Controversy Over Common Policing Pits Mayor and Police Chief
Letter from Frederick W. Peabody of Boston argues for stronger policing of the Common. He praises the Mayor Fitzgerald for seeking special officers to curb hoodlums and indecency, while criticizing the police commissioner for blocking such steps and leaving the area inadequately policed. Peabody defends public safety measures as the duty of good citizens.
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Frederick W. Peabody
Boston
Hatchling Python Eggs In Incubator At Luna Park
Cleveland report from July 27 notes twelve python eggs kept warm in an incubator at Luna Park. If they hatch, park managers expect ten lively baby pythons to care for, with a brood valued at several hundred dollars. Earlier, Big Bess, a 20 foot python, laid 21 eggs.
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Cleveland
Luna Park
Jersey justice in 30 minutes in Jersey City incident
In Hoboken New Jersey a man identified as Joe Gillespie is jailed within 30 minutes after attacking Mrs. Louis Fricke. He receives a 90 day sentence and is sent to Snake Hill penitentiary. The dramatic sequence shows the swift movement of the state legal system.
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Jersey
Hoboken
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Louis Fricke
Snake Hill
Hudson County
Sailor Criticises Men In L Trains
A Navy Yard sailor in Boston criticizes fellow riders for ignoring an elderly woman with a child on the L train. He notes the car was filled with men who offered no seat, leaving the woman to stand through four stops until a seat opened. He warns such behavior would provoke a reaction elsewhere.
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the Post
Navy Yard
Boston
Loss of hair cured by frequent washing with Birt's Head Wash
An article cites D C Bayles Woods Hutchinson and Lassar as authorities on hair loss. It promotes Birt's Head Wash as a medicated soap that cleanses the scalp, opens pores, and invigorates hair roots, preventing further loss. Sizes quoted: tubes 25c jars 50c.
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J. C. Bayles
Woods Hutchinson
New York
Lassar
Germany
Birt
Marblehead sports figure McKeague dies after assault
Lynn July 27 George H. McKeague Jr a Marblehead sporting man died yesterday at Salem Hospital. Though ill for some time his death is believed to result from an assault at a Marblehead resort two weeks earlier. Police know the attackers but Chief Thrasher has not yet acted. McKeague 51 was active in local baseball and Marblehead Boat Club and may have prompted police investigations and arrests.
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McKeague
Marblehead Boat Club
Gore chattels bring $7000 at three day sale
Waltham July 27 The three days sale of the Governor Gore house chattels closed this afternoon Realization totaled 7000 though experts valued the furniture at no more than 3000 Daily sales added about 1000 A four piece chamber set brought 51 and a mahogany linen closet 60 Dean Hulburt of Harvard paid 26 for a heavy oak bed The mahogany chair Governor Gore sat in for three Senate years sold for 20 to Mrs Bridges of Boston One dollar bought a French bedstead
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Dean Hulburt
Harvard University
Gore
United States Senate
W. F. Bridges
Boston
Des Moines Plans Simplified Arithmetic Next Year
Des Moines public schools will drop cube roots, compound fractions, partial payments, and other complex problems from the curriculum next year. Superintendent Rid die states that thoroughness will guide reforms, reducing subject matter to allow more oral drill and better mastery, with useless arithmetic problems and certain weights and measures tables, such as the wine measure, being omitted.
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Des Moines Public Schools
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