Reverend urges abstinence to curb deadly disease spreads
The sermon urges stopping all kissing as a means to fight the white plague. Dr Herbert S Johnson calls on churches to preach April 4 against contagion, outlining the disease’s toll from 8 to 40 year olds and babies, and urges letters to State Senator Tinkham supporting prohibition.
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Herbert S. Johnson
Taft
Johns
Johnson
Boston
Bartenders’ Union
Tinkham
Wifes Sun Jars Melrose Divorce Suit Filed
Grace D Lavender of Melrose sues John A Lavender for divorce after 20 years of marriage citing cruel and abusive treatment. Papers filed in Cambridge Probate Court with a $1000 attachment on the husband’s property. He works as an accountant at 30 Court Street Boston and serves as a trustee for the late William D Brewer's Newton will. The couple have five children.
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Melrose
Grace D. Lavender
John A. Lavender
Linden Street
Cambridge
Boston
William D. Brewer
Newton
Vast throng hears English prelate at cathedral
A large crowd filled the Cathedral for the high mass yesterday as Rev. Robert Hugh Benson of England preached the third in his sermon series. The service was led by celebrant Rev. Thomas R. McCoy with two St. John's Brighton seminarians as deacon and sub deacon, and Rev. Charles J. Sullivan as master of ceremonies.
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Robert Hugh Benson
M. A
England
Thomas R. McCoy
St. John's
Brighton
Charles J. Sullivan
Amusement and Money Mad Says Former Lumberman Dr Charles Eaton
Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton former Nova Scotia lumberman turned pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church on Thirty-first Street recalls his rugged past. He criticizes predatory wealth, notes John D Rockefeller as a friend, and contrasts New York's money culture with true recreation. He laments church leadership being female dominated and condemns the city’s obsession with display and wealth.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
Last Thirty-first Street
Nova Scotia
North America
Canadian
Eaton
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Dr. Eaton
Mr. Rockefeller
Oil King
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Pocantico Hillis
Mr. Eaton
Kingdom of Heaven
New York
New
Striking Sentiments From New York Pastor on Money and Culture
A New York pastor critiques city life noting money as a supreme interest and homes as scarce among the poor, while rich households multiply. He argues Christianity faces a trial here, citing churchgoer apathy and a theatre driven culture. He contrasts Rockefeller with Eaton, a Madison Avenue Baptist Church leader and golf partner.
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New
New York
America
Charles 4, Eaton
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
John D. Rockefeller
Heredity Experiments With Guinea Pigs At Harvard Lecture
Professor W. E. Castle of Harvard University presented experiments at the Bussey Institute Forest Hills showing inheritance patterns in guinea pigs. He argued protein is the basic material of heredity and that both parents influence offspring, reproducing multiple traits across generations and noting limits in applying these findings to human mentality.
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W. E. Castle
Harvard University
Bussey Institute
Forest Hills
Mendel
Castle
Professor Castle
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Boston clergy moves include Rev Thomas J Ganibal reception at Orient Heights church and banquet for parishioners. Banquet planned annually on March 6 at Harvard Street Baptist Association. Rev Charles N Field to England headquarters at Cowley. Rev Frederick J Walton to join St Pauls. Rev D A Pearson to be ordained May 16 at Church of the Advent.
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Orient Heights Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas J. Ganibal
Harvard Street Baptist Church Association
Charles N. Field
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Bowdoin Street
England
Society of St. John the Evangelist
Cowley
Oxford
D. A. Pearson
St.Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Church of the Advent
Boston College President Talks on Crow Indians at St Rose
Rev. Thomas I. Gasson S J president of Boston College spoke to Knights and Ladies of St Rose and friends yesterday afternoon on The Crow Indians of Montana, drawing an attentive audience in St Rose Hall.
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St. Rose Hall
Thomas I. Gasson
S. J
Boston College
Knights and Ladies of
St. Rose
Montana
Sweet Adeline Banished From Mayor's Repertory
Boston mayor John F Fitzgerald will quit singing Sweet Adeline in public after a banquet incident. The piece boosted his popularity and even affected local politics, but critics warn the song’s fate mirrors Sunset Cox when a serious speech was laughed down.
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Sunset Cox
Congress
John F. Fitzgerald
Adeline
Cox
Blarney Castle
Cape Cod
Boston
Boston Real Estate Exchange
New York
Palm Beach
14Th
Signor Fitzgerald
City Hall
Hibbard
Senate set to debate two labor bills this week
Two labor measures dominate the Senate agenda this week with a 54 hour bill and an eight hour bill on the docket. Senator Ross plans an amendment to delay the 54 hour act to January first, 1912, while the eight hour measure, vetoed previously by the Governor, carries a prima facie employer guilt clause. The Governor is expected to veto the eight hour bill, though he tried to avoid defeat.
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Senate
Treadway
Ross
Draper
Policeman Rescues Child From Fire Escape Fall
New York April 24 A Brooklyn policeman John J Buckley of Bedford Avenue station caught a baby who fell from a third story fire escape enticed by a street piano melody The infant Willie Brown suffered only a scratch from a brass button and was otherwise unharmed
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New York
John J. Buckley
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Buckley
Willie’ Brown
Bucky
Nielsen Favorite in Chicago Opera Returns to Stage
April 24 Chicago audiences packed the Auditorium for the Metropolitan Opera's La Boheme led by Caruso and Nielsen. Alice Nielsen, acclaimed American prima donna, wins praise for her voice and acting and plans a European tour after Chicago. She is slated for Boston in October at the Boston Opera House next season.
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Chicago
Metropolitan Opera Company
Puccini
Caruso
Nielsen
New York
Alice Nielsen
Boston
Boston Opera House
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Everybody’s Magazine
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