Signatures Begin in Boston Mayor Election Fight
Election officials issued 3500 nomination papers each with 100 signatures. Eight mayoral candidates and 27 city council hopefuls took papers. Mayor Hibbard seeks re election as Good Government Association stays neutral. Ex governors Guild and Bates will not run. Citizens committee forms to back a mayoral candidate. Reform contenders include James J Storow Bernard J Rothwell and Dr Morton Prince.
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Hibbard
Good Government Association
Guild
Bates
Boston
Citizens’ Committee
Reform
James J. Storrow
Bernard J. Rothwell
Morton Prince
Those Taking Papers for the Mayoralty
A list of candidates filing papers for the mayoralty includes Mayor George A. Hibbard ex mayor John F. Fitzgerald alderman Frederick J. Brand Nathaniel H. Taylor J Henry Duckery Dennis F Mahoney and Frank J Seiberlich seeking nomination.
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George A. Hibbard
John F. Fitzgerald
Frederick J. Brand
Nathaniel H. Taylor
J. Henry Duckery
Dennis F. Mahoney
Frank J. Seiberlich
City Council Papers Taken by Numerous Aldermen Names
A list of individuals including Aldermen James P. Timity Curley Giblin O’Hare Hale Ballantyne and others such as Frank Goodwin Crane Harding Gilligan Dorcey Burrill Hayward Troy Curley Gallagher O’Brien Bates Collina Kelly Carroll Buckley Bagley Byrne Riley Jones were noted as taking papers for city council positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James P. Timiity
James M. Curley
Thomas J. Giblin
Frank O’hare
Matthew Hale
Walter Ballantyne
Frank A. Goodwin
Frank E. Crane
Charles T. Harding
John A. Gilligan
Bernard F. Dorcey
Charles L. Burrill
Henry M. Hayward
Edward A. Troy
Thomas F. Curley
John J. Gallagher
Joseph A. O’brien
Thomas H. Bates
Campaign skirmish as ex governors bow out of mayor race
The mayoralty campaign opened with a bang from the Boston City Club but ex-Governor Guild and ex-Governor Bates rejected any run. Guild said he is satisfied with private life and would not consider candidacy under any circumstances. Bates echoed that he would not stand for mayor.
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Guild
John L. Bates
Boston City Club
Bates
Mayor Election Committee Plan To Pick Candidate
A conference of the committee of 100 approved organizing a committee of 125 citizens with an executive group of 25 to select a mayoral candidate. Dr Morton Prince noted the mayoralty panel would be separate from the committee of 100 which ran the Plan 2 campaign. the latter will disband today.
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Committee of 100
Morton Prince
Girl Student Secretly Becomes a Baroness
Ada Josephine Stevermann once studied elocution at the New England Conservatory and is now Baroness Von David after a secret Providence marriage to Marion Prichard, a Boston medical student. The ceremony occurred four days after they met, with Mrs. Mary Currier learning of the union yesterday. The baron is German titled Baron Von David. his father, Daniel Von David, lives in Macon, Georgia.
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Ada Josephine Stevermann
New England Conservatory of Music
Baroness von David
Marion Prichard (Baron) von David
Boston
Providence
Mary Currier
St. Botolph Street
von David
Germany
Daniel von David
Macon, Ga
95 Percent Favor Strike By New Haven Clerks
National Organizer J. J. Forrester said 95 percent of votes from clerks in the freight and yard departments of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad favored a strike. A meeting is set for tomorrow morning to decide strike timing.
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New Haven, Conn
J. J. Forrester
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Farman Breaks All Plane Records In Michelin Cup
Henry Farman the English aviator won the Michelin cup at Mourmelon France beating all aeroplane records for duration and distance He flew about 232 kilometres 144 miles in 4 06 25 and set new marks for both time and distance by a single flight
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Mourmelon
France
Henry Farman
Temperature Report From Thompson's Spa
The reading from Thompson's Spa at 219 Washington Street notes yesterday's average temperature as 57 degrees. Historical comparison shows yesterday’s average was 48 degrees a year ago, indicating a hotter day than last year.
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Thompson’s Spa
Washington Street
da Vearsalle
Taft Defends Golf Against Charge It Favors the Rich
President Taft argues golf benefits health and character and should be seen as a broad sport for 15 to 70 year olds. He notes early criticism labeled golf aristocratic and seeks to cast the game as a leveller and virtue in future politics.
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Birmingham
Ala
Taft
Lincoln
Auto Crash Injures Two Women in Brighton District
Two young women, Helen Bolton and Agnes Poole, were hurt when a car with driver Paul Pilenius and passenger Burton F. Johnson crashed into a fence at Washington street and Commonwealth avenue at 9:45 PM. An axle break caused the vehicle to leap the curb.
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Brighton
Washington Street
Commonwealth Avenue
Helen Bolton
Warrenton Street
Agnes Poole
Warren Avenue
Burton F. Johnson
Park Square
Paul Pilenius
Chestnut Avenue
Jamaica Plains
Husband charged after attack with cotton hook in Charlestown
John Cummings aged 40 of 33 Corey Street Charlestown was arrested on a charge of attacking his wife with a cotton hook. The wife sustained a head wound requiring three stitches. He was to be arraigned in Charlestown District Court after police found him lunging at her. The wife was also arrested for intoxication. Furniture had been wrecked during the altercation.
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John Cummings
Corey Street
Charlestown
Cummings
Dependable Watch Advice From Local Jewelers
A reader is advised that reliability in a Waltham Watch comes from buying only through a jeweler. The note emphasizes trust and cautions buyers to avoid obtaining watches from unreliable sources.
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N. B
Watches and stocks advertised by James Shay & Co
WATC left factory but not sold until adjusted. Waltham Watches offered by jeweler. Stocks for sale include 500 Collins Wireless at 1.35, 50 Radio Telephone at 17, 25 United Wireless preferred at 22, 100 Burlingame T T at 3.50, 10 Chicago N Y Air Line at 4.00, and 80 Telepost series A at 6.50. James Shay & Co. 60 State St Boston Massa solicit interested buyers.
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Collins Wireless
Radio Telephone
United Wireless
Burlingame T T
Chicago-N. Y. Air Line
James Shay & CO
State St
Boston
Masa
Carnegie awards to 50 heroes in record numbers
In Pittsburg on November 3 the Carnegie hero commission announced its largest awards yet. Fifty heroes receive cash totaling 34,650 dollars with pensions for dependents of deceased heroes. New England accounted for ten awards with four deaths among the honorees and next of kin to receive the rewards.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Hero Commission
New England
Fourteen Athens Heroes Honored for Daring Rescue Efforts
Medals and cash awarded to fourteen Athens residents for lifesaving acts during 1905 floods and various rescues. John Conroy of South Boston received a bronze for saving Walton Scully at Singing Beach in 1908, while Frederick Foss perished saving William Quann at Brayton sub-station.
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Athens
John Conroy
Broadway
South Boston
Walton Scully
Allegheny
Manchester
Scully
Singing Beach
Conroy
Stetson Charged With Adulterating Christian Science
New York Nov 3 disclosures were made ahead of the First Church of Christ Scientist meeting in Boston. The board of directors heard that Augusta E Stetson allegedly adulterated Christian Science with spiritualism by acting as a medium through which she claimed Mrs Eddy's thoughts reached practitioners in the church.
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New York
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Christian Science
Augusta E. Stetson
Mother Church of Christian Science
Boston
Mrs Stetson Charged Over Seances With Chair Prop Used
Report on Mrs Stetson shows seances with a vacant chair and claim that Mrs Eddy from Brookline sat in it. Trustees hoped to sign a favorable report but tonight one trustee refused to endorse the vindication of Mrs Stetson's teaching and practice.
Jury Panel Named for Delorey Spiropoulos Murder Case
The 12 jurors chosen to hear the murder case against Peter C. Delorey and Dionisios Spiropoulos include H. Corliss Everett foreman 44 of Everett and Frank J. Greene 40 of Framingham. Other members hail from Malden Medford Melrose Reading Stow Natick and Belmont with occupations in rubber boot making forester conductor clerk and farmer.
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Peter C. Delorey
Dionisios Spiropoulos
H. Corliss
Everett
Foreman
Frank J. Greene
Framingham
Trainman
Samuel A. Huntington
Malden
John M. Leahy
Medford
William Bagley
Clarence W. Lewis
Melrose
Forester
James F. Connolly
Reading
Chester H. Langtry
Royal T. Broderick
Belmont
Jury to Hear Murder Trial of Delorey and Spiropoulos
The jury chosen yesterday will hear whether Peter C Delorey 18 a meat cutter of Cambridge and Dionisios Spiropoulos 24 alias James Mantir a Greek barber of Manchester N H are guilty of killing Annie Mullins. The trial transport takes place by automobile from Professor Hans C Von Jagemann Walker Street Cambridge where Mullins worked as a domestic to Marathon Field Arlington where her body was found on the morning of March 28 1908.
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Peter C. Delorey
Cambridge
Dionisios Spiropoulos
Manchester
N. H
James Mantir
Annie Mullins
Hans C. von Jagemann
Walker Street
Marathon Field
Arlington
Knight Chosen as Jury Foreman in Tucker Murder Case
After a long selection, 128 of 162 men were examined and Joseph E. Knight of Westford, a wheelwright, was the 64th juror named and chosen as foreman. Knight previously led the jury that convicted Charles Louis Tucker of Mabel Page's murder. he was later excused from service.
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Joseph E. Knight
Westford
Knight
Charles Louis Tucker
Mabel Page
John L. Ambrose
Lowell Slights Harvard in Planetary News Move
Dr. Percival Lowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona declares his observatory will be the new distribution point for international planetary news. The shift follows long standing friction with Harvard Observatory over the value of Lowell's discoveries including oxygen on Mars and Saturn’s rings.
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Harvard Observatory
Percival Lowell
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff, Ariz
Lowell
Pickering
Mars
Saturn
Lowell Discrediting Harvard Ties Stir Debate
The article recounts Professor Lowell and his arrangement with Kiel Observatory to publish results from multiple observatories. It notes his brother is Harvard President, raising questions about duty versus family ties. Lowell’s rift with the observatory is blamed for severing relations as discoveries unfold.
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Harvard
Lowell
Centrale Stelle Observatory
Kiel
Germany
Lowell Observatory
Harvard University
Cannon Seeks Ball Team for Danville Amid Buy Bid
Wheeling November 3 report says Uncle Joe Cannon Speaker of the House seeks to buy the South Bend Club of the Central League and move it to Danville Illinois to boost local promotion. The note mentions Piper Heidsieck chewing tobacco in the same item.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Joe O’ Cannon
House of Representatives
South Bend
Danville
Ill
Joe
Speaker Cannon
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Ada Josephine Steverman
Farman
Washington
European
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Milk Street
William Lawrence
Devonshire and
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Joseph H. O’neil
Rederick H. Payne James J. Phelan
Samuel A. Merrill
David Bates
James W. Kenney
John C. Heyer
J. H. Turnbull
Wife
Waltham
Carnegie
NEW Englanders
William F. Sayle
Mt. Hope Street
Attleboro
Mass
John G. Conroy
Thomas J. Madden
Waterbury
Conn
Albert K. Sweet
Appenaug Avenue
Norwood
R. I. L. F. Clarke
Wilton
Fred E. Foss
Chase Street
Fall River
George A. Lawrey
Pawtucket
R. I
H. L. Mitchell
Plymouth
Charles W. Hammond
Augusta
Michael Donlin
Meriden
Frederick E. Foss
William Quann
Warren
Somerset
Navy
Elvira M. Foss
Brayton
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Foss
Quann
Russel R. Dyer
North Attleboro
Attleboro Falls
South Pond
Dyer
Aldrich
Sayle
Miss Aldrich
Ranghild
Lilly H. C
Axel W. I. Hanson
Gilbert W. Johnston
Sand Pond
Sweet
Judge Fox
Mantir
Henry H. Winslow
Mullins
Peter C.delorey
WM. H. Clark
Stetson
Citizens OF
Robert J. Bottomly
John E. Travis
Natick
Clerk
John E. Garfield
William H. Clark
Stow
Tucker Foreman
Cannon
Piper Heidsieck
Pitas
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