Ernst and Emerson Chosen for Municipal Research Bureau
Boston political circles report that the Finance Commission named former Finance Commissioner George A. O. Ernst to lead the new bureau of municipal research and former Superintendent of Streets Guy C. Emerson as consulting engineer to the bureau.
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Boston
The
Finance Commission
George A. O. Ernst
Bureau of Municipal Research
Streets
Guy C. Emerson
City Bureau Proposal Spurs Finance Commission Debate
Mayor Fitzgerald proposed a New York style municipal bureau and consulted with Dr. Cleveland and other experts. The Finance Commission, after initial resistance, agreed to run the bureau with extra funds of 10 000 dollars to hire expert accountants, raising questions about funding and payroll. Ernst, a former commission member and Storrow supporter, is named as an appointee alongside Emerson, a civil engineer, both reportedly outside civil service.
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Fitzgerald
Cleveland
New York
Finance Commission
Ernst
Emerson
Storrow
Cure for skin disease portrayed as a Br Cuti cure story
A man recalls sixteen years of severe skin disease starting as a childhood red sore behind the knee caused by a colored garter. After ineffective remedies he tried Cuticura products and reports a transformation in health and life quality. Leonard A Hawter of Brooklyn credits Cuticura with relief in 1909.
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Leonard A. Hawter
Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promoted for Skin Ailments
Rest and peace fail upon distracted households when Cuticura enters. The advertisement urges warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings with Cuticura Ointment for skin disorders starting at birth. Cuticura Beap, Ointment, and Resolvent Pills are sold worldwide by Potter Drug and Chem Corp of Boston. Free Cuticura Book offered.
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Resolvent Co
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Bole Props
Columbus Ave
Boston
Policeman Fends Off Keyes Street Gang at Williams and Washington
Officer Owen A. Katon of Jamaica Plain faced the Keyes street gang last night at Williams and Washington. John J. Dolan alias Trapper is hospitalized with a chest wound. Bolan is not expected to recover. Eaton remained bedbound in the station house with a scalp wound and other injuries.
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Owen A. Katon
Jamaica Plain
Officer Eaton Assaulted During Arrest at Williams and Washington
Police report Officer Eaton arrested a man named O Gorman on Williams and Washington streets at 6 15 last night when Dolan known as Trapper attacked him knocking away his baton and striking him. A brick struck Eaton in the head as Katon wrestled Dolan to the ground. The revolver discharged wounding Dolan in the right side and right lung. Dolan was taken to City Hospital on the dangerous list. Eaton was treated at the station house for scalp wounds and back and groin pains from kicks. Eyewitnesses say Dolan had been drinking with O Gorman before the confrontation.
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Eaton
O’gorman
Williams and
Washington Streets
Dolan
Katon
Perry
Trapper
Officer Eaton
Williams Street
Paul Revere Memorial Tablet Unveiled at Granary Burial Ground
The Granary Burial Ground received a bronze memorial tablet to Paul Revere placed beside the gateway left portal. The inscription notes the Paul Revere Memorial Association funding the tablet to mark the 1908 opening of Revere's old home at 19 North Square. It urges youth to emulate Revere's patriotism.
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Paul Revere
Granary Burial Ground
Tremont Street
Escape leads to gunfire as two suspects are wounded
Witnesses recount that Trapper Dolan fled after loosening his hold on O Gorman. Eaton fired at the fleeing man, Dolan was shot in the lung and collapsed on the sidewalk. Katon, weakened by blood loss, collapsed at the patrol box and was taken to the station. Dolan had prior clashes with police and a prior assault on Policeman McKinnon.
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O’gorman
Washington Street
Eaton
Katon
Dolan
State Farm
Bridgewater
Policeman McKinnon
Station 13
McKinnon
Taft Opposes Labor Favoring Sherman Antitrust Reforms
The article reports Taft's opposition to a labor friendly amendment seen as class legislation. It notes his stance that altering the Sherman antitrust law to shield a class would be improper. It lists Republicans who joined Democrats to support the Hughes amendment and mentions nonvoting members and pairs.
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Supreme Court
William H. Taft
Lundin
Two Hour Tie Up In East Boston Tube
A two hour tunnel outage halted all traffic from 6 to 8 pm in East Boston Chelsea and Winthrop as a trolley wire snapped. Crowded stations at Court Devonshire and Atlantic avenues saw thousands stranded while sparks fire and darkness created fear until power was cut and cars stopped.
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East Boston
Boston
Chelsea
Winthrop
Court
Devonshire Streets
Atlantic Avenue
Maverick Square
Labor Indignant Over Defeat of Hughes Amendment
The American Federation of Labor executive council, meeting in Washington, denounced the House defeat of the Hughes amendment as a betrayal of workers' rights. The council warned the proviso to protect labor organizations would have doubtful benefit and cited past cases where employer disputes led to criminal indictments and civil suits.
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Washington
House
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
OConnell Wins Seat in Massachusetts District
By a unanimous vote the House accepts Elections Committee No 1 report declaring Joseph F O Connell of the Tenth Massachusetts district entitled to his seat and rejects contestant J Mitchell Galvin s claim to the seat.
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Washington
House Today
Elections Committee No
Joseph F. O'Connell
Massachusetts
J. Mitchell Galvin
Free Offer Promises Home Cure for Asthma Sufferers
A historic newspaper ad touts a no cost asthma treatment claimed to cure all forms of asthma at home. It targets long standing and recent cases and even those using inhalers or patent remedies, urging readers to mail a coupon today.
Blackout Fools Boston Tunnel Rush on Evening Transit
Train passengers waited in darkness as inspectors lit hand lanterns and restored service after a tunnel blackout. The 8 o clock rush caused pandemonium on station platforms with women and children swept from their feet and riders hanging onto car exteriors. Superintendant Williams led operations, routing Boston to East Boston ferries and shifting passengers to the Elevated.
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Scollay Square
Devonshire Street
Atlantic Avenue
Assault and Robbery in the Back Bay
Lieutenant Sargent deploys a squad to the Back Bay crime scene where two men flee as officers open fire. Crummie falls after the shots while Miss Gazin is found unconscious in bushes and taken to City Hospital in precarious condition. Dr Brahnan of Grace Hospital is mentioned.
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Sargent
Crummie
Miss Gazin
City Hospital
Back Bay
Fenway
Brahnan
Grace Hospital
Thieves Foil Window Gap To Steal 14000 From Salem Bank
Thieves cut a 12 by 6 inch hole in a show window bottom at Julius Rottenburg’s private bank on Salem Street Old North End. About 14000 dollars in Austrian and Italian notes were taken from the cellar after the theft in daylight. Police recovered 400 in Italian ore and suspect two Italians as inquiries continue.
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Julius Rottenburg
Salem Street
Old North End
Victor Rottenburg
Tomatoes stolen wagon thieves nabbed in transit
Frederick Coffron and Howard Angell, both youths from Providence, were arrested in the market district after loading crates from a stolen wagon that had carried them to Boston. They admitted taking the wagon in Providence and were taken to station 1. The horse fatigue and long journey prompted police inquiry. arraignment set in Boston on theft charges alongside Providence counts.
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Frederick Coffron
Howard Angell
Market District
Providence
Boston
Coffron
Shipps Street
Angell
Allens Avenue
Clinton Street
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Cambridge
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Mothersill Remedy Co
Cielead
Detrale
F. Gray
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Hanover
F. Gray Co
Gray Co
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