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A weekly feature that looks back at the issues and people who made headlines in Charlestown's history.The following items were published in The Charlestown Enterprise on Dec. 31, 1910. What made headlines 100 years ago this week? A major accident: Three trains on the Boston & Maine railroad, one a passenger and the other two freight trains, collided on a Saturday night near the Neck, on what was the Broadway Bridge 100 years ago this week. It left a tremendous wreck, 20 or more people were injured and one was killed -- William J. Noyes, a fireman on the Haverhill express. He was terribly scalded and sustained several broken bones and died later at a hospital. Fine Silk Flag State Standard …
The following items were published in The Charlestown Enterprise on Dec. 24, 1910. What made headlines 100 years ago this week? In Thompson Square, Charlestown Trust Company Leased the former Quarters of Savings Bank. The "location committee" of the Charlestown Trust Company closed negotiations for a lease of the former banking rooms of the Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank. These rooms were "admirably filled with banking furniture and fittings, including the large vault" and it was expected that the Trust Company would open to the public within a month.Santa Claus came to town... The …
The following items were published in The Charlestown Enterprise on Dec. 17, 1910. What made headlines 100 years ago this week? Fred J. Murphy, was in the news as one of the magnates of the Boston National League Baseball club. The new syndicate, which was about to control the clubs, included Murphy in the directorate, and James J. Phelan of Hornblower & Weeks on the board. Murphy and Phelan were Charlestown "chums" in their boyhood days and remained firm friends, according to the Enterprsie. Murphy was always a baseball enthusiast and a member of the old Union baseball team of Charlestown. …
