Trance-like illness grips Swede youth Hanson
Augustus Hanson, a healthy 20 something Swede from a ten-child family, has been prostrated since Sunday with a trance like condition. He exhibited alternating consciousness and deep sleep and shows signs of gradual return but remains unable to move his right limbs. His weight has dropped from about 155 to near 125 pounds and no solid food has been taken since Sunday. Local interest and sympathy flow toward his parents and neighbors as doctors monitor his fragile state.
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South Baston
Augustus Hanson
Main Street
Elcock
Young Hanson
Hanson
Oliver Hanson
Augustus
Ross Heel Company
Wright
Fought and Killed Eagles Near Wakefield Boy’s Narrow Escape
George Lane of Wakefield was out gunning when two large eagles attacked him in Manchester New Hampshire. The birds scratched him as he struggled to defend himself and shoot both with a single barrel shotgun after reloading once.
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Manchester
N. H
George Lane
Wakefield
Lane
Cleaning the Common Leaves Dumped Near Boylston Place
Leaves gathered from the Common fill a fenced dump on the south side near Boylston Place. About a thousand loads are stored, with plans to bury spring bulbs under dead leaves to protect them and enrich the soil as snow melts.
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Boylston Place
Rumor Denied on Jefferson Cleveland Land near Union Station
M S P Pollard of Wood Pollard & Co dismissed rumors that Joseph Jefferson and Grover Cleveland planned to buy or lease land near the new Union station. Whitcomb Wead & Co. likewise denied knowledge of any such deals, while praising the Continental store sale and its vast clothing stock.
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Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Union Station
M. S. P. Pollard
Wood
Alexander H. Wood
Whitcomb, Wead & Co
Cleveland
Jefferson
Boston clothing trade collapses as Davies Hopkins dissolves
The Boston wholesale market grapples with hard times and New York competition. Davies Hopkins & Co. dissolves its partnership due to ill health and sells its entire wholesale stock to the Continental clothing house, promising to transform Boston retail with unprecedented prices and a massive sale.
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Harry
Summer Street
New York
New England
Boston
Davies, Hopkins & Co
Great
Continental Clothing House
Continental
The
Touraine telephone charge explained by hotel exchange
A city editor reports a 15 cent toll when contacting Hotel Touraine. Officials from the Telephone Company explain the hotel houses a 300 instrument exchange with toll lines to outside, plus a public pay station, and charges apply for calls through the hotel network.
Hotel exchange charges explained by Mr Whipple
A discussion explains that calling the hotel office is free while connecting through the hotel exchange incurs a 15 cent charge. Mr Whipple notes guests can still order dinners or rooms without a fee by calling the office directly. He avoids listing his own number to prevent mix ups with the exchange.
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Mr. Whipple
Air Ship Sighted Over Halifax Peninsula
An air ship passing swiftly over the Halifax peninsula attracted attention on November 5. Charles W. West, a consulting engineer, observed the balloon from Dartmouth and followed its course until it vanished. Locals speculated it might be the daring aeronaut Herr Andree.
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Halifax
N. S
Charles W. West
Dartmouth
Herr Andree
Balloon Over Halifax Likely Norwegian Explorer Not Aboard
The report suggests the balloon that crossed Halifax around 12 45 Tuesday afternoon may be the Norwegian craft, but the explorer could not have been alive inside.
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Dree
Halifax
Ogle and Russell Recall In Letter Box Robbery Case
Ogle and Russell, New Yorkers, appeared as government witnesses in the Atwood Matthews letter box robbery inquiry. Assistant District Attorney Casey questioned them in the U S district attorney's office as the grand jury preparation continued. They entered with restrained air, one overcoat hiding handcuffs linking them together.
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Ogle
Russell
Atwood-Matthews
Casey
United States District Attorney's Office
Aluminum letter boxes debut in Boston at Dartmouth and Boylston
The first aluminum letter box for the Boston mail service is installed at Dartmouth and Boylston, with Granville F. Lombard making the first collection at 11 30 a m Thursday. The new boxes aim for general use due to expected greater durability.
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Boston
Dartmouth and
Boylston Streets
Granville F. Lombard
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Winthrop Square
Whitten Burdett
Kersey
Reefars
Vienna
Washington ST
DEATH
Strangs Steen
Young
Union Hatco
Plymouth
Union Hat CO
Hanover St
Cor
Union
Union Hat Gcoo
Hanover, Cor
R. T. Almy & Co
Cer
Hayward Pi
Posse
Yonkers Statesman
Pioneer Clothing Company
Washington Street
Navin Bros
Temple
Tremont St
Grover
Davies-Hopkins
Post
America
Boston Enterprise
Touraine
the Post
Telephone Company
Hotel Touraine
Lynn
Whipple
Mr. Whipple, Jr
Old South Church
Ogle and
Butler
Elevato
Franklin Sts
Lucian M. Zell
Zell
Bigelow, Kennard & Co
H. Muhr’s Sons
Philadelphia
F. G. Butler & CO
Mrs. Enpeck
Mr. Enpeck
Mr. Miller
Shawmut ——c. Opp
Hollis ST
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