Five jurors drawn in Rosenthal murder trial
In New York on November 8 five of the twelve jurors for the Rosenthal murder trial were chosen as proceedings began. The four indicted gunmen Dago Frank Whitey Lewis Lefty Louie and Gyp the Blood sit ready as the panel advances.
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New York
Herman Rosenthal
Dago Frank
Whitey” Lewis
Lefty Louie
Gyp the Blood
Justice Goff
Supreme Court
William H. Montgomery
Leo Kramer
Edwin Fisher
Frederick J. Shalek
Charles P. Huntington
Charles F. G. Wahl
H. L. Kringel
Rosenthal
Joseph C. Hogue
Whitman
Mayor seeks guidance on City Hall annex stone choice
Mayor Fitzgerald urged the Boston Chamber committee to decide between granite and limestone for the City Hall annex. He noted Wells Brothers bid the limestone option within budget while seeking 360,000 more for granite. He cited architect Graham and the Society of Architects and said the Finance Commission favors limestone.
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Fitzgerald
City Hall
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Wells Brothers
New York
Graham
Society of Architects
Finance Commission
Churchill at Moose Rally in Tre mont Temple
A Bull Moosers rally in Tremont Temple will feature Dean George W. Kirehway of Columbia University Winston Churchill novelist and gubernatorial candidate Frazer Metzger Progressive Charles Sumner Bird and Matthew Hale as presiding chair. Invited guests include the campaign stenographers from the Progressive party headquarters.
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Tremont Temple
George W. Kirehway
Columbia University
Winston Churchill
New Hampshire
Frazer Metzger
Vermont
Charles Sumner Bird
Matthew Hale
Progressive Party
China Receives Second Consignment of Airplanes for China
Salem reports Michael P. Wall of Wall Brothers will ship eight aeroplanes to China as the second consignment of a 500 unit order. The machines, fre of the biplane type, are for Yan Loong Company of Canton China located at 51 Taking Market.
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Salem
Michael P. Wall
Wall Brothers
China
Yan Loong Company
Canton
Arman
Women discuss reforms to Back Bay alleys and city governance
Daisy Porter urges Board of Health regulation to end alley filth and bug beating in Back Bay while noting Washington state bans. Eleanor Wood calls for women police and street matrons to aid girls. Esther Andrews advocates schools for the feeble minded and playgrounds, housing reform, and supervised dance halls. Esther Boland urges ballot power to curb graft in schools and select responsible school board members. Maud Wood Park highlights Ward 7 playgrounds and municipal building with suffrage momentum.
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Daisy Porter
New England Women's Club
Commonwealth Avenue
Newbury Street
Federation
Board of Health
Washington
Eleanor H. Wood
South End Women’s Club
California
Esther M. Andrews
Council of Jewish Women
Esther F. Boland
Women's Charity Club
Maud Wood Park
Boston Equal Suffrage Association
Civic Federation ideas spotlight city as home at Boston meeting
Women police and laws against rug beating in backyards were debated at the first public meeting of the Civic Federation held at Boston Public Library. The discussion framed the city as a single large home and urged progressive reforms.
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New Civic Federation
Astor Infant Granted $3333 Yearly Support
New York November 8 Surrogate Fowler granted Mrs Madeline Force Astor a petition to provide her infant son John Jacob Astor IV with an annual allowance of 3333 dollars for three years. She is named guardian with limited powers until the child reaches 14 while the trust fund of 3 million dollars may accumulate until majority. The infant, born last August, is heir to the Astor estate created by the late Colonel John Jacob Astor who died in the Titanic disaster.
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New York
John Jacob Astor
Madeline Force Astor
Fowler
Astor
Anniversary of the Great Boston Fire Observed
The 40th anniversary of the Boston fire was marked as Fire Prevention Day. Governor Foss proclaimed the day and schools observed it with fire safety lessons and drills. Fire officials read rules and taught pupils alarm box locations, followed by a reunion and banquet at the American House for firefighters.
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Boston
Foss
Boston Fire Department
Union Man's Photo in Gallery Sparks Probe
Edward Smythe secretary of a Peoria Illinois iron workers union sent a photograph he took from the gallery to the international union at Indianapolis. The image showed Herbert Hockin an executive board member captured from the rogues gallery of the police department during the dynamite conspirators trial.
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Indianapolis
Edward Smythe
Iron Workers’ Union
Peoria
Ill
Unions International
Herbert §. Hockin
Rogues’ Gallery
Executives and dynamiters figure in Boston era probe
John J. MacNamara criticizes handling of photos of Executive Board members. Hockin linked to McNamal as head of a dynamiter group and photographed in Detroit. Judge Anderson bars use of Bristol court records. O Donnell indicted for Somerset explosion but convicted on a minor charge and later escaped. Webb’s union funds paid O Donnell’s expenses.
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John J. MacNamara
Smythe
Rogues’ Gallery
Ryan
Hockin
Ortie E. McMonigal
Flying Squad of Dynamiters
McNamara
Detroit
A. B. Anderson
Bristol County
Mass
George O’donnell
Somerset
Frank C. Webb
New York
O’donnell
Union
Opposition to Plans for Reorganization of Pilgrim Fathers Order
The supreme governor George F. Bradstreet and officers declared reorganization is unnecessary. He noted colonies meet to energize members, with no board plan and no call for change, while highlighting a past age limit shift and strong colony turnout in northern Boston meetings.
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United Order of Pilgrim Fathers
George F. Bradstreet
Order
Bradstreet
Supreme Colony
Boston
Wife of Policeman Denied Separate Support
Mrs. Mabel Littlefield sued Patrolman Dexter W. Littlefield for separate maintenance claiming a three year old assault. Judge Grant of the Probate Court dismissed the petition stating the incident did not justify separate maintenance for her.
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Mabel Littlefield
Dexter W. Littlefield
Division 10
Grant
Probate Court
Taft Plans To Save G. O. P
At a White House dinner President Taft discussed the party's future and a possible successor to the late Vice President Sherman. Hilles and Crane favor a candidate approved by the national committee. Early returns suggest Governor Hadley of Missouri is the leading choice.
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Dines Hilles
Crane
White House
Washington
Taft
Hilles
Republican National Committee
Massachusetts
Sherman
National Committee
Hadley
Missouri
Blair urges Roosevelt to renounce third term bid
Former U S Senator Henry W Blair of New Hampshire, president of the Anti Third Term League, releases a letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He asks Roosevelt to renounce any future presidential candidacy and pledge strong support for a constitutional amendment limiting the presidency to two four year terms.
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Washington
United States
Henry W. Blair
New Hampshire
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Notable General Vallada Killed in Honduran Skirmish
News from Tegucigalpa reports General Jose Maria Vallada, a famous revolutionist, killed near the town 25 miles west of the capital. The skirmish involved troops and followed years of anti government activity.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Jose Maria Vallada
President G. Stanley University Lectures on Sensation Quote
President G. Stanley of Worcester lectures on sensation quoted Emerson at Harva under the Philosophical Club auspices.
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G. Stanley University
Worcester
Emerson
Harva
Philosophical Club
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