Woman Fulfills Pact Conducting Grave Funeral
In New Haven May 38 funeral services for Earl B. Kenyon, longtime conductor on the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad, were led by Mrs. Ella Bond. The pair, once youths, vowed the survivor would conduct the others funeral, a pact fulfilled as Mrs Bond read his oration, her own poem, and part of Psalm 23.
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New Haven
Earl B. Kenyon
New York
Hartford
Ella Bond
Kenyon
Shell Unearthed From Civil War Barricade Near Jackson
Walter Arning, a railroad engineer, found a shell buried since the Civil War at Jackson. He attempted to open it to study internal workings, causing an explosion that left him in a local sanitarium in critical condition with lacerations, a severed hand, and a broken leg.
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Tackson
Miss
Walter Arning
Armstrong
Railroad Traffic Stalled by Swarm of Bees in Omaha
In Omaha on May 3 an unusual accident halted all railroad traffic for an hour at Union depot after two stands of honey bees fell from a truck and released a swarm throughout the waiting area. Passengers fled as bees covered the floor and monitors. Traffic resumed after the swarm dispersed.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Depot
Bride waits in vain at altar in Sharon
Elizabeth Korp’s family seeks John Thomas who vanished after she waited at the altar in Sharon Pennsylvania on May 3. Police and relatives appeal for information to locate him and determine the outcome of their engagement.
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Sharon, Penn
John Thomas
Elizabeth Korp
Bride and Sister Faint as Groom Missing at South Sharon Church
A 17 year old bride and her 22 year old fiancé failed to wed when the bridegroom did not appear at South Sharon Presbyterian Church. An orchestra and bridal party attended. the pastor dismissed guests and the brides fainted, later taken home in a carriage. The bride remains unconscious and in critical condition.
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South Sharon Presbyterian Church
Thomas
Goat Sleeps High in Tree on Fulton Farm
Bob Rogers of Fulton keeps a goat that nightly naps in a tree above his farm. The animal’s travel plans to East St. Louis fell through when the crate was lost, and a neighbor later spotted the goat curled on a curved branch high in a slanting tree, seemingly without danger of falling.
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Fulton
Bob Rogers
National Stock Yards
East St. Louis
Pastor resigns over baseball loyalties in St Louis
The Rev. Dr. Homer B Henderson resigns as pastor of Wagoner Place United Presbyterian Church to accept a call from First United Presbyterian Church in Detroit Michigan He cites stronger Detroit baseball appeal and wishes to move June 1 He previously studied at Xenia Ohio and served a church in eastern Ohio before leading in St Louis.
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ST. Louis
Detroit
Homer B. Henderson
Wagoner Place United
Ohio
Dorchester Student Promoted to Fourth Regiment Colonel
Colonel William G. Brooks of Dorchester, a 17 year old Dorchester High senior and musician, named colonel of the Fourth Regiment Boston School Cadets. Promoted officers include T P O Connor lieutenant colonel, R J Jennings major, H G Kaye major, and G T Thurston major. The brigade totals about 4000 cadets across Dorchester and South Boston.
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Ranlett
Schoadlg
Boston
Dorchester High School
William G. Brooks
Company E
Boston School
T. P. O'Connor
South Boston
R. J. Jennings
Dorchester
Harold G. Kaye
Dorchester High
Mechanics’ Building
Mechanics
Mechanics' Building
Palmer's Rhode Island Reds Profit Record
LENOX May 3 Representative Frank R. Palmer of Stockbridge owns 100 Rhode Island reds in Massachusetts. In a year ending today each hen earned 15 cents daily, totaling 5475 dollars. Palmer seeks early legislature adjournment to tend settings while Mellen watches over his flock weekly. Eggs are sold at a high price as setting eggs.
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Lenox
Frank R. Palmer
Stockbridge
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Charles §. Mellens
New Haven Road
Council Grove Farm
Berkshire County
Mir. Palmer
Palmer
Aged Man Falls From Second Story Window
In Newburyport May 38 William King 81 retired fisherman wandered from his daughter’s home at 50 Liberty Street into John Murphy’s Beck Street house. He tried to climb from a second story window and fell to a plank walk below dying at the hospital tonight.
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Newburyport
William King
Jennie Pierce
Liberty Street
John Murphy
Beck Street
King
Poorly equipped Northern volunteers face early Civil War turmoil
A 1861 wartime report notes many muskets issued to Northern troops were defective with bent nipples, insecure locks, and barrels with flaws. The warnings come from Phila based Major General Cadwalader via Colonel P. Lyle, highlighting weapon shortages that aided Confederate gains in the war’s opening months.
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2Nd Regiment Infantry
Phila
Penn
George Cadwalader
Seizure of U S Forts and Southern War Claims
The piece accuses the South of initiating war and seizing Union forts south of Mason and Dixon’s line. It lists fort costs, manning, and armament, notes remaining Federal forts, cites Navy bases at Pensacola and Key West, and warns that Davis will pursue full war if arms are not surrendered.
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Boston
Davis
Congress
Pickens
South Carolina
Union
National
Jefferson Davis
United States
Mason and Dixon
South
Minnesota Ready at Charleston Navy Yard with Heavy Armament
The steam frigate Minnesota is nearly complete at the Charleston Navy Yard. She has a crew of 630 and a marine guard of 50, with 14 eight inch guns on the spar deck and 28 nine inch guns on the main deck. The ship will carry two launches and four cutters, each armed with Dahlgren guns, and mount about 287000 pounds of shell plus 63000 pounds of powder.
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Boston
Minnesota
Charleston Navy Yard
Commissioner Reed
China
Commodore Stringham
Patriotism in Prison Sent Convict Seeks Return to Service
A German convict at the State Prison with about ten months left for forgery wrote the warden claiming he enlisted in the U S army in 1847. He fought at Vera Cruz and the Mexico campaign, served in the Cherokee Nation and Texas, and was honorably discharged. He asserts his heart’s desire to serve the adopted country again.
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Boston Post
State Prison
U. S. Army
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Texas
How slaves became contrabands in the Civil War
General Ben Butler issued the contraband of war phrase at Fortress Monroe on May 24 1861 after three runaway slaves arrived and were put to fortification work. Colonel Carey of Virginia demanded return citing the Constitution, but Butler argued Virginia’s secession voided Constitutional protection for slaveholders and detained the fugitives as contraband of war.
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Cambridge
Post
Ben Butler
Fortress
Monroe
Carey
Virginia Volunteers
Butler
Virginia
Anti-Suffrage Women Meet in Massachusetts Assembly
The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women held its annual meeting with Miss Mary S. Ames reappointed as president. Reports from the organization and education committees were presented. Grace Duffield Goodwin of Washington spoke on why she is an anti suffragist.
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Massachusetts Association
J. B. Miller
Mt. Vernon Street
Mary S. Ames
William Lowell Putnam
Henry M. Whitney
J. Randolph Coolidge
Anna l L. Dawes
Charles BR. Guild
Charles D. Homans
Agnes Irwin
James M. Codman
Brookline
Elizabeth Johnson
Charles P. Strong
Martin L. Cate
Sarah H. Crocker
Elizabeth H. Houghton
Henry P. Kidder
Elizabeth McCracken
L. C. Post
B. L. Robinson
Robert 8. Russell
Elizabeth P. Sohier
Grace Duffield Goodwin
Washington, D. C
Home Helps to Health and Beauty Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes a greaseless face cream jelly made with almo roth and glycerine for clear skin and reduced pores. It also sells a blood purifier tonic from sugar and hardene, a simple eye tonic with crystal, and a blonde hair restoration wash using marlax tea.
Woman sets burning trap in New Bedford home
In New Bedford on May 3 Mrs. David Stone poured kerosene on her clothing in the cellar of her Gregory block home and set it afire after locking two children in a room. Edward Levy rescued her but doctors say she cannot live at St Luke's Hospital. The children escaped after noticing the gas. authorities suspect temporary insanity.
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New Bedford
David Stone
Gregory Block
South Water Street
Two held in Firebug case at Cambridge District Court
Hyman Jersky, 43, of 35 Barton street Boston, held on $2000 bond for grand jury on charge of attempting to set fire at 9 Fourth street Cambridge on April 21. Max Garfingle of 2 Brighton place Boston also faced the same charge, while David Pearlstein of Williams street Chelsea, owner of the property, was freed as accessory before the fact.
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Hyman Jersky
Barton Street
Boston
Aimy
Cambridge District Court
Fourth Street
Cambridge
Max Garfingle
Brighton Place
David Pearlstein
Williams Street
Chelsea
East Cambridge
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