Report condemns management of House of Correction and calls for Whiton replacement
Aldermanic committee reports harsh criticisms of the House of Correction, urges replacing master Whiton with a younger officer Dean who shot Johnson, and discharging Rowsell and Gardner for revolver use. It cites poor food, confinement, hygiene, and labor conditions, and suggests transferring the institution to Deer Island. The measure was assigned for a week after Alderman Jordan moved to read and dissent.
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O’brien
Doyle
Jordan
Bowen
House of Correction
Board of Aldermen
Whiton
Dean
Johnson
Peisoner
Rowell
Gardner
Deer Island
Alderman Jordan
Blackwell’s Island
Tinkham
Lst
King
Lomasney
Dyar
Gerry
Miller
Norris
Paige
Glenway
Bradshaw
McLellage
Fowler
Jackson
Babson
Gata Wheeler
Rainsford Island
Alderman and
Nee
Rainsford
John C. Whiton
Boston
Wellesley Girls Plan Circus Fundraiser at Fitchburg Field
The Wellesley College Club in Fitchburg launches an amateur circus at Phillips Field to raise funds for an endowment to aid deserving local women pursue college education. Aiming for a scholarship, the club will stage a main show in a large tent with a side show featuring society women, athletes, and performers from local groups.
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Fitchburg
Wellesley College Club
Phillips’s
Wellesley
Mary Custiing Smith
Flora E. Kendall
Mary B. Cross
Elizabeth Sleeper
Olien N. Cushing
Tunate
John T. Burke
Turnhverein
Decline of Dean Southworth Ends With Probation
Dean Southworth once a leading jewelry salesman and wholesaler in the city, fell into drink and poverty. Yesterday in Municipal Court Judge Sullivan placed him on probation and ordered him to depart from the city, with plans to seek work in Brockton.
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Dean Southworth
Boston
Southworth
Divorced Social Theorist Marries Miss Rand in Meantime
New York May 27 announcement of the marriage between Professor George D Herron and Miss Carrie Rand last Saturday evening. Ceremony in Dr Charles Brodie Patterson’s rooms in New York with Rev William T Brown officiating. The couple vow no vows, plan to live on Miss Rand’s thirty five acre Mesruch n J farm used for socialist work. Herron’s life to be devoted to socialism, with Miss Rand as constant traveling companion.
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New York
George D. Herron
Carrie Rand
Charles Brodie Paternon
William T. Brown
Plymouth Church
Rochester
N. Y
Professor Herron
Miss Rand
Dr. Brown
Paterson
Metuchen
N. J
Mr. Herron
Socialist Brotherhood
Heron
Dr. Herron
E. D. Rand
Mississippi Valley
First Congregational Church
Burlington
Herron
Goriatianisy
Town College
Her
Rand
Grinnell
Fifth Street
Fifth Avenue
Herr
Remarkable GSE Remark by Dr Pe and His Sons
A garbled clipping mentions Dr Pe and his sons, noting a remarkable remark or event. Details are unclear but the fragment highlights their notable contribution or comment.
Navy yard reports no warships ready for Seventeenth June parade
The Charlestown Navy Yard reports no warships available for participation in the Seventeenth of June event. Details are unclear due to damaged text but the department confirms ships will not be sent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiton
Navy Department
Charlestown Navy ‘Yard
Express Train Collision Near Port Morris
A Federal Express train from Washington to Boston collided with a switching engine at Port Morris this morning. Twenty passengers were jolted from their berths and shaken, but no serious injuries occurred. The delay lasted about three hours.
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New York
Federal Express
Washington
Boston
Port Morris
Textile varieties and colors dominate 19th century catalog
The listing describes fabrics priced from 50c to $2.50, including Piques, Die Madras, and crabh varieties in oxblood, red, blue flecks, brown, white, and blue and white. Notes mention ranges from 88 to 12 years and many other handsome effects in multiple shades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
Five fall from coal stage in Spruce Head accident
In Rockland Maine on May 2 a coal stage broke at Spruce Head sending five men from a schooner deck about twenty five feet. James D. Caven was killed instantly while Fred Cook Willis Adams Willis Bradbury and Orlando Allen were seriously injured.
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Rockland
Spruce Head
Neal P. Walker
James D. Caven
Fred Cook
Willis Adams
May
Willis Bradbury
Orlando Allen
Arlington arsenal worker killed by boring machine incident
Daniel Curley of South Boston, operator of a boring machine at the United States arsenal in Watertown, was killed today when his machine dec killed him. Colonel Butler, the arsenal commandant, ordered workers to go home for the remainder of the day after the accident.
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Watertown
Daniel Curley
South Boston
United States Arsenal
Butler
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Mandy
Eord D.he Ar
Bride
Col. Whiton
United States
Washington Street
Bromfield Street
Goode
District Attorney’s Office
Brockton
Dr. Pe
Our
Omers Anders
Brattice
Toleto
Bain
Nat Penix
Watertown Arsenal
Berlin
Washburn
Cinepeet Acs
Oee
Jordan's. Day and Eveatag
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South End
Atistac
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