Debate Over Lincoln Birthday Songs At City Meeting
A meeting called by Mayor Hibbard debated whether old Civil War songs should be sung during Lincoln’s birthday celebration. G A R members urged removing objectionable tunes while others defended songs like John Brown’s Body and We will hang Jeff Davis to a Sour Apple Tree. General Bancroft chaired as plans formed a five member working committee with a 25 person sub committee to organize preparations.
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Lincoln
Hibbard
J. Payson Bradlee
Rabbi Fleischer
Department
Wolff
John Brown
Jeff Davis
Bradiee
America
William A. Bancroft
Laurence Minot
Newton man fined for killing dog case in East Cambridge
William Fuller of Newton was fined $50 in the Superior Criminal Court in East Cambridge for beating a foxhound to death after it crossed his yard on November 16, 1907. The dog belonged to Oliver Summers of Newton and had been previously fined at the district court stage.
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William Fuller
Newton
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
Fuller
Oliver Summers
Amenta Case Placed on File
Pasquale Amenta fruit vendor and friend of newspaper boys was released from all charges in the arson case after the jury disagreed. The district attorney then placed the case on file. Indicted co defendant Peter Ruma was discharged and all defense counsel agreed to accept the disposition.
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Pasquale Amenta
Newspaper Row
Peter Ruma
Amenta
Norman E. McPhail
P. J. Donahue
Woman Returns Home After Night of Terror Kidnapping Ordeal
Huntington New York reports Abbie Meeron gola freed from two kidnappers who held her prisoner in the woods. She hid in a barn while friends searched the nearby woods and returned to her sister's home exhausted and unable to recount the full events.
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Huntington
N. Y
Abbie Meerongola
Fire on Harvard Bridge Destroys Furniture on Load
A fire on Harvard bridge yesterday afternoon destroyed mattresses trunks and tables from a load of furniture owned by Mrs Anna Bjorkland 11 Columbia terrace Cambridge. The blaze threatened the bridge and required six fire apparatus but was halted before floor and remaining items burned.
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Harvard Bridge
Anna Bjorkland
Columbia Terrace
Cambridge
Roxbury
Woman in Evening Dress Stops Runaway Horse
Mrs J W Hobson of Avenue A and Eighth Street Philadelphia area? No, Jersey City. She leaped into the street to grab the bridle of a runaway horse dragging a buggy near a ball. Undertaker John T Dempsey rode in the rig. She hung on for half a block before bringing the horse to a walk.
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Jersey City
N. J
J. W. Hobson
Avenue A
Eighth Street
John T. Dempsey
Proud of Smelt From Newton Centre
A smelt 121 2 inches long was sent to the Post Office yesterday by W. H. Woodman of Newton Centre. He says he caught it off Allerton Tuesday. The fish is unusually pretty and well proportioned.
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W. H. Woodman
Newton Centre
Allerton
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Boston church news notes a Greek ministry from Lowell by Rev. P G Ginieres and a strong Students Night with nearly 400 college attendees at Union Congregational Church. Universalist Sunday school course led by Prof Albert E Bailey, and C M Melden invited to Newton Centre as new Methodist pastor. Ford Hall workers meetings to rise from six to twenty this year with T N Carver speaking on The Man and His Vote.
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George F. Durgin
Bromfield Street Methodist Church
P. G. Ginieres
Lowell
Boston
Union Congregational Church
Columbus Avenue
Allen 4. Stockdale
First Universalist
Buena Vista Street
Roxbury
Albert E. Bailey
C. M. Melden
Wesleyan Academy
Wilbraham
Methodist Church
Newton Centre
Ford Hall
Daniel Sharp Ford
T. N. Carver
Life of a Pimple Complexion Cleared Overnight
An early 20th century patent medicine notice promotes Possum as a skin cure. It claims a 50 cent box from local drug stores and a free experimental package by mail from Emergency Laboratories in New York. It says it cures eczema acne tetter blotches scaly scalp hives and itching including itchy feet with rapid results.
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Riker-Jaynes
Houghton & Dutton's
Twenty-fifth Street
New York
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