Dangerous Passing Prompts Sign On West End Road
The Post urges action on West End road crossings with poor paving and missing flags. City officials acknowledge unsafe crossings at Dover, Dudley, and other sites while noting paving constraints and time needed for repairs. Public calls for improved safety persist across Berkeley and nearby streets.
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Post
West End
Carter
Washington Street
Green
Washington
Boylston
Cobden Street
Dimock Street
Townsend Street
Valentine
Dale Street
Cedar Street
Roxbury
Guild Row
Dudley Street
Shawmut Avenue
Dangerous flagstone crossing on Dover Street and Tremont
Report cites costly stone flagging at Dover Tremont crossings costing about half a dollar per square foot. Officials note obligations to maintain street surfaces with city standards while rail lines face ragged flags at Columbus and Berkeley streets and other damaged sections.
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Dover Street
Tremont
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
Appleton Street
Gray
W R Howland Dies Noted Cambridge Official
William R. Howland a respected Cambridge citizen and city official died of typhoid fever at Cambridge Hospital. Born in Lynn on February 19, 1863 he attended Lynn High School and Harvard College before illness cut his studies. He later finished at Harvard Law School and practiced with Morse & Allen while serving Cambridge.
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William R. Howland
Cambridge
Lynn
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
Morse & Allen
Swindling Fireman Arrested for Ring Theft
Matthew F. Kelley of Engine Company No 26 was arrested after posing as deputized to select a diamond ring for Captain John E. Ryan. He took a $100 diamond ring and a $6 gold ring from Wilson Bros. on Tremont row and fled. police later detained him at Station 2. Kelley is 25 and resides at 58 Spring street.
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Matthew F. Kelley
Engine Company No. 26
Kelley
Wilson Bros
Tremont Row
Firemans
John E. Ryan
Spring Street
Second Sunday Concert Delights Crowds on the Common
A large audience filled the Common for Baldwin's Band in the second Sunday concert. Out of town visitors joined locals as Thomas Mullaly on cornet and Frank Fiala on baritone drew strong applause before the uplifting finale Unter Donner and Blitz.
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Baldwin
Boston
Thomas Mullaly
Frank Fiala
Portland Man Fatally Crushed By Freight Train
Charles McGreggor of Portland Maine was run over by a freight train at knee land street station. His legs were severed and his right hand badly cut. He was found moaning under a shed roof by a train worker before 11 pm and taken to City Hospital. He is 53 and expected to die.
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Charles McGreggor
Portland
Boston & Alleany
Kneeland Street
McGreggor
Davis Street
Tufts Boys in Trouble Over Unpaid Tufts Annual
Willard Martin Jr of Plainfield Vermont and Charles G Kipp of New York City were arrested Friday as part of the Rapid Printing Company suit against Tufts College senior class for money claimed to be due for printing the Tufts Annual. Judgment had been rendered in favor of the printer, and the arrests aim to prevent the collegians from leaving the state.
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Tufts College
Willard Martin, Jr
Plainfield
Charles G. Kipp
New York City
Rapid Printing Company
Tufts
Cassidy Hurt In Pole Fall Not Edward Jones
A Lynn lineman reported Friday to have fallen twenty five feet from a pole was not Edward Jones but an employee named Cassidy. The accident details clarify the injured worker's identity.
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Lynn
Edward Jones
Cassidy
Preparations for Farragut statue unveil in Marine Park
The Farragut statue unveiling in Marine Park proceeds with Miss Annie Flood to pull the drapery cord, revealing the bronze figure. Alderman Flood, honored for the project, led the effort with many organizations planning open houses. Naval ships may attend, Governor Russell was briefly omitted from invitations, and arrival timing hinges on Harvard commencement.
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Farragut
Annie Flood
Thomas W. Flood
Alderman Flood
Marine Park
San Francisco
Marshal Eddick
Russall
Dalton
Marshal Ruddick
Russell Will Tod
Harvard
Farragut Statue Celebration Committee Forms Plans at Bethesda
A special meeting of the citizens' committee on the Farragut statue celebration met at Bethesda building yesterday. Members approved appointing groups to seek higher city funding, finance, and supplies while detailing school children participation with a forty four girl float and a guard of forty four boys.
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Citizens’ Committee
Farragut
Bethesda
Matthews
P. F E. Corbett
Frank H. Hinman
W. J. McDermott
C. B. Bell
Fast Sprinters Set for Columbian 100 Yard Championship
On Sunday July 16 the Columbian 100 yard sprinting title for the all America championship will be run in Chicago. The winner takes all stake money with gate receipts split 50 30 20 among first, second and third. Entries include Dan Budd B J Coyne James Collins Eddie Donovan Stew Farrell C A Kensey Alex Gott H W Keptenger M M Makeever T C Morris and Jim Quirk.
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Chicago
Dan Budd
B. J. Coyne
James
Cuckoo) Collins
Eddie
Piper) Donovan
Stew Farrell
C. A. Kensey
Alex Gott
H. W. Keptenger
M. M. Makeever
T. C. Morris
Jim Quirk
Dartmouth baccalaureate sermon on wealth and virtue
President-elect William J. Tucker delivered Dartmouth College's baccalaureate urging that wealth must be guided by moral purpose. He warned against rich profligates and stressed self control, sacrifice, and the need for heroes in reserve to direct money toward beneficent ends.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
William J. Tucker
Burglary Strikes William Levi House on Wall Street
Burglars entered the dwelling of William Levi at 4 Wall Street late Saturday night through a rear window and took about six silver spoons and twelve plated spoons valued at $16.
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William Levi
Wall Street
Along the Water Front
Townsend the diver lays a cable from Eidison station to South Boston shore drawing a crowd beneath the Congress street bridge. Santuit the Norwegian fruiter brings in 23 000 banana bunches green on a record cargo. Soule & Son advance a fireproof Constitution wharf storage building with 70 by 200 by 70 feet dimensions and electric power.
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Townsend
Eidison Electric
Atlantic Avenue
South Point Channel
South Boston
Congress Street Bridge
Santuit
Sturgess
Boston
JL. P. Soule & Son
Constitution Wharf
Commercial Street
Constitution Wharf Company
C. S. Dennis
United States
John Ss. Clark
Pearl Street Landing
Enterprise
North
Chelsea
Tragic rail accidents claim two at Haverhill station
Thomas Slattery, 30, a local shoemaker from Arlington, was killed at the Boston and Maine station when crushed by a moving freight train. James Sauler, 30, an Italian, lost his left leg below the knee after falling while attempting to board a train at the Washington Street crossing. he was hospitalized.
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Haverhill
Thomas Slattery
Boston & Maine Railroad
Arlington
Mass
James Sauler
Lawrence
Washington Street
City
Drowned man in Nichols Pond near Haverhill
Horace Sawyer aged 65 drowned while bathing in Nichols Pond in Haverhill's east section. Though water was not deep, heart trouble is suspected. He formerly lived in Fair Haven and had recently moved to Haverhill. He leaves a daughter and a son, who attends college in Brunswick, Maine.
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Haverhill
Horace Sawyer
Nichols Pond
Fair Haven
Brunswick
Burial of Mrs Godwin in Bar Harbor from Roslyn plans
The remains of Mrs. Godwin wife of Parke Godwin of New York were interred at his Bar Harbor residence after an Episcopal funeral attended by prominent cottagers. She had suffered from a long illness and died Friday morning. the body will be moved to Ellsworth for a receiving vault before burial in Roslyn in the fall.
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Bar Harbor
Car Fire Destroys Goods Bound for Washington Mill Co
A car on the Boston & Maine line at Belchertown burned this forenoon. It carried four cases of goods six crates of yarn and twenty two bags of wool waste consigned to the Washington Mill Company Lawrence Massachusetts by D McTaggart South Coventry Connecticut. Fire started by spontaneous combustion in the waste. Loss about 10000 dollars.
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Palmer
Washington Mill Company
Lawrence
Muass
D. McTaggart
Coventry
Conn
Boston & Maine
Belchertown
Daniel P. Maynes
Margaret Maynes
Benjamin F. Bean
Norfolk
Charles F. Syferman
School Street
West Roxbury
Boston
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
A. H. Moses
Qviz
Benjamin FP
Bean
Kate L., Supferman Hoyse
Kate L. Syfferman
Charles I’. Sufferman
Millett & Foster
State St
Burglary Hits McManus Clothing Store in Fall River
In Fall River on June 25 the Michael McManus shop on South Main street was entered through a skylight at the rear. Thieves stole about 309 dollars of merchandise using a heavy pole to gain entry and exit. A similar burglary at the same store occurred years ago.
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Fall River
Michael McManus
South Main Street
Death of Northboro Resident Mr Moses Hildreth
Northboro reports the sudden death of Moses Hildreth at his home. He was the brother of the late Hon Milo Hildreth, who recently died in Portland, Missouri.
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Northboro
Moses Hildreth
Milo Hildreth
Portland
Fire at Hampden Street residence causes minor damage
Box 212 rung at 9 34 p m yesterday for a slight blaze on the second floor of 66 Hampden street occupied by Thomas Toy. No damage reported. Cause listed as upset kerosene lamp.
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Hampden Street
Thomas Toy
Corcoran Arrested for $5000 Theft from Furriers
John Corcoran of Mamaroneck, a book-keeper for G. G. Gunther & Sons furriers in New York, has been arrested on charges of stealing 5000 dollars from the firm.
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New York
John Corcoran
Mamaroneck
G. Gunther & Sons, Furriers
Weddings in Cambridge and nearby towns on June 21
Multiple marriage notices dated June 21 list couples including George Winthrop Hyde with Lucy Annie Bronson in Cambridge, Keating with Hussey in the Cathedral Chapel, Clara Lee Wooster with George H Merrill in Hartford area, James Herbert Ruggles with Sarah Elizabeth Bere in Roxbury, and Andrew W H Restall with Mary Restall in Everett.
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Seymour
Conn
George Herbert Merrill
Cambridge
Mass
Ruggles—Bere
Roxbury
Philo W.renga
Charlestown
James Herbert Ruggles
Sarah Elizabeth Bere
Restall
Everett
E. Pitts
Andrew W. H. Restall
Chelsea
Mary Restall
Sick Baby Fund Big Day Sparks Fourth of July Giving
The Sick Baby Fund in Cambridge sees significant donations as children and workers contribute. Readers describe efforts to help Boston's sick babies, with Freddie and Marion sending their Fourth money and Gertrude of Beachmont sending a dollar. The Post urges continued support to push the weekly total toward a historic milestone.
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Oscar
Lillie Larkelle
John Flynn
J. J. Fenton Tooterr
P. H. Fenton Beeeteue
Si Dobbins
Griff Williams Fe
Joan J. Conroy
M. C. Gould
WSSU
Goers
THE
Boston Post
Cc. H. Ui
J. T. Ewe Sues
Arthur Bean
Ciuaaseve
Tom McCoy
Gordon
William Allen
Csscauee
Mildred and
Robert
Joseph D. Martin
Luther Bond
Baby Gertrude
Brow Miter
Freddie
Marion
Eeene Tous
Cssk
Peeetoe
Boston
Milford
Cambridge
Gertrude
Beachmont
E Fund
the Post
No Money for Medicine in Cushman Tenement
A Cushman avenue mother, sewing beside a doctor and reporter, pleads for medicine for her sick child. The husband is ill and earns little peddling, while she finishes trousers at 10 cents a pair to feed four children.
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the Post
Cushman Avenue
Post
Free Excursion for Poor Hebrew Children Pub-Boston
The New England Courier plans a moon light excursion to Lovell's Grove on Saturday July 8 aboard the barge Clifford leaving at 5 p m to raise funds for poor Hebrew children. A pavilion dance and night in Venice illumination are planned with a side contest awarding a $500 piano to Boston's most popular Hebrew lady. The piano is on display at the New England Piano Company showroom 200 Tremont Street Boston.
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Boston
New England Courier
Lovell’s Grove
Clifford
Venice
New England Piano Company
Tremont Street
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Chandler
Merrimac
Roxbury Street
Northampton Street
Warren Avenue
W. R. Howland
OF Jones
A. M. McPhail Piano
Kremont Stheut
Annie E. Flood
Admiral Farragut
Dartmouth
Elsie
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Cannan
Boston Highlands
Mary
Thomas Cannan
Canfield
Somerville
Selina J. Tr
John B. Canfield
Harrub
DePedester
Darius Harrub
Halil
Nantasket
D. Frank Hall
Roxury
Sarah A. Mutrie
Porter
Catherine A. Porter
Presyton
Meran
Austria
Daniel Swin Preston
John
Sarah Ann Preston
Seiberlich
National City
Cal
Tune
McCarry & CO
Sick Baby Fund
Henchman Street
Children’s Hospital
Lee
Columbus Av
Mmusic
AUB
E. H. Lansing
Catarret
Lansing Institute
Ccoook Remedy CO
Boylston Bldg
Cor
Waar
Boston Mass
Oytaton Sts
Boston Wharf
Boston Post Office
Joseph B. Russel
Newtonville
Hamilton St
Loos Washburn Credit House
Washington ST
Jerdon, Marsh & Cr
Roxbury Cycle CO
Berkeley St
Columbia
Foot
D. Latimer
Jatriarchs Militant
Segion
Shawmutav
Barter & Seavey
Seaver St
Egleston Sq
AlLi
Roston
Hayward Place
Globe Theatre
Boyle Bros
Arl
Artner
Portland Screen CO
School St
Porter Screen CO
East Cambridge
Udley St
Cit Basters
Hawley St
Macallar
Rockingham House
Market St
Portsmouth
N. HW
J. C. Carr
ES Oston High
Mt. Vieasant St
Winchester
WM. T. Way
Court St
A. Kk
Andrews
Shierife
Suffolk
Coldwell Bros
Chardon Street
Joseph VP. Silsby
Lowell
Ames Building
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