Indicted for setting fires in Cambridge and Somerville
William A. Combie, accused of arson in Cambridge and Somerville, was arraigned in East Cambridge Superior Court on a charge of attempted larceny. He is held on 2000 bail after two fires of suspicious origin within a half hour led to his arrest last week. Indicted earlier by Middlesex County Grand Jury for a six month Somerville fire series, his trial ended with a hung jury.
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William A. Combie
Cambridge
Somerville
East Cambridge
Combie
Middlesex County
Taft Not To Be Candidate For 1916 Nomination
Henry W. Taft said William Howard Taft will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1916. He spoke in San Antonio after a talk with the former president in California. Taft was en route to the Taft ranch near Gregory, Texas, for a week’s visit.
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San Antonio
Tex
William Howard Taft
Henry W. Taft
California
Taft
Taft Ranch
Gregory
Forty Musicians Depart for West with Opera Company
Forty musicians led by Mlle Elvira Severoni leave North Station in a special car at 1 PM to join the Boston Grand Opera Company and Pavlova Imperial Russian Ballet in Chicago St Louis and Toronto before the Boston season begins November 15. An Albany joining section from New York will follow. The full company totals about 267 people traveling in a three‑section train with 14 baggage cars. The Girl of the Nutmeg Isle concludes in next Sunday's Post Magazine.
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Mlle
Elvira Severoni
Grand Opera
Boston Grand Opera Company
North Station
Chicago
Pavlova Imperial Russian Ballet
St. Louis
Toronto
Boston
W. H. Macdonald
New York
Albany
Pavlova
Next Sunday Post
Chelsea Man Loses 410 Dollars in Tremont Street Scam
David Oberblatt of 73 Third Street Chelsea was duped yesterday afternoon by three men on Tremont Street at Union Park. They offered to exchange gold French coins for American money and proposed a profitable partnership. Oberblatt handed over his $410 in a handkerchief, including coins and $100, to the trio in a classic con.
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Chelsea
David Oberblatt
Third Street
Tremont Street
Oberblatt
Tremont
Union Park Streets
Education on credit at Harvard opens doors Monday
Harvard will offer enrolment on an instalment plan for students who pass entrance exams. For $94 down they may begin studies without paying tuition, board, rooms, light or Harvard Union membership until late January next year.
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Harvard
Harvard Union
Harvard Credit System Offers Four Month College Aid
Harvard extends four months of credit to thousands of students covering meals dormitory rent light tobacco magazines newspapers and Union membership from September to January with a down payment of 94 dollars and a late January due date. The Price Greenleaf fund allows loans if funds run short and books are the only major necessity not covered by credit.
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Harvard
Memorial
Foxcroft
Harvard Union
Price Greenleaf
Masons End Big Session In Northern Jurisdiction
The 108th annual convention of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons for the Northern Jurisdiction closed after a four day session in the Masonic Temple. Lt Grand Commander Leon M Abbott presided. George W Kendrick Jr reported on the sovereign grand commander portrait by Louis Betts, which was accepted. A sub committee will pursue preliminary work on a large charitable foundation project. The next meeting will be in Pittsburgh, and an invitation to the Washington temple dedication in October was accepted.
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Supreme Council of
Scottish Rite Masons
United States
Masonic Temple
Leon M. Abbott
George W. Kendrick, Jr
Philadelphia
Louis Betts
Supreme Council
Charitable Foundation
Pittsburg
Southern Jurisdiction
Washington
Suffrage Rallies Planned in Arlington Tonight
Arlington suffragists announce a fall campaign under the Votes for Women banner with opening rallies led by Miss Margaret Foley. She will speak at 7 30 p m before the old Town Hall and again at 8 46 at the corner of Lake street and Massachusetts avenue.
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Arlington
Arlington Equal Suffrage League
Margaret Foley
Old Town Hall
Lake Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Bite of Horse Leads to Suit
Mrs. Simi Nahan files for $5000 damages in Superior Court saying a vicious horse owned by Jacob Sillovitz attacked her on a public street March 10, 1915, injuring her arm. Judge Wait releases Sillovitz upon bond of $100 with sureties after defense motion. Nahan awaits jury trial. her arm reportedly in bad shape.
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Simi Nahan
Equity
Superior Court
Wait
Jacob Sillovitz
Sillovitz
Samuel Sigliano
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