Drummer Foils Suspected Cambridge Jail Break Attempt
A passing drummer spotted a rope dangling from a second story window of Cambridge East jail hospital. Police chased a man named Farrell, who had just completed a six month larceny sentence, but found nothing on him. A steel fork and a small hack saw were found, hinting at a possible note attached to the fork.
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East Cambridge
Thorndike Street
Court House
Third Street
Farrell
War on liquor selling in Brighton and Newton
The Brighton anti-saloon crusade reports renewed exchanges between the Police Board and the Brighton Public Order Association over May liquor licenses. Letters dated March 22 and March 29, 1904 discuss when Brighton may receive publish investigate and grant licenses under Chapter 100 RS and whether March actions can precede formal April approvals.
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Brighton
Newton
Police Board
Brighton Public Order Association
William H. Howes
Franklin Street
Allston
Board of Police
W. H. H. Emmons
Mass
Willam H. H. Emmons
Boston Police Commission
R. S
Mayor Weed Aims to Halt Illegal Sales in Newton
Newton March 23 ministers union opposes more Brighton liquor licenses. They say Brighton saloons harm Newton by attracting patrons from this city and causing unrest for residents who ride late cars from Boston. The city seeks a prompt decision from the police board amid controversy.
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Hearn
Alonzo R Weed
Newton
Ministers’ Union
Weed
Brighton
Boston
Rhythm and Dancing as Universal Law in Human Life
Dr G Stanley Hall argues rhythm governs life from daily cycles to yearly and lunar patterns. He cites ancient dances as sacred acts and claims dancing offers healing and social vitality, contrasting puritan restraint with barbarian and Indian dances as pure expressions of the soul.
Health, happiness, and the living spirit of dance
A speaker extols health as holiness and the joy of life as the spirit of dance. They cite an Indian woman who knows 132 dances, some lasting days and nights, and urge men aged fifty and beyond to dance when music moves them, challenging apathy about dancing.
Legislature Refuses Gift to Mrs H A Clapp
The Massachusetts House split on paying the late Henry Austin Clapp’s widowed beneficiary. A motion to substitute failed 48 to 78 as opponents argued it unconstitutional to fund unrendered services, while supporters cited tradition. The session also advanced a fender bill and a parade with imitation arms, with other items tabled.
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Vinson
Boston
Committee On Ways and Means
Henry Austin Clapp
Supreme Judicial Court
Bombs damage Odessa College
The Sun prints from Kiev that an attempted bombing of Odessa University occurred last Friday. Two bombs exploded, damaging an inside wall and shaking the quadrangle, while nine other bombs were found with fuses that failed to ignite.
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New York
Kieff
Odessa University
Senator Otis Gove Leaves Hospital For Home
Waltham March 23 Senator Otis M Gove has recovered from a painful illness caused by blood poisoning and has been moved from Waltham Hospital to his home He can move about the house with crutches and hopes to be active again in a few days
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Waltham
Otis M. Gove
Waltham Hospital
Explosion injures three at Spectacle Island garbage plant
An early morning blast at the Spectacle Island plant owned by the New England Sanitary Product Company injured three men, badly damaging the facility. Patrick J. Burns, John H. Byrne, and John Dolan were aided by the crew of the lighter Nonpareil and transported to the City Hospital. The digester cap weighing nearly a ton was hurled from the 82-digestor complex, the first accident at the new plant.
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Spectacle Island
New England Sanitary Product Company
City Hospital
Patrick J. Burns
Lagrange Street
John H. Bryne
Camden
John Dolan
Washburn Street
Boston
Sanitary Company
Legatee Refuses Legacy in Minchin Will Case
In the Minchin will case Miss Addie, a $5.00 legatee, told Lawyer Bouve she came to answer her own lawyer and not the examiner. She said she visited executor Mr. Green, who told her to call, and that she would not care about the legacy if she does not receive it.
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Minchin Wiil
Addie
Bouve
Naphen
Green
York Beach
Medical Journal Advises Against Kissing Practice
A New York Medical Journal article warns that kissing carries hidden bacterial infection risks when lips are breached. It notes additional harm to the nervous system for neuropathic individuals and cites ethnologists that many cultures lack the practice, such as Lapps and Maoris, with Japan as a modern example.
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Medical Journal
Japan
New York Medical Journal
Cleveland boomed for governor of New Jersey
In Trenton today Democrats questioned how Cleveland would fare as a New Jersey governor candidate. It was noted he might not refuse the chance to govern his adopted state before closing his political career.
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Trenton
N. J
Cleveland
New Jersey
Americans kill 16 Filipinos in Manila clash
Captain Dewitt with constabulary and Lieutenant Pitney with scouts encountered Macario Sakay and 15 followers. Sakay and all 15 were killed. the rest of the band were captured. No American casualties reported.
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Manila
Dewitt
Pitney
Macario Sakay
Sakay
Connecticut business man's sudden death
George C. Merriam a prominent businessman of Meriden Conn dropped dead of heart failure while talking to friends in the furniture supply rooms of Hight Merrill at 102 Union Street yesterday afternoon. Merriam was in the city on a brief business trip.
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George C. Merriam
Meriden
Conn
Hight & Merrill
Union Street
Mr. Merriam
William Goulding of South Boston Dies at 32
William Goulding of South Boston died at his home in Thomas Park yesterday afternoon. The 32 year old salesman for a cigar firm had lived in St Augustine's parish all his life. He leaves a father, a sister, and a brother.
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William Goulding
South Boston
Thomas Park
St. Augustine’s Parish
U S Torpedo Fleet Sails for Colombo
The Navy Department reports by cable that the torpedo boat flotilla departed Bombay today en route to Colombo Ceylon. The move follows wartime mobilization patterns with ships sailing for strategic outposts in the Indian Ocean theater.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Bombay
Colombo
Ceylon
Tufts College Youth Promised Organize Hearst Club
Excitement rises among youthful politicians at Tufts College as Williams followers plan a Tufts Hearst club. The Tufts Democratic Club, aligned anti Hearst, was founded earlier and has exerted influence.
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Medford
Tufts College
George Fred Williams
Tufts Hearst Club
Tufts Democratic Club
finti-Hearst
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James M. Baker
Cedar St
Corning
Blood Wine Direct
Blood Wine Medicine CO
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Luce
Treadway
Stockbridge
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Brigham
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Pittsfield
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Committee On Probate and Chancery
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Odessa College
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