Sharply Reacts to Insular Cases Speech at Bar Meeting
Denver session of the American Bar association heard Congressman Charles Littlefield of Maine attack the Insular Cases. He defended Porto Rico status as United States territory for constitutional purposes, while Adolph Moses of Chicago protested as the Dooley case and Downes decision were discussed. The flood of opinions touched on Dooley v United States and Gyss on Porto Rico. The commercial law committee criticized the new bankruptcy law and urged amendments. Moses then dissented, lamenting the attack on the Supreme Court and recalling Cohen v Virginia. Recess followed after a point of order.
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Denver
Col
American Bar Association
Charles LE. Littlefield
Maine
Adolph Moses
Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Mr. Littlefield
DeLoma
McKenna
Dooley
United States
Downes
Justice Gray
Littlefield
Porto Rico
Supreme Court
Philippines
South
Fred Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Commercial Law Committee
Moses
Cohen
Virginia
Marshall
Baltimore
Supreme Court of the
Lily Pond Mystery in Sabbatia Park Tragedy
Taunton Aug 22 a young man found a dead woman under water in Sabbatia park pond. The 40 year old, 6 ft 2 in woman wore black skirt and cream shirt waist with a black cape. Iron and brass pipe secured her body. police concluded suicide. A handbag contained $10.85. The stranger came from nearby. no ID.
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Taunton
Sabbatia Park
Dying for Food Spurred Navy Rescue at Sea
A Chatham life saving patrolman found a bottle on the beach containing a distress message from a schooner Windowner survivor. The note says the ship sank with all hands, only the First Mate William Simpson was saved, and the survivor is stranded on a desert island off Cape Finder awaiting rescue for food.
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Chatham
Chatham Life Saving Station
Cape Hatteras
Windowner
William Simpson
Cape Finder
Brookfield Mystery Deepens in Mrs. Duran Disappearance
Brookfield on August 22 reports growing mystery in the search for Mrs. Duran a wealthy local resident who left home on August 14 to visit her son Frederick in Worcester. She carried two hundred dollars when she boarded an electric car for Worcester and was dropped off at Spencer where conductor says she met her son Joseph. Frederick has not seen her for some time.
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Brookfield
Mystery Deepens Over Mother and Son Disappearance
The last place she was seen was Spencer in the company of her son Joseph who telephoned the business house where Joseph was said to work. He learned Joseph left work on Aug 6 and had left Spencer. Disappearance of both mother and son causes anxiety among family friends as police work to solve the mystery.
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Spencer
Joseph
Rail line permits issued for several Massachusetts routes
Boston and Northern Street Railway gains permit to build a 5½ mile line along Main street from Wilmington square to the old line end in Tewksbury. Middleboro Wareham and Buzzards Bay authorized to run two miles inland from near the NYNH Hartford station toward J. W. Clark’s Wilmington store. Webster and Dudley Street Railway cleared to open a new line from Lake street junction in Webster across the NYNH Hartford tracks on a new iron bridge to Beacon park.
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Boston
Boston and Northern Street Railway Company
Main Street
Wilmington
Tewksbury
Wilmington Square
Middleboro
Wareham
Buzzards Bay
Rock
New York
New Haven and Hartford Ak
J. W. Clark
Webster and Dudley Street Railway Company
Lake Street
Thompson Road
Webster
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Beacon Park
New Atlantic Circuit Opens in Boston Loop Line
Boston officials hailed the opening of the Atlantic circuit, the new loop for elevated trains. Trains departed Sullivan Square and Roxbury at 5:30 AM, navigated the ellipse without incident, and operated to the full satisfaction of officials as passenger use increased through the day at South Station.
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Boston
Sullivan Square
Roxbury
Castle Street
Railway schedule shows minor delays at junction point
Exchange business ran heavily. traffic at other stopping places was lighter. The morning schedule was well kept with only brief holds at the junction near the North station where circuit trains pause between direct service. Delays did not exceed a minute and a half.
Girl pall-bearers carry brideelect to grave in white
Six young girls chosen as Elizabeth Andersons bridesmaids bore her body from her parents home to the grave in Philadelphia. The bride elect died suddenly from heart disease at Atlantic City on Sunday before her Monday wedding. Her fiancé was at the resort when death struck. After services at Puritan church the pallbearers transported the casket to the hearse and the funeral proceeded to North Cedar Hill cemetery.
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Philadelphia
Elizabeth Anderson
Miss Anderson
Atlantic City
Puritan Church
North Cedar Hill Cemetery
Dean Wayland Better After Illness
Francis Wayland LL D dean of Yale law school has been ill at his New Haven home and is reported more comfortable. His physician Dr Samuel J Gilbert says an leg circulation obstruction caused the pain and that he is not in immediate danger.
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New Haven
Conn
Francis Wayland
Yale Law School
Dean Wayland
Law School
Samuel J. Gilbert, M. D
Cricchett Sibley Failure Shifts Liability Estimates
Belfast Maine Aug 22 reports on the shoe firm Crichett Sibley and Company: assignment for creditors announced and initial liabilities thought to exceed earlier estimates of 50000 dollars but later indications suggest much higher. No new information on A Cutter Sibley death or statements from officials.
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Belfast
Maine
Crichett, Sibley & Company
A. Cutter Sibley
Drowning of Providence man at Narrow pond shocks town
Winthrop Me Aug 22 Milton B Bucklin of Providence R I was drowned while swimming in Narrow pond today. The distressing fact is that his fiancée witnessed the tragedy and could not save him. Bucklin was 23 or 24 and had been a guest of N N Knight.
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Winthrop, Me
Milton B. Bucklin
Providence
R. I
Bucklin
N. N. Knight
Knights of Sherwood Forest Vote To Stay With Foresters
In Boston at Faneuil Hall Supreme Commander Mason led the Knights of Sherwood Forest through constitutional amendments and a lengthy debate on severing ties with the Foresters of America. The group voted to remain with the parent body and alignment measures call for future Knights conventions to be in the Foresters’ city on the Foresters’ convention day.
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Boston
Mason
Knights of Sherwood Forest
Faneuil Hall
The
Foresters of America
Knights
Foresters
Another Smallpox Death Reported in Boston
Boston Aug. 22 Another death from smallpox is reported by the board of health. Stanley Jenkins of 221 Kilton Street New Dorchester died at the smallpox detention house on Swett Street this forenoon. Jenkins was admitted last Friday. He had never been vaccinated and doctors attribute the severity to that fact. The other three patients at the detention house are recovering and no new cases have been reported.
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Boston
Board of Health
Stanley Jenkins
Kilton Street
New Dorchester
Swett Street
Jenkins
Wage cut movement abandoned by manufacturers in Fall River
Fall River reports that the Manufacturers' association has abandoned the effort to secure a wage reduction in local mills as a competition measure. No signatures will be sought. three treasurers left town on vacation without signing. Some mill owners still favor cuts, but others fear contracts and potential suits if a strike occurs. Local labor meetings oppose any wage cut, and cloth markets respond with a small price uptick as buyers, including M. C. D. Borden, bid for on-hand goods.
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Fall River
Manufacturers’ Association
MILL CHANGES HANDS IN PROVIDENCE AREA
Rumor says Queen Dyeing of Olneyville is sold to Barstow Thread, which will merge into Merrick Thread of Holyoke. Barstow is a branch of American Thread, aiming to centralize plants. Atwell's avenue factory dismantled with machinery sent to Merrick factory in Holyoke. Supt Norton confirms absorption talks.
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Providence, R. I
Queen Dyeing Company
Olneyville
Barstow Thread Company
Merrick Thread Company
Holyoke
Mass
Barstow Company
American Thread Company
New England
Atwell
Massive plan to unite U S shipyards under steel-backed group
Cleveland Aug 22 plans to form a dominant national shipbuilding trust led by American Shipbuilding Co with backing from United States Steel and Pennsylvania Railroad. The move would merge lakes Pacific coast and Atlantic yards including Bath Iron Works Moran Bros Roach's Newport News and more into a single company with capitalization estimated in the hundreds of millions.
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Cleveland, O
American Shipbuilding Company
Cleveland
United States
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bethlehem Steel Company
Charles M. Schwab
Vickers-Maxim Company
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Cambria Steel Company
Pacific Coast
Union Iron Company
San Francisco
Moran Bros
Seattle
Great Lakes
Bath Iron Works
Cramps Shipbuilding Company
Philadelphia
Roach’s
Chester
Sparrows Point
Baltimore
Newport News
James J. Hill
New London
Census Bulletin Shows Male Dominance in Group Six States
Washington reports group six states Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada and New Hampshire with males leading in all but New Hampshire where 205,588 males and 206,209 females yield 50.1 percent female. Missouri 51.4 percent male Nebraska 52.9 percent Nevada 60.5 percent and Montana 61.6 percent male.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Missouri
Montana
Nevraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
Nebraska
Women Ineligible For ABA Membership
Denver August 22 The general council of the American Bar Association rules women are ineligible for membership under the present constitution. The decision followed Mrs Jane B Ott of Iowa's application, with the matter to be revisited after a year and a committee to draft a constitutional amendment. The morning session featured an annual address by Congressman Charles E Littlefield of Rockland Maine.
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Denver
Col
General Council
The
American Bar Association
Jane B. Ott
Iowa
Charles E. Littlefield
Rockland
Settlement in sight for Natchaug Silk Company
Hartford Ct Aug 22 Orders sued by Judge Shumway in Windham county pave way to wind up Natchaug Silk of Willimantic after six years in receivership final dividend to creditors in months this clears receiverships at First National Bank and Dime Savings Bank Willimantic all hit by defalcations of a bank official who fled and died
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Hartford
Shumway
Superior Court of
Windham
Dartmouth Mills stockholders elect Langshaw faction
New Bedford August 22 Langshaw ticket won an overwhelming vote at the Dartmouth mill stockholders annual meeting. Directors then elected Charles E Riley of Boston president and voted to re engage Langshaw who had been deposed by the prior directors as superintendent.
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New Bedford
Dartmouth Mill
Langshaw
Charles Be, Riley
Boston
Post Office to Close at Montwall Framingham
The Montwall post office in Framingham will discontinue service on August 31. The office was created to serve the New England Chautauqua gatherings, which have been discontinued.
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Framingham
Montwall
Oregon reaches Seattle with treasure from Nome
The Oregon arrived in Seattle carrying $500,000 worth of treasure. Officers report the steamer Charles D Lane near disaster in the Bering Sea last July is practically a total loss. They also confirm the July 18 wreck of the San Francisco whaler Grampus near Point Smith in the Arctic with no lives lost as the vessel was driven ashore after ice.
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Seattle
Wash
Oregon
Nome
Charles D. Lane
Bering Sea
Arctic
Point Smith
San Francisco
Mill properties sold at auction in Lawrence
The Prospect and Globe mills along with their tenement property were sold on the grounds this afternoon by auctioneers J. N. Conant and Co. of Lowell. The American Woolen company bought the Prospect mill for $41,250 and the Globe plant for $21,560, though both had appraised values of $121,850.47 and $57,692 respectively.
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Lawrence
Prospect
Globe Mills
J. N. Conant & Co
Lowell
Prospect Mills
American Woolen Company
Globe
Mrs Beckham Improves, Governor’s Wife Reported
Frankfort Kentucky August 22 physicians attending Mrs J C Beckham wife of the governor said she is very much improved tonight Her condition had been a concern prompting medical updates from the state capital during the day
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Frankfort
J. C. Beckham
Kentucky
Millionaire Bridegroom to Wed in Quiet Wilmington Ceremony
A telegram to the News and Observer says Miss Mary Lilly Kenan will marry Mr. H. M. Flagler in Wilmington next Saturday. No further details were released. Flagler secured a divorce from his wife last week on grounds of insanity.
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Raleigh
N. C
The
News and Observer
Mary Lilly Kenan
H. M. Flagler
Wilmington
Flagler
Pain Relief Ad for Dr Thomas Electric Oil on Farm Accidents
An old farm era advert promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil claiming instant relief from cuts stings bruises and sprains as essential safety for every farmer. The copy emphasizes frequent farm accidents and immediate soothing effects.
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Thomas
Courier Ad Notice to Advertisers
Advertisers are informed that their notices appeared in the Courier. This reminder emphasizes ongoing placement, timing, and readership reach for upcoming inserts and campaigns.
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The
Courier
Fatal poisoning case in Manchester woman dies after bite of poison
Investigation shows Mrs. Josephine Boulanger died after taking a spoonful of corrosive sublimate given by a friend who believed it to Epsom salts. She lingered ten days in agony before the body was sent to Laconia for interment.
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Manchester
N. H
Josephine Boulanger
Royal Scottish Clans elect officers in Pittsburg meeting
The Royal Scottish Clans at their 25th bi ennial convention in Pittsburg elected Royal chief W. H. Steen of Braidwood Til, Royal tanist Charles McKnight of Boston, Counselor Mayor George Taylor Jr of London Canada, and Royal treasurer Peter Kerr of Boston. A Kennywood picnic followed. St Louis and Cleveland vie for the next convention with odds favoring St Louis.
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Pittsburg
W. H. Steen
Braidwood
Til
Charles McKnight
Boston
George Taylor, Jr
London
Canada
Peter Kerr
Kennywood Park
St. Louis
Cleveland
Convention Defeats Change From Irish to International
Wilkesbarre Pa August 22 at the Catholic Benevolent union session a proposal to rename the organization by removing Irish from its title was defeated. A motion to substitute American for Irish also failed.
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Wilkesbarre
the Catholic Benevolent Union of
United States
Canada
Chinese Farmers in Greater New York Colony
A vivid description of a distinct Chinese farming settlement near Long Island City within Greater New York. The piece notes paper-covered huts, Chinese farming methods, and a contrast with nearby urban blocks, situating the colony close to Steinway Silk Mills and the Waldorf Astoria parade ground. A literary excerpt from Rural New York City by Jesse Lynch Williams.
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New York
Thirty-fourth Street
Long Island City
Steinway Silk
China
Long Island
Waldorf-Astoria
New York City
Jesse Lynch Williams
Scribner’s
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Olneyville Dyeing Concern
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Morgan
Natchaug Silk Company
Dartmouth Mills
Globe and Prospect
Mrs. Beckham
A. G. Pollard & CO
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Switzerland
Palmer Street
James H. Blake
Nashua
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