Boston Con woman drains old Boston bankers in flirtation scheme
New York report details Mrs. Almer V. Sturtevant alias Josephine Joy confessing to swindling thousands from aging Boston lotharios, mainly bankers and brokers, by feigned affection and threats of breach of promise. She describes manipulation through Mrs. Jenkins and notes her past as an understudy to Fritzi Scheff and performer in vaudeville, with debts and a mysterious leather patent scam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Almer V. Sturtevant
Josephine Joy
New England Conservatory of Music
Helen Dwelle Jenkins
Boston
New Hingland Conservatory of Music
Charles H. Bond
Conservatory
Frizi Scheff
Wall Street
Standard Oil
Rockefellier
Mr. Allen
Mrs. Jenkins
Fritzi Scheff
Mr. Dillingham
Red Mill
Mrs. Sturtevant
Charles B. Dillingham
Keith & Proctor
Funeral of Captain Gaskin at St Joseph’s Roxbury
The funeral of Police Captain Edward F. Gaskin of Court Square station, who died Tuesday, was held at St. Joseph’s Church Roxbury with a 60 patrolman escort. High Mass was celebrated by Rev Father Dennis F. Sullivan before interment at Old Dorchester cemetery. Attending mourners included Police Commissioner O’Meara Superintendent Pierce and other officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Gaskin
Court Square
St. Joseph’s Church
Circuit Street
Roxbury
Kingsley
Gaskin
Patrick B. King
Thomas F. Evans
Old Guard
John J. Hanley
John B. Driscoll
Otis F. Kimball
Forest F. Hall
John A. Brickley
Joseph Harriman
Martin H. King
James B. Prendergast
Henry F. Barry
Frederick N. Wheeler
John
Ridlon
Walter
Horton
Dennis F. Sullivan
Old Dorchester Cemetery
O’meara
William H. Pierce
William B. Watts
Joseph Dugan
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Milk Prices Rising Across Boston Amid Shortage
In the worst milk shortage in years Boston producers announce an eight cent per can price increase effective Sunday with further rises planned for October. The Milk Producers' Association cites heat damaged pastures and rising feed costs as driving factors and says dealers intend to pass the higher costs to consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milk Producers’ Association
Boston
Hood
Whiting Companies
Greater
Consumers of
Producers’ Association
Massachusetts
Whiting and Hood
Boston Dairy Company
Mystery surrounds Miss Carroll death at Crystal Lake
Newton Centre residents awoke to a puzzling death after Elsie Carroll vanished on a hot Wednesday evening. Her panama hat was found near a grove by Crystal Lake and her body surfaced the next day 40 feet from shore. Witnesses had seen her alone in a car and a nursemaid reported hearing a scream. Medical examiners ruled drowning with post mortem marks, while police and family debated whether it was self threaten or accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Centre
Langley Road
Centre Street
Little Grove
Crystal Lake
David Waters
Miss Carroll
8. M. Moore
Ethel McKenny
C. Helen Taylor
Grant Avenue
Beacon Street
Miss McKenny
Post
Hissa
Alice
Ninth Regiment
Groth
Familly
West
EF. M. Mitchell
Hfe
Maine
Neve Wisle
Thorpe Underwear Company
Needham
Boston
Belle Morrison
Chesley Road
Gertrude Carroll
Concord Square
South End
Free milk stations proposed for Boston during heat spell
Health Commissioner Mullowney discussed creating free milk depots in Boston as a response to the heat wave. W A Graustein of the Boston Dairy Company offered to supply milk at half wholesale price if the city runs the stations. Graustein and health officials continued dispensing free milk in various city sections, likely through Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullowney
Boston
W. A. Graustein
Boston Dairy Company
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Jim
Payne
Hasha
Jimmy
Ne&s
Buz
Dwien
C. H. Bond
Passaic Park
Neds
Jenkins
Rockefeller
England
Briggs
Springfield
Mass
Sterling
Mr. Sterling
Erie
Buffalo
Miss Josephine Joy
Colorado
Estern
Chicago
Denver
Colorado Express
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Chicago and North Western Railway
J. B. Brittain
Washington Street
Pat Rexel Garad
I Komal
Capt. Gaskin
the Spider and
the Fly
Wilso
BER
Scollay - Opticians
Baskett
TaHat
Harvard
America
Harvard Beer
Harvard Brewing Co
Lowell, Mass
Commercial Wharf
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