Varied Ideas on How to Spend Parkman Fund
Boston aldermen hearing debated the Parkman Fund use with most speakers favoring a music pavilion on the Common. Opinions split on limiting funds to specific departments, while Ex-Mayor Fitzgerald urged a grand complex combining music, gardens and a public forum. Several figures urged annual council control and international sightseeing to inspire beautification.
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Parkman
Aldermanic
City Council
Michael H. Sullivan
United Improvement Association
Sullivan
Boston
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Leslie K. Storrs
Handel and Haydn Society
John F. Fitzgerald
Park Commissioners
George F. Parkman
Boston Common
Curley
James H. Doyle
Joseph P
Cedron Seed Plant Gathers Central America Trade
In Central America natives harvest Cedron Seed valued for its curative powers. Despite its rarity, few drug stores stock the seed due to high costs. The country consumes much of this costly seed as it is used in the famed Peruna cold remedy sold worldwide.
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Central America
Five men jailed by Judge Dodge in U S District Court
Five men pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Judge Dodge. William Stopford of Newark received one day at Charles Street jail and a $50 fine for bringing Bertha Mahn from England after she deserted her husband. George T. Arrington, a mail clerk on the cruiser Des Moines, drew one year at East Cambridge jail for embezzling $496. John S. Carney, formerly at Boulevard postal station Brookline, got one year for embezzling from the mails. George Wright, a waiter on the steamship Calvin Austin, received a similar year for stealing from passengers aboard a vessel.
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Dodge
United States District Court
William Stopford
Newark
N. J
Charles Street
Bertha Mahn
England
George T. Arrington
Des Moines
East Cambridge
John S. Carney
Boulevard
Brookline
George Wright
Calvin Austin
Rules Hugging and Hissing Not a Crime
In Baltimore the habeas corpus case of James Fisher ends with his discharge after his 1908 sentence for hugging and kissing a girl is deemed not a crime. Judge Elliott ordered discharge after Thomas J Mason argued the act showed affection and not violence or nonconsent.
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Baltimore
James Fisher
Robert W. Beach
Thomas J. Mason
Fisher
Elliott
Last of world series games tale in Sunday Post
Paul Shannon's tale of the final world series game is highlighted for readers in tomorrow's Sunday Post. The feature promises insight into baseball's historic finale and Shannon's perspective on the event.
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Paul Shannon
Sunday Post
Wright Flies in Darkness Demonstrates War Airplane Value
College Park Md Oct 15 Wilbur Wright made a post sunset flight when the plane was nearly invisible to spectators. The dusk demonstration was one of three flights after sundown and closed a very successful day, showcasing the flying machine’s potential in wartime scenarios.
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College Park
Wilbur Wright
Humphreys
Campaign Pledge on Labor Bills Across State
The programme calls for five measures including a picketing injunction eight hour and fines bill workmen's compensation act direct nominations and income tax all aimed at pledging every man to support these measures or face defeat.
Labor leaders push across state to elect pro labor candidates
State labor leaders, buoyed by gains against Governor Draper, campaign in doubtful districts to elect legislators who will uphold the labor program. They credit defeats in the Legislature including the vetoed eight hour bill with improving prospects for organized labor in the next session.
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Draper
Labor bills and votes on union rights and hours
The legislative committee pushed bills on injunctions picketing eight hours and employers liability with organized labor backing 54 hours and union fines. Votes split across Senate and House with defeats on several measures and a veto by Governor Draper. The House supported 64 hours but the Senate rejected it.
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Organized Labor
Homestead Commission
House
Senate
Atlantic Coast Seamen’s Union
Textile Workers’ Organizations
Committee On Labor
Dorman
Lynn
Draper
Wrights unaccompanied flight alters Wright aeroplane design
Orville Wright conducted an unaccompanied experimental flight introducing a front elevating plane fixed rearward beneath the main planes to improve stability. After two morning successes he tested the modification at dusk with Lt Lahm and then Lt Humphreys, flying 4 minutes 19 seconds and then a 15 to 30 foot low night flight, seen only by observers.
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Wright
Nicaragua Rebellion Declares Martial Law At Managua
Late state department advices report martial law in Managua capital and that President Zelaya closed Atlantic coast ports as ports of entry. Revolutionists reportedly control coast and western areas, complicating shipments and mail to eastern ports.
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Washington
State Department
Managua
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Oldest Methodists Member Dies at 100 in Brookfield
Ten days after her 100th birthday Mrs Selenda Adams Kenshaw died of pneumonia at a friend's home in Brookfield. She was the oldest Methodist church member in New England and had been a communicant for 85 years.
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Brookfield
Selenda (Adams) Kenshaw
Methodist Church
New England
Roosevelt sends praise to Peary for great feats
Colonel Roosevelt cabled Commander Peary in Portland Maine praising his feats and stating all Americans are indebted to him. The message replies to Peary’s note saying the pole is theirs and wishing him well while noting the farewell was inspirational.
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Nairobi
Roosevelt
Peary
Portland
Theodore Roosevelt
Dewey Barred From Governor Run By Ballot Law Decision
Ex Judge Henry S. Dewey cannot run for governor this year as the Ballot Law Commission rules the Independence League convention that produced his nomination was not lawful and the papers attesting his party designation were not properly attested.
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Henry S. Dewey
Ballot Law Commission
Independence League
Illegal Independence League State convention held in Cambridge
The conven tion was held Oct 2 in Albin M Richards parlor at 22 Bigelow St Cambridge attended by four. Edward Cassity chaired with Richards secretary. A certificate naming Henry Sweetser Dewey for Governor was presented as prima facie evidence of nomination. The State committee objected claiming no lawful call or convention existed.
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Albin M. Richards
Bigelow Street
Cambridge
Independence League
Edward Cassity
Mr. Richards
Henry Sweetser Dewey
The
League State Committee
California Fig Syrup Co. Planting Trust in Laxative Remedy
The company explains its product Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is made with California figs to aid taste while the medicinal agents come from carefully chosen plants. It urges buyers to insist on genuine California Fig Syrup Co. manufacture for ethical, pure, and uniform laxative effects.
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Oak Hall Clothing Company
L. Adler Bros. &Co
Rochester
N. Y
Oak Hall
California Fig Syrup Co
California
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John Wilson
Yee
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