Runaway Horse Stopped at Forest Hills Station Heroics
Co A Wenning of Everett a New York New Haven Hartford railroad employee risked his life at Forest Hills Station to halt a frightened runaway horse. He grabbed the horse by the neck and brought it down after the wagon smashed the platform. The animal fled again until wedged at West Roxbury trestle where workers freed it.
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A. Wenning
Everett
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Forest Hills
Bush Express Company
New Haven Road
Henning
Needham
Garden Street Bridge
West Roxbury
Metropolitan Coal Company
Wellesley Rowers Claim Ws In Annual Competition
Wellesley College celebrated its rowing meet with the senior class earning the coveted Ws and 11 seniors receiving individual cups. Senior recipients included Constance Eustis, Marguerite Fitzgerald, Edith Hall, Alberta Peltz, Anne Skinner, Helen Slagle, Hazel Smith, and Marjorie Wyatt, among others. juniors Reg Jones, Cecelia Hollingsworth, Corinne Searle, and Dorothy Summy wonWs. only sophomore Daphene Selden earned a Ws. Individual cups went to Madeline Andrews, Meta Bennett, Dorothy Clark, Helen Coffin, Constance Eustis, Marguerite Fitzgerald, Edith Hall, Sarah Howard, Alberta Peltz, and Helen Slagle.
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Wellesley College
W’s
Hunnewell
Constance Eustis
New York
Marguerite Fitzgerald
Maysville
Edith B. Hall
Wellesley
Alberta Peltz
East Orange
N. J
Anne T. Skinner
Newark
Helen Slagle
Brookline
Hazel C. Smith
Newton
Marjorie BE. Wyatt
Syracuse
Regs Jones
Mt. Vernon
N. Y
Cecelia Hollingsworth
Renssalaer
Ind
Corinne Searle
Omaha
Neb
Sarah E. Howard
Reading
Richman's Son Sentenced for Breaking and Entering
Robert Schumaker a Chicago university graduate and son of Robert F Schumaker was yesterday sentenced by Judge Hardy in the Superior Criminal Court East Cambridge to three to four years at hard labor following his plea of guilty to breaking and entering.
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Robert Schumaker
Chicago University
Robert F. Schumaker
Chicago
Hardy
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
Nat Goodwin Sues Edna Goodrich for 500000 in Trust Dispute
Nat Goodwin files suit in Superior Court against Edna Goodrich his ex wife and T H Dudley mayor of Santa Monica named trustee seeking invalidation of a 1908 trust agreement valued at 500000 alleging lack of consent and marital status at the contract time and other irregularities.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Nat Goodwin
Edna Goodrich
Goodwin
T. H. Dudley
Santa Monica
Miss Goodrich
Jessie McDermott Goodwin
Lighthouse Family Keeps Vigil in Storm at Belle-Isle
In France at Kerdonis lighthouse a keeper, Matelott, fell ill while cleaning the lamp. His wife stayed at the post with their four children to light and turn the heavy lamp through a fierce night storm, delaying rescue until the dawn. The incident drew government attention to the family’s steadfast duty.
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Paris
Kerdonis
Belle-Isle-en-Mer
Brittany
Matelott
Herdonis
Confessed Burglary Suspect Tells Of Life Since 1906
The unnamed prisoner, later identified as George Harris and Harry H. Hanson, born Sept 11 1886 in Buffington Illinois, pled guilty to two indictments for breaking and entering. He described a fall from favor after 1909 Concord Reformatory time, his plans to reform, and failed job searches due to his jailbird status in Boston and Everett.
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Concord Reformatory
East Cambridge
George Harris
Harry H. Hanson
Schumaker
Buffington
Ill
Chicago
Man sentenced for break-ins after family rejection
A young man, unable to find work in clerical or service jobs, traveled to Boston seeking support from his father's business and received a rejection letter declaring him dead to the family. Spurred by vengeance, he broke into two houses in Somerville, was arrested, and Judge Hardy sentenced him to three to four years in Charlestown State Prison.
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Schumaker
Concord
Hardy
Boston
Rexford
Everett
Reformatory
Somerville
Charlestown
New Postal Banks for New England
Six New England offices are listed for postal savings banks. They include Randolph Vermont Stafford Springs Connecticut Amesbury and Chicopee Falls Massachusetts Rochester New Hampshire and Oldtown Maine in today’s announcement from Washington dated June 6.
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Washington
New England
New Postal Savings Bank
Randolph
Stafford Springs
Conn
Amesbury
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Rochester
N. H
Oldtown
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Hanover
Portland
UlLy
Marjorie E. Wyatt
Wes
Wellesley Lesley
Richman
University Graduate
Nat
Hero
New Grass
Vermont
Campbell’s
Benquet
Jamaica
Boris Bracedy
Neisro
the Specialty Sho, Inc
Eim & Union
Tremont
John Chandler
Panama Canal
Isthmus
Panama
New York City
China
Haviland China
Limoges
HANET
Japan
Pric
Juno
Shade
Alaska
Landers
Frary & Clark
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