Bargain Sale Of Miss Murphy Goods At Federal Auction
A federal bargain sale of Miss Margaret Murphy’s confiscated ladies wear drew a curious crowd to Room 147 in the post office building. Watches, silks, furs and gowns sold for $6551.25, higher than the $3000 duty due, with a potential threefold fine.
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Miss Murphy
United States
Margaret Murphy
Sam
Paris
Uncle Sam
Mous
Seline de Sole
Lewis Bird
Marshal Darling
George Raymond
Society
Miss Murphy’s
Boston pool sharp steal from local teamster ends
Three Boston pool players beat Samuel McDonald a local teamster for 150 dollars then fled before police could catch them. Other notes include the Governor Brooks launching of the Governor Brooks schooner in Bath and Massachusetts cranberry harvest nearing 75 percent of average.
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Portland
Boston
Samuel McDonald
Bath
Governor Brooks
Abbie
Wyoming
Barnstable
Cape Od
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Worcester
Westboro
William H. Sullivan
Calvin Chamberlain
Restore Digestive Health with Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets
An ad explains modern digestion problems from overworked stomachs and irregular living. It urges readers to use Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets to aid digestion, claims the tablets digest 3,000 grains of food, and offers a free trial package from F. A. Stuart Co. Marshall Michigan with a 50 cent size at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart
Nature
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall Mich
Uts Direct
Ambulance Driver Narrowly Escapes Crash in Lynn Street
Ambulance Driver Frank A. Burrill of the police department escaped injury when his vehicle collided with a tree on Washington street at 2 this morning causing the horse to run away. Also in Bangor a 400 pound bull moose was struck and killed by a Bangor & Aroostook train near West Schools Saturday night.
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Lynn
Frank A. Burrill
Police Department
Washington Street
Bangor
Accidents and Fires Reported Around Greater Boston
Bartholomew Griffin 44 of South Boston sustained forehead lacerations and leg contusions after colliding with a Dorchester avenue car yesterday forenoon. A grease fire at Timothy OTooles East Boston restaurant caused no damage. A chimney fire at Solomon Bloom East Boston home resulted in $35 loss. Mrs. S E Symonds 80 Chelsea became ill on a Huntington avenue car and was aided by Dr. Hartung. John McCarthy 44 of West Fifth street was scalped by a freight car while in the New Haven & Hartford yard yesterday morning.
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Bartholomew Griffin
Second Street
Boston
City of
Dorchester Avenue
Timothy O'Toole
Maverick Square
Solomon Bloom
East Eagle Street
S. E. Symonds
Williams Street
Chelsea
Huntington Avenue
Hartung
John McCarthy
West Fifth Street
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Teens Arrested in Cigar Store Break In and Larceny Case
Thomas F. Quinn aged 18 of West Sixth street and Joseph Marlboro 17 of Silver street were arrested for attempting to break and enter John J. Fitzgerald’s cigar store at 382 West Broadway and for larceny of a bundle from New York & Boston Despatch Express Company. Jeremiah Holland appeared in Police Court and received two months, with an appeal. Frank Havilin was held for grand jury on $1200 by Judge Parmenter for breaking into David Bludtson’s store at 263 Hanover street and stealing $38 in cash. A horse attached to Allston Express Company collided with an automobile owned by Benjamin Hale and driven by Isaac Day at Marlboro street and Massachusetts avenue.
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Thomas F. Quinn
West Sixth Street
Joseph Marlboro
Silver Street
John J. Fitzgerald
West Broadway
New York & Boston Despatch Express Company
Jeremiah Holland
David Bludtson
Hanover Street
Frank Havilin
Parmenter
Allston Express Company
Benjamin Hale
Williams Street
Bradford
Isaac Day
Marlboro Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Court Italia Foresters Plan Fine Concert
Court Italy of the Foresters of America has organized a musical and vocal concert in Lorimer Hall tomorrow night. Chairman E. Martini leads the committee and has secured talent from the conservatory of music and the Italian colony, plus moving pictures.
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Court
Italy
The
Foresters of America
Lorimer Hall
E. Martini
Conservatory of Music
Far and Near News Briefs from Around the World
A digest of short items reports on varied events with place bylines. Notable notes include Emperor Francis Joseph coughing in Vienna, a railroad rate dispute settlement in Montgomery, pension rolls drop in Washington, a New York police shooting, a thwarted plot near Tsarskoe-Selo, Navy commendation for Lt Cronan, a large Brooklyn factory fire, a California wedding court scene, Chicago union talk, anti Jewish violence in Odessa, a Russian liner grounding near Skillinge, Mme Gould and Prince de Sagan in Paris, Miss Florence Reed illness in Cleveland, a fatal automobile crash in Chicago, and a multimillionaire will for orphan girls in Philadelphia.
Former Dorchester Boy Beats Wildcat to Death
Waterbury reports Howell P. Morton of New Haven, son of an insurance man formerly of Dorchester, trying to rescue his dying dog from a large 17 pound wildcat. The cat fell and attacked the dog, and Morton beat the cat’s brains out with the rifle butt.
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Waterbury
Howell P. Morton
New Haven
Dorchester
Swedish Women Plan Legal Action Over Summer Lesson
Helen Larson and Eva Ostland allege rough handling by Mrs. Bowdoin B. Crowninshield at Peaches Point during a July lesson on a kitchen related craft. They will meet Attorney J Frank Williams of Lynn this week and file declarations in Salem.
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Helen Larson
Eva Ostland
Alderman Dow Opposes Single Bank Deposit Plan
Objection was raised to depositing all Cambridge funds in one savings institution by Alderman Dow at a Cambridge Board of Aldermen meeting. He noted banks and trust companies offered higher interest during tight money times, but this was unavailing. The trust company reportedly paid about 2 percent, while corporations and others received 2 1 2 to 3 percent.
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Cambridge
Alderman Dow
Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Phone cases quashed in Superior Court motions filed
Attorneys Henry Hurlburt James Vahey and Daniel H Coakley appeared in the Superior Criminal Court and filed motions to quash the indictments in the telephone cases against city and State officials and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. A hearing will be held tomorrow afternoon. A motion for specifications was also filed in the case against Joseph T Hilles the Philadelphia coal baron indicted on larceny from the city. The motion will be heard some day this week.
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Henry Hurlburt
James Vahey
Daniel H. Coakley
Superior Criminal Court
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Joseph T. Hilles
Philadelphia
Fire near East Boston warehouses. cotton bale blaze contained
A fire near the National Dock and Warehouse Company in East Boston was confined to burning cotton bales. Two ships at the pier with cargoes escaped damage while warehouses stored miscellaneous merchandise. overall loss reported as slight.
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National Dock & Warehouse Company
Boston
Woman Jumps From Steamer Manitou Killing Self
The steamer Manitou arriving from Antwerp reports one death by violence at sea. Mrs. Gilbert Schubert, traveling from Germany to Philadelphia with her husband, fatally leaped into the ocean. No witness saw the act and she was described as not in her right mind and under watch.
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Manitou
Antwerp
Gilbert Schubert
Philadelphia
Germany
Three Months for Robitscheck in Mail Fraud Case
Solomon Robitscheck, a Lowell used clothing dealer, received a three month sentence in Charles Street jail after conviction for using the mails in a blackmail plot against the Salvation Army seeking $30,000. He stood in court as Clerk Mason read the verdict, appearing a contrite figure.
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Charles Street
Solomon Robitscheck
Lowell
Salvation Army
Mason
Despondent Bride Dies by Gas Inhalation
Mrs Flora M Smith aged 21 of 67 Falmouth Street Back Bay committed suicide by inhaling gas. Her body was found by her sister Mrs Laura Burns with a gas tube still in her mouth following domestic troubles and recent marriage.
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Flora M. Smith
Falmouth Street
Back Bay
Laura Burns
The President's Collar Choice for Roosevelt
A St. Louis Delmar avenue shop sold the Avalyn Arrow collar to the President during his Mississippi valley visit. The collar is made by Cluett Peabody & Co of Troy, the largest collar factory in the world, highlighting Troy’s industrial prominence.
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Troy Times
Cluett, Peabody & Co
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Mississippi Valley
Delmar
Delmar Avenue
Troy
Quarry mystery ends as Boston couple is identified
Mr and Mrs Joseph Swain Lovering married in Boston and honeymooned in Canada. Detectives in New York and Montreal chased them, mistaking them for the eloping Helen Maloney of New York, seeing them at the Hotel Windsor in Montreal and at local sights.
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Joseph Swain Lovering
Canada
New York
Clarkson
St. John’s Church
Jamaica Plain
Standard Oil
Mrs. Lovering
Elsie Bacon
Helen Maloney
Millionaire Maloney
Dorchester Belle Weds Western Lawyer in Two-Year Courtship
Culminating a romance of two years, John F. Scannel, a prominent Indianapolis attorney, marries Miss Teresa M. Woods, a Dorchester society belle, after meeting at a society function. The ceremony and details reflect a high society union in the era.
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Dorchester
John F. Scannel
Indianapolis
Teresa M. Woods
Wellesley Student Weds at Dorchester Home tied to Woods Family
Wellesley College graduate Mrs. Scannel was married last evening at the home of Miss Woods parents 146 Glenway street Dorchester The ceremony at St Leo s Church was conducted by Rev William Butler Attendants included Miss Elizabeth Woods sister and best man Mr Arthur Dolan of Natick Ushers were John J Woods Jr John W Kelley Dr John H Mullen Dr D J Barnicle James E Shay and Hon William Kennedy
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Wellesley College
John H. Mullen
D. J. Barnicle
James E. Shay
William Kennedy
Commission W Wells Announces Fire Dept Changes
Fire Commissioner Wells granted Edward F. Doody a veteran's certificate for 21 years with Engine 48. Transfers include John Bowen from Ladder 24 to Engine 34, L. C. S. Stickel reversing, and J. H. E. Brown from Engine 5 to Ladder 25. Two new probationary members Roger T. White and Thomas H. Kehoe join, White to Engine 5 and Kehoe to Chemical 10.
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Wells
Edward F. Doody
Engine Company
John Bowen
Ladder
L. C. S. Stickel
J. H. E. Brown
Roger T. White
Thomas H. Kehoe
White
Engine
Kehoe
Chemical 10
Christian Science Lecturer Optimistic About Mission
Dr. F. J. Fluno of Oakland California discussed Christian Science at the Falmouth Street church. The former physician said its goal is to heal the world of error and sin as well as illness and that understanding will reveal the author of the text-book delivering mankind the greatest good.
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Christian Science Church
Falmouth Street
F. J. Fluno
Oakland
Cal
Fluno
Macdonald Withdraws as Suffolk County Sheriff Candidate
In a letter issued last night W. Macdonald an Independent candidate for Suffolk county sheriff announces his withdrawal from the race.
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Ae W. Macdonald
Candi Nee
Suffolk County
Thirst Fatal Steers Found Dead on Arrival
Eighteen of the total 115 steers in five cars were found dead at the Boston and Albany yards and Brighton stockyards after a 200 mile trip from Albany to Boston. An inquiry starts today to determine if train neglect caused the deaths. One Post source alleges hunger and thirst during the 56 hour journey.
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Fighteen
Boston & Albany
Brighton
Albany
Boston
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