Firemen Have A Busy Day In Boston
Boston fire fighters faced a long, hot day with multiple alarms. A team of excelsior burned at 53 Hanover street causing $30 damage and injuring driver James McGonigle. A nickel plating shop at 17 Harvard Place burned, with over $5600 damage and several workers displaced. Minor blazes followed on bridges and a small rubbish fire near Gainsboro Street prompted police and fire alarms.
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Boston
Hanover Street
North Margin Street
Excelsior
G. W. Sammett & Son
James McGonigle
N. E. Hopkins
Harvard Place
Hopkins
Thomas A. Upham
Nichols & Norton
Carpenters
A. J. Minton
Washington Street
Box 313
Jack
Gainsboro Street
Breaks In South Boston Ramp Up Fear Among Storekeepers
A surge of petty larceny breaking and entering and snatch theft in South Boston near the city line has residents in fear. Police report a gang of amateur crooks, possibly youths, involved but no major loot or arrests yet. Notable incidents include Warren G. Chase at 165 A Street and nearby establishments on Sixth and First streets. Several reports of staged entries and small losses reflect a broader spree, with no crimes after yesterday.
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South
Boston
Division 6
Post
Warren G. Chase
Dennis Sullivan
Chase
David R. Graves
James Plunket
Station 6
Adam Cromovich
Sixth Street
Philip Thorne
First Street
James J. McQuinn
James Murphy Dead Pioneer of Catholic Schools
James Murphy aged 94 of Tremont street died Wednesday. An early Catholic church and school advocate, he helped lay the laity groundwork for Catholic schools and was a familiar parishioner of Jesuits in the old North End. He leaves a widow, sons James R. Murphy of Boston and Dr. Joseph Murphy of Brookline, and daughter Miss Mary Murphy.
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James Murphy
Tremont Street
Franklin Street
Old North End
James R. Murphy
Boston
Joseph Murphy
Brookline
Mary Murphy
Longtime Boston & Albany fireman and engineer dies at 74
Seth H. Ellis died at his Beacon street Saxonville home after 47 years serving as fireman and engineer on the Boston & Albany railroad. He passed away last night in his 75th year, with family and local residents mourning the veteran railroad worker.
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South Framingham
Seth H. Ellis
Boston & Albany Railroad
Beacon Street
Saxonville
Teary arraignment in Roxbury for boy’s fatal blow
John Young, 12, charged with manslaughter for striking John O’Brien to death, appeared before Judge Bolster in Roxbury District Court as bond was posted for 23000 by a friend of his father. The case was continued to next Thursday. A witness, a companion boy, faced a separate charge for jumping on streetcars and was ordered to post 100 bail but could not. The death occurred at 10 Minden Street after Young visited the body. classmates rallied to buy flowers as they mourned the tragedy, and the funeral was set for today at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament on Centre Street.
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John O’brien
Bolster
Roxbury
Roxbury Court
Colbert
Young
Minden Street
O Brien
Young O'Brien
Arthur Reynolds
Lamartine Street
O'Brien
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Centre Street
Boston Common Council Debates Loan Bill Substitutes
The Boston Common Council stalled a $459,000 loan bill with Republicans voting for Bennett’s $156,000 substitute for street work and bridge reconstruction. McMackin’s calendar order for the higher amount passed 27 to 25, while a fire department reform measure and a relief proposal faced tie votes and later reconsideration. The council also authorized $30,000 to build an ambulance station for the City Hospital and approved sale terms for flats at Mystic Wharf.
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Bennett
Ward 11
Mt. Washington Avenue
Congress Street
Curry
Ward 9
Mancovitz
Ward 8
Yeas
Gove
East Boston
McMackin
Ward 6
Grady
Ward 17
Coleman
Ward 15
Board of Aldermen
Boston
Mee Grady
Ward 13
Curtis
Ward 21
Senate
Cauley
Mystic Wharf
Charlestown
Cycle Struck By Automobile In Cambridge
Robert Croncher of 9 Edward Street Medford was riding a bicycle on Massachusetts Avenue near Village Street Cambridge when an automobile struck him from behind. The car sped off toward Lafayette Square after dumping Croncher and his damaged bike at a bicycle store and a physician. Police note the driver named D Young was not the Cambridge man listed in the directory.
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Robert Croncher
Edward Street
Medford
Massachusetts ‘Avenue
Village Street
Cambridge
Croucher
D. Young
Croncher
Massachusetts Avenue
Lafayette Square
Square
Tremont Temple to vote on pastor call tonight
Tremont Temple Church members will hold three hours of prayer before voting on extending another call to Dr Lorimer. A majority is expected, but whether the size will lure Lorimer to accept remains unclear. The vote follows previous calls and a nearly harmonious meeting last week. The church convenes at 1 pm and prays until 8 pm.
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Tremont Temple Church
Dr. Lorimer
Temple
O. M. Wentworth
Deacon Wentworth
Lorimer
Clarence A. Barbour
Rochester
N. Y
Witty clash in Massachusetts House ends with cigars
Two Massachusetts lawmakers displayed sharp wit in a House clash over a gas bill. Carey taunted Hayes with a quip about cigars, prompting uproarious laughter and prolonged order, while Hayes, a frequent adversary, conceded defeat as the jovial Carey triumphed in a theater like scene.
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Massachusetts
Carey
Representative Hayes
Lowe l
Hayes
Lowell
Fettle
Speaker Myers
Bahamas Governor to wed Miss Gertrude Parker in August
Nassau reports the betrothal of Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter KCMG the Bahamas governor to Miss Gertrude Codman Parker daughter of the late Francis Vose Parker of Boston. Parker died in Bermuda in March after ill health while Mrs Parker and Miss Parker remained in the Bahamas.
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Miss Parker
Boston
Gilbert T. Carter
The
Bahamas
Nassau
Gilbert Thomas Carter
Gertrude Codman Farker
Francis Vose Parker
Parker
Thomas Gilbert Carter
Royal Navy
Annie Gilbert
Virginia
Gold Coast
Gambria
Lagos
England
Queen Victoria
Parkers
Bermuda
Milk Street
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad
Michigan
Bermudas
WBHD
Former New York Girl to Marry English Lord
London May 21 Society notes a forthcoming marriage between Lord Monson and Mrs. Romaine Stone Turnure daughter of General Roy Stone U S Army. Monson, 34, is nephew of Ambassador Sir Edmund Monson and rose from hoped diplomat to peer with country seats and entailed estates. Mrs Turnure, once Miss Romaine Stone, wed Lawrence Turnure Jr in London in 1890 and was famed in New York and London society.
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London
Lord Monson
Turnure
Roy Stone
United States Army
Edmund Monson
Paris
Duke of Saxe- Coburg
New York
Romaine Stone
Lawrence Turnure
Mr. Turnure
Arthur Butler
Eben Stager
Anson Stager
U.S. A
G. F. Train Has Smallpox
Stamford Connecticut May 21 Citizen George Francis Train the eccentric traveller and philanthropist is quarantined at his sister Helen M L Gulader s home on Church street with a mild case of smallpox He arrived yesterday from New York and had been staying at the Mills Hotel in that city Physicians say he has been ill for at least a week.
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Stamford
Conn
George Francis ‘Train
Helen M.L. Gulader
Church Street
Train
New York
Mills Hotel
Fire minor at Bertelsen & Petersen machine shop
Sparks from the chimney caused a slight roof fire at Bertelsen & Petersen machine shop, 149 Border Street, East Boston. The three story wooden building's alarm Box 632 rang at 5:38. Quick fire-fighting response limited damage to a small area.
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Bertelsen & Petersen
Border Street
Boston
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