Confederate Dead Memorial Unveiled at Pittsville National Cemetery
The United States government unveils a nine foot six inch granite shaft at Pittsville National Cemetery to honor 184 Confederate prisoners of war buried near Chester Pennsylvania. John S Beard of Staunton Virginia spoke. Navy musicians provided music and Rev. J Thompson Cole offered the prayer.
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Philadelphia
Blues
United States
Pittsville
John Shepard Beard
Staunton
Philadelphia Navy Yard
J. Thompson Cole
Chester
Penn
Lorimer Election Probe Reveals Hidden Details
Oct 12 report details Henry A. Shephard of Jerseyville forced to disclose previously concealed escapades amid United States Senate investigation into Senator Lorimer's election.
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Chicago
United States
Lorimer
Henry A. Shephard
Jerseyville
Witness sheds light on Lorimer vote and hotel disguise
Jerseyville banker Henry Shephard testifies under oath about using a fictitious name in a Chicago hotel in April 1910 to shield a private matter with a woman not his wife. He describes prior discussions with Lee Browne and Lorimer, and details from a 1909 St. Louis hotel meeting with Robert Wilson and other legislators.
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Shephard
United States
Luke Lea
Chicago
Jerseyville
Lorimer
Illinois
Edward Hines
Hines
Henry Shephard
46Th General Assembly
Lee O'Neil Browne
Browne
Senator Fletcher
Richards
Senator Lea
Robert Wilson
Southern Hotel
St. Louis
Wilson
Two Sudden Deaths On Waltham Street Prompt Police Probe
In one block of Waltham Street South End three residents were found dead from gas exposure. Mary Murray 40 a laundry worker was found by landlady Mary A Cassidy at 84 Waltham Street with two gas cocks open. George Gifford 84 a war veteran was later found at 74 Waltham Street by Stella Patterson after a day of illness. Jennie Serotta a lodger at 76 Lawrence Avenue Roxbury was found dead in bed with gas jet full blast at 7 45 AM. Medical Examiner Leary ordered both bodies removed to City Hospital morgue.
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Waltham Street
South End
Dedham Street
Mary Murray
Mary A. Cassidy
Miss Murray
Leary
City Hospital
George Gifford
Stella Patterson
Gifford
Jennie Serotta
Lawrence Avenue
Roxbury
Three Khoury Brothers Wounded in Lawrence Shooting
In Lawrence, three Syrian brothers George Elias and Nicholas Khoury were shot. Nicholas allegedly killed his brothers then shot himself in the abdomen after demanding money, with police citing motive linked to financial dispute. Nicholas had lived in Brasil after a prior Lawrence shooting.
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Lawrence
George
Elias
Nicholas Khoury
Lawrence General Hospital
Bilas
Nicholas
Brasil
Parcels Post for Panama Agreement Reached
Postmaster General Hitchcock announced a parcels post treaty with the Republic of Panama, set to take effect as soon as possible. The rate is 12 cents per pound or fraction thereof, with a weight limit of 11 pounds.
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Washington
Hitchcok
Republic of Panama
Deserted wife seeks lost baby in Philadelphia search
Siegmund Lubin and Mrs Ferdinand Singhi arrived in the city with King and her daughter to locate Ferdinand Singhi the Philadelphia heiress husband who vanished in September with his son. Police and family have found no clue to his whereabouts in Boston or Philadelphia.
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Siegmund Lubin
Philadelphia Moving Picture
King
Ferdinand Singhi
Philadelphia
Lubin
Boston
Father and daughter seek Singhi’s return through ties to Boston
The Lubins, moving picture magnate and wife, pursues their son-in-law Singhi who vanished after visiting Lowell. They deny charges, hope to mend quarrel, offer reconciliation, and believe he remains near or in Boston. Singhi's local theater past and friends in Boston are aiding but unhelpful.
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Touraine Stotes
Singhi
Lowell
Moving Picture King
Mr. Lubin
Boston
Miss Lubin
Life Insurance Firms Eye Public Health Trends
An examiner from a major life insurance company says kidney disease is a leading reason for policy rejections as many Americans remain unaware of their ailment. He notes Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer is widely used and claims strong relief, urging readers to try it. Samples are offered by mail from Dr Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York despite a Boston Daily mention.
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Dr. Mer & Co
Binghamton, N
Boston. Daily
Vorenberg
New England
Anniversary of Executions at Charlestown Prison
Two years after three Chinese men were electrocuted for the Boston Chinatown shootings, Warry Charles and Joe Guey, later given life sentences, sit in their cells at Charlestown prison reflecting on the killings and showing resignation. Warden Bridges notes Grey and Charles as orderly and in good health.
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Charlestown
Boston
Chinatown
Hop Sings
Warry Charles
Joe Guey
State Prison
Grey
Charles
Bridges
Mob hunts Tony after Sicilian shoots two Italians in Northfield
An armed mob of Italian farmers pursues Tony, a Sicilian former boarder, who shot Marino Italiano and his mother during a supper, wounding the mother in the hip and leaving Marino barely alive. The attackers chase him into nearby woods with golfers from the Northfield Country Club joining the search.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Northfield
Tony
Marino Italiano
Northfield Country Club
Confesses to Two Murders in Anoka County Farm
Minneapolis police report N Dygart confessed to killing Mrs. Amelia Bolton and her cousin Frank E. Rhoades on the Bolton farm in Anoka county on Sept 1. He claimed Bolton spurned a proposal and he killed Rhoades to cover the first crime, with the bodies found on the farm. Officers from Superior Wis prepare to extradite.
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Minneapolis
Minn
N. Dygart
Amelia Bolton
Frank E. Rhoades
Bolton
Anoka County
Dygart
Rhoades
Bolton Farm
Superior
Wis
John Hefstedt
Superior A
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