Mrs. Almira G. Macomber to Celebrate 92nd Birthday
Norton residents read of elderly Mrs. Almira G. Macomber turning ninety two on the eve of her birthday. An advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for indigestion and nerve and blood tonics with patient testimony from Miss A Gertrude Stewart of Chelsea Massachusetts and details on pricing and availability.
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Norton
Almira G. Macomber
Williams
A. Gertrude Stewart
Broadway
Chelsea
Mass
Dr. Williams
R. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Oco
Schenectady
Acid explosion at Fiberloid kills two in Indian Orchard
An acid mixing explosion at the Fiberloid Company breaker room in Indian Orchard today killed Peter Charley of Boylston Street and Joseph Aiie of Ferry Street and seriously injured two others. Jacob Dobak and Walter Dobak are burned but expected to recover. Fred Minchin leaped from a second story window and broke a leg. Property loss is estimated at about.
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Springfield
Fiberloid Company
Indian Orchard
Peter Charley
Boylston Street
Joseph Aiie
Ferry Street
Mercy Hospital
Jacob Dobak
Walter Dobak
Fred Minchin
Robert Roe Dies of Heart Failure in Dorchester Garage
Robert Roe collapsed and died while attempting to start an automobile owned by his son in law Dr. Robert B. Scales. The incident occurred yesterday morning in the rear garage of Roe’s home at 740 Washington Street Dorchester. Roe had come to America from England at age seven and once served as superintendent of the Lonsdale Mills in Rhode Island.
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Robert Roe
Inn Law
Robert B. Scales
Washington Street
Dorchester
Mr. Roe
England
America
Lonsdale Mills
Rhode Island
Alleged murderer held without bail in brother murder case
Luigi Cassetta aged 29 was arrested Sunday on charges he killed his brother Alfred at 422 Hanover Street. In the first Municipal Criminal Court session yesterday he was held without bail until October 29.
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Luigi Cassetta
Alfred
Hanover Street
Municipal Criminal Court
Baptismal Heater May Have Destroyed Church
Hyde Park Baptist Church burned to the ground this morning. The building valued at 34500 with 22500 insurance may have caught fire from defective wiring or sparks from the baptismal heater. The organ is destroyed and only the walls remain. plans for action will be set at a Tuesday executive meeting with Pastor Rev. Guy Co Lamson of 61 Oak Street.
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park Baptist Church
Guy
Black Hand Papers Threaten Moody Church Pastor
Two so called Black Hand letters threaten to blow up Moody Church at Chicago and La Salle avenues. They demanded $1000 left in a cigar box on the church porch. Detectives watched for suspicious persons but none appeared.
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Chicago
Moody
la Salle Avenues
A. C G. Dixon
Three-Year-Old Boy Struck by Auto in Charles Town
Three-year-old John Sullivan played in front of his home at 8 Prospect Street Charles Town when an automobile driven by Herbert L. Smith of 50 Broadway Everett struck him. He was taken to Relief Hospital with only bruises.
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John Sullivan
Prospect Street
Charlestown
Herbert L. Smith
Broadway
Everett
Relief Hospital
Pickpocket Receives One Year Sentence in North End Case
Harry Simon arrested Saturday night after a chase in the North End was sentenced yesterday to one year in the House of Correction on a pickpocketing charge. He appealed and was held in $1900 bail.
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Harry Simon
North End
House of Correction
Bones found on road ruled animals in Burns disappearance case
Athol police investigated a pile of bones on the Petersham road thought to be those of missing salesman Frank J. Burns. Medical Examiner James Oliver ruled them animal remains, likely sheep, ending that lead until tomorrow when Charles Matthews will point to where he saw a human skeleton.
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Athol
Petersham Road
Frank J. Burns
James Oliver
Charles Matthews
Herbert L. Hapgood
Athol Board of Selectmen
Post
Matthews
Phillipston
Royalston
Burns
Fatal cave-in traps worker in Mt Hope sewer trench
Carinus Freda was killed yesterday on Perkins Street Mt Hope when tons of earth collapsed in a sewer trench where he and 20 other laborers worked. Freda, married, lived on Tileston Street North End.
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Carinus Freda
Perkins Street
Mt. Hope
Freda
Tileston Street
North End
Worcester Woman of 90 Fatally Burned
Worcester on October 19 Mrs. Margaret Doyle aged 90 very feeble and barely able to move was fatally burned when a fire broke out in her kitchen at 4 Southgate Street this afternoon She died at the City Hospital
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Worcester
Margaret Doyle
Southgate Street
City Hospital
Four Die in Clayton Tornado and Cloudburst
Four persons were killed near Clayton New Mexico last night as a tornado and cloud burst caused wreckage. Twenty others were injured with three possibly dying. The deceased include N M Haight and J S Fox and his wife and daughter. The new Union county courthouse costing forty thousand dollars was wrecked.
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Clayton
N. M
N. M. Haight
J. S. Fox
Union County Court House
Mrs Kellerman Aids Divorced Husband In Straitened Circumstances
Bloomington dispatch reports Mrs Kellerman of Los Angeles flew in to help her divorced husband after learning he faced financial hardship.
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Bloomington
Kellerman
Los Angeles
Cal
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Robt
Roe
Black Hand
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Brine
Tremont St
Houghton & Dutton Co
Tremont
Ben
Butler
Portland Sts
Gilchrist
Washington and
Winter Sts
Riker- Jaynes
Riker-Jaynes
Ls of
Orse
Jaynes
Papa
Riker
Board of Health
Washington St
Boston
Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
WM. B. Riker & Son CO
N. Y
New York
Brooklyn
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