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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1915
Page
5
William J. Kelcher known as Big Bill aided youth cashier George W. Coleman in wrecking the National City Bank of Portland. Details describe federal action and individuals linked to the bank crime.
Cambridge shifts from Charlestown State prison to the Atlanta federal penitentiary as Uncle Sam balks at a board raise. Massachusetts Prison Commissioners had raised the rate for federal prisoners to 60 cents daily, prompting the move. Kelcher and seven others accompany him in the transfer order.
Coleman remains at Franklin County Jail in Greenfield as parole efforts resume next month. The state raised the county board by five cents daily while Uncle Sam covers increased federal prisoner costs. Federal prisoners now cost more to maintain, with transfers to Atlanta planned for Kelcher and seven others.
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The belief that Boston hosts the city’s only Ginkgo tree is challenged by discoveries on Tonawanda Street in Dorchester. The Maiden Hair tree, famed for resisting insects, deters the Leopard Moth which has damaged other local trees.
Broadway in South Boston will glow with new boulevard lamps installed along the thoroughfare. Mayor Curley announced Monday as the switch on date, calling the lighting a step to make Broadway one of the best lighted streets in the city.
An unspecified pursuer seeks owed funds from a wealthy older man, with legal action or court process implied as the means to recover the money. The terse note highlights the financial dispute and ongoing effort to obtain payment.
Mary Burke, 45, begins new proceedings to locate Thomas McCormick, wealthy Berlin Falls NH paper mill superintendent and 20 years her senior, whom she previously pursued in an 11 year old breach of promise case.
Miss Burke, residing at 9 Maple Place in South Hind, recalls Mr. McCormick who is reportedly dead. She holds letters he wrote promising to leave her 1000 dollars in trust with accruing interest, altering her future in light of his death.
Miss Burke asks the Legal Aid Society to locate Thomas McCormick his family or his will as he has died and the principal along with assets may descend to him or his heirs.
The Superior Court is petitioned to dissolve the corporations. Each company is capitalized for $25,000 with 250 shares of stock. Petitions state the business has been wound up, debts paid, and assets distributed.
The crew that landed here arrived within five minutes to board boats. The captain saw three other boats on fire near the attack site at the harbor. The three masted bark built in 1878 at Port Elgin, New Brunswick, was owned by H. J. Stangebye of Christiania.
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