Observant Citizen Notes Local Patches and People
The Observant Citizen reports on Franklin Park Sparrows season under the Elmonte Playstead and the 26 year old Order of Sparrows with 50 plus members. It notes public figures including George L. Anderson moving to Chicago, and Bruce Stiller and John H. Storer involvement in clubs. Other items cover a burned Conway House, attorney Garofalo’s mustache tale, Sheriff Quinn clock theft, Harvard examiners, real estate delegates, and Captain Stanley Lord remarks on Titanic lifeboats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Park
Boston
Conway
N. H
Conway House
Franklin Pierce
Abraham Lincoln
Tad Lincoln
Horace Greeley
Benjamin F. Butler
Whittier
Senator Sprague
Rhode Island
John Quinn
Pemberton Square
Quinn
Stricken Husband Uncle Walt Plays Tariff Club Satire
Walt Mason laments domestic change as his wife joins the seeenth ward tariff club. He mocks laundry chores, unfinished meals, and home duties while lamenting shifts in gender roles and schedules in a period humor piece from 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seeenth Ward Tariff Club
Steenth Ward Tariff Club
Walt Mason
Postal to pay Titanic money orders lost on voyage
Postal officials will pay all money orders from the Titanic voyage with duplicates retained. One hundred fifty duplicate advices were sent to Boston yesterday and officials will trace the intended recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Police Captain Seeks Retirement After Illness
Captain Frank I. Jones of the Back Bay police station has applied for retirement due to illness. He has been ill for months and recently returned to work before relinquishing command to Lieutenant James Sargent. A general order announcing the retirement is expected within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank I. Jones
Back Bay
Jones
James Sargent
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
An anniversary meeting commemorating the opening of the World in Boston was held at Park Street Church with Rev. F. P. Haggard D D and Harry Wade Hicks delivering addresses. The Vermont Baptist State convention plans to send missionary pastors to Newton Theological Institution summer school. The Massachusetts diocese missionary meeting will be at Trinity Church with Bishop Lawrence presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Park Street
F. P. Haggard
D. D
Harry Wade Hicks
Vermont Baptist State Convention
Newton Theological Institution
Diocese of
Massachusetts
Trinity Church
William Lawrence
Lawrence
Charles H. Brent
Philippines
St. Stephen’s Church
Manila
Julius Spitz Dies in Boston in 90th Year
Julius Spitz a prominent Jewish resident of Greater Boston died at his Allston home 20 Highgate street. Born in Posen Poland in 1822 he came to Boston at age 22. He was one of the valued members of the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chabel Shalom
Union Park Street
East
Spitz Brothers & Mack
Abraham P
Issac D
Jacob, George
Nancy Spitz
L. Mock
Ida Cohen
Julius Spitz
Greater Boston
Highgate Street
Allston
Posen
Poland
Boston
Mr. Spitz
Bryan Named Best Man at Dwyer Wedding in Philadelphia
William J. Bryan served as best man at the Philadelphia wedding of Mrs. Catharine Carlson and W. J. Dwyer, a Washington, D. C. newspaper man. The event linked two longtime friends and spurred talk of Pennsylvania politics during Bryan’s visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
DWYER
Philadelphia
William J. Bryan
Catharine Carlson
W. J. Dwyer
Washington, D. C
Mr. Bryan
Pennsylvania
Bargain List of Small Wares and Haberdashery Items
A dense price list of sewing notions and dress accessories including hooks and eyes 10c to 25c silk shields pins needles tapes bindings and belts. Items shown include Corvus Banding English Super Tape Gros Grain Silk Belting Prussian Binding Bunch Tape and Twine Bags with assorted prices and bulk quantities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Co. Dressmakers
Kirby Beard
Waite
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van Loon
S&e
George L. Anderson
Congregationalist
Chicago
Charlestown Navy Yard
Independence
Leonard Hargrave
Panama
Mr. Hargrave
State House
House of Representatives
Benedict
Alfred Scigliano
Ward 6
B. E. Stiller
John H. Storer
New York
Oakley Country Club
Storer
George Howard Fall
Pleasant Street
Malden
March of Progress
Winthrop
Harry Driscoll
Winthrop Beach
Carmine Garofalo
Weymouth
Garofalo
Kimball Building
Harvard
Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
Washington
John J. Martin
Herbert S. Frost
George F. Washburn
Charles S. Judkins
William J. McDonald
Charles M. Conant
Taft
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
American Chamber of Commerce
Paris
Brussels
Constantinople
Charles G. Ames
Church of the Disciples
Ames
Dr. Dole
Jamaica Plain
Stanley Lord
Leyland Line
Lord
Margaret Foley
Western
Bram Stoker
England
Henry Irving
Stoker
Sir Henry
America
William _ St. Jacques
U. S. Nx
United Telephone Company
Boston Athletic Association
Credit Order House
Temple Place
Blake
New England
Walt
George Matthew Adams
Ford. Mulhens
Glockengasse
Cologne
o/R. Ger
U.S
Mulhens & Kropff
House
Charles Schuttler
Saugus Congregational Church
Carleton College
Farmington, MO
Jordan Marsh Company
Coats’, Clark’s, Limited
Ub Brig Ao
Oo. GE
Tlail Goods
Yale -Nots
Nations and Smallwares Section
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