McDonald Named Chairman of Convention Reception
J H McDonald of the Boston and Maine railroad chosen as chairman of the reception committee for the coming convention. He is a 44-year railroad veteran, with 35 years in conductors ranks. He recalls a near collision between Boston and Peabody, saved by alert staff and a flagging baggage master. McDonald holds memberships in King Star Lodge and several Masonic, IOOF, and Royal Arcanum bodies in Salem and Everett.
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J. H. McDonald
Boston & Maine Railroad
Bay State
McDonald
Portland, Saco
Peabody
Mr. McDonald
King Star Lodge
Washington
Royal Arch
A. F
A. M
Salem
Essex Lodge
Naumkeag
Royal Arcanum
Everett
Paris Fashions Update Highlight Net Coats and Feathers
HON pY MISS MARY describes a fashion era with lapels on nearly all items. Directoire style fades as coats of net worn over silk gowns gain favor. Peacock colors pair with scarfs, millinery blooms explode in variety, and long stencilled scarves drape bodices and skirts. Delicate mantelets replace heavy cloaks.
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Paris
Blake and the fur coat caper ends at home with a cat
A young man Blake, enamored with fur, helps a muddy stranger with a coat. He carries her to his doorway thinking of kidnapping headlines but discovers he is married. His wife erupts, then they spot a stray white Persian cat named Tab offering a new plot twist and $25 for an Easter hat.
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Blake
John
Laura
Mother
John Blake
Tab
Dearie
Funeral for BSO assistant manager Frederic R Comee
The funeral of Frederic R. Comee assistant manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be held this afternoon. His death is noted in this city obituary with services planned at a local church and related arrangements.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Frederic R. Comee
Death of Mr Comee in Cambridge Typhoid Claims Event
In Mt. Auburn Chapel Cambridge at 4 o clock funeral for Mr Comee who died at 1390 Beacon street Thursday night typhoid is given as the cause. Born Fitchburg January 2 1854 Harvard 1875 he led a music agency and served as treasurer at Bijou Theatre later becoming assistant manager of the orchestra in 1886. He leaves a widow and had been connected with C A Ellis in recent years overseeing operations.
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Mt. Auburn Chapel
Cambridge
Comee
Beacon Street
New York
Mr. Comee
Fitchburg
Harvard
University Club of
Boston
Harvard Club of
Philadelphia
Old Chickering Bureau
Bijou
C. A. Ellis
Ruyvei
Miss Sears Poised to Prove Polo Skills in Burlingame
Miss Eleanora Sears of Boston may join English and American polo teams here after heiress Jennie Crocker of New York and San Francisco plans two teams with Sears to play. Local players acknowledge she rides well but fear the dangers and question her eligibility, preferring not to risk injury.
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Burlingame
Cal
Eleanora Sears
Boston
Crossways
Jennie Crocker
New York
San Francisco
Crocker
Miss Sears
Sears
Love and Money in a Young Woman’s Dilemma
A 20 year old businesswoman asks whether to marry the devoted law student or a wealthier suitor. The adviser cautions delaying marriage, noting parental objections may be well founded, and urges waiting until the student finishes studies and is financially secure.
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Miss Champagne
Ile
New England Housewives Yeast Bread Recipe Note
Recipe note from Mrs. A Nelson of Manchester NH outlining a bread yeast starter method using mashed potatoes hot water flour sugar salt and dissolved yeast cake to make six small loaves instructs on mixing heating cooling and rising processes with quantities specified for a Sunday Post feature on recipes
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New England
Sunday Post
Mechanic Street
Manchester
N. HL
Orange Marmalade Recipe Note from Medford
A handwritten marmalade method lists using three large oranges and two lemons, rind grated, whites removed, chopped fruit soaked in water for 24 hours, cooked thirty minutes, soaked another day, then sugar added and cooked forty five minutes to yield twelve to eighteen jelly glasses. Signed by Mrs If Gratzky at 36 Newbern Avenue Medford.
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IF. Gratcyk
Newbern Avenue
Medford
Baked Bananas by Mrs Bumpus at Brockton address
Instructions for baking bananas with melted butter sugar and lemon juice. Prepares six bananas halved and baked slowly for twenty minutes, basting with the remaining mixture. Attributed to Mrs Bumpus, 94 Forest Avenue Brockton.
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Bumpus
Forest Avenue
Brockton
Four Year Old Girl Rescues Brother From River
In Lisbon New Hampshire on April 16, four year old Gertrude Chamberlain saved her younger brother Alfred aged three from drowning in the Ammonoosuc River. While they chased a puppy, the boy fell in and Gertrude braced against the bank to keep his head above water until their mother arrived.
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Lisbon
N. H
Gertrude Chamberlain
Akin
Ammonoosuc
Alfred
Symphony Rehearsal Yields Mixed Yet Vivid Program
Yesterday’s Symphony Hall rehearsal offered Coriolanus Overture Beethoven suite Foote scherzo The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Dvorak New World Symphony. Fiedler drew heroism from the overture and vigor from Dukas, Foote’s finale impressed, while the New World elicited praise for nature inspired sonorities and robust performance.
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Symphony Hall
Beethoven
Foote
Dukas
New World
Dvorak
Fiedler
Mr. Foote
Paul Dukas
Dr. Mack
Highland Church Calls Indiana Pastor
The Highland Methodist Church of Dorchester has extended a call to the Rev. Ernest D. Smith of Laporte Indiana and efforts are underway to bring him. Reports from Indiana say Dr. Smith will not accept but no official word has been received.
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Highland Methodist Church
Dorchester
Ernest D. Smith
Laporte
Ind
Indiana
Smith
Churches Asked to Observe Labor Sunday Across Nation
New York April 16 Sunday May 9 designated Labor Sunday by the American Federation of Labor and as a calendar day in the Presbyterian Church. The Rev Charles Stelzle head of the Presbyterian department of church and labor requests 11 000 churches of his denomination discuss a phase of the labor question on that day.
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New York
American Federation of Labor
Presbyterian Church
Charles Stelzle
Presbyterian Department of Church and Labor
Boy Killed by Fall in Providence Store Elevator
A 9 year old Gilbert Hinton, a shop boy, was killed instantly in Providence when he fell four stories down an elevator well at a local department store late this afternoon.
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Providence
R. I
Gilbert Hinton
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