Big raid stops Tong War in Boston Chinatown
Police halted a planned Tong clash by conducting two raids. At 28 Oxford Street 10 Hep Sing Tong members were seized, and at 13 Harrison Avenue 12 On Leong Tong gamblers were arrested. Ambulances and undercover officers supported the operation to deter the Hatchet men.
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Chinatown
Lagrange Reet
Oxford Street
Hep Sing Tong
Harrison Avenue
New York
Boston
Oxford Place
Murder Feared For Missing Shore Resort Worker
William H. Martland, employed at a shore resort near the Rhode Island line, has been missing since Sept 3. Relatives fear foul play after he left the employer's site Sunday evening saying he was going home, with about $40 in his possession and no sign he reached the nearby car line.
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Fall River
William H. Martland
Rhode Island
Martland
Miss Conway Aids Actresses In New England Guild
Katherine E. Conway editor of the Pilot agrees to be New England sponsor for Miss Marie Cahill s plan to establish a Mary Anderson Guild summer home for chorus women of the American stage. The aim is a resort in New England to keep performers from city temptations and pave the way for social settlements in New York and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine E. Conway
Pilot
New England
Marie Cahill
Chorus Women
Mary Anderson Guild
Cahill
New York City
Chicago
Miss Conway
Women Organize At Labor Convention in Boston
The 11th convention of the International Association of Machinists opens in Faneuil Hall at 10 AM with 450 delegates arriving from across the country. The meeting will grant a national women’s auxiliary to machinist lodges and feature President James O’Connell outlining growth and future plans.
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International Association of Machinists
Faneuil Hall
David L. Mahan
Boston Committee
Whelton
Pubc
Boston
United States
Canada
James O’connell
Donovan Declines Re election as Boston Building Trades Chief
Jeremiah J. Donovan, president of the Boston Building Trades Council, says he will not seek re election at Sunday’s meeting. President Kirby of the National Structural Building Trades Alliance will speak at the next council session. A committee was appointed to file a complaint with the State Branch, A F L, alleging unfair lathing work by trades affiliated with the branch.
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Building Trades Council
Jeremiah J. Donovan
Boston Building Trades Council
Kirby
National Structural Building Trades Alliance
A. F. of L
Union scales extend 8 hour day at Revere House and ferry overtime
The Scale Committee of Boston Stationary Firemen's Union 38 reaches an 8 hour day and higher wages with Revere House management. Ferry superintendent Donovan guarantees overtime pay beyond eight hours. Trinity Place firerooms join the union. Peter H. McNeally and D F Donovan named delegates to the State AFL convention.
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Boston Stationary Firemen’s Union 38
Revere House
Donovan
Ferry Department
Trinity Place
Peter H. McNeally
D. F. Donovan
The
Brotherhood
Waiters’ Union 80
Washington Street
Frank ©. McDonough
Sharon
Pretty Syrian Woman Missing From Charlestown Lodging House
A young Syrian woman, unnamed, vanished from 14 Harvard Street Charlestown where she was housed by Mrs Helen Sherman after arrival on the Canopic. Immigration officers had guarded her. she slipped away Saturday prompting Charlestown police and White Star Line to withhold her name amid mystery.
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Harvard Street
Charlestown
Helen Sherman
White Star Line Company
Secretly Wed Couple Plans Second Ceremony in Roxbury
Francis A. Cronin son of Deputy Sheriff Daniel A. Cronin and Evelyn Curley daughter of Frederick Curley were wed secretly on June 10 1904 by a justice of the peace They kept the secret until last week and now plan a church wedding at St Josephs Roxbury Father Maylan officiating The couple will establish a home and both work at Lee Higginson Co Banking.
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Francis A. Cronin
Daniel A. Cronin
Evelyn Curley
Frederick J. Curley
Roxbury
Charles A. Feghl
Shawmut Avenue
St. Joseph's Church
Maylan
Lee, Higginson & Co
Massachusetts State Branch A F L Final Convention Arrangements
The executive board of the Massachusetts State Branch A F L set final plans for the October convention in Pittsfield at the Opera House with meetings at Kenneys Hotel on October 8. Secretary-Treasurer Driscoll to arrange preliminaries and solicit lists of boycotted firms from unions.
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Massachusetts
A. F. of L
Pittsfild
Kenney’s Hotel
Pittsfield
Pittsfield Opera House
Dennis D. Driscoll
Driscoll
Francis J. Clarke
New Hampshire Federation
Nashua
Boston & Northern Railroad
James R. Crozier
State Branch
International elevator builders convention opens at Rathbone Hall
The international convention of elevator constructors begins sessions this morning at Rathbone Hall 694 Washington Street with delegates from 17 large cities expected. Boston Union 4 will host a banquet Thursday night for visiting delegates as 32 delegates arrived for today’s opening.
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International Convention of Elevator Constructors
Rathbone Hall
Washington Street
Boston Union 4
Six More Cambridge Arrests Reported On Naturalization Charge
Cambridge police announced six additional arrests for alleged illegal naturalization bringing total to twelve in 48 hours and sixty six this year to date.
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Cambridge
Arrests spark Cambridge mayoral vote debate and inquiries
Yesterday six men were arrested on illegal naturalization charges in Cambridge. Names include Patrick Needham Timothy Sullivan Peter Looney Michael Looney Dennis Lucey and Patrick Murphy. Bail was posted for several. prosecutions proceed at the Federal building as Republicans and non partisans question John H. H. McNamee’s 1901 mayoral plurality and influence behind the arrests.
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Patrick
Needham
Suffolk Street
Timothy J. Sullivan
Putnam Avenue
Peter Looney
Cambridge Street
Michael Looney
Dennis Lucey
Patrick Murphy
Vandine Street
G. F. Monahan
Dennis F. Leary
Looney Brothers
Daniel Cronin
Lucey
United States
Waters
Ruhl
Neilon
Deehan
Cox
Gordon
Cambridge Police
Federal Building
John H. H. McNamee
Cambridge
McNamee
Committee On Police
Board of Aldermen
Herbert Gordon
Equitable Officials Jubilant Over Testimony Revelations
New York officials at 120 Broadway smile over disclosures before the joint legislative insurance investigation committee. James Hazen Hyde, visiting Newport, shares the mood as evidence ties New York Life Insurance to similar practices. Clerks Marshall and Mathewson signed notes totaling 7.225 million dollars listed as assets, a fact the Equitable side parries with sharp wit.
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New York
Equitable Assurance Society
Broadway
James Hazen Hyde
Newport
Joint Legislative Insurance Investigation Committee
New York Life Insurance Company
New Woman and Old Debt on a Columbus Avenue Car
A woman with business instinct confronts a fare dispute on a Columbus Avenue streetcar. When a $5 bill cannot be changed, a nearby passenger collects the debt by splitting the fare into 4.95 and five pennies. The owed woman in blue ultimately yields the 4.95, while the collector keeps the pennies and the change.
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Columbus Avenue
Blue
Turkey Holds U S Citizen Amid Vartanian Case
In Constantinople on Sept 10 Turkey presses the case of Shirkis Vartanian a naturalized American charged with shooting an Armenian. The Turkish foreign minister refuses to recognize his foreign naturalization while United States Minister Fleishman cites the 1832 treaty and urges a settlement by Turkish accord or arbitration.
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Constantinople
Turkey
United States
Shirkis Vartanian
Vartanian
Fleishman
Tewfik Pasha
Dyer Narrowly Escapes After Inhaling Cleaning Chemicals
Mrs Walter Dyer of Thorndike street narrowly escaped death in Beverly after inhaling vapors from muriatic acid and chloride of lime used for cleansing. She was resuscitated with difficulty.
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Beverly
Walter
Dyer
Thorndike Street
Minister Benjamin Taylor Restores Sight Then Committed
Benjamin Taylor an aged minister who had been blind since middle age was found to have regained sight but was then committed by a court to the State hospital in Colebrook Connecticut after fearing his vision was a brain hallucination and possible insanity.
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Colebrook
Conn
Benjamin Taylor
State Hospital
Taylor
Watson
Holmes
Nurses Admire the Foundling Winthrop Baker
A two week old foundling named Winthrop Baker, found in a basket at 52 Garden Street by Mrs Emma E Ricker, is cared for at the Chardon Street home. Nurses praise him while police seek his rightful guardians. adoption inquiries rise as the state may decide his future.
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Winthrop Baker
Garden Street
Emma E. Ricker
Chardon Street
Post
Fie
Winthrop
The Adventure of the Battered Hat and a Goose
Holmes examines a bedraggled hat found with a Christmas goose to deduce the owner’s character. He infers the owner is intellectual, financially fluctuating, and likely morally challenged, based on wear and fit of the hat and other clues from the case.
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Harper & Bros
Sherlock Holmes
Peterson
Tottenham Court Road
Goodge Street
Henry Baker
H. B
Henry Bakers
Holmes
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International Elevator Builders
LABOR
Hanscom Recovering
Portland
Orrinton M. Hanscom
Mass. State Board, A. F. of L
FLAC
Anargyros
Fifth Ave
U. S
Foundling
Irene Adler
Mary Sutherland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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