Foxboro Fire Department Reorganized After Months of Turmoil
Foxboro residents cheer as the fire department is reestablished with 12 men under foreman P. E. Pitman. Headquarters are in a vacant frame building near the railroad depot, aiming to cut insurance costs and protect 1356 residents, though equipment is limited to chemical extinguishers and buckets until training permits use of a modern handtub.
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Foxboro
Fire Department
P. E. Pitman
Charles Martis
Messrs. Richardson
C. Comey
Board of Selectmen
Civil War Vet Returns to Waterbury After 45 Years
Barnes Gilbert arrived in Waterbury Connecticut after 45 years away. He learned his wife, believed killed in the war, had died and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery by her third husband following a quarrel. He had been living in the deserts of Arizona.
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Waterbury, Conn
Barnes Gilbert
Connecticut
Pine Grove
Gilbert
Arizona
Debonair Ethel Haven Charged In Check Theft Case
Ethel Haven, a young telephone operator, appeared in Municipal Criminal Court with bail set at 500 dollars after waiving examination for allegedly raising a check given by a friend. She had faced 1000 dollars bail previously. bail for friend Mabel West remains the focus of support as both work to secure release.
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Petite
Ethel Haven
Municipal Criminal Court
Bolster
Miss Haven
Mabel West
Mabel
Ethel
Tapestry Brussels Rugs Celebrate Roxbury Carpet Co.
The Roxbury Carpet Co. presents Tapestry Brussels rugs as the high grade standard famed for a generation, highlighting their quality and celebration within the trade.
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Roxbury Carpet Co
Milk car hearings probe New Haven line for Worcester producers
At a hearing before railroad commissioners, Interstate Commerce Commission evidence showed the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad operated a daily public milk car between Pittsfield and New York with favorable terms for producers. Producers claim contracts control sales, and a third hearing date will be set after more questions are submitted.
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Worcester County
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Pittsfield
New York
New Haven
George Albree
Concord
Charles W. Wood
Association
Jonas Bemis
Charlton
Boston
Lincoln man sentenced to two years on embezzlement counts
Levi C. Lincoln, former treasurer and general manager of Woonsocket Electrical Machine & Power Co, was sentenced in Providence to two years in State prison on each of two embezzlement counts, to run concurrently. He admitted a $92,000 shortage and has repaid $30,000 through property and stock surrender. Delays cited illness in the family.
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Providence
Levi C. Lincoln
Woonsocket Electrical Machine & Power Company
Mumford
Superior Court
Factories In Central Massachusetts Begin Short Time Schedules
In Worcester and nearby towns several major plants reduce hours this week and next. St Slater and Sons mills Webster shift to five days weekly affecting North Webster cotton mills South Webster woolen mills and East village cambric works. Bates Webster belts eight hour days. Perry woolen mills Webster close indefinitely. Prouty Co shoe works Spencer begins eight hour schedule affecting about one thousand. Wright Wire Co Palmer adopts five day week. Bowdoin felting Mills Millbury and George W Olney Co Cherry Valley close two weeks for repairs. Clinton Foundry and others in Worcester county curtail staff.
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Worcester
Massachusetts
St. Slater & Sons’ Mills
Webster
North Webster
South Webster
Cambric
East Village
Bates Shoe
Perry Woolen
Isaac Prouty & Co
Spencer
United States
Wright Wire Company
Palmer
Bowdoin Felting Mills
Millbury
George W. Olney Company
Cherry Valley
Clinton Foundry Company
Worcester County
Frank Warner Convicted of Second-Degree Murder
New York rumor: Frank H. Warner was tonight convicted of murder in the second degree for shooting Esther C. Norling, ending a sensational case that drew city attention. The verdict comes after a high-profile trial and will lead to sentencing proceedings in the coming weeks.
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New York
Frank H. Warner
Esther C. Norling
Brakeman Woodman Heroically Shuts Off Power After Collision
Ernest S. Woodman, brakeman for the Boston & Maine, fainted after pulling a trolley from a live wire and shutting off electricity following a Sunday wreck near Woodbury's Crossing in Hamilton. Six people were injured. Woodman crawled from the car and was carried to a house on a stretcher. He formerly lived in Hamilton and now resides in Danvers.
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Hamilton
Ernest S. Woodman
Woodbury
Woodman
Dodge
Young Woodman
Danvers
Prosecution Promised In Borough Bank Probe In Brooklyn
Assistant District Attorney Elder opened the King’s County grand jury inquiry into Jenkins Trust Company and Borough Bank now in receivership. He pledged a thorough impartial probe with no favors, and said the DA’s office will prosecute those implicated. State Senator McCarren claimed Borough Bank holds his note for large sums.
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New York
Navy
King’s County Grand Jury
Jenkins Trust Company
Borough Bank
Brooklyn
Elder
Patrick H. McCarren
Borrower Defends Debt Promise in Brooklyn Banking Scene
Statement claims a loan of 13 000 dollars and insists no more, asserting that other Brooklyn banks and the Borough Bank lent him money and that all obligations have been discharged. He emphasizes his paper is good and fully secured.
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Brooklyn
Borough Bank
Methuen Police Probe Illegal Surgery Death
Methuen and Lawrence police investigate a case of alleged illegal surgery that killed a young married woman from Methuen. An autopsy by Dr. George W. Dowper was conducted at Lawrence General Hospital. Chief Jones leads the inquiry with arrests expected.
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Methuen
Lawrence
Lawrence General Hospital
George W. Dow
Jones
Methuen Police
Presbyterian Ministers Association Backs In God We Trust on Coins
In New York on November 18 the Presbyterian Ministers Association adopted a resolution urging the national government to retain the motto In God We Trust on gold coins. The measure aims to safeguard the motto amid changes to coinage.
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New York
Presbyterian Ministr S’ Association
Portland tramp Edward Weston reaches Cleveland on his long walk
Edward Payson Weston arrived in Cleveland at 8 15 this morning after a 48 hour lead on his Portland Maine to Chicago trek. He rested an hour and a half then continued toward Wakeman planning to cover 78 miles from Painesville starting at 12 80 this morning. A crowd of about ten thousand gathered along Euclid Avenue as Weston spoke and his marching column filled the street from curb to curb amid a festive scene.
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Cleveland
Portland
Chicago
Edward Payson Weston
Wakeman
Painesville
Euclid Avenue
Lenden
Supers Avenue
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Lewis Trask
Relief Hospital
Maryland
Baltimore
Ulman, Boykin & Co
Wei Ie
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Browning, King
Company
Miss West
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M. J. Whittall
Petea
Kashgar
Lot of India
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Orr
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Woonsocket Machine
Jansen
Beverly
Ernest P. Woodman
New England
Oak Morris
Morris
National Springs
Chiffonieres
Eevee Mahog
Soller
Legal Stamp Sewing Machine Club
Beacon
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America
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Frank Warner
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