New England Fair at Worcester Sees Strong Attendance and Races
Weathered opening day failed to dampen interest as exhibitors impressed at Worcester Massachusetts fair. A tariff debate drew 200 participants between Home Market Club and New England Tariff Reform League led by David Hall Rice and Henry W. Lamb. Governors Russell and Tuttle spoke on farming, industry, and markets, while trotting races and prize events drew large crowds and record ticket sales with the Sea Providence Cadets among prize winners.
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Worcester
Mass
Home Market Club
New England Tariff Reform League
David Hall Rice
Brookline
Henry W. Lamb
Gov
Russell
Agricultural Board
Commonwealth
Guv, Tuttle
New Hampshire
New England
Massachusetts
Tuttle
Granite
Gov. Russell
Roninas Rt
Elm Park
Mme. Maranchute
Sea Providence Cadets
Pst
M. Kelley
Ne's Guards
Dolangeoond
Clinton
Gannon
Yernor
Henry Grady Memorial Bronze Born at Ames Chicopee
In Springfield on Sept 4 the Henry W. Grady statue was cast at the Ames Manufacturing Co. in Chicopee after seven weeks of work. The life sized bronze, about 8 1/2 feet tall, will be shipped to Atlanta for unveiling. delays in receiving the plaster model caused the postponement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Henry W. Grady
Ames Manufacturing Company
Chicopes
Grady
Atlanta
Chicopee
Npt. Buckley
Ames Company
Daly
Steam Weather Signals Adopted by Weather Bureau
Vermonter H L Bixby devised steam whistle fever signals to convey forecasts to farmers away from telegraph offices. The system uses brief blasts for conditions and longer blasts for rain or snow, temperature shifts, and local weather, with bell or steam whistle transmission via telephone lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuelsra
H. L. Bixby
Weather Bureau
Ogree
Asten Sion
Vrsison
Doeasey
Bixby
Telephone Company
Death by Own Action of Edwin F Thayer at Buckland Four Corners
Greenfield Mass Sept 3 Frank 23 son of Edwin F Thayer shot himself last night in Buckland Four Corners. He worked in a bakery and had volunteered with the Salvation Army. Death attributed to suspected religious insanity. parents reside in Greenfield and body to be brought home for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Mass
Frank
Edwin F. Thayer
Buckland Four Corners
Shelburne Iui
Salvation Army
Great Crowds At The Trot At Maine Eastern State Fair
Maine farmers in thousands attend the Eastern State fair at Maplewood Park Bancor Me Sept 3 with 25 000 to 80 000 spectators. Forenoon features inspection of exhibits and horse classes amid heavy crowds. Grandstand packed by early afternoon as track conditions stay good and racing proceeds despite heat.
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Bancor
Maine
Maplewood Park
Fair Paes Sota Exhibition Opens With Balloon Race
The notice reports a fair event on an unspecified date with S-minute ag tro. Six colts started the year old race. Wen y quica won heat in 2 40%. Almont Patchen won the 2 34 cc glass with Angarian second and other placings listed.
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Arte Cata
Ae Park Combination
Wen Y Quica
Adam Renee En
Opeey
Lack Wood Boy
Glass
Almont Patchen
Angarian
Charlie Aaywird
Iant, Jr
Harpoon Fearless
Bangor
the Sones
Combination
Grist mill burglarized in Marlboro Mass tragedy
Rice's grist mill at Southboro was broken into yesterday morning and 25 bags of cracked corn stolen. The thieves traced to Marlboro, with stolen goods found at Robert H Harden's Essex street barn. Harden, a truckman with a dubious reputation, fled when sought by the City Marshal. A horse purchase scheme and multiple unpaid debts are noted, with Harden advertised for sale by Merchants' Protective Association under a different spelling Harding. Police search for Harden, the young man who moved the horse, and Spun continues.
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Marlboro
Mass
Southboro
Robert H. Harden
Essex St
Harden
Hitman
Elm
Mint
Penn
Arden
Central House
Inlap
Boston
Orly
Merchants’ Protective Association
Harding
Wildcats Rampage Provokes Gloucester Fearful Hunters
In East Gloucester Massachusetts terrified residents recount wildcat sightings. Hunters fanned out after the animal, possibly separated from its mate, but the beast remained elusive. One carcass was found near Wonson's barn at Marble Monson's farm atop a hill, with locals recalling Cape Ann predators of old.
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Mass
East Gloucester
Monson
Kays Gloucester
Mr. Wonson
Essex
Cape Ann
Thieves Raid Sandwich Centre Drug Store
A widow's only son story from Centre Harbor New Hampshire reports Nat Burleigh and Herbert Quimby robbed Dr Hodgdon's Sandwich Centre drug store. Sheriff Hoyt arrested them at 3 am. Burleigh asked for time to dress and fled, aided by an elder brother. They remain at large until recapture possibility. They are bound over for October Supreme Court term and jailed in Ossipee for lack of bonds. Items stolen include a demijohn of whiskey a bottle of wine and cigars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Ossipee
Dyers Strike Demands at New Haven Web Company
Twenty five dyers at the New Haven Web Company Centreville plant strike for 25 cents more per day and a weekly payday. They accuse management of forcing them to live in company houses with high rents deducted from monthly wages. superintendent Mann denies the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven, Conn
New Haven Web Company
Centreville
Supt. Mann
Oil price mix up creates $200 a quart claim
A Waltham Massachusetts paper cites a watch oil priced at 200 a quart by a local watch company and a jewellers materials dealer says the best oil costs 16 a gallon. The $200 figure stems from a cipher error years ago when a gallon was misread as a quart, making the price appear exorbitant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltham, Mass
Willard
Waltham Company
Beverly Firebug Sets Blaze in Foster Barn
Beverly Massachusetts September 2 a fire in Joseph E Foster barn on Federal Street burned the upper portion and about ten tons of hay. Firemen acted quickly saving neighboring property. The barn was gutted with about 2500 loss insured. An earlier attempt to burn a house on Stone Street was found with charred material nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Mass
Joseph E. Foster
Aserty
Stone St
Murder at Merrimac st dry goods shop in Lowell
Lowell Massachusetts September 3 David Belanger a Merrimac street dry goods merchant was slain in his shop Tuesday night last Detectives pursue revenge motive as the likeliest cause with two men having threatened him prior The victim’s sister and business partner arrived from Canada with accounts of fear of a man he had sued and threats to kill him No robbery or theft occurred and a butcher knife or similar tool is suspected to have been used
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Lowell
Mass
David Belanger
Merrimac St
Joseph Belanger
Marion
David
Canada
A. Moran
Belanger
Elanger
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Neelon
Sioner
Crags
George Ellis
Amesory
Gyms
New York
Boston
Canal St
J. Pierpont Morgan
Hartford Y. M. C. A
Flora Moraugh
Richmond
Veteran Fireman’s Association of
Hartford
Conn
Poughkeepsie
Garland
Machias
Libby
Advocate
N. 8
Ene Haven
Casion
Harrisburg
Filadelphia
Ellangowan
Vineyard Haven
W.L. Scott
Erie
Penn
Newport
J. H. Gagin
St. Leo's Church
Leominster
Catholic Church
Amherst
Aeter High S
Holy Cross College
Gena Seminary
Montreal
Clinton
Holyoke
Westboro
Marlboro
Wayland Strong
Barre
Brattleboro
Strong
Wendall
New Haven
Whee
Thomas McGreevy
United States
Portland
Stephen Trask
Harry Knox
Waterville
Tephens
Oakland
Herbert Morrissey
Plymouth
Nauratuck
Benjamin Noyes
National Life and Trust Pomerat
Londay
New Haven Hospital
Edward F. Searles
Salem
John Mason
Providence
Charles Collinge
Henry Hervieux
Springfield
William Powers
Milford
Young Powers
Milan
Hannah Cutler
Waterbury
T A. Walker
Taunton
Falmouth
Louis Bullinge
Savannah
Connor B. Bwaper
West Duxbury
A. B. Palmer
Orleans
Manchester
Isaac P. Jay
Grindstone Neck
Ter Harbor
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Comn
Jones
Branford
William Rummill
Allendale
Ellsworth
Dedham
D. Cummings
Ayer
Highland St
Secretary of the Treasury
Vermont
Midler
Mattison
Tate
Ile Eagle
Witte
Capes
Ron Greta Talmadge
Huntington
Aga
Almadge
J. E. Atwood
Haverhill
Mrs
N.H
Charles 8
Pease
South Mountain Road
Pittsfield
Henry Morton
John J. Cave
Rochester
N.hs
Pemigewasset
Jonh F. McQue
Weirs -H
McQue
John Downey
McGregor
Woburn
Rayburn
Granite State Provident Association of
N. H
New Hampshire
Dublin
Chesham
Meredith
Coos
Hudson
Plainfield
Essex County Improve Order of Red Men
Winnewawa Council
D. of P
Red Men's Hall
Sachem Boln E. Maguire
Fall River
Connecticut
Willimantic River
Murder at Bloomfield Shoots and Bodies Mutilated in Well
A brutal early Sunday morning murder in Bloomfield Conn left Henry Frederick Bushenhagen and his wife Emily dead. A tramp is suspected after evidence, including a bank book and a coat once owned by the husband, linked suspect Uis Lauer and two others to the crime. A $200 reward was voted by local selectmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford County
Bloomfield
Conn
Henry Frederick Bushenhagen
Emily
Uis Lauer
Pat MacDonald
John Parker
Lauer
Buschenhagen
Man shoots landlady in Haverhill. awaits court
Edward Carroll shot Mrs Flora E Pressey at 172 Merrimac Street about midnight Tuesday. He had occupied a room and was turned away for non payment of rent five weeks earlier. He fled to Lawrence and was held for assault with intent to kill in 10000 bail. Mrs Pressey remained in a dangerous condition.
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Haverhill
Mass
Edward Carroll
Flora E. Pressey
Merrimac St
Carroll
Lawrence
Pressey
Multiple incidents from New Haven to Vermont dominate Septembers
A Connecticut bricklayer, 54, Michael Maher, fell from a Chapel Street building and died instantly. Fires in Holyoke, Massachusetts, damaged ice houses and homes, with one child nearly suffocated. Vermont moonshiner Darling Eastman was captured in Manchester. Labor disputes in Hartford included nine hour shifts and wage cuts. Various local crimes, court actions, and civic news fill the day's regional log, with accidents and insurance notes interwoven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Michael Maher
Castle St
Chapel St
Form Clubs With WEAKLY GLOBE Private Circular Offer
Readers are invited to form large clubs now using the WEAKLY GLOBE private circular. Send for this circular and free sample copies to join the program and receive the rate-based offer.
Books as Evidence What Can Be Proven Through Them in Court
Practical points on using books as evidence in court for bookkeepers and business. It outlines original entry books, verification by oath, continuity of dealings, timing of entries, ordinary course of business, handler duties, knowledge of facts, and motive to falsify to establish admissibility and prima facie proof.
Echo in the Highlands Teaches Multilingual Echo
In a Highland retreat last summer, visitors heard a remarkable echo respond clearly in Gaelic and even repeat phrases in French, Spanish, and Italian. Donald, a local guide, said the echo had always spoken Gaelic in his family for over 70 years, prompting amused speculation about its education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highlands
Donald
Dopald
Taliaferro’s boy Jo builds a life from scraps
In Brookville Alabama Jo Tolly, an impoverished orphan, climbs from a night shop run at a shanty to a trusted office presence. He leverages a small store, a growing reputation, and a willed land deal under Col Jay’s gaze. A banker Naboth plot yields a grand reveal: Jo is the lost heir, grandson of Snyder Simes, uniting the glass works and lumber firms in a decisive partnership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taliaferro
Taliaferros
Tollyver
Alabama
Snyder B. Simes
Maine
Brookville Glass Works
Brookville County
Ala
Ansar
Walt
Tony
Jo Tolly
Col. Jay
Weill
Joe
Jay
Dianeri
Sige
Tolly
Pippreee
Liza
Jane
Rene
Ena
Chinese Post Offices In China A Loose Parcel Trade
Cornhill Magazine describes a native Chinese postal system where local shops labeled Hsin Chit act as independent carriers. They handle letters and large parcels across towns and provinces with flexible, bargaining-based pricing. Posts have no fixed tariffs, rivals underbid, and touts continually seek new clients near open ports and banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornhill Magazine
China
Harwich
Dover
England
Oddities of science and world facts from an old issue
An archival collage reports diverse curiosities from ancient onions to future fuels. It notes Egypt and 2000 years, gas for fuel, Charles Carroll, vast library totals, a steel postal car, eggs in eel, microscope lens precision, and glass chemistry. It references Oregon, Humboldt, stars, Chloroform, and many quirky measurements and discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Carroll
America
United States
Europe
Germany
Waltham
Idaho
Oregon
Capt. Gray
Boston
Fur Company
Astoria
Royal Horticulturality
Humboldt
North America
St. Paul
Great Lick
Connecticut
France
Denmark
Hungary
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
England
Sweden
Holland
Scotland
Italy
Spain
Russia
Ireland
Tennessee
Rorculus
Paris
Brooklyn Bridge
Southern Pacific
Japan
United States Lighthouse Service
Atlantic
Georgia
New South Wales
Esquiman
Florida
Marshall County
St. Lawrence
Ventnor
Isle of Wight
City Hall
Philadelphia
Washington Monument
Cleveland (C
South Africa
Dir
Mackup
Tacchini
Rome
Col- Theere
Ohio Bennie
Bassford
Brown
Velie
Weishing
Saicisco
Josephine Chignon Becomes Vogue Evening Coiffure
The Josephine chignon, bound with a diamond tiara or riviere, is now an elegant coiffure for evening. The piece contrasts American and British terms and notes currency differences, highlighting language and fashion shifts in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Chignon
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NEW England News
New England Fair
Gloucester
Yankeeland
Henry Grady
The
R. H. Harden
Bricklayer
South Hadley Falls Ice Company
George A. Pillsbury
Minnesota
Sutton
Dwight
Darling Eastman
Eastman
Corinth
Almy
Ville
Grafton
Daniel Lyons
Market St
Rockland
Frank C. Almy
Hanover
Col. H. M. Burleigh
Order of the Old Colony
Massachusetts State Board of Arbitration
Chick Brothers
Skeffington
Orange
F. L. Kellogg
Somerville
Athol
Beaconst
Northampton
G. H
Horace W. Horton
North Conway
G. M
Curtis White
Concord
G. KR
C. H. Spofford
Claremont
Lincoln
George F. Kenyon
John McIinnis
North Kingstown
R. L
George J. West
Somerset Co-Operative Foundry
P. E. Corr
United States Order of Pilgrim Fathers
Royal Assurance League
Order of the Iron Hall
Kennebec
Cutti
Margaret Sutton Briscoe
Pis Pond
Joseph Taliaferro
Joseph
Speeky
Jolly
Artner
Entlemen
Frank Slie
Jor
Chinese Post Offices
Frank Lesiie
Uta
Bere Canis
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