Meikle Freed From Counsel Fees By State Funds
Edgar Weston Meikle, 16, acquitted of killing his father Charlies C. G. Meikle, will have the fees for his counsel paid by the State. The total exceeds $2,000, with $1,709 in assets unaffected. He returns to Lewis Grammar School and plans for high school or a trade will be decided after summer consideration.
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Edgar
Lewis Grammar School
Chestnut Street
Anna Hunt
Mabel Allen
Trimble
John W. Hutchinson
Justice Stevens
Polish Constitution anniversary parade in Lawrence
Lawrence Mass June 2 The 116th anniversary of the Polish constitution was celebrated with a street parade and City Hall exercises. About six hundred men in line represented societies in Manchester Lowell Haverhill and Salem Patrick Ford served as chief marshal.
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Lawrence
Mass
City Hall
Manchester
N. H
Lowell
Haverhill
Salem
Patrick Ford
Corpus Christi Observed Across Boston Catholic Churches
The Corpus Christi feast was celebrated in multiple Boston churches with elaborate services. Archbishops, priests, and seminarians led Masses and processions at a number of parishes including the Cathedral Jamaica Plain North End Cambridgeport and South Boston. Large groups of children and parish members joined processions and special musical services marked the day.
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Boston
John T. Mullen
D. Co. L
St. John's
Thomas J. MacCormack
Archbishop Williams
Francis X. Dolan
D. D
James J.mccarthy
O'Connell
Thomas R. Mce-Coy
Michael J. Splaine
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Jamaica Plain
Arthur T. Connolly
Father Connolly
Peter C. Quinn
Joseph P. Maher
Edmund D. Day
St. Augustine’s Church
South Boston
Michael C. Gilbride
Francis G. Russell
Mer. O'Callaghan
Corpus Christi
The Clo'es of Tom and the Wayward Brothers
A narrative poem contrasts four brothers choices wealth fame and public life. Jim pursues wealth but fails. Sam aims to be a statesman but loses support. Bill hopes for literary fame. Tom stays home and ultimately inherits their clothes and lives in comfort. The piece critiques ambition and suggests home and duty over grand designs.
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Jim
Ile
Tom
Sam
Cesar
Rome
Bill
Shakspere
June Snow Storm In Chicago Stuns City
Chicago reports its first June snow storm with flakes seen after dawn and a light coating over the State Street shopping district by midmorning. Hyde Park residents testify to a genuine late spring snowfall.
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Chicago, Ill
Hyde Park
State Street
Four Generation Photographs Invites Published Volume
New England families with four or more living generations are invited to submit group photographs for publication in the Post. Selected images will be compiled into a neatly-bound volume to be sent to President Roosevelt.
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New England
Post
Roosevelt
Knowlton Family Narrative Tracks Four Generations
Burlington report traces the Knowlton lineage with Mrs. Amos Knowlton born 1823 in Marlboro and her Revolutionary War grandfather. It notes Mrs. L. M. Ball born 1851 in Massachusetts, and Bertha Miller born in 1880 in Woburn, with Marjorie Miller born in 1905 in Burlington.
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Burlington
Knowlton
New England
Amos Knowlton
Marlboro
N. H
Revolu
L. M. Ball
Massachusetts
Bertha Miller
Ball
Woburn
Marjorie Miller
Miller
Legg
Mass
Ll. M. Ball
Holy Family Temperance League to Wage Bitter War on Drink
The Holy Family Temperance League holds its annual meeting at the Cathedral basement with over 500 men pledging to promote total abstinence from alcohol and drugs. Speakers including Rev Dr Mullen and Maurice Dinneen urge youth enlistment and plan a June 23 parade to boost religious based reform. Three pledge degrees outline escalating abstinence and advocacy roles. Archbishop Williams commends the league as hundreds join from varied backgrounds.
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Holy Family Temperance League
John T. Mullen
M. J
Williams
Tramp Tailor Jumps Train and Lands in President's Car
itinerant tailor Robert Irwin rode the presidential train at Gallon Ohio to Bellefontaine spoke with President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks on the car deck and was greeted by 10 000 cheering spectators after a bold platform jump and free ride attempt.
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Bellefontaine
Ohio
Robert Irwin
Newark
Gallon
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Irwin
Lynn Pastor Advocates Women Wearing Hats in Church
The Rev. E. J. Dennen of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church urges women to wear hats during services in a June church calendar article. He contrasts this with a Washington Street Baptist Church vote supporting removal of headgear, which failed as women opposed the motion.
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Mr. Dennen
Tommy O'Neil at Rest in North End Harbor Tragedy
A neighborhood mourns as Tommy O'Neil, a young boy, is found dead in the harbor near the gas works after disappearing on Thursday. White horse drawn hearse carries the coffin from 115 Charter Street as friends say prayers and bid farewell.
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Charter Street
North End
Tommy O'Neil
Tommy
Rejected Lover Dies After Learning Fiancee Marry
John Johannensen a Norwegian resident of Brooklyn leaped from an L station platform and was killed by a northbound express after learning from Norway that his fiancee had married another man. A torn photograph of his betrothed was found in his bloodstained pocket, worn from constant close custody.
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New York
Norway
John Johannensen
Brooklyn
Girl forced to remove objectionable petticoat in Vienna
Vienna June 2. Police at Gross-Button forced Miss Holda daughter of a local magistrate to remove her red and yellow undergarment after it displayed the Rou manian colors. She resisted but officers accompanied her home where the garment was confiscated.
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Vienna
Gross-Button
Holda
Ryan Leaves Wall Street After Reaching 100 Million
New York reports Thomas F. Ryan ends his active Wall Street career and plans retirement on a Virginia estate. He may pursue a United States Senate seat and has shifted away from major holdings, including the Interborough Metropolitan Railway stake.
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New York
Thomas F. Ryan
Wall Street
Europe
Ryan
Inside
Nelson County
United States
Virginia
Interborough Metropolitan Railway Company
Pen A
Interborough-Metropolitan
Horsie Play May Endanger West End Boy
Seven year old Jerry Donahue of 54 Nashua Street West End was playing horsie on a wooden box at the American Express office on Washington Street when he sustained a brain concussion. He was sent to the Relief Station in serious condition.
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Horsie
American Express
Washington Street
Jerry Donahue
Nashua_ street
West End
William Paine Sheffield Dies After 25 Years of Rhode Island Service
William Paine Sheffield, longtime Rhode Island lawyer, General Assembly member, U.S. Representative 1861-63, and U.S. Senator by appointment in 1884-85, died at Newport residence in his 88th year.
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Newport
R. I
William Paine Sheffield
United States Senate
Rhode Island
Congress
General Assembly
United States
Henry B. Anthony
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St. Mary’s Church
Post Publishing Co
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Reve
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Chicago
Tramp Tailor
Howdy
Lynn
Tommy O’neil
Charter Street Bay
A. Wearthur CO
Washington ST. OpPe
Avene
Workincmens Co-Operative Bank
ISSO
Tremont St
Col. Bromfield
Frank E. Burbank
Seec’y and
Treas
Charlestown
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