Hatpins and Havoc Tap New York Dance Hall Riot
A riot near Bowery Bay dance hall in Astoria ends with Policeman Oden knocked senseless and several injured after women attack with hatpins. Philip Libaccon is shot twice by fellow clubmen while police struggle to control the crowd. Over 30 shots, knives, clubs used. several taken to hospitals.
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New York
Astoria
Bowery Bay
North Beach
Oden
Philip Libaccon
Jamaica Avenue
Long Island City
Libaccon
Darcy
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Odea
Katherine Kelly
West Ninetieth Street
William J. Hennessy
Hennessy
William J. Connell
Smith Street
Kelly
Connell
St. John’s Hospital
Famous New York Lawyer A Humnel on Bubonic Ship
Abe Hummel, the New York lawyer once imprisoned for a year, is aboard the Nippon Maru quarantined off Angel Island after three bubonic plague cases were found on the ship. He left Paris recently for the Orient and had planned not to return to the United States.
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San Francisco
Abe Hummel
New York
France
Angel Island
Hummel
Paris
Orient
United States
Boston Council probes Animal Rescue League dog catching practices
Boston's City Council approved an inquiry into how the Animal Rescue League conducts its canine catching work. The council also seeks an audit of bath department cash controls and demands law department access to details on a $17,000 fee paid to former District Attorney Arthur D. Hill for Cambridge bridge cost apportionment.
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Boston
Animal Rescue League
Bath Department
Law Department
Arthur D. Hill
Cambridge Bridge
Buckley
Ferry
Street Department
North End Park
West End
Central Square
Neponset River
Mackenzie Beach
Charlesbank
Boston Council Advances Talks on Art Museum Restriction Release
The council plans a Thursday meeting to decide on lifting restrictions on the old Art Museum property in Copley Square. A public hearing will be held that afternoon on a petition by Fanueil Hall market vendors to lower stall rents, and a sub committee will discuss marquis and related permit fees with the Real Estate Exchange.
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Copley Square
Faneuil Hall
Animal Rescue League
Messrs
Huntington Smith
Julian Codman
Frank J. Sullivan
Curley
Messrs. Codman and Sullivan
League
Royal Japs Quit Boston on American Tour
Prince Hiroyasa Fushimi and his suite left Boston on the 7:25 train to Niagara Falls and then Japan after a sudden government request to help draft progressive legislation. They visited Charlestown navy yard to inspect the Dreadnought North Dakota and lunched with Harvard President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot before touring university halls. They also met President A Lawrence Lowell and toured Harvard facilities.
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Prince
Princess Hiroyasa Fushimi
Suite
Boston
Niagara Falls
Japan
Prince Fushimi
Charlestown Navy Yard
North Dakota
John C. Fremont
Navy Yard
Cambridge
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
A. Lawrence Lowell
Complaints Spur Change in Fort Adams and Fort Wetherell Drills
Due to summer resident complaints, regular service firing at Fort Adams Newport and Fort Wetherell Jamestown will be discontinued for the summer and rescheduled for late fall and winter. Fort Greble will keep regular practice and host the state troop encampment and target practice.
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Newport
R. 1
Fort Adams
Fort Wetherell
Jamestown
Fort Greble
Hearing disrupts State House probe into Newman death
At the special legislative committee hearing on the John Newman death and Lyman School mistreatment, disorder erupted as the forenoon session ended. Mrs. William Newman led women demanding to hear an informant and pressed for a public hearing despite the chair’s bid to close the matter.
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Special Legislative Committee
Lyman School
Anna T. Steinauer
State House
John Newman
Cambridge
Westboro
William F. Newman
Michael J. McEttrick
Draper
Harry Ham
Annie T. Steinauer
Stanwood Street
Dorchester
Ham
Massachusetts
Christina D. Page
Marlboro Street
Back Bay
McEttrick
Republican State Machine
Newman
Elmer Coffeen
Morton
Mr. Morton
Mrs. Newman
Coffeen
Gables Cottage
Wilcox
Trask
Dibell
Lyman Street
Boston & Worcester Railroad
Lyman School hearing hears claims of torture and abuse
Citizens confront trustees and Chairman Ham as testimonies describe police of corporal punishment at the Lyman School for Boys. Whippings with hoses and birches, fists, shingles and confinement are alleged, with former inmates detailing multiples of 10 to 55 blows and torture cages.
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John Foley
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Roxbury
Hennessey
Masters Lasalle
Puffer
Thomas F. McNulty
Beacon Street
Chelsea
Coffeen
State Civil Service Commission
McNulty
Hillside Cottage
Lyman School For
Lynan School
The Liberty of Children by Robert G. Ingersoll
A pacifist plea against whipping children. The speaker urges photographed punishment as a warning, condemning corporal discipline and proposing humane childrearing. He envisions a grieving scene at a cemetery to underscore cruelty’s consequences and stresses honesty and fair treatment at home.
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Lash
How to Treat Bad Boys by Bessie Clements Advice
Mrs Bessie Clements with years of teaching experience shares guidance on handling boys. She argues no boy is wholly bad or good and stresses treating a boy as a peer to earn trust, set boundaries, and steer mischief toward constructive activity.
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Tyen
Bessie Clements
New York
Millionaire Duke Bride Says Love Led To Marriage
Mrs. Brodie L. Duke declares she married her 62-year-old tobacco magnate for love, not money, and that the union was five years in the making. She and Brodie enjoy happiness in Washington and expect possible clashes with Duke relatives as they consider staying there.
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Washington
Camden
N. J
Brodie
Brodie L. Duke
Ebbitt House
Duke
Durham
N. C
Milan Homicide Case Expands as Wife's Murder Suspected
Police in Como pursue new evidence in the Charlton case amid claims that Por ter Charlton murdered his wife Mary Scott Castle Charlton and may have killed himself. Russian adventurer M Constantine Spolatoff is under scrutiny for possible involvement as investigators link rings and a knuckleduster to the crime. Charlton reportedly dined alone June 6 and refused a barrel of wine the next day as authorities tighten the net.
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Milan
Italy
Porter Charlton
Russia
Mary Scott Castle Charlton
Lake Como
Charlton
Como
M. Constantine Spolatoff
Spolatoff
Porder
Riviera
Chevalier
Spolatos
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Rising Sun Street Lighting Company
Hale
Parkman
George F. Parkman
Park Commissioners
Royal Japs
Princess Fushimi
Urs Elmer
David B. Shaw
Charlestown
Johnny Newman
Mason
Gaffney
Rosenburg
Day
Ralph G. Hill
Willow Cottage
Robert G. Ingersoll
Washburn
Waltham
Elgin
Elgin Movements
Secial
Jason Mfg
Hamilton
Illinois
Howard Watches
LER & Son
Ston Street
Franklin
Alexander Pope
Hargedon & Lynch
Washington Street
Globe Theatre
Hanover Street
Blackstone Street
Crosby
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Seate Nee
Minneapolis, Minn
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