Campaign to Stop Shipments of Immature Calves to Massachusetts
Francis H. Rowley leads a public campaign against the bob real traffic of New York calves under four weeks old. He cites an incident near Watertown where 84 calves were cramped in a car, 7 dead on arrival and only 2 passing US inspectors. He urges Massachusetts enactment to prohibit import and slaughter of such calves for food.
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New York State
Francis H. Rowley
C.A
New York
Massachusetts
Boston Board of Health
Rowley
Watertown
United States
Ryder
Department
Boston
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a universal cure for indigestion and stomach gas. It claims relief in five minutes, lasting effects, and cites widespread use in the US, England, and Canada with a 50 cent bottle sold by pharmacists.
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United States
England
Canada
Pope
Pension Plan Adopted for Aged Massachusetts Ministers
At the Newton Centre conference aligned with the Massachusetts Baptist anniversaries the ministers voted to adopt a state pension system for aged pastors. A graded pension will be provided to retired ministers who reach 62 years of age in this state.
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Newton
Conference of Ministers
Massachusetts Baptist Anniversaries
Newton Centre
Cotton Talks To West Roxbury Folk
Republican candidate Dudley Cotton Jr addressed the Highland Citizens Association Club in Ward 23 West Roxbury urging tariff reform. He called for an eight member non partisan tariff commission to depoliticize the tariff question.
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Cotton
West Roxbury
V. Dudley Cotton, Jr
Jlighland
Yankee captain stands by sinking Holliswood in Atlantic storm
In a hurricane on the Gulf of Mexico Captain I. Walls of Hallowell Maine remains aboard the dismasted Holliswood while his seven crew evacuate. The Norwegian steamer Harald hove to and towed away the lifeboat leaving Walls to ride out the 100 mile per hour gale.
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Holliswood
I. Is
Walls
Hallowell
New England
Harald
Tampico
New York
Seven Seas
Wallis
Eric Erickson
Pendleton & Pendleton
Pearl Street
Paul Mangold
Captain Walls
Mate Mangold
Boston
Black Hand Letter Threats End in Court Arraignment
Eva Buffing received threatening letters from a household member, TH. H. Downer, who urged her to pay $275 before she alerted postal inspectors. Downer, now married, was arraigned in U.S. District Court and held on $5000 bond for the grand jury.
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Chicago
Eva L. Buffing
United States
TH. H. Downer
Mark A. Foote
Downer
Denver heir renounces estate to seek Burns daughter
Lymen E. Brown of Denver heir to Charles Burns’s estate says he will not accept the bequest. He plans to locate Burns’s 16 year old daughter in New York to leave the property to her. Burns and his wife were divorced when the daughter was a child.
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Denver
Colo
Lymen BE. Brown
Charles Burns
Burns
New York State
Monster Cabbage Weighs Forty Pounds In New England
Mrs. G. W. Quimby of Littleton New Hampshire shows a cabbage grown in her garden that weighs nearly 40 pounds. It required a dry goods case to move it to the Boston Post office. Viewers estimate enough edible cabbage to feed a regiment at a boil dinner.
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G. W. Quimby
Littleton, N. H
New England
Boston Post
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the Press Publishing Co
Harry Palmer
George
Bob Veal
A. Starks
Henckel
Henckel_ Beef S
Graf & Schmidt
Jordan Marsh Company
Gulf of Mexico
Hunts Girl
Whitefield, N. H
Biscuit
Uneeda
National Biscuit
Goodness
Crawford
Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co
Union St
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