Desperate New Yorker on Death Steamer Mass Shooting
Elisha Tibbetts, 60, of 1 West 136th Street New York, killed himself on a Massachusetts steamship early Tuesday morning. He had boarded under the alias J C Tobie and was identified later at North Grove Street morgue by John Kazro who lived with him. Tibbetts, a salesman for the Pension Envelope Company of Newark, left Monday noon claiming a Boston business trip. the body will be cremated and buried here.
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Elisha Tibbetts
West
New York
Massachusetts
Tibbetts
J. C. Tobie
North Grove Treet
John Kazro
Yesteray
Magrath
Ension Envelope Company
Newark
Boston
Kosher Meat Price Jumps Reported in 1918
The first real 1918 rise in kosher meat prices was recorded with all grades up 2 to 4 cents per pound. Retail prices moved from 20 to 26 cents to 22 to 28 cents per pound, with expectations that prices will climb further into spring. Jewish butchers say demand for cheaper cuts remains weak as higher costs spread through the market.
Gompers Issues a Warning to Manufacturers in Labor Testimony
Washington, Sept. 11. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, closed his two days of testimony before the house committee with a dramatic warning to manufacturers, a defense of the federation's legislative activities, and a bitter attack on the Sherman anti trust law as applied to labor unions.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Vsed Lobby Committee
Gompers Speaks on Labor Conditions and Legislation
Gompers critiques U S industrial life as placing less value on workers than animals, contrasts with Europe where labor protection laws lead. He accuses manufacturers of opposing worker protections and questions court actions under the Sherman act. He sketches federation oversight, Mulhall letters, and lobbying expenditure in 1906.
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Gompers
United States
Europe
House Committee On Committees
Representative Lewis
Maryland
Buchanan
Illinois
Labor Committee
Lewis
Martin M. Mulhall
Federation
McDermott
Mulhall
Manufacturers’ Association
Charles FE. Littlefield
Maine
Madcap Serial Starts in Post Magazine Next Week
Sunday Post previews a new serial by George Gibbs titled Madcap, following the popular The Bolted Door. The continuation appears in next Sunday's Post Magazine with the same author directing the fanciful tale.
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Sunday Post
George Gibbs
Post
Missing Brookline Librarian Miss H Ella Coldwell
The search for Miss H Ella Coldwell, assistant at Brookline Public Library, who vanished last Friday, has been abandoned by library authorities. Brookline friends believe she planned to disappear and will await her whereabouts being revealed by her own choosing.
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H. Ella Coldwell
Brookline Public Library
Brookline
Disappearance of Brookline girl follows pay day
The Brookline girl vanished after receiving two weeks pay and carrying at least 35 dollars. Her sisters Bertha and Blanche found extra clothing missing from the inventory, but no clue emerged. Friends insist she did not kill herself nor elope, nor fear losing her library job, leaving her whereabouts unknown.
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Webster Street
Brookline
Bertha
Blanche
Absent Girl Leaves Town to Start Anew Across Mass State
The missing girl left Provincetown seeking a fresh start away from her old life. She traveled to new surroundings to form new friendships, adopting a markedly different lifestyle. Relatives in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia have not seen her since she disappeared from Prockline.
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Massachusetts
Nova Scotia
Prookline
Concord Girl Goes to Southern Convent
Miss Winifred Connell of Concord leaves town for Kentucky to join the Dominican order as a sister. A sendoff at her Sudbury Road home featured a silver watch gift from intimate friends. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darby Connell.
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Winifred Connell
Concord
Kentucky
Sudbury Road
Miss Connell
Darby Connell
Stowaway Jumps Overboard Near Baltimore
A Spanish stowaway, fearing imprisonment, jumped from the British steamer Tania near Baltimore as the ship neared the port. Officers fear he was drowned about three miles from shore. The man was found in coal bunkers ten hours after the Tafna cleared Huelva on August 23.
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Baltimore
Boulter
Tafna
Huelva
Spain
Cambridge Youth Accuses Girls of Robbery in New York
Seventeen year old Allen B. Croke of 36 Garfield street Cambridge returns from New York in custody of Inspector James Conboy claiming he was drugged and robbed after leaving with 853.50 of his employer's money on Aug 2. He says in Brooklyn a party of chorus girls dined with him then he was robbed of 550, a diamond ring and a gold watch before being abandoned. He was held in 2000 bail for trial.
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Allen B. Croke
Garfield Street
Cambridge
New York
James Conboy
Metropolis
Croke
Great White Way
Gray & Davis, Inc
Lansdowne Street
Back Bay
Brooklyn
New York City
Adams Street
Concord Celebrates 278th Birthday With Antiquarian Reception
The town of Concord marks its 278th anniversary today with a reception by the Concord Antiquarian Society from 4 to 6 p.m. The town was incorporated September 12, 1635, amid a landscape then filled with forests and Indians.
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Town of
Concord
Concord Antiquarian Society
The
Antiquarian Society
Auto Delivery Driver Loosened Traffic On Beacon Street Bridge
Two hundred passengers and fourteen elevated cars were halted for over an hour on the Boston & Albany bridge on Beacon street near Mountford street after a delivery truck rode astride a water pipe to avoid a collision with a car on the wrong side of the street. The McGreenery and Manning vehicle swerved to the right, rode the pipe, and the driver sped away while the blocked cars watched.
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Boston & Alban Railroad
Beacon Street
Mountford Street
McGreenery & Manning
Boston & Albany
Dauntless
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