Three Rescued in Brockton $35,000 Storehouse Fire
July 3 Brockton reports three people rescued from a $35,000 blaze that gutted the Last Company storehouse on Custom street and damaged multiple nearby homes. Patrolmen Buckley and Batchelder entered 156 Custom street to pull residents to safety, including Mrs Hogan and Mrs Cummings, with Thomas Cummings aided due to a disability. The fire broke out after 5 pm with additional alarms for two other fires in town.
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Brockton
Custom Street
Otis Street
Plymouth Street
Spilman Avenue
John Buckley
Edward Hogan
Thomas Cummings
Lyman Batchelder
Dover Street Bridge Damaged by Fire
A brisk fire burned on the northern end of the Dover Street Bridge yesterday afternoon. Passengers on surface cars leaped to the street and traffic was halted for a period.
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Dover Street
Superintendent Pierce Not Quitting Police Force
The rumor that Superintendent William H. Pierce will retire is unfounded. Pierce says he sees no reason to sever his connection with the department at this time.
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Supt. Pierce
William H. Pierce
Constipation Vanishes Forever
A brief ad-style notice touts a permanent cure for constipation with Carter’s Little liver pills as the claimed remedy. The copy emphasizes lasting relief and a simple remedy. It reads as a traditional late 19th to early 20th century patent medicine claim without clinical evidence.
Expert Says Thaw Insane After Seven Hours of Testimony
Dr. Carlos B. MacDonald an insanity expert testified that Harry K. Thaw is insane a paranoiac He described Thaws manner pompous and his face as that of an insane person He said releasing Thaw would threaten public safety and cross examined by Clarence J Shearn over letters and delusions The testimony extended seven hours total.
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White Plains
N. Y
Carlos B. MacDonald
State Lunacy Commission
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Dr. MacDonald
Clarence J. Shearn
Harvard Fossils From Cuba To Aid Mainland Theory
Dr. Carlos de La Torray Huerta, former Havana mayor and recent Harvard PhD recipient, presented two large cases of Cuban fossils and shells. The specimens, now donated to Harvard University, will be studied at Cambridge where Huerta will arrange the collection for the summer.
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New York
Carlos de la Torray Huerta
Havana
Harvard
Cuba
Harvard University
Hold Man in Murder Case
A man known as Black Tom was arrested by Stonington police in connection with the murder of George Krickell in New London. Krickell was stabbed during a money dispute while working as a strike breaking freight handler.
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Westerly
R. I
Tom
Stonington
Conn
George Krickell
New London
Krickell
Savage to Produce Boston Man's Opera
Dorchester resident Daniel J. Sullivan of 21 Nightingale Street authored a new comic opera accepted by Henry W. Savage and planned for early next season with a prominent stage star rumored to star.
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Boston Man’s Opera
Daniel J. Sullivan
Nightingale Street
Dorchester
Henry W. Savage
Claim Man Captured in Hotel Beat Case
Boston police say Larkin B. Flanagan a 29 year old Osceola Ark son of a wealthy businessman was captured after a Memphis to Boston transport. He faces a charge of uttering a worthless check for 100 dollars drawn on the Hotel Touraine.
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Larkin B. Flanagan
Osceola
Ark
Boston
Memphis
Tenn
Sheehan
Kilday
Touraine
Flanagan Suspect in Hotel Check Passing Ring
Police describe Flanagan as a traveling con man who uses high priced hotels and Pullman cars with a young woman claiming to be his wife. Arrests in St. Louis and Memphis followed a $100 Touraine check signed B C Grew and indorsed to Driver, with $85 improperly obtained. He is known by several aliases and faces possible transfer to Chicago if local case fails.
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Flanagan
United States
St. Louis
Memphis
Chicago
Memphis, Tenn
J. H. Miller
W. E. Arnold
Flannagan
Flanagan Brought to Boston While Delegates Return From Baltimore
On the way from New York to Boston Flanagan was exhibited by police to Mayor Fitz Gerald and a party of delegates returning from the Democratic convention at Baltimore. Memphis is mentioned as a future destination.
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Memphis
Flanagan
Boston
New York
Fitzgerald
Baltimore
Isaac F. Paul Dies at 56 Former Boston Official and Lawyer
Isaac F. Paul a prominent Boston lawyer and former School Board chairman died at his home 71 Westland avenue. Born Dedham November 26 1856 he graduated Dartmouth 1878 and later led the Evening High School 1886 1892. He served on the Boston School Board including a term as president in 1893 94 and long acted as counsel to the Police Board. In 1901 he ran as Republican nominee for Suffolk County district attorney and was defeated by Bordman Hall.
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Isaac F. Paul
Boston School Board
Boston Board of Police
Paul
Suffolk County
Bordman Hall
Debtors List Names Rockefellers and Notables in Bankruptcy
New York July 3 John D Rockefeller is listed as owing 56 cents to Pursell Manufacturing Company as the confectionery and bakery firm files bankruptcy schedules. The list includes Miss Helen Gould Mrs Patrick Campbell Felix Adler John H Flagler and Thomas F Ryan among more than 2500 debtors with amounts from 10 cents to 40 dollars.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
Pursell Manufacturing Company
Helen Gould
Patrick Campbell
Felix Adler
John H. Flagler
Thomas F. Ryan
Train robbers captured near Toomsboro Ga
Old Bill Minor and his partner, both escapees from Milledgeville State prison farm, were captured near Toomsboro Georgia today after fleeing last week.
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Toomnsboro
Bill” Minor
Milledgeville
Workmen uncover burial ground bones near railway
On July 3 in Providence a steam shovel unearthed seven skulls and other bones from an ancient Narragansett Indian burial ground dating before Roger Williams. The Walmsley family were linked to the site, near where Amasa Walmsley was hanged on June 1, 1832. The bones will be reburied.
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Providence
Southern New England Railway
Roger Williams
Walmsley
Amasa Walmsley
Sample of South Bend Appointed U S Treasury Cashier
James A. Sample of South Bend Indiana was appointed cashier of the United States treasury today. He previously served as assistant cashier and fills the post vacant since Edward R True resigned over a year ago.
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Washington
James A. Sample
South Bend
Ind
United States Treasury
Sample
Edward R. True
Carpenter uses dynamite in suicide at Billerica
In Billerica on July 3 Clovis Ouellette a carpenter died instantly after placing a stick of dynamite in his mouth and triggering a slow fuse The blast tore his lower jaw and chest and blew a hole in the floor He lived alone in a camp near a brother s farm Unmarried, the man died in the incident.
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Billerica
Clovis Ouellette
Ouellette
Mallory Liner Sails With Non-Union Crew
The Mallory liner Coma sailed today from Mobile with a crew of non-union firemen and fill ins recruited in the port over the last three days. The Coma is one day late for Tampa and New York. Many crew members are Negro.
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Mobile
Ala
Tampa
New York
Bargain Announcement Promises Three Hour Values Friday
The store touts its widely known money-saving reputation and plans placards with cut prices for A M and P M. It aims to offer unusually attractive bargains both parts of the day and invites shoppers to come Friday for genuine three-hour values.
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Worcester
Brockton Last Co
Carter
John D. Owes
Mallory
Houdhie
New England
Cas
Gayla
Adil
WGWY
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