Borden voices opposition to closer Britain US ties
Montreal October speech by Sir Frederic Borden, Canadian minister of militia, shocks Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company guests by opposing closer England United States ties and trade with Canada. He cites past dependence and praises self reliance, while London visitors praise American progress and look toward broader friends.
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Frederic Borden
London
Windsor
Great Britain
United States
Canada
Montreal
Sir Frederic Borden
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Toronto
Honourable Artillery Company
England
Frederic
Sir Frederic
Colonel Hedges
Boston
Siasm
Lord Dundonald
Armed Forces of
Lord Denbigh
America
Cochrane
Hedges
Colonel Hibbard
Roosevelt
Lou Simmons Flees Police After House Fires Link
Lou Simmons known as the parefoot girl has vanished after evading state police who sought information about fires at her Cambridge home. Officers monitored her mother's residence while Joseph E. Shaw of the State Police reportedly left town to pursue the missing girl.
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Lou Simmons
May
Lancaster School For Girls
Cambridge
Joseph E. Shaw
Man Suicide At Roxbury Boarding House
Despondent 60 year old Jo seph Bince a cigarmaker from New York ended his life by shooting himself in the right temple at his Roxbury boarding house on Armstrong street after six months of illness with neuralgia. He died almost instantly leaving a wife and family in New York.
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Joseph Bince
Armstrong Street
Roxbury
New York
Home for Needy Cooks Plan Unveiled by Boston Cooks Union
Charles H. Coppard of the Boston Cooks Union 328 announced plans to found a home for needy cooks and set up permanent headquarters where unemployed meat and pastry cooks can read papers and enjoy pastimes. A 9 Appleton street meeting drew 260 cooks to vote on an employment office offering work without usual placement fees.
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Charles H. Coppard
Boston Cooks’ Union
Appleton Street
Alumni Social Planned by Boylston School Association
The Alumni Association of the Boylston School will host a social for members and their families Thursday evening at Deacon Hall on Fort Hill.
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Boylston School
Old Fort Hill
Deacon Hall
Registration Lags As Two Days Remain In State Election
With only two days left for state election registration, 538 names were added to voting lists yesterday, bringing total registrations to 3,900 less than the level at the close of last year. Voters show apathy and managers of both parties express disappointment as the election commissioners cannot explain the slow turnout. The article notes yesterday's registration table.
Five Men Fall Thirty Feet At Draper Foundry
Milford reports a collapse of staging in the Draper company foundry at Hopedale today. Five men plunged about thirty feet to the floor, likely fatally injuring one, seriously injuring another, and badly bruising two more. Injured are August Henche, J F Reilly, B N Sumner, P M White and L Covell.
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Milford
Draper Company
Hopedale
August Henche
J. F. Reilly
B. N. Sumner
P. M. White
L. Covell
Boston man robbed in the Tenderloin
Joseph P. Brawner of Boston, formerly a member of the Old Guard, was assaulted by two men and two women on Sixth Avenue early yesterday morning and robbed of a diamond pin valued at $150.
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Boston
New York
Joseph P. Brawner
Old Guard
Sixth Avenue
Crowds View Tremendous Surf at Revere Beach and Winthrop
The storm's continuance and strong northeast wind intensified waves along Revere Beach and Crescent Beach, with spray high over Short and Pebble beaches. Large crowds, including many women, gathered at Winthrop and Revere beaches to watch the surf, as inland visitors arrived from nearby towns. Apples and canned goods washed ashore at Pebble Beach toward Winthrop. beachfront houses atop the crest were strengthened or rebuilt from damaged foundations.
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Revere Beach
Dis
Crescent Beach
Win‘Kop and
Revere
Pebble Beach
Winthrop Bead
Chinatown Quiet After Raid and Shootout Rumors
Chinatown faced a tense quiet after a Sunday night raid on Ong Leung Tong and Hep Sing Tong hides. Police arrested three men, including Lucy Sang, who ran a Columbus Avenue laundry, while Moy Loy claimed to lead insiders and warned of more “Highbinders.” Local merchants denounced the raid as heavy-handed amid fears of further action by lawmen.
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Chinatown
Hei Sing Tong
Hep Sing Tong
Ong Leung Tong
Moy Loy
Cain
George Wong Duck
May Buck Look
Lucy Sang
Sang
Columbus
Boston
Harrison Avenue
Bricklayers Protest Hearing Over Deer Island Work
Bricklayers union seeks a public hearing before the Board of Aldermen’s Prison Committee in Suffolk county, charging penal institutions commissioner John B. Martin with favoring prison labor for a Deer Island power house project. Martin denies the claims and says bids were high and the project lacked funds.
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Board of Aldermen
Suffolk
Driscoll
Board of County
Suffolk County
Mass
John B. Martin
Deer Island
Boston Harbor
Boston
Bricklayers’ Union of
Jeremiah F. Driscoll
What Street
Sfiang
Chinese Arrestees Appeared in Disorderly Court Room
Sunday night 253 Chinese were rounded up. 145 released by federal authorities by noon. 113 arraigned yesterday afternoon before US Commissioner Benjamin H Bradley. Of 118 arraigned and held for further exam, 38 bailed, 75 taken to Charles Street jail. Courtrooms became a smoky, chaotic scene as Judge Lowell observed.
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United States
Benjamin H. Bradley
Charles Street
Lowell
Judge Lowell
Chin Ping Injured In Chinatown Wagon Accident
Chin Ping, among 28 Chinamen arrested in Chinatown Sunday and a rider in the overturned wagon, was taken to City Hospital yesterday forenoon. He was sent home at 19 Harrison Avenue after the accident but a physician found his condition serious and ordered his removal to the hospital. He had several ribs fractured and a badly bruised chest, along with other injuries.
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Chin Ping
Chinatown
Ping
Harrison Avenue
Chinese Subjects Seized in Chinatown Prompt Appeal to Emperor
Colonel Stephen W. Nickerson, the Chinese vice consul here, appeals to the emperor on behalf of about 300 Chinese subjects arrested Sunday night in Chinatown. He protests the arrests as contrary to the U S China treaty and condemns the methods used, while investigating the raids and preparing a report for the Chinese government.
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China
Will. Be
Stephen W. Nickerson
Chinatown
Nickerson
United States
Sunday School Leaders Debate Exercises Profitability
At a joint Berkeley Temple meeting of Congregational Sunday school superintendents Union Baptist and the Baptist Sunday School Superintendents Association the topic Resolved That public exercises for the Sunday school are not profitable was discussed.
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Congregational Sunday School
Union Baptist
The
Baptist Sunday School Superintendents’ Association
Berkeley Temple
Everett Subway Speeds Access to Low Price Boston Goods
If you live in Everett you will find that subway cars take you near the lowest price house in Boston for well made clothing furnishing goods and hats. Get off at Scollay Square Station and walk down Hanover Street to see buildings on the corner of Hanover and Portland Streets.
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Boston
Scollay Square
Hanover Street
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Woman Misreads Medicine and Takes Poison
Ellen Smith of 66 Steep Street was brought to the relief station shortly after 10 last evening suffering from poisoning by a solution of sulpho naptha. She says she drank it by mistake thinking it was medicine and she will recover.
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Ellen’ Smith
Steep Street
Registration in New York Two Days Totals 308 266
Revised figures show two day registration in New York City with Manhattan and the Bronx totaling 2 967 Brooklyn 45 69 Queens 66 74 and Richmond 32 77 culminating in a combined two day total of 308 266 across five boroughs.
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New York
Manhattan
The
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
Boston Police Arrest Clairvoyant Swindler Known by Many Names
Chicago report says H. R. Kendall a clairvoyant and palmist was seized at the Auditorium Hotel on orders from Boston police. He faces swindling charges in Boston where he used aliases including Professor Harry Baker Johnson Rockwell Kilbourne Vaughn Kendall Marshall Mantel. Kendall, about 35, has been in Chicago nearly two years and a Boston officer will pursue extradition.
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Chicago
R. Kendall
Auditorium Hotel
Boston
Harry Baker
Johnson
Rockwell
Kilbourne
Vaughn
Kendall
Marshall
Mantel
Five More Men Lost in Storm Off Virginia Coast
Norfolk dispatch reports two schooners and one barge lost, plus five more sailors drowned. The tug Buccaneer says the barge Oracle foundered off Cape Henry with Captain Cookson, the cook, and three seamen aboard. Oracle, coal laden, was being towed from Baltimore when struck near Hog Island. crew perished as sea conditions worsened.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Carolina
Buccaneer
Oracle
Cape Henry
Cookson
Cook
Baltimore
Hog Island
Flood Elevation Rises Along Charles River Tenders Say
Draw tenders reported the Charles River rose markedly in recent days with water levels four inches above normal above Boylston Street bridge at high tide. Higher rises were noted toward Watertown and Waltham, exceeding usual marks.
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Charles River
Boylston Street
Cambridge
Watertown
Waltham
Fitzgerald Tours City in Storm to Inspect Registration
President William T. A. Fitzgerald of the Democratic city committee led a strenuous day touring 12 wards to check registration progress. He spoke of a large demonstration at Faneuil Hall and predicted a November victory with over 20,000 margin for Gaston, urging Boston to repudiate the administration seen as making the city look cheap.
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William T. A. Fitzgerald
Democratic City Committee
Democratic Organization
Faneuil Hall
The
Post
Ames
Gaston
Boston
Parliament Not to Dissolve for War Commission Reforms
The new chancellor of the exchequer told a crowd at Acock's Green Worcester that the government would not dissolve until the South African war commission report’s lessons were applied and the War Office reorganized. The statement signals a focus on fiscal issues and reform rather than broad legislation.
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Lain
Acock’s Green
Worcestershire
South African War Commission
War Office
Marble slab crushes two workers at Haverhill street
Two workmen at 91 Haverhill street were crushed when a marble slab being hoisted slipped from ropes. Cornelius Creamer of Sixth street South Boston was buried and hospitalized with contusions and possible internal injuries. Phillip Enrick of Moon Place was injured in the legs and body and sent home after treatment.
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Haverhill Street
Cornelius Creamer
Sixth Street
South Boston
Phillip Enrick
Moon Place
Creamer
Enrick
Barn party at Lyceum Hall East Boston draws crowd
Si and Mirandy were much in evidence at a barn party hosted by the Ladies Aid Society of the Church of the Assumption in Lyceum Hall East Boston. About 400 couples attended as the hall was transformed into a country barn scene with dancing and husking corn.
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Mirandy
Lyceum Hall
Boston
Ladies’ ‘Aid Society
Church of the Assumption
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Sergeant Allen
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John F. Brown
Municipal Court
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Luge
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S &Q
Notman
Bricklayers’ Union
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