Portland Aldermen Not Prosecuted in High School Scandal
County Attorney Jacob H. Berman announced no prosecutions will proceed against Aldermen Thomas B. Frates Francis D. Martin and Charles F W Stockman who faced indictments for attempting to extort money from local contractors connected with the new high school project. Indictments were issued at a reconvened grand jury session last May.
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Portland
Jacob H. Berman
Thomas B. Frates
Francis D. Martin
Charles F. W. Stockman
Board of Aldermen of
Kinloch splits life over gambling and cruelty in Suffolk divorce
In Suffolk Divorce Court Mrs. Josephine Kinloch seeks divorce from James M Kinloch citing cruel treatment desertion and theft to fund gambling. The couple married in 1901 and lived together three months. Judge Fox adjourned for corroboration from Kinloch’s mother. Separately Mrs. Elizabeth Doyle obtains a divorce from James J Doyle for cruelty and assault after he left Charlington in 1914 with four children.
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James M. Kinloch
Josephine I. Kinloch
Suffolk
Charlestown
Doyle
Hear Plea for Unemployable Workers Sought by Clergy
In St Louis on October 23 Rev. Ernest M. Stires urged employers to help the unemployable by offering three to four hours of work daily despite infirmities. The Social Service Forum also confirmed Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd’s reelection as president of the board of missions and named new bishops.
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ST. Louis
United States
Ernest M. Stires
New York
Protestant Episcopal General Convention
Stires
Morgan Memorial
Boston
Good Will Industries
Brooklyn
Arthur Selden Lloyd
Board of Missions
House of Deputies
House of Bishops
George Gordon King
Newport
R. I
House of Bshops
Confusion Over Confederate $100 Bill In Street Shop
Walter Nicholas claimed a friend changed the Confederate $100 bill for a stranger when buying shoes at Benjamin Woohen’s Cross Street store. The clerk and cashier testified. Police stopped a drunken Nicholas, who was fined $5 but cleared of counterfeiting charges as the crowd dispersed.
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Central Court
Walter Nicholas
Nicholas
Benjamin Woohen
Cross Street
Cohen
Broderick
Ronayne
Beecham, Patented Medicine Maker, Dies in London
Sir Joseph Beecham, famed patent medicine manufacturer, is found dead in his Hampstead home. Born June 8, 1848, he built pill factories across Europe and the United States. Knighted in 1911 and raised to the baronetcy in 1914, he also held the Russian Order of St Stanislaus.
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London
Sir Joseph Beecham
Hampstead
Thomas Beecham
Southport
Lancashire
Great Pill
Europe
United States
Joseph
Director of New Finland Line Dead
G. W. Snellman director-general of the new Finland America line between Boston and Petrograd died at Helsingfors Finland Oct 14 of heart trouble Despatches received by J Alfred Anderson counsel for the line say Ernest Snellman the American representative has sailed for Helsingfors In his absence Attorney Anderson will take charge of the interests of the line
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G. W. Snellman
Boston
Petrograd
Helsingfors
Finland
J. Alfred Anderson
Ernest Snellman
Attorney Anderson
Chinese Bar on Color Sparks First Civil Suit in City
In Municipal Civil Court Judge Sullivan ruled against Chin Gee Sung Lone Kim and Chin Sing of the Eagle Restaurant Company awarding $25 to each plaintiff Norman Raynor Susan Raynor Bernard Thomas and Evelyn Gray for discrimination after being refused service on Labor Day night. The judge held defendants liable under Chapter 212 section 89 of the Revised Laws of the Commonwealth.
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Sullivan
Chin Gee Sung
Lone Kim
Chin Sing
Eagle Restaurant Company
Harrison Avenue
Norman N. Raynor
Susan C. Raynor
Bernard Thomas
Cambridge
Evelyn Gray
Boston
Eagle Restaurant
State names for new battleships chosen in Navy plan
Acting Secretary Roosevelt announced the armored cruisers Washington West Virginia and Colorado have been renamed Seattle Huntington and Pueblo respectively. The state names will be given to new battleships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Colorado
Seattle
Huntington
Pueblo
Funeral held for Patrolman John J. Earle
Funeral services were held yesterday for John J. Earle traffic policeman who died from injuries after being crushed between two electric cars at Washington and Boylston streets. A 16 officer delegation from Lagrange street police station led by Sergeant Michael H. King escorted the service at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Jamaica Plain.
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John J. Earle
Washington
Boylston Streets
Lagrange Street
Michael H. King
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jamaica Plain
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