Old Coat Club to Bandits Band
Old Coat Club faces Bandits Band in a local clash noted by fans. The report highlights a spirited contest and community interest in the outcome and players involved.
15 Nov 1910
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1910
Page
1
Old Coat Club faces Bandits Band in a local clash noted by fans. The report highlights a spirited contest and community interest in the outcome and players involved.
Little Marion Larkin of Humboldt park Roxbury age 11 is missing after a veiled woman in black spoke to her promising a party with ice cream cake and other treats. Police seek the girl and investigate the unknown woman as a possible kidnapper.
Marion Larkin, a bright well developed girl from Roxbury, disappeared after her father, a Jamaica Plain baker, searched Friday afternoon. Police were notified after a neighborly party lure was reported, with no further clues found by Saturday. The case remains under investigation.
Unsettled weather with rain or snow expected in Boston and vicinity Tuesday and Wednesday. Light variable winds shift to brisk northwest as storms pass.
The snippet lists numbers and references for temperatures on yesterday and a year ago. It includes timings and scores such as 49 36 and 40 38, with a focus on average temperatures around 38 to 40 degrees.
State Detective Thomas E. Bligh led a man hunt and discharged a high power rifle in his room at Miller House. A misfire caused a roar and a bullet pierced the ceiling striking a man in the room above, who was bathing and nearly lost several toes.
In Great Barrington on November 14 detectives tracing the Egremont extension payroll robbery of Paymaster Rudolph J. Hein of the Woronoco Construction Co and two guards found a torn sack coat with ripped sleeves in an abandoned barn. The coat is believed to have supplied material for the bandits masks and the payroll totaled between 15 000 and 20 000 dollars for about 500 laborers.
The coat found near the James McGraw place signals a probe into two laborers and a suspected third highwayman. A New York wanted crook is linked to a Hudson payroll robbery. Search teams fence a vast wild area as $19 000 cash and similar in checks may still be hidden.
A four hour disruption at Boston and Albany lines tied up the South station during peak afternoon hours. An electric tower in Exeter street yards failed, delaying nearly 50,000 passengers as empty coaches were misrouted and trains were not prepared on schedule. The tower had run smoothly on Sunday.
Count Leon Tolstoi lies with a high fever at the Astapova station after a grueling winter trip. He is under care of Dr. Makovetsky, accompanied by his daughter Alexandra who acts as nurse amid family strain and illness.
Telegraph reports describe Count Tolstoy’s critical fever of 104 and severe mental distress hampering doctors. He abandoned plans to travel to the Caucasus and end his life at a Tolstoyan colony, moving with his daughter Alexandra and Dr. Makovetsky toward Moscow then Astapova where he spent the night in a station building.
Police inspectors search the city for Joseph Wolf a 14 year old son of Hyman Wolf of 23 Causeway street who disappeared Saturday morning on his way to court. He is a key witness against Frederick A Gallagher of 6 Levant street Dorchester and Charles Solomon of Ocean avenue Revere charged with larceny of hundreds in goods from the express company. Wolf last left Ralph Wolf’s printing establishment on Hanover street about three weeks ago claiming a trip to New York where he told officers about express robberies. He was reportedly brought back to the city by express officials and lodged at a hotel pending investigation.
Maiden Nov 14 The Rev. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bruce aged woman pastor of Wayside Chapel Windermere road was severely injured in a fall at the rectory this morning and grave fears are entertained for her recovery.
Philip P. Wheatland a Harvard graduate from Salem Massachusetts faces trial in Oakland police court on theft charges after $150 worth of lodging house items were taken. He previously attracted attention last July when a woman his supposed looting exposed him. he fled conviction at that time.
Lancaster, Nov 14 Charles E Keller 19 committed death by own action during a card game. Laying down the deck at his turn he cried Hold on a bit drew a revolver and shot himself killing two hours later. A quarrel with his father is believed to have caused the act.
Captain Soderberg and six crew members aboard the Baroness, bound from Newport News to Providence, were lost after a collision with an unknown large vessel off Fire Island. The Bayport, towing the barge, searched overnight but found no survivors as dawn revealed only a speck of wreckage. The Bayport continued to Boston after the incident.
Artist John LaFarge of New York and Newport died at Butler Hospital in Providence after a three month stay following a general breakdown. Born March 31, 1835 in New York, he advanced from architectural decoration to murals and stained glass, influencing Boston New York Chicago Cleveland Philadelphia Washington Detroit. He served as president of the Society of American Artists and the Society of Mural Painters, was an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.
Thomas P. Curtin Democrat defeated Leonard G. Roberts Republican in a Ward 24 recount of the State House race. Initial returns showed Roberts ahead by one vote. the recount gave Curtin a 15 vote margin, making him the first Democrat elected to the Legislature or city government from Ward 24.
Report states a U S vessel was at anchor and at rest as tensions rise amid wartime. Analysts warn the pause heightens strategic uncertainty and raises concerns over enemy actions and supply line safety.
Harvard closes practice at the Stadium as Yale defends against Crimson strength. Yale resumes drills while a tackle shift from Shevlin aims to breach Harvard. Harvard All-Stars meet Carlisle Indians the next day as a key 1912 showdown looms. West Virginia Bethany cancel game after Munk death. coroner cites accident.
The recount shows Curtin, a Democrat and Boston Typographical Union official, winning in Ward 24 after a tight statewide tally. Roberts, once aligned with Lodge, falls short as Democrats total 112 seats to 128 Republicans. Carr and Hart swap votes, with Cummings close to Roberts.
In a rain soaked test at Norfolk on a Birmingham cruiser deck Eugene B. Ely piloted a Curtiss biplane that rose from the ship and glided shoreward before vanishing on the horizon. The flight follows the Albany to New York run and signals plans to next land on a vessel moving at speed.
Washington reports a drop in U S Army desertions to 3464 for the last fiscal year, about 3.66 percent of all enlistees. The decline marks a 30.6 percent decrease from the prior year, when desertions accounted for 4.97 percent.
A Newfoundland phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman, haunts Conception Bay waters. Captain Ralph and crew aboard the Victor report eerie lights that appear and vanish at mid watch, with figures in oil skins seen aboard before the lights disappear.
John R. Marshall, alleged accomplice of "Big Bill" Kender, aided and abetted George W. Coleman in misappropriating funds from the wrecked National City Bank of Cambridge. He was released on $1500 bail after four months in Charles Street jail awaiting trial.
Maiden November 14 Jackson Davis of 81 Tileston Street Everett was driving a wagon on Pleasant Street near Elm at 8 PM when he struck a heavy semi convertible car on the Boston Elevated tracks. He suffered head and hip contusions after reins tangled and he could not avoid the collision.
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