Raymond Foster Senate inquiry resumes at State House
The Senate investigation into George J. Raymonds charges against Senator Harry Foster will continue at the State House this morning. Remaining Friday witnesses, all businessmen, are to testify while Foster is expected to speak tomorrow. Raymond allegedly sought advice and Foster directed him to Lawyer Butler, who may testify to corroborate this account.
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Senate
George J. Raymond
Harry
Foster
State House
Raymond
Butler
Ten of the Old Guard Retired From City Hall Duty
By order of the Police Commission on Saturday, 13 veteran policemen who had served at City Hall were placed on the retired list. Portraits of 10 are shown with photos by Chickering. Names include A. L. Curtis and G. K. Lewis among others.
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Police Commission
City Hall
Captain Brewster Alleges Police Misconduct Over Rigging Theft
Captain A I Brewster of the Eastern King reports to the Board of Police that two coils of rigging were stolen from his vessel at the Federal Street bridge. He says a gang of youths loitered about the wharf and that Station 6 gave little help. At 10 o'clock Saturday night he was told to look for the rigging in a junk shop.
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A. I. Brewster
Eastern King
Federal Street Bridge
Board of Police
Brewster
Young Pickpocket Wanted in Forest Hills Incident
Police headquarters issued a general alert for a 26 year old man about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 155 pounds with a light complexion. Dressed in a red and gray suit and a black derby hat, he is suspected of pickpocketing Albert Linneman on a Forest Hills square car. Linneman later found $14 and a $13 check signed by R. K. B. Townsend missing from his pocket.
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Albert Linneman
Columbus Avenue
Forest Hills Square
Linneman
R. K B. Townsend
Boston Library to Move from Boylston Place to Back Bay
The Boston Library, oldest circulating library in the city, voted at a meeting chaired by T. K. Lothrop to offer its Boylston Place property for sale at 30 000. Twenty one of 23 trustees approved the sale to fund a Back Bay site, citing the present building's inconvenient location. The library, founded 1792 and incorporated 1794, was in Franklin Street before 1870. New trustees elected include Dr Edward Bradford, Russell Gray, and A Lawrence Lowell, among others.
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Boston
City
Boylston Place
Back Bay
Atheneum
Boston Library
T. K. Lothrop
Franklin Street
Edward Bradford
Russell Gray
Henry L. Howe
Thornton K. Lothrop
A. Lawrence Lowell
Frederick C. Shattuck
Howard Stockton
Barrett Wendell
J. Endicott Peabody
Henry G. Denny
Samuel §. Shaw
All Bourne Girls Are Engaged in Record Love Matches
May 17 Bourne residents boast a cottage industry of engagements as 107 marriageable Bourne girls are claimed to be engaged or betrothed. Elders recall Ruth Burgess and Nettie Lovett sparking a local spree, with courts of Springfield Boston and Newton cited as distant inspirers. A joking elder notes Bourne may outpace other towns in love, while denying spinsters in town.
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Bourne
Springfield
Boston
Frances Perry
Petcy Atkins
Margaret Swift
James Davies
Susan Nye
Carrie Marvell
Lucy Aldredge
Sadie Haney
Old Settler
Ruth ‘Burgess
Austin Bourne
Dorchester
Nettie Lovett
Heaven
First Murder, Now Fever
Worcester May 17 Mary Ambler indicted for murder in Rutland last January is ill in Worcester Isolation Hospital with mild scarlet fever per the Board of Health. Arrested March 9 in Sutton on murder charges, she allegedly abandoned her child in Rutland. Detained after May grand jury, she was jailed and moved to isolation hospital after fever developed.
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Worcester
Mary KE. Ambler
Board of Health
Sutton
Rutland
Superior Criminal Court
Summer Street
Lemuel F. Woodward
Emerson centennial observance begins at Harvard
The Harvard Emerson celebration opens at Kirkland Hall with Professor Munsterberg delivering lectures on Emerson as a philosopher. These talks precede the formal 100th birth anniversary observance on the 25th and are open to the public.
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Harvard
Kirkland Hall
Munsterberg
Emerson
Clan-na-Gael Field Day Preparations in South Boston
A large Clan-na-Gael meeting in South Boston arranged the July 4 field day activities. New Downer Landing will host both groves, with $2000 in prizes for top professional athletes from the U.S. and Canada. An executive committee of 10 was named led by John J Teevans with P J Fergerson and P A Foley as secretaries.
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Clan-na-Gael
Boston
New Downer Landing
Groves
Canada
John J. Teevans
P. J. Fergerson
P. A. Foley
T. F. Gavin
T. J. Collins
D. Flynn
W. Hi. Cuddy
D. Keefe
J. J. Cully
M. J. Crowe
McCarthy Death Mystery Remains Unsolved
Judge William Forsaith reports unable to determine cause of death of William McCarthy age unknown found in an alleyway off Commercial Street near Hanover at 3 30 am. Police and medical examiner offered no conclusive evidence of murder or accidental fall as inquest keeps case open awaiting new clues.
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William Forsaith
Municipal Court
William McCarthy
Battery Street
McCarthy
Commercial Street
Hanover
Station 1
Harris
Forsalith
Forsaith
Rev H A Adams Found in New Zealand After Disappearance
The Rev Henry Austin Adams of the Protes tant Episcopal Church, who vanished in August last year amid scandalous rumors, has been found in Auckland, New Zealand. He appeals for aid, describes a long mental struggle, and asks for help to return home to face his accusers and protect his name and memory.
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New York
Henry Austin Adams
Protestant Episcopal Church
Auckland
New Zealand
Bishop
Mr. Adams
Honest Shop Girl Receives Partial Reward for Pearl Necklace
New York May 17 Mrs Colgate Hoyt recovered her 25000 pearl necklace after offering a 5000 reward. A shop girl Harriet Schade found it in a gutter and returned it but was paid only 100. She threatens to sue for the remainder. Hoyt cried upon receiving the jewels but kept a portion of the reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harriet Schade
Mrs. Hoyt
Hattie Schade
Hibernian meet in Charlestown approves building plan
Division 1 A O H held a large meeting in Roughan Hall Charlestown with President Martin Joyce presiding. Delegations from other divisions attended as the body approved erecting a building for the six Charlestown divisions to use for society purposes.
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Roughan Hall
Charlestown
Martin Joyce
D. A. Scannell
John Doyle
Joseph Kirby
James O'Halloran
Martin Cannon
Michael O’ Donovan
William Doherty
George W. Stevens
C. F. Duffy
East Weymouth
Thomas Nevilles
M. J. Coyle
John Boogie
Brighton
Somerville
Chelsea
Cambridge
Boston
Division 8 Meeting At Stillman Street Hall
A large Military Division 8 gathering met at its Stillman Street hall with Colonel Charles McCarthy presiding. Routine business was covered and committees filed reports. the literary committee announced a June 16 entertainment and smoke talk reunion for past and present members.
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Stillman Street
Charles McCarthy
Suffolk County
Division 55 Federates Affiliation with Catholic Societies
A Stillman Street meeting of Division 56 led by President Patrick Hawley voted to affiliate with the Federation of Catholic Societies. Suffolk County A. O. H. President Mathew Cummings spoke on federation as delegates James I. Devlin Patrick Harvey and Daniel Collins were elected for the next federation quarterly convention.
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Division 56
Stillman Street
Patrick Hawley
Suffolk County A. O. H
Mathew Cummings
Federation of Catholic Societies
Federation of Catholic Organizations
Federation
James I. Devlin
Patrick Harvey
Daniel Collins
Chelsea Man Falls From Elevated Car In Malden
James Gordon of 169 Division Street Chelsea fell from a Boston Elevated car on Pleasant street while riding the running board. He was unconscious about an hour after being taken to Malden Hospital but doctors reported no broken bones or skull fracture.
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Malden
James Gordon
Division Street
Chelsea
Boston
Pleasant Street
Malden Hospital
Boston Society Interests Harvard Engagements
The Boston social circle and Harvard figures take note as Katharine Storey plans marriage with Malcolm Donald son of Brookline’s William Donald. Storey sisters carry prominence with Gertrude’s Easter Monday Philadelphia wedding. Marion Fennett and William Bradford Robbins, Harvard ’99, also announce engagement tying noted Boston families. Robbins’s family connections span Rev Chandler Robbins and relatives in Worcester and Boston.
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Harvard College
Boston
Katharine Storey
Malcolm Donald
William Donald
Brookline
Miss Storey
Moorfield Storey
Cutts
Fenway
Gertrude
James Burke
Philadelphia
Donald
Harvard
Marion Fennett
Theodore Bennett
Weston
William Bradford Robbins
Young Robbins
Chandler Robbins
D. D
Edward IL. Davis
Worcester
Commonwealth Avenue
Hamilton A. Hill
A. Winsor Weld
Robbins
Chandler
Miss Bennett
Boston girls hold London sisters charm London society
The Deacon sisters Gladys and Audrey captivate London society with beauty and charm. Mrs. Deacon arrives from Paris, Gladys shines at Lady Warwick’s party as a waltzer and bridge player, while Audrey, a striking Greek flower girl, intrigues with her look. Lady Clifford plans extensive chaperoning for Gladys.
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London
Deacon
Gladys
Audrey
Mrs. Deacon
Paris
John Street
Mayfair
Gladys Deacon
Lady Warwick
Miss Deacon
Lord Brooke
Lady Clifford of Dudleigh
North End Improvement Association Meeting Report
The North End Improvement Association met in St Stephen's on Suncourt street with President Meyer Bloomfield presiding. Ex Senator Daniel D Rourke said many district streets are being repaved and the group discussed Freeman Primary School sanitary arrangements and objections. The association voted for a light at the Blackstone street sanitary station and Bloomfield was named a delegate to the Massachusetts Civic League convention in June. A smoketalk is planned within two weeks with the date set at a forthcoming committee meeting.
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North End
Smoketalk
Deaths Doherty Dorchester Mary E Doherty May 17
Mary E Doherty dies in Dorchester. Funeral from 22 North Avenue on Wednesday May 20 at 9 a.m. Requiem high mass at St Peter's Church at 9 a.m. Relatives and friends are invited.
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Doherty
Dorchester
Mary FE. Doherty
North Avenue
St. Peter's Church
Body Found in the Woods near Saugus
A badly decomposed man was found lying on a rock in the woods by James Duckering of Dorchester. A blood-stained razor nearby suggested suicide. Medical examiner's examination supported this, but the body could not be identified. The well dressed victim was believed to be about four years old.
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Lynn
Saugus
James Duckering
Dorchester
ZEMA-CURA Medicated Powder for babies and skin diseases
An advertisement touts ZEMA-CURA Medicated Powder as superior to common talc for soothing and healing chafed baby skin. It claims rapid relief, notes a two-step use with vaseline, and suggests pairing with ZERA CURA Liquid for eczema and pimples. Sold by multiple New York and Boston area druggists.
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Zema-Cura Co
West 22Nd St
New York
Houghton & Dutton
T. Meteni? & Co
Court St
Hubbell & McGowan
Moashington St
Huntington
Massachusetts
Ayers
Essex Pharmacy
Washington St
C. H. Hitchcock
Huntington Ave
J. W. Linright
Medford
Mass
Stacey Pharmacy
Charlestown
Charles A. Curtis
South Boston
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Washington
Chase &Sanders Teas
Onrommat
Formosa
R. H. White
Oxford
Moore
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Tremont St
Hunt & Co
Cor. Wash
Eliot Sts
Lein's Drug Store
Boylston
Tremont
Lewis & Co
Portland St
H. B. McConnell
Houiston
J. J. McCormick & Co
Pemberton SQ
Triscuit
W. S. Holmes
Marlboro Street
A. H. Holmes
R. A. Douglass-Lithgow
J. Franklin Faxon
Adams Street
Quincy
Patty Earle
Warren Greene Ogden
Washington, D. C
Cornell
James P. Maloney
Mary M. Fitz- Gerald
Maloney
Catholic Literary Union
Alice M. Thorpe
Frances Augusta
Lawrence Francis Crocker
Everett
Newtonville
Beecham’s
OLD Guard
Chickering
P. Wilson
A.L. Curtis
G. K. Lewis
G. H. Bills
M. C. Thompson
James A. Doyle
Andrew J. Bennett
G. T. Yeaton
John H. Chadwick
M’carthy
Blue Serge
Anlors
H. A. Adams
Aide
New York Herald
Hibernian Meetings
Division
Order
Boston Society
Boston Girls
J.S. Waterplan & Sons
Ezmeral Undertakers and
Ewibalmers
Dudley Street
Tel. Roxbury
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