Am News Co founder Henry Dexter dead at 97
Henry Dexter founder and former president of the American News Company dies at 42 West 56th Street New York. Born in West Cambridge Massachusetts he was father of Orlando P Dexter whose daytime murder near Dexter Lake Adirondacks on September 19 1903 remained unsolved. Dexter continued the reward offer in his will codicil. The slain son's killer had been the elder Dexters primary life pursuit.
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Henry Dexter
The
American News Company
West 56Th Street
West Cambridge
Mass
Orlando P. Dexter
Dexter Lake
Adirondacks
Orlando Dexter
Drowns During Epileptic Fit Off Cambridge Beach
Adrian Francis Hamilton aged 23 of Cambridge drowned in three and a half feet of Charles River near Magazine Beach Cambridge while his companions played nearby. He suffered epileptic fits for months and was seen to have a fit in the water. life guards and rescuers were unable to revive him.
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Charles River
Magazine Beach
Cambridge
Adrian Francis Hamilton
Brookline Street
George Colgan
Columbia Street
Gas Tanks In Danger In Lynn Fire Near Gas Plant
A two alarm fire near the Lynn Gas and Electric Company threatened two gas tanks containing over 1,000,000 feet of gas each. Firefighters cooled the area as heat rose, preventing explosions. Edward Valery suffered arm injuries after being wounded by a broken picket during the blaze.
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Lynn
Lynn Gas & Electric Company
Edward Valery
24 Pleasant Street
Herrmann elected Elks grand exalted ruler for 1910
Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati was elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks by acclamation at the grand lodge session in Detroit. Edward Leach and P. H. Shields were elected grand officers, Atlantic City chosen for the next convention, with a 331,288 membership across 1206 lodges and net 26,242 new members after 36 dispensations. New York and Brooklyn lodges hold the largest counts. Total charitable giving since 1880 stands at 3,347,248 with 93,247 in the last fiscal year expenditures and 297,790 in grand lodge assets.
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Detroit
Garry” Herrmann
Cincinnati
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Edward Leach
New York City
P. H. Shields
Plattsburg
W. Va
Atlantic City
Sammis
Brooklyn
New York
Pennsylvania
Order
Elks
Bedford City
Adamson's Cough Balsam Claims Quick Cold Relief
An advertisement proclaims Adamson's Cough Balsam can end a cold or cough when it wears off. The copy stresses rapid relief and repeated doses to restore health.
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Adamson
Burial at Sea for Captain A R Simmons
News from Miami reports Captain A. R. Simmons of the Grand Army who died at the National Soldiers' Home in Johnson City Tenn was buried at sea in Biscayne Bay following his will directive. He requested no religious service and for friends to conduct themselves with as much gayety as possible during the last rites.
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N. H
Miami
Fla
A. R. Simmons
Grand Army
National Soldiers’ Home
Johnson City
Tenn
Biscayne Bay
Simmons
Carries Dead Baby in Arms
Louis Deininger traveled from Egg Harbor New Jersey to Philadelphia with his infant dead in his arms. He hid the tragedy from his ill wife during the two hour journey and only revealed the death after reaching their home.
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Philadelphia
Egg Harbor
N. J
Louis Deininger
Major Real Estate Deal Sold for 300000
J Sumner Draper and Mark Dowling have sold a large property at 1 to 7 Washington street corner of 6 and 6 Haymarket Square through 93 to 103 Friend street to Robert Gardiner and Philip Dexter trustees. The 8087 square foot site holds a modern five story office building and the 300,000 dollar transaction marks the year’s biggest in this class.
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J. Sumner Draper
Mark Dowling
Washington Street
Haymarket Square
Friend Street
Robert Gardiner
Philip Dexter
Poison takes life in Billerica as man faces forgery charge
Billerica July 12 Charles F Hentz, 40, in a nervous state after arrest for forging his mother in law Mia Margaret T Young s name on a pension voucher, committed suicide by poison. He was out on $300 bail and is survived by a widow.
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Billerica
Charles F. Hentz
Mia
Margaret T. Young
Hentz
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