Hisses greet Dr Peters as dog license bill faces defeat
The committee hearing on Dr Austin Peters's dog license bill drew hisses and groans as opponents urged that fees rise to 8 or 10 dollars. Peters defended the measure while critics argued dogs are essential and the law not enforced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Peters
Cattle Bureau
Committee On Agriculture
Peters
Prouty
Spencer
State House
Dr. Peters
Channing H. Cox
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
American Humane Society
Mr. Peters
Massachusetts
West
R R Franchises May Be Taxed
Concord New Hampshire March 5 Attorney General Eastman says the state may tax railroad franchises but doubles taxation limits apply. Senate passes House pure food bill and liquor sales prohibition in no license towns. Gray squirrel killing banned until 1913 Jamestown Day declared a legal holiday April 13 1907. Labor committee reports 58 hour work week for women and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N. H
E. G. Eastman
Senate
House
Committee On Labor
Addicks Property Sold to Satisfy Judgment
United States Marshal Flinn sold several J Edward Addicks properties in Wilmington to satisfy a $64 900 judgment held by Charles Hinchman of Camden New Jersey. The sale included three farms and a mill and was completed today.
Fitzgerald to Protest Sale of Sound Lines
Mayor Fitzgerald and a committee from the Boston Merchants' Association will meet President Mellen of the New Haven road at South Station at 2 o clock today to protest the sale of the Sound lines to Morse interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Sound Lines
Boston Merchants’ Association
Mellen
New Haven Road
Morse
New Child Vaccination Bill Passed To Third Reading
The committee on public health reports a greatly revised vaccination bill that limits physician exemptions and requires causes for exemption. Representatives Nash and Coleman condemned the measure as unjust while Griswold defended it with Dr. Oliver present.
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Committee On Public Health
Harrington
State Board of Health
Nash
Hanover
Coleman
Nantucket
Griswold
Greenfield
Oliver
Athol
Father vows to find daughter missing in Nashua
Benjamin Legee of Richardson street Brigh ton says he will go to Nashua today to locate his 18 year old daughter Maud who vanished from home February 27 after saying she was on an errand. The girl left with a young man who had courted her for about six months and is believed detained against her wishes. The girl's brother reportedly learned a clue in Nashua yesterday as the father speaks of bringing her back home.
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Maud
Nashua
N. H
Benjamin Legee
Richardson Street
Brighton
Clerk Chapin Recovers Stolen Thermometer
Somerville Police Court clerk Herbert A Chapin had a thermometer stolen from his home on Walnut Street returned after a week. Lieutenant Carter and Inspector Damery recovered it while pursuing property tied to William E Miller, accused of stealing city record boxes from Perham's express awaiting grand jury action.
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Clerk Chapin
Herbert A. Chapin
Somerville
Walnut Street
Carter
Damery
William E. Miller
Grand Jury
Perham’s Express
Mrs Dan Hanna Sues Husband for Divorce in Cleveland
Elizabeth Gordon Hanna sues Dan R. Hanna in Common Pleas Court for divorce alleging gross neglect abandonment and extreme cruelty. She seeks alimony and custody of their five year old daughter Elizabeth. The suit, sworn in New York, notes Hanna's multiple marriages and links to Charles W. Gordon, founder of Gordon Park in Cleveland.
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Cleveland, O
Common Pleas Court
Elizabeth Gordon Hanna
Dan R. Hanna
Hanna
Walter de S. Maud
Dan Hanna
May Harrington
New York City
Charles W. Gordon
City of Cleveland
Gordon Park
Pensioned After Thirty Six Years with Boston Elevated
Thom as Swan of 246 Cypress Street Brookline retires after 36 years service with the Boston Elevated railroad. He began in 1871 with the West End street railroad, spent 25 years in Brookline, and until retirement acted as switchman after losing hearing last year. He is 54 and plans travel and quiet years with pipe and newspapers.
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Thomas Swan
Cypress Street
Brookline
Boston Elevated Railroad
Swan
Old West End Street Railroad
Sinn Fein movement defended by supporters in Boston meeting
In response to a denunciation of Bulmer Hobson of Belfast Irish supporters at a United Irish League event in Boston issued a statement outlining Sinn Fein goals. It requests self reliance for Ireland, resistance to English rule, and the establishment of a central Irish legislature while boosting Irish industry and American support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulmer Hobson
Belfast
Ireland
United Irish League R
American House
Hobson
Faneuil Hall
Sinn Fein
England
America
Republic
United States
Officers of steamship rewarded for bravery
Captain Nelson of the Pacific mail steamer City of Panama received an autographed photograph of President Roosevelt while Second Officer Mother and Quartermaster Thomas Brown were awarded medals for bravery at sea. In a heavy gale on December 31 they manned a boat and rescued the third officer, boatswain and three seamen swept overboard. The President sent his photo to Nelson and passengers funded the medals.
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San Francisco
Nelson
Pacific Mail
City of Panama
Roosevelt
Thomas Brown
Modeer
Brown
Texas Traction Co Applies for $2 Million Mortgage in Boston
The Texas Traction Company building an interurban line between Sherman and Dallas filed a charter mortgage and deed of trust with the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston for $2,000,000. The mortgage allows issuing up to $1,000,000 more in bonds to cover obligations and construction of the line and future extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman, Tex
Texas Traction Company
Sherman
Dallas
Old Colony Trust Company
Boston
Mass
Texas Company
Divorce Granted Nisi 25 Years Later Made Absolute
Carlos G. Monroe learned the decree nisi from 1882 was never made absolute. The case, long off the Supreme Court docket, reopened before Judge Braley and the divorce was made absolute. Both parties had remarried since the decree, unaware the marriage was still legally binding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos G. Monroe
Supreme Court
Braley
Men Walk 15 Miles Over Sea From Pictou Island Stranded
Forty passengers aboard the government steamer Stanley, including a theatre troupe and the Abegweit hockey team, are marooned on Pictou Island after the vessel broke through ice. The ship later moved to Georgetown, P E I, with sixty feet of rail damaged and plates dented. A group of fourteen lumbermen walked 15 miles to the mainland for aid.
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Charlotteville
Stanley
Pictou Island
Pictou
Georgetown
Class of 1906 English High School Banquet Held
Bursts of song and cheers filled Young's Hotel as the Class of 1906 English High School held its first annual banquet. Head Master Casey and assistants William Strong and Malcolm P Barrows spoke as principal guests and officers were elected at the business session: President Harold D Bornstein, vice president William E Gibbs, secretary treasurer Lindsly B Schell.
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English High School
Young's Hotel
Casey
William Strong
Malcolm P. Barrows
Harold D. Bornstein
William E. Gibbs
Lindsly B. Schell
Father John's Medicine Endorsed for Early Consumption Care
The Charity Organization of New York City emphasizes treating early consumption to repair waste and build strength. Physicians endorse Father John's Medicine for its food elements that aid throat and lung health, supporting its use for over 50 years in preventing consumption.
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Charity Organization
New York City
Father John
Forged check arrest hits young broker on State Street
Frank J. Long, 28, a State street broker, was arrested by Headquarters Inspectors Morrissey and Pierce for forging the name of Mrs. Winifred Clark of Dorchester on a $4000 check drawn on the Federal Loan & Trust Co. The alleged forgery involved treasurer David Bates and a $450 diamond purchase. Long, once affluent, lived in Newton Centre with wife Katherine Welch and two children. the case follows a report by the trust company that the $4000 check was worthless.
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Frank J. Long
State Street
Morrissey and Pierce
Winifred Clark
Blakeville Street
Dorchester
Federal Loan & Trust Company
Long
Katherine Welch
Thomas Welch
West Roxbury
Newton Centre
Frank A. Andrews
School Street
David Bates
Hamlin & Co
99. State Street
Bell
Child Dies After Burns at Home
Raymond Campbell aged 2 of 3 Jackson street Charles town died at Relief Hospital after being badly burned at his home Monday morning. He caught fire when his clothes touched a stove while playing in the parlor and suffered severe agony until his death yesterday morning despite medical efforts.
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Raymond Campbell
Jackson Street
Charlestown
Relief Hospital
Hope
Baron de Constant to Visit Pittsburg Inauguration
Paris March 5 Baron d Estournelles de Constant Senator from the Sarthe and French representative on The Hague arbitration tribunal has accepted an invitation to attend the Carnegie Institute inauguration at Pittsburg April 11 Paul Douner ex President of the Chamber of Deputies and Jules Clarette director of the Comedie Francaise also invited but not yet replying.
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Paris
Fashionable millinery debuts at Shuman Corner today
Shuman's Millinery Department showcases spring novelties for ladies including Bangkok and Panama hats. Panamas arrive unblocked in natural shape with prices from 5 to 12 dollars untrimmed and 6 to 20 trimmed. Bangkok hats are light with broad brims, priced 8 dollars untrimmed and 12 to 20 dollars trimmed.
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Shuman Corner
Bangkok
Panama
South America
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Hissed Peters
The
F. H. Osgood
Boston Terrier Club
G. M. Holden
D. T. Woodbury
Wakefield
Pasteur
Cox
Edward Gilmore
C. F. Haven
Edward H. Lathrop
Springfield
Lathrop
Dr. Frothingham
R. R
New Hampshire
Eastman
Brighton Maud
Back Bay
Oees Rey
Abtotrat
Austinz Peters
Cisten
Dausage
Pio
KANT
Brook
Line
Sinn Fein’ Movement
Nisi
Ingrain
Home Furnishers Association of Massachusetts
Gash Or Credit
Hawmut Furniture OO
Tremont St
Baron DE Constant
Pittsburg
Shuman’s
Wolf’s
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Waltham
Jewel
A. R. Grover
Ashington St
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