Emmons Leads Boston Police Board To Budget Savings
Ex-Judge Emmons becomes chairman and cuts costs by relying on his own legal advice. He issues opinions on drunkenness based on gait, smell, and speech, claiming all who fail these tests are drunk. The piece mocks the approach and predicts enforced patrol actions under Simmons’s order.
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Board of Police
Boston
Emmons
Pemberton Square
Simmons
Judge Emmons
Police Board
Post
Jrst
Mimons
No More Coal Strikes Threat To Public Safety
Public opinion rejects another coal mine shutdown and urges amicable settlement between operators and miners. The piece cites operators Baer and associates resisting recognition of three district Miners Union presidents on the board of conciliation, warning of renewed coal scarcity and possible government ownership if clashes persist.
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Miners’ Union
Board of Conciliation
Coal Trust
Baer
Ohio Republicans Back Roosevelt In 1904 Campaign
The Ohio state convention adopted a platform endorsing Theodore Roosevelt for president in 1904, praising his duty and adherence to policies. The move, viewed as Hanna driven and overly McKinley influenced, is seen as perfunctory and not a true popular expression.
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Ohio
Roosevelt
Hanna
McKinley
Buffalo
Mark Hanna
Vast forest fires scorch eastern Canada and New England
A two day smoke haze from widespread forest fires driven by drought grips Nova Scotia to Massachusetts. Fires devastate Maine and New Brunswick settlements, threaten homes, crops, and dozens of towns, with millions in damage while awaiting rain.
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Krakatoa
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Massachusetts
East Canadian
Cape
Aroostook
Pardons Board Frees Milton Young in Oldfield Case
The Texas State Board of Pardons commuted Milton Young’s sentence for shooting J. B. Oldfield a schoolteacher. The plea claimed justifiable homicide due to Oldfield’s betrayal of Young’s sister, a teen pupil. The governor defended the pardon noting intimate ties and a brutal breach of trust as context.
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State Board of Pardons
Texas
Milton Young
J. B. Oldfield
Young
Oldfield
Pythians Vote No Aid for Russian Jews at Boston Convention
Starlight Lodge 58 of Boston in a Tuesday convention voted zero contributions for Russian Jewish suffering and unanimously adopted resolutions proposed by Morris H. Rogowsky keeper of record and seal. A copy of the resolutions will be printed in the Boston Post and sent to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
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Starlight Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Boston
Russia
Morris H. Rogowsky
Boston Post
Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts
Father of Five Girls Faces Weddings and Loss
A widowed patriarch grapples with his daughters' engagements after his wife’s death. He first opposes marriage, then contemplates a second marriage at a club banquet. Daughters Blanche and Mabel announce marriages, while Alice reveals she is a widow. Emotional confession and grief shape the family’s late bloom.
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Anderson Kemp
Blanche
Papa
Arthur Frendon
Mabel
George Martward
Susan
Gladys
Sweet Alice
Mamma
Reader threads and Stealthy Steve in Old Boston
A fragment from a periodical page narrates reader letters about a recurring story, questions on trading stamps and a submerged ship, plus a quoteworthy judge's view on intoxication. The notes reference New Dorchester and Neponset mass with curious local names and mock commentary.
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Newt
Steve
New Dorchester
Mass
Cypress
Neponset
All Sorts Letters Stir New England Readers
Late reports claim widespread demand for the series Letters of a Made to a Made. News from rural districts says babies cry for them while a Skowhegan man fractures ribs reading letter No 2. An injunction is anticipated soon. Here is the third instalment.
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New England
Skowhegan
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