Panic on L trains backs fire and smoke scare
A pair of L elevated train incidents between Park Street Scollay Square and Sullivan Square caused chaotic smoke dense conditions and passenger panic during the 5 to 6 pm rush. No injuries were reported as crews investigated causes likely tied to wiring and third rail faults.
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Park Street
Scollay Square
Sullivan Square Terminal
Sullivan Square
Superintendent Pasha
Pasha
William A. Bancroft
Charlestown
Sullivan, Square
Thompson Square
Somerville
Medford
Arlington
Everett
Malden
Boston
Man Dieing From Skull Injury After Street Altercation
An unknown man about 32 lay dying at Massachusetts General Hospital from a fractured skull after a quarrel on the corner of Tilanover and North Centre streets around 10:30 last evening. Officers Brown and Robinson found him unconscious with bleeding from the ears and mouth. He was taken to Station 1 and then to the hospital where he remained on the dangerous list after an operation. Police, believing assault probable, seek witnesses and pursue an investigation. The man wore a blue serge suit, red necktie, and black laced shoes.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Tilanover
North Centre
Station 1
Brown
Robinson
Mastiff Attacks 8-Year-Old Girl in Board Alley Incident
Elsie Seigall, eight, suffered a deep forehead wound requiring fourteen stitches after a mastiff she was playing with suddenly attacked her at her home on Board Alley. Neighbors carried her inside as Dr. Holtzman treated facial lacerations and other injuries.
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Elsie Seigall
Board Alley
Moulter Rescued As Baby Mine Collapse Traps Four
Fritz Moulter is found alive in a west side room after four days entombed in the Baby mine at Pocahontas. Rescue workers remove slate and debris while physicians revive him after six hours of treatment. others escaped as a heavy blast and smoke filled the drift.
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Pocahontas
Fritz Moulter
Moulter
Locke Bondsmen to Be Sued Now
Arlington at a special town meeting voted to sue the bondsmen of former treasurer and collector B D Locke to recover funds from the Swan theft. A five member committee including Howard W Steer and Charles P Scannell will probe finances and assign responsibility while safeguarding against future trouble.
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Arlington
B. D. Locke
R. A. Swan
Locke
Howard W. Steer
Charles P. Scannell
William N. Winn
George Allen
H. H. Finney
Cuba Big Brother Cigarro Promises Havana Quality
A vintage ad touts Cuba Big Brother Cigarro as the rare all Havana tobacco blend. It claims higher quality and lowest prices, offering five 20 minute cigars for 10 cents to entice readers to try them.
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Cuba
Havana
Smith with pistol fights officers in city scuffle
Walter D. Smith, a 21 year old one legged man, was jailed after a night arrest following a struggle with Special Officer Cronin and Officer Rooney. Cronin seized Smiths revolver as he aimed at him, Rooney struck Smith to halt the attack, and the case centers on alleged blackmail threats involving Isreal Rue and a Camden street decoy letter.
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Cronin
Walter D. Smith
Province Street
Officer Rooney
Smith
Rooney
Isreal
Camden Street
Shawmut Avenue
Benjamin
Chief Watts
Watts
Rue
Te Station 16
Health of Miss Stone Affected by Confinement
Miss Ellen M. Stone reports her health is worsened by continual confinement and hard fare yet remains confident of eventual release. A Sofia-based telegram to Mr. Dickinson notes brigands demand a price well above what he can offer and immunity from prosecution. US Consul General Dickinson says he cannot bind Bulgaria or Turkey, but negotiations continue.
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Sofia
Ellen M. Stone
Dickinson
United States
Washington
Miss Stone
Cloudy Boston forecast and unsettled regional outlook
The forecast from Boston to surrounding areas calls for cloudy and unsettled weather Tuesday and Wednesday with generally fair conditions and little temperature change. Light west winds prevail as the system tracks from New England to the Middle Atlantic, with rain or snow possible in coastal Atlantic regions and northerly winds remaining light to fresh.
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Boston
Washington
Middle Atlantic
New England
Atlantic States
Atlantic
European
Grand Banks
Nuisance drop and oyster beds mark regional reports
News from Wakefield New Bedford Nantucket Leominster and Salem outlines a drop in browntail moth nest pricing Citizens contribute funds to combat pests reports on a serious electric car crash and a motorman arraignment delay Oyster experiments in Polpis Harbor show promise with expanded beds planned Postmaster William Howe of North Leominster resigns Sanford Haven named as probable successor A two year sentence escape from Salem House of Correction involving Ernest Wortin noted
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Wakefield
New Sedford
Florench Thomas
William P. Wilson
Henry J. Smith
Nantucket
Polpis Harbor
Leominster
Wiliam FE. Howe
North Leominster
Sanford J. Haven
Salem
Ernest Wortin
Lawrence
Salem House of Correction
Ex-Congressman's Wife to Import Venetian Palace
Mrs. Charles F. Sprague wife of the ex congressman and heir to the Weld fortune prepares a Boston Italian palace reborn from a Venice palazzo. She has bought a Venetian building and furnishings and plans a Brookline home transformation to rival Mrs Gardner's Back Bay palace. Wealth estimates place Mrs Sprague around twenty million dollars, with Italian interiors to surpass prior displays.
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Charles F. Sprague
Venice
Italy
Brookline
Jack’’ Gardner
Venetian Palace
Weld
Jack’ Gardner
Boston
Gardner
Sprague
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