Identify the Boston Post photo driver for $5 reward
A Post photo near the South End invites the driver to prove the team's identity at the City Editor's office to collect five dollars in gold. Be cas Fennessey of 235 Dudley street Roxbury owned the horse and wagon named Bill and identified himself as driver.
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Be Cas Fennessey
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Fennessey
Bill
Chelsea H. S. Graduates Read Painstaking Papers
The Chel sea High School graduation exercises were held in the school hall with about 5000 relatives and friends in attendance. Rudolph F. Zecha gave the salutatory on The Significance of Our Polar Achievement, while Helen R. Choate delivered the valedictory on Certain Phases of Indian Music. Benjamin Cohen spoke on The Universal Heroine and Elizabeth Atwood presented The Whimsical and Quaint in Our Literature. Hibbard S. Busby addressed undergraduates on The Benefit of Literary Culture to the Business Man. Samuel Barron read an astronomical paper and Osbourne McConathy supervised the musical numbers. Diplomas were awarded by Alton B. Briggs, who urged the girls to be womanly and the boys to be honest.
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Chelsea High School
Rudolph F. Zecha
Helen R. Choate
Benjamin Cohen
Elizabeth Atwood
Hibbard S. Busby
Samuel Barron
Osbourne McConathy
Alton BE. Briggs
Board of Control
Federal parole bill agreed to by House
The federal parole bill, settled in conference, was agreed to by the House. It would permit parole of any prisoner in a United States penitentiary or prison who has served a third of his term and who has a good record.
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Washington
House
United States
Panama Hat Bargain Sparks Shopper’s Quick Pick
A shopper in Wolf's hat department learned a Panama hat cost 3.50, cheaper than a rival store asking 5.00. He grabbed the hat quickly after confirming the price, noting his regular patronage.
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Wolf's
Hanover
Portland
Seven Acquittals End Case Against Seven Defendants
In a dramatic Massachusetts trial, Judge Stevens directed a not guilty verdict for all seven defendants led by Elmore and Tupper. The district attorney defended actions citing the need to uncover truth while resisting further harm to Hattie La Blanc, who was not brought to testify. The court stressed no further prosecutions for these defendants on the same charge.
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Mr. Tupper
Elmore
Tupper
Melvin M. Johnson
Hattie la Blanc
Stevens
Hattie
Bartlett
Augustin J. Daly
Higgins
Mrs. Glover
Himore
Hattie LaBlanc
Glover House
Commonwealth
Clarence Glover
Johnson
Massachusetts
Search Made for Missing Steamer Trieste
The Austrian Lloyd steamer Trieste, sailing from Trieste to Bombay June 4, is four days overdue at Bombay. The company has ordered the steamer Silesia to sea to search for her. Last report had the Trieste arriving Aden on June 14.
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Bombay
Trieste
Silesia
Aden
Graft Trial Testimony Details Bribery Over Fire Chief Removal
In Salem on June 24 ex Aldermen testified in the Samuel Kress graft case. Kress allegedly offered $1000 to vote for Fire Chief Hamilton's removal, tried to shove cash to Woekel who discarded it. Woekel said half the money was his and half the mayor's. Legendre admitted a $500 payment for a fire department appointment. Witnesses described seeing large rolls of bills as the removal debate continued. The court adjourned, aiming to finish Kress' case soon.
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Salem
Lawrence
Samuel Kress
Hamilton
Carl Woekel
Kress
Woekel
White’s
Legendre
Hopkins
Fire Department
Brookline Nuptials For Ruth Winsor and Hugh Minturn
Miss Ruth Winsor daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Winsor will wed Hugh Minturn this afternoon at four in First Church Brookline with Rev William Lyon officiating. Bridesmaids Adelaide Jackson Barbara Burr and Louisa Coolidge, best man Charles E Perkins. Reception follows at the Winsor estate on Walnut Street.
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Ruth Winsor
Alfred Winsor
Hugh Minturn
William Lyon
Brookline
Winsor
Boston
Vincent Club
Adelaide Jackson
Barbara Burr
Louisa Coolidge
Robert W. Minturn
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Charles E. Perkins
Walnut Street
Mayor Names C. B. Perkins to Schoolhouse Commission
Mayor Fitzgerald reshuffles the Schoolhouse Commission appointing architect Charles Bruen Perkins of Jamaica Plain after Edward R. Gregory resigns. The move follows a deal with the Civil Service Commission to place an architect on the board, amid questions about Charles Logue. Perkins, from an old Boston family, was born in Florence and is Harvard 1883 graduate.
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Civil Service Commission
Schoolhouse Commission
Edward R. Gregory
Fitzgerald
Charles Bruen Perkins
Perkins Street
Jamaica Plain
Ashburton Place
Charles Logue
Dudley
Perkins
Boston
Florence
Italy
St. Paul's School
Harvard
The Call of the Hills Ends With a Quiet Farewell
A mountain girl confronts a life of toil and longing as she asks her lover to leave for a new life with another teacher. Moonlit hills, hard work, and the lure of books shape a final goodbye between lovers in this rural romance teaser.
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Lucretia Dunham Clapp
the Post Publishing Co
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Riad
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