Relatives Support Wins Divorces In Local Court
The Divorce Court granted Mrs Edith B Clapp a decree against Bertram W Clapp for cruel and abusive treatment. Witnesses including her Spooner relatives testified to injuries and marks. Alimony set at $1 per day with child custody granted. Judge White also granted divorces to Florence A Stewart from Harry J Stewart and Julia C Woodworth from Todd C Woodworth on statutory grounds with Woodworths’ monthly support noted.
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New England
Dith B. Clapp
Bertram W. Clapp
Wittman
Edith
Clapp
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Dorchester
Mr. Clapp
Harrison Square
Europe
Florence A. Stewart
Harry J. Stewart
Judge White
Stewart
Atlantic
Philadelphia liquor dealer commits suicide in street crisis
In Philadelphia on November 1 a wholesale liquor firm member known as Inside Jones shot himself in the head while walking in the business district. He died before reaching a hospital, with health presumed to be the cause of the self inflicted death.
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Philadelphia
Jones
Tll
Two Fires in Milton Cause Moderate Loss
Two fire alarms were sounded in Milton tonight. A blaze in a barn known as the Old Bakeshop, now occupied by Ainslie Marshall, stored with hay, caused about 1000 dollars in damage with unknown cause. A second alarm reported a chimney fire at A D Turner’s house on Central avenue. police say neither fire was incendiary.
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Milton
Ainslie Marshall
A. D. Turner
Central Avenue
Immigrant ship crew held on charges at New Bedford
Five girls and three young men from the Cape Verde Islands are detained at New Bedford after an immigration violation. The captain and officers of the schooner Sarah E. Lee face charges as an investigation proceeds under Commissioner George Bb. Billings of the port immigration service.
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Sarah E. Lee
New Bedford
Cape Verde Islands
George Bb. Billings
Immigrant Girls Face Return on Sail Resulting From Disputes
Three stowaway men from the Eastwood landed in Norfolk and Boston. two immigrant girls accuse the captain and officers of mistreatment aboard the schooner Sarah Lee and seek homeward passage. The girls lack entry rights and face deportation on the same vessel, with the schooner due to sail tomorrow. Names Petre Maria de Luz Jose Ramos and Julius Almeda are listed among those involved. The Sarah Lee had earlier been confiscated over an immigrant smuggling case detected by Colonel Billings.
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Cape Verde Islands
Eastwood
Norfolk
Boston
W. R. Morton
Sarah KE. Vee
Colonel Billings
New Bedford
Petro Maria de Luz
Jose Ramos
Julius Almeda
Sarah Lee
Missionary Statistics Show Growth in Foreign Conference
Buffalo dispatch notes 561 missionaries 3840 native preachers 248378 church members and 260052 Sunday school scholars in the Methodist Episcopal church foreign field according to latest statistics compiled by bishops.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Methodist Episcopal Church
Blizzard Ravages Bay Coast Beset by 62 mph Winds
A northeast gale swept the bay and coast since Wednesday morning with gusts near 62 miles per hour. Rough seas kept most coast boats from the Nantucket shoals to Cape pitch while a cold front and snow squall followed. Fishermen, though anxious, sent about 15 vessels to the fishing grounds, with full casualty details awaiting several days.
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Highland Light
Nantucket Shoals
Cape
Tahari
Barges Drift Toward Annisquam Bar Weather Shifts Course
Two barges anchored in Ipswich Bay nearly dragged their anchors and could run aground on Annisquam Bar as heavy seas from Portsmouth pummeled the area. A northwest wind shift turned them toward safer ground in Pigeon Cove where they grounded safely with little damage expected. A four masted schooner misturned near Orleans but wore around before ashore. Several schooners bound for New York and southern ports faced rough seas near Cape Cod. The Juniata from Baltimore and Nor folk and the Herman Winter from New York weathered the gale to reach port hours late without damage.
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Ipswich Bay
Annisquam Bar
Portsmouth
Pigeon Cove
Orleans
Cape Cod
New York
Southern
Juniata
Baltimore
Norfolk
Herman
Metropolitan
Cape Cody
Harvard Man Loses 1500 In Pool Hustle
John McCormick of West 150th Street was arrested in New York after allegedly passing as a Harvard student and conning Sid ward F Myers of Hastings Hall Cambridge into a pool game at Fifth Avenue Hotel locale. Myers lost 1500 and faced travel fare home.
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New York
John McCormick
West One Hundred and Miftieth Street
Sidward F. Myers
Harvard
Hastings Hall
Cambridge
Myers
Fifth Avenue Hotel
McCormick
Princeton
Twenty-fourth Street
Sixth Avenue
Harvard Law Student Lulled by Dormitory Life
Kk. I. Myers, a third year law student at Harvard, resides in the exclusive Walter Trastings dormitory room 1h. He is a member of several clubs including Cercle Wrancais. His roommate I. S. Kearns did not discuss the matter and has not been at Harvard since Monday night.
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Kk. I. Myers
Harvard
Walter Trastings
Cercle
Wrancais
I. S. Kearns
Woman Dies After Third-Story Fall in Woonsocket
Mrs. Joseph Dion suffered fatal injuries when she fell from a third story to the concrete sidewalk in Woonsocket. She was found unconscious and later died at the hospital.
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Woonsocket, R
Joseph Dion
Moran Acts in Fairbank Case
Assistant District Attorney Dwyer and James M. Perkins visited the State auditor’s office to examine or photograph vouchers tied to the Fairbank case. State Auditor Turner had left. the papers were locked in a safe. A new attempt was anticipated, with Dwyer consulting Treasurer Chapin afterward.
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Dwyer
John B. Moran
Fairbank
Guild
Turner
James M. Perkins
Perkins
State Auditor
State House
Cambridge
Chapin
Unknown man collapses at Charlestown cafe
An unidentified man about unknown age collapsed while dining at a cafe on 568 Main Street Charlestown. Dr O'Brien of Bunker Hill Street declared him dead. The man appeared to be in poor circumstances.
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Main Street
Charlestown
O’brien
Bunker Hill Street
Father John's Medicine touted as safe cough remedy
A vintage advertisement warns against dangerous cough syrups containing morphine and other opioids and promotes Father John’s Medicine as an old fashioned, reliable cure for coughs and bronchial ailments. It claims hospital and clergy endorsements and urges consumers not to accept substitutions from druggists.
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Father Joln
Carpenters Strike Ties Up Fall River Building Work
Nearly all building operations in Fall River were halted as 125 union carpenters struck. The walkout began after masters hired several non union foremen, leaving sites idle and projects stalled.
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Fall River
Railroad Men Refuse Switchmen's 10 Cent Raise
Chicago dispatch reports railroad managers rejected the Switchmen's Union demand for a 10 cent hourly raise. Railroads offered a 2 cent increase or none, a proposal the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen vice grand master Dodge said would not satisfy the workers.
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Chicago
Nov. J
Dodge
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Battleship New Jersey Sets Course for Boston Test
The battleship New Jersey sailed from Old Point today en route to Boston where she will undergo a 24 hour endurance test during the voyage.
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New Jersey
Boston
Newport News
Old Point
Labor Victory in Parliament in Trades Disputes Debate
In London the House of Commons resumes the trades disputes bill debate. Asquith backs the amended clause shielding union funds. Conservative Samuel Roberts fails to restore the original clause 872 to 79. Irish exclusion motion also fails 282 to 35 amid cheers.
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London
House of Commons
Herbert H. Asquith
Samuel Roberts
Ireland
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Graph
Father John
Prudential Supply CO
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