Editor and Publicist St Clair McKelway Dies at 70
New York July 16 St Clair McKelway editor of the Brooklyn Eagle died at his Brooklyn home at 3 p m He had suffered ill health for years and was 70 The journalist lawyer and educator served as editor in chief of the Eagle since 1885 after long careers at the New York World and Albany Argus His work aided Grover Cleveland in key campaigns and he held high posts at the University of the State of New York including chancellor prior to retirement due to ill health.
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New York
McKelway
Washington
New York World
Albany, N. Y
Argus
Grover Cleveland
Dr. McKelway
Cleveland
Columbia
New Jersey
Trenton
Albany
University of the State of New York
University
Children Start Fire At Medford Home
Children playing with matches started a brisk blaze in the home of P. B. White at 147 Fellsway West Medford yesterday afternoon. Flames were extinguished by the fire department with damage estimated around 200 dollars. The children escaped injury.
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P. B. White
Fellsway West
Medford
Suit Against Morgan Fails in Connecticut Ruling
The Connecticut Supreme Court upholds the Superior Court finding against Clarence L. Barber of New York in a suit to recover 260 000 from the estate of J Pierpont Morgan. Barber filed in 1911 alleging Morgan helped move assets to an English company via a Mexican property owning Connecticut corporation. He later became receiver for the Mexican firm.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors
Thayer
Superior Court
Clarence L. Barber
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Barber
Mr. Morgan
Mexico
Morgan
Mass State to Release Over 3000 Pheasants This Year
Massachusetts will release more than 3000 pheasants in woods and fields between now and fall. The State Commissioners on Fisheries and Game have begun distributing the birds and expect to double the prior season’s total before winter.
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Massachusetts
State Commissioners On Fisheries and Game
Open pheasant season set in Massachusetts with new gun ban
Massachusetts allows an open pheasant season from October 12 to November 12 while enforcing a 1935 law barring aliens from using shotguns or rifles unless property valued at least 500 dollars is owned. Officials say the law should prevent a repeat of last fall’s pheasant slaughter and stress that native game protection guides restocking efforts.
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Massachusetts
William C. Adams
United States Supreme Court
Middlesex
Essex
Worcester
Noted Saugus Teacher Georgiana Walton Dies
Miss Georgiana Walton a longtime Saugus public schools teacher died of heart failure after a four day illness at her home 41 Main street She taught mainly at Roby School and retired a year ago Born in Wakefield she moved to Saugus at age five and attended the State Normal School at Salem The centenary pageant honored her with a laurel wreath from school children.
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Georgiana Walton
Saugus
Main Street
Miss Walton
Wakefield
State Normal School
Salem
Roby School
Saugus Centre
Dr Clark Improves After Typhoid at Sagamore Beach
Dr Francis FE Clark founder and president of the Christian Endeavor Society is recovering from typhoid fever at his Sagamore Beach summer home Cape Cod. A three day improvement signals a return to health and he may hear news of the Chicago convention once William Shaw returns to Boston.
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Francis FE. Clark
Christian Endeavor Society
Sagamore Beach
Cape Cod
Clark
Christian Endeavor
Chicago
William Shaw
United Christian Endeavor
Boston
Exports of Medicines Surge as War Drives Trade
The European war has nearly doubled American exports of medicines and surgical instruments. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reports that exports for the year ended June 30 totaled $35,774,000, up from $19,916,000 a year earlier.
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Washington
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Cadets Repudiate Dance and Face Mock Battle at Camp
Cadet Francis W. Capper of Brookline, Harvard track captain, vanished from camp to attend a quiet dance at Boone Lake with cadets from the First Corps. Guards captured him and he returned to duty as the corps faced a mock clash near Boone Lake. The day ended with a pajama parade and camp-wide stunts before a final march to Sudbury and Boston.
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Puffer’s Pond
Maynard
Francis W. Capper
Brookline
Harvard
Boone Lake
Capper
Red Army
Chase
New Haven
Sudbury
Perkins
Blues
Red
John S. Barrows
Arsenal
South Framingham
James Regan
Thirtieth Infantry
Quartermaster
Gobblers’ Association
Boston
Huntington Avenue
Columbus Avenue
Chipchases Case Settled Between Beatrice Chipchase and Helen Preece
Beatrice Chipchase of New York dissolves legal actions against Helen Preece of Beverly and against her former husband George H. Chipchase after out of court settlement. Both women are noted horsewomen and the divorce between Beatrice and George had been finalized earlier. A bill in equity sought to bar Helen Preece from using the Chipchase name at horseshows in Philadelphia and New York.
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Beatrice Chipchase
New York City
Helen Preece
Beverly
George H. Chipchase
Battery A Back From War Maneuvres
Battery A field artillery unit M. V. M. arrived at the South armory on Hunting ton avenue early yesterday from Tobyhanna Pennsylvania where it took part in war maneuvers starting July 7 under regular army officers with regular army horses and guns. Batteries B and C were at Tobyhanna and left for home with Battery A. Battery B remained yesterday in New York and Battery C returned to its home armory in Lawrence.
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Field Artillery
Huntington Avenue
Tobyhanna
Penn
New York
Lawrence
French Socialist Minister Sees Armament Limits After War
Marcel Sembat, France's socialist minister of public works, told an AP representative that belligerent finance ministers will push for armament limits after the war. He noted Sembat’s cabinet post as the first Socialist in France to hold a real ministerial position. He continued his discussion.
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Paris
Marcel Sembat
Associated Press
M. Sembat
France
War finances and armament limits eyed by experts
An observer argues that after the war only financial realities will shape policy. He cites massive costs, rising debts for belligerents, and the need to restrain armaments via an international arms industry supervision under a peace treaty, with a neutral chair.
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United States
Prussia
Napoleon I
Switzerland
Russia Opens Plan to Reopen Trade With United States
The Russian customs department accepted proposals to modify its export embargo and channel goods via the U.S. Secretary of Commerce under official supervision. Goods would be limited to American merchants and manufacturers with re export safeguards, covering millions of dollars in trade halted since World War I.
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Washington
Russian Department of Customs
Russia
United States
C. Medzikhovsky
Russian Foreign Office
Secretary of Commerce of
Foreign Office
Department of Commerce
Red Cross Fund Subscriptions Acknowledged by Boston Unit
The American Red Cross Massachusetts Branch Treasurer F L Higginson Jr reports European War Fund receipts totaling 136998.60 dollars after prior acknowledgments of 135955.10 dollars plus 1000.00 from the Pageant of Lexington and smaller gifts including a 25.00 from Caroline P Gardner and 1.50 from Seaside Chapel collections in North Scituate.
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F. L. Higginson, Jr
Massachusetts
American Red Cross
State Street
Boston
Mass
European War Fund
Lexington
Friends of the
Eee
West
TGR Eoe
Spinik County
British Submarine H-15 Launched at Quincy Yard
A British submarine named H-15 was launched at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy yesterday at 1 39 PM. Mrs Alice Sheppard Davison christened the vessel, wife of Lieutenant Gregory C Davison of the Electric Gas Company.
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Fore River
Quincy
Great Britain
Alice Sheppard Davison
Gregory C. Davison
The
Electric Gas Company
Artillery Men Return Today from Boston Harbor
Coast artillery companies of the Massachusetts militia return today after ten days manning forts in Boston harbor. They will rendezvous at Boston Common at noon following a review by General Lombard and other militia officers before being dismissed from their tour. Unusually foggy conditions have limited any combat, with plans to fire for records postponed due to hazy seas.
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Coast Artillery
Massachusetts Militia
Boston
Boston Common
Lombard
Killer coal miner murders wife and another woman in Bridgeport
John L Beverly a Clarksburg coal miner killed his wife Martha Harris after she left him and Miss Florence Cox in Bridgeport. Frank Harris was wounded along with two others, Beverly died at a local hospital after a failed suicide attempt as a posse closed in.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
John L. Beverly
Bridgeport
Here
Beverly
Martha Harris
Florence Cox
Frank Harris
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