Smuggled Jewels Hidden in a Paris to New York Cover
A detective recounts tracking a jewel smuggling ring from Paris to New York aboard a liner. The professor and his daughter are suspected. clues arise from the daughter’s fear and the professor’s reading of Les Miserables. Jewels are found tucked inside a silk bag behind sewn pages.
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Paris
Hadaway
New York
France
Customs Department
Professor
Née
Jean Valjean
Marconi
New York City
Life of a Pimple Promises Skin Cure via Possum Lotion
An advertisement touts possum a new skin lotion available as a fifty cent box through Riker Jaynes and other druggists. It claims to cure eczema acne blotches and itching with one application and offers a free experimental package by mail from Emergency Laboratories New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riker-Jaynes
Houghton & Dutton’s
West Twenty-fifth Street
New York
Post Letter Box Praises Sunday Post Posters
To the Editor the writer from Dorchester lauds the Sunday Post poster pictures as the best ever and requests more of them. The brief correspondence is signed by J. S. Keeler of 8 Monadnock Street.
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Post
Sunday Post
J. S. Keeler
Monadnock Street
Dorchester
Calls for a Leader Letter to the Editor
A reader urges a decisive civic revival, asking where major reform groups and famed public figures are. He criticizes the political climate as worse than Bryan and Williams and calls for a strong, independent voice to clear the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Free Trade League
Massachusetts Reform Club
Websters
Choates
Winthrops
Bryan
Williams
George T. Hollis
Urges Protection for Fishermen Against Dory Dangers
A letter from Be. A. Fowler of Winthrop urges ship owners to safeguard trawlermen. He calls for dories to carry a week's condensed food, ample water, fog horn, compass, red flare lights, a daylight signal, and a flag, noting a law requiring captains could reduce Gloucester’s death toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
BE. A. Fowler
Brown-tail Rash Healed by X Zalia Liquid
A medical advisory states applying X Zalia liquid thoroughly to a brown tail rash will stop itching remove poison and heal the skin. The claim suggests immediate relief though medical guidance is advised.
West Somerville Couple Celebrates 65th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs John T Jardine of 21 Chandler Street West Somerville celebrate their 65th anniversary after a long marriage begun in St John New Brunswick on June 29 1854. He born September 25 1829 in New Annon PEI and she born in 1834 in New York City. The couple have 10 living children 22 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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John T. Jardine
Chandler Street
West Somerville
St. John, N. B
William Smithson
Mr. Jardine
New Annon
Jardine
Emily Storey
New York City
St. John
Grandmas and a Pennant Yearn for the Grandstand
A verse by Walt Mason from 1909 jokes about bereavement and baseball, noting multiple grandmothers dying in relation to games. The narrator urges mourning while the baseball team aims for a pennant, contrasting solemn rites with a lively grandstand atmosphere.
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Minnepaul
Walt Mason
Board of Education Names Terms and Members
The Board of Education names its term end date as May 1, 1911. Named members include Thomas B. Fitzpatrick of Brookline Professor Paul H. Hanns of Harvard Cambridge and Professor Levi B Conant of Worcester.
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Thomas B. Fitzpatrick
Brookline
Paul H. Hanns
Harvard
Cambridge
Levi B. Conant
Worcester
Frees Father From Asylum After Court Order
Mrs Ada Crocker wins a habeas corpus case freeing John Cady, former Chelsea shoe dealer, from Danvers Institution for the Insane. Judge Morton orders release. Cady says he was never insane and blames his son for confinement. He is now at Crockers home in Revere.
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Ada Crocker
John Cady
Chelsea
Danvers Institution For
Morton
Supreme Court
Mr. Cady
Mrs. Crocker
Notable residents listed for community event
Clinton Q. Richmond of North Adams Miss Sarah L. Arnold of Newton Simeon F. Chase of Fall River Frederick P. Fish of Brookline The Rev. Frederic W. Hamilton of Somerville Mrs. Ella Lyman Cabot of Boston named among attendees for the city gathering.
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Clinton Q. Richmond
North Adams
Sarah L. Arnold
Newton
Simeon F. Chase
Fall River
Frederick P. Fish
Brookline
Frederic W. Hamilton
Somerville
Ella Lyman Cabot
Boston
Draper Sets New Board to Back Industrial Education Policy
Governor Draper settles a long running dispute by forming a new education board aimed at industrial training for trades. The panel includes four former Board of Education members Fitzpatrick Richmond Fish and Mrs Cabot, with George Aldrich and Rev. A E Winship among other selections. Ex president Eliot of Harvard declined an appointment. The move abolishes the old commissions and aligns with Draper’s view that practical trade training should begin in youth.
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Draper
Hanus
Commission On Industrial Education
Board of Education
Industrial Commission
Messrs. Fitzpatrick
Richmond
Fish
Cabot
George S. Aldrich
Newton
A. E. Winship
Somerville
George H. Martin
Eliot
Harvard
Daughters to Share Equally
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the three daughters of Charles B. Cummings share equally in his estate. Before his death in 1907 he intended to give about 84 000 dollars to his daughters with Gertrude receiving one half and the others split. Gertrude kept income and paid halves to Mary and Louise. executors dispute.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Charles B. Cummings
Boston
Jamaica Plain
Mary H. Perry
M. Louise Bradford
Gertrude
Cummings
Moran
Yale Will Greet Taft at Commencement
June 29 New Haven Conn Ausmni day at Yale featured unusual gatherings with two memorial tablets unveiled in Memorial Hall and word of a Cornelius Vanderbilt memorial fund for Dean Wright. Tomorrow President Taft will attend the commencement in Woolsey Hall as a fellow of the corporation and march with fellow corps.
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New Haven. Conn
Yale
Memorial Hall
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Dean Wright
Taft
Woolsey Hall
Corporation
Girl Flee Hospital After 18 Foot Drop
Miss Myrtle Armstrong, a Gloucester hospital patient, escaped in delirium and leaped 18 feet from a second story window. She ran through central streets before being recaptured by authorities.
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Gloucester
Myrtle Armstrong
Recipes of New England Housewives on Sunday Post page
A collection of home kitchen notes from readers including custard pie method with butter sugar flour eggs milk vanilla and a gelatine fruit mold. breakfast rolls from bread dough fried like doughnuts. baked cornmeal cakes. crisp toast with poached eggs in swirling salted water. Readership names: Mrs H B Sawyer Mrs Herbert C Wood Marie I Flinn Miss Anna Lowe Emily A Weisner.
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H. B. Sawyer
Boston
Herbert C. Wood
Coolidge Road
Allston
Marie I
FLINN
Lafayette Street
St. Johnsbury
Emily A. Weisner
Vernon Street
Waltham
Italian group to dedicate new camp in North Billerica
The Columbus Associates of the North End plan an open house and dedication on July 4 for a newly purchased camp on the banks of the Sudbury River in North Billerica. The event marks the organization's expansion and community presence.
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North Billerica
Columbus Associates of
North End
Sudbury River
Captain Albers of Hamburg American remembered as sea master
Captain A Albers of the Ba denia, Hamburg American line, born in Hamburg 47 years ago, rose from boy seaman to master. He recalls iceberg dangers with notes on submerged “feelers” and recalls a voyage near the Belle Isle Strait where two large bergs bore white bears prompting a detour around Cape Race into the St Lawrence Sound.
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A. Albers
Badenia
Betwen
Baltimore
Hamburg
Albers
Hamburg-American Line
Montreal
Belle Isle Strait
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Sst
Lawrence Sound
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Chandler & Co
Panama
Liberty
the Post
The
Bessie D. Ducey
Devonshire Street
Jacobs, Whitcomb & Co
Kilby Street
Federal Street
Winthrop
Hazel Hotchkiss
Walt
George Matthew Adams
Names Board OF Education
GOV. Draper’s New
Winship
Aldrich
Jordan Maria Co
New England
Orange Charlotte
Alabama
Anna Lowe
Lyman Street
Happy Returns
Miss Champagne
A. Albers Badenia
Hamburg- American Line
Uaragraph
Vann
Remington
Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated
Franklin Street
Mass
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