlington Mass spoke on The Square Man. He argued that physical perfection adds to a man's worth and happiness. A healthy body fosters strength in mind and spirit versus a sickly condition.
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Boston Young Men's Christian Union
Henry F. Fister
First Universalist Church
Arlington
Mass
Lincoln Day Proclaimed On February 12 Observances Begun
A new law directs the Governor to set February 12 as Lincoln Day to mark the birth of Abraham Lincoln born 1809 and died 1865 at 56. The Governor will issue an annual proclamation urging appropriate exercises in schools and other observances. The law grants discretionary powers to define holiday observance and closing requirements for places of business.
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Abraham Lincoln
Guild
Has So Boston a Tong A Society in Chinatown Like?
Police thoroughly investigate a possible Lithanian Tong in South Boston after two men suffer severe injuries in recent days. 35 West Second Street, a fireproof building owned by Henry Cabot Lodge, is a Lithuanian hub. Andrew Mickelauckas, 35, fractured a small bone in his left leg near Head House at 7:15 am, and Michael Cherwalk, 8, was left with a fractured skull days earlier in Adams Square. Mickelauckas refused to discuss injuries. Cherwalk remains in danger at City Hospital.
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Tongs
Chinatown
South
Boston
West Second Street
Henry Cabot
Adams Square
City Hospital
Mickelauckas
Iron Pier
City Point
Cherwalk
Pastor denounces spam letters at Sacred Heart Church
In Malden parishioners report letters claimed to be from Rev. P. J. Hally urging daily prayer and a mass mailing chain. Hally deemed the notes a fraud from the pulpit at 10 30 mass and advised destruction. Authorities may investigate as a postal fraud.
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Malden
Sacred Heart Church
P. J. Hally
Father Hally
Harvard Coach Defeated in British Parliamentary Vote
Harvard suffered a defeat in the parliamentary elections in Great Britain. R C Lehmann, a Punch contributor and Oxford rowing coach who had studied English methods with Harvard crew, was defeated as a Radical after coming to America a year ago to coach the Harvard boat.
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Harvard
Great Britain
R. C. Lehmann
Punch
Oxford
America
Jack Frost Postpones Visit With Freezing Start
Freezing weather was still considered elusive yesterday as Jack Frost again postponed any thaw. The day saw a 40 degree average temperature with a midnight low around 38.6 and a generally cloudy, unpleasant pattern keeping residents indoors.
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Jack Frost
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