Girls Win Big Damages in Middlesex Court Collision Verdicts
In Middlesex Superior Court yesterday Annie R. Ford and Elizabeth M. Trudson were awarded two of the county’s largest verdicts in years after injuries from a Bright on North Beacon street collision. Ford received 7090 dollars and Hudson 6500 dollars with evidence from many experts supporting the claims.
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Middlesex
Annie R. Ford
Elizabeth M. Trudson
North
Beacon Street
Brighton
Miss Ford
Miss Hudson
Vahey & Innes
Thomas I. Vahey
G. Ll. Mayberry
JT. KF. Carey
Seeley Divorce Case Decided in Divorce Court
Charles J. Seeley of Chelsea tested his marriage in Judge Hardy’s Divorce Court alleging his wife Ellen F born in 186? faced intoxication and cruel treatment. The wife receives custody of daughter Ellen after decree nisi. two more decrees nisi granted in separate desertion cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Seeley
Chelsea
Hardy
Seeley
Ellen F
R. RB. Jeffery
Albert R. MacKusick
Elder & MacKusick
Nisi
Ellen
Hattie M. Young
George A
Mary Ll. Mason
Edward P. Mason
Sculptor Stevenson Dead at Edinburgh
London reports sculptor David Watson Stevenson died in Edinburgh this morning. He carved many portrait busts of eminent men and created a life sized statue of R L Stevenson and a Burns bronze statue for Leith among his numerous works.
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London
David Watson Stevenson
Edinburgh
Stevenson
R. L. Stevenson
Burns
Leith
Brakemen Win In The Legislature
The House passed Representative Good’s bill to require trains to have three brakemen a conductor a fireman and an engineer reversing rail safety. Debates/actions featured Hilton Schofield and Hayes with praise from a rail employee about Messrs Tuttle and Mellen and calls for state tax on cigarette dealers. Public health hearings considered cigarette taxation while insurance regulation faced opposition from fraternal groups. A dental education petition was referred to public health.
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Representative Good
Representative Hilton
Lowell
Schofield
Ipswich
Boston
Representative Hayes
Tuttle
Boston & Maine
Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Health
McCann
Lynn
State Prison Sentence For Tracey
Ralph M. Tracey received a two and a half to three and a half year term in the State prison for forgery in a ruling by Judge Harris. Several prominent residents urged probation, but the judge declined to grant it.
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Ralph M. Tracey
Harris
Waltham Men Aid Peterson Ice Dealer
The Waltham Business Men's Association votes to aid J. J. S. Peterson, the ice dealer, barred from harvesting ice on Charles River by Metropolitan Park Commission rules. A committee will protest at a State House hearing.
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Waltham
Waltham Business Men's Association
J. J. S. Peterson
Charles River
Metropolitan Park Commission
State House
What Manyon s Paw Paw will cure
In letters, sufferers claim Paw Paw purifies blood and strengthens nerves to cure rheumatism, kidney ailments, and catarrh though the author disclaims advertising Paw Paw for those diseases. He touts Dyspepsia, nervousness, sleeplessness, general restoration, and endorses a Rheumatism Cure and Kidney Cure by Munyon.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promoted As Spring Habit
Get the Spring Habit. Hood's Sarsaparilla is touted as the best blood purifying spring medicine. Physicians and pharmacists endorse it, claiming 1903 testimonials show widespread cures, including relief from lassitude, appetite, skin eruptions, rheumatism, and digestive issues in a single year. Sold everywhere.
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Hood
Dillon Again in the Courts
William Dillon, ordered to pay 25 dollars weekly for wife and child, fails to comply and faces a new proceeding. Ida Dillon describes a troubled marriage stretching back to 1891, with limited support amid moves between Brooklyn and Boston. The case, appealed from the Probate Court, resumes next Monday.
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William Dillon
Dillon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston
Boston Pharmacists Face May Licenses Revocation
Boston’s 247 registered pharmacists fear loss of business after May 1 as only 60 of 120 reports remain under review by the State Board of Pharmacy. Police visits and a looming action suggest many names will be on a “black list” for certificates, tied to liquor sale violations.
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Boston
State Board of Pharmacy
Pemberton Square
State Board
Police Commissioners’ Office
Highland lassie in bagpipe concert aboard Sardinian
The Allan liner Sardinian arrived from Glasgow and Liverpool via Halifax landing 260 second class and steerage passengers bound mainly for the North west. A Highland lassie in native costume performed a bagpipe concert on deck as the steamer neared the landing stage.
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Glasgow
Liverpool
Halifax
Northwest
Boston
Bernard O Connell Loses Libel Suits in Court
In U S Circuit Court Judge Putnam and a jury returned verdicts for the defendants in Bernard D O Connell v Boston Herald Company and Bernard D O Connell v Courier Citizen Company of Lowell. The suits sought 10000 damages for alleged libels tied to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision reports from February 1903.
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Putnam
United States Circuit Court
Bernard D. O'Connell
Boston Herald Company
Courier-Citizen Company
Lowell
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
O'Connell
Dow Et al
Licenses for domestics debated at Women’s Health Club
Mrs Edith Merrill Kettelle urged licensing domestic workers at a Woman's Health Club meeting in the New Century building. Dr Alice M Steeves cited school mouth cleanliness, reporting 10 000 examinations with about 90 percent unclean. New officers named: Edith Whittemore president, Mary Johnson and Lury Buffington vice presidents, Mary Briggs treasurer, Alice Hoyt secretary, and Dr Alice M Steeves secretary.
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Edith Merrill Kettelle
Woman's Health Club
New Century
Alice M. Steeves
Edith Whittemore
Mary Johnson
Lury Buffington
Mary Briggs
Alice Hoyt
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R. H. White CO
Fashion News
Dressmakems
Beirts
Studiouvist Avorven
Isi
Raldy Wilder
Chicago Record-Herald
TUFTS
Russia
Medford
Tufts College
College Hil
Edward A. Knowlton
New Bedford
Armand W. Benoit
Lawrence
Donald
Teague
Caribou
Ernest A. Mulvey
Worcester
Wellville
Boynton
Gore
Everett
Everett Street Department
City Hall
Brown
Board of Public Works
SLOAN
Liniment
Chicago Tribune
Committee On Public
Bates
John H. Butler
Royal Arecanum
J. M. Swain
The
Home Circle Company
James H. Flint
New England Order of Protection
M. T. Merritt
Commercial Travellers' Association of America
T. B. Reardon
Massachusetts Order of Foresters
W. H. Carberry
American Benefit Society
W. G. Crowther
United Order of the Golden Cross
John F. Dowsley
Board of Registry
Dentristy
Committee On Public Health
State Prison
Peterson
Manyon
Munyon
Druggists Fear Board
Bernard D. O’connell
Lizzie Svensson
Boylston St
Lizzie Swenson
Hooper St
Mass
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co
Post Office Square
Benjamin EF. Stevens
Alfred D. Foster
S. Franksford
William B. Turner
Daniel F. Appel
Warren Sawyer
Thomas Sherwin
Nathaniel J. Rust
Henry Parkman
Wallace L. Pierce
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr
Charles E. Cotting
Gordon Abbott
Benjamin F. Stevens
Massachusetts
Charles H. Flood
Blome
Milk Street
A. H. Curtis
Federal Street
Ireland
Winthrop
Robert D. Ireland
Letitia Irels Ani
Elizabeth
John Wapen
St. Mary’ S Churindicott Street
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