Red Sox Players Help Police Capture Suspects
Joe Wood and Forest Cady of the Red Sox aided Back Bay officers Garrity and Carty last night in arresting John J. Porter and Dennis Murphy after a chase along Huntington avenue and Gainsboro street. The pair, suspected in auto tire larceny, resisted and fled with a horse and buggy before being caught.
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Red Sox
Garrity
Carty
Back Bay
Joe Wood
Boston
Forest Cady
Putnam Chambers
Huntington Avenue
Gainsboro Street
John J. Porter
Tremont Street
Dennis Murphy
Bay Street
Cambridge
Bay Fens
Harrison's Half-Price Sale at S. H. Harrison Co
The S. H. Harrison Co announces half price sale of all wholesale stock. Blue serve suits listed at 9.75 dollars from an 18.00 dollar price. Location is 662 672 Washington Street at the corner of Beach Street. Furniture and clothing items affected by the sale.
Schedule of Automatic Price Reductions
All lots placed on sale Tuesday July 16 will be reduced if unsold. For example a waist priced at 85c will drop to 68c by July 30, 42c by August 6, 22c by August 13, and be given away by August 20. To avoid losses we must set an extraordinary first price.
Women Speak on Savings at Millions of Lots Sale
Shoppers explain why the store draws them with low prices and vast choices. A customer cites automatic price reductions and easy stock access, highlighting hundreds of big and small lots on sale today. Another notes samples as continually good bargains.
New Bedford Mills Closed Amid Weavers Strike
Twelve New Bedford cotton mills with 13 000 workers shut down indefinitely after the weavers and loomfixers strike began today. Notices posted in mills cited the strike as the reason for closure and a prolonged stoppage.
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New Bedford
New Bedford Strike Spreads as Loomfixers Join Weavers
Loomfixers and weavers unionized actions shut down several mills in New Bedford area including Acushnet Booth Bristol Dartmouth Gosnold Grinnell Hathaway Page Pierce Manufacturing and Wamsutta. Trade groups foresee spread as 1200 IWW members join and seven mills remain open under pressure. Police report minor vandalism as clashes loom amid planned picketing and council talks.
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United Textile Workers
Acushnet
Booth
Bristol
Dartmouth
Gosnold
Grinnell, Hathaway
Page
Pierce Manufacturing Company
Pierce Brothers, Ltd
New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
J. Richard Parkinson
William Yates
Lawrence
New Bedford
Butler
Nashawena
Néild
New Bedford Cotton
Soule
Taber
Whitman
Industrial Workers of the World
Textile Council
John Hobin
Hobin
Richard Parkinson
Wamsutta Nll
Wamsita
Corporation
Acushnet Millis
Booth Manufacturing Co
Bristol Manufacturing Co
Dartmouth Mfg. Corp. E
Gosnold Mills Co
Grinnell Mfg
Sere
Hathaway Mfg
Eerste Eave
Eee
Pierce Mfg. Co
Pierce Bros., Ltd
Potomska Mills
Wamsutta Mills
Churches Merge in Charlestown Unite First Parish and Winthrop
The First Parish Church and the Winthrop Church of Charlestown agreed to unite into the First Congregational Church of Charlestown. They will be incorporated under that name and open services on September 1.
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First Parish Church
Winthrop Church
Charlestown
First Congregational Church of
Filene Building Lights Up as Nine-Month Finish Proclaimed
The new Filene building, begun last October by Wells Brothers of New York, was illuminated from basement to top floor last night marking rapid construction. The project features a 60 foot deep independent heating and power plant under the subway, 17 elevators, and indirect National X ray lighting.
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Filene
Wells Brothers’ Company
New York
F. A. Wells
P. A. Wells
Henry Cummings
Amory Eliot
G. Sherman
H. J. White
P. A. Kairns
D. H. Burnham & Co
Owen D. Young
Tyler & Young
Mr. Nutter
Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter
Mr. Schlaber
T. K. Cory
Filene’s
Ira G. Hersey
W. J. Grosvenor
Westinghouse
New England
Washington and
Summer Streets
Yale Loses a Vanderbilt
Yale, New Haven Conn July 15 Vanderbil Webb sole Vanderbilt at Yale in a decade will skip his senior year at Yale to study at Balliol College Oxford this fall He finished Yale in three years earning Phi Beta Kappa and a philosophical oration His absence complicates senior society elections and he was bypassed for Scroll and Key and likely Skull and Bones He is son of Dr W Seward Webb and grandson of William H Vanderbilt.
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New Haven
Conn
Vanderbilt Webb
Vanderbilt
Yale
Balliol College
Oxford
Webb
Scroll and Key
Skull and Bones
W. Seward Webb
William H. Vanderbilt
England's Panama demands gain Senate support
Great Britain's protest that the United States has no right to pass its own coastwise vessels free through the Panama canal while collecting tolls from foreign ships found emphatic support in the Senate today. The dispute centers on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and U S authority over canal toll collection.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Fight Over Panama Canal Bills Stirs Senate Debate
Senators Burton of Ohio and Root of New York outline ground in the Panama canal fight over free ships. They warn Britain surrendered rights under Clayton-Bulwer and predict Hague court rulings if the United States grants free provision. State Dept notes British protest likely soon. transfer paths depend on Innes travel or Kineo mail route. Taft may submit the British statement with a special message.
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Panama Canal
Senate
House
Burton
Ohio
Root
New York
Great Britain
Panama
United States
State Department
Washington
Innes
Knox
Kineo
Maine
Taft
Congress
Invading Fleet Repulsed at Fort Strong Harbor Action
On July 15 the third battalion C A C ended its duty with a bold defense as six battleships four cruisers and eight destroyers attempted to slip into Broad Sound and seize Boston. Cable failures prevented orders from Colonel Lombard. Major Shedd led the defense. The attackers were repelled as torpedo destroyers were captured near the bell buoy and another fleet retreated after nearing 250 yards of the fort.
Harvard College Seeks Court OK to Sell Bussey Lands
Attorney General Swift filed a reply to Harvard College's petition to sell 5,186,000 square feet of land on Washington street Forest Hills part of the Bussey estate willed to Harvard The college must prove necessity to alter estate administration as directed by Benjamin Bussey in his will The case will be tried later.
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Swift
Supreme Court
Harvard College
Washington Street
Forest Hills
Bussey
Harvard
Benjamin Bussey
Judgment Rest on Death by Own Action Theory in Morrow Trial
Chicago July 15 evidence to counter the theory that Charles B Morrow killed himself on December 27 was presented in the trial of Mrs Morrow for murder. Three physicians described the chest gunshot wound and another bullet in the head in technical detail.
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Chicago
Charles B. Morrow
Jury evaluates wound tests in Morrow case
Experts testified the chest wound would cause immediate unconsciousness and that a self inflicted head shot was unlikely. Testimony covered recoil, weapon distance, and the impossibility of transferring the revolver between hands after the first wound. Judge Kersten admitted some witness statements but barred alleged relations between Gilmore and Mrs. Morrow.
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Morrow
State
George Kersten
W.H. Palmer
Joseph Springer
Northrup
Fred Surkamer
E. R. LeCount
A. A. O'Neil
Columbia Hospital
Joseph Patten
College of the Physicians and Surgeons
Harry Gilmore
Outing Suits Offered At Half Retail Prices
S. H. Harrison Co. presents discount outing suits in men’s sizes at half retail. Priced at $6.50, $7.50 and $8.50 for suits originally $12, $15 and $18.00. Located at 662 672 Washington Street, corner Beach.
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S. H. Harrison Co
Washington Street
Corner Beach
Broken trolley wire halts Boston Elevated cars at City Square
A broken trolley wire at City square Charlestown stalled the Boston Elevated Company surface car system for about half an hour last night. Traffic from Revere Beach to City Square and to Everett Chelsea and Haymarket area was disrupted.
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City Square
Charlestown
Boston Elevated Company
Everett
Chelsea
Haymarket Square
Revere Beach
Wire snaps over head as crowd moves through square
A crowded Charlestown square crowds its path when a wire overhead snaps at 10 49 causing sparks to hiss and squirm across the street as the scene unfolds.
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Charlestown
Hearing Restored by Simple Home Treatment
Civil War veteran Henry A. Farrar of Hanover Mass describes a personal recovery from deafness after tried medical remedies failed. He reports immediate improvement from a simple home method, leading to renewed jury duty participation and ongoing transmission of the treatment details to others seeking similar relief. Farrar invites inquiries with stamped return envelopes to share full particulars.
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Mr. Farrar
Dandruff Cure Claimed For Severe Scalp Condition
Miss Murial E. Gammons reports long suffering from foul itching and bleeding sores on the scalp. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment she says all dandruff disappeared in one month and never returned. The ad notes availability from druggists, free samples, and Cuticura shaving products.
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North Ave
Attleboro Falls
Mass
Murial E. Gammons
Cuticura
Dept. T. Doston
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Paul Our Celt
Francis J. Duffy, JR
Weavers’ Union
William O. Devell
Association
Francis Duffy, Jr
Industrial Workers
New Ettelson Way
L.A
Optometrists
England
Hague
Bears
FacSimle Signature
Joan
Castoria
Gould
Harrison
Slenry Farrar
Axe
Farrar
Duffy
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