Rockefeller Gives $200000 Gift to American Baptist Missionary Union
John D Rockefeller sent a $200000 check to the American Baptist Missionary Union at its Ford building headquarters. He has given similar sums in prior years with $75000 earmarked for land and buildings in needy countries and $125000 for general purposes. The treasurer notes Rockefeller’s quiet philanthropy and yearly ask for next year’s needs.
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American Baptist Missionary Union
Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Union
George Perkins
Consul Iatros Discharged in Greece Action
Michael Iatros, the vice consul for Greece in Lowell Massachusetts, has been discharged from his post amid fraud charges in immigration matters and awaits trial. George Gougoles, president of the Greek Orthodox Community, is named temporary successor.
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Michael Iatros
Lowell
Greece
Boston
Athens
Michael Satros
Mass
Shirtwaist Party and Dance in Somerville
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock a shirtwaist party with dancing will be held under St. Andrews' Guild of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Somerville. It closes the season of parish social entertainments for mutual acquaintance and pleasure at Anthoines Hall School Street Somerville.
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St. Andrews’ Guild
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Somerville
School Street
Verse from Concord Monument Ceremony
Poetic excerpt sung at the completion of the Concord Monument on April 19 1886. It recalls the shot heard round the world and the embattled farmers at the bridge, with time erasing the scene as the river flows seaward.
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Concord Monument
Somerville High School Club Dance Promises Surprises
Anthoine's Hall hosts the B. C. S. Club annual dancing party organized by Miss Madge Le Cour with Edith Delley and Mrs. Harold A. Butters. High School graduates populate the club and novel electrical surprises will debut, with a mystery behind the initials possibly revealed at the event.
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Anthoine
Somerville
Somerville High School
Madge le Cour
Miss le Cour
Edith Delley
Harold A. Butters
Noted French Art Connoisseur Tours Boston Museum
Camille Enlart director of the Troca dero Palace Museum in Paris visited Boston to inspect the Museum of Fine Arts. He praised the Boston collection as one of the great museums of the world and noted its Egyptian, Japanese, and textile exhibits as especially fine. He compared it favorably to Chicago and Philadelphia and praised the Carnegie Institute. He returned to New York afterward.
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Camille Enlart
Trocadero Palace
Champ de Mars
Paris
Andrew Carnegie
Great Institute
Pittsburg
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
New York
M. Enlart
France
Museum
Boston Museum
Metropolitan
Pastor to wed third wife in Woburn at 4 tomorrow
The Rev. Isaac Henry Packard of Roslindale, aged 60, will marry Grace Gertrude Smith of Woburn, 14 years his junior, at the local Methodist Church with Rev. Vandermark officiating. The bride is the daughter of Rev. T. Berton Smith.
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Watertown
Roslindale
Lawyers Gather in Boston to Plan Next Move in Eddy Suit
A conference of the plaintiffs' attorneys in the case against Mary Baker Eddy is set for today in Boston with ex Senator William Chandler arriving from Washington. Attorneys Howe Kelly and Martin will meet at Parker House at noon to discuss plans said to be decisive and possibly reveal a "heavy" development in Concord afterward.
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Mary Baker G. Eddy
Boston
William E. Chandler
Washington
Chandler
Howe
Kelly
Martin
Parker House
Frederick W. Peabody
Concord
Preliminary Hearing Delayed in Eddy Estate Case
A Merrimac County Superior Court judge set May 13 for a preliminary hearing in the Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy estate suit. Trustees seek to intervene as plaintiffs in place of Glover and other relatives, deferring the relatives’ supplemental bill until the court rules. Affidavits must be filed by May 9. responses to the original bill are due tomorrow.
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Eddy
Concord
N. H
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Chamberlain
Merrimac County Superior Court
Glover
Streeter
Martin and
Howe
Florodora Club of Chelsea Plans Grand April Ball
The Florodora Club of Chelsea will stage a grand ball and social on April 18 at Grand Army Hall. Edith Campbell Mabel Morrison Josie Brown and the McCormick sisters lead the event to boost a highly successful season.
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Florodora Club
Chelsea
Grand Army Hall
Edith Campbell
Mabel Morrison
Josie Brown
Margaret and
May McCormick
Mahogany Bedroom Furniture with Mirrors and Drawers
Catalog snippet lists mahogany pieces including a two-drawer cedar lined chest priced 52.00, a highboy with eleven drawers at 115.00, a large mirror bureau at 41.00, a dressing table at 37.00, a princess dresser at 29.00, a chiffonier with four long and short drawers at 72.00, and a colonial bureau with square mirror and four drawers.
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Trousseau
Sacéen Ei
Talon Wong
Discharged Jewel Theft Charge After Flimsy Evidence
Miss Annie Brennan was charged with stealing jewelry from guests at the Ocean View Hotel in Winthrop. In East Boston court yesterday Judge Clary rebuked Winthrop police for presenting incompetent evidence and discharged Brennan.
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Annie Brennan
Ocean View
Winthrop
East Boston
Clary
Postmaster Skeptical On City Named Stamps Plan
Postmaster Hibbard doubts the Cleveland despatch about issuing stamps marked with each city name. Boston collectors fear a requirement to amass 59 000 different stamps to complete a set. The aim is to protect stamps in post offices and aid theft detection, though officials acknowledge possible difficulties.
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Hibbard
Cleveland
United States
Boston
Chicago
English actor beaten in two lawsuits
Herbert Sleath Skelton, English actor and husband of Ellis Jeffreys, lost two suits in Municipal Civil Court. Edgar Selwyn sought his salary, and Selwyn & Co. claimed $300 commission for the play It’s All Your Fault. Selwyn to receive $133.33 for salary while with Skelton.
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Herbert Sleath- Skelton
Ellis Jeffreys
Bolster
Edgar Selwyn
Selwin & Co
Skelton
and Selwyn & Co
James A. Barton
Booklovers Contest allows return of answer sets this week
Contestants may reclaim their sets at Booklovers' Contest Headquarters Room 59 Journal Building 26a Washington Street Boston daily 9 am to 5 pm. On request and postage answers can be mailed or sent COD at contestant risk. After April 20 return not guaranteed and unclaimed sets will be destroyed April 27.
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Booklovers’ Contest
Journal Building
Washington Street
Boston
Boston Post
Express
Old Fort Hill Residents Oppose Mayors Park Plan
Boston residents led by C. J. Desmond vow to oppose Mayor Fitz gerald's plan to take Fort Hill square for a government building site. Desmond, a Fort Hiller and Dorchester resident, says the park is a sentimental city landmark and plans a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall and a large petition against the park’s appropriation.
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Old Fort Hill
Fitzgerald
Fort Hill Square
Boston
C. J. Desmond
Lauriat Avenue
Dorchester
Boylston School Association
Fort
Faneuil Hall
Death of J. W. Brehaut in Wakefield
Joseph Watson Brehaut 52 native of Prince Edward Island died Sunday in Wakefield home at 122 Salem Street. A longtime Boston builder partner in Daniel F. Donovan & Co. he married Katherine Owens of Somerville and leaves five children. Services at St. Joseph's Church Wakefield at 9 this morning with interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery Stoneham.
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Joseph Watson Brehaut
Salem Street
Wakefield
Brehaut
Prince Edward Island
Greater
Boston
Daniel F. Donovan & Co
Waterstreet
Katherine Owens
Somerville
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Stoneham
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