Missing Dorchester contractor feared foul play in horse trade
George S. Densmore a wealthy contractor residing at 106 Draper Street Dorchester has been missing since Tuesday night while headed to East Boston to buy a horse. Police and private detectives see a deliberate trap and possible robbery, noting he carried a large sum of money. He spoke of a horse deal last week and drew 100 dollars from the bank Saturday for a Sunday visit, then left Tuesday morning saying he would return late tonight. He was seen alone at his restaurant for supper.
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George S. Densmore
Draper Street
Dorchester
East Boston
Densmore
Boston
Leather workers strike across 108 cities in demand for higher wages
Chicago March 17. The executive board of the International Brotherhood of Leather Workers on horse goods orders a general strike involving about 4000 men in 108 cities. The walkout takes effect Monday and seeks wage increases and an eight hour day.
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Chicago
International Brotherhood of Leather Workers
Two Minute Cure for Cold in Head or Chest
A home remedy promotes Hyomei inhalation with hot water steam to clear sinuses and chest. The guide claims rapid relief, and that Hyomei, sold by Booth's Hyomei Co. for 50 cents or a full outfit for $1, cures catarrh and related symptoms.
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Booth’s
Hyomei Co
N. Y
Whose Child Is This Five Dollar Gold Piece Contest
A silent photo contest in South Boston features a noon snapshot of a schoolgirl. The Post offers a five dollar gold piece to the child pictured who appears at the City Editor’s office 275 Washington Street to claim the prize with a parent or adult present.
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South
Boston
Post
The
Greater Boston
Washington Street
Ten year old Anna O Connell's first St Patrick's Day in Charlestown
Anna O Connell aged 10 of 3 Lynde street Charlestown celebrated her first St Patrick's Day in the United States and called it her happiest. The city editor of the Post gave her a new five dollar gold piece as the original of yesterday's picture. She attends St Marys School in the fourth grade taught by Sister Mary Frances and her mother praised the Post's enterprise.
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St. Patrick's Day
Anna O'Connell
Lynde Street
Charlestown
The
Post
St. Mary's School
Mary Frances
Hall of Fame to Elect 26 Native 4 Foreign 8 Women
New York March 17 Electors will be shown a list May 1 to choose 26 native born, four foreign born men and eight women for bronze tablets. Notables include Poe Pocahontas Stowe Alcott Dix Winthrop Adams Blaine Calhoun Garfield Hancock Hop kins Judson Parker Simpson Wayland Hughes.
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New York
Hall of Fame
Edgar Allan Poe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisa M. Alcott
Alice Carey
Sarah Margaret Miller
Helen Hunt Jackson
Lydia H. Sigourney
Emma Willard
Abigail Adams
Dorothea Dix
Anna Hutchinson
Lucy Blackwell Stone
Martha Washington
Margaret T. Winthrop
Pocahontas Rolfe
George Bancroft
William Cullen Bryant
James Fenimore Cooper
William Lloyd Garrison
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Lothrop Motley
Francis Parkman
Wendell Phillips
William H. Prescott
Noah Webster
Phillips Brooks
Horace Bushnell
Timothy Dwight
Mark Hopkins
Adoniram Judson
Theodore Parker
Matthew Simpson
Francis Wayland
George Rogers Clark
Nathan Hale
Nathaniel Greene
Stephen Decatur
Thomas J
Stonewall) Jackson
Oliver Hazard Perry
Philip H. Sheridan
George H. Thomas
James B. Eads
Charles Woodyear
Joseph Henry
Richard M. Hoe
Lawrence Howe
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Matthew I. Maury
William P. G. Morton
Benjamin Pierce
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Thompson
Rufus Choate
Oliver Ellsworth
Lemuel Shaw
Roger B. Taney
Foss Campaign Opens Cape Barn Rally Tour in Snow
Democratic candidate Eugene N. Foss outlines a barn based campaign across Cape Cod with nine speeches over 50 miles from Harwich to Truro. Republican sentiment favors Foss by an estimated 2500 votes over William S. Buchanan with Hamlin seen as a possible governor candidate.
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Provincetown
Eugene N. Foss
Congress
Cape
Charles S. Hamlin
Foss
William S. Buchanan
Mr. Hamlin
Mr. Foss
Russell
Harwich
John Adams
Marsh Adams
Barnstable County
North Truro
Attleboro
Frothingham
Allen Treadway
Senate
William Greene
Tariff Clash With Canada Seen Going Ahead
Washington dispatch says State Department officials doubt an adjustment of tariff differences with Canada and expect the maximum rates of the Payne Aldrich act to apply automatically in two weeks.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Canada
Fairbanks Sees Peace After World Tour Arrival
Charles Warren Fairbanks, former Vice President, returns to New York aboard the Cunard Mauretania after a year abroad. He credits President Roosevelt and President Taft for strong peace ties with powers, dismisses war danger with Japan, and says the U S is further from conflict than ever.
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New York
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Indianapolis
United States
New York Harbor
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Taft
Japan
Mourners' Car Jumps Rails in Rehoboth
A suburban electric car carrying funeral mourners from Dr. Walter J. Smith's services jumped the track on a Rehoboth hill, plowing through earth for over 50 feet. Mrs. U. S. Grant of 77 Lowell Avenue suffered serious injuries. other passengers were shaken and bruised.
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Providence
R. I
Rehoboth
Walter J. Smith
Bridgewater
U. S. Grant
Lowell Avenue
Bateman Held on $22,000 Bail in Larceny Indictments
Osman F Bateman the public administrator was arrested in New York last week by Inspector Waite and brought to Boston. He was arraigned in the Superior Criminal Court and held in 22 000 bail on five indictments charging larceny.
Officers Chosen by State D R D R Massachusetts
The annual meeting of the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution Commonwealth of Massachusetts was held in Chipman Hall Tremont Temple at 10 a m Yesterday. Officers elected include Regent Mrs Sarah Weld Smith Swampscott Vice Regent Mrs Susan M Plummer Lynn Corresponding Secretary Mrs Alma F Goss Melrose Recording Secretary Miss Lena H Cook Allston Treasurer Mrs Eleanor B Wheeler Dorchester Registrar Miss Mary A Todd Lynn Historian Mrs Mary Abby Proctor Boston Librarian Mrs Helene Jackson Malden Councillors Mrs Harriette H Tinkham Boston Mrs Emily A Burroughs South Boston Mrs Susan Josephine Avery Fast Braintree and Mrs Anna M Pickford Newtonville
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Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Chipman Hall
Tremont Temple
Sarah Weld Smith
Swampscott
Susan M. Plummer
Lynn
Alma F. Goss
Melrose
Lena H. Cook
Allston
Eleanor B. Wheeler
Dorchester
Mary A. Todd
Mary Abby Proctor
Boston
Helene [. Jackson
Malden
Harriette H. Tinkham
Emily A. Burroughs
South Boston
Susan Josephine Avery
Fast Braintree
Anna M. Pickford
Newtonville
Nurse Weds Insurance Man In Columbus Avenue Church
Miss Eftie M. Palmer, once head nurse at Haymarket Square Relief Hospital, married Herbert F. E. Phinney, an insurance man she had nursed back to health at City Hospital, in a Universalist Church ceremony on Columbus avenue.
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Eftie M. Palmer
Haymarket Square
Universalist Church
Columbus Avenue
Herbert FE. Phinney
City Hospital
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