NOT HIS WIFE THAT DROWNED
An AP despatch wrongly reported Mrs. Minnie Mills of 4 D Street South Boston and her two children drowned at Naticook Lake. Mills rebutted the claim stating his wife is alive in South Boston and has not visited Manchester this summer. he also clarified his employment and affiliation with the Spanish War Veterans group.
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Associated Press
Manchester
N. H
Post
Minnie Mills
William R. Mills
D Street
South Boston
Evelyn
Marjorie
Naticook Lake
Mills
Algonquin Club
Chelsea
O’connor
Amnesiac Miller Recovers Memory After Yearly Loss
A young man found at Fifth and Vine streets in Cincinnati suffers amnesia for a day or two each year. He regained memory at City Hospital and gave his name as Miller. He says a head injury six years ago causes the annual memory loss. His mother lives in Huntington, West Virginia.
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Cincinnati, CO
Fifth and Vine Streets
City Hospital
Miller
Huntington
Ww. Va
Fair and Warmer Weather Forecast Across Nation
Washington July 26 Warm and generally fair weather is forecast for the first half of the coming week. The next disturbance will cross the country from the West Monday or Tuesday, move through the central valleys by midweek, reach the Eastern States late in the week, with local showers and thunderstorms and a subsequent cooling trend in the north and central States. No signs of a disturbance in the West Indies.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Far West
Great Central
West Indies
Protestant Churches Summer Services Across New England
Clergymen serve in Episcopal churches from Cambridge to East Boston during July. An outlook committee plans to hear pastors in situ before Webster seeks a pastor. Mission offerings include a $125 donation from Islesboro Baptist members to Salem fire sufferers. Abbot Peterson preached in Manchester by the Sea and was given a reception. North Adams Congregational Church will receive $1000 from Thomas W. Sykes’s estate.
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New England
Congregational Church
Webster
R. H. Bennett
Outlook
R. H. Carey
the Baptist Church
Islesboro
Salem
Mass
Abbot Peterson
Brookline
Unitarian Church
Manchester-by-the-Sea
North Adams
Mansfield Says State Tax Cut Plan Explained
State Treasurer Mansfield released a statement explaining a change in the rate used to compute sinking fund earnings and the reasons behind the adjustment. The remarks outline how the revised rate will influence state revenue and budgeting.
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Mansfield
Sinking funds tax the metropolitan district unfairly
The Massachusetts sinking funds are top heavy and cities and towns in the metropolitan district pay excess due to a 3 percent earnings assumption. The policy, dating back years, uses a lower assumed return than earned, shifting burden onto present residents while reducing future taxes and starving funds for future generations. The 1909 treasurer Elmer A. Stevens notes this injustice with a stark example.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Elmer A. Stevens
Taxpayer relief through four percent sinking fund basis
The 1909 sinking fund figures show a large surplus but used an inadequate 3 percent base. Sinking funds now earning over 4 percent will cut annual assessments for 40 towns in the Metropolitan district, reducing Boston from 614,113.69 to 201,976.76 and spreading payments over a longer term to ease taxes.
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Boston
Somerville
Cambridge
Medford
Lynn
Commonwealth
Dalton Shoots Wife Children Then Kills Self
In a Trenton street home a husband shot his wife and two children then killed himself. Mrs. Dalton wrestled the revolver but was wounded. a baby died at the scene and the boy was fatally wounded before Dalton turned the gun on himself. Neighbors alerted police.
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Dalton
Despondent man kills wife and wounds child in East Boston
Dalton, 36, shot at home during a wake near East Boston, killing his wife and wounding the child. He had been ill for two months and despondent since his father’s death, with ties to the Governor’s former council seat and East Boston court clerkship. Rev Fathers Gorman assisted. McGrath summoned.
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Dalton
East Boston Court
John H. Dalton
East Boston
McGrath
Frank Gorman
Gorman
Dalton House
John and
James Gorman
Salem
New York
Harvard College
Boston University Law School
John L. Bates
Bathers Pack Marine Park for Big Day at L Street
More than 50 000 people gathered at Marine Park yesterday afternoon with 25 000 counted at L Street turnstiles. No band concert was provided, disrupting the usual Sunday program for July and August, despite a busy season for Superintendent Griffin and his staff.
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Marine Park
L Street
Griffin
Stray Beggar Attacks Malden Doorstep Benefactress
In Mt. Vernon street Malden a strange man begging for food has assaulted a resident after receiving bread and butter. He struck Mrs. Sullivan on the head with leftover bread and butter and then tried to force entry at Mrs. Fitzgerald’s home, prompting Night Watchman Emerson to intervene.
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Mt. Vernon Street
Malden
William Sullivan
Robert Fitzgerald
Strikers Return To Work At Wakefield Factory
Despite a Friday night vote by the Rattan Workers' Union at Wakefield to stay out until concessions are granted, many men are expected to report to work this morning in all departments. The Heywood Bros factory whistle will sound for workers to report for duty for the first time in six weeks.
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Rattan Workers’ Union
Wakefield
Heywood Bros
Admitting Workmen by Red Ticket Ends
At seven o'clock the practice of admitting workmen only by presentation of a red ticket will be discontinued.
Waits 19 Years to Cash Back Pay in Saginaw
Ira Whitney a retired Saginaw farmer who worked as a drain digger in Merrill 19 years ago finally collected a $62.26 wage order after the drain fund lacked money at the time. He had stored the order away and today it was cashed.
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Saginaw, Mich
Ira Whitney
Merrill
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