Half Hundred Join In Chase Through Milk and India Streets
George Gordon Earle aged 19 of Dwight Street was arrested after a lively pursuit by Mount ed Officer Connelly and about 50 bystanders through Milk Street to India Street. His companion dodged behind a building and escaped. Earle is charged with stealing fire extinguishers from 119 and 125 Milk Street, about 18 extinguishers valued at $15 each. They entered 125 Milk Street, took extinguishers from two stands, and fled as a custodian cried Stop thief.
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George Gordon Earle
Dwight Street
Milk Street
India Street
Connelly
Earle
Farle
Tailor Sues Mrs Grogan Over Jacket and Squirrel Scarf
Otto Piehler a Cambridge tailor sues Mrs Richard Grogan widow of a man killed by his brother in law Professor Charles R Eastman for 1000 dollars. The suit claims 275 dollar value for a scarlet jacket and a squirrel scarf owed since December 18 1907 with interest to June 1 1909 totaling 22 dollars.
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Richard Grogan
Charles R. Eastman
Henry Street
Cambridge
Otto Piehler
Piehler
Graves Named Head of Republican City Committee
The plan would substitute Edward G. Graves of Ward 1 as the new head of the Republican city committee. The Ward 1 committee of ten Graves supporters would replace the three members aligned with Dr. Benjamin F. Campbell and Councilman Frank Goodwin.
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Edward G. Graves
Ward 1
Republican City Committee
Graves
Benjamin F. Campbell
Frank Goodwin
Ranger Departs Genoa for Gibraltar Training Voyage
The Massachusetts nautical training ship Ranger, with cadets aboard, departed Genoa today for Gibraltar after a stay in Genoa since Sept. 17.
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Genoa
Ranger
Gibraltar
McNary Presses Transit Reform for Boston
Ex congressman William S McNary of South Boston condemned the Transit Commission for neglecting an elevated or subway link to South Boston and Dorchester. He urged a tunnel under Fort Point Channel, a continuous route, and a freight tunnel linking Charlestown to South Boston. He warned against treating Boston as a north south city and urged pollution controls and broader intersuburban rapid transit.
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William S. McNary
South Boston
Joint Commission On Metropolitan Affairs
State House
The
Transit Commission
Dorchester
McNary
Boston
Fort Point Channel
Cambridge
South
New York
Boston Harbor
Boston & Maine
Charlestown
Charles River
Charles Street
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Boston & Albany
Commonwealth Docks
Quincy
Hyde Park
Newton
Wakefield
Watertown
Lynn
James H. Stark
Dorchester Historical Society
Old Colony Avenue
Alderman Carr
Metropolitan Commission
Ashmont
Mattapan
Neponset
Milton
Fulton by Julia Ward Howe
Collier's Weekly verse celebrates Fulton the inventor and visionaries. It links steam power to global progress, commerce, and human betterment, imagining a future where steam and fire bind nations in knowledge and liberty under a higher moral order.
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Julia Ward Howe
Gasson Announces Start of Boston College Excavation
President Thomas I. Gasson said Boston College will begin excavation immediately for a new campus on the Chestnut Hill Reservoir site.
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Thomas I. Gasson
Boston College
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Auditor to Quit After 17 Years in Cambridge
Harry T. Upham, auditor of Cambridge for 17 years, will resign on Oct. 1 and is said to have sent his letter to Mayor Brooks, though the mayor's office denies receipt.
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Harry T. Upham
Cambridge
Brooks
Secret home cosmetic recipe for bust and neck enhancement
The article describes a DIY mixture to develop the bust and round the arms and neck. It instructs purchasing glycerine rose water tincture cadomene and borax from drugstores, mixing glycerine with tincture cadomene, resting two hours, adding rose water and borax, then applying morning and night and washing with hot water and soap.
Methodists to Celebrate Africa Diamond Jubilee Field Day
The Methodist Episcopal foreign missions diamond anniversary will be observed worldwide late this month. In Boston on Sunday two local churches will host a Field Day with a lineup of bishops and missionaries headed by Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell and Dr. Erwin H. Richards.
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Methodist Episcopal Foreign Missions
Boston
Methodist Episcopal Churches
Africa
Joseph C. Hartzell
Erwin H. Richards
William Burt
Zurich
Switzerland
Edwin F. Frease
North Africa
Willard Mallalieu
Ralph Welles Keeler
Africa Diamond Jubilee Commission
Harrison S. Elliott
John M. Springer
John G. Vaughan
George E. Stokes
Board of Foreign Missions
Lewiston merchant elected president of Maine State Board of Trade
D. J. Callahan of Lewiston was chosen as president at the 21st annual meeting of the Maine State Board of Trade held in Rockland. The event brought together business leaders from across the state to discuss commerce and economic development.
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Rockland
D. J. Callahan
Lewiston
State Board of Trade
Is Your Life Worth Living
Advertisement extols Smith's Pineapple and Butternut Pills as a cure for liver and bowel sluggishness. It promises improved mood, appetite, and blood health, claiming the pills restore liver function, purify blood, and are non habit forming with repeated daily use after dinner and at night.
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Smith
City Employees Accused of Polls Activity at State Primaries
Report claims city workers operated openly at polling places during the state primaries on Tuesday. Mayor Hibbard had warned of discharge for soliciting votes, but no such action was taken. An inspector in Ward 6’s building department allegedly campaigned for Representative Thomas Grady, while many other city employees took the day off to support candidates.
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Hibbard
Building ‘Department
Thomas Grady
Pee
Mary Laghan of Charlestown 83 obituary funeral services
In this city on Sept 22 Mary O Callaghan aged 83 formerly of Charlestown died. Funeral from her residence 34 Greenwich Park Friday Sept 24 at 9 15 a m Requiem Mass at Immaculate Conception Church at 10 o clock Relatives and friends invited.
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Mary A. Glynn
Johnson
Eustis Street
Priday
Jones
Dorchester
Edgar W. Jones
Morrill Street
Linehan
Martin
Ellen Linehan
Clifton Street
Roxbury
St. Patrick’s Church
Dudley Street
McNpil
Boston
Maud A
John T. McNeil
Chelsea Street
St. John's Episcopal Church
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