New Claimant Joins Phillips Millions Legal Tangle
A Sioux City claimant appears to challenge the Swampscott Phillips fortune, adding several lawsuits to a sprawling family dispute. In Essex County courts, four divorce suits, two cross suits and two damage actions are listed, with Eben B Phillips and others named in multiple filings amid a maze of alleged alienation and furniture disputes.
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Lynn
Phillips Millions
Phillips Family
Swampscott
Essex County
William Jackson Phillips
Sioux City
Iowa
John Phillips
Massachusetts
Eben B. Phillips
Raymond S. Joe
Gertrude May Phillips
Eben Phillips
Harry F. Phillips
Inez Fields
Harry Phillips
Lena F. Phillips
Gertrude
Joe
Lena Phillips
Harry
Thomas B. Sexton
Gertrude Phillips
Marblehead
Ray
Post
Salem
Jennie P. Chase
Atlantic Coast
Illinois
Litchfield
Hillsboro
Mary Jane Duff
Eben
Wolf's Clothier Promotion Near Haymarket and Square
Wolf's My Clothier offers free Double Legal Stamps with every purchase until noon. The promotion applies at the Hanover and Portland Street corner location near Haymarket Square, Adams Square, Scollay Square, and Friend-Union Street stations. Single stamps also available at the Hanover Ortland corner.
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Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Haymarket Square
Adams Square
Scollay Square
Friend-Union Street
Subway
Wolf’s
Hanover and
Ortland Streets
Lightning Burns Farm Buildings Near Pittsfield
A severe thunderstorm struck the Berkshire hills near Pittsfield on July 21. Clarence Emerson’s two story frame house and two barns were destroyed by lightning, with a $10,000 loss and $4,000 insured. Plummer Marston’s house and barn at Chichester also burned, totaling $2,000 in losses.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Hills
Clarence O. Emerson
Chichester
Plummer Marston
Taft to Speak at Bar Harbor Village Green
War clouds hung over Bar Harbor Maine as President Taft prepares to address the village green at noon. Tension rises between Maine residents and the fashionable summer colony, which had planned events for his visit without concessions to local villagers numbering about 4000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Bass
Sanger
Mr. Taft
Selectmen
First Selectman
J. E. Bunker, Jr
Eastport
H. C. Emery
New Tariff Commission
Bar Harbor
Jordan Pond
Passamaquoddy Bay
Taft
Bdsun
Maine
Magistate
City cemetery horses refuse sale over benzine buggy rumor
Indignation in Boston’s cemetery department as veteran work horses Aloysius Montague H Peck and Herman Hotfoot aged 28 20 and 15 summers respectively face alleged sale to fund a benzine buggy. Officials insist they will be kept and cared for until retirement with a call for humane treatment. Massachusetts SPCA chief appeals to Mayor Fitzgerald to save them and find a home.
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Cemetery Department
Boston
Aloysius
Montague H. Peck
Herman Hotfoot
Mt. Hope
Forest Hills
Ross
Thomas Carey
Tris Speaker
Duffy Lewis
Red Sox
Phipps
Cambridge Policeman Kept On Force After Fine Hearing
Patrolman John Green faced a hearing before Cambridge Mayor after a $5 drunkenness fine from three weeks earlier. Aldermen refused discharge, leaving him on duty.
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John Green
Cambridge
Sea Serpent Captured After Fight Off Shelbourne Nova Scotia
Jeremiah Gordon and Peter Lukman pulled a seven foot sea serpent from a nets trap off Shelbourne. The creature with a big head and long fin fought, sinking their dory but was hauled aboard after a brutal struggle. It was sold for swordfish prices and taken to Boston for display.
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Shelbourne
Nova Scotia
Long Wharf
Prior and Mahoney
Jeremiah Gordon
Peter Lukman
N. S
Lukman
Gordon
Gordan
Boston
Prince George
Prior & Mahoney
Post
Fred
Mr Mahoney
Mr. Prior
Natural History Museum
Lyman death stirs trustees at Westboro school
Trustees of the Lyman School for Boys at Westboro say reports misrepresent the death of Joseph Lula at the institution to fuel claims that Johnny Newman of Cambridge was killed there rather than hanged. They cite failed attempts to locate Lula’s family after his son’s death and miscommunication with authorities.
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Lyman School For Boys
Westboro
Joseph Lula
Johnny Newman
Cambridge
Lyman School
John Lula
North Adams
Holyoke
Carl Dreyfus
Dreyfus
Coffeen
Mr. Lula
Humphrey Named Head of Eastern Adverts Club
H B Humphrey of Boston elected president of the eastern division of the Advertisers Club of America at Lincoln convention. Herbert S Houston of World’s Work Co New York chosen chair of the national board. Boston to host next year’s convention, drawing over a thousand top advertising executives.
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Lincoln
Neb
Paet
Pilgrim Publicity Association
National Association
Boston
George W. Coleman
H. B. Humphrey
Des Moines
Chicago
Wealthy New York sportsman dies from injuries
Pittsburg July 21 George Watson Jr wealthy New York horse breeder and sportsman died at Homeopathic Hospital tonight from injuries suffered after being thrown from his mount in a recent accident.
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Pittsburg
George Watson, Jr
New York
Drags Chum From Death At Ferry and Salem junction
A young woman pulled a companion from under a moving trolley car at the Ferry and Salem streets junction in Malden. The pair, returning from Revere Beach, fled with the other passengers after the incident and refused to reveal their names. The rescued girl was in grave danger, but both escaped with undisclosed identities.
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Malden
Ferry
Salem
Revere Beach
Mills Lose Four Million Dollars at Pillsbury Mills
London reports that the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company directors passed the annual accounts after a volatile meeting. Chairman R H Glyn called the loss an appalling four million dollars caused by gross disobedience and irregular methods and hinted at restitution actions. MP John MacDonald Henderson offered to fund investigations. Director Cloutte called it one of modern history’s greatest company scandals.
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London
Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company, Ltd
R. H. Glyn
John MacDonald Henderson
House of Commons
Cloutte
Boston and Eastern railroad hearings prompt opposition
Arguments against granting the Boston and Eastern Railroad right of passage were heard before the Railroad Commission. Representatives from Boston and Albany, Boston and Maine, Boston Revere Beach and Lynn, and General Electric of Lynn argued the project would hinder coastal development and the plans of existing railways and a nearby tunnel project. The hearing continues with Melvin Adams and the petitioners to present final arguments later today.
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Boston and Eastern Electric Railroad
Railroad Commission
Boston & Albany
Boseton & Maine
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
General Electric Company of
Lynn
Boston & Eastern
Woodward Hudson
Boston
William H. Coolidge
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston & Maine
Salem
Beverly
Railroad Commissioners
Transit Commission
B. N. Johnson
Indian Skeleton Found at Plymouth Town
Plymouth July 21 Workmen laying water system unearthed a six foot Indian skeleton in near perfect condition. The remains lay about a foot and a half beneath the surface near the town center.
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Plymouth
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William J. Phillips
Price
GAIF
George
Washington St
Steve
Philadelphia
15Th & Chestnut
The
Berkshires
Sea Serpent
Hub
Lyman
Lula Boy
Mills
Pillsbury Flour Company
NEW Road Handicap
Eastern
New England
Washington Street
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