Sanco the Dog Returns to Neighbors and Police
A South Boston bull terrier once owned by Dr. Albert S. Cary wandered from home, lived on the street and at a livery stable before being found and recognized by Cary. Patrolmen try to reclaim him but the dog growls at others, drawing attention at the City Point station.
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City Point
Doctor Bays
Albert S. Cary
East Broadway
Boston
J. Sullivan
South Beeston
Sanco
Dr. Cary
Connor
Lanco
Watertown Drug Firms Fined in Superior Court
The Boston Drug Company and the last Watertown Drug Company, Watertown, were fined 15 cents and 50 dollars respectively after pleading guilty to illegal liquor sales in the Superior Criminal Court, East Cambridge yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Drug Company
Watertown Drug Company
Watertown
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
Telephone schedules attacked in rate dispute input
United Improvements Association led by Benjamin C. Lane urged mercantile affairs committee to reject New England Telephone Company rate schedules. They argued the plan breaches faith as thousands with existing contracts are asked to surrender valued advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Telephone Company
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
United Improvements* Association
Benjamin C. Lane
Boston Telephone Rates Spark Debate At Public Hearing
A heated hearing on new measured service proposals pits Charles M. Conant and supporters against opponents led by A. A. Fales and H. H. Patten. They argue the plan raises costs for suburban subscribers while offering reduced area coverage and questionable financials. A blaze in a nearby building forces an evacuation as residents flee to safety and firefighters rescue residents including Mr. O'Brien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Boston
Charles M. Conant
A. A. Fales
Charlestown Improvement Association
H. H. Patten
Stoneham
Jit
Henry A. Johnson
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Heber A. Hopkins
West Roxbury
James M Folen
Norwood Board of Trade
Wallace A. Gleason
Germantown
Plan for North End branch library with roof garden
Boston officials hear a request from the Board of Library Trustees for 85 000 to fund a new North End branch. They propose purchasing the Church of St John Baptist site on North Bennet street for 38 000, renovating it for 42 000 and 5 000 for fittings, with a two story 56 by 71 foot building featuring a roof garden reading room. A 90 day option on the site begins March 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Board of Library Trustees
Fitzgerald
North End
Church of St. John Baptist
North Bennet Street
North Find
Women in Fear Rush for Lives as Fire Hits Belvidere Street
A closet fire in a four story brick building at 26 Belvidere street forced ten women to flee to the roof and into an adjoining building. An aged man ill with pneumonia was rescued by a hose team. Fire at Mechanic Arts High School also reported. Damage estimated at 500 dollars, contained to the first floor front room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Parkman
Fire Headquarters
Belvidere Street
Mechanic Arts High School
Carnegie Trust head indicted for 335000 larceny
Grand jury indicts William J. Cummins directing head of the Carnegie Trust Company for the alleged larceny of 335000 from the bank a year ago amid collapsed winter finance scandals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joseph G. Robin
Grand
William J. Cummins
Carnegie Trust Company
Jurors Delay Camorra Trial in Naples Case
In Viterbo Italy on March 21 jurors in the Camorra murder case faced delays as one juror fell ill and the defense claimed police planted false evidence by the Naples Carbineers. Priest Ciro Vitozzi endured heart trouble and injury when his wagon springs broke en route to court, prompting concern over his health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viterbo
Italy
Legion of Carbineers
Naples
Ciro Vitozzi
Bianchi
Ottolenghi
University of Rome
Gennaro Abbatemaggio
U. S. Funeral Ship Sails Homeward Bound
Valparaiso Chile March 21 The United States battleship Delaware which bore the body of the late Anibal Cruz the Chilean minister to Washington sailed today for Boston Salutes were exchanged with the forts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valparaiso
Chili
United States
Delaware
Anibal Cruz
Washington
Boston
Promoter Cummins pleads not guilty in bank larceny indictments
Cummins, recently arrived from Tennessee, pleads not guilty with leave to withdraw. Bail set at 50 000 as three indictments accuse him of larceny first degree involving 120 000 75 000 and 140 000 from Carnegie Trust Company in 1910. Witness Robin is tied to the case. District Attorney Whitman says more indictments may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins
New York
Tennessee
Carnegie Trust Company
Robin
Whitman
Nineteenth Ward Bank
Twelfth Ward Bank
van Norden Trust Company
Carnegie Trust
Chamberlain Walsh
Northern Bank
Chamberlain Hyde
Picketing and lifting jack bill fail in Senate vote
The peaceful picketing bill dies 19 to 19 with President Treadway casting the deciding vote after a 17 to 17 tally the day before. A lifting jack bill fails 18 to 20 with Adams and Treadway absent, while 40 senators are recorded on both votes and amendments.
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Senate
Treadway
Chace
Curley
Doyle
Grainger
Halley
Hatton
Hibbard
Hoar
Hunt
Lomasney
Mack
Malley
Murray
Nason
Newhall
Powers
Quigley
Ross
Timilty
Barnes
Bennett
Blanchard
Brown
Denny
Evans
Gates
Greenwood
Keith
Mellen
Mulligan
Nash
Pearson
Schoonmaker
Stearns
Tinkham
Tolman
White
Turner
Adams
Lifting jack bill defeated in Senate after House passage
The lifting jack bill, long in the Legislature and usually passing the House, failed in the Senate by an 18 to 20 vote. Senator Bennett of Saugus led the opposition. The measure would let a retired superior court judge work at $10 daily. Lomasney called judges slick politicians as he amended away compensation. The same session saw the women suffrage bill again reported adversely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treadway
Jack Bill
Senate
Lomasney
House
Bennett
Saugus
Boston
Saunders
Judiciary
Julia Ward Howe
Malley
Springfield
Hill
Lynn
Curtis
Committee On Ways and Means
Trust Company
Long Life in Boston Long Life in Boston
A Boston Board of Health tabulation shows Greater Boston healthier overall than Greater New York but Boston trails the old New York in city death rate. Last year mortality for babies was higher in New York than in Boston, and diphtheria and tuberculosis deaths were more common there.
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Greater
Boston
New York
Board of Health
Manhattan
Bronx
Greater Boston
Old New York
Husband Sues as She Leaves in Desertion Case
Calin E Scoville filed for divorce in San Francisco on grounds of desertion as Mrs Bessie M Scoville sped home to Boston. He had earlier dismissed a similar suit. She arrived and refused settlement and prepared to answer while seeking alimony, but did not serve papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Bessie M. Scoville
Boston
Calvin E. Scoville
Scoville
George H. Cabaniss
Lobsters Reach New High Price In Local Market
Lobsters sold at 65 cents a pound marking a new high in the city. Most receipts come from Nova Scotia, but supply dropped to 300 crates this week from 1000 a year ago, with nearly 400 crates received last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nova Scotia
VAIN EFFORTS TO END STRIKE IN ROCKPORT
In Rockport on March 21, midnight approaches as quarrymen and granite workers and a manufacturers committee, meeting with the State Board of Arbitration since 2 PM, fail to reach an agreement to end a three week strike. Strikers resist, seeking higher wages from 18 to 23 and 2 1 2 cents, having conceded other points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockport
State Board of Arbitration
To Reach Wolf's My Clothier Corner Hanover and Portland
Directions instruct passengers to use the Washington street tunnel and exit points at Friend street for southbound travel and Union street for northbound travel, guiding shoppers to Wolf's My Clothier on the corner of Hanover and Portland streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Hanover and
Washington Street
Friend St
Union St
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Summer Street
Cea “Ud
Prince Albert
Summer St
Philadelphia
34Th St
6Th & Chestnut
Buffalo
Providence Bst
Main St
Westminster St
State House
Highway Commission
Dennis O’brien
John Gleason
O’brien
Charles W. Parmenter
Plan Branch
ST. John Baptist Church
Jason Weiler & Son Mfg
Washington St
Franklin
Antwerp
Rue de Pelican
Buenos Ayres
Gaona
U. S
King Klip Nail
Labor
Jack
Greater City
A. Shuman & CO
Mr Roe
Medric
ABC
Boston Wine & Spirits CO
Dock Square
James J
Domfrty
PrOp
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