Mrs Alma De Cordova Seeks Separate Maintenance
In Suffolk County Probate Court Mrs Alma De Cordova accuses broker Dana De Cordova of humiliating conduct and abusive language after her mother’s 1908 will left her 10000. Testimony from witness Alice Miller Jones details visits and gifts while the couple’s marriage, begun in 1906, frayed after the mother’s death and a dispute over finances.
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Suffolk County
Alma de Cordova
Dana de Cordova
Beacon Street
Alice Miller Jones
de Cordova
Paul Revere Frothingham
Henry
Lincoln
Lenox
Auto Hearse Fire Sparks Rescue of Drowned Girl
Thomas Corey and Howard Williams of Joseph Waterman & Sons saved Ruth Stewart a 19 year old Dorchester girl from being cremated when an auto hearse carrying her body caught fire from a gasoline valve leak in front of 631 Norfolk Street Dorchester. They pulled the casket from the vehicle and carried it into the house as firemen arrived and fought the blaze for about 30 minutes causing about 1000 dollars damage.
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Thomas Corey
Howard Williams
Joseph Waterman & Sons
Undertakers
Ruth Stewart
Dorchester
Charles River
Norfolk Street
Miss Stewart
Storrs Named Vice President of Connecticut Street Railways
Lucius S. Storrs will succeed Calvert Townley as vice-president in charge of Connecticut street railway lines. His jurisdiction will extend beyond Townley’s, and he starts July 1. Storrs previously led Massachusetts lines for the New England Investment & Security Co and earlier worked as engineer of tests for the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Townley will join Westinghouse on July 1.
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New Haven
Lucius S. Storrs
Massachusetts Street Railways
New England Investment & Security Company
Boston
Calvert Townley
Connecticut Company
Townley
Mr. Storrs
Massachusetts
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Westinghouse Company
JAIL SENTENCES IN CONSPIRACY TO SMUGGLE CHINESE
Goodman Phillips of Roxbury and George M D Gardinier of Wellfleet received jail terms from Judge Dodge in federal court for conspiring to smuggle Chinese into the United States from Jamaica. Phillips faces two years in Greenfield and Gardinier 18 months in Barnstable.
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Goodman Phillips
Roxbury
George M. D. Gardinier
Wellfleet
Dodge
United States District Court
United States
Jamaica
Phillips
Greenfield
Gardinier
Barnstable
Boothby resigns Maine Central passenger chief post
Colonel Frederick J Boothby retires after 37 years leading the Maine Central passenger department. Holman Waldron, his assistant for four years and former auditor of passenger accounts, will succeed him starting July 1. Boothby began as master of transportation after a career starting with the Somers et Kennebec mail line in 1864.
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Portland
Jane
Frederick J. Btoothby
Maine Central Railroad
Boothby
Maine Central
Holman Waldron
Colonel Boothby
Somerset
Cousin of Taft Dies in Wisconsin Lacrosse
Abner Lewis Taft cousin of President Taft died at his New Amsterdam county home today at age 65.
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Taft
Wisconsin
Lacrosse
Wis
Abner Lewis Taft
President Taft
New Amsterdam
Gets 3 Years for Theft of Wagon
Michael Melvin alias Cronin stole a Rhodes Brothers wagon loaded with 6500 eggs 1758 pounds of chicken and 114 pounds of veal. He was sentenced yesterday to 3 to 4 years in the State Prison at Charlestown. Melvin had prior prison terms.
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Michael Melvin
Cronin
Rhodes Brothers
Charlestown
Melvin
Verdict Sets fee at 1298 for appendectomy operation
In the seventh session the jury in the suit of Dr. William M. Conant against Charles R. Evans awarded 1298 dollars with interest, finding 1000 dollars not unreasonable for a successful appendicitis operation on Evans’s son.
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William M. Conant
Charles R. Evans
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