Afghan force threatens Khyber Pass frontier clash reported
London May 3 India remains a source of unease for Britain as 13 000 to 20 000 Afghan troops split into two columns attack block houses near Landikotal and threaten Bazár valley. General Willcocks moves toward Jamrud while frontier telegrams are censored. Separately Calcutta reports a bomb plot to murder Europeans with many arrests.
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London
India
Khyber Pass
Landikhotal
Bazar Valley
Lisote Pass
Willcocks
Jamrud
Peshawar
Simla
Calcutta
Robbed at gunpoint in Waltham takes cash and watch
Clifford S. Cobb, prominent Waltham merchant, was robbed by an unknown man who pressed a pistol to his heart near the grammar school on Lexington street. He surrendered about $25, change, and a gold watch, then was allowed to go home.
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Summer Street
Lexington Street
Mr. Cobb
Explorer Rice Denies Cannibal Werewolf Rumors
Bostonian Dr. A Hamilton Rice returns from South American wilds with findings on the Vaupes River origin. He rejects reports of being eaten by cannibals, notes occasional tribes hostile to outsiders but most natives are indifferent, and cites his Broca color-card method to compare Indian skin to other races. He credits Royal Geographical Society connections and his Harvard background.
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A. Hamilton Rice
Guariari
South America
Vaupes
Rice
Harvard
Boston
Iie
Vanpes
Anilla
Geographical Society of Paris
Royal Geographical Society of London
George L. Church
Europe
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Quito
Amazon
Napa River
Royal Geographical Society
Dr. Rice
Post
Upper
Orinoco
Broca
Esquimaux
Styles for Young Men at $25 Fabrics and Fits
A fashion brief notes a new series of men’s clothes priced at $25 targeting young and style minded buyers. It highlights browns olives and tans in shadow stripe fabrics, three and two button coats with various lapels and pockets, novel cuffs, and moderately full trousers with turnups. Chest sizes range from 33 to 42 inches.
Morse's Special Hose Sold At 15c-2 Pairs For 25c
A furnishing goods sale offers Morse's Special Hose at 15c for 2 pairs or 25c for a set. Available colors are tan gray and black in sizes 9 to 12.
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Morse
Prince Wilhelm Weds Grand Duchess of Russia in Tsarkoe-Selo
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden wed Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, cousin of the Russian Emperor, at Tsarkoe-Selo. The ceremony featured cannon salutes and a state banquet with leaders from Sweden and Russia, followed by a royal procession and a royal honeymoon planned in St Petersburg.
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St, Petersburg
Wilhelm
Sweden
Gustave
America
Marie Pavlona
Russia
Paul Alexandrovitch
Tsarkoe-Selo
Europe
Tsarkoe- Selo
Olga
Greece
Grand Duke
Hesse
Ferdinand
Marie
Roumania
Prince Nicholas
Prince Andrew
Prince Christopher
Prince Carl
Nicholas
Tatania
Lund
St. Petersburg
Archduke Serge
Empire
Everett Police Shake Up Changes Roster
Chief William Hill orders a broad reshuffle of the Everett Police Force effective today. Most officers are reassigned with day squad Patrolmen Emerton Goodey Kelly Card and night men Peel Lehan Crocker O Niel Berry Murphy Flynn Bruce and Osborn among those moved.
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Everett
William Hill
Hill
Emerton
Goodey
Kelly
Card
Peel
Lehan
Crocker
O' Niel
Berry
Murphy
Flynn
Bruce
Osborn
Sargent School Presents Twelfth Night at Newtowne Club Hall
Cambridge students of Dr. Sargent’s Physical Culture School stage Twelfth Night in North Cambridge. Miss Etta Paris as the Duke and Miss Bessie Gray as Viola headline a girl cast under Willard’s direction with rich costumes. After the play, dancing follows.
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Newtowne Club
Cambridge
Dudley A. Sargent
Physical Culture School
Mildred Newcomb
Katherine Curley
Etta Paris
Bessie Gray
Edith Smith
Rachel Nason
Edith Jonas
Beulah Johnson
Dr. Sargent
Shakspere
North
Sargent
Willard
Viola
Antonio
Edith Jones
Miss Jackson
Curio
Bowery Preacher Speaks Honest Gospel in Boston
David J. Ranney a Bowery preacher told a crowded Union Congregational Church audience that he is a Christian who knows tough street life. He described his past, the moment of change after aiding a hungry man, and his belief in physical Christianity. Ranney plans multiple talks in Boston through mid month.
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David J. Ranney
Bowery
Union Congregational Church
Mr. Ranney
Post
Ranney
Boston
Richard Flanagan Death Investigated After City Hospital
Medical Examiner Macdonald orders inquiry into Richard Flanagan’s death after autopsy. Flanagan, of 18 Shawmut Avenue, was taken from a cell at Station 5 Friday then died Saturday morning at City Hospital. Police say head wounds occurred before custody.
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Richard Flanagan
Shawmut Avenue
Station 5
City Hospital
Macdonald
Boston Fishermen Drift Sixty Miles In Open Dory
Two Boston fishermen, Will Garron and Mike Scott, drifted 60 miles in an open dory from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia after losing ship contact in a fog bank. They survived 30 hours without food or water and reached Yarmouth before returning to Boston aboard the Dominion Atlantic liner. Both men appeared healthy after reuniting with their crew.
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Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Will Garron
Mike Scott
Boston
Fannie Belles Atwood
Dominion Atlantic
Yarmouth
Atwood
Garron
Scott
Fiag
Grand Banks
Nickerson
The
Fannie Belle Atwood
Middlesex Catholics Convene in Largest County Meeting
Middlesex County Catholics held their annual Ameri can Federation of Catholic Societies convention at Holy Cross Cathedral. The event drew delegates from 45 societies and 25 parishes and elected Timothy W. Haley to a third term as county president with new officers including Daly, Dunphy, and Foley. The convention reported 90 000 Catholics enrolled and growing affiliations ahead of the national gathering in August.
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Middlesex County
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Holy Cross
Charles T. Daly
Timothy W. Haley
Cambridge
Mary L. Logue
Woburn
Patrick J. Spalding
Waltham
Mary Driscoll
Holliston
James R. Condrin
Newton
John T. Snea
East Cambridge
Stephen J. O’brien
Everett
Nellie M. Murphy
Maiden
David C. Ahearn
South Framingham
William P. Kelley
Lowell
John Monahan
Wellesley
James T. Moore
Somerville
Owen Healey
West Medford
Patrick J. Dunphy
Watertown
John H. Craig
Natick
John L. Foley
Julia O'Donnell
Board of
Methodist Episcopal Church to Convene Quadrennial Conference
Baltimore hosts the Methodist Episcopal Church general conference at Lyric Hall with 787 voting delegates including 394 ministers and 393 lay members. Governors Hanly Hoch and Senator Dolliver attend. key agenda items cover union with other denominations, elected presiding elders, retired preachers’ support, term limits for ministers, publishing house mergers, and discipline policy. The session will elect bishops and celebrate the centennial of the conference’s organization with Vice-President Fairbanks presiding.
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Baltimore
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Lyric Hall
Buchtel
Colorado
J. Frank Hanly
Indiana
E. F. Hoch
Kansas
Dolliver
Iowa
Sevsleep
EeceniDis Iore
Methodist Book Concern
New York
Western Methodist Book Concern
Cincinnati
Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Detective Buzzell Detained Then Freed In Somerville
Levi F. Buzzell of Dorchester a Boston private detective spent Saturday night in the Somerville police station after following a woman on Pearson road and causing a frenzy. He was arrested by Patrolman Davies but released after Chief Parkhurst heard his story and he gave a satisfactory explanation.
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Levi F. Buzzell
Dorchester
Boston
Somerville
Parkhurst
Buzzell
Pearson Road
Davies
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Limerick
Hubby
Wifey
Talbot Company
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Mrs. Atkinson
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