Lewis Sighted in Winthrop Fails to Draw Meeting
Ex chairman O B Lewis called a public meeting to celebrate a completed boulevard and sea wall, but no one appeared as rain dampened enthusiasm. He has since washed his hands of the affair, awaiting a zealous citizen to lead efforts while park commission plans for lighting advance and telephone poles are set for removal.
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Winthrop Beach
O. B. Lewis
Winthrop Board of Selectmen
Lewis
Metropolitan Park Commission
New Boulevard
Granite
Crest Avenue
Heaas
Winthrop
Boston
Board of Selectmen
Constitution Hall
Mr. Lewis
Post
Park Commission
Revere
Commission
City Board approves avenue betterment and tax raids
The Board of Street Commissioners approves $338 878 in betterments for the 352nd avenue extension, part of a $676 757 03 project funded by city. Deputy collector Samuel Hammond resigns. Kittredge C Atwood named to Ward 16 Republican committee chair. City Collector Guild reportedly deducts poll taxes from printing plant workers, and raid on assessor's department recovers older taxes.
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Ington Avenue
Board of Street Commissioners
Samuel Hammond
Kittredge C. Atwood
Republican Committee
Tax Suit Seeks 15000 Franchise Tax on Pipe Line Stock
In the equity session before Judge Hammond the Massachusetts Pipe Line and Gas Company faced an Attorney General Knowlton suit to compel payment of a 15000 franchise tax on 1 million dollars of stock issued under legislative authority. The judge reserved the decision for the full bench. The attorney general argues the stock issued under the act of the Legislature is taxable.
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Supreme Court
Hammond
Knowlton
Massachusetts Pipe Line and Gas Company
Ings
New Cambridge Bridge Moves Toward Reality
Cambridge officials reported bids opened for mason and stone work on the new bridge replacing the West Boston span. Mayor Champlin said construction may begin this summer if a nearby contractor lands the contract, with total cost around 2 million dollars. The bridge is expected to be the nation’s finest of its class.
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Cambridge Bridge Commission
Cambridge Bridge
Boston
Champlin
Cambridge
Double Suicide at New York Hotel Van Twiller
A man and a woman registered as Charles Duran and wife from Los Angeles killed themselves in their room at the Hotel Van Twiller on June 2. Found undressed in bed, each with a revolver. letters and a music sketch noting a joint fatal act, signed Charles Koch and Marie Duran, explain their choice to die together to avoid murder charges.
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New York
van Twiller
Twenty-fourth Street
Lexington Avenue
Charles,Duran
Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Koch
Marie Duran
Mary Duran
Windsor
Locks
Meriden
Conn
Charles Roch
Hartford
Com
Roberts Dispatch Reports Several Engagements in South Africa
Logi Roberts reports from Pretoria and Lindley describe June engagements with reinforced Boer forces. Casualties include 15 killed and 85 wounded across two columns, with Lt North reported missing and later cited as a prisoner. The convoy at Lindley reached safety after heavy rear-guard action, while Lindley, Ficksburg, Wachkop, Spitzkop, and Springs saw various maneuvers and captures including 8000 sheep and 600 cattle.
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London
War Office
Logi Roberts
Pretoria
Grenfell
Dreiper
Brabant
Ficksburg
Lindley
North
Hartford man commits death by own action in New York
Charles Koch, once proprietor of Koch's restaurant and cafe in Hartford, and May Duran of Windsor Locks, died by his own action at the Hotel Van Twiller in New York today. He left a wife and two children in Hartford. Koch had left town about two months earlier and his Hartford business was later attached for debt.
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Hartford
Conn
Charles Koch
May Duran
Windsor Locks
Tommy Riley Runs Away With Boy Named Hobskins
Eight year old Thomas Riley of Willow Street Waltham and his companion Joseph Hobskins of Adams Street Newton have been runaway from home since last Monday after Hobskins obtained a five dollar bill. They have been sleeping in a tent each night while evading their guardians.
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Thomas Riley
Joseph Hobskins
Young Hobskins
Young Riley
Willow Street
Waltham
Hobskins
Adams Street
Newton
Runaway boy Tommy Ryan found after few days
Little Tommy Ryan fled his home last Monday and wandered with Hobskins’s yard group. An officer spotted them near a tent Wednesday morning and sent Riley home by electric car, but Tommy walked back to Newton. He was located yesterday afternoon by a neighbor and returned to his mother. he says he does not want to run away again.
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Tommy Ryan
Hobskins
Riley
Newton
Britain Admits Neglect In South Africa Hospital Care
In Parliament's committee of supply debate on the army medical service subsidy, George Wyndham admitted neglect of the sick and wounded, but blamed distribution difficulties rather than supply shortages. He noted South Africa had ample hospital beds and substantial medical staff, and urged presenting the full view of supplying 75,000 troops on the march.
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London
House of Commons
Army Medical Service
South Africa
William L. Ashmead-Bartlett Bardett-Coutts
Westminster
War Office
George Wyndham
Natal
Cape Colony
Wyndham
S Burdett-Coutts
Cambridge Plans July 3 Celebration of Washington Flag Day
Cambridge officials finalize a July 3 program marking Washington's command tenure. Bells ring at dawn and noon, Elm ceremony at 2 16 p m, Sanders Theatre at 3 with Curtis Guild Jr ovation, band concerts on the Common, day and night fireworks, lanterns and lights in the evening. Tickets for Sanders Theatre are available from the city messenger at City Hall Monday or Tuesday morning.
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Washington
Washington Elm
Cambridge
Sanders Theatre
Curtis Guild,Jr
City Hall
Intrigue Sinks Lover From London to Front
London reports Lieutenant Cornwallis West, soon to wed Lady Randolph Churchill, has recovered from Boer War wounds and is ordered back to the front. The move, seen as family opposition by Mrs Cornwallis West and Princess Henry of Pless, delays the nuptials once more.
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London
Cornwallis-West
Lady Randolph Churchill
South Africa
Henry of
Pless
Maine
Lady ‘Randolph
Ohare
Cornwallis West
Princess of
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