Boston Boys Challenge Encroachment on the Common
Boston youths claim long held rights in the lower Common near Park Street despite a lumber yard and storehouse occupying the small boys playground. They vow to meet Mayor Collins on the issue, recalling past clashes with authorities and asserting their resolve to protect their historic concession. Acting Mayor Whelton refrains from comment awaiting Mayor Collins’s return.
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Boston
Collins
Gengage
Boston Common
Park Street
Mrs Tucker Sees Her Boy In Cambridge Jail Visit
Mrs Lacey A Tucker, mother of Charles L Tucker, travels weekly from Weston to East Cambridge to visit her son in a Third Street jail. She brings fruit and offers words of encouragement as he awaits trial for the Mabel Page murder.
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Cambridge
Pathy
Lacey A. Tucker
Charles L. Tucker
Weston
Commonwealth
Mabel Page
East Cambridge
Yong
Tucker
Robinson
Missing Girl’s Mother Fatally Worried in Lowell
Mrs. Susan D. Blaisdell mother of Nellie Blaisdell and Mrs. Charles Keefe lies between life and death at her Brown street home due to anxiety over her daughter’s mysterious disappearance after an evening theatre outing with Edgar Gordon. Frank Blaisdell returned from Brockton after a fruitless search, worsening her condition.
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Lowell
Susan D. Blaisdell
Charles Keefe
Nellie Blaisdell
Edgar Gordon
Brown Street
Hayden
Death Doubling Tragedy At Piedmont Street Home
In a South End apartment a married pair, Sam and Mrs. Forrester, died within 24 hours of each other after a hospital visit for pneumonia. Sam, a hatrack man at Hotel Thorndike, collapsed when told of his wife’s death and later died of heart disease. The couple was buried in a joint funeral with a wreath on their coffins.
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Piedmont Street
South End
Samuel Forrester
Sam Forrester
Thorndike
Sam
Lost roll in North End hotel theft
Dennis McLean of Arlington was robbed of 15 dollars in a North End hotel office yesterday after noon. Alexander J. McDonald and Philip J. Dwyer, both Harrison Avenue residents, were charged with the offense and held at Station 1. The clerk grappled with a suspect who kept the money and fled. a search failed to locate the cash.
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Dennis McLean
Arlington
North End
Station 1
Alexander J. McDonald
Harrison Avenue
Philip J. Dwyer
McLean
Somerville Society Women Stage Shaksperian Dream
Somerville’s Heptorean Club presents a three day Shakspere production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Unitarian Hall. Notable local women quartet lead roles with an extensive cast list and volunteer orchestra. performances set for March 22 to 24.
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Somerville
Unitarian Hall
Heptorean Club
Shakspere
Irving F. Symonds
J. 8.Lowell
A. ©. Aldrich
Buff
Elizabeth Crowe Hurt After Fall At Washington Street
Elizabeth Crowe of Washington Street was taken to the hospital by police today with severe internal injuries after she says she fell down a flight of stairs.
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Lynn
Elizabeth Crowe
Washington Street
Causes of divorce blamed on elopements and independence
In St. Louis on March 5 a group of prominent women shared views on the divorce evil. They cite factors such as elopements, modern independence, frivolous attitudes toward marriage, lax ceremony standards, influence of New York society, waning loyalty and respect for parental guidance, easy divorce laws, couples living with parents, hasty marriages, and marriages without true compatibility.
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ST. Louis
New York
Burglars Burn South Britain Store After Robbery
Burglars rifled the Mitchell Williams general store in South Britain Conn and set the building on fire after taking cash and items. The structure was destroyed in the blaze with an estimated loss of 6000 dollars. the robbers escaped.
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South Britain
Conn
Mitchell & Williams
Charles River Canoeists Prepare For Season
Waltham March 5 Preparations are planned to make the coming season one of the most interesting for canoeists on the Charles River A meeting of the Charles River Amusement Association will be held soon to consider plans The usual Sunday afternoon and Saturday evening band concerts will continue The association also proposes a series of float nights similar to the illumination night of 1903 at Fox Island
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Waltham
Charles River
Charles River Amusement Association
Fox Island
Straits Pond in Nantasket Frozen Solid Across
Nantasket March 6 Straits Pond a small water separating Nantasket from Cohasset and owned by Cohasset is completely frozen to the bottom forming a single ice mass All white perch and eels in the pond are frozen The depth varied from about a foot on the Nantasket side to six feet at the center and two feet on the Cohasset side
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Nantasket
Cohasset
Silk Bed Clothes Forsociety In Flesh Tinted Silk Sheets
London fashion today centers on silk bed clothes. Silk sheets and pillow cases must be flesh tinted and embroidered, a trend said to have Paris origin and spreading quickly as furnishing houses race to meet orders.
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London
Paris
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Temple Place
Somerville Society
Theseus
Egeus
Lysander
Aun
Ruth P. Capen Oberon
Edith Poole Titania
George H. Dresser Puck
C. R. Lowell
Jeannette Dawson
Gladys Hastings
Marion Hall
Bee Cigter
Margaret Durkee
Philip Lewis Fairles
J. A. Avery
Blanche Daniels
Emma Bates
Bemis
Smith
Coleman Tousey
Margery Armstrong
Aline Hanscom
John L. Nichols
Bella ©. Porter
Notman
Ruth P. Capen
Helena
Heptorean Club Dramatics
Beulah A. Hanscom
Heptorean Club of
Gilchrist
Smallwares
Cssccee
Clinton
Cory
John English
Dressmakers
Prussia
Hose
Lisle
Riga
Castoria Morintacts
Ciidren
New England
Hartz Mountain Canaries
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