Water town teen struck by car in Main Street incident
Herbert Wright 16 son of baker Arthur Wright was struck by auto 18066 driven by C B Stickney of West Townsend Mass while crossing Main Street near Spring Street. He suffered serious head and body injuries and was taken home in precarious condition with Doctor Boucher called.
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Watertown
Herbert Wright
Arthur Wright
C. B. Stickney
West Townsend
Mass
Main Street
Waltham
Spring Street
Young Wright
Trains Wreck Leaves Ten Dead at Shrewsbury Curve
A London & Northwestern passenger train bound for Bristol derailed while entering Shrewsbury station on a sharp curve. Early estimates report 10 killed and 89 injured with 19 dead announced later. Possible link to vacuum brake failure. engineers ordered to slow to 1 mile per hour.
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Shrewsbury
Eng
Scotland
England
Bristol
London & Northwestern
Pastene Removed as Public Administrator in Massachusetts
Governor withdraws Joseph N. Pastene of Boston as public administrator in a first case of revocation. Pastene disappeared about three weeks ago and a warrant for his arrest has been issued.
Injured in fall on subway stairs at Adams Square
Frank Otis aged 27 of 3 Madison Street Roxbury tripped on subway stairs at Adams Square yesterday afternoon and fell to the landing below. He suffered a lacerated cheek and forehead abrasions and was treated at Relief Hospital.
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Adams Square
Frank Otis
Madison Street
Roxbury
Otis
Relief Hospital
Man Charged in $3500 Post Office Theft
James S. McDonald was arrested in Charlettetown for stealing a package worth $3500 from the North Sydney post office. Police found $2600 in cash on his person and additional funds at the residence of his father in law.
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Charlottetown
P. BE
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C. B
James S. McDonald
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New England Shipping Men Say Coal Transport Ships Ready
Angered New England shipping men say abundant American vessels can haul coal to western waters for the Pacific fleet. They note Great Lakes ore carriers will idle after ice closes. In New York four unchartered barks exist, plus two in Boston, with more similar ships elsewhere.
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New England
Great Lakes
Pacific
New York
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John Swan
Mary C. Hale
Matanzas
Boston
Auburndale
Boylston
Teddy Dips In Cold Bear Lake
Arrian from the Bear Lake encampment recalls President Roosevelt braving a sub forty degree morning swim. He jumped into the lake at daybreak and swam about a hundred yards to an island before returning declaring the water warmer than the air.
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Bear Lake
Roosevelt
Sunday Law Violations Prompt Municipal Court Fines
In Municipal Court Judge Wentworth's presence, several men faced Sunday law charges. Most were fined $10 and appealed. named defendants include Morris Coples Myer Shaw Samuel Telmason Harry Pelanski Morris Goldstein Joseph Barron Louis Snider Hyman Singer and Maurice Lynch.
Man Knocked Down by Horse at Massachusetts Avenue
Ephraim Lirsenser, 65, of 419 Massachusetts Avenue, was struck by a horse near the Columbus and Massachusetts Avenue corner after exiting his home. Carriage occupants fled without stopping. He was taken to City Hospital with bruises but no internal injuries. police probe to identify those aboard.
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Massachusetts Avenue
Columbus
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Flour Prices Rising Driven by Shortages and Speculation
Boston flour firms attribute the higher cost to crop shortages in America and Europe and to speculative manipulation. Albion H. Brown and F. H. Brown say European demand and U S price parity push good flour to 7 50 to 8 00 per barrel, with last year’s level 1 to 1.50 lower. They expect prices to stay elevated even if crops improve.
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Boston
Albion H. Brown
A. H. Brown & Bros
F. H. Brown
America
Europe
A. H. Brown
United States
Bishop Prayed on Wall Street Steps in New York
On October 15 in New York the Right Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram addressed a Wall Street crowd of about five thousand from the old custom house steps. The bishop urged practical Christian living and faith, citing a London boy who felt a kite’s pull unseen to illustrate belief.
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Wall Street
New York
London
Custom House
Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram
William Wilkinson
Christ
Jesus
Revere man protests milk price increase to editor
A Revere resident mails a letter to the Post questioning Hood & Sons price rise from 9 to 10 cents per quart and offering to pay 1 1/4 cents per pint. He asks if milk dealers can be required to supply a pint at half the quart price and notes being dropped from the milk list.
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Revere Mass
Post
Revere
H. P. Hood & Sons
Hood & Sons
Sanitary milk demanded in Concord milk war
Concord aldermen pass an ordinance demanding sanitary milk from healthy cows not fed on ensilage kept in sterilized containers and never above 50 degrees. Milk dealers oppose the law asserting it is unjust and may raise the price of milk another cent after a recent 6 to 7 cent quart rise.
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Concord
N. H
Found a Man Under Bed in Taunton Heist Catch
In Taunton on October 15 a brunette lead actress of a touring company found a burglar under her hotel bed while inspecting diamonds in a satchel. The intruder, named George Lyton, was captured after the performance and later claimed drunkenness and breaking and entering.
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Taunton
George Lyton
First in Soldiers Field handicap high jump tied
The opening meet of a three leg series at Soldiers Field saw Roosevelt ’09 and J. L. Lawton ’10 tied for first in the high jump with a 5 feet 9 inch mark. H. H. Kunhardt ’11 took third with a 4 inch handicap and a best jump of 5 feet 7 inches.
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Soldiers Field
Roosevelt
Lawton
H. H. Kunhardt
Society wedding in Back Bay ends in hospital scene
Miss Anne Davenport Russel of Detroit marries James Thayer McMillan in a quiet ceremony at McDowell Private Hospital amid typhoid illness fears. The groom, ill with typhoid, was supported by nurses as the wedding proceeded. the couple later returned to the Vendome in Boston.
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Henry Russel
Michigan Central Railroad
James Thayer McMillan
Yale
Senator McMillan
Michigan
Oliver D. Sewall
Slarvard Congregational Church
Brookline
MccDowell
Newbury Street
Brick Presbyterian Church
New York City
McMillan
United States
Henry van Dyke
Russel-McMillan
Manchester-by the-Sea
Amy McMillan
Young McMillan
Sir John Lane Harrington
Abyssinia
McMillan-Harrington
Thayer” McMillan
Manchester
Russell
New York
Boston
Miss Russel
van Dyke
Washburn
Hotel Vendome
Vandome
Two Bills of Lading Favored Over Uniform Plan
Washington Oct 15 A hearing on proposed uniform railroad bills of lading discussed by Interstate Commerce Commission shows two distinct forms should be adopted a straight bill of lading and an order bill of lading. The order bill is negotiable enabling loans while the straight acts as a receipt for goods.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Man in Saco Seeks Tobacco After Neck Wound Attempt
Thomas Owens survived after more than twenty stitches were put in his neck without anesthetic. He did not lose consciousness during the dressing of the wound caused by his suicide attempt. He asked only for a chew of tobacco after learning multiple stitches were needed. Police say jealousy and love for his wife motivated the act. doctors report he will recover.
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Saco
Thomas Owens
Severe New Hampshire earthquake rattles towns south of Manchester
A severe earthquake was felt across several New Hampshire towns including Londonderry where buildings shook and crockery rattled at 7 10 PM. Derry and Salem experienced lighter shocks while Portsmouth reported no rumbling.
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Manchester
N. H
Londonderry
Derry
Salem
Portsmouth
Roberts seeks another trial for murder conviction
Juan Robens alias John Roberts, convicted of the murder of J. Edgar Dickinson in Houston Maine, signed a statement claiming wrongful conviction and unfair trial due to prejudice. He asserts he will have another trial and that witnesses exist to prove innocence if they testify.
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Houston
Juan Robens
John Roberts
J. Edgar Dickinson
Riot at Almshouse Over New Winter Hat
In Cincinnati on October 15 a riot erupted in the women’s ward of the city almshouse when a bus halted and a hat box was announced as a new winter bonnet for Annie. Forty seven Annies surged toward the box, each believing a friend had remembered her.
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Cincinnati
Women’s Department
Annie
Everett health agent charged in diamond theft
Frank W. Sellers an agent of the Everett Board of Health was arrested at his home 382 Chatham street Everett by Inspector McAuley on charges of stealing diamonds valued at 1600 from Abraham Lippe 17 Bromfield street. Sellers waived examination and was held in 2000 for the grand jury.
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Everett Board of Health
Chatham Street
Everett
Inspector McAuley
Abraham Lippe
Bromfield Street
Sellers
Parker Declines Senate Run After Acclaimed Nomination
Wakefield Oct 15 At the Democratic senatorial convention in Woburn last week Jared Parker of this town was nominated by acclamation but absent and unaware of the honor until receiving congratulations. He has declined to run for the Senate.
Lothrop's Ballads Debuts In New 105 Page Volume
A 105 page book titled Lothrop's Ballads Delclamations Reci tations presents original historical stories of America and other nations in prose and verse The volume is the first in a planned series and is welcomed by readers.
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Lothrop
America
Cambridge Boy Injured When Wagon Crushes Legs
Timothy Murphy 15 of Ninth Street Cambridge was run over by a wagon near his home. Both legs bruised but no bones broken according to the attending physician after he was taken home by the Station 8 patrol wagon.
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Cambridge
Timothy Murphy
Ninth Street
Station 8
Sealing catch in Victoria falls sharply this season
Victoria B C October fifteen The sealing catch of this season is the lowest on record and about one third that of last year. Last year seventeen schooners took nine hundred sixty four skins this year fifteen schooners will take about three thousand five hundred to which is to be included thirty eight sea otter skins as compared with eighteen taken the previous year. The average Behring Sea catch is two hundred fifty as compared with five hundred four last season.
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Victoria
B. C
Carver Maine G A R Leader Dies at 82 in Rockland
Colonel Lorenzo D. Carver aged 82, department commander of the Maine Grand Army, died today in Rockland. Leaders and comrades mourn the longtime advocate of veterans.
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Rockland
Lorenzo D. Carver
Maine Grand Army
Europe Embraces Domestic Kangaroos for Profit
The Sunday Post Magazine previews Raising Kangaroos for the Market in next Sunday's issue. It notes Europeans keeping tame kangaroos at home or in gardens as a growing trend with profitable potential for savvy investors.
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Europe
Sunday Post
Rumor of Gas Tank Explosion Sparks Bradford District
In Haverhill on October 15 a loud rumble near 7 pm led to fears of a gas tank explosion across the river from the city. Residents phoned police and the central office, but no damage occurred.
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Haverhill
Bradford
Boston Assault Case Leads to Brooklyn Arrests
James Green aged 23 of Charlestown was arrested in Brooklyn by Sergeant Rooney and brought to Boston for alleged involvement with six youths in the Rutherford avenue assault on Patrolman Fitzpatrick. Five were sentenced to one year in the house of correction, one acquitted. Fitzpatrick remained off duty for weeks due to injuries.
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Baldwin Street
Charlestown
Anthony Fitzpatrick
Brooklyn
N. Y
John Rooney
Hanover Street
Boston
Rutherford Avenue
Mill Street
Bunker Hill
House of Correction
Fitzpatrick
Earthquake Felt in Derry New Hampshire
An earthquake was felt in Derry New Hampshire just after 7 p m with a distant thunder like roll. Buildings were slightly shaken but no damage occurred.
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Derry
N. H
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