Witness recalls kickback scheme involving cups purchase
The witness testifies that in 1907 he sold 58 cups for the Fourth of July in East Boston, billed $440 at Battis's direction, and then handed Battis cash after Battis identified him to the city auditor. He says he later returned $141.75 to satisfy the firm and kept $1 as a receipt. The exchange occurred amid tense questioning by Mr. Coakley and the district attorney.
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Mr. Coakley
Battis
Durgin
Esse
Elopers In Boston Shock Musical Circles
A Boston husband seeks revenge after his wife elopes with Maquarre and Lenom of the Symphony Orchestra. Maquarre and Mrs Lenom vanished on November 23, later found in San Francisco where she runs a military establishment. The husband pledges a poor debtor’s oath and hints at release from jail as he stays in the state.
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City
Belgium
Boston
Symphony Orchestra
Maquarre
Lenom
Mrs. Lenom
France
San Francisco
Probe Graft Sparks Clash Over Fenway Land Deal
Crocker insists on a thorough city investigation into Fenway land graft while Moors dismisses the issue as much ado about nothing. Finance Commission members discuss verbal agreements, legality, and who should repay city costs from Back Bay street projects.
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George A. Crocker
Late
Finance Commission
Crocker
John F. Moors
Yale Men Greet and Banquet Taft at Yale Event
Graduates at a Yale dinner honored President Taft with songs and remarks on his career. Security surrounded the hotel as Taft spoke, with Hadley praising him and noting Yale’s influence on his character and views.
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YALE
TAFT
Boola
Secret Service
Hadley
Department of English
Harvard
Roosevelt
Providence
Bill Taft
Department of English Composition
Congress
Cyrus Northrop
William Howard Taft
Abutters Debate Moral Duty On Street Funds
Mr. Crocker refused to answer whether abutters are morally bound to pay their share of street construction. He said more must be learned about the case as the Finance Committee continues to study the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallivan
Finance Commission
Mr. Crocker
Moors
John A. Sullivan
Fenway Streets
George QO. Ernst
Finance Commision
Back Bay
WU Wibbard
Peterboro
Queensberry
Ipswich
Jersey
Supreme Court
Silsby Pronounces Manslaughter Verdict Breaks Up Home
Mrs Rose A Silsby tearfully faced the manslaughter verdict for causing Clinton FE Childs death at East Cambridge Court She will return next week for sentencing on bail of 3000 The Post notes her daughter Frances and husband shared the distress as the family travels home by electrics.
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Rose A. Silsby
Clematis Brook
Clinton FE. Childs
Sherman
East Cambridge
Frances
Mafia Scorns Italy Police In Palermo Action
In Palermo Mafia members attacked a customs guard in the city center stealing his revolver and a $2 purse and set fire to a house after owners refused blackmail. The coffin of Joseph Petrosino headed to New York aboard the Cunard Slavonia with a March 23 sailing date.
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Palermo
Italy
Petrosino
Joseph Petrosino
New York Detective Service
Cunard Line
Slavonia
New York
Bishop
Kelleher Indicted for Murder Linked to Arsenic Deaths
The Somerville woman Mrs. Kelleher is indicted for murder after investigations into six related deaths in her family from 1906 to 1908. Arsenic found in Catherine Kelleher's remains led Harvard Professor Whitney to conclude the toxin could kill several people. Insurance payouts ranging from 50 to 2000 were traced, with police pursuing charges after the fires case and mounting suspicions.
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Catherine Kelleher
Bridget Knowles
Stephen Kelleher
Kelleher
Somerville
Elleher
Andrew J. Lovell
Upland Road
Cambridge
Lovell
M. N. White
EF. A. Carter
Thomas Dameron
Somerville Police
Whitney
Harvard
Annie Kelleher
Woman credits Grape-Nuts for recovery and energy
A Maryland woman describes severe indigestion and insomnia eased by one package of Grape-Nuts. She reports better sleep, no dyspepsia, and improved energy for herself and school children, endorsing the product as a brain food with lasting reserve power. The ad attributes the letter to Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Removal Sustained of Chelsea License Officials
Judge Fessenden sustains the removal of Harry B. Hammond Dennis A. O'Brien and James Walker, former Chelsea license commissioners, by former Mayor Beck.
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Fessenden
Harry B. Hammond
Dennis A. O’brien
James Walker
Chelsea
Beck
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Pr. O. Square
Battle Creek, Mich
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Victor Victrola
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Melba
Farrar
Scotti
Eastern Talking Machine Company
Tremont Street
Tremont Theatre
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Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden
N. J
Century
Current Literature
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Scribner’s
April Cosmopolitan
Victor Records
Grand Opera
M. Steinert & Sons Co
THE
Yale & Towne Mfg. CO
J. B. Hunter & Co
Summer Street
Fuglestad
Nels Fuglestad
Crescent Avenue
North
Knowlton
Revere
Ley
Page Revere
Lucas
Roxbury
Maria A
Edwin Lucas
Blue Hill Avenue
McGuiness
North End
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Catherine McGuiness
Phipps Place
Charter Street
St. Stephen’s Church
Hanover Street
Mitchell
Quincy
Wil Allan Mitchell
Water Street
McGregor
Monroe
Bridget
Patrick Monroe
Cooper Street
St. Mary's Church
Weiss
Morris L
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Mollie Weiss
Mare
Brookford Street
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