Republicans Eye Annexation Scheme To Boost City Power
The Post's expose reveals Boston Republicans weighing annexing Chelsea Revere and Winthrop to create a Republican stronghold in Modern Athens. Secretaries and deputies express cautious support, while license votes threaten the plan. The trio would gain GOP leverage, but opposition to annexation and license views may block action.
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Tes the Post
Boston
Chelsea
Revere
Winthrop
Athens
The
Post
Walter L. Sears
Republican City Committee
William Campbell
John B. O’brien
Hayes's Will Contested Over Harold's Education and Custody
The Hayes will case in East Cambridge Probate Court centers on widow Nina Hayes challenging the will that omits her son Harold. Executors say provisions for wife and child existed in 1892 with $200,000 set aside and an agreed separation. The case, with many witnesses, was postponed to next month as details unfold of the decedent Francis B. Hayes’s lavish Boston life and the strained family backdrop.
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Francis B. Hayes
East Cambridge
Hayes
Nina K. Hayes
Harold
Boston
William Power Wilson
Mr. Hayes
A. P. Loring
Post
Loring
Dover
Eng
Francis Brown Hayes
Emu
Lexington
Europe
Paris
Monte Carlo
Spain
London
Mt. Vernon Street
Pauline Hall
Marie Jansen
Annie Clarke
John Stetson
Globe Theatre
Constantinople
Mansion House
Nina Kent
Colonel Hunt
Weathersfield Row
New York
High Station
Green Mountains
Vermont
Ascutneyvile
England
Cambridge
Scott Street
Body found in Charles river identified as James Quinn
EB Russell found a man's body in the Charles river near Charlesbank. Police took the 6 foot 9 inch, 160 pound man to North Grove morgue for identification. Remains described with sandy moustache and black hair. Authorities later identified him as James Quinn of Charlestown.
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James Quinn
Charlestown
EB. F. Russell
West End
Charlesbank Yesternoon
North Grove Street
Tinkham
Cambridge
The Old Guard Boston Nationalists Move Forward
An adjourned meeting at Alpha Hall selects delegates for the Chicago convention on the 24th 25th and 26th of September John J O Regan is chosen to represent the organization Captain John D Driscoll presided in Warren absence Enthusiastic speeches by O Higgins O Regan and Driscoll and resolutions of sympathy for Colonel Warren who was injured by falling granite at the Masonic Temple Six new members were initiated with more to come at the next meeting on September 16 at Chandler Hall 18 Essex Street
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Chandler Hall
Essex Street
John B. O’higgins
John J. O’regan
John D. Driscoll
John Warren
Old Guard
Masonic Temple
Two railroad workers killed in separate city accidents
Two New Haven railroad employees died in separate incidents yesterday. J A Sandhalter, 25, a brakeman on the Providence division, was hit by an inbound train near Roxbury Crossing at about 8 2. He died en route to Massachusetts General Hospital. Michael Hayes, 33, a freight handler, was struck by a train backing from the depot while crossing the Boston & Albany tracks between the station and tower 1 at 6 20 p m He was crushed and died instantly. Hayes lived at 108 B Street, Boston.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
J. A. Sandhalter
Providence
Roxbury Crossing
Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael Hayes
Boston & Albany
Tower 1
Hayes
B Street
Oston
Summer Hospital Report Praises Aid and Ends Season
The Boston Summer Hospital closes after ten and a half weeks with 281 mothers and children under care, 186 treated as patients and 18 deaths. About $2300 in cash was received and roughly $1900 spent, averaging just over 43 cents a day for a household of sixty. the public institutions commissioner plans to make it permanent as part of hospital work under his control. Harold C. Ernst signs the letter dated September 14 in Boston.
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Boston Summer Hospital
Briof
Yacht Race Decision Draws Broad Boston Comment
Arthur Davidson commends the Post for fair coverage of the Yacht Race Decision. He argues rules could be interpreted more sportsmanlike as crowding of excursion boats was overlooked, suggesting outside parties’ proximity caused the accident and may have affected the English boat’s chances.
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Post
Boston
Arthur Davidson
Colonial officer dies after granite strike at temple
At a late hour last night Colonel John Warren was dying at Massachusetts General Hospital after a granite fragment fell from the Masonic Temple coping striking his head as he passed the building days earlier. He is a resident of 64 West Cedar Street and is years old.
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John Warren
Massachusetts General Hospital
Warren
West Cedar Street
Masonic Temple
Dance Halls Raided Seizures At Five North St Joints
Police from Hanover Street undercover raid five local dance halls resulting in arrests for illegal liquor sales. Suspects John Drinkwater Mary Campbell Olga McKenna Bessie Wilbur and Augusta Stevens were taken into custody as venues on North Street were shuttered amid community consternation. The operation aimed to curb drunkenness surrounding sailors’ venues and other similar establishments shut down afterward.
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North Street
Station 1
Fessenden
Hanover Street
John H. Drinkwater
Mary Campbell
Olga McKenna
Bessie Wilbur
Augusta Stevens
Veterans Start for Rome Demand Liberal Pension Laws
Louisville report on G A R national encampment delegates voting on pension policy and relicensing measures. Tide of speeches urged liberal, just construction of laws to fully honor veterans widows and orphans. Debates over civil service, memorial day, and Confederate monument issues marked the session.
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Lawler
Committee On Pensions
Grand Army of the Republic
Lincoln
Notoseph
United States
Congress
Sample
Pennsylvania
General Adams
Massachusetts
Anderson
Washington
Corporal Tanner
New York
Townsend
Ohio
Vicksburg
National University of Peciotens
Chicago
Watterson
Sons of Veterans
Committee On Rules and Regulations
St. Paul
Cross Street Voter Allegations Probe By City Assessors
Board of Assessors to continue scrutiny into alleged voter manipulation at 16 Cross Street. Assistant Assessors Curran and Bond testified after a hearing chaired by Duncklee. Curran filed a report accusing improper assessments tied to residents at 16 Cross Street and elsewhere. The report, withheld pending Chairman Duncklee’s return, prompts a full investigation into Ward 7.
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Cross Street
Board of Assessors
Duncklee
Charles H. Curran
Thomas H. Bond
Connolly
Curran
Sunday Post
Bond
Ward 7
Pierce
Cross Steet
Tewksbury Almshouse
Deer Island
Republican City Committee
Hutchinson
Robbed tailor found unconscious after fight at Nantasket
Alexander B. Mehn a Hing ham tailor was found badly beaten at the Swede Village near Saga more Hill Nantasket Beach. A doctor sent him to Massachusetts General Hospital as doctors judged the injuries severe from a drunken row yesterday afternoon.
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Nantasket Beach
Alexander B. Mehn
Hingham
Sagamore Hill
Mehn
Massachusetts General Hospital
Death in Barber Shop Ends Life of Frank Tarazzo
At 810 last night the four year old Frank Tarazzo, a resident of 29 Seneca Street South End, collapsed and died in barber John Bucia's shop at 119 Pleasant Street. Dr Thornton pronounced the death due to a hemorrhage of the brain.
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Frank Tarazzo
Seneca Street
South End
John Bucia
Pleasant Street
Thornton
Encampment Elects Walker Commander and Rules Change
The report on rules approved making past commanders permanent voting members. J. B. Whiting of Wisconsin named surgeon-general and T. C. Cliff of Utah as chaplain. General Walker of Indianapolis installed as commander-in-chief with council of administration from several states. A grand ball in Louisville drew eight thousand leaders and visitors ending with a grand success.
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J. B. Whiting
Wisconsin
T. C. Cliff
Utah
Council of Administration
Walker
Indianapolis
Connecticut
D. Sanborn
New Haven
Maine
Seth B. Snipe
Bath
Massachusetts
Henry W. Downs
Newton
New Hampshire
E. A. Badger
Lakeport
Rhode Island
Charles A. Barbour
Bristol
Vermont
E. W. Jewett
Swanton
Irvin Robbins
South
Louisville
Lawler
John A. Logan
Simon Buckner
Wallace
Chicago
Chattanooga
Chickamauga
Women relief corps elects national officers in Louisville
In Chancery Court Judge Tovey dissolved an injunction barring Mrs Clark of Canton Ohio from the convention. The court ruled no property rights were involved. National officers were chosen: President Elizabeth Turner Boston senior vice president Mary A Hinekirk Louisville junior vice president Mary Steineman St Louis treasurer Isabel T Bagley Zanesville Ohio.
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Louisville
Chancery Court
Tovey
Woman’s Relief Corps
Clark
Canton
Elizabeth Turner
Boston
Mary A Hinekirk
Mary Steineman
St. Louis
Isabel T. Bagley
Zanesville
Sons of Veterans Open National Convention in New Haven
The national convention of the Sons of War Veterans opened in New Haven Conn with delegates from Ohio New York Massachusetts and Connecticut. Commander in Chief Charles J Barbour of Springfield Mass presides as committees are formed and reports and national officers will be chosen tomorrow
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New Haven
Conn
National Convention of the Sons of War Veterans
Ohio
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Charles J. Barbour
Springfield
Mass
International cricket opening at Wissahickon Heights
The Philadelphia Cricket Club hosted the first match in the Associated Cricket Clube of Philadelphia series. Oxford and Cambridge faced University of Pennsylvania alumni, with England’s team batting first and reaching 28 runs for the loss of two wickets as stumps fell. Captain Brockie’s side ended the day at 8 runs for four wickets.
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Philadelphia
Wissahickon Heights
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Associated Cricket Clube
Philadelephia
Oxford
Cambridge
University of Pennsylvania
Death of Dennis Carey by fall at Lewis Wharf
Dennis Carey aged four, employed by A C G Lombard's Sons as storage clerk and steamship agent, fell about thirty feet through a hatchway to the basement yesterday afternoon at the Lewis wharf head. He was taken by ambulance to Emergency Hospital and died about 4:60 o'clock. His remains were taken to his home at 39 Salutation.
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Dennis Carey
A. C G. Lombard
Lewis Wharf
Salutation Street
Blacke of Chicago Board of Trade Dies After Shooting
Providence reports C H Blacke, a Chicago Board of Trade member, succumbed to injuries from a shooting by Charles Bascom of St. Louis on Pebbly Cliffs, Block Island, August 24 after a long struggle for life.
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Providence
C. H. Blackeman
Chicago Board of Trade
Charles Bascom
St. Louis
Blocksland
A P A gains in Salem ward caucuses on act vote
Salem voters held ward caucuses on the Boston caucus act, with the A P A element winning in the strongholds of Wards 5 and 6. The overall city result was narrow, with the act passing by a margin of four votes.
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Salem
Biicans
Enre
Fire devastates Masonic Temple in Boston passage
The Masonic Temple at Tre mont and Boylston streets suffered an upper structure blaze and water damage with the roof dropping at 11 40 AM. Officials peg losses at about 400000 and cite defective wires as the probable cause. Fisk and Goff at 23 and 2% Boylston St. launch a clearance sale of men youths and fur garments, offering prices one third to one half below value despite smoke odor.
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Tremont and
Boylston Sts
Boston
Boston Press
Fisk & Goff
Boylston St
Washington Tremont
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