Dorchester Woman Leaps From Roof to Death
Mrs. Maurice Friedlander, 55, of Dorchester, died after jumping 45 feet from the roof of 40 Oneida street to the pavement. Eyewitnesses including Officer James J. Concannon saw her step off after pacing for minutes as onlookers urged her to descend. She had been living separately from her husband and with her son Alvin at 11 Elder street. City Hospital doctors could not save her.
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Maurice Friedlander
Elder Street
Dorchester
Oneida Street
City Hospital
James J. Concannon
Concannon
Alvin
Awoke From Long Coma Identifies West End Woman
Miss Ally Schaff, 20, of 61 Billerica Street, West End, woke from a two day coma at City Hospital after being found wandering on the Common Sunday. Police and hospital authorities were puzzled by her condition until she established her identity. She recalls a dazed afternoon stroll and nothing from that period. Doctors expect recovery.
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Ally Schaff
Billerica Street
West End
Miss Schaff
Lagrange Street
Lost Son sought by anxious mother in Boston
A mother asks help locating her son George F. Brown aged 20 born in Boston. Last heard February while he worked as a printer in Springfield Massachusetts. He planned to be in Beverly at the start of March. A letter to Stearns Park Hotel was returned unopened and no trace exists.
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Springfield
Mass
Beverly
Stearns Park Hotel
Lyons
George F. Brown
Boston
Beverly Woman Appeals For Missing Son In Post
Mrs. C. Jennette of 70 Cabot Street Beverly appeals to the Post with heartfelt directness to help locate her son, a constant reader seeking news of his whereabouts.
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C. Jennette
Cabot Street
Beverly
The
Post
Oldest whaler John Baker dies in Irvington at 86
John Baker, one of the oldest whalers in the country, died at his Linden avenue home in Irvington New Jersey at age 86. He spent nearly his life at sea and was widely known among maritime circles.
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Irvington
N. J
John Baker
Linden Avenue
Baker
White House romance to culminate in Root Grant wedding
Engagement of Edith Root daughter of Elihu Root to Lt Ulysses S. Grant III is announced. They met at the White House where he served as social aide. Edith, a society girl into golf and horseback riding, aids her father in social duties as he heads the Navy Department. Grant, West Point graduate, is to report to Boston for duty under Major Burr.
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Edith Root
Ulysses S. Grant
Washington, D. C
White House
Elihu Root
Ulysses 8S. Grant
U.S. Grant
Grant
Miss Root
Secretary of the Navy
West Point
Boston
Edward Burr
Fairbanks in Dorchester during Old Home Week visit
Vice-President Fairbanks completed a strenuous day with a brief address from the Mayor’s house steps in Dorchester during Old Home Week. Boston Mayor Fitzgerald and guests including Congressman O’Connell and Senator Leavitt lauded his cooperation. He acknowledged Boston’s welcome as he departed via a red fire lane amid cheers.
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Fairbanks
Dorchester
Welles Avenue
Firbanks
Boston
Fitzgerald
United States
O’connell
Alexander McGreggor
Houghton & Dutton
Senator Thomas Leavitt
Fairbanks Jokes About Mayor's Name At Dorchester Reception
Mr Fairbanks and Mayor Fitzgerald shared a light moment at a Boston Dorchester reception last evening. The mayor joked about Fairbanks needing an automobile for a trip to Danvers, and Fairbanks replied with a smile that he does not want the crowd to think he has fits even if he lives in Danvers.
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Danvers
Tritzgerald
Boston
Fairbanks
Dorchester
Mr. Fairbanks
Samuel Brenner Dies in Water Bath Fatal Pneumonia
New Haven July 30 Samuel Brenner senior at Sheffield School of Yale died from pneumonia induced by bathing in Long Island Sound. He remained in the water for two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Samuel Brenner
Sheffield School of
Yale
Long Island Sound
Vets of Fighting Ninth Gather at Nantasket Today
A reunion gathers Nantasket Point Hotel Nantasket Beach as 123 of 1691 Civil War fighters remain alive from the 1861 Boston call. Surviving officers include Major George W. Dutton and Lt William W. Doherty. Four poststart officers remain: Capt Martin O'Brien Lt M W Phalen Lt Patrick F E Murphy and Lt Hugh McGunnigle.
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Nantasket
Ninth
Nantasket Point
Nantasket Beach
Boston
Lincoln
George W. Dutton
William W. Doherty
Martin O'Brien
Salem
M. W. Phalen
Chicago
Patrick Fe.murphy
Hugh McGunnigle
Fire Destroys Stone Homestead at Shrewsbury
SHREWSBURY July 30 Spontaneous combustion in hay and the barn farthest from the Stone homestead on the old Boston turnpike caused a spectacular fire tonight all the barns sheds and carriage houses were razed Harry Stone says his loss will reach 10000 the place is fully insured Myron Bradley of Boston heard a child cries and rescued the little Stone child from a burning room
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Shrewsbury
Boston
Harry Stone
Myron Bradley
Little Stone
Death of Two Yale Clergymen at Kuling China
In Wellesley MA mourns Rev Warren Seabury and Rev Agphur Mann who drowned while picnicking at Kuling China. Both Yale graduates and St John College Shanghai instructors. Mann sacrificed his life trying to save Seabury. Seabury’s son Rev Joseph Seabury of Wellesley Hills is grief stricken.
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Wellesley
Warren B. Seabury
Agpfhur S. Mann
Kuling
China
Joseph B. Seabury
Wellesley Hills
Yale
St. John College
Shanghai
Warren Seabury
Mann
Kaling
Lawrence Thurston
Professor Mann
Matthew. Mann
Buffalo
Dedham
Harry Lucas Pardoned After Prison Term
Harry J. Lucas, a Black inmate, was pardoned by Governor Guild after serving three years of an eight to ten year sentence for straw bail. The pardon follows his imprisonment at Charlestown State prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry J. Lucas
Charlestown
Guild
Lucas
Boston
Frank Lentine Dead Old Fruit Merchant
Frank Lentine one of the citys oldest fruit merchants and noted for charitable work died after an illness of several months at his daughters home 233 Centre street Dorchester The funeral will be from St Marks Church Dorchester avenue corner of Rosemont street with a high mass of requiem at 9 oclock tomorrow morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lentine
Centre Street
Dorchester
St. Mark’s Church
Dorchester Avenue
Rosemont Street
Cloak and Suit House Closes Early for Old Home Parade
L. Starr & Co. on Winter street will shut today at 1 p m to let employees attend the parade or a member organization march. The closing is part of the firm’s effort to boost Old Home week celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Starr & Co
Winter Street
Cloak and Suit House
Boston Invaders Repulsed Defenders Save the City
In a tense mock naval battle, blank cartridges and sim ulated war rings, as crowds along beaches watched searchlights and gunfire. Forts and ships pursued victory, torpedo boats and battleships clashed, and by night’s end most ships were sunk or destroyed with crews grievously wounded or dead under simulated rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fort Banks
Broad Sound
Martial Law Holds Fort Revere as Militia Rises
Fort Revere under strict martial law as Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and Coast Artillery are called to posts. Navy ships act as torpedo planters while target practice tests 25 pound charges. Company 38 scores 12 of 20, Company 7 hits 13 of 20 with sub caliber tubes to save ammo.
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Fort Revere
Boston
Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Corps of Coast Artillery
Company
Magistrate suspends deposition in Eddy property suit
In Concord New Hampshire Magistrate Edmund Cook after a full day hearing postponed depositions in a suit to obtain an accounting of Mrs Mary Baker Eddy's property. He ruled that the proceedings be suspended to allow an appeal to the Supreme Chamber or to the appointed masters.
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Concord
N. H
Edmund
Cook
Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science Leader
Chamberlin
Suprice
Rights to take depositions suspended during trial case
A magistrate ruled that depositions in the Mrs. Eddy case are suspended during trial pending appeals. The decision followed clashes between counsel for Mrs. Eddy and the plaintiffs' side, with Judge Aldrich and Judge Chamberlin referenced. The matter was continued to Tuesday with Boston depositions planned Thursday.
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Boston
Cook
Chamberlin
Eddy
Aldrich
John W. Kelly
Streeter
Boston Man Killed as Chicago Auto Overturns in Ditch
Temple, a South Chicago hotel chauffeur for Albert Mohr, died beneath a touring car overturned in a ditch. Helen Jenkins sustained serious injuries, Helen Crotty suffered multiple breaks and internal damage in critical condition, and Thomas Norton was semi conscious in the seat. Police seek cause of the crash.
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Temple
Chicago
Albert Mohr
Helen Jenkins
Helen Crotty
Thomas Norton
Temple Not Known to Boston Autoists
Archie E Temple is not known in Charlestown and the Main Street address 953 is not recognized. Kenneth Skinner, prominent local garage owner, states he and Boston chauffeurs have never heard of Temple.
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Archie E. Temple
Charlestown
Main Street
Kenneth Skinner
Boston
Temple
Outing For Children Sponsored By Boston Trust
Victor M. Weil president of International Trust Security Company of Boston offers to pay expenses for 150 children from local charitable institutions to attend Old Home week. Seventy girls and boys from St. Vincent's orphan asylum New England Home for Little Wanderers Leopold Morse home are included with attendants. They will take the 10 20 boat Friday to Paragon Park for a day of activities and a big dining room meal and return late afternoon. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald is thanked for the suggestion. Boston July 29.
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Fitzgerald
Victor M. Weil
International Trust Security Company of Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston
Mayor
St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum
New England
Leopold Morse
Paragon Park
Home Furnishers Meeting Midsummer Outing August 15
The Home Furnishers Association of Massachusetts held a planning meeting in Boston to finalize details for their August 15 outing at Rockland House, Nantasket. A 1 p.m. business meeting, a 2 p.m. fish dinner with music, and entertainment are planned with boat transport from Boston at 11:20 a.m. Tickets at $2.50 include dinner and round trip boat fare amid high ticket demand.
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Home Furnishers’ Association of Massachusetts
Rockland House
Nantasket
Kimball Building
Boston
Marriage Surprise in Brookline Unites Vail and Sanderson
Theodore N. Vail of Lynden Vermont, president of the American Telephone Company, wed Miss Mabel Rutledge Sanderson of Brookline at a ceremony held last Saturday in Brookline. Miss Sanderson, 30, a tall brunette and accomplished musician, enjoys outdoor sports. Vail, years her senior, is a noted inventor who became company president last spring with a salary of 75,000 dollars.
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Brookline
Theodore N. Vail
Lynden
American Telephone Company
Mabel Rutledge Sanderson
Gardner Sanderson
Beacon Street
Miss Sanderson
Mr. Vail
Telephone Company
Two Women Victims in New York Strangler Case
At 88 Barry Place in this city authorities report two women as victims of a New York strangler. One victim, Mrs. Kehrer, formerly Miss Sophia Trainer of Toronto, is about 32 and married to Jacob Kehrer for about 12 years. She last wrote to her mother-in-law from New York six weeks ago asking letters be sent to general delivery.
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Kehrer
Barry Place
Sophia Trainer
Lipcott Street
Toronto
Jacob Kehrer
New York
Jacob Riis Wedding Honeymoon Spotted on Plum Island
Ipswich reports Jacob Riis and his secretary bride Miss Mary A Phillips spent their honeymoon at Ipswich Bluffs on Plum Island after a ceremony at Ascension Church. The couple reportedly boarded the motor boat Skidoo and sailed to a quiet, secluded spot off the Maine coast, despite family efforts to keep plans private.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipswich
Plum Island
Ipswich Bluffs
Jacob Riis
Mary A. Phillips
Ascension Church
Maine
Mayor's portrait presented at Dorchester Old Home Week
Fully 10 000 people attended the Old Home Week celebration of the Columbus Club of Dorchester last evening. Mayor Fitzgerald was the guest of the evening and the feature was the portrait presentation by the James Hayes Council to the Worcester Council, which then gave it to the Columbus Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Club
Dorchester
Fitzgerald
James Hayes
Italian Accused of Assaulting 15 Year Old Girl
Newton July 30 Vincenzo Russo 23 Italian fruit seller at 131 Moody Street Wal tham arrested by Officer O Lalloran for allegedly attacking Maria Di Bernardidio a 15 year old Italian girl of Newton Centre He will be arraigned tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Maria di Bernardidio
Newton Centre
Vincenzo Russo
Moody Street
Waltham
O'Lalloran
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U.S
Ulysses 8. Grant
Macullar Parker CO
Harry Lucas
OLD Fruit
Mrs. Eddy
Chicago Auto
Home Furnishers’ Meeting
Washington, Hanover and
Elim Streets
Jacob Rus
Bluffs
White Mountains
Boston & Maine Railroad
New Hampshire
C. M. Burt
Boston, Mass
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