Who Took Annie 10 Dances in Cambridge and Boston Balls
Annie Mullins attended the policemen's ball in Prospect Hall Cambridge on January 8 and the letter carriers' ball in Mechanics Hall Boston. Her employer Mrs Von Jagemann supplied two tickets for each event but cannot name her companion. Mrs A M Tubbs of Brattle Square Cambridge testified at the inquest and gave the man's name. District Attorney Higgins asks newspapers to help locate the two men who rode Motorman Donnelly's car the night of the murder. one man said he had an engagement with a girl and got off near the Von Jagemann house on Shepard Street.
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Ball
Boston
Annie
A. M. Tubbs
Brattle Square
Shepard Street
von Jagemann
Annie Mullins
Prospect Hall
Cambridge
Higgins
Middlesex County
Michael J. Dennelley
Raymond Street
Dennelley
Walker Street
Mystery grows in Annie Mullins case with ball companion named
Witness Mrs. Tubbs recalls Annie Mullins’s claim she attended the policeman and letter carriers’ balls with a man Mrs. Von Jagemann had supplied tickets for. Police seek who gave Mullins the ruby ring and where bought, plus search for a sewing machine and the blue‑formed letter writer Katie Joyce identified. Motorman Dennelley also helps locate two car passengers linked to the case.
Boston School Board Edges Toward Chelsea Taxpayers Aid
The Boston School Committee debated using city funds to aid Chelsea relief and to accept Chelsea children as temporary residents. They noted a $244,383.12 spending level with increases from lighting and power, and discussed funding playgrounds under school board control with a $25,000 transfer.
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Chelsea
Boston
Fast
Ellis
Brooks
Storrow
Park Commissioners
Harrington
The
Park Commission
Frank V. Thompson
High School of Commerce
John H. Casey
English High School
Mexicans Behind Brownsville Raid Allegations
Senator Bulkeley of Connecticut argued in the Senate that Mexican raiders, not colored soldiers, triggered the Brownsville incident. He claimed outsiders and local lawless elements aided the attackers while witnesses’ testimony was challenged by darkness. Senator Borah countered that it was a normal starlight night.
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Washington
Brownsville
Bulkeley
Connecticut
Senate
Borah
Kings Auto Sold For $875 By Mortgagee
The 60 horsepower 1907 model Austin car once owned by C. F. King was sold by mortgagee George A. Staples to Hugh G. Brown, president of the New England Hotel & Railroad News Company, yesterday morning for 875 dollars. The original cost was 4500 dollars.
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C. F. King
George A. Staples
Hugh G. Brown
New England Hotel & Railroad News Company
Rule of Five for Chelsea debate on governor powers
City leaders and medical society members urged a favorable bill while opponents argued against it. A Chelsea Medical Society resolution of 40 physicians supported the bill. A referendum received two votes in its favor and the group unanimously backed Governor power to appoint nonresidents if desired.
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Chelsea Medical Society
Alderman Warren
Chelsea
Thomas M. Ball
The
Medical Society
Phillips
Adams
Levenson
Chelsea Votes on Five-Year City Commission Plan
A packed Chelsea meeting heard Mayor Beck and ex Senator Howland push for a city government by commission. The crowd debated, with opponents arguing loss of suffrage and a five-year commission authority to govern Chelsea and rebuild after insurance funds flow into construction.
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Beck
Gould
Robinson
Warren
Howland
David A. Lowry
Willard Howland
David J. Maloney
Chelsea
Old City
James Gould
Board of Health
Street Traffic Control Granted to Boston Board
Beginning May 25 the Board of Street Commissioners will have entire control of street traffic in the City of Boston. Under the new act signed by Acting Governor Draper on April 24 the board has absolute authority and Commissioner O'Meara will enforce the regulations.
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Board of Street Commissioners
City of
Boston
Draper
O'Meara
President Roosevelt as American Isaiah, Rabbi Fleischer Says
Rabbi Charles Fleischer at the 48list Boston Baptist Social Union meeting at Ford Hall calls President Roosevelt an American Isaiah. He argues religion is innate, condemns revealed religion, and says laws like the interstate commerce act mature as sacred developments shaping the future of religion in America.
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Roosevelt
Isaiah
Charles Fleischer
America
Rabbi Fleischer
Boston Baptist Social Union
Ford Hall
Theodore
Evans to Join Fleet Today
Santa Cruz May 4 The Atlantic battleship fleet united as second squadron ships arrived from Monterey and torpedo boat destroyers joined from San Pedro after stormy voyages Admiral Evans to resume active command aboard the fleet. Connecticut to pick him up at Monterey at 6 30 and sail for Santa Cruz.
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Santa Cruz
San Francisco Bay
Evans
Thomas
Gas ends a life of Mary C. Perkins in Boston home
Mrs. Mary C. Perkins 35, a housekeeper for William Forrest at 802 Tremont Street, was found on a couch with a gas tube late last night. Forrest, a painter, says she had been an invalid and despondent for years. Perkins was born in Haverhill and moved to Boston recently.
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Mary C. Perkins
William Forrest
Tremont Street
Mr. Forrest
Forrest
Perkins
Haverhill
Boston
Car Door Traps Woman at Dover Street Station
Mrs. E. G. Foxon of 151 Clark Avenue Chelsea was caught when an elevated car door closed on her foot at Dover Street station around 11:30 PM. She suffered a shock and was carried to Relief Station for treatment.
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Dover Street
E. G. Foxon
Clark Avenue
Chelsea
Rogers Denies Conspiracy in Federal Merger Suit
H H Rogers and James Stillman named with Harriman and other railroads in a government merger case deny all allegations. The defendants and Union Pacific Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Southern Pacific and others face charges of unlawful conspiracy to restrain interstate commerce. Rogers demands dismissal of the case.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
H. H. Rogers
James Stillman
Harriman
EK. H. Harriman
Jacob Schiff
Union Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Mr. Rogers
Fire destroys Antipolo housing as shrine safe
A major fire in Antipolo Moreng province destroys four hundred houses leaving hundreds homeless. Lightning is reported as the cause. Antipolo, with about 38 500 residents, remains the site of the famous shrine which was saved.
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Manila
Antipolo
Moreng
General Stephen Turr Dies in Budapest
Budapest May 4. The renowned revolutionary General Stephen Turr has died in the city. A Garibaldian veteran, he once served as a confidential adviser to Louis Kossuth. Born in Baja, Hungary in 1852.
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Budapest
Stephen Turr
Louis Kossuth
Baja
Hungary
Irish Home Rule Debate Echoes in Commons
In London on May 4 Unionists pressed Premier Asquith over home rule for Ireland. He said he was not responsible for a Redmond Churchill remark interpretation. He asserted no fixed election issues and defended Liberal policy: Irish self government under Imperial sovereignty, with March 30 speech and resolution.
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London
Asquith
Ireland
House of Commons
John E. Redmond
Irish League
Winston Spencer Churchill
Manchester
Liberal Party
Education for Women Tied to Home and Community
Miss Sarah L. Arnold of Simmons College argued that education must include practical training for married life. She warned against narrow views on living costs and childrearing, urging Homes for widows and children as models. The talk, at the Boston Section Council of Jewish Women meeting, framed woman’s education as a central social issue connected to family and community.
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Sarah L. Arnold
Simmons College
Potter Hall
Boston
Miss Arnold
Glasgow
Trial Over $60 000 Will Brings Undue Influence Claim
Judge Rugg hears an appeal in East Cambridge from a probate decree allowing the $60,000 will of Martha FE Bailey of Newton. Executor Old Colony Trust Company faces opposition from James W. Bailey who alleges undue influence by Dr. Frederick W. Webber, the decedent's Newton physician.
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Rugg
Supreme Court
East Cambridge
Martha FE. Bailey
Newton
Old Colony’ Trust Company
James W. Bailey
Testatrix
Frederick W. Webber
Noted New York Lawyer Albert Stickney Dies at 69
Albert Stickney of Stickney Maclay McBurney died at his home 8 Washington Square at age 69. Born February 1 1839 in Boston he graduated from Harvard College 1859 and Harvard Law School in 1862. He served as lieutenant colonel of the Forty Seventh Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War. Paris election sees a woman suffrage candidate Jeanne Lalee heavily defeated in local ward race.
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New York
Albert Stickney
Stickney, Maclay & McBurney
Washington Square
Boston
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Forty-Seventh
Massachusetts Volunteers
Plague Cases Rise in Guayaquil as Deaths Reported
In Guayaquil on May 4 authorities report 48 new bubonic plague cases since April 2. During April there were 1380 plague deaths and 16 yellow fever deaths.
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Guayaquil
United States to Recognize Russian Bourse Certificates
PETERSBURG May 4 It is officially announced that the United States has agreed to recognize the Russian Bourse Committee certificates fixing the customs value of Russian goods imported into America.
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In. Petersburg
United States
America
Protracted Habeas Corpus Fight for Harry Thaw Begins
In Poughkeepsie on May 4 Judge Morschauser opened Thaw's habeas corpus hearing aimed at freeing him from Matteawan. Prosecutor Garvan warned the case could span the summer and require international commissions to London Paris Rome Monte Carlo and Pittsburg.
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Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Morschauser
Matteawan
Garvan
Jerome
London
Paris
Rome
Monte Carlo
Pittsburg
Thaw Trial Proceedings Move After Postponement
Report on the Thaw murder trial notes the approach of hearings in Dutchess county under habeas corpus, with Thaw's improved health and attire during a crowded courtroom appearance. Counsel debates witness intimidation and costs, a May 11 postponement, and Thaw's possible testimony aided by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
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Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan Asylum
James G. Graham
Newbury
Dutchess County
Jerome
Mack
New York
Garvan
Morschauser
Matteawan
Boy Killed by Electric Car at Concord Junction
Eight year old James Tuppe was playing tag with other boys when he wandered onto a track in front of an electric car in Concord Junction. He was run over and killed instantly. he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tuppe.
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Concord Junction
James Tuppe
John Tuppe
May Yet Adopt Vreeland Bill Sparks Conference Hope
Washington May 4 report notes the banking and currency committee voted to table the Vreeland financial bill yet many Republicans expect adoption at tomorrow’s conference. Congressman Weeks of Massachusetts was among the three voting against tabling the measure.
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Washington
Committee On Banking and Currency
Vreeland Financial
Congressman Weeks
Massachusetts
License fee bill defeated in House despite third reading
The bill to let the State keep half the liquor license fees was killed in the House by 83 to 89 votes with 16 pairs. If passed, Boston and other Yes towns would have surrendered half their license receipts, totaling about 1.5 million dollars in Boston alone.
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House of Representatives
Boston
Legislature Alters License Fee Split In Tax Measure Battle
A bill changing license fee distribution was amended to give the State half of fees annually instead of one quarter. After debate, Representative Grady opposed the measure, Gates defended it citing voter support. The bill went to a third reading but was defeated on a roll call.
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Walker
Brookline
Grady
Boston
Gates
Westboro
Underhill
Somerville
Johnson not 10 run second
Washington May 4 rumors of deals to nominate Governor Johnson of Minnesota for vice president on the Democratic ticket were denied at Johnson headquarters. The statement said, Johnson is pursuing the presidential nomination and would not accept the vice presidency under any circumstances if he fails to win the top prize.
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Washington
Johnson
Minnesota
Presidentia
Mate Choked to Death by Tobacco on Board Minora
Astoria May 4 A second mate aboard the schooner Minora was choked to death by a cud of tobacco while swept overboard. Captain Larsen said he floated on the waves like a bottle but died before rescue, 15 minutes after the incident.
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Astoria
Minora
Smith
Larsen
Ridicule drives boy to suicide in Scotch Plains tragedy
Augustus Frentz aged 20, captain of the Scotch Plains baseball team, committed suicide at his home after acquaintances mocked a speech impediment. The Plainfield incident occurred May 4 with Frentz dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
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Plainfield
N. J
Augustus Frentz
Scotch Plains Baseball Nine
Scotch Plains
Here
Frentz
German dignitaries named to plan tuberculosis congress participation
Berlin May 4. A committee of high empire officials has been formed to arrange Germanys participation in the International Congress on Tuberculosis set for Washington in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Empire
Germany
Washington
Mrs Lucy H R Deane Celebrates 90th Birthday
Foxboro reports Mrs Lucy HR Deane of Elm Street marked her 90th birthday yesterday. She belongs to a prominent local family and observed the milestone in town.
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Foxboro
Lucy HR. Deane
Elm Street
Morse's Conservative Suit Stock Attracts Quiet Taste
At Morse's we stress careful attention and broad selection. Yesterday we noted radical clothes options and today highlight a conservative suit stock. Priced at 20 and 25 dollars, Morse-Made dark worsteds feature pencil stripes and small checks in subdued colors in all sizes including stouts longs and regulars.
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Mullins
Annie Mul
Donnelly
Post
Katie Joyce
Boston School Board
South America
Common Council
Scannell
Germantown
South Cove
Kings Auto
Citizens’ Meeting
Chelsea Commission
M. Ball
Melvin M. Breath
Asses
George W. Ford
Denning
Ernor
Breath
Alderman Denning
FLEET
Frisco
Rogers
Turr
Dean Arnold
Stickney
Jeanne Lalee
Russia
Sheriff Chanler
Poughkeepsie
Harry Thaw
A. Russell Peabody
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
DUFFY
Holland
Holland Wine CO
Boylston Street
Adams Square
New England
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