Sister claims murder plot behind Lynn trunk death
Mrs. Alice Adams, sister of Minas K. Momjian, alleges a Huntchagist plot killed him and that Vahan Nelbadian was a tool of Momjian’s enemies. Adams said Nelbadian’s recent friendship with Momjian may have been staged to trap the man to Nelbadian’s room where he died.
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Minas K. Momjian
Emerson House
Lynn
Vahan Nelbadian
Momjian
Momijian
Alice Adams
Post
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
Nelbadian
Miniax Momjian Murder Case Sparks Family Demands
Mrs Adams laments her brother Minas Momjian shot in a suspected plot tied to a rival society. She describes threats and a cash payment to a man named Nelbadian. Lynn police now cite accidental shooting as the leading theory. funeral held at Mt Hope with relatives from Newburyport in attendance.
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Society
Nelbadian
America
Old Country
Minas Momjian
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Newburyport
Lynn
Momjian
City officials clash over replacing gas lamps with tungsten lights
Corporation Counsel Babson said the Mayor and Superintendent of Streets Emerson may replace gas and naphtha lamps with tungsten electric lights. Aldermen insist Board consent is required. Officials doubt the change will proceed, citing prior mayoral opposition and potential court action.
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Corporation
Babson
Board of Aldermen
Emerson
City Hall
Special
Common Council Committee On Public Lighting
Giblin
Corporation Counsel
Goodwin
Special City Council Committee On Lighting
O’bryan
Lamplighters’ Union
Hibbard
Kennedy
Baby Poisoned by Fly Paper In Roxbury Home
John Stanton aged 15 months was treated for arsenic poisoning after drinking water at his home at 62 George Street Roxbury where fly paper soaked with poison had been used. His mother was briefly distracted as the child drank most of the contaminated water and was taken to City Hospital last evening.
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John Stanton
City Hospital
Stantons
George Street
Roxbury
Gulf storm toll reaches 25 dead and major damage
Houston July 23. The Gulf storm sweeping Texas coast and part of Louisiana left 25 dead and over 50 seriously injured. Property loss is estimated around 1 million dollars. Communication has been largely restored except for isolated points.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Louisiana
Luigi Palladino Buried in North End Funeral
The funeral for Luigi Palladino a prominent citizen and longtime North End resident proceeded from 15 Thacher Street. Mass was held at St Leonard of Maurice Church with Father Ubaldus Fr Francesco and Father Leo all OFM officiating. Interment followed at Holy Cross Cemetery Malden.
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Luigi Palladino
North End
Thacher Street
St. Leonard of Maurice Church
Prince Street
Ubaldus
Francesco
Leo
Holy Creeks
Malden
Romance Shattered in San Francisco Divorce
New York July 23. Poet Philip Verrill Mighels and wife Ella Sterling Mighels have been granted a divorce in San Francisco on desertion grounds. They wed at Atlantic Highlands New Jersey thirteen years ago in a ceremony attended by a notable circle of writers artists and musicians.
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New York
Philip Verrill Mighels
Ella Sterling Mighels
San Francisco
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Bohemian Writer Mighels and Mrs Mighels Divorce Case
The article recounts a divorce dispute involving Mr. Mighels and his wife Mrs. Mighels, once Mrs. Cummins. It notes their social life in New York and San Francisco, Mrs. Mighels health reasons for leaving New York, and letters and testimonies from Virginia R. Dingee about his refusal to reunite. It lists Mighels works and mentions a recent novel by Mrs. Mighels titled The Full Glory of Diantha.
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Mighels
van Dyke
Virginia R. Dingee
Chitwit
Diantha
Foss Offers 50 000 for Town Hall in Watertown
Eugene N Foss proposes 50000 toward building a town hall in Watertown if the town can raise a matching amount from private contributions. The high school committee backs accepting his land offer for a new high school with a September 1 1910 completion goal. A special town meeting is set for August 4 to vote.
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Watertown
Eugene N. Foss
Foss
Prize sheep aboard Cymric arrive after swift Atlantic crossing
The White Star line steamship Cymric, Captain John Mathias, landed at Boston after a 7 day 22 hour 17 minute voyage from Liver pool and Queenstown. It carried 66 saloon and 275 steerage passengers and a precious shipment of prize sheep valued at $20 000 including 198 rams 272 ewes and 2 English sheep dogs. Mr and Mrs Frank Harding of Waukesha Wisconsin were aboard, and several prize animals had won at a Gloucester England fair.
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White Star Line
Cymric
John Mathias
Liverpool
Queenstown
Daunt’s Rock
Boston
Frank Harding
Waukesha
Wis
Harding
Gloucester
England
Thomas Johnson
Columbus
Mayor's Tank on Rampage Causes Office Close Call
A faucet burst in the Mayor's private water tank threatening the City Record’s first utterance. Assistant secretary Harry Fogerty acted swiftly to stop the leak, allowing Acting Mayor Brand to continue city business without disruption.
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Hibbard
New
Harry Fogerty
Brand
Fogerty
Two Chinese Maids Testify In Chinatown Slavery Case
In New York City on July 23 in the Children's Court Justice Wyatt heard two young Chinese maids testify they have no parents in America and were kept as household slaves, forced to work long hours, with the police alerted after their report of a missing child.
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New York
Justice Wyatt
America
Chinese Girl and Companion Held by Children Society
Two Chinese girls Moy Yun Toy and Chin Fing Toy told court they were sold in China and brought to America to work in a home. They described harsh beating, long hours, and fear of returning to Mott Street. They are held by the Children’s Society pending investigation.
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Children’s Society
Chinatown
East Side
Mary E. Banta
Aso
Moy Yun Toy
May Lee Chai
America
Chin Fing Toy
China
The
Two Men Arrested in East Boston Arson Case
East Boston officers arrested Louis Canner and Jacob Freedman on arson charges tied to a January 22, 1908 fire that damaged a Chelsea Street hay and grain business and an adjacent three story tenement. Freedman, 39, was taken to East Boston for arraignment alongside Canner, 43. Police withheld details of the evidence prompting the arrests.
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East Boston
Louis Canner
Bennington Street
Chelsea
Second Street
Jacob Freedman
Chelsea Street
Freedman
Canner
Dancer Gertrude Hoffmann Arrested for Indecent Performance
New York July 23 Gertrude Hoffmann famed for Mendelssohn Spring Song was arrested after a Roof Garden performance on Hammerstein's roof garden. She is detained under indecent performances law and bailed by George Considine. Children’s Society had earlier taken 12 girls connected to her act.
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New York
Gertrude Hoffman
Mendelssohn
Hammerstein
George Considine
Children’s Society
Miss Hoffman
Twice Tried to End Life Before Commitment to Asylum
Herbert G. Leslie, once manager in the Canadian Pacific railroad freight department, twice attempted suicide in Waltham on Monday. He was committed today to the Worcester Insane Hospital, with the death of a three year old child in the city thought to have unsettled his mind.
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Waltham
Herbert G. Leslie
Worcester Insane Hospital
Leslie
Boston
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Public Garden Praise From Boston Reader
A Boston resident, Max Henry Newman, writes to the Post praising the Public Garden's beauty. He notes the value of commendation and encourages balanced critique, dated July 22.
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Max Henry Newman
Boston
Three Men Punched by Hub Woman in Hotel Fight
speculation about the identity of Helen Castle who whipped three men in a San Francisco hotel is cooled by Mrs. Georgie Chick of Brookline who suspects her daughter Helen Gifford may be Helen Castle. Helen Gifford, formerly Miss Helen Chick, a noted Brookline and Back Bay social figure, is described by her mother as having Bohemian tastes.
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Helen Castle
San Francisco
Georgie Chick
Babcock Street
Brookline
E. S. Gifford
Boston
Helen G. Chick
Back Bay Society
San Francisco case involves two women and a hotel assault
Helen Castle in a divided skirt and companion fight a man who accosted them at their hotel. The hotel clerk is struck, a policeman is hit, and both women are arrested with $20 bail each, but fail to appear in court. The story includes family remarks, a marriage to Mr. Gifford, nursing at Boston City Hospital, and a legal skirmish over a diamond bracelet loan.
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San Francisco
Helen Castle
Chick
Gifford
Helen
Chicago
Lida Richburg
Castle School
Tarrytown
N. Y
California
Mr. Gifford
Buckminster
Boston City Hospital
Elmwood Farms
Auburn
Ocean House
Swampscott
Falls on child neither hurt in Brockton veranda fall
Marion Cosgrove aged 11 at 2 Hawthorne street while playing on a second story veranda fell 29 feet to the ground. She landed on Greenville Price, 5, and neither child was hurt. Their mother rushed down to find both children uninjured and sitting on the ground.
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Brockton
Marion Cosgrove
Hawthorne Street
Greenville Price
Marion
Brain Fag Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate advertised as a remedy to relieve tired nerves brain fag and headache after mental strain aimed at stressed workers and students seeking quick relief from cumulative fatigue.
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Horsford
Hudsons Ship Arrives to Repeats Famous Journey
The replica Half Moon arrives at Brooklyn navy yard for the Hudson-Fulton celebration. Dutch officials lead assembly of parts under KE Bentham while German representatives pledge four warships for the event.
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Hudson
New York
Hendrik Hudson
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Netherlands
Soestdyk
India
Fulton
Ment
KE. J. Bentham
Lam
Holland
Ludwig Raimund von Koester
Harvard heir works as summer laborer at Elizabeth gas works
Jon Kean, 3d, Harvard senior and son of Hamilton Fish Kean, spends a summer as a laborer at Senator John Kean's Elizabeth New Jersey gas works. He joins the early shift in dungarees, carts coal, and works beside seasoned laborers. He plans to return to Harvard in the fall and says he may have democratic tendencies due to Roosevelt family ties.
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Jon Kean
Harvard
Hamilton Fish Kean
Kean, van Cortlandt & Co
Bankers of
New York
John Kean
Elizabeth
N. J
Hamilton Kean
Roosevelt
New Bedford Cordage Factory Destroyed by Fire
The New Bedford Cordage Company factory, a major rope producer, was almost destroyed by fire this morning. Damage runs to $300,000 as the picker room main building and office building were gutted leaving only brick walls. The rope walk and oil buildings survived due to fire proof construction. The blaze began from spontaneous combustion from grit in hemp.
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New Bedford
New Bedford Cordage Company
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E S. Gifford
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Theo. Metcalf Co
United States
Guggenheim Mfg. Co
Clinton St
Rochester
Glogans
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