Girl Hit by Automobile in Dedham Parade Accident
Eleven year old Catherine Manning of 991 Harrison Avenue lies in critical condition at City Hospital with a skull fracture after being struck at Harrison Avenue and Northampton Street yesterday afternoon. Driver Clifford B Heintz 9 Jackson Street is under arrest on assault and battery charges after taking the girl to hospital.
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Catherine Manning
Harrison Avenue
City Hospital
Northampton Street
Clifford B. Heintz
Littie
Urgent Deficiency Bill Up to Wilson
Washington Oct 13 President Wilson has on his desk the urgent deficiency bill abolishing the commerce court and exempting Deputy United States marshals and deputy collectors of internal revenue from civil service. He probably will sign it. Also before the President is an opinion by former Attorney General Wickersham on civil service rules.
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Washington
Wilson
Commerce Court
Civil Service
United States
Internal Revenue
Wickersham
Ledbetter Named St. Louis Republic Managing Editor
William Ledbetter, city editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is appointed managing editor of the St. Louis Republic. He will leave the Globe-Democrat in two weeks.
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ST. Louis, Mo
William Ledbetter
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Republic
Ledbetter
Globe-Democrat
Spirit Hunter Miss Compton Deported as Insane
Miss Mary Compton English spiritualist who arrived in Boston on the Leyland Liner Canadian has been adjudged insane by Dr A J Nute of the Immigration department and will be deported within days. She offered no protest and wished to continue her spiritualism studies in the United States. She claimed a large inheritance and carried over $1000 when detained.
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Mary Compton
Boston
A. J. Nute
Immigration Department
Miss Compton
Harvard junior to search Pacific islands for gold and pearls
Roland P. Kelley, a Harvard junior just out of his teens, will start a treasure hunt in a few weeks. He follows his grandfather’s will to seek two Pacific islands rich in gold and a South American fishing ground said to hold abundant pearls.
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Roland P. Kelley
Harvard
Pacific Ocean
South America
Pearl Fishery Quest Drives Young Kelley’s Pacific Journey
Young Kelley plans a one year sea voyage from South America to locate a pearl fishery and two uncharted Pacific islands described in his grandfather T L Kelley’s will. He aims to fund the expedition with pearls and treasures, plus a moving picture machine to cover costs if the treasure hunt falters.
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Kelley
New York
South America
Amazon
T. L. Kelley
Young Kelley
Pacific Ocean
Wakefield man charged with carrying loaded shotgun without permit
Charles Defu of Wakefield was arrested near Saugus seeds by Officer Tainter while searching for two foreigners who threatened to shoot farmers Charles Bessen and F. H. Weaver on Water Street after the farmers warned off poachers who had shot two hens. The suspects fled, leaving no clue to their identities.
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Charles Defu
Wakefield
Mackup
Saugus
Tainter
Wakefeld
Charles Bessen
F. H. Weaver
Water Street
Taintor
Detfy
Dakota Dan Russell Rumor Hits Melrose Home Purchase
Interest in the Russell will case resurges as rumor spreads that Dakota Dan Russell, claimed heir to Daniel Russell, has bought a house on Russell Park near the family homestead in Melrose. He was not seen in Melrose last night, so the report remains speculative.
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Russell
Melrose
Dakota
Dan Russell
Daniel Russell
Russell Park
Russell Homestead
New Chrysanthemum Named Jessie Wilson
Washington Ott 13 from thousands of chrysanthemums in White House conservatories and Agriculture greenhouses for the upcoming White House wedding an entirely new creation is to be named after the bride Miss Jessie Wilson. Government horticulturists praise its color and size and claim it will lead the decorations for White House rooms on November 2.
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Washington
White House
Department of Agriculture
Jessie Wilson
D A R Chapter Old Belfry Formed in Marblehead
Mrs. Charles H. Bond a national vice president presented the new Old Belfry Chapter with a Walter Gilman Page water color titled The Old Belfry at its first meeting in Ven dome. Mrs. Bond recently represented Massachusetts in dedicatory exercises in Washington D C. The chapter is led by Mrs. E. E. Synge of Cambridge with Mrs. George J. Jenkins as organizer.
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Charles H. Bond
Boston
Old Belfry
Marceau
Commonwealth Avenue
Marblehead
Vendome
Walter Gilman Page
Washington, D. C
George J. Jenkins
Massachusetts
E. E. Synge
Cambridge
Continental Hall
Steamer Victoria Sails To Aid Stricken Nome Town
The Victoria after unloading at Nome sails to Solomon a 300 resident placer camp 40 miles southeast to evacuate residents. More than twenty lives believed lost in the tide storm with eight drowned at Nome and many others lost at sea. Gasoline boats in the Northern Bering Sea demolished and Eskimos on Seward Peninsula left destitute. Only one native house at Sinuk remains standing. Missionary building two schoolhouses and coal supply destroyed.
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Nome
Alaska
Victoria
Solomon
Here
Bering Sea
Seward Peninsula
Sinuk
Cape Rodney
Electric car crash injures two sweepers in Worcester
A Consolidated company electric car carrying nearly 100 passengers ran into two street sweepers after the motorman Ira Faid leapt from the platform. The car continued at speed with no one on the front, hitting a second sweeper before conductor Justus Anderson applied the air brakes to stop it. Both sweepers were injured and horses were killed. Faid is missing and not confirmed hurt.
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Worcester
Consolidated Company
Ira Faid
Greendale
Thomas Dancey
Faid
Fred Gray
Justus Anderson
Murderer Aids Police In Search
Henry Spencer, confessed slayer of Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, rode with Chicago detectives between handcuffs to point out places in his confession where he said he committed crimes. He led Detective Captain Halpin around the city to corroborate his admissions.
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Chicago
Henry Spencer
Mildred Allison Rexroat
Captain Halpin
Unclear suspect linked to fatal beating and arson
A man called about a ring pawned after the death of Mrs Annabelle Wight who was beaten at her home last spring. He then sent the chauffeur to Mrs A J MacDonald's home and identified a man who had sought a room there. He showed a 2750 Milwaukee avenue building and set it on fire after beating a man, his wife, and two children. Balinski family rescued by firemen.
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Annabelle Wight
Milwaukee Avenue
Trokop Balinski
German Military Aviator Killed at Neuendorf Aero Drome
Lieutenant Koe nig, a German military aviator, died when his aircraft collapsed at an altitude of 100 feet at Neuendorf aerodrome near Berlin.
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Perlin
Koenig
Neuendorf
Berlin
Arizona's Quiet Reform Echoes in 1913 Verse
A Walt Mason poem from 1913 imagines Arizona transforming into a restrained, law abiding state. It rails against wild frontier pastimes, praising temperance, orderly streets, and civic sobriety while hinting at cultural and social shifts shaping early Arizona.
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Heintz
Adamson
Adot
Boylston ST
China
Mintons
Cauldon
Doulton
Royal Worcester
Coalport
Wedgwood
France
Webb & Corbett
Baccarat
KOSTA
Libbey Glass
Dorflinger Glass
Wells-Burrage
Wells- Burrage Company
Boylston Street
Wells-Burrage Company
Minton China
Minton
Coulton
Couldon
Boyer Worcester
St Teteteee
Poulton
Eastlake
Beeen
R. H. Stearns and Company
Will
Harvard Man
Pacific
Gold Islands
Joan Kelley
Orient
Cape of Good Hope
Philippines
Dakota Dan
Chrysanthemum
Spencer
Arizona
Kansas
Thunderbolt
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adame
Paine Furniture Company
Canal Street
North Station
Haymarket Square
Paine
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