Two Women Dead in Suspected Gas Tragedy in East Boston
Mrs Clara Johnson 78 of East Boston died by her own action in a friend’s house in South Boston yesterday morning. She had visited Frank Broston at 21 EB street and spent Sunday there after supper. Broston found the gas on and the window shut when he forced entry. Dr McDonald attributed death to asphyxiation and self-inflicted exposure. Albert Johnson, East Boston builder and her grandson, notified. Authorities suspect temporary insanity from age and illness.
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Clara Johnson
Boston
Frank Broston
EB Street
South
Mrs Wagner Improves After Suicide Attempt
Mrs Mary E Wagner aged 62 reportedly attempted to poison herself with corrosive tablets on Saturday. Authorities say worry over her husband's death two years ago and visits to his grave at Mt Hope Cemetery contributed to the act. She is recovering at home and expected to be out within days.
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Mary E. Wagner
John Holmes
Longwood Avenue
Mt. Hope
Mary EB. Wagner
Wagner
Roxbury Woman Found Dead by Her Husband
A 26 year old Roxbury wife, Agnes Maloney, was found dead in bed at 113 Hampden Street by her husband on his return from work. Dr Dowling refused to certify death. Medical Examiner Draper to conduct autopsy. Police report no mystery in the case.
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Agnes Maloney
Hampden Street
Dowling
Draper
Record shipment sets distillery milestone for Kentucky Taylor whiskey
Last May Wright & Taylor of Louisville shipped 424 barrels and 2360 cases to Boston representative R. H. Hirschfield, a mammoth shipment and new record in distilling. Kentucky Taylor whiskey is sold widely in New England and esteemed for purity and excellence by liquor merchants and the public.
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Messrs
Wright & Taylor
Louisville
Boston
R. H. Hirschfield
New England
Widow Jennie Guild in Boston Lab for Guild Mystery
Franklin tale of Jennie Wilbur Guild, widow of Benjamin Guild, being probed by Harvard Medical School chemists for possible poisoning after his sudden July death. District Attorney French investigates her past. once a milliner and nurse, she married the 72 year old man a month before his demise, leaving a trail of vanished relatives and forged claims.
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Franklin
Jennie Guild
Harvard Medical School
Benjamin Guild
Boston
Asa P. French
Sherborn
Jennie Wilbur
Ben
Fletcher Block
Sheldonville
Miss Wilbur
Old Man Guild
Guild
Lyman Hancock
Plainville
French
Columbia, Conn
Wilbur
Mira michi launches at Sunderland and port traffic update
A twin screw steamer Mira michi built for T Hogan & Sons at Sunderland is the latest vessel for the firm, 340 feet long and to fly the English flag. The Masconomo loads Welsh coal at Commonwealth pier, South Boston. A new Luckenbach freight line to connect New York with San Francisco will compete with American-Hawaiian, first sailing J L Luckenbach, rebuilt from Bremen liner Saale. Arrivals at Twharf include several schooners with thousands of pounds of fish. The Gertrude finishes the season as a mackerel seiner and the Flavilla visits with 45,000 pounds of fish. The 38-ton net and 66-ton gross craft was built for Captain Merton Hutchins. The John W. Dana is chartered to load lumber for Portland, Me. The Great Western railway orders two 25-knot steamers to speed London mail. An unknown British steamer is fixed to take 200,000 bushels of grain for Hull next month. The Warren Haer Kansas leaves Charlestown for Baltimore with grain delays, while the Kershaw is serviced at East Boston for piston work. Two stowaways from Liverpool on the Warren liner Kansas depart by the same route.
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New York
T. Hogan & Sons
Sunderland
Eng
Messrs. Thompson
Masconomo
New Commonwealth Pier
South Boston
San Francisco
Luckenbachs
Stars and Stripes
Twharf
E. C. Hussey
Philip P. Manta
Irene
May
James G. Blaine
Metamora
Rienzi
Portland
Gloucester
Merton Hutchins
John M. Keen
Keen
Brunswick
Lewis H. Goward
John W. Dana
Mystic Pier
Rosario
Buenos Ayres
Great Western Railway
Queenstown
Milford Haven
London
Hull
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Charlestown
Sagamore
Fenton
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Grand Banks
Masters
Columbilan
Leyland-London
Boston
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Frederick Leyland
William F. Babcock
Boston Towboat Company
Governor's Island
Elsie
Hghter Salvor
Alice M. Davenport
Seal Rocks
Penobscot River
Rockland
Parrsboro
N. S
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Kershaw
Norfolk
Battery Wharf
Atlantic Works
Warren
Kansas
George Warren
J. Haley
Variety Shipping News and New Theatre Listings
Shipping notices list steamers Sagamore through to Chattahoochee and many others with cargo to Baltimore Boston and New York while port movements include schooners Kipling and Herbert Rice and steamers Kansas and Prince George sailing for Liverpool and Yarmouth. Theatre ads preview Tremont Boston programs including Miss Crosman Bertha Galland and Denman Thompson with multiple openings and performances across several venues.
Stage Matters New Clown to Open Boston Theater Season
Boston venue plans stage events with Dan Daly in The New Clown and Everyman coming from Mendelssohn Hall to Boston. James K Hackett’s company for The Crisis prepares a 40 member ensemble. Margaret May returns to Grand Opera House as Winchester. Dorchester Woman's Club hosts An Artful Alda benefit with Thorn ton Ryan, Lally, Townsend, David, Drake. Manager Magee brings Peck and His Mother-in-Law to Boston for Christmas week. Henrietta Crosman to star in The Sword of the King at the Grand Opera House.
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Esmeralda
Notre Dame
Miss Galland
Philadelphia
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Old Homestead
William Gillette
Hollis
Sherlock Holmes
Tremont
Eleanora Duse
America
Alma Kruger
Maryland Calvert
Heart of Maryland
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Jeffie Tillbury
Henri Lavedan
Castle Square Theatre
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Mars
Museum
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Columbia
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Blanche Dayne
Keith's
Village Lawyer
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Walter Hawley
Dumitrescu
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Doreto
Quaker City
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Boston
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Mendelssohn Hall
New York
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Coletta Ryan
Helen Thornton Ryan
Albert Vincent Lally
Dorchester Woman's Club House Association
Stephen Townsend
Walter David
Lucy Drake
Magee
Hartford
New England
Peck
Edgar Seiden
F. Opper
Roland MacDonald
Henrietta Crosman
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