Mother Seeks Daughter Grace Briggs Missing Since April
Reading mother Mrs. Kitty Briggs appeals to the Post for help finding her daughter Grace Briggs who disappeared on April 24 after promising to return by 7 PM. She fears foul play, says letters to her are returned, and notes she is penniless and exhausted caring for a baby and working long hours.
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Kitty Briggs
Franklin Street
Reading
The
Post
Grace Briggs
Marblehead
Chelsea Suspects Firebugs In City After Banquet Hall Fire
Janitor William Jones found the banquet hall door glass broken and bundles of partially burned paper in third floor storage compartments between noon and 2 pm. The incident follows recent synagogue fires, prompting a citywide watch for a suspected firebug and a search for future fires.
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William Jones
Charlestown Hero Peter Brennan Rescues 19 Year Old From Mystic River
Peter Brennan, a stevedore from Charlestown, saved John Barry 19, son of a widowed mother, from the Mystic River at Mystics wharf. Barry fell while watching the Chinese crew of the steamer Yeddo, narrowly missing deeper harm as Brennan’s timely action saved him. This was Brennan’s sixth rescue at the wharf.
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John Barry
Corey Street
Charlestown
Mystic River
Peter Brennan
Medford Street
Mystics Wharf
Brennan
pHecause Barry
Barry
Chinnma Raman
Morse's Welcomes Young Men to View Morse-Made Suits
A Morse's advertisement invites young men to visit the store, stressing that drawing them to Morse-made clothing benefits the business beyond immediate sales. It promotes juvenile suits in the $3.75 to $10 range and adult options at $10 to $20, claiming superior style unseen in rival lines.
Sample and shopworn rugs offered for sale
A sale of 120 rugs including Brussels Axminster Tapestry Smyrna Shiraz Kashmir and Kurdistan pieces. Rugs are not new and not marked with new prices. A brief list shows sizes and prices for several items.
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Brussels
Axminster
Tapestry
Smyrna
Shiraz
Kashmir
Kurdistan
Two Men Drowned In Lake While Transporting Bricks
Calais Maine May 17 Stephen Leavitt 40 and James Curran Jr 26 eldest son of Alderman Curran drowned when their boat overloaded with brick sank at Meddybemps Lake while delivering to S H Phelans summer cottage.
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Calais
Stephen Leavitt
James Curran, Jr
James Curran
Meddybemps Lake
S. H. Phelan
Russian Duma Adopts Addresses After Nicholas Speech
In St Petersburg on May 18 the lower house adopted the addresses replying to the throne speech. The vote kept the document’s general tone intact amid radical criticism, with two interrogations urging action against police incitement and political prisoner hunger strikes.
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ST. Petersburg
Nicholas
Russia
Ministry of the Interior
Thedinister of the Interior
Oil prorating dispute cited in Garfield report
James R. Garfield release includes a letter to Boston & Maine president Tuttle on oil prorating and a list of 294 stations not pro rated. Cities such as Lowell Lynn Lawrence Haverhill Portland and Portsmouth are named as examples. A separate item notes the Excelsior mill blaze in Abbott Maine causing around 15000 in losses.
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James ‘R
The
Boston & Maine
Lowell
Lynn
Lawrence
Haverhill
Mass
Portland
Portsmouth
Excelsior
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Ethical Culture Society
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