Councilman Charges Payroll Abuses in City Collector Office
Ward 11 Councilman Myron L. Pierce alleged a pernicious pay scheme in the city collector’s office reporting monthly extra payments to several workers, with totals ranging from about 1 811 to 3 950 dollars. City Collector Edmund A. McDonald was sick at home. deputy James P. Kelley refused comment.
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Myron L. Pierce
Ward
Edmund A. McDonald
Brighton
Post
James P. Kelley
Separation case reveals espionage in Shepard villa
Ernest W. Tarr testified before Judge McIntire at East Cambridge that he observed Mr. Shepard with a woman through a glass door partition. Mrs. Faustina Shepard, seeking separate support, alleges desertion and mistreatment as she names Mrs. Gifford, while Tarr described being paid $100 for a week to spy on Shepard.
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Ernest W. Tarr
Shepard
Faustina
Gifford
Tarr
Mayberry
Kansas to Christen Battleship with Kansas Oil
In Topeka Governor Hoch proposes christening the battleship Kansas with Kansas crude oil rather than champagne. A. D. Eddy of Standard Oil and E. J. Evans of the same firm discuss the plan, while Hoch notes the launch trip to the East is delayed until July.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Hoch
A. D. Eddy
Standard Oil Company
Eddy
E. J. Evans
Standard Oil
Independent Oil
Local forecast for Boston and vicinity turns cloudy
Increasing cloudiness Friday with showers likely in the afternoon or night. Saturday expected fair and colder with winds shifting from southwest to northwest. Storm warnings posted along the Atlantic coast from Delaware Breakwater to Portland.
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Boston
Atlantic
Delaware
Trolley Line Popularity and Health Remedies Highlight Day
The article notes rising interest in the Bos tow Worcester Trolley Air Line and discusses health tips with Bronchitis cure claims and Allen's Foot-Ease as a recommended remedy.
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Bostow & Worcester
Allen
Czar Moves for Peace Terms in War Ending Effort
Saint Petersburg reports the Czar will seek terms from Japan to end the war. High officials led by M. Witte say negotiations may begin if terms are not too harsh. Japan appears to threaten decisive moves in Manchuria and eastern Siberia as Russia faces internal pressure to end the conflict.
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ST. Petersburg
Japan
M. Witte
War Office
Russia
Linevitch
Harbin
Manchuria
Siberia
Woman Dies in Roxbury Fire at Thorn dike Street
Miss Mary Warren aged 70 of 48 Thorndike Street died in a three story brick building fire caused by a kerosene lamp explosion. The blaze started in her first floor apartment as a draft blew through an open window. She perished before help could reach her. her sister on the top floor survived. The body was sent to City Hospital morgue.
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Mary Warren
Thorndike Street
Miss Warren
City Hospital
W. H. Morrison
F. A. Warfield
Medford
W. O. Ayer
Warren Avenue
Church of the New Jerusalem
George B. Titus
A. Lehman
Bethany Church
W. H. Shaw
New Bedford
Saul
Milo Burke
Mr. Anderson
Near Tragic Gas Leak Rescues Six on Cambridge Street
William Jones found two boys unconscious on Cherry street near 151 Cambridge after 7 am. A gas leak between adjacent houses caused the fumes. Mrs Bowman and her two children were also unconscious. Six people were saved after hours of effort and rested later.
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Cherry Street
Cambridge
William Jones
Rumor Of Bomb Plot At Roxbury Church Denied
Rumors in Roxbury claimed a crank tried to blow up Mission Church with a dynamite loaded candle. Clergy and Police of Station 10 deny the charges and say a man asked to light a candle for his dying wife after closing time. He left his candle behind and no explosion occurred.
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Roxbury
Station 10
Mr. Ayer
Mr. Anderson
Christ
Calvary
Samuel W. George
Union
New York
Massachusetts
Nobody Knows But God Poem Read In Funeral Procession
A mournful procession moves through the street as muffled drums and sable plumes mark a death toll. A widowed mother listens to the infant ask who is dead, while a voice replies Nobody knows but God until the Judgment day.
Teacher Risked Life to Save Two Boys in Towns-end Meadow
Miss Harriet N. Jones, a Townsend Harbor School teacher, pulled two 10 year old pupils from icy water after they broke through thin ice in Uncle Louis meadow. She waded waist deep to reach them and brought them to safety before help arrived. All three were prostrate but not believed to be in danger.
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Townsend Harbor
Harriet N. Jones
Richard Keefe
Claude Fessenden
Miss Jones
Uncle
Transit chief seeks site to move Nawn mixing plant
The Transit Commission orders its chief engineer to inspect sites near Summer or Washington streets to remove Harry Nawn's mixing plant from the Common playground without harming public or business interests. Nawn has not been ordered to move, and timing is undetermined after consultation with Mayor Collins. A formal decision will follow the engineer’s site report.
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the Transit Commission
Summer
Washington Streets
Harry Nawn
Nawn
The
Transit Commission
Collins
Clarke Booms Bates for Third Massachusetts Term at Chelsea Banquet
At the Chelsea Board of Trade banquet Colonel Albert Clarke urged reelecting John L. Bates as Governor of Massachusetts. He praised Bates and ridiculed tariff revision by President Roosevelt. Speakers covered public service, industrial development, banking, rail transport, and local Chelsea industries.
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Chelsea Board of Trade
Albert Clarke
Home Market Club
John L. Bates
Massachusetts
State House
Congress
Roosevelt
Clarke
Bates
Francis B. Sears
Shawmut National Bank
Our National Banks
John E. Beck
Willard Howland
Chelsea
Alfred Hopkins
Clarence Warren
Samuel O. Jones
M. M. Merritt
R. Perry Bush
A. H. Nazarian
Philip L. Frick
Pierce Opposes Office Appropriation Amid Extra Pay Claims
A city councilman challenged a 125000 allocation for the collectors department arguing payments to employees included double and extra work pay. He proposed a 10000 reduction and read a partial salary list for 1904 showing numerous extra hours and contracts. The amendment failed 41 to 23 as officials attempted to restore order during the discussion.
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Pierce
Co. R. E
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Cuty Collector’s Office
Kelley
T. J
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Rick
Shepards of
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R.R. Shippen
City Theatre
Melrose Cemetery
Czar
Port Arthur
Corea
Chinese Eastern Railway
Dalny
Sakhalin Island
Commander Islands
Sakhalin
Kuriles
Grank
Brockton Fire Fund
Clarke Booms
George
Dolan Pounds the Gavel
Dolan
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