Along Silver Street Hoodlums Not Found Last Night
South Boston residents report a quiet Silver street as reporters patrol from 8 to 10:30 pm. Citizens and police describe no recent assaults or hoodlum activity, while local residents defend the street's peaceable nature and blame sensational reports for misperceptions.
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Dorchester Avenue
G Street
Silver Street
Post
Gold Street
B Street
Silver
Beacon Street
Broadway
River Street
Athens
Record
South Boston
Swanland
Boston Democrat
Boston Post
Back Bay
Highlands
Maloney
Sir
Dorchester Streets
Annie Rooney
Five Points
New York
J. O
Neighborhood Voices on Silver Street Rowdies
A letter to the Post editor criticizes a July article for labeling Silver Street youths as loafers. The writer defends remarks about a notorious gang of loafers harming the neighborhood and cites police records showing arrests for assault and related offences by several individuals.
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the Post
Silver Street
Three Men Die After Dedham Blast at Alcove Site
An explosion at a Dedham cellar excavation on Fox Hill Street killed John Kelley 30, George Staan 22, and Michael McCaffrey 45 while injuring others. A delayed fuse ignited tamping powder, sending a spark and bursting the charge as workers removed tamping. Kelley and McCaffrey were hospitalized, Watson suffered facial injuries, and Hall and Chadwick escaped unscathed.
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Dedham
West Dedham
George Staan
East Dedham
Michael eCaffrey
Aast Dedham
Kelley
High Street
McCaffrey
Dedhamentre
Massachusetts General Hospital
Watson
Dedham Centre
Charles
William Hall
William Chadwick
Vinson
Boy Killed Jumping Train Cars At Foxcroft Junction
William Robinson aged 16 was killed at Foxcroft Junction when he attempted to board a moving Maine Central train and fell under the wheels. The accident occurred this afternoon near Foxcroft, Maine.
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Foxcroft
William Robinson
Foxcroft Junction
Maine Central
Bargain Stock Alert Amid Market Panic on State Street
The piece urges readers to buy select securities during a market downturn, highlighting Sugar common at 68 with high dividends, Lake Shore at 110, Chicago Burlington & Quincy at 72 1/2, and New York Central around 98. It links the price drop to fears from past panics, predicting a near-term rebound and urging the "poor man's opportunity" as bargains multiply before a broader market upswing.
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Lake Shore
United States
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Chicago & Northwestern
York Central
Western Union Telegraph
Atchison
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
New England
Boston & Albany
Boston & Maine
Old Colony
West Hind Railway
Jay Cooke
Fiske & Hatch
Grant & Ward
Baring Bros
London
The Moxom Bequest Revoked and Church Feud Deepens
The article describes Mrs. Goodwin's 1893 codicil letter revoking a $3000 bequest to Rev. Moxom and directing annual income to Aunt Williams. Executors pursued probate after her death in 1898, while Mr. Moxom lunges to assert rights. church factionalism at First Baptist intensifies as legal and moral questions collide.
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Moxom
Bavarian Tyrol
Englehardt
Vittoria Colonna
Wellesley College
Russia Village
Schwartz
Goodwin
Benjamin F. Bradbury
Annie B. Holbrook
Charles C
Charles C. Goodwin
Elihu T. Underhill
Julia Lowell Williams
Frank D. Allen
United States
Allen
D. C. Linscott
E. J. Jones
First Baptist Church
France
Siam
Uneasy Flocks Clergymen Find Their Folds Hard to Keep
Brockton July 28. Special to the Post reports three church related scandals shaking the city. Rev. Napoleon Bona parte Thompson of South Congregational Church faces charges tied to a Portland trip with a woman, while resignations follow from Rev. George B. Lawton of Warren Avenue Baptist Church and Rev. D. G. Donnecker of Free Will which Church. The Thompson case spawns a public trial setup with testimony from detectives and hotel staff, and wider debates over liquor laws and local politics.
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Campello
South Congregational Church
Mr. Thompson
Brooklyn
Thompson
Th South Congregational Church
Ae Church
Keith
Portland
N.B. Thompson
Nyack
N. Y
Knights of Pythias
Conton Hall
Brother O Mine
Inister Thompson
George B. Lawton
D. G. Donnecker
Lawton
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Donnecker
Boston
Lewiston
Free Will
Free Health Treatment Offered by Dr Dewey Specialist
All diseases treated free. Patients from the area with various ailments such as oronisitis, rheumatics, and kidney issues may seek two weeks of treatment and medicine. Dr Dewey, the specialist, operates at 40 Tennake Corset Columbus Avenue near Evidence Depot, open daily except Sundays from 10 to 6.
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Dewey
Tennen
Conmbus Avenue
Briggs s love plight ends in breach of promise case in Hartford
Joseph Frank Briggs a piano tuner at Wood's Palace of Music on Asylum street is under fire for trifling with two young women. He engaged May Richardson and planned to wed next month. A second fiancée Miss Sparks of South Windsor appeared via curtain with proof of engagement. Richardson will sue for breach of promise. Briggs is divorced and popular with young ladies.
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Hartford, Conn
Joseph Frank Briggs
Wood’s Palace of Music
Asylum Street
May Richardson
Tifft
Wooster Street
Miss Richardson
Miss Sparks
South Windsor
Trousseaux
Briggs
John P. Healy
Joseph L. Barbour
Smallpox Case Reported at Worcester Postoffice
July 28. Robert Howe, young son of Mrs HB A Howe Auburn post mistress, contracted smallpox. Ill for two days, initially thought scarlet fever. Worcester Board of Health orders Worcester postmaster to refuse mail from Auburn.
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Worcester
Robert Howe
HB. A. Howe
Auburn
Worcester Board of Health
Comet Found Composed of Incandescent Carbon and Nitrogen
In San Francisco at Lick Observatory Professor Campbell trained the big equatorial telescope with its spectrum attachment on the comet and established that the comet is composed of incandescent carbon and nitrogen, being itself luminous.
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San Francisco
Lick’s Observatory
Campbell
Open Gates Likely At World Fair Next Sunday
Chicago July 28 hearing on contempt against World’s Fair management for closing gates on Sunday under injunction by Judge Stein. Proceedings indicate gates may reopen next Sunday.
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Chicago
Stein
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