Memorial Chapel Planned for All Saints' Ashmont
The Rev. Simon Blinn Blunt announces a memorial chapel near the existing church for late rectors Rev. Charles T. Whittemore and Rev. Charles Mockridge and benefactor Mrs. Mary Lothrop Peabody. About $1100 has been donated, fundraising soon begins. The small edifice will seat ~50 and cost about $15,000 in red stone matching the main church.
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Simon Blinn Blunt
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Ashmont
Charles T. Whittemore
Charles Mockridge
Mary Lothrop Peabody
Anty Drudge Promotes Fels-Naptha Wash Day Change
An ad style piece touts Fels-Naptha as freeing women from laborious washday. It contrasts old boiler boiling with a cooler modern method that saves strength time and preserves garments. It urges readers to look for the red and green wrapper.
Taft Challenges Critics on Trusts During West Tour
President Taft, in Detroit, makes a pivotal westward tour speech attacking critics over trusts. He outlines his stance and then challenges accusers to join him in extending civil service to most government appointive offices, using bold language to sharpen the campaign tone.
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Detroit
Taft
West
Taft Defends Supreme Court in Detroit Trust Speech
President Taft denounces opponents of the Sherman Act while defending the Supreme Court's rule of reason. He cites Justice White and declares DOJ probes into corporations violating anti-trust law. Taft praises Detroit audiences and key officials during a four day Michigan swing, promising civil service reform if empowered.
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United States Supreme Court
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
William J. Bryan
Justice White
Taft
Department of Justice
Washington
Supreme Court
Nantasket Steamboat To Run Hourly Service Again
The Nantasket Steamboat Company announced it will continue hourly Boston to Nantasket service until further notice. For 20 years there has been no hourly service after September 15, despite Hull summer residents protests and the season ending after Labor Day weekend.
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Nantasket Steamboat Company
Boston
Nantasket
Hull
Labor Dey
Bowler Seeks $50,000 in Notes Case In Dedham
George Pendleton Bowler, ex Harvard man with a history of forgery, fights a $50,000 suit by Mrs. M. Colby Little claiming promissory notes to Edith Stevens Reynolds were given for value. Bowler denies making the notes or that they had lawful consideration, alleging they were given in exchange for a year with Mrs Reynolds. The case, heard by Special Master James D. Colt, may not be heard until next spring.
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Dedham
George Pendleton Bowler
Harvard
Concord Reformatory
East Cambridge
M. Colby Little
City Mills
Edith Stevens Reynolds
Reynolds
James D. Colt
Bowler
M. Calby Little
Mass
New York
M. C. Little
Edith S. Reynolds
Bowler's collapse and scandal echo through Boston and New York
A bowler who fled his Boston home with Edith Stevens Reynolds, wife of George Reynolds, faced arrest, trial, and imprisonment as creditors pursued $271,000 in notes. The saga spans Boston and New York, with claims of lavish spending, forged notes, and ongoing legal actions following his May 1908 release from East Cambridge jail.
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Bowler
United States
Hemingway Street
Boston
New York
Edith Stevens Reynolds
George Reynolds
Harvard
Heaven
Concord
East Cambridge
Eeven
Suffolk County
Angelina L. Stevens
Mt. Vernon Street
Madison Dies at the Table in Lodge City Kansas
U S representative Edmond H. Madison died at his home breakfast table in Lodge City Kansas from heart disease. He had previously voted with Democrats on Sept 7 1910 to back a resolution demanding Secretary Ballinger’s removal during the Ballinger Pinchot investigation in Minneapolis.
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Lodge City
Kan
Edmond H. Madison
Congress
Kansas
Madison
Ballinger-Pinchot Investigation Committee
Minneapolis
Ballinger
Widow testifies in Charlestown death case
Margaret W Carey widow of Charlestown longshoreman John W Carey testifies about the night of December 10 in a murder trial of Edward L Melvin a marine corporal. She recounts a street loan dispute leading to a confrontation at Melvin room upstairs a gun misfired and Melvin fired multiple shots killing Carey.
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Margaret W. Carey
John W. Carey
Charlestown
Edward L. Melvin
Charlestown Navy Yard
Superior Criminal Court
Melsvin
Melvin
May Ashton
Mayors of Boston and Chicago urge better municipal government
At the International Municipal Congress and Exhibition in Chicago on September 18 John F Fitzgerald of Boston and Carter H Harrison Jr of Chicago urged reforms. Fitzgerald praised European cities as lessons for American municipalities while Harrison called for abolition of party lines in city elections to improve municipal conditions.
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Chicago
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston
Carter H. Harrison
Fitzgerald
Europe
United States
Harrison
Red Sox Pitch May Blind Him
Joseph A. Pais 20 of Somerville was struck in the head by a pitched ball during Red Sox warmups at Huntington avenue grounds. The inshoot shattered his glasses, lens fragments injuring his eyes. He was carried from the field unconscious, rushed to Dr Spaulding’s office, and later sent home in serious condition.
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Joseph A. Pais
Adrian Street
Somerville
Red Sox
Huntington Avenue
Pais
F. EB. Spaulding
Commonwealth Avenue
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Firm OF
Cram, Goodhue & Furgeson
Anty ‘Drudge
Khe
Ovation
Bryan
Pontiac
State Fair Grounds
Michigan
Saginac
Bay City
Mr. Taft
Sault Ste Marie
Milton McRae
Detroit Board of Commerce
Board of Commerce
Thompson
McRae
Convention of
United States Internal Revenue Officers
Internal Revenue
States of the Union
C.M. Payne
BuGs
By the Press
Rain Timmy Jimis
Suri
Wapping Street
Margaret
Paine's
Paine
Paine Furniture Company
Canal Street
North Station
Haymarket Square
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