Books of music at low rates sold in Pearse sale
The final section of John B. Pearse’s musical library sale at CLV. Libbie & Co. drew fair prices with much sheet music selling well. Violin related volumes and Mendelssohn works fetched low bids, Mozart items cheap, and opera selections sold for little more than paper cost. A 250 pound lot of 220 pieces brought 22 dollars, Purcell’s Orpheus Britannicus 1698 sold for 21, and J S Smith’s English songs from London 1779 brought 4 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Pearse
CLV. Libbie & Co
Kandel
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Jenry Playford
Purcell
J. S. Smith
London
J. Strauss
FIGHTERS NEED NOT REGISTER FOR VOTE ON ELECTION DAY
A House bill by Representative Dunkle of Boston would let military and naval personnel vote without prior registration. Soldiers would need proof of voting residence in a Massachusetts city or town when entering service, and a official certificate would permit voting on election day. The bill addresses difficulty returning home to register before the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Representative Dunkle
Boston
Noted Navy Photographer Found Dead in Studio
Aaron L. Leavitt, famed for photographing more enlisted men than any other photographer, was found dead in his Portland studio. He was 17. Physicians believe he died about 24 hours earlier. Survived by a Boston wife and by one son, William Homer Leavitt, once in public prints after a divorce involving daughter of William Jennings Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viewport
KR. T
Aaron L. Leavitt
Naval
Ile
Boston
William Homer Leavitt
William Jennings Bryan
Tribute to U S Airmen on the British Front
A Daily News correspondent praises American aviators with the British army in France as numerous and brilliant. He notes American aviation mechanics also gave splendid aid. The Western Front sees unprecedented concentration of planes with up to 300 in air at once and extensive use of machine guns on troops, guns, and transports from low flying aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
Daily News
Butman Guilty On Bigamy Charge In Quincy Court
Joseph E. Butman a 75 year old Civil War veteran was found guilty of bigamy in Quincy district court. Judge Albert E. Avery adjourned sentencing to April 20. The case featured two women claiming to be his wives with dramatic testimony tracing two marriages and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Butman
New Haven Railroad
Quincy
Albert E. Avery
Butman
Trenton
N. J
Cohasset
South Shore
Mr. Butman
Joseph Butman
Albany
Boston
Old Colony
Roxbury
South Boston
D and
Second Streets
South
MelInerney
Joseph KK. Butman
Books On War And Patriotism Dominate Spring Drive
A wave of wartime books floods the market as publishers push titles on World War I. Usher argues Europe’s dominance faded and an Atlantic bloc shapes the postwar order, while Train and von Freytag-Loringhoven offer timely fiction and polemics. Other works celebrate heroism, resilience, and the Allied cause with profiles of frontier reporters, soldiers, and statesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picardy
Harper
Roland G. Usher
Europe
United States
South America
Canada
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Great Britain
France
Italy
Usher
Germany
Middle Europe
Russia
Atlantic
Thirty Years for Sabotage Passes House Probe
Washington April 5 A conference agreement on the bill to punish sabotage was presented to the House by Chairman Webb of the judiciary committee. The measure sets a maximum penalty of 30 years for damaging war materials or places where they are produced stored or distributed including forts arsenals navy yards camps prisons railroads canals wharves and related lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Webb
Judiciary Committee
Idle aliens and idle rich face Canada job rule
Ottawa Ont April 5 Government imposes order in council targeting three classes of people requiring every male to be regularly employed in a useful occupation. Exemptions include under 1 over 60 unfit students or temporarily unemployed. Violations carry a fine up to 100 dollars or six months jail with hard labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Wounded Lynn Boy Visits Brockton
Fred W. Philips of Lynn, a member of Meld Artillery, wounded by a shell in France on January 15, arrived in Brockton to visit his sister Mrs. Abbie Phillips Ladd. Phillips is also suffering from shell shock. He enlisted in the artillery last April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Fred W. Phillips
Lynn
List Meld Artillery
France
Abbie Phillips Ladd
Phillips
Sle
Canadian War Photos Exhibition Extended One More Week
The widely attended display of official Canadian war photographs at Bacon's former store drew strong patronage. The Boston Chamber of Commerce committee overseeing the exhibit voted to extend it for an additional week, closing Saturday April 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon
Boston Chamber of Comerce
Bolshevikki Wants Black Sea Fleet Location
London April 5 The Bolshevik government seeks the current position of the Russian Black Sea fleet in a Petrograd wireless statement signed by Naval Commissary Bukashevitch. It asks Fleet Commander Sablin for the fleet’s whereabouts near Odessa Nikoloayev Batoum and Trebizond, noting no recent information on possession of those places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Black Sea
Petrograd
Bukashevitch
Sablin
Sebastopol
Black Sea Navy
Odessa
Nikkolayev
Batoum
Trebizond
Milson cheers fore river shipyard workers in wartime rally
Lieutenant Harry G Milson of the Canadian army electrified more than six thousand shipyard workers at Fore River Quincy urging them to stick to their ships and help bring the Kaiser down. He spoke of front line fighting from 27 months in the trenches and praised Canadian and American efforts to push Germans back together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fore River
Quincy
Harry G. Milson
Milson
Boston
U S FLIER PUTNAM WINS FIVE VICTORIES
An official despatch from France reports Sergeant Putnam has four confirmed victories and a fifth not yet certified. The 18yearold Boston Newton native holds the French War Cross with palm and was promoted to sergeant in the Lafayette flying squadron after his fourth victory. A descendant of General Israel Putnam and Harvard Class of 180, he joined the Lafayette Escadrille after two months of U S Army entry attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Putnam
Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven
Gravely
Germany
Reichstag
Gunner Depew
Reilly & Britton
Foreign Legion
Gallipoli
Moewe
Kaiser
France
von Ludendorf
McLachlan
Washington
Literary Digest
David E. Putnam
Frederick H. Putnam
Boston
Newton
Lafayette
Israel Putnam
Harvard
Lafayette Escadrille
United States Army
Banks Could Aid Red Cross With Profits Bill
Washington April 5 A bill authorizing national banks to contribute from their net profits to the American Red Cross was favorably reported today to the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Red Cross
House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pearse
Navy
U. 8 S
May Alice Stewart
Wife No
Scribner
Arthur Train
New York
Mr. Train
the Impenitent
Junker
Greece
Demetra Vaka
Houghton, Mifflin
Athens
Saloniki
Constantine
Venzelos
Pat O'Brien
Belgium
Holland
Donald Thompson
Joseph S. Smith
Dutton
KF M Roberts
Somme
Zeppelin
Ypres
Small
Maynard
Georges Vafond
Edwin Gile Rice
Doubleday
Frazier Hunt
Camp Upton
Bagdad
Appleton
Arthur Tillotson Clark
Princeton
Mesopotamia
Lane
W. J. Dawson
Stokes
Richardson Wright
Commission For Relief
Vernon Kellogg
Page
Jeffery Farnell
Little, Brown
Belmore Browne
Alaska
Mr. McKinley
New York Zoo
W. L. George
Bennett
Conrad
Galsworthy
Hardy
Wells
J. J. Beresford
Gilbert Cannan
EF. M. Forstter
D. H. Lawrence
Compton Mackenzie
Oliver Onions
Frank Swinnerton
Hugh Walpole
John Lane
London Times
Wilson
England
Bath
Bristol
Exeter
Leicester
Nottingham
Chippenham
Circencester
Malmesbury
Brighton
Worthing
Barnstaple
Bideford
Taunton
Plymouth
Torquay
The
Connaught Rangers
Liffey Quay
Old Treland
Wicklow
Wexford
Ireland
Serbia
W. M. Letts
Yale Review
Gude
Ania
Gudes
M. J. Breitenbach CO
Neal
America
U. S. Food Administration
Schubert
Schumann
Western Front
Ordnance Department
Quartermaster Corps
Aircraft Board
Marine Corps
Naval Reserve
State Department
War Shipping Board
Food and Fuel Administration
Funi
Bolshevikki
U. S
RED Cross
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!