Italian Colony Elopement Triggers Move From Hanover Street
Madame Francesca Granata a Naples graduate midwife and watch repairer Manuel Pisco boarded the 11 30 train to Montreal Monday morning leaving 344 Hanover Street. She allegedly carried furniture and over $200 of her husband Silvia Granate’s funds, with their two children, aged four and eight, left in the barren tenement above the three story house.
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Italan
Francesca Granata
Hanover Street
University
Naples
Manuel Pisco
Goddard Bros
Washington Street
Montreal
Silvia Granate
Jealousy Case Shocks Harlem Court Arouses Charges
Miss Wilhemina Thomson also known as Fay Leslie and Tommy the Man aged 35 of 738 Lexington avenue is arraigned in Harlem Police Court on a charge of larceny. Complainant Madeline Marshall 22 accuses Thomson of spite and worldly influence amid a tangled tale involving bribery testimony and hypnotic claims. Thomson pleads not guilty and is held on $500 bail awaiting examination.
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New York
Harlem
Wilhemina Thomson
Lexington Avenue
Kudlich
Madeline Marshall
Miss Thomson
Chinatown
Fay Leslie
Tommy
Devers Street
Charles H. Parkhurst
Seventy-Three Seek Roles at Hollis Street Theatre
Seventy three young women lined up at the Hollis Street Theatre stage door seeking roles in the Masqueraders to be staged next week. C J Rich and Major Dillingham, with the costumer, judged applicants on bearing height and dress fit, selecting some for the court scene while others were sent away.
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Hollis Street Theatre
Court
C. J. Rich
Major Dillingham
Frohman
Boston
Harvard
Grass Widows Tragedy After Feuding Husbands Return
Maria Sarge, long tormented by a husband who abandoned her for another woman after years in America, learned of the affair when their daughter and son-in-law were christening. The daughter’s wife Marta Sarge drank Paris green laced water and died after a night at home in New York. Maria was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital but died hours later.
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New York
Maria Sarge
America
Tony Sarge
Maria
Marta Sarge
Paris
Carleton Hal
Eliot Street
Apparition Report Near Union Church Strikes Nerves
In Union New Jersey a partly built Church of Our Lady Help of Christians towers over Tower Hill avenue. Residents claim to have seen a woman in white kneeling with uplifted hands atop a church stone for minutes before midnight. Crowds gather nightly though few witnesses view the vision. Some say a strange light appears inside the church while skeptics blame a distant electric light.
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New York
Tower Hill Avenue
Union
N. J
Church of Our Lady Help of Christians
Bloomers Club Forms For Rochester Women Cyclists
A Rochester group on Lyell avenue forms a bloomers club open to female cyclists in the area. Hattie Keenan is president. Members already wear bloomers, plan a ball next month where all the girls wear bloomers and men wear bicycle knee trousers.
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Rochester
N. Y
Lyell Avenue
Hattie Keenan
Mechanics' Fair Opens With Dignitaries In Boston
The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association fair opens at 2 p m with Governor Greenhalge Harvard President Eliot and Port Collector Winslow Warren among dignitaries. The grand Mechanics' Building features machinery fabrics and art. No foods or drinks will be admitted as exhibits.
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Greenhalge
Eliot
Harvard University
Winslow Warren
Mechanics
New England
Boston Common
Boston
Paul Revere
Bosto
Green Dragon Inn
Thas
New McLean Hospital Buildings Open to Public at Waverly
The joint trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital opened the McLean Hospital complex at Waverly to about 800 visitors, with thousands projected as gates remain open. The 176 acre estate includes 18 buildings styled in oak interiors, housing women and men in distinct wings. Nearby Belknap Appleton East Bowditch houses cater to patients from thirty to seven, with separate rooms, baths, and sitting rooms. Gymnasiums are under construction as move-in planned in a few weeks.
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McLean Hospital
Waverly
Massachusetts General Hospital
Belknap House
Belknap
Appleton House
East House
St Paul Makes 21 Knots On Sea Trial Flight
Gloucester report details the St Paul dropping anchor off Gloucester at Brown 4 Shoal after a Delaware Breakwater run. It describes 18 to 21 knot speeds, a maximum 94 engine revolutions, and about 20,000 horsepower. Also notes Oct 8 Boston Albany excursion plans.
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St.Paul
St. Paul
Delaware
Brown
Atlantic
Cramp
St. Louis
Temperance Union Convention Reports Growth and Proposals
At Salem on October 1 a Temperance Union convention heard officers report gains in membership and 446 gospel meetings plus 2244 socials since the year start. Committee on legislation aims to raise the age of consent to 18, with Miss Lestle Bigelow presenting the franchise report. Speakers included Lucy Stone Blackwell and Abby F. Rolfe as delegates praised public sentiment growth.
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Christian the Tabernacle
Susan
Fesident
T. Housh
Cortary
Housh
Lucy Stone Blackwell
A. C. Clark
Abby F. Rolfe
Salem
the Temperance Union Church
Trial of Arthur A. Albee Opens Day Two in Leaman Murder Case
Medical Examiner Paine resumes testimony detailing the fatal head wound and supports that the blow could not have been delivered with the right hand. Witnesses include Elvira Seaman recalling a similar shot bag, Dr Henry Borden corroborating Paine, and Mary Tobin recounting Albee’s arrest night remarks. Albee’s brother and Emma Maffitt testify on trousers, threats, and alleged past killings linked to Leaman case with left handed defendant.
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Plymouth
Arthur A. Albee
Collins A. Leaman
Paine
Elvira Seaman
Henry Borden
Brockton
Mary Tobin
Edgar Tobin
Edna M. Bee
Tobin
Tor Albee
Seaman
Albee
Witness
D. Edger Albee
Arthur
Emma
Maffitt
North Smithfield
R. I
Woonsocket
John McLean
Leaman
Italian Couple Flee to Montreal After Embezzlement Warrant
Milvia Granata and her brother Pisco vanished from Boston after Pisco stole from Goddard Bros. A warrant for embezzlement was issued for Pisco. Silvia Granata, a tailor, and her supposed spouse faced threats and escape, with Goddard Bros. helping locate them and Montreal police alerted for arrest.
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Milvia Granata
Boston
New York
Italy
Silvia Granata
Messrs. Goddard Bros
Pisco
Prancesca
Silvia
Montreal
Goddard
Montréal
Six New Sunboats To Be Built Under Navy Plan
Bids opened at the Navy Department for six composite gun boats authorized by the last naval appropriation bill. Each vessel capped at 230000 dollars, with no more than two built by a single firm. Plans call for four single screw ships 168 feet water line, 1000 tons, 12 ft draft, 800 HP, 12 knots. Two twin screw ships 174 feet water line, same displacement and power, reduced sail area.
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Washington
Navy Department
Department
Boston to get new lightship to replace present craft
Boston plans a new lightship costing about 60000 dollars. One of two ships to be built soon likely at Bath Iron Works in Bath Maine. The Boston vessel will suit the station with red lights and will have an engine and propeller to sail under steam if she drifts in a gale.
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Boston
Bath Iron Works
Bath
Exit from dark solitary cells at Boston institutions
Dr A B Heath the commissioner of public institutions aims to replace all dark solitary cells at the House of Correction and House of Industry with well lighted ones. The plan has broad support among reform-minded groups and progress is rapid, with completion hoped in months.
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A. B. Heath
House of Correction
House of Industry
Prsons
Boston
Parliament of Man Opens Noon Sessions at Tremont Church
The Parliament of Man began yesterday at noon in Tremont street Vestry to engage working men and women clerks and business people in practical citizenship. President James Logan Gordon and secretary O J Hackett led the opening with songs and a pledge of ongoing speakers each noon for October with daily one hour sessions. Public invited.
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Parliament of Man
Par Street
Tremont Street
James Logan Gordon
O. J. Hackett
Duke of Marlborough Plans with Consuelo Vanderbilt
The Duke of Marlborough spent Oct 1 with his future mother in law Mrs W K Vanderbilt and fiancée Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. Plans for their wedding were discussed and arranged. He dined at the Waldorf hosted by Oliver H P Belmont. Also present were Mrs W K Vanderbilt, Colonel and Mrs William Jay, and Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt wore a rose silk gown while Mrs Vanderbilt wore a blue and black gown, jet accessories, and a turban.
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New York
Duke of Marlborough
W. K. Vanderbilt
Miss Consuelo
Duke
Oliver H. P. Belmont
the Waldorf
William K. Vanderbilt
Consuelo Vanderbilt
William Jay
Miss Vanderbilt
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Colonel
Mrs. Jay
Madison Avenue Hom
Royal Blue line excursion to Gettysburg and Washington
The Royal Blue line announces a delightful eight day trip including New York Philadelphia Gettysburg Pen Mar and Washington D C The party will be personally conducted and the rate of 20 dollars covers transportation meals en route hotel accommodations and every necessary expense for the trip Descriptive circular available from A J Simmons N B R P A 211 Washington Street
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Gettysburg
Washington
Royal Blue Line
New York
Philadelphia
Pen Mar
Dp. Cc
A. J. Simmons
Washington Street
15 Percent Off on Ladies Capes at Yan Kee Co
1080 ladies capes and cloaks on sale, samples for this season, imported and domestic goods valued at 42.50, now priced at 4.84 or 6.63. Open days at 91 Summer St with lights on after hours.
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Yankee Clo. Co
National Cotton Mule Spinners Hold New England Convention
The National Cotton Mule Spinners Union began its semiannual session in Boston with 35 delegates from 30 districts across 40 cities and towns in New England New York and New Jersey. Reports noted no wage cuts and discussed Southern textile organization and limited gains from Holyoke Lawrence Manchester and Great Falls while Fall River and New Bedford manufacturers held firm on pay.
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Pythias Hall
National Cotton Mule Spinners’ Union
Knights
New England
New York
New Jersey
Robert Howard
Fall River
Thegland
America
Howard
England
O'Donnell
James Chiff
Pawtucket
R. I
Henry Reed
Holyoke
Ross
Lawrence
Manchester
Great Falls
New Bedford
Lingane Indicted in Fatal Street Row Shootout
Lingane indicted by the grand jury in Cook County for assault and a deadly shooting in a street altercation with a colored man named Cook. The indictment names Lingane as the assailant in the incident that left Cook wounded. The case proceeds in the common pleas court today.
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ENCE
Grand
Suwas
David T
Cook
Lingane
Outa Street
Come of Cook
Provid Dictments
Supreme Court
F. Lingane
Assaul
Funeral of Pasteur in Paris Describes State Memorial Procession
The body of Professor Louis Pasteur was conveyed from his Garches residence in a two coffin setup. The outer coffin of deal and inner oak encased in a leaden shell. A mahogany final coffin to be covered in black cloth with gold stars. At 230 the hearse carried the coffin to Paris, followed by six coaches of family as townspeople lined the route in reverent salute along the road to St Cloud.
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Paris
Louis Pasteur
Garches
Deal
Mtly
St. Cloud
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