Engine Dash Down Hill In Charlestown Narrow Escape
Engineer William Foster of Fire Engine 27 narrowly escaped fatal injury when a brake failure sent the engine speeding down Green street hill into an elevated Main street post. The crash occurred after a three-horse hitch broke loose, injuring Foster who was thrown from the engine. a replacement engine and horses were dispatched and no serious fire was reported. Earlier, two weeks prior, a fatal and injurious collision killed one horse and injured seven men.
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William Foster
Charlestown
Green Street
Main Street
Warren Street
Thompson and
Warren Streets
Elm Street
Charles O’brien
High Street
O’brien
Main
Green
Foster
David W. Towle
Bunker Hill Street
Forest Fires Rage in Virginia Mountains
Winchester Virginia forests on the Great North mountains west of Winchester are burning as high winds drive the flames over large areas of valuable timberland.
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Winchester
Great North Mountains
Pinchot Under Fire From McHarg Again
Washington D C November 4 Gifford Pinchot United States forester comes under renewed attack from Ormsby McHarg retired Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor now practicing law in New York. McHarg labels Pinchot a trimmer over conservation stance. Pinchot says he will think over whether to respond to McHarg’s remarks.
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Washington, D. C
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forester
Ormsby McHarg
Robbers SANDBAG cashier in daylight Niagara Falls robbery
William Dobson cashing clerk for the Canadian Express Company at the Grand Trunk station in Bridge Street was attacked with a sandbag as two unknown men seized a package containing 14156. The robbery occurred in broad daylight with station staff nearby. Police and six officers pursued leads but found no trace.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
William Dobson
Canadian Express Company
Grand Trunk
Bridge Street
Dobson
R. B. Brown
Cashi Dobson
Imperial Bank
St. Davids
Toronto
Buffalo
W. H. Mains
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Bridgeburg
United States
Homeopaths Discuss Infantile Paralysis in Boston Meeting
The Boston Homeopathic Medical Society held its monthly meeting with Dr. Frederick B. Percy and Dr. Howard Moore presenting. They noted the disease’s unknown cause and stressed rest and massage as treatment, with gelsemium highlighted for usefulness. They cautioned against early use of splints and deformity-correcting devices.
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State Board of Health
Boston Homeopathic Medical Society
Frederick B. Percy
Howard Moore
Percy
Moore
Arrest for 107000 theft shocks New York business
Martin Kaufmann of New York was arrested in Berlin on charges of fraud totaling 107000 linked to the Cotton Goods Converters Company. The case shows Kaufmann’s betrayal of trusted partners including M. A. Isaacs and Blum of Cincinnati who invested large sums before a six month routine of falsified entries collapsed. Kaufmann fled, later traced via a hotel room message in Vienna.
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Berlin
Martin Kaufmann
New York
United States Post Office Inspecc
Henry C. Hill
Cotton Goods Converters Company of
Kaufmann
M. A. Isaacs
Hill
Blum
Cincinnati
New York Credit Men’s Association
Postoffice
Europe
Lawrence
Mass
Vienna
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Id Sede
Boston
Fo Mayor
Sameter Jou
Imperias
Virginia
Roberts Wicks
Istics
Washington Street
Boylston St
Wolf’s
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Pinchot
Old South End Green Store
Dover Street
Mien
Washington St
Wolf’s “Omy Clothier
Portland
Imerchan
Bulletin Central
Peselesio
Georges
Summer St
Chestnut Phila
George
Door
Philadelphia
George’s
Rambler
Graham
Wolf's
Haysmarket Square
Adams Square
Scollay Square
Friend-Union Street
Subway
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