Ordination Dominates New England Methodist Conference
Lynn crowds fill First Congregational Church for the ordination of deacons deaconesses and elders during the New England Methodist conference. Bishop Henry W. Warren presided delivering sermons as numerous clergy and laity attended the ceremonies and missionary society anniversary.
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Lynn
New England Methodist Conference
First Congregational Church
R. H. Mansfield
Gleasondale
Henry W. Warren
D. D
New York
Warren
Otho B. Morris
Roscoe D. Tarbox
Stoughton
Frederick Co. Nelson
Boston
Howard F. Legg
Worcester
Jonathan Cartmill
Leyden
William Hodge
Townsend
Ralph A. Ward
Panos G. Genares
Lowell
John F. Phillips
Sudbury
A. Lloyd Bixler
Leicester
Richard S. Crummey
West Medford
Willard A. Kilmer
Walpole
Charles W.W. Hammond
East Douglas
Nelson M. Parsons
Linden
Roy W. Scontem
Emma Hahn
Ellington, Conn
Emma G. Wood
Chelsea
Maud B. Palmenter
South Framingham
Emily Co. Barlow
South Boston
Edmund L. Smiley
Orange
Charles W
Roxbury Boy Survives 30 Foot Fall With Broken Leg
Howard Backhoff 12, son of Mr and Mrs George Backhoff of 2 Dennis Street Roxbury, fell 30 feet from a second story veranda through missing railing slats. He landed on his feet and legs, breaking his right thigh area but survived. Police alerted City Hospital ambulance, and father rushed him there. Doctors praised outcome given the fall.
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Howard Backhoff
Dennis Street
Roxbury
George Backhoff
Howard
Hiss
Speaks on Russian Women at Huntington Chambers
Miss Sonia Weinstein, a native of Russia and first woman to earn a Brussels doctor of social sciences, spoke to a large Boston Socialist audience on Russian women and the revolution. She noted a women’s socialist party in Russia that educated peasants without pay, whose schools were shut down and teachers jailed. Next Sunday John Ellis will discuss Revolutionary Virtue at 2 30.
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Sonia Weinstein
Huntington Chambers
Boston Socialists
Miss Weinstein
Russia
University of
Brussels
Russian Empire
John Ellis
Philadelphia Girl Dances On After Seizure
Theresa Horn, a young woman from Philadelphia, was seized with an uncontrollable urge to dance on Thursday afternoon. She continues dancing despite efforts to stop her, ending only briefly when exhausted, then resuming after a nap.
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Philadelphia
Theresa Horn
Health exhibit draws thousands in Massachusetts in 1900
Up to Saturday night 13 446 people visited the health and safety exhibit in Horticultural Hall with an estimated Jully 2000 attendance yesterday. Alexander M. Wilson says planners are pleased and hope legislative action will address highlighted industrial risks. The Industrial Bulletin praised the Post editorial on the exhibit. Officials note 50 or 60 visitors daily reported missing fingers from dangerous machines. The display closed at 10 PM.
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Horticultural Hall
Alexander M. Wilson
Massachusetts
Death of James H. Eckels Bank Leader in Chicago
James H. Eckels president of the Commercial National Bank and former comptroller of the currency died at his Chicago home from heart disease. He was found by his butler after a late telephone ringing. Mrs Eckels and daughter Phebe were in Paris. Eckels, born 1858 in Princeton Illinois, was a law graduate and an advocate of the gold standard. He served as comptroller from 1893 to 1897 before leading Chicago’s Commercial National Bank.
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Chicago
James H. Eckels
Commercial National Bank
Frank Evans
Mr. Eckels
Evans
F. S. Churchill
Eckels
Union Traction Company
Allis Chalmers Company
American & British Security Company
Bankers’ Trust of New York
Oakland National Bank of
Detroit
First National Bank of Baltimore
James Herron Eckels
Princeton
Illinois
Albany
N. Y
Ottawa
Cleveland
Gold Standard Democrats
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Herbert N. Fowler Found Dead in Revere Home
Herbert N. Fowler, a 4 year old tailor, was discovered by his wife at 6 45 Sunday morning in his Revere home at 420 Beach Street having died by self inflicted razor wound after returning home from a 10 day absence. Medical Examiner Magrath ruled it a suicide.
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Herbert N. Fowler
Beach Street
Revere
Fowler
Magrath
Maud Booth Talks to Back Bay Women of Work of Prisoners
Maud Ballington Booth spoke to about 300 society women at the Somerset Ballroom recounting her prison work. She described the need for humane treatment and told of founding the Volunteer Prison League now with over 50 000 members. She highlighted pardoning a 20 year life sentence and praised Hope Hall as a place of gallantry for released prisoners.
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Maud Ballington Booth
Back Bay
Somerset Ballroom
Mrs. Booth
Booth
Hughes
Hope Hall
President Roosevelt Arbor Day Message Emphasizes Trees and Children
President Roosevelt sends a message to the school children of the United States on Arbor Day. He stresses the nation’s need for forests, the benefits of trees, and the role of youth in preserving and planting forests for a sustainable future.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Pope Pius X Protests Vatican France Conflict
In Rome on April 14 Pope Pius X will dedicate a passage in tomorrow's consistory denouncing France's treatment of the church over the seizure and publication of papal documents. The Vatican denies plans for a White Book reply. The Propaganda Congregation names Stephen Setere Erzynsky titular bishop of Daulis to aid Ruthenian Catholics in the United States, a move seen as reviving Polish demands for a U.S. bishop.
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Rome
Pius
France
Vatican
Mer. Montagnini
Congregation of the Propaganda
United States
Stephen Setere Erzynsky
Order of Basilians
Daulis
Greece
America
Woman's Body Found In Neponset River
A badly decomposed female body, likely in the water for two months, floated in the Neponset River near the Central Avenue bridge. Found by Patrick Kennally and Paul McBride, it was taken to City Hospital morgue for autopsy. no identification yet. The victim is about 50, 5 feet 4 inches, with dark hair, wearing a red gingham dress and dark shawl.
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Neponset River
Patrick Kennally
River Street
Paul McBride
Temple Street
Central Avenue Bridge
Division 11
City Hospital
McDonald
Harvard Professors Fernald Bouton to Wed Prominent Ladies
Two Harvard professors near marriage are Merritt Lyndon Fernald, a botany expert, and Charles Leonard Bouton of mathematics. Fernald plans to wed Margaret Howard Grant in Providence tomorrow with Back Bay and Cambridge society guests attending. Bouton will marry Mary G. Spencer, daughter of Mrs. John Spencer, with the ceremony to occur next June.
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Harvard
Benedicts
Cupid
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
Charles Leonard Bouton
Fernald
Margaret Howard Grant
Henry Grant
Providence
Back Bay
Cambridge
Bouton
Mary G. Spencer
John Spencer
Russian Girl Lost in Lynn Finds Path to East Lyme
A Russian immigrant girl unable to speak English was found on Main Street Lynn. Taken to the police station a Russian interpreter identified her as Anna Kofkas. She carried a slip with the name Andrew Miller of East Lyme Conn and said she arrived in Boston bound for East Lyme. Immigration officials were notified and she will be sent on her way tomorrow with $33 in her pocket.
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Lynn
Main Street
Anna Kofkas
Boston
East Lyme
Conn
Andrew Miller
Dealy Elected President of East Boston Catholic Literary
James B. Dealy won the East Boston Catholic Literary Association presidency at the Meridian Street rooms. A five year veteran secretary, Dealy is born in 1884, educated at Star of the Sea and Boston Latin, and represents Hornblower & Weeks on the Boston curb. He is the youngest president in the association’s history.
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East Boston Catholic Literary Association
Meridian Street
James B. Dealy
Dealy
Mr. Dealy
East Boston
Star of the Sea
Boston Latin School
Hornblower & Weeks
Boston
Roscommon Club Plans Fourth Annual Ball at Odd Fellows Hall
A special meeting of the Roscommon Club at Wells Memorial yesterday completed arrangements for the fourth annual ball to be held this evening at Odd Fellows Hall.
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Roscommon Club
Wells Memorial
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Edeson Could Star in McMasters Western Drama
Boston actor Robert Edeson may take a new play by William H. McMasters after finishing Strongheart in Boston. McMasters says the project aims to suit Edeson with a thoroughly American western mining and finance tale, emphasizing the vehicle over the author.
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Edeson
Boston
Broadhurst
de Mille
Fitch
Thomas
Strongheart
America
Incubator lamp explodes starting Chelsea feed store fire
An explosion of a kerosene incubator lamp at Woodlock Bros feed store 33 Park Street Chelsea caused 350 dollars in fire damage yesterday afternoon. Several hundred eggs hatched by the lamps died and chickens were roasted.
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Woodlock Bros
Park Street
Chelsea
South Boston School of Art Exhibit Opens Tonight
An exhibition of works by pupils of the South Boston School of Art will be held at the corner of K and Fourth streets in South Boston from 7 to 9 PM tonight and tomorrow evening.
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South Boston Art School
South Boston School of Art
K and
Fourth Streets
South Boston
Peary Plans Second Polar Quest With New Roosevelt Crew
Commander Robert E. Peary, after two days at Eagle Island Casco Bay with Mrs. Peary, left Portland for New York to prepare a July 1 departure for another expedition toward the north pole aboard the Roosevelt. The plan mirrors his last voyage except for a largely new ship’s company led by Captain George R Bartlett who will oversee vessel equipment and hire Newfoundland fishermen and sealers.
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Portland
Robert E. Peary
New York
Far North
Pole
Eagle Island
Casco Bay
Peary
George R. Bartlett
Newfoundland
Roosevelt
Bartlett
Octogenarian Ends Life in Son’s Shop After Ill Health
Ed ward H. Setchell, 80, of 497 East Fourth Street South Boston was found dead yesterday in his son’s shop at 30 Beach Street with a gas-tube end in his mouth. Herman L. Setchell, his son, discovered the body after his father failed to return home Saturday night.
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Edward H. Setchell
East Fourth Street
Boston
Beach Street
Herman L. Setchell
Charles C. Farnum Dead in Revere
Charles C. Farnum died yesterday at his home 31 Hall Street Revere aged 58. He was formerly a provision dealer and long based in the Blackstone market. In Chelsea he was known as the Policy king and was a victim of the Chelsea raid by the State police last year.
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Charles C. Farnum
Hall Street
Revere
Farnum
Blackstone Market
Chelsea
Nervy act saves life at Carney Building lift mishap
William Quinn of Melrose narrowly escaped death Saturday at the Carney Building 483 Tremont street. While repairing a lift door he saw the car descend strike his ladder and grab the wire rope, sliding to the bottom and sheltering himself beneath strong supports until rescue. He considered himself luckier than most in Greater Boston to emerge unscathed.
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William Quinn
Medford
Carney
Melrose
Greater Boston
Carney Building
Tremont Street
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Robert Edeson
William H. McMasters
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Capt. Bartlett
Octogenarian
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