Auto theft ring probes extend to Cambridge officials
Warrants for Cambridge police officers and private citizens linked to an auto theft ring will be sought Monday morning as a prelude to a Middlesex County grand jury inquiry led by Assistant District Attorneys Harvey and Wagner. Judge Charles Almy will decide if evidence justifies warrants.
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Cambridge
Harvey and
Wagner
Middlesex County
Chief McBride
Cambridge Police Department
Quinn
McBride
Charles Almy
Omaha papers raise the price on all editions
Omahas three daily newspapers the Omaha Bee World-Herald and Daily News have announced an price increase effective Aug. 1 with Sunday editions at ten cents and weekday papers at three cents.
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Omaha
Omaha, Neb
Omaha Bee
World-Herald
Daily News
SAFE TONIC FOR GROWING GIRLS PROMISED TO RESTORE HEALTH
A non alcoholic tonic case study claims Dr Williams Pink Pills rebuilt blood and appetite for a fourteen to seventeen year old girl. The letter from Mrs Sallie E Bennett of Portland Missouri credits the pills with improved strength sleep and weight and urges readers to request the free booklet Building Up the Blood from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY or buy via druggist or mail.
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Sallie E. Bennett
Washington Avenue
Portland
Dr. Williams
Tragedy at Cambridge: Mrs Cummings and Douglass in fatal scene
In a Harvard square apartment investigators found Mrs Cummings dead in her night dress and Douglass, a former 5th Cavalry farrier, wounded on the floor. Douglass, discharged April 3, 1919, had moved his belongings to the flat ahead of an announced marriage. he had recently quit his job with the Boston Elevated Railway after Mrs Cummings refused to wed.
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Ponzi
Wilbur
Washington Avenue, Chelsea
Cummings
Harry Cummings
Catbridge
Allston
Mt. Auburn Street
William N. McGreenery Company
Fort Hill Square
Coville
Holbrook
N. H
Douglass
Pastor Prays in Wilson’s Chair for President’s Recovery
The Rev. John Norberry pastor of John Wesley Church of the Nazarene in New York prayed for President Wilson’s return to health in the White House private office. He sat in Wilson’s desk chair exactly as it was left, with his wife and daughter present. The visit marked 20 years since Norberry first greeted President McKinley with his bride.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
John Norberry
John Wesley Church of the Nazarene of New York
McKinley
Mr. Norberry
In the Good Old Days Pilgrim Play Wins for Washington Park
Washington Park playground children won the week’s Pilgrim play contest among 70 city playgrounds. The final production titled In the Good Old Days by Nora A. Smith featured Priscilla played by Esther Alexander and Great Aunt Abigail by Kathleen Doherty with a cast including Peregrine Mary Coughlin and Neighbor Durham Edward Denon.
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Blanche Smith
Kathleen Doherty
Abigail
Edward Denon
Durham
Edward Morrissey
Ezra
Esther Alexander
Priscilla
Mary Coughlin
Peregrine
Washington Park
Boston
Elizabeth Peabody
Charles Street
Nora A. Smith
Fellows Street
Rowan Park
William Wirt Warren
Robert Swan
Roslindale
Edward Morrisey
Gertrude M. Reilly
Teresa McNamara
Helen Mullen
Bessie Walden
Margaret Tuohy
Vera Flaherty
Salem
North End Park
South Bay Union
Roxbury
Elizabeth Peabody House
Dorchester High School
Export Through Boston Slogan Adopted for New England Harbors
The Massachusetts Commission on Foreign and Domestic Commerce selects the slogan Export Through Boston to brand Boston Harbor and New England business exports. The commission seeks to fix the phrase as the shibboleth of regional commerce, urging manufacturers to adopt the slogan on crates letter heads and goods to promote Boston as a port to exporters in the West and Middle West.
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Boston
New England
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts Commission On Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Commission
West
Middle West
Useful Bird Citizens J Hammond Brow N
A compact field guide style note describes the Red-eyed Vireo also called the Preacher. It covers size olive upper parts white under parts a gray crown black eye line and behavior habits including feeding among outer twigs and leaves and dramatic worm dispatch.
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Canada
Rio Grande
Gulf
North America
South America
Mister Red-eye
Dame Nature
Red-eye
Robin
Telephone Company Seeks Public Aid Amid Shortage
The telephone division of the department of public utilities urged limited use of the telephone to help provide the best possible service during the period of short age of supplies and materials, in a statement to the public yesterday.
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Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Telephone Service Faces Strain After War
The department urges Massachusetts subscribers to limit nonessential calls and use only necessary time on lines. War era shortages persist as exchanges near capacity, with emergency use marks and party lines requiring five minute limits. Cooperation is sought to stabilize service until conditions improve.
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Massachusetts
Dorchester case finds John and Patrick Finnegan guilty
Sergeant Hines cited federal prohibition law in Dorchester Municipal Court while prosecuting a liquor nuisance at 1396 1400 Dorchester Avenue. Judge Merritt ruled the officer correct after a 10 minute recess. Both Finnegan men were fined 60 dollars each for allowing sale and giveaway of illicit drink known as jakey in the premises.
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Hines
Dorchester
William Merritt
John
Patrick Finnegan
Dorchester Avenue
Jakey
Wounded Soldiers Guests of Liggett at Brookline Outing
More than 500 wounded and disabled veterans from government hospitals were hosted by Louis K. Liggett and the American Legion at his Brookline estate. The day featured a motor parade, watermelon feast, horse show, band concert, and speeches by Governor Coolidge and military figures before the men returned to the hospitals.
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Louis K. Liggett
American Legion
Mr. Liggett
Brookline
Navy Yard Band
Henry J. Ryan
State House
Liggett Estate
Red Cross
Coolidge
Edwards
F. 8. Robinson
Edward L. Logan
State Legion
Mr. Ryan
James A. Duane
Liggett
Missing Somerville youth Alfred Berry sought by mother
Mrs. Mary Bidwell of USA Walnut street Somerville anxiously seeks word about her son Alfred Berry 17 who disappeared from home last December after leaving to work in a lunch room on Massachusetts avenue. Friends say he may be working for a farmer in Dedham.
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Mary Bidwell
USA
Walnut Street
Somerville
Alfred Berry
Laurendeau Golden Anniversary Observed in West Quincy
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Laurendeau marked sixty years of marriage with a high mass at St Marys Church in West Quincy. The couple, ages 80 and 78, walked a half mile each way to the church and back. A public jubilee with civic and ecclesiastical leaders and a purse of gold will be held tomorrow at their home, as ten children, 44 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren form the extended family. Mayor Joseph Whitten and Rev. Thomas O Connor are set to speak.
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Anthony Laurendeau
West Quincy
St. Mary's Church
Joseph Whitten
Thomas O'Connor
Laurendeau
Virginian Has Day In Court
Octavus Townsend a South End janitor and Miss Adeline Davis faced Central Court over a dispute. Both offered humorous alibis as they described a hat theft accusation and a colorful exchange ending with Townsend being discharged.
Woman Nearly Hundred Dies In Clinton Home
Miss Frances Louise Pease aged nearly 100 died in Clinton after a heart failure during a motor ride. The Middletown native, once famed as a belle, had danced with Marquis Lafayette in New York City years earlier and requested her exact age not be public upon death. She lived at 158 College Street near Wesleyan University and was daughter of Aaron and Nancy Griswold Pease.
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Hartford
Conn
Frances Louise Pease
Marquis Lafayette
New York City
Clinton
Middletown
College Street
Wesleyan University
Long Island Sound
Aaron
Nancy Griswold Pease
Lafayette
Washington Tavern
Nomination Papers Filed Reach New Records in City
The city saw a record 358 nomination papers filed yesterday on the final day, with total filings at 1117 since the opening. For Congress in the 10th district nine candidates filed, seven Democrats and two Republicans, led by Peter F. Tague and James W. H. Myrick for the Democrats and Harry C. Daggett for the Republicans. Katherine W. Dowling became the sole woman candidate, filing for the Democratic nomination alongside contemporaries like James E. Maguire and John J. Kearney.
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Congress
James H. Brennan
Charlestown
John A. Donoghue
Michael (Foote) DeCicco
North End
Harry C. Daggett
James W. H. Myrick
Peter F. Tague
Joseph J. Murley
Thomas E. Coffey
James E. Maguire
John J. Kearney
Military Patrol Ambushed Near Dublin
A military patrol 12 miles from Dublin was ambushed and relieved of its arms early this morning. There were no casualties reported.
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Dublin
Two Teenagers Seek American Surnames in Probate Court
Lazarus and Richard Solomon aged 20 and 18 petition for name changes to Lester Seaman and Richard Seaman. They cite a wish to reflect American patriotism, parents' divorce, and a striving for respectability. Petition filed by their mother Mrs Minnie Solomon.
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Lazarus
Richard Solomon
Probate Court
Lester Seaman
Richard Sea
Richard
Minnie Solomon
Woodward to Study Plague Control Demonstration
Health Commissioner Woodward departs at noon with Deputy Dr. Castleman and Building Commissioner Wilson for Galveston Texas to attend a plague control demonstration arranged by the surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service. The event runs August 3 and 4.
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Harry W. Douglass
Grace R. Cummings
Churchill
Kipling
Bunyan
Allen
Stevenson
Cooper
Tarkington
Thackeray
Eliot
Irving
Stowe
Freeman
Coniston
Richard Carvel
David Copperfield
Pilgrim's Progress
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Vanity Fair
Adam Bede
Sleepy Hollow
Uncle Tom
S Cabin
Jerome
Pres. Taft
McCall
David I. Walsh
Belden
James B. Connolly
Basil King
Sara Ware Bassett
Irving Bachellor
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Clarence W. Barron
Carolyn Wells
Ellery Sedgwick
Mabel Herbert Urner
John Kendrick Bangs
Andre Morize
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Washington Park Playground
J. Hammond Brow
Vireo
International Syndicate
Southland
Phone CO
Quincy
Miss Davis
Octavus Townsend
Old Virginia
South End
Adeline Davis
Springfield Street
Central Court
Bar of Justice
the Twitchell- Champlin Co
Solomon Brothers
Ateidragriss
Beecham
Iter Este Ade
Minaro CO
Framingham, Mass
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