Railroads Clash Over 12 Ride Tickets For Boston Suburbs
Boston railroad officials debate a new statute requiring 12 ride commutation tickets to stations within 15 miles of Boston. Officials say the law is contradictory yet they may issue tickets if rates are approved, with likely sale within a month after commission action.
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Boston
Boston & Albany
Wellesley
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad Company
Hnes
Boston & Albany Railroad
Commission
Boston & Maine
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Wealthy Pittsburg Farmer Buried Beside Beloved Horse
Warren Phillips of Essen near Pittsburg has been buried beside his old gray horse, a favored companion whom he laid to rest on his farm after a will filing revealed the unusual burial.
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Pittsburg
Warren Phillips
Pennsylvania
Essen
Prosene Digestive Compound Creates Strong Demand in Boston
Demand for Prosene rises as Riker Jaynes Drug Stores stock the Prosene Prescription-Compound Tincture of Cinchona. The preparation mixes Prosene with Sherry Wine or used at home, claimed to relieve Sour Stomach Belching Indigestion and Dyspepsia within five minutes of the first dose.
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Boston
Riker- Jaynes
Elevated's Anti Go Cart Edict Sparks Mother Protests
A reader letter defends carrying a folding go cart in street cars and urges officials to grant mothers with babies more access. The writer argues go carts, if used properly, occupy minimal space and compares them to other items like dress suitcases and bundles.
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Elevated
J. H
Mothers Demand Access On Street Cars For Carriages
A 1908 letter from Back Bay argues street railways are public utilities and mothers should be allowed to ride with go carts and light cargo. The writer claims prohibition is unjust and invites legal action if railway officials refuse. The piece urges the Post to support mothers in securing this privilege.
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Renay
Ll. H. P
Back Bay
Go-cart edict sparks letters to the Post debate
A mother’s letter protesting the ban on carrying go-carts on street cars triggers vigorous letters to the Post. Writers on both sides argue discrimination and railway officials’ stance. A male writer defends the railways calling go-carts nuisances while others condemn the policy.
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The
Post This
Discrimination Charged Over Go Cart on Streetcar
A letter to the editor argues street railway conductors discriminate against mothers by refusing to allow a collapsible go cart on streetcars. The writer notes crowded aisles with bundles and suitcases while mothers cannot take outings with children and urges protests to company officials.
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Dorchester
Girl Victim of Quicksand at Coney Island Yard
Angelina Evangelista an Italian girl of Coney Island avenue was drowned after sinking in a 12 foot deep quicksand pit filled with five feet of water. Policemen Oscar Rothman and two others battled to rescue her but she died shortly after being brought to the surface. Rothman was treated for exhaustion.
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New York
Angelina Evangelista
Coney Island Avenue
Oscar Rothman
Rothman
William H. Rollins Dead in Portsmouth After 60 Years of Practice
William H. Rollins died at his Portsmouth home. He was the oldest lawyer in New Hampshire with 60 years of practice and one of Harvard’s oldest graduates, entering in 1837. He served as secretary of the Portsmouth Atheneum for over 25 years.
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Portsmouth
N. H
William H. Rollins
Harvard College
Portsmouth Atheneum
Funeral for Finger and Scalp Remains Unearthly in Littleton
In Littleton a funeral march featured a full sized coffin used to bury half a man's finger and a dollar sized scalp fragment. The remains belong to Luther Heckman son of Mr and Mrs William Heckman who was killed in a Dupont Powder Company explosion at Louvier in the neutralizing house.
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Littleton
Col
Luther Heckman
William Heckman
Dupont Powder Company
Louvier
Lowell Lineman Dies After Electric Shock
William Hornbrook aged 33 of 654 Central Street, a tele graph lineman, was killed at work on a pole after receiving an electric shock and falling. He suffered a skull fracture and died at the scene early this morning.
Would Go To Courts Over Go-Carts On Street Cars
Letter protests a street railway ban on go-carts for mothers and children. The writer questions officials reasoning and cites carrying merchandise as equally permissible.
Go-Carts Banned by Boston Elevated Lines Pleases Somerville Writer
A Somerville man celebrates the Boston Elevated Company and other street railways for banning go carts on cars. He recalls tumbling over carts, torn trousers, and obstructed seating, urging officials to keep the nuisance from passengers. July 27.
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the Post
Boston Elevated Company
R. IL. Me
Somerville
Brown seeks legal separation amid family tensions in Asbury Park
Sylvester Brown of Asbury Park New Jersey answers his wife Ida W Brown’s divorce petition detailing causes including a phonograph playing at night and a cook who kept the stove hot. The filing notes Mr Brown contends he should be granted the divorce.
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New York
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Sylvester Brown
Asbury Park
N. J
Ida W. Brown
Spokane Motorman Weds Georgia Born Bride at Court
J. W. Winslett, 34, formerly of Barber county Alabama, married Cora B. Swafford, 17, born in Georgia, at the Spokane county courthouse. The groom recalled dancing the bride on his knee as a child near Atlanta. They became engaged two years ago but waited until after her 17th birthday.
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Spokane
Wash
J. W. Winslett
Barber County
Ala
Cora B. Swafford
Georgia
Spokane County
Swafford
Atlanta
Cora
West End Woman Kisses Police Chief in City Hall
In Chester at a public hearing on foreign arrests, Anthony Schmidt faced a possible second arrest as his sister embraced Chief Pennington, kissing him to secure his brother's release. The chief blushed and struggled, then was freed once the promise was made not to return Schmidt to jail.
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Chester
Penn
Pennington
West End
City Hall
Anthony Schmidt
Schmidt
First Spiritualist Wedding Reports in Spokane
Miss Matilda Schlichting of Blue Earth Minnesota and Herbert H Busby of Arcadia Wisconsin participated in the Pacific Northwest’s first spiritualist wedding in Spokane. After the ceremony two clairvoyants fell into trances and found favorable omens for the couple as spirit children floated in with flowers and a golden chain encircled them.
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Spokane
Wash
Matilda Schlichting
Blue Earth
Minn
Herbert H. Busby
Arcadia
Wis
Pacific Northwest
Prize Baby Offered by Paris Moving Picture Show
In Bourbon county Paris the manager of a moving picture show offered as a prize a three month old baby with a baby buggy and clothes to cover three months. Manager Jackson says the baby is white but will not reveal its name or origin.
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Lexington
Paris
Bourbon County
Jackson
Followers of Rev Crabb Practicing New Ceremony
In Columbus Indiana on July 25 followers of Rev William Crabb of Nashville Brown County are practicing a new ceremony with his church. The report notes a distinct religious rite emerging within Crabb's congregation as worshippers prepare for a unique spiritual observance.
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Columbus
Ind
William Crabb
Nashville
Brown County
Church of the
Man From Missouri jailed for kissing store clerk
In Bloomington Illinois territory, July 27 a Missouri man kissed a clerk after she warned him off. He admitted being from Missouri and was arrested and jailed, claiming the sentence was worth the experience.
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Bloomington
Thomas Bowler
Jane Shellhart
Stephenson County
Bowler
Missouri
Philadelphia man fined for bathing costume on Atlantic Avenue
In Atlantic City a Philadelphia excursionist Marion Howish wore an abbreviated bathing costume at a popular ice cream parlor on Atlantic avenue causing a panic among summer girls. He was arrested and Mayor Stoy fined him $5 under a new ordinance banning bathing costumes on the avenues.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic Avenue
Marion Howish
Philadelphia
Stoy
Fined for Using Check at Brookline Transfer Station
James McCormick of Dorchester was fined $5 in Brookline Municipal Court by Judge Perkins for illegally using a Boston Elevated transfer check at the Brookline Village transfer station.
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James McCormick
Mwing
Bowdoin Street
Dorchester
Brookline
Perkins
Boston
Brookline Village
Boston to Newport Special Train Excursion
Popular excursion to Newport by a special train from Boston on Thursday July 30 at a low round trip rate of $1. Natural attractions at the famous watering place may be seen to best advantage. Tickets should be purchased early to avoid disappointment. Number strictly limited.
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Newport
Boston
Taft Ordered to Wear Glasses for Eyesight
The Republican presidential nominee William H. Taft was ordered to wear spectacles to save his eyesight. He complied but his nose proved too plump for the regulation Rooseveltian eyeglasses, so he must don spectacles.
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William H. Taft
Taft
Quimby Denies Welch Charge In $10,000 Suit
Worcester. Dr Hosea M Quimby head of the State Insane Asylum denies the charge in a $10 000 suit by William J Welch of Boston alleging he converted four letters from Welch while Welch was an inmate in December 1902 The letters included two good character testimonials and two pieces of evidence for a law case which Welch says he lost because of their disappearance.
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Worcester
Hosea M. Quimby
William J. Welch
Boston
Welch
Quimby
Taft Wears Glasses Quietly Amid Campaign Fodder
The article notes Taft wearing earback spectacles, saying they do not age him. It raises whether already printed lithographs of the G. O. P. candidate will be recalled, reflecting on campaign imagery and public image.
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Taft
Wild Man Attacks Keeper at Show in Pennsylvania
In M''Donald Pennsylvania July 27 Leppo the wild man from the Metropolitan show mauled keeper John Dudley a black man during a lightning strike attack. Dudley was badly injured and expected to die as Leppo was restrained after the assault.
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M’'Donald
Penn
Leppo
John Dudley
Dudley
Bara
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