Runaway horse injures two men on Salem street
A runaway horse hitched to an ice wagon ran through Salem street yesterday afternoon injuring two Edison Illuminating Company workers. Neil McLaughlin 29 of Chelsea street Charlestown and James McCaffery 40 of Tremont street Boston were hurt. McLaughlin suffered a scalp wound and forehead lacerations while McCaffery had scalp wounds and broken ribs. The horse was caught at Parmenter street by Henry Levine.
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Salem Street
Salem
Charter Streets
Edison Illuminating Company
Relief Hospital
Neil McLaughlin
Chelsea Street
Charlestown
James Mccaffery
Tremont Street
Boston
McCaffery
City Hospital
Parmenter Street
Henry Levine
Burglars Take Hester Alexander’s False Teeth
Chelsea police are investigating a break in at 102 Broadway Chelsea where Hester Alexander’s best false teeth were stolen from the mantel in the kitchen. Detectives say they are treating the case as a missing property incident and are examining potential suspects and evidence from the scene.
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Hester Alexander
Broadway
Chelsea
Hester
Chelsea Police
Lubec Citizens Claim Taft Was Hoaxed by Eastport
Lubec residents accuse Eastport leaders of deceiving President Taft by claiming a Quoddy Bay land point as the easternmost in the United States. Lubec asserts West Quoddy Head, one mile east, holds the distinction and protests Eastport’s prior claim as Taft and his party toured the area.
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Lubec
Taft
Pine Tree
Eastport
Quoddy Bay
United States
Lubee
James W. Mitchell
Post
Ano
Eastporters
West Quoddy Head
Eastport Bluff
United States Coast Survey
$35 000 Swindle Charged In Newport Case
New York July 28. On complaint of Mrs. Mary Nevins Bull of Newport R I widow of Dr. William T Bull of New York and Newport John Qualey and Henry Wiley Corbett of this city were arrested charged with larceny of $35 000 and held in $15 000 bail each for arraignment tomorrow morning.
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New York
Mary Nevins Bull
Newport
R. 1
William T. Bull
John Qualey
Henry Wiley Corbett
Courtroom confrontation as Qualey held on fraud charge
Corbett spoke with Qualey’s wife in the rear of the courtroom while a magistrate heard the complaint against Qualey who was seized by detectives and jailed. Mrs. Bulls claims she was induced to invest 35000 dollars in an asbestos firm falsely promising 100000 dollars weekly and real factories listed in Newark Kansas City Chicago and Dorchester.
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Corbett
Qualey
Pollock Rip Shoaling Threatens Nantucket Route and Cape Cod Canal
Boston steamship agents warn Vine Yard Sound Pollock Rip passage shoaling may halt ships drawing 21 feet, prompting new dredging costs up to 1 million dollars. Metropolitan Steamship Company and Cape Cod lines describe Cape Cod shoaling, with potential rerouting to Great Round Shoal and a push to deepen the Cape Cod canal.
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Boston
Vineyard Sound
Nantucket
United States
Cape Cod
Army
Navy
Metropolitan Steamship Line
Savannah
Clyde
Philadelphia
Pollock Rip Passage
Albert Smith
Metropolitan Steamship Company
U. S
Great Round Shoal
Polock Rip Llne
Samuel A. Moody
Cape Cod Steamship Company
Fred Field
United Fruit Company
Explosion at Cambridge Soda Fountain Wrecks Store
Four Cambridge women escaped serious harm as a soda fountain exploded at 91 Hampshire Street, Miss E. M. Carter’s shop. The blast hurled debris across the room, wrecked the ice cream parlor bakery, and ripped plumbing, yet all four occupants received only cuts and bruises after the large fountain piece blasted through the roof. The store was left almost demolished, but daylight showed the hole in the ceiling. The party included Mrs. Charles Allen and Miss Marian Leaford along with Miss Sadie McNeil.
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Cambridge
Hampshire Street
E. M. Carter
Carter
Charles Allen
Marian Leaford
Sadie McNeil
Traced gas with lantern ends in tragic blast
Charles Cotton, 40, used a lantern to search a teak in the Old Orchard House gas tank at Old Orchard Mo. today. An explosion tore off his leg and hand, he was found distant from the site, rushed to Maine General Hospital in Portland and placed on the dangerous list. A wife and two children live in Boston.
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Old Orchard
Charles Cotton
Old Orchard House
Maine General Hospital
Portland
Boston
Tax rate not to jump in Boston this year
Boston's tax rate this year will be about the same as 1909 at $16.50. A feared 40 cent per dollar increase by the school committee is unlikely to materialize, and assessors note the state tax is higher but the overall rate will not change much from last year.
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Boston
Gotham Joined to Reservoir Longest Rock Shaft
Kingston N Y July 28 After boring through solid rock for 14 months the headings of shaft No 3 and shaft No 2 of the new aqueduct to connect New York City with the Ashokan Reservoir met today within a fraction of an inch The completed section is 3200 feet long and big enough to accommodate a train of railroad coaches It lies under the base of a mountain near Forest Glen and is the longest solid rock section of the route
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Kingston
N. Y
New York City
Ashokan Reservoir
Catskill Mountains
Forest Glen
Captain George A Wyman Dies After Long Police Service
Captain George A Wyman of Boston City Prison died at his home in Dorchester from a illness complex after weeks in bed. Born July 1 1847 in Concord New Hampshire he served the department from May 1872 rising to captain of divisions 6 4 and finally City Prison in 1907. He was active in the Police Relief Association and leaves a wife and daughter.
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George A. Wyman
City
Thetford Street
Dorchester
Police
Boston
Wyman
Concord
N. H
Police Relief Association
Liner Sinks No One, But Belbina P Domingues Narrowly Escapes
In dense fog off the Banks early this week the Red Star liner Samland collided with the Boston fishing schooner Belbina P Domingues. The schooner, though her bowsprit and topmasts were damaged and her bow crushed, escaped to dock at Wharf after refusing aid. Captain Manuel Domingues had set sail from Provincetown two weeks earlier for Brown's Bank with a heavy fish haul when the fog led to the collision.
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Red Star Line
Samland
Boston
Belbina P. Domingoes
T Wharf
Manuel Domingues
Domingoes
Provincetown
Brown’s Bank
Thought Torpedo Candy Tragedy Claims Young Life
In Alliance Ohio a three year old, Mildred Cassaday, found a red box, put it in her mouth, and it exploded. Her injuries included torn cheeks and a shattered jaw. She died at Alliance City Hospital shortly after four this morning. The death marks the third in the Cassaday family within a year as siblings previously died.
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Alliance City Hospital
Funeral of Gilbert B Balch in Topsfield with family and Boston guests
The funeral for Gilbert Brownell Balch was held at The Knolls Topsfield with the Harvard male quartet, a special Pullman train, and attendees from Boston New York Quebec and many towns. Interment was private at Pine Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers were Balch estate employees. Floral tributes listed many named donors and organizations from Topsfield and beyond.
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Gilbert B. Balch
Gilbert Brownell Balch
Topsfield
E. P. Tenney
George H. Perkins
Boston
New York
Quebec
Pine Grove Cemetery
G. B. Balch
E. P. Balch
C. I. Jordan
G. F. Jordan
Molly Balch
Benjamin Balch
George Donaldson
Susan S. Perkins
L. A. Perkins
Theron
Dr. Perkins
R. R. Root
Mrs. Powers
Emma Perkins
H. Perkins
Miss Tarbox
George Perkins
Ezra Dixon
Molly B. Root
Sarah Bradstreet
Knolls
W. C. Harding
E. H. Dyer
J. H. Chandler
Ethel Campbell
Esther Woods
Killarney
H. P. Chadwick
John L. Stoddard
Lake Como
Italy
George L. Shuman
Chicago
Jspray
I. J. Brainerd
New York City
Gilbert Balch Brainere
L. C. Husealt
W. L. Knowles
William M. Prest
Wilbur H. Powers
Walter Powers
Berwick and Smith
J. R. Whipple & Co
Hotel Touraine
Miss Hortense L. Smith
Emma Adams Parker
I. Prowbridge
L. Adams
Frank Adams
Clifford E. Lovelace
J. Morris Meredith
A. A. Conant
F. P. Smearage
H. R Wildes
Thomas E. Proctor
Topsfield Baseball Association
Methodist Church
Ladies’ Society of Congregational Church
Death notices and funeral arrangements for Boston area residents
Multiple obituaries announced across Arlington East Boston Dorchester West Roxbury Auburndale and Jamaica Plain with details on dates times burial sites and attending relatives. Names include Josiah Bryant Bridget Burke Addie Dansrow John Dwyer Susie Godbold George Holmes Gertrude Keyes Bridget Mahoney Laura Snow Davia Turnbull George Wyman and John F. Ryan among others with church and cemetery references and addresses.
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Bryant
Arlington
Josiah Bryant
Burke
Boston
Bridget
William Burke
North End
Saratoga Street
Star of the Sea
Dansrow
West Roxbury
Addie E
Frank H. Dansrow
Hill Crest Street
Mansfield
Mass
Dwyer
Dorchester
John T. Dwyer
Melville Road
Melville Avenue
St. Matthew's Church
Norfolk Street
Godbold
Chelsea
Susie M. Godbold
Washington Avenue
Holmes
George R. Holmes
Isabella
Marion Street
Woodlawn
Keyes
Auburndale
Gertrude A
Elliot W. Keyes
Ash Street
Bell Rock Street
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Jeaniem
Holy Cross Cemetery
Malden
Snow
Laura Slade Snow
Parke Snow
Savin Hill Avenue
Turnbull
Jamaica Plain
Davia D. Turnbull
Waldo J. Stokes
Centre Street
Wyman
George A. Wyman
Thetford Arenu Dorchester
Concord
N. H
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Washington Street
Temple Place
Blake Building
Dr. Bull
Pollock
Boston Police Department
Gotham
Harrison
Negligee Sc
Vermont
Cro No
Tarragona Port
Winssiee
Hijos Benigno Lopez
England
California
Santa Teresa
Leeds
Ivy
Iland
Spain
Evan
GinterCa Cor
Elm
Union Sts
Canal St
Washington St
West & Dialties
Specialty Shop, Inc
Tremont St
Liner
Boston Lodge NO. 10
RE. P. O. Elks
John F. Ryan
Leicester
Bennett Streets
Brighton
St. Columbkinle’s Church
Market Street
Ellis
Thomas H. Dowd
Daniel J. Kane
Calzoleria
Angelo Comilli
Torino
Milan
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