Electric vehicle push backs bold campaign in Boston
Edison Illuminating hosts a banquet at the Thorndike signaling a vigorous publicity drive for electric vehicles. Leaders from Edison, Central Stations, and manufacturers outline cooperation plans, ads, garages, and an MIT inspection program to boost urban electric trucks and ranabouts.
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Edison Iluminating Company
Thorndike
United States
Charles
Edgar
Edison Illuminating Company
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
E. S. Mansfield
The
Edison Company
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Atlantic Avenue
William H. Blood
Stone & Webster Company
Electrical Vehicle Association of America
Mrs Stuart Wins Point in Note Suit
Mrs Susan M Stuart prevailed in a noted dispute over forged signatures tied to promissory notes. The Supreme Judicial Court allowed evidence suggesting her husband Willoughby H Stuart influenced promissory notes after their Europe trip, affecting notes totaling up to 277 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan M. Stuart
Willoughby H. Stuart
Boston
Supreme Judicial Court
Newton Centre Trust Company
Newton Centre Savings Bank
Stuart
Stuarts
Europe
A. Ahs Jewell
Erickson
Hook Night at MIT Draws Laughs and Local Digs
MIT students staged Hook Night in the Tech Union with audience judges pulling off acts with a floor hook. The highlight was a fake boxing bout by Kenney and Hall, with Hall losing a $50 000 purse per the referee.
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Students of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tech Union
Kenney
Hall
McSweeney Attacks Health Boards At Tuberculosis Conference
Edward F. McSweeney, chairman of the Consumptives Hospital trustees, declared that state health is anarchic and local boards are incompetent. He argued patients cannot be forced to remain in hospitals for treatment.
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Pasteur
State Board of Health
Silas H. Ayer
Boston
M. J. Cronin
Roxbury
Board of Health
Robert Treat Paine
George S. C. Badger
School Physicians’ Association
Durgin
Julian A. Mead
Ada PD. Sheffield
William B. Geoghegan
E. C. Stowell
William S. Boardman
Edward F. McSweeney
Consumptives Hospital
Twentieth Century Club
Boards of Health
Judge Hints At Quashing Beef Trust Indictments
Judge William L. Putnam of the United States Circuit Court signaled he might quash the recent indictments against New England rendering companies known as the beef trust. Defendants Sulzberger Heath Hapgood Reardon & Sons and Consolidated Rendering filed demurrers challenging the conspiracy charge as improperly stated. He asked US District Attorney French to submit a brief within two weeks outlining his views.
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William L. Putnam
United States Circuit
New England
Beef Trust
Ferdinand Sulzberger
New York
Horatio W. Heath
Boston
Consolidated Rendering Company
Cyruss. Hapgood
New England Rendering Company
John F. Reardon & Sons Company
Cambridge
Putnam
United States District Attorney
French
Waterman Addresses Beta Theta Pi Banquet on Lawyers and Mob
Lewis A Waterman former Rhode Island governor candidate speaks at the 380th annual New England Beta Theta Pi banquet held at the Ven dome hotel He argues lawyers today serve clients large corporations not public interests and warns that fear of the mob equals fear of popular government The event drew 105 fraternity members with speakers from Brown Amherst Johns Hopkins and St Lawrence universities
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Lewis A. Waterman
Rhode Island
Hotel Vendome
New England Association of the Beta Theta Pi
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Edward H. Pierce
Brown
Richard B. Scandrett
Amherst
John E. Clarke
Boston
Robert P. Bigelow
Johns Hopkins
Clarence L. Newton
Wesleyan
Owen D. Young
St. Lawrence
One Der Signature Cure Ad For Bromo Quinine
A vintage advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine with the signature of FE. W. Grove claiming worldwide use to cure a cold in one der. 226c-.
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FE. W. Grove
Deaths Stewart
Dr John A Stewart of 557 Dudley Street Roxbury died at 35 his oral services and interment at Johns Town New Yor
Field heirs and executors clash over vast fortune
In New York on March 3 a report ties the theft of diamonds from the Amerika to a broader dispute over the Field family fortune. Executors Arthur B. Jones and Chauncey Keep control the vast $200 million estate left to Marshall Field III Henry Field and Gwendolin Field, with Mrs. Drummond disputing guardianship and access to funds.
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New York
Maldwin Drummond
Marshall Field, Jr
Amerika
Drummonds
Marshall Field
Henry Field
Europe
Executors Bar Mrs Drummond From Sending Field Heirs Abroad
Merchants Loan and Trust of Chicago and lawyer William G. Beale dispute Marshall Field's will. Executors claim grandsons should be educated and raised as American, blocking Mrs. Drummond's plan to move children to England. They can withhold education and support funds until the boys reach 80, with Marshall Field 34 now about 17.
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Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company
Chicago
William G. Beale
Drummond
Maldwin Drummond
Marshall Field
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Douglas C. Jackson
American Association ‘of Electrical Engineers
Louis Ferguson
Commonwealth Edison Company of
Twe
Frank I. Dyer
Edison Storage Battery Company
Herbert Lloyd
Comany
Philadelphia
Robert McAllister Loyd
General Electric Company
Wughn Wilson
Electrical World
Charles W. Price
Historical Review
Atterbury Motor Truck Company
Robert Seymour
D. E. Gould
F. ©. Lindperfer
Gould Storage Battery Company
William Walker
Dr. Winship
W. 8. Gould
Anderson Carriage Company
N. Rommelfanger
Central Station
H. C. Cushing
C. B. Davis
Columbia Motor Car Company
George Strickland
Bates Advertising Company
C. D. Marsh
Philip Robbe
Electrical Review
General Vehicle Company
R. M. Lloyd
Louis Reprecht
Day Baker
Trow
Studebaker Brothers
George M. Studebaker
C. F. Redden
Kennedy
Hoison
Ite
Frank L. Dyer
Gh Bee
Harrison G. Thompson
Electric Storage Battery Company
Lloyd, Blizzard, Ford, Stone
John F. McClure
George A. Wardlaw
Electric Vehicle Society of America
W. H. Blood, Jr
W. K. Blodgett
D. B. Strickland
D. Cc. Jackson
Hugh M. Wilson
W. D. Weaver
Ww. Elliott
Electric Omnibus
S. Clampitt
Frank B. Rae
the Waverly Company
Wilbur C. Johnson
J. C. Henderson
Eastern
Dodge Couple Gear Freight Wheel Company
W. E. Eldridge
Automobile Maintenance & Manufacturing Company
J. A. Ferguson
J. W. Emery
Westinghouse Manufacturing & Electric Company
Barr, Brown
Lansden Company
J. M. Lansden
Frank
UCU Eos
G&j
Hartford
Morgan & Wright
Ravwletan Gten
Assails Health Boards
McSweeney
Dainties
Delicior
California
Henry Siegel Co
Washington and Essex Sts
Ienry Siegel CO
Orchestra
Charlotte Russe
United
Siegel
TCA
Utica Athletic
Madras
Boston, Mass
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