Arsenic Suspect in Windsor Home Case Is Jailed
Hartford report says Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilligan proprietor of the Archer Home for Aged People in Windsor is jailed on poisoning charges after Franklin R. Andrews, a resident, bought ten ounces of arsenious acid three days before his death. Pharmacy records show purchases for rat poison and arsenic in fatal quantities. Will of Gilligan’s late husband cited as evidence. exhumations planned. Windsor community shaken as locals defend her.
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Hartford
Conn
Amy IE. Archer Gilligan
Archer Home
Windsor
Hartford County
Franklin R. Andrews
Michael W. Gilligan
Mason's Drug Store
Gilligan
St. Mary's
Windsor Locks
IL. I. King
Andrews
Chet
Myre
John J. Nilan
Windsor Church
Shorter Work Days for Women Conference Planned
New England women in social and civic affairs will meet at the Twentieth Century Club on May 22 to discuss shorter work days for women and minors. A bill to mandate such hours is to be introduced in state legislatures next year. The conference aims to study needs and show women how to aid workers in industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Twentieth Century Club
Yale
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cambridge University
Six Arrests In Arson Trust Case By Boston Police
Six people were arrested in what police call the arson trust cases. The suspects include Harry Halpert a 37 year old cigarmaker and his wife Fanni Halpert 29 of 192 Marion Street East Boston Michael Blum of 150 Marion Street Morris Ballinoff 28 of Marion Street Julius Yorke and his wife Ida Yorke of 6 Frederick Street South Boston. Inspectors Lynch Towle and state officers Sherlock and Thompson led the arrests using a large automobile to transport suspects to police headquarters. A separate note describes a man swept into a river after losing balance while fishing near the American Hoe and Fork Company dam.
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Harry Halpert
Fanni
Halpert
Marion Street
East
Boston
Michael Blum
Morris Ballinoff
Julius Yorke
Ida Yorke
Frederick Street
South
Lynch and Towle
Sherlock and
Thompson A
Rescuer Delivers Drowning Rescue in Moose River
In Johnsbury Vermont on May 12 Adelard J. Payeur sprang into Moose River and saved six year old Ernest Jay son of Alfred Jay from drowning. The boy, who had fallen in, was pulled to safety and given aid by bystanders before being treated locally.
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Johnsbury
Adelard J. Payeur
Moose River
Ernest Jay
Alfred Jay
Germany to Appoint a Food Dictator
HMILIN via London May 14 The Woelnische Zeitung announces the impending appointment of a food dictator to take charge of and control all matters concerning food in the empire. It says the minister will have absolute power over distribution and prices to equalize conditions and relieve the strain on large cities during the national shortage.
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Hmilin
London
The
Woelnische Zeitung
Empire
Seven Methodist bishops to be elected at general conference
Saratoga Springs New York May 14 The committee on episcopacy will recommend seven bishops for election at the Methodist Episcopal Church general conference One bishop will head Seoul Korea six will serve in the United States two missionary bishops will be chosen for Africa including an African descent candidate Balloting will begin tomorrow and run until two thirds of the conference approve the appointments
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
General Conference of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Committee On Episcopacy
United States
Seoul
Korea
Africa
Isaiah B. Scott
Joseph C. Hartzell
Prohibition Amendment Urged by Conference on Liquor
The report declares liquor shipments cannot be licensed without sin and urges Congress to submit a prohibition amendment for state action. It calls for national prohibition under Congress and includes the District of Columbia, plus closing the mails to liquor advertising until ratification.
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Congress
Conference
District of Columbia
United States
Jean Crones Note Appears From Lake Michigan
A sealed bottle found off Jackson Park contains a message signed Jean Crones claiming responsibility for poisoning guests at Bishop Mundelin’s banquet. The note says she is tired of being hunted by police, and it ends with a plea to notify authorities. The finder doubted the line about being hunted.
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Chicago
Jean Crones
Lake Michigan
Jackson Park
Bishop Mundelin
Methodist plan favors union of Methodist branches
The Episcopal church committee votes to unite the Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal South branches, ending a slavery era split from seven years ago. The state of the church panel then backs loosening discipline to allow games, theatre, dancing, arguing these amusements draw youth to worship. Chancellor Day and President Plantz led the push against bans. A major week ahead weighs temperance and prohibition posture, with a groundbreaking temperance report approved by the committee.
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Committee On
James R. Day
Syracuse University
Samuel Plantz
Lawrence University
Appleton
Wis
Temperance
Methodist Episcopal Church
Protest Licenses Against Parish District Dorchester
Members of St. Leo's parish Dorchester met in the old rectory on Esmond street to protest the granting of any licenses in the parish district. P. J. Conlon, president, presided.
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St. Leo's Parish
Dorchester
Esmiond Street
P. J. Conlon
Boston Press Praised by Navy Day Supporters
Letter from Jane Rush, president of the Massachusetts Auxiliary Naval Relief Society, thanks the Boston press for Navy Day coverage. She commends the press for free illustrations and text that informed 30,000 visitors, strengthening civic and military ties and patriotic spirit.
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Boston Press
Bush
Navy Yard
Massachusetts Auxiliary Naval Relief Society
Press of
Boston
Navy
Marine Corps
Jane Rush
Defense Society Urges Wilson Probe of Navy Letter
The American Defense Society executive committee asks President Wilson to investigate conflicting statements by Secretary Daniels and Admiral Fiske over a November 9 1914 letter about Navy deficiencies. Daniels says the letter was filed with the Navy chief clerk and unseen by him while Fiske says he personally handed it to Daniels.
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Washington
The
American Defence Society
Wilson
Daniels
Fiske
Navy Department
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Neal
Kiker - Jaynes
Elvis
Vox
Tie
American Hoe & Fork Company
Fannie Halpert
Germany
Methodists
Superior Cut Glass
New York State
Iaiid
Inch Plateau
Jordan Marsh Company
Defence Society
Daniels-Fiske Difference
James L. Locke
Alpine Street
Malden
Mr. Locks
West
Lowell
Devonshire St
Devonshire
Eanee
Herbert Spencer
Faraday
James Watt
Fulton
Stevenson
Edison
John Dalton
Schliemann
Lincoln
Charles Dickens
Horace Greeley
Joseph Pulitzer
Bennett
Rockefeller
Carnegie
James J. Hill
Walter Scott
W.B. Clarke CO
Tremont St
Court Square
Britannica
Sears, Roebuck and Co
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