Hartford Trial Details Abduction Case With Mrs Holman
Mrs Elizabeth A C Holman testifies in Hartford as defense lawyers probe alleged abduction and confinement in a Vermont madhouse. She recounts a mystic marriage with Rev Cranston Brenton and a plan to end her life if her husband died.
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Hartford
Conn
Elizabeth A. C. Holman
Vermont
Cranston Brenton
Yonkers
N. Y
Oliver C. Smith
Paul Waterman
Missing Salem Boarder and Girl Disappearances
Dorothy Stillman a 17 year old Salem girl employed at Cogleys drug store disappears from home Thursday afternoon. Edward Buffum a boarder at the Stillman home also reported missing. Father Edward Stillman appeals to police for return of his daughter and details of Buffum. An American Express agent took a trunk to the Salem railroad station for shipment to North Station. Buff Stillman says he knows little of Buffum.
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Dorothy Stillman
Mall Street
Salem
Cogley's
Essex Street
Edward B. Buffum
Stillman
Edward Stillman
American Express Company
North Station
Buff Stillman
Buffum
Won Waltz And One Step Contests At Le Petit Trianon
Mrs R J Macdonald and Aubrey A Schulman won the waltz and one step contests at Le Petit Trianon yesterday afternoon securing qualification for the Milo cup competition set for Friday evening June 2. Only Friday afternoon winners may compete for the cup.
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R. J. Macddonald
Aubrey A. Schulman
le Petit Trianon
Bride of Six Weeks Deserted in Sudden Disappearance
Mrs Marjory Stoneham of Taunton, 6 weeks married to Kenneth D. Douglas, vanishes after wiring from New York that he would enter a sanitarium. Doubts about his prior marriage and possible Florida divorce surface. Reverend Dougherty confirms past remarks about a divorce.
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Boston
Taunton
Kenneth D. Douglas
Newark
Marjory Stoneham
Wellesley College
McGill University
Miss Stonehant
N. J
Newark Evening News
Miss Stoneham
George P. Dougherty
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church
Douglas
Pennsylvania Station
New York
Dougherty
Courts of
Florida
Mr. Dougherty
Boston Mayor and officials push New Haven rail yard development
Mayor Curley and John M. Cole press plans to lure New Haven railroad to develop land along South Boston and attract two auto firms and a shoe plant. They inspect the tract near Broad Street and Dorchester Avenue, urge spur freight tracks, and seek sale of a park department storeyard for 50 cents a foot. They also seek GM branch plant in Boston and similar steps with another auto maker.
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Curley
John M. Cole
Boston
New Haven Railroad
South
Cole
Broadway
Southampton Street
Dorchester Avenue
New Haven Road
City Hall
Harry Mapes
Industrial Commission
Park Department
Massachusetts Avenue
James J. Storrow
General Motors Company
Roxbury Mother Detains 16-Year-Old Bride at Home
Mrs Margaret Monaghan of 121 Warren Street Roxbury says she would place her 16 year old daughter in an institution rather than let her live with 18 year old William R MacDonald whom she eloped with to Nashua New Hampshire and married by a justice of the peace. The daughter is held prisoner in a house near the MacDonald home at 18 Regent Street.
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Margaret Monaghan
Warren Street
Roxbury
William R. MacDonald
Nashua
N. H
Mac-Donald
Regent Street
William MacDonald
Mother Opposes Elopement in Nashua Court Battle
Mrs. Monaghan declares MacDonald unsuitable and unable to support a wife while MacDonald vows to work and prove fit for her daughter. She travels to Nashua two days after the elopement to seek an annulment but fails, promising further legal action to split the couple. A near derailment occurred when she raced to North Station on May 23 but missed the train.
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MacDonald
Nashua
Fear Camp Owners Missing After River Canoe Incident
In Ashland Maine on June 5 1916 report says Mr and Mrs George Lowe of Milo likely drowned in Red River near Winthropville after leaving their sporting camp to fish. Their son found the canoe and a cushion drifting on a log boom with no bodies recovered.
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Ashland
George Lowe
Milo
Red River
Winterville
Tech Seniors Have Picnic at Tuck's Point
Tech seniors gathered at Tuck's Point West Manchester for the senior picnic. Civil engineers mapped Lynn hills and Nahant shores while others debated heat in clam chowder experiments. Races and games featured engineering students with prizes awarded by class president A C Dorrance.
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Tuck’s Point
Hamilton
Scandinavia
Percy McCullough
M. J. Smith
T. H. Guething
Southerland
Mechanical Engineers
Shaw and Mitchell
A. C. Dorrance
Boston
Bad half dollars passed in Newton
Newton police arrested two men suspected of being in an Italian counterfeiting gang after they used counterfeit 50-cent pieces at Anakas Brothers fruit store in Nonantum Square and later for cigarettes. Patrolmen Enigus and Dowd investigated the case.
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Newton
Anakas Brothers
Nonantum Square
Enigus
Dowd
Detroit Men Sentenced One Year For Larceny
James Dunlop and James Douglass of Detroit were found guilty in Police Court of stealing $357 worth of silk shirting from Noyes Brothers Company at 127 Tremont Street. Judge Ely sentenced them to one year in the House of Correction, with appeals bond set at $1090.
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James Dunlop
James Douglass
Detroit
Noyes Brothers Company
Tremont Street
Ely
House of Correction
Militant bomb activity reported in Derby and Dundee
The Daily Sketch notes Lady Blomfield apologized to King George over her daughter Mary Blomfield’s court misstep. Militant suffragettes continued arson with Breadsall Church burned near Derby and a bomb found at Dudhope Castle near Dundee, where a fuse was blown out by wind.
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London
Lady Blomfield
Daily Sketch
Lord Chamberlain
George
Mary Blomfield
Mary
Eleanor
Blomfield
Breadsall Church
Derby
Dudhope Castle
Dundee
John Graham
Claverhouse
Killiecrankie
James II
William III
Sylvia Pankhurst Threatens Hunger Strike in Canningtown S
Sylvia Pankhurst appeared at a suffrage meeting in Canningtown and warned she would sit on the House of Commons steps without food or water until Asquith agrees to receive her deputation. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies funds campaigns for Labour and opposes the Liberal government. Militant suffragists deny involvement in the Buckingham Palace disruption where a woman pleaded against force.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Canningtown
House of Commons
Asquith
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Henry Fawcett
Francis Balfour
Countess of Aberdeen
Brassey
Lord Courtney
Lord Lytton
Labor Party
National Union
Laborites
Women’s Social and Political Union
Suffragette Organization
Buckingham Palace
Suffragette Miss Blomfield disrupts Buckingham Palace scene
Miss Mary Blomfield, daughter of Lady Blomfield, interrupted a royal drawing room at Buckingham Palace shouting for the royals to refrain from force. She was seized and removed. a sister attended but did not partake. The incident prompted palace precaution and a ban from future court functions.
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London
Mary Blomfield
Sara Louisa Blomfield
Arthur Blomfield
Buckingham Palace
King George
Queen Mary
Lord Chamberlains
Blomfield
Lord Chamberlain’s Department
Dr. Blomfield
Citv
Church Notices Warn of Closures After Outrage
A rector sample warns that due to dastardly outrages by frenzied criminals the church will be closed except during divine service hours, reflecting concerns over safety and access during usual Sunday services.
Redmond declines to hear suffragettes on Irish voting
London June 5 John H Redmond leader of the Irish Nationalists refused a suffragette deputation on women as electors for the Irish Parliament He said past experiences showed such actions caused only trouble and that Ireland under home rule must decide if it wants women voters for itself.
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London
John H. Redmond
Redmond
Ireland
Suffragettes Avoid Last Night Court Disturbance
London June 5 Tonight's court at Buckingham Palace closed the season without suffragette disruption. Police tightened guest screening but militants did not attempt entry, content to the large advertisement they secured the night before.
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London
Puckingham Palace
Graduation gowns for East Boston girls cost under two dollars
Seventy one students from Lyman and U. S. Grant Schools in East Boston will sew their own white graduation frocks under domestic science guidance. Costs run from 1.57 to 4.50 for a few Horace Mann pupils, with simple one piece styles trimmed in lace, patiently handmade hems and machine seams.
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Lyman
U. S. Grant
Boston
Department of Domestic Science
Horace Mann School
Wrecked pursuit ends in crash injures officers
In Worcester on June 5 Policeman Martin J. Eagan and Henry Mower were seriously hurt when their pursuing car collided with two moving electric cars and became wedged between them. The vehicle was wrecked and both men were thrown out.
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Worcester
Martin J. Eagan
Henry Mower
Officer Eagan in chase crashes as motorcyclist escapes
Traffic officer Eagan chased a speeding motorcyclist after signaling him to stop. He abandoned his bike to ride in Mr Mower’s car, but as the pursuit continued the auto wedged between two electric cars on Lincoln street. Eagan was thrown through the windshield, Mower injured, and the motorcyclist fled. The injured were taken to City Hospital for treatment.
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Eagan
Mr. Mower
Lincoln Street
Richard J. Shanahan
One of Dartmouth's oldest grads dead
Worcester June 5 Dr Samuel Flagg one of the oldest two graduates of Dartmouth College died today at his home from old age He was a 1841 graduate and the only remaining member of the class is Judge David Cross of Manchester NH who now holds the distinction of being the oldest Dartmouth graduate living Dr Flagg was born in Worcester July 16 1821 and served through the Civil War
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Worcester
Samuel Flagg
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
David Cross
Manchester
N. H
Flagg
Children’s Day Arrival of Mollie Waddy and O'Tony Elephants
The passage notes the arrival on Saturday of Mollie, Waddy, and O'Tony, the children’s own elephants, as part of a Children's Day event, highlighting the coincidence of their arrival.
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Mollie
Waddy
O’tony
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