Fire at Hub Raincoat Company injures workers in rush
A benzine mix up sparked a blaze at 2 Kingston Street soon after midnight injuring several women and men amid a desperate rush for exits. Jacob Bennett suffered severe hand burns while firefighting. the four story building housed 60 workers and caused 2500 dollars in damage to the Raincoat Company with smoke and water losses to J Palmer Sons and flying glass wounding police and fire crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston Street
Hub Raincoat Company
Jacob Bennett
Drayton Arrives at Newport for Torpedo Outfit Installation
The torpedo boat destroyer Drayton arrived at Newport from Portsmouth New Hampshire and will have her torpedo outfit installed at the Newport naval station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, R. I
Drayton
Portsmouth
N. H
Newport Naval Station
Calfornia Syrup Co Promotes Regular Habits
An advertisement touts the benefits of a laxative remedy Syrup of Fig as helpful to overcome constipation with proper personal effort and nourishment. It urges buying the genuine California Syrup Co product to assist nature rather than replace it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California i Syrup CO
Five Dollar Reward for Identifying a Trolley Conductor
Readers are asked to identify a photographed trolley conductor or motorman in Greater Boston within five days to receive a five dollar gold piece from the Post. The piece lists several identified operators and routes with their names, street addresses, and years with the road, noting the longest service of 41 years.
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Greater
Boston
Post
the Post
Washington Street
Daily
Sunday Post
East Boston Ferry
Roxbury Crossing
Frank J. Moriarty
East Fifth Street
South Boston
Dorchester Street
East Boston
H. W. Simmons
Sixth Street
Mt. Auburn
Park Street
Thomas J. Tyrrell
Spring Street
Watertown
J. A. Nute
Brackett Street
Brighton
Arlington
W. H.H. Walker
Dundee Road
East Cambridge
George W. Brown
North Station
Pleasant Street
M. J. Scully
Boynton. Place
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain Park Street
Huntington Avenue
M. B. Aylward
Whitney Park
Mattapan
Roxbury
James Lennon
Centre Street
Ex Fire Chief Green Dies at 87 in Boston
William A. Green, 87, former Boston Fire Department chief, died at his home on St. Botolph Street. He served 40 years, became chief in 1874, and later fire commissioner for three years before retiring. Born November 6, 1823 in Clarendon Vermont.
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William A. Green
Boston Fire Department
St. Botolph Street
Mr. Green
Clarendon
Boy for Robbery Receives Seven to Nine Year Sentence
William Doyle, 19, one of five men in the Plakins restaurant robbery on Columbus avenue, was sentenced to state prison for seven to nine years. A sanity exam deemed him sane. Doyle’s father testified to his son’s youth and illness, asking for Concord Reformatory instead. Co-defendant John Burke, alias Billy the Kid, argued mistaken identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Doyle
Columbus Avenue
Doyle
James Doyle
United States
Concord Reformatory
John Burke
Billy the Kid
Stevens
Burke
54-Foot Fall Kills Baby in Roxbury Window Accident
Helen T. McLung aged 3 of 1604 Lamartine street Roxbury fell 54 feet from an open kitchen window yesterday afternoon and died two hours later. The child was momentarily unattended while in the kitchen with her aunt before tumbling head first to the street below. Neighbors watched but could not prevent the tragedy.
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Helen T. McLung
Lamartine Street
Roxbury
Helen
Holyoke Clerk Admits Theft at Morris & Co
Samuel I. Shaw a 28 year old bookkeeper at the Holyoke branch of Morris & Co admitted stealing 1940 from his employers. He was arrested in a South End lodging house and brought back to Holyoke by Inspector Metcalf. Shaw confessed after his capture and said he altered the safe combination before leaving town as the larceny occurred in the past three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel I. Shaw
Holyoke
Morris & Co
South End
Norton
Shaw
Frank R. Metcalf
Tatters the patrol cat joins Portland police on beat
Miss Charlena Cropley owns Tatters a coon cat famous in Portland Maine for his habit of strolling the streets with police officers during patrols. The cat is commonly seen seated beside officers on duty.
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Tatters
Charlena Cropley
Portland
Remarkable City Cat Makes Citywide Patrol Rounds
A well known feline helper waits for a police officer at a window and accompanies officers on their beat. After each shift he returns home to sleep until evening then resumes rounds with the next officer. He carries every offering to his mistress first whom he serves.
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Newport
Ring Piano CO
Ist
Cette
Tremont St
Mass
P.T
Green
Harriett Meta
Paris
London
Syracuse
Mile
Meta
U.S
Washington
Mary Javis
East St. Louis
Ill
L. E. Haskell
Clay Street
San Francisco
M.A
Fayety
Talog
M. L. Lee
B. Virginis Street
Brans
Mlle. Meta
Europe
N. Y
Boston Post
Scott
Utah
U. S
Frank FC Cannon
Everybody’s Magazine
Senator Cannon
Joseph F. Smith
James Hopper
Wm. C. Whitney
H. O. Havemeyer
Morgan
Lincoln Steffens
William Hard
Everybody Magazine
The
Ridgway Co
New York
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