Child Run Down by Auto in Dedham
A child was struck on High street Dedham yesterday afternoon by an automobile owned by James R Lowery and driven by Mrs Lowery of Providence. The child was found unconscious and taken to 30 Norcourt Street Providence after treatment by Dr Granville Hoffies East Dedham. She suffers from concussion and multiple bruises and cuts.
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Avery School
High Street
Dedham
James R. Lowery
Lowery
Norcourt Street
Providence
Granville
Hoffies
East Dedham
City buys auto ladder truck to replace horse drawn unit
A Western manufacturer will supply a large auto ladder truck for the fire department at 57 dollars. The appropriation stands at 36000 dollars, funded by the sale of the current horse drawn truck and its three handsome horses that have drawn it for three years.
Farrar Special Arrives in Boston For Carmen Premiere
The Farrar Special train arrives at South station shortly after 8 pm with Geraldine Farrar and a group of theatre figures to attend the first U S exhibition of the Lasky film Carmen at Symphony Hall. An additional train brings over 50 dramatic critics, with telegraph instruments installed in the hall to report their opinions.
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Farrar
South Station
Geraldine Farrar
Sidney Farrar
Morris Gest
David Belasco
Hodkinton
Paramount Pictures Corporation
John Brown
Andrea Dipple
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Samuel Goldfish
Lasky Feature Play Company
Boston
United States
Carmen
Symphony Hall
Chicago
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Union Hat Co Fall and Winter Bargain Sale Event
Bargain sale offers outdoor wear at low prices for Friday and Saturday. Items include lambs wool lined coats, leather coats, hunting shirts and pants, waterproof gear, gloves, caps, and rubber boots with wholesale and retail pricing and mail orders. Richmond 156 listed as contact.
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Richmond 156
President Wins Him Reprieve for Hillstrom
Governor William Spry granted a stay of execution for Joseph Hillstrom until October 16 on President Wilson's request. Hillstrom, convicted of murdering J. G. Morrison and Morrison's son in January 1914, faced a firing squad scheduled for tomorrow in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Wilson
Washington
William Spry
Joseph Hillstrom
J. G. Morrison
Morrison
Spry Grants Limited Reprieve for Hillstrom Case
Governor Spry states the reprieve is granted only because the President asked for it and urges the Swedish minister to visit before Oct 16 for personal investigation. He notes Hillstrom was convicted of a revolting murder with a fair trial and thorough board review, and cites constitutional limits on reprieve timing. The action requires Hillstrom to appear in district court for potential resentencing if the board does not commute.
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Spry
Board of Pardons
Hillstrom
Gaglio Beaten to Death in East Side Home
Salvatore Gaglio proprietor of a large Sixth Avenue clothing house was beaten to death in his bed at his Upper East Side home by two men who fled. Police say the crime appears to be revenge by men who knew him in business. the victim was confined by illness.
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New York
Salvatore Gaglio
Sixth Avenue
Upper East Side
Gaglio
City Buildings to Have New Flags
Boston will spend 447.59 to replace tattered Old Glory flags over municipal buildings including City Hall. The City Council approved the flag expenditure in a recent meeting.
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Boston
City Hall
Whiskey Losing Medicinal Status in Pharmacopeia
Whiskey and brandy long used by druggists as medicines are removed from the American Pharmacopeia. The ban affects their listing as medicines and jeopardizes the sixth class druggist license in the state.
State boards face sixth class license clash over liquor in medicine
William E. Martin of Holyoke and the State Board of Pharmacy oppose changing the sixth class license and certificate of fitness. They argue the license act and fitness certificate come from the Legislature, not the board. Local excise boards may meet to decide, while the Anti Saloon League seeks a ruling on whiskey and brandy in drug stores.
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Pharmacopeia
William E. Martin
Holyoke
State Board of Pharmacy
Martin
Josiah Dean
Boston Excise Board
Anti- Saloon League
League
Victory Over Turks Brings British Toward Bagdad
London reports British forces under General Sir John Nixon have crushed Turkish resistance in Absopo tamia and are now about 150 miles from Bagdad. The outcome invites debate on pushing to Bagdad with some commentators noting the theretofore Turkish strength is broken. The Pall Mall Gazette warns Turks must not resume their bloodstained path in the Murphate valley.
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London
Absopotamia
John Nixon
Bagdad
Pall Mall Gazette
Muphrates Valley
Death of J Henry White Former Maynard Principal
Word reached here of the death in Silverdale Georgia of J Henry White a former principal of Maynard High School He concluded his service there in 1902.
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Maynard
Silverdale
J. Henry White
Maynard High School
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