No Divorce for Eloping Girl
Taunton July 6 Judge Shaw in New Bedford refused Grace E M Watson a divorce from James Watson of Norton after cruel and abusive treatment claims. The couple wed last October following an elopement to New York with a ceremony at St Pauls Church shortly after arrival. Sensational testimony was heard from both sides.
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Taunton
Grace E. M. Watson
Cambridge
Shaw
New Bedford
James Watson
Norton
New York
St. Paul’s Church
Funeral of Drowning Victim in Arlington
The funeral for Ralph S. Poole who drowned in Lower Mystic Lake Arlington was held at his parents’ home, 647 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, with Rev. Henry Sterling Potter officiating. The body was taken to Winchester for burial.
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Arlington
Ralph S. Poole
Mystic Lake
Herman T. Poole
Massachusetts Avenue
Henry Sterling Potter
Arlington First Baptist Church
Winchester
Court Warns Noisy Folks At Lake Monponsett Disturbances Cited
Judge Pratt in Hingham Court issues jail terms rather than fines for peace disturbance cases. Police told cottage owners to curb tenant behavior or face court action. Charlestown residents Jerome Woubouquette Edward Flanagan George Gray Henry Fleck Albert Kelley James O'Donnell fined 15 dollars each. South Boston men George Moore Cornelius Smith Stephen Connelly also fined 15 dollars. All pleaded not guilty.
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Lake Monponsett
Hanson
Pratt
Hingham Court
Jerome Woubouquette
Edward F. Flanagan
George F. Gray
Henry Fleck
Albert Kelley
James O'Donnell
Charlestown
Lake
George J. Moore
E Street
South Boston
Cornelius Smith
Eighth Street
Newton in Scare Over Incendiary Fires
Plain clothes men and a special police guard patrolled Newton streets last night to catch an alleged incendiary blamed for two vacant-house fires in the Farlow Hill area yesterday afternoon. Firefighters fought brisk blazes at 306 Franklin Street and 29 Kenilworth Street, with both houses locked and entrances forced. Authorities widened alarms and containment as they probe how the fires were set and escaped detection.
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Newton
Farlow Hill
Garden City
Newton T O Farlow Hill
Franklin Street
H. R. Mason
M. A. Morton
Poice
Kenilworth Street
Robert T. Fowler
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
Little Walks About Boston in 1804 and Early Harvard Life
Dr. Holmes profiles Boston literary figures around 1804, noting The Monthly Anthology editor William Emerson and Harvard president John Thornton Kirkland. He recalls Kirkland sermons, Josiah Quincy’s remarks on Emerson, and a story of Judge Story and John Quincy Adams waking to a joke about early rising.
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Dr. Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston
William Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Babe
John Thornton Kirkland
Kirkland Street
Cambridge
Harvard
Holmes
Ticknor
Kirkland
Josiah Quincy
Quincy
Emmerson
Boylston
Emerson
Judge Story
Law School
John Quincy Adams
Hart Urges Shift From Latin Greek in Higher Ed
Harvard professor Albert Bushnell Hart told the National Education Association in Des Moines that colleges overemphasize Latin and Greek while ignoring industrial problems. He argued foreign language schools should be abolished and foreigners admitted only if they learn English within three years, with deportation for noncompliance.
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Des Moines
Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard University
National Education Association
Hart
United States
Student auto driver fined after court testimony
Willard F. Marks a 20 year old Hyde Park student at Technology was found guilty of driving to endanger the public and fined 75 dollars in Hingham District Court Judge Pratt presiding after more than two witnesses testified. He crashed on Nantasket avenue and Kenberma road on June 26 hurling a car into a cement pole damaging the vehicle and injuring three men. The injured were Henry Dobbins Jr Wilfred J Reilly and David Cherubini.
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Willard F. Marks
Central Street
Hyde Park
Technology
Hingham District Court
Pratt
Hill Hull Collision Leaves Riders Injured
A crash report notes Reilly suffered a broken shoulder while Dobbins and Cherubini sustained serious cuts and bruises to the head face and body.
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Hull
Reilly
Republicans Charged Over Economy Claims in Senate
Senator Fletcher of Florida accused Republicans in the Senate of making false economy claims. He said a few hundred barely paid government workers were discharged while Congress created new federal judgeships and began investigations requiring clerks and other assistants.
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Washington
Republians
Fletcher
Florida
Senate
Congress
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