War on Mayor of Gloucester Grips City Council
Gloucester September 10 The first council meeting after the summer recess opened with resolutions by Councilman Herbert H. Gorman criticizing Mayor William French and City Marshal for failing to enforce laws against speakeasies gambling dens and suspected houses. The move follows an anti vice crusade that led to arrests and departures but ended with the city returning to old practices. The council delayed action on the resolutions amid heated debate and plans for a new measure.
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Gloucester
Herbert H. Gorman
Gorman
French
Commonwealth
William French
Three Skippers On Trip Ends With 1900 Barrel Haul
The whaler A R Tucker returned to New Bedford after 27 months at sea under three masters. Captain Mills died early in the voyage, mate Joseph Bento briefly commanded and was lost overboard after a whale strike then Antonio Avilla, the new captain, has overseen the last leg, with the total catch reaching 1900 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
A. R. Tucker
M. V. B. Millard
Tucker
Joseph Bento
Aend
Bie
Bento
Antonio Avilla
Fayal
Two Democratic Meetings Rally Voters for City Mayoral Victory
Ward committees hosted large gatherings to push Democratic registration and naturalization. James Donovan urged maximum turnout to secure the mayoral race in December and Governor’s race in November. In Ward 19 speakers included Ambrose Woods and Senator Dowd. Ward 16 featured John Crohan and Malachi Jennings among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Donovan
Democratic City Committee
Ambrose Woods
Senator Dowd
Ward Hi
John Crohan
Malachi J. Jennings
Michael J. Tully
Felix A. Strange
Ganet A. Scollard
Robert C. Murray
Mice H. Foley
Eugene F. Eee
Daniel
Harkins
EH. Pugh
City Briefs: Williams Discharged After Overdose Attempt
Qfiss Birdie Williams, a young colored woman, received discharge from a hospital after an attempted suicide by laudanum on 52 Street. Pa Waite of Division 5 helped, keeping an orderly watch for two hours. Judge Hammond upheld the Pro te Court decree allowing Dennis Murphy's will, tied to Charlestown origins. Martha Wiegand, 38, of 140 Bremen Street East Boston, tried to kill herself by cutting her throat with a Pazor. Thomas Gannon convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to two years in the House of Correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qfiss Birdie Williams
Qfiss Williams
Pa- Waite
Division 5
Hammond
Supreme Court
Prote Court
Dennisurphy
Charlestown
el. J. Murphy
Martha Wiegand
Ding
Bremen Street
East Bow
Thomas Gannon
Proiny
Mames Brown
J Forsaith
Arunecipel
House of Correction
Bosnian steamer reports sighting of a huge iceberg
The German steamer Bosnia from Hamburg passed an iceberg about 50 feet high in latitude 46 north, longitude 4 west, during an 1112 day voyage. Captain mid reported the sighting yesterday, noting the iceberg measured roughly 50 feet with unknown base depth.
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Bosnia
Hamburg
Mid
Petition to extend L Street bath season gains support
A petition organized for Mayor Hart aims to extend the L Street bath season beyond next Saturday closing. The petition, signed by leading ministers and professionals, urges the continuation of bathing and shopping through a longer season, noting the bath’s advantages.
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Hart
L Street
Bath
Pinkerton Campaign Manager Named For Parker Bid
Alfred H Pinkerton of Worcester named state campaign manager for Herbert Parker of Lancaster candidate for Republican Attorney General, with offices in Boston.
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Pinkerton
Parker
Alfred
Worcester
Herbert Parker
Pancaster
Flower Day at Aster Day Houghton Duttons Offers 25000 Asters
Aster Day at Houghton and Duttons features 25000 asters from the millinery second floor to honor shoppers with free flowers and special in store prices. The event draws crowds seeking bargains and limited time offers, with bulletins posted around the store for undisclosed bargains.
Naval Veterans Celebrate 87th Perry Anniversary Parade
GHA Veterans in Cleveland mark the 87th anniversary of Oliver Hazard Perry’s Lake Erie victory with a grand parade and lake display. Election of the next commander in chief generates keen interest with candidates General Sickles Terrance and General Stewart discussed. Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones seeks presidency of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Monument square glows with 15 thousand incandescent lights and 10 thousand more on nearby buildings.
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Cleveland
Oliver Hazard Perry
Lake Erie
General Sickles
Judge Terrance
Minneapolis
General Stewart
Pennsylvania
Calista Robinson Jones
Bradford
Woman's Relief Corps
Monument Square
Steel Strikers Riot and Burn Property in Pittsburg Scene
In Pittsburg area on September 10, steel strike tensions surged as strikers repelled repair crews at McKeesport and the Monongahela tin plate workers prepared to return. Women and children seized cots from a wagon, two bonfires ignited, and police protected the remaining company property. Labor leaders at the Amalgamated Association faced delays in settlement while Shaffer allegedly seeks direct talks with United States Steel Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Penn
National Tube Plant
McKeesport
Demmler Tin
Monongahela
Fifteenth Street
Painter Plant
T. J. Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
Shaffer
John Williams
M. F. Tighe
Ben L. Davis
United States Steel Corporaton
Amalgamated Executive Board
East Boston Dog Fight Ends With Police Interception
A lantern light match on Gore's wharf ends with Philip Walsh's bull terrier Mate fighting another dog. Police later arrest Walsh, Cry, Furlong, Brady, and Dalton. Walsh fined 50 for promoting the fight and 10 for presence. others fined 10 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Boston
Philip Walsh
Gore's Wharf
Border Street
iMaje
Farley
Gore’s Wharf
Boston
John C. Cry
John Furlong
Michael Brady
Michael Dalton
Mr. Farley
Walsh
Cry
Brady
Furlong
Dalton
Smart
Catholic Schools Reopen with Larger Attendance and Scholarships
Boston Catholic schools reopened with strong enrollments and many new students. Archbishop Williams announced annual college and academy scholarships including Notre Dame Roxbury Lowell Mt St Josephs and two gold medals for high school doctrine excellence.
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Boston College
Archdiocese of Boston
Boston
Archbishop Williams
Firemen for Cambridge and bridge widening plan
At the Cambridge City Council meeting the Roads and Bridges Committee received an appropriation request of 200000 to widen Bridge Street from Lechmere Square to the Somerville line. Alderman Davis pushed to study adding three firefighters and a new engine house in Wan 6 to house two pieces of apparatus.
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Cambridge
Committee On Roads and Bridges
Bridge Street
Lechmere Square
Somerville
Committee On Finance
Davis
Committee On Fire Department
Wan
Abraham Debts to Be Known Soon for F Abraham & Son
Horace G. Allen and Isaac Klaus as receivers for F Abraham & Son tobacco dealers say a list of creditors and liabilities will be prepared in a day or two. Notices were sent to creditors to file their claims. Assets amount remains undetermined after the death of Mr. Abraham. Leopold Abraham was not confined in a hospital. he was taken there.
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Horace G. Allen
Isaac Klaus
F.abraham & Son
Court Street
Abraham
Leopold
McLeam
Aversey
Boston Consuptives Hospital Plan Moves Forward
Boston officials debate a municipal consumptives hospital with a seven member board to regulate location and design. An appropriation of 150000 awaits action while hearings highlight methods to avoid ward disputes and a potential donation offer from Thomas Welch via the Boston Post.
Octogenarian Bride Read in First Baptist Church
Reading Sept 11 Reverend Josiah H Tilton aged 8 read his certificate of marriage to Caroline Griswold aged 83 to the First Baptist Church congregation. The couple wed in Lynn last Bat's-day by Reverend Francis T Hazelha. Honeymoon in Tilton home. This is Tilton's third marriage. The bride formerly led Boston's Young Women's Christian Association and later aided education of Black students in a Washington DC university. The pair have known each other about 60 years.
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Reading
Josiah Hi. Tilton
First Baptist Church
Caroline Griswold
Lynn
Francis T. Hazelha
Mr. Tilton
Young Women’s Christian Association of Boston
Washington, D. C
Designers and Makers of Superior Ready-to-Wear Attic Sale
About 100 chosen shirts in sizes 14 to 18 with soft and stiff bosoms cuffs attached and detached. Originally priced at 3.00 2.50 and 2.00 now reduced to 1.00. Not all sizes in every lot but every size in the entire collection. Come early as better grades will be snapped up first. Everything for men and boys wear at Washington and Brattle Streets.
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Manhattan
No School for Roxbury Pupils Due to Smallpox Fear
Roxbury public schools will not open today and may remain closed following a smallpox scare. A petition led by Dr. Charles S. Stone and hundreds of local parents urged delaying reopening until contagion risk is fully gone, though the Board of Health said no closure was necessary. The superintendent will decide after health consultation. Hyde and Sherwin Grammar and the district primary schools are ordered closed until safe to reopen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxbury
Charles S. Stone
Board of Health
Hyde and Sherwin
Seaver
Sidney Peterson
Brighton High School
William I. Carthell
Somerville
Frank V. Thompson
South Boston
Ap P . Richard Benson
Frank A. Coupal
Nathaniel D. Henchman
Oscar H. B. Hogs
Frank A. Craft
Harold H. Mendall
Mechanic Arts
Charlotte A. Kendall
Joseph Y. Bergen
P. Catherine Bradford
Franklin Grammar School
Horses Must Go Day Faces Fountain Setback at Everett Square
Women seeking to install a drinking fountain for horses at Edward Everett square secured initial approvals from Mayor Hart and street officials, but local property owners opposed the site causing the project to fall through. Funds were raised by one contributor, and a new location outside Dorchester will be sought for the fountain as soon as a suitable site is found.
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Hart
Consumptive Hospital
Edward Everett Square
Dorchester
Republicans Open Nomination Papers in Boston Caucuses
Republicans begin nominating delegations for Senator and Representative races while contest expectations grow across wards 10 11 16 and 21. President Hutchinson backs Bordman Hall as Isaac F. Paul faces city mayoral support amid rifts over district attorney and county posts. The ward battles and a Dorchester family feud highlight an unusually active nominating day in Boston.
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Hiutchinson
Robert O. Harris
Herbert Parker
Harris
Suffolk County
Plymouth County
John 8. Richardson
Richardson
Post
Bordman Hall
Hutchinson
Hall
Isaac F. Paul
Hart
Paul
Innes
Gove
Wheeler
Curtis
Republican Advisory Board
Frank
Atwood
Russell
Frank E. Wells
Music Commission
Dorchester
A. Warren Gould
Woods
Adams
Alderman Miller
Frank A. Foster
Frank Farwell
Boston
Champagne Charley Opens at Court Square Theatre Springfield
Augustus Thomas's new musical comedy Champagne Charley received its first presentation at Court Square Theatre with Peter Dailey and Christie MacDonald in leading roles. Frank McKee produced a sumptuous mounting and New York critics predicted it would be a major success this season. Dailey headlines at the Boston Theatre next Monday.
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Springfield
Augustus Thomas
Charley
Court Square Theatre
Frank McKee
Peter Dailey
Pert
Christie MacDonald
Mr. Thomas
New York
Mr. Dalley
Boston Aseum
Miss Annie M Leod Discharged in Municipal Court
In the second Municipal Criminal Court session Miss Annie McLeod of 14 Upton Street was exonerated of theft charges. The case involved an alleged $1000 theft from lodger Mrs Ellen J Killen. Separate larceny verdicts were handed down in a different court session naming Charles J Feinberg sentenced to the Massachusetts Reformatory.
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Municipal Criminal Court
Annie McLeod
Upton Street
Ellen J. Killen
Superior Criminal Court
Aiken
Charles J. Feinberg
Massachusetts Reformatory
Fire Rips Central House. Millinery Store Fire Destroys Block
Salem report says the Central House hotel suffered severe damage from a morning blaze around 3 o clock. The fire began in a corner millinery store and quickly spread through the street level shops. J H C Russell Thomas Gattey and Florence Mack narrowly escaped injury. losses run about $10 000 with insurance. The hotel will be rebuilt.
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Salem
JH. C. Russell
Thomas Gattey
Florence Mack
Deserted cats haunt Back Bay beaches as charity calls
The Animal Rescue League appeals through the Post for financial help to feed and protect ownerless cats at beaches and in the city. It cites dozens of cases of cruelty and neglect, notes monthly care costs, and lists league officers, branches, and contacts for guardians of cats facing autumn abandonment.
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Back Bay
Tabby
Thomas
Grimalkin
Animal Beauce League
Carver Street
Huntington Smith
Hough's
League
Smith
Julia Ward Howe
John Lwithrow
Park Street
Edward H. Clement
Transcript
William Endicott, Jr
George O. A. Ernst
Edward E. Hale
Post
New York
Warrenton Street
Ats
East First Street
South
Boston
Maywood Street
Dorchester
Evans
Pete
Steamer New England Sails With Notable Passengers
The New England departed Charlestown at 10 30 this morning bound for Queenstown and Liverpool. Listed passengers include J B Balmer and party, Mrs Barker and child, Major Chauncey and family, Rev E B Haskell and others, with many others named among saloon and steerage travelers.
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New England
Charlestown
Queenstown
Liverpool
J. B. Balmer
Loyaghy Berker
Thomas Brophy
J. B
Frank T. Bullen
Bullen
F. T. Bullen
Misa
M. P. Bullen
J. W. Campbell
B. M. Chandler
Chandler
Katherine Chandler
W. A. Chauncey
Chauncey
L. A. Chauncey
A. A. Chaunce
Martoeda
William
Cailian
W. "Michael
Mile
Julia K
Violet Roberts
Adol Rosedale
H. I. Sandford
James Scott
W. B. Sellar
A.L. Sevigny
W. Lessor
EB. B. Smith
Staunton
St. Pierre
C. H. Tenney
Tenney
Tolmack
Man charged in fatal wagon collision arraigned in court
John A. McNear linked to manslaughter in the death of jail Matthews on White Street. Matthews died when McNear's wagon struck him Monday afternoon. McNear arraigned before Judge Bumons apperts with bail set at 500 dollars until Saturday next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. McNear
Matthews
White Street
McNear
Bumons
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Aster
Houghton & Dutton’s
GHA
Boston 10
Board of Aldermen
Law Department
O'Toole
Thomas J. Welch
Boston Post
Mary Morton Kehew
Carl Biesen- Lach
North End
Jamaica Plain
William Lang
Charles Crocker
Alfred Turner
Kehew
Biesenbach
William Berwin
Bride
Washington and Brattle Streets
Everett Square
Pete Daley
Annie M'Leod
The
Animal Rescue League
M’near
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