Governor Guild Returns to Public View Amid Parade Honors
Crowds cheered Governor Guild’s return to health as he reviewed the Fusiliers parade marking the 121st anniversary of the Fusilier Veterans' Association. The review on Marlboro Street near his home drew bands, colors, and a last minute flower delivery. Major Lombard boasted on a Fort Revere target-accuracy device and night firing without line-of-sight, praising a new naval targeting method.
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Governor Guild
Fusilier Veterans’ Association
Marlboro Street
State House
Louis M. Clark
City Hall
Marlboro
Dartmouth
Major Martin
W. F. Sinclair
William F. Moore
Sinclair
Martin
R. G. Kilduff
Commonwealth
Fusiliers
Lombard
Massachusetts
Fort Revere
Boston Nationals and Cincinnati hold stalemate in 5 to 1 scoreless draw
Boston Nationals beat Cincinnati 5 to 1 in a spare offensive showing. Taylor’s lineup remains weak as New York dumps its third straight 3 to 10 loss. Aurelio Herrera meets Wil Letter Fitzgerald in a 12 round bout at agent A. A. Cambridge Latin crew loses two top oarsmen.
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Boston Nationals
Cincinnati
Taylor
New York
Aurelio Herrera
Wille Fitzgerald
A. A
Cambridge Latin Crew
Woman Arrested on Train Platform Aimed at President
A refined woman identified as Carrie Ade from New Rochelle New York was arrested in Louisville Kentucky after attempting to board a train to Washington to kill President Roosevelt. She had been employed as a cook by Mrs Hugo Ziegfield at 115 Centre Avenue New Rochelle and was described as well dressed.
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Louisville
Tenth Street
Carrie Ade
New Rochelle
N.Y
Washington
Roosevelt
N. Y
Hugo Ziegfield
Centre Avenue
Black Hand Threat Targets St Joseph Grocer
Ira L. Daley of the Spotless Grocery in St Joseph Missouri received a black hand letter threatening to blow up his stores if he did not deliver $100 by May 16. Daley is in Boston for the national retail grocers convention while the letter was mailed from St Joseph on May 7.
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Ira L. Daley
St. Joseph
Mr. Daley
Care Grocers
Boston
Mass
Grocers Hear Hub Streets Boasted At National Convention
Enthusiasm marked the National Retail Grocers' convention at Faneuil Hall with reports on progress toward better laws. President Norman H. Johnson of Raleigh, North Carolina, received tumultuous applause as he proclaimed Yankee Doodle and Dixie equal in spirit, addressing delegates from nearly every state.
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Union
Dixie
Liquor License Rule Defeated in Senate Appeal
Senate President William D Chapple sustained a ruling 28 to 5 on appealing a decision by Senator Linehan of South Boston. The debate focused on a bill to bar issuing more than one liquor license to a single dealer, preventing a licensed bar from holding a bottler's license at the same location.
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William D. Chapple
Senate
Linehan
South Boston
Harvard physician links fashion pockets to bad posture
Dr Joel RE Goldthwait told the Massachusetts Medical Gymnastic Society that current trouser pockets cause the so called Harvard stoop and that removing portions of pockets could improve posture. He warned the erect back is not ideal for health and urged swimming while cautioning against diving.
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Joel RE. Goldthwait
Massachusetts Medical Gymnastic Society
Harvard Stoop
Boston
Boston Area Weather Forecast Says Showers Later
Fair conditions Tuesday in Boston and vicinity with possible showers late in the day or night. Wednesday brings showers with southerly to easterly winds as rain moves through New England and cooler conditions in the south portion.
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Boston
Vicinity
Washington
New England
Village Fires Endanger Two Massachusetts Towns
Two eastern Massachusetts villages faced near total destruction from fires started by incendiaries. Westboro suffered about 50000 in damage with tenements burned and residents driven into the streets. Orleans Cape Cod saw about 10000 in losses as the town’s fire apparatus was saved barely from the blaze. Aid came from Worcester and other cities to control the fires.
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Massachusetts
Westboro
Orleans
Cape
Worcester
Fire destroys multiple Westboro tenements and industrial buildings
Fire driven from homes forces six families to flee as an old shoe factory storage warehouse for Foster Richardson and a large eight tenement block burn. Two nearby tenements on Brigham Street ignite, followed by the five story Armour Beef Co building at Cottage and Brigham. Gasoline tanks and iron castings stored at a rear shed also burn.
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Westboro
Foster-Richardson Company
Cottage Street
Brigham Street
Cottage
Brigham Streets
Armour Beef Company
W. B. Frost
Alice Longworth Stirs Congress With A Tacking Toy
In Washington May 11 Mrs Alice Longworth seated in the executive gallery distracted by a tack she placed on a seat. A pompous man entered, sat, cried out and left amid the House disruption while the President's daughter laughed.
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Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Alice Longworth
Nicholas Longworth
Collision injures twenty five on Third Avenue elevated line
Twenty five people were injured when a southbound Third Avenue elevated train discharging at One Hundred Forty third Street collided with a following train. The motorman of the second train failed to see the rear coach until close contact.
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New York
Third Avenue
Train Collision Causes Windows to Shatter in Daring Escape
The crash broke windows in two cars and threw passengers to the floor, some cut by flying glass. The second train derailed, its wheels riding along the elevated structure tiles while terrified travelers opened gates and fled the cars across the ties, narrowly avoiding the third rail.
Found Child Found Child Dead in Dedham
Louise Staula six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Dominic Staula of 250 Washington Street was found dead this evening her skull fractured police suspect revenge motive Celia di Vresc a playmate saw her in the afternoon and the body was found after a long search by the family Chief Drugan ordered a rigid investigation blood stained stones were found at the scene no clue yet from the Italian colony where the body lay
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Dedham
Louise Staula
Dominic Staula
Washington Street
Celia di Vresc
Drugan
Cardinal Logue on Divorce
Cardinal Logue of Ireland spoke in New York on divorce, arguing separation without divorce may tempt immorality for those without conscience, while strict Catholic marriage law makes separation rare. He contrasted Mormon polygamy with progressive divorce and noted Pope sanctions for high profile affairs are unlikely. He warned America trends toward more divorce, with France seen as worse.
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New York
Cardinal Logue
Ireland
Prince DeLagan
Anna Gould
America
France
Dominion liner Ottawa collides with Fjold near Quebec
The Dominion liner Ottawa on a Montreal departure collided with the Norwegian coal steamer Fjold Sunday night. Ottawa returned to Quebec badly damaged with bows stove in and forehold flooded, but passengers and crew are reported safe. Unconfirmed wireless reports claimed Fjold sunk.
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Montreal
Dominion
Ottawa
Fjold
Quebec
Alderman Brand Breaks From Mayor Over Dorchester Streets
Alderman Brand becomes the first Republican to split from the non partisan administration. He taunted the administration about Dorchester street conditions while urging a $40,000 supplementary appropriation to create a street cleaning yard in that district.
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Alderman Brand
Board of Aldermen
Dorchester
Dorchester streets need more workers and funds
Alderman Brand urged a supplementary $40 000 for the public grounds department to clean Dorchester streets, which he said cover one quarter of the city with only six men. The board also moved to curb loafers by removing malice and wanton language from the ordinances and granted other supplemental appropriations for local services.
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Dorchester
Brand
Hibbard
O'Meara
Exchange Place
Alderman Leary
East Boston
Frederic North
Alderman Curley
Margaret C. Fitzgerald
John J. Fitzgerald
Curley
Mattapan
P. J. McCarthy
Providence
Board of Aldermen
American Newspaper Man Dies Aboard Lutzow Voyage
Joseph Leicht, a first cabin passenger and American newspaper man, died on the steamship Lutzow during the voyage to Cherbourg France. The body will be shipped to New York on Wednesday.
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Cherbourg
France
Joseph Leicht
Lutzow
Wright brothers claim successful powered flight
In MANTEC North Carolina on May 11 the Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur of Dayton Ohio completed their most successful flight to date after two weeks of tests. The demonstration showed that engine powered aerial navigation is an accomplished fact.
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Mantec
N. C
Wright Brothers
Orville and
Wilbur
Dayton
Ohio
Wright brothers soar at Kill Devil Hill with new flight record
The Wright brothers achieved a 27 16 mile flight at Kill Devil Hill starting at 9 16 am, lasting three minutes seven seconds and averaging 46.774 mph. A second flight covered 21 16 miles, then a shorter mile run, with secrecy surrounding their machine and savers as confidants.
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Kill Devil Hill
Wright Brothers
United States Weather Bureau
Methodist Conference backs church union and temperance stance
At Baltimore May 11 delegates passed a unanimous resolution favoring a union of the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant churches. They also urged parties to nominate a president committed to ending liquor selling and to abstain if not a total abstainer. Bishop M C Harris reported on missions in Japan and Korea.
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Baltimore
Hughes
New York
Methodist General Conference
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Protestant
Committee On Temperance
M. C. Harris
Japan
Korea
Harris
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