Stanley House sold to Boston Hebrew for summer boarding
In Medway Patrick Gillon’s Stanley House is sold to a Boston Hebrew buyer who plans a summer boarding house for city folk. Milford reports Sumner post to attend memorial exercises May 24 at Congregational church. Leominster and Fitchburg horse owners discuss forming a driving association after a good winter. Fitchburg hears of a state board of health plan to build a trunk sewer and filter beds on the Nashua river within three years. Waltham notes 35 years of service and retirement plans from Officer J J Bryant. Milford News editor W D Leahey’s home robbed Thursday night of money and jewelry.
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Stanley House
Patrick Gillon
Boston
Milford
Sumner Post
Congregational Church
Fitchburg
Nashua
State Board of Health
Westboro Architect Measures for Town Hall Changes
Marlboro architect Bigelow collected measurements in Westboro town hall on Friday to draft plans for necessary improvements. He notes the town has been fortunate to avoid panic and fire during large gatherings, saying emptying the hall without serious consequences would be difficult.
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Westboro
Bigelow
Marlboro
Baptists Host Friday Evening Entertainment in Church
In Hopkinton the Baptist church hosted an informal Friday night program with singing and fellowship. Attendees reported a pleasant time and a strong sense of community.
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Hopkinton
The
Baptists
Newhall Praises Electricity in X Ray Talk
Dr A R Newhall extols electricity in a talk on The X Ray and Uses at Holliston. Medway Odd Fellows mark the anniversary Thursday evening April 28 with W D Leahey delivering an address.
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Medway
Medway Lodge of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellowship
W. D. Leahey
Clergymen Form Committee on Liquor Law Enforcement
Four clergymen organize a committee to enforce liquor laws and monitor results. Officers conduct four raids on Sunday and bring four wagon loads of liquor to the police station.
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Wareham
Engineer Talbot Marries Eta Schube in Ashland
Ashland reports the wedding of B. A. Talbot an engineer for the B. and A. railroad to Miss Eta Schube daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Schube on a recent Saturday that united two local families in a quiet ceremony.
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Ashland
B. A. Talbot
B. & A. Railroad
Eta Schube
J. L. Schube
Exterminator Battles Brown Tail Moth Near Northboro
William HH. Sullivan leads ongoing brown tail moth control on the Westboro Northboro line. He directs extermination efforts amid a persistent pest outbreak.
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Westboro
William HH. Sullivan
Northboro
Smelt Fisheries Probed as Four Men Nabbed
East Weymouth wardens chased after violators on Sunday and arrested four men for illegally caught smelt totaling 3139 pounds after the pursuit and seizure.
Malden Mayor Richards to appoint Thomas Hough fire commissioner
Malden Mayor Richards signals his intention to name Thomas Hough as fire commissioner, detailing the planned appointment and its implications for city safety governance.
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Malden
Richards
Thomas Hough
Deborah Rebekah Judge Celebrates 12th Anniversary
Waltham observed Deborah Rebekah Judge's 12th anniversary with a Friday banquet and entertainment that kept the evening lively and smooth.
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Waltham
Deborah Rebekah
Pope Speaks at Leominster Smoke Talk by K of C
Rep Frank H. Pope addressed a Leominster smoke talk hosted by the Knights of Columbus on Friday evening. In Milford a home was robbed Sunday night, with intruders apparently not concerned about the scriptures.
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Leominster
Frank H. Pope
Leominster. K. of C
Milford
Fire Destroys 150 Year Old Deacon Smith House in Rockland
The old Deacon Joseph Smith house in Rockland, about 150 years old, burned Sunday night. Three families were forced to flee the building as flames spread, fire officials said.
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Rockland
Joseph Smith
Denison Tag Co. Adopts Summer Schedule With Saturday Half Holiday
South Framingham reports Denison Tag Co. starts a summer timetable on a Monday and extends beyond the baseball season. workers will enjoy a Saturday half holiday through October 5.
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South Framingham
Dennison Tag Co
Stummer
Cow Skeleton Found In Oaks After Two Years Missing
George E. Murphy, a farmer, found the skeleton of a cow stuck in the crotch of an oak in the woods near his Spencer farm Monday. The cow had disappeared two years ago, with Murphy noting no sign of robbery at the time.
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Spencer
George E. Murphy
Mr. Murphy
Stomother
Union Square bombing: Selig Silverstein near death
New York April 1 Selig Silverstein who held a dynamite bomb exploded prematurely while he faced police at Union Square. Doctors say he will not live twenty four hours as cerebral meningitis develops from wounds. Anarchists treasurer Alexander Berkman denied involvement and bail was set for Friday. A unsigned letter threatens Mayor McClellan and the comptroller unless new subway work funds are provided.
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New York
Selig Silverstein
Union Square
Bellevue Hospital
Silverstein
Alexander Berkman
Werzanski
Droege
Berkman
Walter Appit
Imnai
George Robinson
McClellan
Brownsville Bills Kill Negro Soldiers Bills
The senate military affairs committee defeated both Warner and Korker bills seeking restoration to duty for Black soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharged after the Brownsville incident in Texas. The minority voted as a unit, causing the bills to be reported adversely.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Warner
Koraker
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Snake River Dam Bill Dominates Senate Session
Washington April 1 The senate spent nearly the entire session debating a bill to permit building a dam on the Snake River Wash An adjournment followed after Mr Heyburn said he would not permit a vote Mr Teller criticized executive encroachment in a prolonged speech
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Washington
Senate
Snake River
Heyburn
Teller
Body Found In Crevasse On Coronados Boulevard
The body of Guy Clive aged 86 was found jammed between rocks of the Coronados boulevard seawall in San Diego. He was a nephew of Lord Clive, never married, and had lived in the area after extensive travels with remittances from England for support.
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San Diego
Cal
Coronados Boulevard
Guy Clive
Lord Clive
Clive
England
Locating the Blame In A Father Son Banter
A humorous dialogue contrasts a father and son over money and spending. The father recalls scarcity in his youth while the son questions him about the cost of grandfathers.
Diplomacy Ends Diplomacy Wins In Venezuela Talks
The article notes that the US Senate received the Venezuela correspondence on pending claims and that Secretary Root presented a strong case. It states arbitration was proposed but Venezuela refused, signaling a diplomatic endgame. In New York Prince Helie de Sagan announced a Europe trip for April 9 and Mme Anna Gould’s return after bronchitis.
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Washington
America
Senate
Root
Congress
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
New York
Helle de Sagan
France
Mme
Anna Gould
Europe
Mme. Gould
Jay Gould
Pinchot’s Bureau Under Fire in House Debate
After changes the agricultural appropriation bill passed the House affecting the bureau of forestry. Attacks accuse the bureau of creating timber monopolies for big companies and illegally controlling water rights, while manipulating figures to obtain large federal appropriations.
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Washington
Bureau of Forestry
House of Representatives
Bureau
Congress
Indictments Named in Vidaver Case in New York
The grand jury indicted former Special Deputy Attorney General Vidaver on two counts for attempting to extort money from former President Montgomery of the Hamilton bank. He faces hearings in police court with bail set at 5000 dollars.
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New York
Vidaver
Montgomery
Hamilton Bank
Disbanding of Rockland Unit Sent by Adjutant General
Orders from the adjutant general disband company H of the first regiment in Rockland for the good of the service. The unit allegedly fell below required standards and failed to comply with laws regulations and discipline governing the service.
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Augusta
Adjutant General
Rockland
No Work In Quincy Quarries
Quincy Mass April 1 108 engineers in local quarries failed to report to work after the old agreement expired and a new one was not reached the quarries idle as a result. The two items note a separate Havana Cienfuegos council ruling to annul a $3 500 000 aqueduct contract with Hugh T Reilly and possible referral to Washington.
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Quincy
Mass
Granite Manufacturers’ Association
Havana
Cienfuegos
Hugh T. Reilly
Magoon
Washington
Cienfuegos Council
Austria rejects British Macedonia governor general proposal
The Neue Frie Presse reports that Austria has definitively rejected Great Britain's plan to appoint a governor general of Macedonia. The decision marks a clear stance against London’s proposed arrangement in the Balkan region.
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Vienna
The
Neue Frie Presse
Austria
Great Britain
Macedonia
Hill Nomination Seeks Senate Confirmation as German Ambassador
The president sent the nomination of David J. Hill to the Senate for confirmation as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Germany. If confirmed, Hill would serve as the United States envoy to Germany.
Steamship Carolina Grounded Off Blue Point In Dense Fog
Fire Island April 1 steamship Carolina with ten passengers and a general cargo from Europe grounded off the Blue Point lifesaving station. No fears for the ship's safety.
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Fire Island
L. I
New York
Coast Line
Carolina
Europe
Blue Point
Malicious Lies Denied by Electric Boat President
Isaac L. Rice, president of the Electric Boat Co, rejected charges brought by Representative Lilley as malicious lies. He testified he was approached by Lake Boat Co agents A G Brown and R Flint with buyout proposals contingent on halting the investigation. Rice said Brown claimed Senator Bulkeley could stop the probe.
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Vente
Lilley
Caidaate
Isaac L. Rice
E Electric Boat Company
Special Committee of the House
Rice
Lake Boat Company
Eléctric Boat Company
Britain ends volunteer army after forty-nine years
London reports the volunteer army dissolves at midnight and a territorial force replaces it. The last posts are marked by dinners and celebrations as crowds anticipate enlistment in the new body. In New York a US marshal fails to arrest Captain Worley at the navy yard while he is on 90 days’ leave, charged with mistreating his crew aboard the Abarenda.
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London
Great Britain
New York
New York Navy Yard
Worley
San Juan
P. R
Judge Holt Sustains Demurrer in Morse Involuntary Bankruptcy
In New York on April 1 Judge Holt sustained the demurrer in the Morse involuntary bankruptcy case. The demurrer argued Morse was insolvent and that Receiver Hanna and two former National Bank of North America employees were creditors.
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New York
Holt
Charles W. Morse
Hanna
National Bank of North America
Morse
Inquiry Finds Gyroscope Failure Caused Blakeley Torpedo Strike
The board of inquiry in Pensacola concluded its investigation into the Blakeley accident and forwarded findings to Washington. It attributes the hit to a failed gyroscope that controlled the torpedo’s rudder, causing the torpedo to circle and strike the vessel.
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Pensacola
Ila
Board of
Blakeley
Washington
Prominent Editor Joseph Howard Jr Dies at 74
New York reports the death of Joseph Howard Jr at 74 after nearly a year of illness. A lifelong newspaperman, he wrote the famed Howard's column for many years and was regarded as a leading figure in the field.
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New York
Joseph Howard, Jr
Howard
Counterfeiting Trial Ties Hayti Notes to Two Defendants
New York on April 1 Joseph Giordani once an American Haytien revolutionary party agent and H G Thomas ex general manager of the Hamilton Bank Note company face trial in the United States circuit court accused of counterfeiting Hayti republic paper notes.
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New York
Joseph Giordani
Haytien Revolutionary Party
H. G. Thomas
Hamilton Bank Note Company
United States Circuit Court
Lee De Forest tests wireless phone on Eiffel Tower
Paris on April 1 reports Lee De Forest conducted the final test of his wireless telephone system atop the Eiffel Tower in the presence of French naval and army officers. Messages were exchanged satisfactorily with government wireless stations across France.
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Paris
Lee de Forest
Hiffel Tower
France
Perjury Charge Against Miss Whiston
Flora Whiston, a witness in the Raymond Hitchcock case, was indicted by a grand jury on perjury in her testimony. She is being held under bail.
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Miss Whiston
New York
Flora Whiston
Raymond Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Tribesmen surprise cavalry near Paris in Morocco
Advices from Morocco report a cavalry detachment in the Madakra country surprised by 300 tribesmen during clearing operations. Eight men were killed including two officers, and twelve wounded.
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Paris
Morocco
Madakra
Missionary Agnes McAllister Dies on Kroo Coast
Miss Agnes McAllister a Methodist Episcopal missionary who served twenty years on the Kroo coast of Liberia has died. The death is reported in the current news brief.
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Agnes McAllister
Kroo
Liberia
Harris Herman
Lawrence
Mass
Naval Medical School
Washington
Gleaves
DOW
Newport Torpedo Station
St. Louis
San Francisco
The Poet Shelley
Arthur Symons in Atlantic surveys Percy Bysshe Shelley focusing on his ardor for ideas and impulses. It notes his selfish aesthetic pose yet his pity and desire to uplift humanity, and his limited engagement with human action beyond The Cenci with a stark self confession about describing passions he never felt.
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Shelley
Witch
Atlas
Arthur Symons
Atlantic
Portrait and Slipper in Gainsborough Gallery Tale
An Englishwoman recounts a Surrey Garden anecdote about Gainsborough’s life sized portrait of Mrs Grahame. She posed as a bride but died before the painting reached her husband who later refused to open the case. On his death the slipper she wore was found inside the frame. The portrait went to the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
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National Gallery
Edinburgh
Surrey
Gainsborough
Grahame
Trouble in the Mantelpiece Clock Trade Quip
A humorous exchange quotes a pendulum and clock from the Chicago Tribune about swings and strikes. The pendulum warns that full swing prevents trouble with hands, while the clock says backward motion in its works would cause strikes.
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Chicago Tribune
Pleasant. Wigwag-What is your wife mad about now
A humorous note from the Philadelphia Record recounts Wigwag asking what his wife is angry about as she forgot the reason, highlighting domestic teasing and absent mindedness in a light tone.
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Zenpecke
Philadelphia Record
Indulgence Quip Sparks Talk in New Orleans
A fragment from the New Orleans Times-Democrat hints at a lively exchange about a husband named Jim known for his indulgence. The clipped dialogue suggests social chatter on domestic behavior and reputation.
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Annual Report
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children reports 8468 children investigated last year with 1729 cases requiring court action. President Grafton D. Cushing emphasizes cooperation with other agencies and preventive supervision to reduce court interventions. The report highlights neglect from shiftlessness and intemperance, a push for stricter neglect laws, and enforcement of sanitary rules among foreign populations. The society relies on private contributions and operates from 48 Mt Vernon St, Boston.
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Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Grafton D. Cushing
Times
C. C. Carstens
Saye
Commonwealth
S. Sochty
Ceareteanu
State Board of Charity
Mt. Vernon St
Boston
Tax Bill Aims to Registry Hunters and Fund Game Wardens
A proposed law would levy one dollar per year on hunters to create a registry and fund deputy game wardens. State ornithologist Bb. H. For bush supports the measure as aiding bird preservation. The bill’s passage is praised as a path to stronger enforcement and wildlife protection.
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Bb. H. Forbush
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