Mrs McKinley Near Death in San Francisco
Mrs. McKinley remains gravely ill in the Scott mansion San Francisco as doctors administer nitro glycerine injections and heart stimulants to revive weak heart action. She showed a brief revival but life hangs by a thread and public events in her honor are canceled as President McKinley stays at her bedside with Cabinet members awaiting further word.
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San Francisco
Cal
Mrs. McKinley
Hirschfelder and Gibbons
Rixey
Scott Mansion
Cortelyou
Scott
McKinley
Lafayette Park
Nervousness Attributed To Sick Blood
An article asserts nervousness stems from impure or thin blood. It argues disease cannot attack a healthy system when blood is pure and rich, and that weak blood forces nerves into excessive strain leading to prostration or collapse.
Germene Promises Cure by Purifying Blood
An ad promoting Germene claims it cleanses blood of disease germs and prevents nerv ous disorders by removing the disease cause. It warns against stimulants and urges readers to take Germene, sold by Peers Remedy and Chemical Co. of Akers Lynn Mass, via all druggists.
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Peers Remedy and Chemical CO
Akers, Lynn, Mass
Subway proposal from L line to fund and control tunnel
Mr Gaston submitted a plan to the committee on metropolitan affairs for the L road to build a subway at its expense and transfer it to the city for 50 years exclusive use. Gaston declined to discuss the offer publicly, noting no formal proposal had been laid before the committee. Other plans include state construction with lease or the road building it as part of its equipment.
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L Road
Gaston
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Fatal Accident During Hypnotic Exhibition in Woonsocket
In Woonsocket Rhode Island on May 16 Professor Frank E Farnsworth and wife staged a hypnotism show. Thomas Bolton 24 of Fitchburg died when a 600 pound stone crushed his head as a chair failed under weight. Clifford Trask 22 was arrested after attempts to break the stone with a sledgehammer. Farnsworth and Trask face investigation while Bolton’s sudden death shocks the company.
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Woonsocket, R. I
Frank E. Farnsworth
Fitchburg
Thomas Bolton
Bolton
Farneworth
Clifford Trask
Blackstone Street
Sarah Bolton
Professor Farnsworth
Trask
Mr. Trask
Electrician killed by live wire at Worcester pole
Joseph E. Lacair, 41, was electrocuted at work on a Worcester light pole. Five and a half thousand volts passed through him after he forgot the current was on and formed a circuit with the lamp.
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Worcester
Joseph E. Laclair
Mrs. Gage In Critical Yet Stable Condition
Secretary Gage reports at his Washington home that Mrs. Gage remains critically ill. She is weak but resting fairly comfortably with no change in her condition.
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Washington
Fire Damages Granite Railway Plant in Quincy
A blaze at the Granite Railway Company plant in Quincy caused about 2000 in damage, primarily to machinery, on May 16. The fire damaged the plant's operations and equipment.
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Quincy
Granite Railway Company
McKinley Illness in California After Desert Trek
Mrs. McKinley's health deteriorates during the journey through New Mexico and Arizona. Dr. Rixey lances a felon again near Surf Station and Del Monte, while dysentery worsens. President meets with Dr. Hirschfelder to discuss treatment as police guard the house and telegraphers handle the President's correspondence.
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Paso
New Mexico
Arizona
Los Angeles
Rixey
Harrison Gray Otis
Dr. Rixey
McKinley
Surf
Santa Cruz
Mr. Scott
Transportation of Tuberculosis Passengers debated at congress
May 16 New York tuberculosis congress heard Dr George Chaffee of Brooklyn urge a national ban on moving consumptives in railway cars. Dr M R Leverson of Brooklyn challenged dismissive claims about contagion while others argued fear spreads disease. A disturbance followed and Dr Charles K Cole moved to exclude the paper from minutes. it was carried. Resolutions called for government action to limit disease spread.
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New York
Tuberculosis Congress
George Chaffee
Brooklyn
M. R. Leverson
Charles K. Cole
Helena
Mont
Congress
Guests from Nova Scotia visit Mt. Olivet Lodge Cambridge
Thirty one members from Scotia Lodge and A M of Yarmouth N S visited Mt. Olivet Lodge F and A M Cambridge. They arrived on the steamship Yarmouth at 11 o clock and depart at 2 this afternoon. Trolley rides theatre parties and a dinner at the Quincy House followed. The master Mason degree was worked for five candidates in Masonic Hall Cambridge with about 15 members present. A banquet was held in Temple Hall.
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Scotia Lodge
A. M
Yarmouth
N. S
Mt. Olivet Lodge
Cambridge
Quincy House
Masonic Hall
Lodge
Temple Hall
Nashua Robbery Case Faces Court For Theft
Nashua businessman John Carpenter 55 accuses Mary Mahoney 28 of stealing 492 dollars from his room at the Revere House. Police recovered 191.40 in various locations. Mahoney restitution led to further investigation and court proceedings.
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John 8. Carpenter
Nashua
N. H
Mary Mahoney
Revere House
Mr. Carpenter
Berkeley Street
Revere
Carpenter
J. J. Murphy
McGuire
Station 3
Training New Firemen In Boston Cadet Class Of 26
Twenty six Boston fire department cadets began a 30 day course in fighting apparatus under Lt. Alfred J. Porter in the Bristol street yard. Nine men will be transferred to various stations this morning, per fire commissioner orders, with several moving between engines and ladders.
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Boston Fire Department
Bristol Street
Alfred J. Porter
David L. Brooks
St Street
Jeremiah J. Hickey
Louis J. Howard
John H. Sullivan
South Boston
Thomas J. Feeley
John A. McLaughlin
India Wharf
Stephen E. O’brien
Bicycle theft arrest in Cambridge linked to sale scene
Officers arrest Frank Coram of 116 Broadway after a bicycle matching James Lombard’s reported stolen wheel is found. Lombard identifies the bicycle, seller Harry Pikes is named, and Coram admits selling the wheel and other bikes to Olaf Hanson Angus McGilvra and Joseph Poulanger. Several wheels are found in the Coram cellar.
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Gordon and
Neile
Cambridge
Frank Coram
Broadway
Hile
James Lombard
Harry Pikes
Alex McGilvray
Station 2
Lombard
Coram
Boston
Olaf Hanson
Angus McGilvra
Joseph Poulanger
Blood Purifier Claims to Halt Microbe Threat
An article extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a powerful blood purifying remedy. It argues clean blood prevents microbes, touts cures for boils pimples and scrofula, and includes testimonials from William Fleeter Annie Wells and Eli Ashford. It also notes the product contains no alcohol or narcotics and warns against inferior substitutes.
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Dr. Pierce
Wm. Fleeter
Redoak
Montgomery Co
Iowa
Pierce
Eli Ashford
Raney, Hunt Co
Texas
JONSON HUNTED FOR WIS Wit
Lee Chin in Chinatown restaurant near 38 Harrison avenue hears a scream as George F. Johnson claims his wife there. Johnson, armed with a broken opium pipe, is escorted outside by Officer Huse. The woman flees in a taxicab, Johnson warned to seek another location.
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Lee Foy Chin
Hong Far Low
Harrison Avenue
Lee Chin
Chinatown
Lee Ia
Thuse
Station 4
George F. Johnson
West Cedar Street
Johnson
Huse
Ani Sag Op
Jenkins Keeps Crown as Johnson Stumbles Twice
Local wrestling cards show Tom Jenkins defeating Gus Johnson in both sessions at Howard. Johnson forced eight minutes thirty five seconds of work in the afternoon before Jenkins pinned him, then fell in nine minutes forty eight seconds at night to retain the title.
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Tom Jenkins
Gus Johnson
the Howard
Johnson
Jenkins
Kilduff Dies From Fitchburg Division Rail Crash Injuries
Martin B. Kilduff, one of the victims of the Somerville railroad collision on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine railroad, died at Somerville Hospital at noon yesterday.
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Martin B. Kilduff
Fitchburg
Boston & Maine Railroad
Somerville
Boy, 16, Charged With Stealing Horse in South Boston
Cohen aged 16 of 327 Harrison avenue was arrested last night charged with breaking and entering the stable of Samuel Schobel of 164 B street South Boston on the 11th and stealing a horse valued at 40 dollars.
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B. A
Cohen
Harrison Avenue
Samuel Schobel
B Street
Boston
Attleboro Woman Death by Her Own Action in North Attleboro
May 16 Mrs. Alice Freeman died by inhaling gas at the residence of her in law William Riley in North Attleboro. Temporary insanity is believed to have caused the act.
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Attleboro
North Attleboro
Alice Freeman
William Riley
Lawrence Woman’s Body Found Near Mills Inlet
The body of Sarah Boyle of Lawrence was found floating in the north canal near the Merrimack wool scouring mills. She had been missing since May 6.
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Lawrence
Sarah Boyle
North Canal
Merrimack
Fire in West Roxbury Stable Causes $300 Damage
Alarms from Box 53 and Box 582 were rung shortly before 6 o'clock last night for a fire in a one and a half story wooden stable on Bourne street West Roxbury. The structure owned by George K Minot was unoccupied. Damage estimated at $300.
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West Roxbury
Bourne Street
George K. Minot
Employers' Boycott Ruling From Chicago Superior Court
In Chicago on May 16 Judge Baker ruled that it is for employers to maintain a blacklist. The decision emerges from a civil case in which labor practices and the right to hire without discrimination were central issues.
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Legal Chicago
the Superior Court
Baker
Fall River Falls Short in New England Bowling
In Boston lanes during the New England championship Fall River was edged by Of ton 1341 to 1336 last night.
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Fall River
New England
Boston
Ofton
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Ichcock
el Paso
New Orleans
Dr. Lyon
Stone
Mrs. Gage
M’kinley
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Nova Scotia
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Portland
Edward Graffam
William Hands
Bonney
Gifford Mosher
Crrpenter
Corbett
James J. Corbett
PF. Uhl
Grand Rapids, Mich
Erwin F. Uhl
Common Sense
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R. Ve Ieree
Buffalo
N. Y
Jonson
Wis Wit
Kilduff
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