Tech Festivity Week at Tech Highlights Junior Year Events
Junior week at Tech brings receptions tea dances and concerts through Saturday. Ceremonies include the Cleofan reception in Pierce building today, a gym exhibition and Cabot medals, architectural society open house with prize drawings, a combined musical clubs concert in Potter Hall, the Technique 1908 release and the William Wyllie and Bill musical comedy, with Junior Prom at Hotel Somerset and a Penn relay absence this year. Public tours of fraternity houses run Wed to Sat with teas and parties. conclusion events Saturday.
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Cabot
Architectural Society
Architectural Department
Boston
Institute
Potter Hall
Arthur L. Gardner
William, Wyllie
Bill
A. Macomber
Malden
Providence
Somerset
The
Wayside Inn
Miss Cornelia Thayer Wed to Count von Moltke in Back Bay
Cupid invades Back Bay as society belle Miss Cornelia Thayer becomes bride of Count von Moltke. Exclusive circles plan to attend the June wedding with elaborate preparations. Nathaniel Thayer, father of the bride, recently arrived in London to arrange travel and lodging for his wife and daughter. They will sail for Boston to finalize arrangements.
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Back Bay
Cornelia Thayer
Vincent Club
Count von Moltke
Nathaniel Thayer
London
Paris
Cornelia
Boston
Miss Helen D Cook Wins Alice Freeman Palmer Prize
Wellesley College student Miss Helen W Cook wins a $1000 Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship to study in Germany. It will be awarded at June commencement. The scholarship was founded by Mrs David P Kimball of Boston.
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Wellesley
Helen W. Cook
Wellesley College
Alice Freeman Palmer
Germany
David P. Kimball
Boston
Fire destroys Fitchburg furniture storehouse
Fire at noon in a Broad street wooden building owned by J Cushing and Co. and used by Ferdinand Furniture Co. as a storehouse caused about 4000 dollars in damage. The cause remains undetermined.
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Fitchburg
J. Cushing & Co
Broad Street
Ferdinand Furniture Company
Woman Sought for in Fire Was Visiting With Friends
Fire damaged Mrs. R. L. Stottler’s home at 12 Pem broke street while she visited friends on Saturday night. Firemen, believing she was inside, forced entry. she was elsewhere. State police to investigate possible incendiary staging as flames started about 2 am.
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R. L. Stottler
Pembroke Street
Food digestion lecture at Harvard Medical School by Dr White
Dr F W White argued against complete absorption of food, urging a middle ground. He defined foods by protein, starches and sugars, fats, and minerals, stressing albuminous foods as essential and outlining four tests of relative value: chemical, physical, physiological, and economic. He noted digestion and absorption vary and criticized waste from poor cooking and out of season purchases.
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F. W. White
Harvard Medical School
White
Benefit for Elm Hill Knights of Columbus at Keith's Theatre
A large audience enjoyed a benefit program for Elm Hill Council Knights of Columbus held at Keith's Theatre last evening. Acts included Murphy Whitman and company in Old Friends, Al Carleton in jests and songs, Basque quartet, Bernars Mannikins, Ray L Royce, Junie McCree in The Man From Denver, Brittons in rag-time numbers, George B Reno and company with The Peekout Cadets and Kinograph. Proceeds support the new clubhouse fund.
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Elm Hill
Denver
The
Brittons
George B. Reno
Reynolds Arrives in Boston for Private Business
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury James B. Reynolds will reach Boston late this evening and proceed to the Puritan Club on Beacon Street. He will handle personal matters and discuss ongoing issues at the Custom House during his visit.
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Treasury
James B. Reynolds
Boston
Beacon Street
Custom House
Jackson Club Ball Promises Glamour and Moonlit Dance
Members of the Jackson Club of Wards Charlestown plan their annual ball Friday night at Roughan Hall. Senator James Mellen and ex Senator Charles Sullivan spearhead the event with Jack Ryan as floor marshal and Frederic M. Finn as floor director.
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Jackson Club of
Wards
Charlestown
Roughan Hall
James Mellen
Charles 8. Sullivan
Jack Ryan
Frederic M. Finn
Milk Thieves Plague Dorchester As Detectives Scout
Dorchester doctors name a germ kleptomania lactea and report widespread milk thefts. Families wake to empty bottles, babies hungry, and neighbors suspect dealer and nearby homes. Residents consider volunteer detective corps and a possible milk squad under police study.
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Police Department
Boston Old Home Week plans for 10 day celebration
Boston prepares a seven day Old Home Week with events and speeches by Mayor Fitzgerald Governor Guild and other figures to attract 600000 residents. The initiative aims to raise 75000 for the celebration with rail travel discounts and a 25000 city appropriation, soliciting further contributions via Henry L Higginson.
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Beston
Faneuil Hall
Fitzgerald
Guild
W. H. O’connell
Julia Ward Howe
General Committee
Henry L. Higginson
State Street
Thomas F. Anderson
Old South Building
Washington Street
Milk laws sufficient to prevent diphtheria spread says Dr Harrington
Dr Charles Harrington secretary of the State Board of Health tells a Post reporter that existing milk regulations are adequate and no new law could have prevented the diphtheria cases in Hyde Park Milton and Dorchester He notes existing authority allowed rapid investigation and containment of the outbreak.
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Charles Harrington
State Board of Health
the Post
Hyde Park
Milton
Dorchester
Messiah Seeker Demands 500 From Pittsfield Rail Boss
Henry J Farnham a Hinsdale blacksmith, 6 feet tall, stormed into Pittsfield Street Railway Co demanding $500 claiming to be the Messiah. He threatened dire acts on the railroad if unpaid. Police arrested him. after confinement he was sent to the Northampton insanity ward.
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Pittsfield
Henry J. Farnham
Hinsdale
Pittsfield Street Railway Company
Samson
Farnham
Northampton
105 Year-Old Worcester Woman Says Eighty Is Enough
Mrs. Abraham Harpin, who will be 105 in August, declares she should have died 25 years ago. She lives in Worcester with daughter Mrs. Franklin Young and notes loneliness from outliving youth friends. Harpin has eight children, two living, and travels with clear faculties and limited meals.
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Worcester
Abraham Harpin
Swedish Prince to Visit Boston This Summer
Stockholm April 21. The Swedish cruiser Bylgia commanded by Prince Wilhelm Duke of Sodermanland King Oscars grandson will visit the Jamestown exposition for a week in July and then proceed to New York Boston and other American ports. Prince Wilhelm is the second son of Crown Prince Gustave of Sweden and is 38 years old.
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Bylgia
Prince Wilhelm
Duke of
Miss Adams in Back Bay Society to Wed Robert Homans
Society circles announce the engagement of Miss Abigail Adams daughter of Mrs. John Quincy Adams of 177 Commonwealth avenue to Mr. Robert Homans eldest son of Mrs. John Homans of 164 Beacon street Harvard class of 1894 member of several clubs including the Tavern Somerset Tennis and Racquet Union and the Exchange Miss Adams cousin Dor othy Quincy later Mrs F Russell Nourse debutantes together daughter of Fannie Crowninshield and direct descendant of the second U S president both families receive congratulations as the week's social highlight.
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Back Bay
Abigail Adams
John Quincy Adams
Commonwealth Avenue
Robert Homans
John Homans
Beacon Street
Miss Adams
Homans
the Tavern
Somerset
Union
The
Exchange
Harvard
Adams
Dorothy Quincy
Russell Nourse
Fannie C. Crowninshield
United States
Mr. Homans
Rescue Missions of New England Convene at Bromfield Church
The rescue missions of New England hold their second annual convention at the Bromfield Street M. E. Church on Tuesday and Wednesday. Three sessions per day feature morning prayer and Bible study.
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The
Rescue Missions of
New England
Bromfield Street M. E
Police Probe Three Deaths In Boston Area
The police reported three deaths before noon yesterday. C A Burns 259 Shawmut Ave found dead in bed after a gas odor at 10 30 AM. age about 30, no relatives known. James White 5 45 AM at Model 10 Washington St. age about 70, longtime Boston resident with past in English army and Marine Corps. Michael Sullivan 26 Edinboro St found unconscious on Essex near Chauncy St. age about 7 years old, single, pronounced dead by Dr Williams.
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Shawmut Avenue
Burns
James White
The
Model
Washington Street
White
Boston
Marine Corps
Michael Sullivan
Edinboro Street
Essex Street
Chauncy Street
Williams
Sullivan
Band Played at Funeral Feasting for Mourners
In Evansville Indiana on April 21 a band performed at the funeral as directed by W F G Schneider chair. mourners were served meals similar to a wedding at the estate’s expense, reflecting the wish of the deceased.
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Evansville
Ind
W. F. G. Schneider
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