Cambridge Teacher Admits Fatal Auto Crash
Edwin M. Chamberlin Harvard 1911 graduate and Cambridge Rindge Technical School English teacher surrendered to Cambridge police after admitting he owned and drove the car that struck Peter L Wormley at the corner of Trowbridge street and Broadway. He was accompanied by counsel Judge Arthur P. Stone and declined to discuss further details.
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Edwin Martin Chamberlin
Harvard University
Rindge Technical School
Cambridge
Captain Hurley
Peter L Wormley
Chamberlin
Arthur P. Stone
Trowbridge Street
Broadway
Textile wage hikes total 10.5 million across New England mills
Authoritative estimates say wage increases totaling 10.5 million dollars will go to New England textile workers over the next year. Woolen mills with 79 million annual payroll gain 5.6 million, while cotton mill workers receive 5 million.
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New England
Textile mill wage talks ripple through New England mills
About 275000 workers across Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire and Rhode Island may share in wage raises by April 1 as major mills push increases. New Bedford leads with a 5 percent offer and a 10 percent demand, while heavy production curtailment is blamed on dull business. Unions allied with the AF of L and the Industrial Workers of the World show strength as Fall River and surrounding mills face unrest.
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Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Bedford
Textile Council
Manufacturers’ Association
American Federation of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
Lawrence
Fall River
Dr Mary Walker Stricken On Train From Albany To New York
New York March 17 Stricken with illness induced by suffrage work in Washington and Albany Dr Mary E Walker collapsed last night on a train from Albany to New York She was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition A telegram summoned relatives to Oswego New York yesterday
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New York
Washington
Albany
Mary E. Walker
Presbyterian Hospital
Oswego
N. Y
Dr Walker Leads Vigorous Suffrage Campaign
Dr. Walker, about 80, devoted energy to the suffragists campaign. She visited Washington last month and argued before the judiciary committee for a constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage. Arriving in Albany Tuesday she appeared before the Legislature weakened from the exertion.
Baby’s cries save family from Brookline stable fire
The frightened cry of a six month old woke Dennis Toole, driver for Dr. Frederick L. Gay of Howland road, Brookline, enabling him to rescue his wife and child from a burning stable where they slept. The blaze, likely started by the doctor's limousine, destroyed the car, a Babcock electric, and three collie dogs, with losses pegged at $6000.
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Dennis Toole
Frederick L. Gay
Howland Road
Brookline
Dr. Gay
Babcock
Gay
Taft's Day in Boston Schedule for Evacuation Day
Taft arrives at South Station and attends a full day of city events. He meets Mayor FitzGerald, visits the Peace Society, addresses the General Court, and joins banquets with the Pilgrim Publicity Association Irish Charitable Society and Boston Bank Officers. He reviews Evacuation Day parade in South Boston and ends with Yale Club and other dinners. South Boston prepares for the holiday with bells, salutes, and Emerald Isle colors.
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South Station
City Club
Fitzgerald
S. J. Elder
Hotel Somerset
Peace Society
General Court
State House
Pilgrim Publicity Association
Georgian Cafe
South Boston
Independence Square
Taft League of Massachusetts
Irish Charitable Society
Symphony Malls
Boston Bank Offcers’? Association
Hotel Vendome
Boston Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Algonquin Club
Yale Club of Boston
Wares
Boston
Emerald Isle
Widow at long days Bird Rock lighthouse rescued at sea
Mrs Peter Bourke and her nursing baby were saved from the Bird Rock lighthouse on Magdalen Islands where she had kept the light burning alone for 10 days after her husband the lightkeeper was drowned aboard the government steamer Seal.
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Halifax
N. S
Peter Bourke
Lonely Bird Rock
Magdalen Islands
Seal
Harvard to build freshmen dormitories near Cambridge river site
Cambridge news says Harvard University bought land between Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets and the Charles River, just below Weld Boat House, to erect a complete system of freshmen dormitories.
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Cambridge
Harvard University
Mt. Auburn
Holyoke
Charles River
Weld Boat House
Plans for freshman housing row near Charles River
The Boston plan envisions a yard dormitory abandoned in favor of a row of buildings facing the Charles river to house all fresh men. Accommodations for at least 500 students and rent lists by floors are planned to mix socioeconomically. President Lowell said 1.2 million of 1.8 million had been pledged with the remainder in sight, aiming completion by next September.
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Charles River
Lowell
New York Regulars Lose 5 to 2 to Houston Team
In Houston on March 17 the New York National League regulars were defeated by the Houston Texas League club 5 to 2.
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Houston
Texas
New York
Texas League Today
Evacuation Day Parade to Highlight 136th Boston Anniversary
The Evacuation Day program centers on a 2 p m parade at Columbia road and Dorchester avenue led by Chief Marshal William S McNary. It aims to be the longest military parade since the day began about a dozen years ago with the largest city observance budget in South Boston. Irish groups skip a parade for St Patrick's Day but will host banquets and entertainments across divisions. Military Hibernians and Total Abstinence units join the march in addition to St Josephs Total Abstinence Union.
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Columbia Road
Dorchester Avenue
Williams. McNary
Boston
Order of
Hibernians
Catholic Total Abstinence Regiment of
St. Joseph's Total Abstinence Union
Grant to Wed Quaker Belle
Patrick Grant former All-America Harvard football star and son of Judge Robert Grant of Bay State road is engaged to Philadelphia born Marie Disston. The two announced their romance yesterday, with the judge and Mrs. Grant yet to meet the fiancée.
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Patrick Grant
Harvard
Robert Grant
Bay State Road
Marie
Disston
Philadelphia
Lighthouse Keeper's Harrowing 10 Days Off Labrador
Mrs. Bourke endured ten days alone at the deserted Labrador offshore light after her husband drowned during heavy weather. She kept the lamp and fog signal burning while tending a tiny baby, cooking, and surviving freezing conditions until the Seal rescued them. A boat crew left a keeper behind to tend the light until a new keeper arrived.
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Labrador
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Youth Arrested for Manslaughter After Accident
The young man fled after the crash and refused to reveal the injured man’s identity or injuries. He was arrested on a manslaughter charge and bailed in $3000 bonds posted by his family. Attempts to reach Judge Stone and Mr. Chamberlin failed yesterday.
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Judge Stone
Local Notables Mark Birth Anniversaries
Judge Frank A. Milliken of New Bedford District Court Dr George T Tuttle medical superintendent McLean Hospital Clarence OH Cooper clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Ver Cleveland president of the United States 1937 1908.
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Frank A. Milliken
New Bedford District Court
George T. Tuttle
McLean Hospital
Clarence O"h. Cooper
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusett
Ver Cleveland
United Gro States
Saskatchewan Valley tribes uprising raids Dutch Lake stores
Saskatchewan Valley tribes began an uprising against the Canadian government with raids on stores at Dutch Lake in 1885. The item notes related historical milestones including the first New England bank in 1784 and the Stamp Act repeal by the British government in 1768.
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Saskatchewan Valley
Dutch Lake
First
New England Bank
Boston Area Weather Forecast Improves Early Week
Fair and warmer Monday followed by fair Tuesday with brisk southerly winds. In Washington on March 17 the forecast for New England calls for increasing clouds and local rain Monday or Monday night, then fair Tuesday with brisk south winds.
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Boston
Washington
Fingland
Yesterday's Temperature Report
A dated weather snippet from Epemprens Spa lists hourly readings with anomalies in OCR text showing temperatures around 84 down to 41 and averages noted as 48 and 26 for yesterday and the period. The fragment includes misread characters and inconsistent punctuation.
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Epemprens Spa
Admiral Melville Dies in Philadelphia at 89
Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville retired Navy officer dies at home in Philadelphia from paralysis. He was national commander of the Loyal Legion when he passed and was a renowned Arctic exploration authority and expert in engineering and naval affairs.
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Philadelphia
George Wallace Melville
The
Loyal Legion
Melville, Rear Admiral, Civil War Hero and Engineer-in-Chief
Rear Admiral Melville, retired since January 1903 at age 72, led the Bureau of Steam Engineering for 16 years and served in the Arctic relief expeditions. He received honorary degrees from Penn, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown and Stevens Institute, led engineering societies, and died in harness. Funeral services will be naval and he will be interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Melville
Bureau of
American Society of Naval Engineers
The
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
United States Navy
Navy
Navy Department
Admiral Melville
Spain
Cleveland
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Laurel Hill
National Cemetery
Washington
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