Greek_CARDGAME Fines Shaped Hanover Street Case in Lowell
Twenty one Greeks paid 168 dollars in police court for a card game in a Hanover street tenement on Saturday night. They faced fines with a total of 210 dollars including bail. Judge Hadley set eight dollar fines per defendant. all paid quickly. Anne McCabe faced jail for five months over disorderly house and drunkenness amid North street “at homes.” McGovern denied theft, blamed a well dressed man for the razor theft, and was fined 15 dollars or two months in jail.
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Hanover Street
D. J. Donahue
John J. Hogan
J. Joseph Hennessy
Welch
Hadley
Hogan
Trull
Anne McCabe
North Street
William F. Martin
Anne
McCabe
Frawley
Knights of the Can
Thomas F. McGovern
John McGinley
Middlesex Street
McGovern
McGinley
Lowell
McGlinchey and Maguire Case Continued in Gorham Appleton Burglary
John J. McGlinchey and John J. Maguire faced continued hearings on breaking and entering charges in Gorham and Appleton streets. McGlinchey was bailed. Jennie Phillips failed to appear but later informed the court she had waited in the entry. Bondsman Charles H. Molloy was summoned to justify forfeiture. The case was postponed to Friday.
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John J. McGlinchey
John J. Maguire
Gorham
Appleton
McGlinchey
Jennie Phillips
Charles H. Molloy
Paroled Mary Orr Pleads for Story Before Sentencing
Mary Orr, a parolee from the state farm, pleads guilty in Lowell court asking to defer disposal until she tells her story. Deputy Welch records show her parole status as the proceedings note the drink episode and her attempt to return to work, while Judge Hadley hears of car rowdiness on late Lowell routes. James J. Mead is fined for disorderly conduct and drunkenness after a late Saturday night disturbance on a Moody Street car, with conductor Joseph Mahan and Charles C. Hartwell as witnesses and Inspector Laflamme not testifying.
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Mary Orr
Winchester
Ieom
Lowell
Welch
Mary
State Farm
James J. Mead
Moody
Hadley
Joseph Mahan
Charles C. Hartwell
Laflamme
Six Officials Heavily Fined in Contempt Case
Denver officials faced contempt charges for the November 8 election in Denver precincts. Judges Wheeler and Reave were jailed six and three months for allowing voting from vacant lots. Hubbard received one month in jail for obstruction of Republican watchers. Rowan and Munford were fined 250 dollars each for permitting a vote from a vacant lot. Cummings was discharged.
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Denver
Col
Supreme Court
Guy W. Wheeler
Charles B. Reave
Geo. W. Hubbard
James Rowan
Charles Munford
Eugene Cummings
Deliberate Fire Attack Found In Tenement Cellar
A planned arson aimed at burning a tenement housing nearly 60 people was foiled when Tony Desaldo uncovered a small blaze in the cellar. Firemen found a coal bin aflame and candles with oil-soaked shavings arranged around them in multiple bins, indicating a deliberate setup.
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New York
Tony Desaldo
Desaldo
Rosseau Wanted in New York for Infernal Machine Case
New York police expect to capture Gessler Rosseau, jailed in Philadelphia, amid evidence from the Umbria infernal machine affair. Inspector McCluskey aims to link Rosseau to a decades old steamer Naronic disappearance while preserving the machine used as key evidence.
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New York
Gessler Rosseau
Philadelphia
McCluskey
Umbria
Rosseau
Naronic
Senate OKs More Federal Judge For First Circuit
Washington on January 16, the senate convened and passed a bill creating an additional United States circuit judge for the First Circuit covering New England. It also passed a bill allowing narrow gauge railroads in specified cases to use braking methods other than driving wheel brakes.
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Washington
Senate
U. S
First Circuit
New England
Woman arraigned in manslaughter case after fatal accidental shooting
Stella Freeman, a young colored woman, was charged with manslaughter in district court for the death of Adolphus Winfield, who was shot Saturday night when Freeman allegedly demonstrated a revolver to frighten an intruder. She pleaded not guilty and posted 3000 bail for trial on January 24. The shooting, witnesses say, was an accident.
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Providence
Kril
Stella Freeman
Adolphus Winfield
Winfield
Congress Sets February 8 as Electoral Vote Count Day
Washington report notes the house approved the senate resolution designating February 8 as the day to count the electoral votes for president and vice president in the house chamber. The Burleson cotton statistics bill, amended by Crumpacker, directs census data on consumption, supply, and exports summarized to September 1 each year.
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Washington
House
Senate
House of Representatives
Burleson
Crumpacker
Sleigh Upset on East Merrimack Street
Mr. Joshua Daniels drove swiftly toward the square when his whiffletree broke causing the sleigh to overturn. He was spilled onto his shoulder, helped to his feet, and despite bruises he resumed adjusting the harness. He believed his shoulder might be hurt but not broken.
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Joshua Daniels
Merrimack Street
Mr. Daniels
Attempt on Trepoff in Moscow
A would be assassin detained at a railway station after firing three shots at General Trepoff as he said farewell to Grand Duke Sergius. Two bullets punctured a notice board, the third struck the door by Trepoff. the attacker refused to identify himself.
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Moscow
General Trepoff
Trepoff
Grand Duke
Sergius
Mrs Nancy Morrison Dies in Fall on Hot Stove
From Atkinson New Hampshire comes a report that Mrs Nancy Morrison aged 85 died after falling onto a red hot stove. Her body was found burned on the stove by her grandson Charles Meader with whom she resided in Haverhill.
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Haverhill
Atkinson
N. H
Nancy Morrison
Charles Meader
Sherman Arrives in San Francisco From Manila
The army transport Sherman reached San Francisco after 31 days from Manila carrying 190 saloon passengers, 614 casuals, 40 sick including four insane men, 21 prisoners, 26 Marine Corps men from Honolulu, 11 deported civilians, and a group of 31 Filipino student evacuees sent by the insular government. Three of the students are girls and they will be placed in different high schools and colleges across the South and East.
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San Francisco
Sherman
Manila
Marine Corps
Honolulu
Gale Sweeps Coast of United Kingdom
A fierce gale last night caused wrecks along UK coasts with loss of life. A French ketch was driven ashore on the Isle of Wight and five crew drowned. Harbors in Holyhead report 50 steamers seeking shelter as bitter cold follows with early skating in Lincolnshire.
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London
United Kingdom
Isle of Wight
Holyhead
Lincolnshire
Umbria Affair Exposes Rosseau Link And Naronic Mystery
An inspector cites finding fulminating caps and papers in Rosseau’s room as part of an Umbria affair probe. Extradition to New York may take four to five days, while investigators await leads from Philadelphia, Rosseau’s room, or associates. The Naronic disappearance remains a famed 1893 Atlantic mystery with lifeboat wreckage and a bottle note fueling doubt.
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Umbria
Rosseau
Thirty-first Street
New York
Philadelphia
Atlantic
Liverpool
Mersey
Azores
Naronic
Irish Channel
Young
Bank run hits Suspension Bridge bank in Niagara Falls
A bank run formed at the Bank of Suspension Bridges in Niagara Falls New York as a few hundred depositors queued at opening hours. Bank officers claimed full payment to depositors and Power City bank had deposited 200000 earlier that morning to calm fears. The run followed the bank staying open Friday to cash Lehigh Valley railroad employee payroll checks paid late.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bank of Suspension Bridges
Power City Bank
Bank of Suspension Bridge
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Mrs Duke III Stricken Ill in New York Hotel
Mrs Brodie L Duke wife of a half brother of the American Tobacco president is reported ill at her New York hotel. It was said she would be moved to a hospital but no surveillance or detectives were visible at the hotel today. The prior marriage had prompted her husband to be sent to a sanitarium for mental inquiry.
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New York
Brodie L. Duke
American Tobacco Company
Strike in Russia at Putiloff Iron Works
In St. Petersburg on January 16 twelve thousand workers at the Putiloff iron works went on strike today. The action reflects widespread labor unrest within the industrial sector as authorities monitor the developing scene.
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St. Petersburg
Putiloff Iron Works
Doctors and Medicines Tie in Ayer Pectoral Trust
We frequently mention doctors because we manufacture medicines for them. The formula for Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is prescribed for coughs, colds, bronchitis, and consumption. We trust doctors as they trust us.
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Ayer
Lowell
Jesss
Port Arthur Surrenders as Japanese Army Enters
Military dispatches describe Gen Nogi’s forces entering Port Arthur on January 16 after a long siege. The old town suffered shell damage while the new town remained relatively intact. Reports critique Stoessel for surrender, noting drunken looting and rifle destruction by troops, with 31,000 men still in the fortress and food shortages in late December through January. Memorial services were held for Japanese dead near Shuishu with Gen Nogi present.
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Port Arthur
Tien Tsin
Nogi
Stoessel
Kondratenko
Shuishu
Nine Killed by Filipinos in Samar and Leyte Action
Lieutenant Avery and Private Austin among wounded after skirmishes on the Dolores river and near Maslog in Samar. Nine constabulary dead. two native employes and a Philippine scout wounded. Lt. Avery and Private Austin arrived at the base from the Philippines.
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Avery
Dolores River
Austin
Hospital Corps
Constabulary
Maslog
Samar
Morton L. Avery
The
Philippine Scouts
Sperry & Hutchinson Stores Pause in Massachusetts
Sperry & Hutchinson Co posts a legal notice stating excise trading stamp laws are unconstitutional. Pending court decisions, stores suspend operations in Massachusetts. customers urged to redeem stamps at the Boston shop while the Lowell plan is paused until suits resolve. The firm vows to resume business if the law is struck down.
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Massachusetts
Sperry & Hutchinson CO
Sperry & Hutchinson Company
Bridge and
French Streets
Boston
Washington Street
Fox
Lowell
Japanese gendarme exposes young woman among Russian prisoners
A Japanese gendarme found a woman about 20 years old disguised among Russian prisoners at Nishima. She appeared greatly embarrassed and is now housed in separate quarters.
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Tokio
Nishima
German decoration honored Gen Stoessel
Nagasaki on January sixteenth reports Gen Stoessel received a German decoration and cable to the emperor of Germany. Passage for Stoessel and his party to Port Said has been booked.
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Nagasaki
Sunday Openings at Lewis and Clark Exposition
Portland officials announce Sunday gates and exhibit buildings at the Lewis and Clark exposition with educational emphasis. A coalition of ministers educators philanthropists and students will collaborate with fair leadership on Sunday congresses in the exposition auditorium focusing on education religion government principles charities corrections and humanitarian law.
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Portland
Ore
Prince Sadua Fushimi Arrives in Tokio on Mongolia
Prince Sadua Fushimi reached Tokio tonight aboard the Mongolia after a voyage from San Francisco delayed by head winds.
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Tokio
Sadua Fushimi
Yokohama
San Francisco
German Coal Strike Nearing Settlement
Essen Germany Jan 16 The coal strike likely will end with mine owners granting a small part of the workers demands for a moral victory while promising later consideration of remaining demands. Government and industry favor compromise as a prolonged strike would harm the economy. Liquor stores in strike districts closed at 6 pm. Delegates moved toward a general strike despite partial concessions. The Socialists control the miners union and mine owners rejected the key demands today.
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Essen
Germany
Judge Abbott Resigns for United States Judgeship
Boston January 16 Gov Douglas received the resignation of Judge A Abbott of the central district court for northern Essex. Abbott resigns to accept a United States judgeship in New Mexico. Rub a little Salva ce a on your sore throat, better than medicine or gargle.
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Boston
Douglas
A. Abbott
Central District Court
Essex
Abbbott
United States
New Mexico
Trial in Tucker murder case opens defense over knife evidence
In Cambridge on January 16 the Tucker murder trial enters its third week as the defense prepares to present its case. Attorney James H. Vahey urges the jury to demand certainty beyond reasonable doubt and argues Tucker had no opportunity to commit the crime, amid questions over the admissibility of a knife found in his overcoat and a contested search warrant. The courtroom fills daily with spectators.
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Cambridge
Charles L. Tucker
Mabel Page
West
James H. Vahey
Court House
Thomas F. Vahey
Tucker
Counsel Force Defense
Vahey
Parker
The
Commonwealth
Sheldon
Sherman
Mr. Vahey
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Congress
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Army Transport
Suspension Bridge
the Central Savings Bank
OS Central Street
Mrs. Duke III
Russia
Chaffee
Corbin
Philippines
Carter
Department of the Visayas
Tacloban
Fushimi
Association of Mine Owners
Judge Abbott
Admira
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