Worcester shoplifter sentenced after multi store thefts
Mrs. Mary L. Burbank Sunday school teacher in Worcester was found guilty of shoplifting in four department stores. Judge Duff ordered six months in the House of Correction. She appealed and was held in $600 bonds with community support arranged. Trial set in Superior Court next month. Earlier she was fined $100 in April for larceny of $30 worth of goods from two stores.
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Mary L. Burbank
Worcester
House of Correction
Duff
Thieves Rob Police Chief in Pawtucket Office
Pawtucket Rhode Island October 13 thieves struck the private office of Chief of Police Charles E Hill stealing his overcoat. Three officers on guard overnight did not see the burglar prompting stronger efforts to catch the marauders accused of taking various private property in the city.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Charles E. Hill
Boot and Shoe Industry Growth in Massachusetts
The article notes rapid expansion of the Boot and Shoe Industry since United Shoe Machinery Company formed in 1899. It cites factory value growth from 117 million in 1900 to 170 million in 1908, despite a national panic, and advertises a demonstration plant at the New England Fair showing sixty machines producing Goodyear West Shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
United Shoe Machinery Company
Goodyear West
High Court to Hear Hill Case Involving Eastern Cold Storage
Walter L. Hill of Arlington sues officers of the Eastern Cold Storage Company in equity. The case, reserved on bill demurrers and agreed facts, goes to the full Supreme Court bench amid major interest from financiers and lawyers. A separate libel action involved verdicts in favor of the directors.
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Walter L. Hill
Arlington
Eastern Cold Storage Company
Supreme Court
Post
James 8. Murphy
Brookline
George H. Musgrave
Otis Simonds
Belmont
Hale Mason
Boston
Hill
Arthur A. Smith
Smith
Mining Engineers Attacked by Bandits in Cuba
In Santiago Cuba on October 18 bandits halted Spanish American Iron Company executives Jennings Cox Jr and Pedro Aguilera on the road near the Nima Nima river. Cox secured release of Aguilera after returning with armed men and a firefight ensued. Aguilera escaped unharmed and Rural Guards pursue the outlaws.
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Santiago
Cuba
Jennings
Cox, Jr
Spanish-American Iron Company
Pedro Aguilera
Fl Casto
Nima Nima
Aguilera
Cot
Cox
Child Burned With Matches In Chelsea Home
Dorothy Josephine Burnham, four, daughter of Mr and Mrs Le Roy Burnham of 986 Broadway Chelsea, played with matches at 28 Stockton Street with three other children and set fire to her clothing badly burning from hips to neck. She was taken to Frost Hospital where doctors plan recovery if no complications arise. The EpIscopalian Club will hold its first autumn dinner at Hotel Somerset on Monday evening Oct 28.
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Dorothy Josephine
le Roy Burnham
Broadway
Chelsea
Joseph Jeffrey
Stockton Street
Frost
Episcopalian Club
Somerset
Singhi Family Trio Reunites After Prolonged Search
Lubin confirms reconciliation as Edith Singhi, Ferdinand Singhi, and child Ferdinand are located in Massachusetts. Probate petition seeks custody and restraining order. court dates set as the family plans to return to Philadelphia.
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Edith Singhi
Lubin
Moving Picture
Philadelphia
Woman mayor in Philadelphia soon, says educator
Dr Robert Ellis Thompson, president of Central High School, declared at a senior class gathering that Philadelphia will soon have a woman mayor. He opposed women’s suffrage, calling it a calamity, and did not name any candidate while praising the suffrage movement’s future success.
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Delphia
Robert Ellis Thompson
Central High School
Thompson
Philadelphia
Boston to Newton Merchants and Institutions Glimpse
A long Sunday tour recounts a broad catalog of Newton and nearby Boston merchants. It highlights Crosbys Restaurant, Wolf's clothing, Tremont Turkish Bath, and local builders, with notes on banks in Newton and key figures like Arthur Hudson and Walker Shoe Co. The piece also references Dedham postmaster H. A. Hutchinson and local shops along Washington Street.
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Crosby
School Street
Boston
Newton
Arthur Hudson
Centre Street
Harriette A. Tinker
Walker Shoe Co
Theodore ©. Walker
Washington Street
Torre's
J. McCammon’s
Areo
Brngnt E
George P. Bullard
Land F. Gammons
J. Ellis Gammons
First National Bank
Lainey
Charles Fpfield
Joseph B. Ross
J. Steadman
Washington and
Streets
Boots Shoes
Thies
Adler's Clothes
A. L., Barbour & Co
Preacott & Burnham
Chestnut Street
R. A. van Wart
H. BE
Woodberry
Toombs
Mary E. Hosmer
A. F. Fiske & Co
A. Finley
Allston
Dedham
Mass
H. A. Hutchinson
Charles A. & Co
Phoenix
J. Everett Smith & Sons
PF. Smith
Bernard Hinteningney
Danforth
Legal and Reliable
Guy W. Cole
High Street
Hart & Proprietors
C. Denforth
P. Sheehan
J. F. Sumner
Washington Steel
Granville M
Helen L. Wims
Correet
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Portland
Puget Sound
Chicago
Seattle
Union Pacific
Yellowstone National Park
Pacific Northwest
Willard Massey
Washington St
Fort Hill
J. B. DeFriest
New York
N. Y
Hunter Baltimore
Prof Doolittle
Gee
BY Myer
Marias
Prof. Doolittle
Profdoolittle
Brooke
High Court
Dorothy Burnham
New_York
Singhi
Will
Powers & Hall
Touraine
Mr. Lubin
Ferdinand
Ferdinand Singhi
Billerica
Phila
Corbett
State Prison
Charles Town
Wolf's
Hanover
Tom Paine
Voltaire
Tobey & Co
Dock Square
Conter
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Foss
Sunday Post
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