Burglary Wave Ripples Through Peabody Homes
Peabody reports the sixth daylight break in two weeks at William P. Ryan’s 14 State street home. Two young men entered via a back door with a false key, then coordinated entry for a loot of money and jewelry. Neighbors saw the pair but misread their purpose as legitimate visits.
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Peabody
William P. Ryan
State Street
William H. O'Shea
Charles E. Barrett
Warren National Bank
Emerson Street
Jimmy
Vacu-Mirror advertised as portable lighted mirror for travel
An ad promotes the Vacu-Mirror with a window clamp and universal joint for precise lighting. It claims easy attachment, strong light, and stable position, suitable for grooming and as a travel mirror. The copy targets women and notes availability through local dealers.
Sanderma Cream Soap Exquisitely Perfumed Skin Care
Sanderma Cream Soap combines a delicately medicated Face Cream with a richly scented Skin Soap. It purports to cleanse and purify skin and scalp, prevent redness and clogged pores, and keep hair from drying or breaking, rivaling expensive imported toiletries for toilet, bath, and nursery use.
Bandits Target Workmen in Berkshire Construction Heist
Investigation reveals several Italians hid shotguns and rifles among bunkhouse effects while payroll cash remains missing. Extra clerks audit Woronoco Construction Company records in Great Barrington as deputies guard railways and detain suspicious passengers in a wide manhunt stretching to New York. A $700 reward plus $200 clue bonus seek inside help to capture the robbers.
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Woronoco Construction
Great Barrington
Berkshire
Mahaiwe
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Harlem
New York Central
New York
John Shea
Ex Mayor Grimmons elected president of Somerville Board of Trade
Ex mayor Charles A. Grimmons was elected president of the Somerville Board of Trade at a meeting last night. He succeeds Representative Sidney K. Keene who had held the post for two years. A rising vote of thanks was given to retiring officers.
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Charles A. Grimmons
Somerville Board of Trade
Sidney K. Keene
California Fig Syrup Co. Promotes Product Purity
The notice claims Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna are pure and uniform, produced by an exclusive California Fig Syrup Co. method. It states genuine products come from California Fig Syrup Co. and are sold by leading druggists, with figs used for taste and medicinal principles drawn from beneficial plants.
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California Fig Syrup Co
California
Health claim for CASCARETS constipation cure
An advertisement touts CASCARETS as a cure for constipation and a torpid liver. It promises a “good health smile” after a week’s treatment at 10 cents per box, selling a million boxes a month and claiming to be the world’s biggest seller.
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Cascarets
Touch of Saint Anne Bone Relic Cures St. Anne Healing
John W. Dugan asserts a bone relic at a Syrian church cured his nine months of speechlessness from blood poisoning. Doctor Sughrue calls the recovery miraculous as Father Karkemas reports multiple cures during a novena. Dugan recalls kneeling, relic placed on tongue, and daily improvement with faith. He plans to return to Western avenue after the healing.
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John W. Dugan
Dudley Street
St. Anne
D. F. Sughrue
Post
Dugan
Tyler Street
South End
Gabriel Karkemas
Saint Anne
Elopement Shocks Bakery Family In Lynn
Nov 14 in Lynn a telegram reveals Ora E Goddard son and partner in a large local bakery secretly married Miss Annie A Stone a clerk. The couple reportedly honeymooning in New York after traveling to Brockton for the ceremony. Friends of both families react with surprise and curiosity.
Fear Lost Roxbury Girl Is Stolen
Annie Gillman and Annie Alexander recount a meeting with a woman claiming to be a Sunday school teacher who invited Marion Larkin to a party with ice cream cake and candy. Marion was last seen near Warren street around 4 pm en route to a car. Church parties in the area were ruled out as locations.
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Annie Gillman
Bowerstreet
Marion
Annie
Marion Larkin
Annie Alexander
Bower Street
Warren Street
Creighton
Bower’ Place
New Mill Possibility Looms Over Lowell
A rumor in mill circles says a new textile factory employing 4000 could soon be built. Negotiations are under way to purchase a city playground tract for the site, with plans to erect the mill there.
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Lowell
Wein-Rensted
No More Stomach Distress for Readers of the Post
Sufferers from indigestion and dyspepsia are urged to take Pape's Diapepsin to aid digestion. The ad claims quick relief within five minutes, promising no more sour stomach, heartburn, belching, or headaches, and encourages buying a 50 cent case from a druggist.
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the Post
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S. S. Miller & Son
Mark Cross Co
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J. B. Varick Co
Manchester
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