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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
7
A passenger train on the Temiscouta railroad derailed at Clair in New Brunswick near Fort Kent this afternoon. Several Boston men were aboard, but no injuries were reported.
May 11 New Bedford report describes Patrolman Spooner in blackface entering 265 South Water Street store. He infiltrated a policy raid, finding three men printing slips. five runners present. Slips money and a printing outfit captured. proprietor located. Officers noted white hands amid the disguise.
Dr A C Dixon of Ruggles Street Baptist Church headlines a dispute after an open letter in a Boston paper quoted him claiming Rockefeller ordered a lecturer to Europe to buy a library. Shailer Mathews denies the quotation as wholly false and says Dixon has offered no evidence. Dixon is reportedly in Kentucky and will return next week.
Thomas R. Lackey, former head of the Prudential Life Insurance office in Salem, Nebraska, testifies in Omaha that his wife twice attempted to kill him after he took out an $18,000 policy. The judge requires corroboration before granting a divorce. Lackey did not attend a separate alimony suit in Nebraska.
The society page highlights the upcoming wedding of Miss Mabel Beard to Francis M. Smith of Providence with John O. Ames as best man. It also notes multiple Boston and Cambridge families traveling abroad, recent engagements, and condolences for Miss Constance Keith after her mother’s death.
In long absence from the Quaker settlement, John Laramie returns a wealthy but changed man. He seeks to rekindle love with Anabel, facing her aunt’s stern caution while she wrestles with past memories and a chance at happiness beyond strict propriety.
The Rev Wilburn A Shaw aged 68 a retired Baptist minister died at Kensington New Hampshire today May 11 He graduated from Andover Theological Seminary and held pastorates in Chicago and Cincinnati Later and until a year ago he was connected with the Baptist mission at Nashua
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