Spotters in Fire Dept Denounced at Boston Council Meeting
At a city council session Councilman Conway urged the fire commissioner report on spotters in the Boston fire department. He questioned discharges since 1908 for barroom visits, the detective agencies involved, payments for spotters, and the funding source. The meeting also named Flood Square at Broadway Emerson and I streets and set police lieutenant salaries at 2000 per year from February 1904.
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Common Council
Conway
Boston Fire Department
Sonet Ae
Russell
Fire Department
Ware
Ward 14
Broadway
Emerson and I Streets
South
Boston
Flood Square
Maynard
Ward 18
Wilson Fights His Wife's Divorce Suit
In Suffolk County Divorce Court Judge White focused on a small docket as Wilson defended against his wife's divorce complaint. The proceedings spotlighted the disputed marriage and arising issues.
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Wilson
White
Suffolk County
Dyspepsia Tablets Claim Quick Food Digestion Benefits
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a digestion aid for all flesh forming foods. It asserts rapid relief for weak stomachs, notes lack of harmful ingredients, and promotes wide availability in the United States Canada and Britain at 60 cents. The piece intermingles a separate court case involving Wilson v Wilson, detailing marital tensions and a jewelry store, ending with a judge's consideration.
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Stuart
Tuart
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Grace Craw and Dudley Ballo Wed in Massachusetts Quaint Ceremony
Grace Craw of Laveree and Dudley Ballo Medford were joined in a quiet ceremony by Reverend Thurmoahos at a local church. The couple plan to settle in the area.
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Wrence
Grace Craw
Laveree
Laver Dudley Ballo Medford
Thur
Wife testifies as husband allegedly paid for false witnesses
Mrs Ray Brandeis aged 20 testified in Union Market Police Court that her dentist husband Bernard B Brandeis hired Paul Brenner and Nathan Young and monks fastman gang members to kill or disfigure him. She claimed the couple’s money disputes and alleged threats led to her surrender over the conspiracy charge.
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New York
Ray Brandeis
Bernard B. Brandeis
No. 262
Second Street
Monk Fastman
Paul Brenner
Nathan Young
Union Market
Police Move on Armenian Community Amid Tense Clashes
Police in Division 4 and Division 5 tighten surveillance after riots in the Armenian colony. Captain Cain and Captain O Lalor order guards on Harrison avenue and at Sapat Kullan’s office to curb trouble and prevent possible assaults by suspected emigrants bound for London.
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Division 4
Sapat Kullan
Young Armenia
Cain
Harrison Avenue
Kullan
O’lalor
Division 5
West Concord Street
Chinatown
Post
Beach
Hudson
Sagoun
Sagouni
London
Damage suits against the Elevated rail and city of Boston begin
Margaret E. Culhane sues the Elevated railroad and Boston city for $2000 in damages and costs after an incline cut at Porter and Pleasant streets damages her property. She owns 7 Pleasant St and demands jury assessment of losses due to a grade change ordered by city authorities.
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Elevated Railroad
City of
Boston
Pleasant Street
Porter
Wright on the Labor Problem at Commercial Club
The Hon. Carrol D. Wright spoke on solving the labor problem, urging a religious and ethical basis for a new political economy. He said wage reform must rise from spiritual ideas and altruism, aiming to soften perpetual struggle while aligning ethics with economics.
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Carrol D. Wright
Commercial Club
Deportation Orders Grow From Chinatown Raid
Twenty nine Chinamen were arraigned before Commissioner Fiske in the Federal Court yesterday charged with illegal residence. Two were found guilty and ordered deported while the other 27 cases were continued. This raises the deportation tally to seven from the raid two weeks prior.
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Fiske
Anti Socialist Meeting in Gray's Hall Draws Crowd
Five policemen kept watch as Mrs. Martha Moore Avery and David Goldstein denounced socialist doctrines inside Gray's Hall. Across the street an open air Socialist meeting drew laughter and scorn as Goldstein challenged James F Carey to debate, prompting jeers.
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Gray's Hall
Martha Moore Avery
David Goldstein
Goldstein
James F.carey
Mayor Jones of Toledo Struck by Severe Ill Health
In Toledo on October 2, Mayor Jones remains seriously ill, declining medical treatment and favoring physical culture and fasting. He collapsed Monday night while returning alone from a church bazaar. a dray with mule team carried him home.
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Mayor Jones
Toledo
Jones
Pierce case continued against William Rothwell alias Young Corbett
William A. Pierce faced criminal libel charges regarding boxer William H. Rothwell known as Young Corbett. The Municipal Court continued the case yesterday until November 9 with the ball set at 800 dollars, despite a New York lawyer seeking a higher amount.
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William A. Pierce
William H. Rothwell
Young Corbett
New York
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Temple Place
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IN Fire Dept Denounced
Wilson Va. Wilson
John W. Wilson
Manchester
N. H
Tremier Street
Mabel Hudson
Huntington Avenue
John 8. Martin
Jennie Black Hudson
Tremiett Street
Miss Hudson
Keith's
Howard
G. W. Adams
God
Hall—M’craw
Mrs
Wright
Sunday Post
Gaston
the Sunday Post
Jeffries
Coll
P. H. Doyle
A. Conan Doyle
Next Sunday
Poyvernor of
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