Supreme Court Upholds Hepburn Railroads Coal Clause
The Supreme Court declares the commodities clause of the Hepburn act constitutional in a decision announced by Justice White. It reverses the Circuit Court ruling that the provision unlawfully deprived railroads of liberty and property by banning coal shipments from their own mines.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice White
Delaware & Hudson
Erie
New Jersey Central
Delaware & Lackawanna
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
United States Circuit Court
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
George Gray
Circuit Court
Recipes of New England Housewives on Sunday Post page
A digest of home recipes from Mrs L K Barker Dorchester Mrs E J Murray Revere Mrs A B Richardson Waltham and others detailing grapefruit orange lemon preserves tomato dish and a Gen baker’s shortcake. Includes instructions for custards dressings and fruit desserts with multiple names and addresses.
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New England
Sunday Post
L. K. Barker
Morse Street
Dorchester
E. J. Murray
Winthrop Avenue
Revere
Conductor Howard A Reeves recalls railroading perils and a deadly holdup
Howard A Reeves now serves the eastern division of the Boston and Maine. The Salem resident, 56, recounts brutal incidents from his career starting as a Lawrence freight brakeman and including a tunnel accident in Salem. He describes the Sunrise Express wrecks at Durham and Atkinson, and a Rockingham Junction robbery where a bandit was killed and another jailed.
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Howard A. Reeves
Boston & Maine
Reeves
Salem
Lawrence
Post
Durham
N. H
Portland
Boston
Atkinson
Rockingham Junction
Dover
Great Catholic University Plan in Newton by Maginnis Walsh
Plans unveiled for a major Catholic university in Newton featuring eighteen buildings with chapels, a library, dining hall, gymnasium and athletic fields. Prize awards were given to Maginnis & Walsh for the design with Edward T. P. Graham noted for second prize and supervision contract for the recitation hall.
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Newton
Boston College Hall
James Street
Father Gasson
Boston College
Gasson
Charles Maginnis
Oxford
Cambridge
Princeton
Bryn Mawr
University of Pennsylvania
Aca
Open Letter to Major General Wood
A citizen addressing Leonard A. Wood rebukes his stance on the Philippines while criticizing officers who defend subjugation policy. The letter urges accountability for military actions and questions the acceptability of apologism for orders.
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Wood
Leonard A. Wood
New England
Phillips Exeter Academy
Boston
Philippines
Uncle Walt Says The Pitcher By Matt Mason
A humorous verse imagining a baseball pitcher’s fame and fan adoration. The speaker fantasizes performing elaborate stunts on the mound and earning praise from fans and ladies, while balancing work gathering garlands by day and counting money by night.
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Joe
Matt Mason
Question on Philippine War Losses and Moros Massacre Obscurities
Erving Winslow, secretary, addresses claims about American policy in the Philippines. He cites Bates treaty 1899, Moro massacres at Mt Dajo, and debates on casualties, urging clarity on killed versus wounded numbers and the broader impact of U.S. occupation. He references Anti Imperialist League works to urge historical honesty.
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United States
Spain
Bates
Jolo
Assembly
Philippine Representative Body
House of Representatives
Congress
Philippine Islands
Mt. Dajo
Anti- Imperialist League
Erving Winslow
Halifax Sends Lobsters To Aid Pacific Coast
Halifax, N S May 3 In another push to establish the lobster industry on the Pacific coast a carload of live lobsters will depart here tomorrow for the far coast. Earlier shipments a year ago reportedly thrive in Pacific waters. Each lobster will be packed separately in wet seaweed.
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Halifax
N. S
Pacific
Deserter John J. Lambert Sentenced to 10 Years
John J. Lambert, tied to Charles Town Navy Yard, was court-martialed and sentenced to ten years for fraudulent enlistment. He has desertion records from the Navy and Marine Corps, with four prior dishonorable discharges and multiple enlistment removals. His pattern included obtaining clothing allowances around $40 and selling them to second-hand dealers.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
John J. Lambert
Ile
Naval Service
Marine Corps
No Danger in Spraying in Massachusetts
Letter to the editor cites Professor L. O. Howard assuring Massachusetts spraying against gypsy moths and elm leaf beetle poses no soil storage danger. Howard states arsenate of lead carries about 15 percent arsenic acid and is insoluble, reducing risk when properly applied. improper spraying caused waste in some cases.
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Massachusetts
I. O. Howard
Bureau of Entomology
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Headden
L. O. Howard
Bureau
Weston Leaves Mexico Man Walk From New York to San Francisco
Edward Pay son Weston departed Mexico Missouri on May 3 to begin a cross country trek from New York to San Francisco on foot. Local reports note the ambitious journey aims for endurance and publicity along the route.
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Mexico
Edward Payson Weston
New York
San Francisco
Balloon Pittsfield Lands After 70 Mile Flight
The balloon Pittsfield started from Pittsfield at 10 45 a m with H F Hughes Harold Sibley and William Van Sleet and landed in a Chesterfield meadow about four miles from Keene after three hours of flight. It reached speeds up to 55 miles an hour and altitude of 9000 feet with no incidents beyond a near collision at takeoff.
Man Plots to Stop Wife's Church Attendance
John V. Doro of Paterson New Jersey admitted in court to removing nuts from his buggy wheels to keep his wife at home on Sundays. The plan backfired when the wheels fell off before leaving the yard. He denied assaulting his wife or son and said he had tried to stop her churchgoing before.
Churches in Greater Boston Host Diverse Meetings
The Suffolk west conference opens at Old South Church tomorrow afternoon with Dr. Gordon Dr. Jones of India Dr. Barton and Dr. Herring of New York among speakers. The Social Club of the Church of the Disciples begins a bazaar today 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. featuring a May pole dance at 5 p.m. Evangelistic services by Reuben Smith at Maplewood Baptist Church extended a week. The 31st annual meeting of the Women’s American Baptist Home Missionary Society opens tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Ford building, closes Thursday. The South End Improvement Society hosts a second annual reception and dinner Thursday with ex-Governor Curtis Guild Jr Allen Treadway and Robert A. Wood as principal guests. Shawmut Congregational Church Sunday college ends for the season with Harvard professors among future speakers. A union meeting of Universalist and Unitarian women is set for 10:30 a.m. at Roxbury Universalist Church. The Cambridge Association of Ministers met at Bedford with Rev James Sallaway hosting.
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Suffolk West
Old South Church
Gordon
Jones
India
Barton
Herring
New York
Woman's American Baptist Home Missionary Society
Ford
Consolidated Society
South End Improvement Society
Parker Memorial Hall
Curtis Guild, Jr
Allen T. Treadway
Robert A. Wood
Mother Kills Son and Self in Connecticut Tragedy
In Jacobs Hollow near Stafford Springs, Mrs. Bernard Rister attacked memorial card agent Charles Emory with an axe, killed her 2 year old son, and then shot herself. Emory survived. Rister died at the scene after fatally shooting herself. Bernard Rister said his wife had shown erratic behavior since her daughter's death two weeks earlier.
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Stafford Springs
Conn
Jacobs Hollow
Bernard Rister
Charles F. Emory
Boston
Mrs. Rister
Leon Rounds
C. E. Olsen
Esther Cleveland In Rome Delights Italian Society
Esther Cleveland daughter of the former President tours Rome as a welcome guest of the American colony. She charms society in the Italian capital, has a private audience with the Pope who mentions her father with apparent familiarity. Pope Pius shows particular interest in the young woman during her Vatican visit.
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Rome
Esther Cleveland
Daniel S. Lamont
Cleveland
Esther
Pope Pius
Vatican
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Lafayette Street
St. Johnsbury
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Recitation
Commonwealth Avenue
South Street
Sodality
Beacon Street
Washburn-Crosby Co
Walt
George Matthew Adams
Pacific Coast
Howard
William D. Sohier
Weston
Greater Boston
Church of the Disciples
Reuben §. Smith
Somerville
Maplewood Baptist Church
Sunday College
The
Shawmut Congregational Church
Harvard
Roxbury Universalist Church
Care Eee
Cambridge Association of Ministers
Bedford
James Sallaway
Leveland
Pope
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
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