Missing bookkeeper tied to Washington Street swindle case
Post office officials believe Daniel Sinclair, missing bookkeeper for Chelsea’s George Drysdale, is the swindler linked to a months long scheme at 339 Washington Street. Arrested on bail for stolen bedding, he defaulted and is now sought for using the mails to defraud via circulars selling “bankrupt” stocks at low prices with a prepaid one third cash.
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Post Office
Daniel Sinclair
George Drysdale
Chelsea
Washington Street
Drysdale
Sinclair
Foot saved by X rays in Chapman accident
John P Chapman escaped amputation after a foot crushed by freight cars. At Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons, unsure of ankle bone positions, used X rays to locate the fracture, set the break, and Chapman is expected to regain full use of his right foot.
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John P. Chapman
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chapman
UP SHE GOES Market Update on Copper and Gold Shares
The report notes a booming market driven largely by mining with copper prices firm around 1114 cents and London prices higher. It highlights strong activity in Boston and widespread gains, including Hecla up 56 points and Osceola and Tama holdings advancing, amid a generally buoyant financial mood.
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Chicago, & Quincey
Sugar Common
London
Pers
Sains
Hecla
Ation
Tama- Osceola
Old Co
Kearsarge
Quincy Lin
Ange Clearing House
Rong
Torom
Ived
Superme
Post Office adopts receipt blank to curb stolen stamps
Inspector Murray reports one third of stamped envelopes exchanged at the stamp window are stolen. A receipt blank will be used by stamp clerks when envelopes are turned in for exchange, tracking names of the senders to aid enforcement.
Gordon Re-elected Leader At Confederate Veterans Encampment
General John B. Gordon is re-elected general commander at the United Confederate Veterans encampment in Nashville Tennessee. He vows to build a grand memorial to the private soldier and defends the South’s cause as a noble pledge of loyalty to freedom and the republic of the fathers.
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Nashville
Tenn
United Confederate Veterans
John B. Gordon
Republic of the Fathers
New Departure Adds Rhode Island Clam Bake to Winthrop Steamer
The Winthrop Steamboat Company hires Charles T. Maxfield, famed Rhode Island clam bake caterer, to operate a waterfront cafe for his dining aboard a half hour harbor sail. Dinners cost seventy five cents and depart from 478 Atlantic Avenue at 12, 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. The voyage includes a return trip with the meal served on arrival of the dinner boats.
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Winthrop
Boston
Naxfield
Winthrop Cafe
J. R. Bacon
Winthrop Steamboat Company
Charles T. Maxfield
Rhode Island
Silver Springs
Maxfield
Winthrop Line Wharf
Atlantic Avenue
Civil Court Docket List of Suffolk Superior Sessions
Long docket of civil cases before Justice Blodgett listing numerous plaintiffs and defendants with case numbers in the June session. Includes Stillings vs Stillings and many other assorts from Anchor Electric Co. to Starratt v Cairns, plus Fourth and Extra Jury Sessions entries and special lists.
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Superior Court
Suffolk
Niagara F. Ins
Same
Imperial
Ins
Lane
Brown
Wood
Kennedy
Keating
Worthen
Robinson
Harris
Souther
Sauseville
Sturtevant & Haley B
Abrams
O'Keefe
Crosby
McCracken
Dinsmore
Ward
Pontone
Bernstein
Perkins
Lamson Con
City of Boston
City of
City of Boston, 8976—Micklejohn Vs. West End R. R. 10,499—Boudreau
O'Riordan
Norris
Nemser
Watson
Cook
Randall
Weymouth
Turach
Roper
Houghton
Milford Pink Granite Co
Nichols
Dexter Felder Co
C. A. Pinkham P. & P. Co
Rodd
Taft
Bynner
Knapp
Starratt
Va. Cairns
Wetherbee
Bratkovski
Phipps
Remington
Cambridge Divorce Libels Heard in Middlesex Court
Superior Court in Middlesex County hears contested divorce libels in Cambridge. The June trial calendar extends to the foot of Page 33.
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Middlesex
Cambridge
Dunbar
Desperate Leap of Suspect from Fast Train
A prisoner, believed to have knowledge of a Boston mail train wreck attempt near Slocura ville on the Consolidated road, escaped serious injury after leaping from a moving train at 2 p m. He gave the name Jack Coleman of Boston and claimed to be a stoker.
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Providence
R. I
Boston
New York
Slocuraville
Consolidated Road
Jack Coleman
Shipping News Mini Almanac June Subtext
Arrivals fill the harbor docket with steamers from London Antwerp and Ponce to Portland New York and Bangor. Cleared vessels head to Port Antonio Philadelphia and St John with coal, molasses, and passengers. Saillants include Cestrian Bostonian Storm King and others bound for Liverpool Baltimore and Newburyport.
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British Empire
Wills
London
Glengail
Davison
Antwerp
Fairfax
March
Baltimore
Norfolk
A. M. Graham
Delaware
Ingram
Jacksonville
Charleston
D. C
Lancaster
Taylor
Philadelhia
Burnside
Herman Winter
Nickerson
New York
City of Bangor
Ingraham
Bangor
Portland
Deering
Kennebec
Collins
Bath
City of Gloucester
Goufrey
Gloucester
George M. Winslow Cates
Rondout
Hondout
Albany
Winthrop
Hand
South Amboy
Wayne
Rosemont
Herbert Black
Blanchard
Krig Caspian
Gordon
St. John’s
Antigua
Jennie A. Stubbs
Savage
Ponce
Louisa Francis
Jewett
Rockland
Estella
Littlefield
Wilson
Willard
Adderton
Sadie A. Kimball
Burns
Dover
N. H
F. A. Smith
A. H. Harding
Card
James Baker
Newburyport
Belvidere
Paine
Port Antonio
Cumberland
St. John
N. B
Avalon
Philadelphia
Alfred W. Fiske
Hurricane Island
Henry S
Little
Coal Port
Kate and Mary
Rockport
Mass
Samos
Penobscot
Lizzie J
Call
Cape Ann
Wind S. W
Cestrian
Liverpool
Bostonian
Charles F., Mayer
C. C. Co. No
Spartan
Portsmouth
H. F. Dimock
Plymouth
Co. R. R
Storm King
M Baronet
Salem
Buttress
Perth Amboy
Scud
New Richmond
P. Q
William B. Palmer
Louispurg, Co. B
John D. Manning
Savannah
Charles L. Mitchell
Lillian Woodruff
Axim
W. C.A
Mary Manning
H. Odiorne
Onora
Annapolis
N. S
Hazel Glen
Halifax
Florence Abbot
Orban Bay
Thetis
Mulgrave
Etta E. Tanner
Mereghan
Lexington
River Herbert
Agnes E. Manson
Washington
Portland Day Trip and Steamship Movements Across Maritime Provinces
International Steamship Co announces Portland day trips with ships leaving Commercial Wharf on Monday Wednesday and Friday at 845 am and returning at 6 pm. The steamship Roman from Liverpool discharges at Pier 6 Charlestown with goods stored on wharf for 48 hours unless collectors are notified. Fitchburg Railroad dividend notice details two percent to preferred stockholders of record. transfer books close July 15.
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Portland
ROMAN
Liverpool
Hoosac Tunnel
Charlestown
Custom House
Conaignees
Warren &O
Milk St
Vomey
Daniel A. Gleason
American Wringer Co Moves to 80 Arch Street Boston
Notice announces consolidation of two stores into a larger Boston showroom at 80 Arch Street placing display rooms for Clothes Wringers Bissell Carpet Sweepers Washing Machines Mangles Garden Hose and Oil Stoves with prices from 1.25. Repairing by mail or phone offered.
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Broadway
Cornhill
Arch Street
Summer
Franklin Streets
Washington Street
Bissell
American Wringer Co
Boston
Mass
Telephone
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Jordan
National Cadet Band
Provincetown
Londfellow
John Smith
Commercial Wharf
North Pier
Cape
Atwood & Rich
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Nahant
Grand Harbor
Lincoln’s Wharf
Zic
E. H. Seabrook
A. P. Lane
Washington St
Bay State
India Wharf
G. ¥. Williams
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Sun- Paggage
Ent
Sorenegen
Austin & Stone
Majger
Count Rosebud
Harvard
Yale
Theatrical
Charles Frohman
Theatrical Gotham
Woodbury
John H. Woodbury
Winter St
Ber
Pion- Gold
Bosana
REW York Stock Sales
Stuart
Conroy
Brigham
Herrick
Turner
Jacobs
Tighe
White
Campbell
Eastman
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Hill
Farrel
Walker
Buck
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Snow
Wright
Hardy Co
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Eliot Five Cent Sav. Bank
Filene
Mitchell, Jr
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Bell
Malhioney
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Fagan
Cranitch
Rittgman
Mciinnon
Millner
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Sanborn
Stewart
Dodge
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Elec. Ass't Co
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Rowley
Gatchell
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Cole
Gilman
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Lux
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Phillips
Drewson
Saklad
Sherman
Orcutt
Jones
poy—McCue
O' Neil
Lways Beer
Hicago
Dom Bay
Wilson W. Fay & Co
State Street
Geyser Mining
van Choate
Boston & Cripple Creek
Pioneer
Utah
North Shore Traction
Winthrop Shore Land
Fort Wayne Electric
Bone Hill
American Electric Heating
United Telegram
Goodyear
Eade Shi Ceoriou
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Baltimore & Ohio
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Canada
Iowa
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Southern Pacific
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Chicago Gas
Col F & Iron
Eye
General Electric
Illinois Steel
Laclede Gas
Pacific Mail
Tenn Coal & Iron
Gen. Gordon
Osceola
Uiney
Anta Ysabe
Tamarac Eee
NEW Loan Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Kidder, Peabody & CO
Blake Bros. & CO
Devonshire St
State St
Shipping News
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Heri
Marea Basil Agency
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HAL Medical Institut
Mal Mai
the Peabody
Medical Institute
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Revere House
Peabody Medical Institute
Individua
Medical Review
Boston Herald
England
Harvard Medical College
Massachusetts Volunteers
America
National Medical Association
Institute
College of Physicians and Surgeons
P. O. Box
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Cambrenm Sachem
Kansas
Reman
Sagamore
John Farley & Sons
State St. Willunead
Fitchburg Docks
Warren & CO
Mile Street
Jvly
Southampton
Ohio
St. Paul
Paris
St Louis
Havre
International Navigation Co
Bowling Green
HE. Palmer
Old State House
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Alexander Martin
Merchants &Miners Transportation Co
Newport News
Teusuo Ga
Air Line
Atlantic St
Seaboard Air Line
Kanawha
Southern R. R
Baltimore & Ohio R. R
Cumberland Gap
Company
A. M. Grahlam
Agt
Battery Wharf
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Line
Phila
Wiimington
West
Ferfre Aeharf
Ek.akonon
Proneerer
General M
State A
Fuh
Beston
Southern Pacific Company
Morgan Line
New Orleans
Mi Tostentops
Texas
Ailroad
Arizona
New and
Old Mexico
Colorado
California
EB. E. Currier
Edwin Hawley
Tragmie
Breadway
Wannaei Iine
Ocean Steamship Co
Superior Passenger Accommodations
Lewis Wharfston
Fpelladeyess
Vier
North River
Richardson & Barnard
The
Yarmouth Steamship Co
Pier 1
Lewis Wharf
Yarmouth
Nova Scotia
J. F. Spinney
Ament
Chatham Street
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