Divorce Suit in Suffolk County Dragged by Four Day Hearings
Mesrob Kurkjian and Pearl Kurkjian, Armenians, fight a fierce divorce case in Suffolk County Court. The husband accuses disloyalty while the wife alleges cruel and abusive treatment. Judge Harris contends the husband’s case was effectively closed after he cohabited with his wife, but defense seeks to introduce postcondonation evidence. The wife’s case proceeds with rebuttal after a partial hearing on Friday.
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Mesrob Kurkjian
Pearl
Cross Hbels
Harris
Suffolk County
Stevens
Curleys Given Sentences in United States Conspiracy Case
The Curleys and two associates were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States by impersonating others at a civil service exam for letter carriers. Two months’ imprisonment was imposed on each defendant. The Court of Appeals affirmed, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. Mandates were issued for sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curleys
Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Thomas F. Curley
James M. Curley
Bartholomew J. Fahey
James J. Hughes
United States
Alderman Curley
Supreme Court
Lewis
H. W. Dunn
Dunn
Three Mills Incorporation Plans Revealed in Rhode Island
Articles of incorporation filed by Southwestern Cotton Mills Nashawena Silk Mills and Ponemah Shuttle Company announce new plants to be built elsewhere likely in the South. Incorporators are W. B. Edgar Raymond D. Borden and Arthur S. Phillips. Home offices listed as Portsmouth Rhode Island with capitals 100000 40000 and 125000.
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Providence
R. I
Southwestern Cotton Mills
Nashawena Silk Mills
Ponemah Shuttle Company
W. B. Edgar
Fall River
Raymond D. Borden
Watuppa Mills
Taunton
Arthur S. Phillips
Fall
Manufacturer Thief Gets Seven Years
Arthur H. Newell a 48 year old mattress manufacturer was sentenced in Superior Court to not less than four and not more than seven years for larceny. He allegedly stole about $4500 from Worcester money lender and others by systematically raising checks. In 1903 he pleaded guilty to seven counts totaling $48 and was placed on probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur H. Newell
Superior Criminal Court
Worcester
Stevens
Remarkable magnetic healer claims cures in Boston at Quincy House
Dr Henson of Quincy House boasts rapid recoveries including a speech return for Mrs James Lillie after three minutes of magnetic treatment. He attributes cures for womb trouble breast cancer and other female complaints without operations. Free consultations daily from 9 to 6 with hours 10 to 4.
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J. A. Wilbur
Bellingham Avenue
Beachmont
Mass
Henson
J. L. Thomas
98 Fourth Street
Chelsea
Royal Academy of Medicine
Erlangen
Germany
Quincy House
Young Vermont woman faces execution verdict for murder
Mary Rogers, aged 23, sits in Vermont State prison awaiting the legislature’s ruling on her death sentence for the August 1902 murder of her husband Marcus Rogers. She plans to tell her side to the world, asserts she fears no gallows, and notes many people oppose hanging a woman. Her co-defendant Leon Perham received life in prison.
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Windsor
Vermont State
Mary Rogers
Legislative Committee
Vermont
Collision reported off Jersey Beach involving schooner and tows
Tug Richmond reports a serious Oct. 22 collision off Jersey Beach near Providence, involving a heavily loaded unknown schooner and barges Indiana and Iowa, with Boswell and its tow also damaged. The schooner disappeared after the crash, the barge Indiana injured, and repairs completed in New York before returning to port.
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Providence
R. I
Richmond
Snow
Iowa
Indiana
Newport News
Jersey Beach
Boswell
Boston
Powell
New York
Auto Men Seek Hackney Rights Against Hackmen
The Board of Police held a hearing on automobile owners seeking a hackney rate and protested alleged hackmen monopoly. Judge Emmons noted a petition from hackmen last week opposing licenses for automobiles for hackney purposes.
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Board of Police
Cachmen
Emmons
Hackmen
Hooker Tablet to Be Removed From Monument
At a Governor and council meeting an order backed by Lieutenant-Governor Guild approves a larger Hooker memorial edition. An inscription on the monument has been agreed to remove, leaving only the word Hooker and the Commonwealth seal on the front. The removal plan will be urged in the next Legislature session.
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Guild
Hooker
The
Commonwealth
Fish Pier Receipts Show Strong Week For Fresh Mixed Fish
Twenty three trips arrived at the fish pier boosting receipts to 494,500 pounds of fresh mixed fish this week. Haddock 191,500 pounds. cod 75,600. hake 184,700. pollock 35,700. cask 7,000. Prices per item ranged from 2% to 5% cents to 144 cents for pollock. The fleet included many named vessels with various routes and captains. Ships, tugs, and dredge contracts noted. several crews changed with captains stepping ashore. Steamer Admiral Farragut expected at Long Wharf next Sunday with 24,250 stems of bananas and 16 passengers. The Landsman.
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Haddock
Annie M. Parker
George Carter
Boston
Bay of Islands
Nels Peterson
Jack O'Brien
Emma R. Smith
Savanna-la-Mar
Chester
Penn
Mariiana
Parrsboro
Turks Island
C. C. Dawson
Clarence H. Venner
Banner
New York
Baker
Spectacle Island
Boston Light
Doane Company
Blanche
Roger Sears
Standard Oil Company
Haverhill
Mass
Hand
Central Railroad Company
Plymouth
Port Morant
Long Wharf
Shipping News Mini Almanac for Nov Third
Shipping notes list arrived and cleared vessels with cargoes and passengers, including Saxonia Potter Liverpol Queenstown and many others bound for Charleston New York and Portland. Sloops schooners tugs barges and steamers are named with routes ports and towing duties in this dense harbor report.
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Potter
Liverpol
Queenstown
Charles P. Sumner
Simon
Porter
Port Antonio
Jam
Nacoochee
Burroughs
Savannah
E. H. Downing
Mohican
Devereaux
Jacksonville
Charleston
D. C
Parthian
Smith
Philadelphia
H. M. Whitney
Howe
New York
Rosalie
Holmes
Dingley
Dennison
Portland
Kennebec
Blair
Bath
City of Gloucester
Ober
Gloucester
Gettysburg
Cummings
Alburtis
Franklin
St. Nicholas
Pauli
Kelly
South Amboy
Braddock
Radnor
Woodbury
Standard
Johnson
S. C. Co
Carlisle
Lloyd
Brookside
Lykens, Miller
Girard
Monitor
Newpuryport
Treverton
Bangor
Valley Forge
Taylor
Draper
Torrey
Mary Louisa
Heath
Albert Pharo
Coburn
Adam Bowlby
Hutchinson
Stony Btook
Grant
William Pickering
George R. Smith
Rich
Calais
Milton
Mary F. Cushman
Wallace
Millbridge
Thomas Hix
Wheeler
Rockport
William Thomas
Greenlaw
Charlotte L. Morgan
Dobbin
Annie and
Reuben
Robbins
Stonington
Cambridge Teacher Blames Cogswell Over Dismissal
Charles A. Gray of Cambridge says he was forced from his Manual Training School post after a divorce, blaming Superintendent Cogswell for creating a story and refusing to convene the School Board. Gray asserts his performance was satisfactory and cites sympathy and job offers from across the country. Cogswell defends his actions, stating he did what he believed was right.
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Charles A. Gray
Cambridge
Manual Training School
Mr. Gray
National Shoe Company
Morse
Rindge
Wood
Cogswell
Mr. Cogswell
Gray
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