Guitar Player Drawing Crowds at Boston Art Museum
The Guitar Player by Joseph De Camp draws hundreds at the Art Museum’s Boston artists room. De Camp, a member of the Society of Ten American Painters and MA Normal Art School instructor, is revealed as a local creator in this praised contemporary American work purchased in 1908 from the Hayden Fund.
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Joseph de Camp
Society of Ten American Painters
Massachusetts Normal Art School
Boston
American Gallery
Art Museum
The
Museum
Charles H. Hayden
Read His Papers Up Side Down in Lunacy Case
New York August 7 A commission in lunacy has been appointed by Justice Bischoff in the Supreme Court to examine Joseph B Hughes wealthy husband of Belle Harper Hughes who gave up a stage career with the Bostonians to marry a man years older Their Plaza Hotel residence followed a European trip Mrs Hughes asks the court to declare him mentally incompetent citing two months of peculiar behavior including reading newspapers upside down Her personal property is valued at 300000 dollars
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New York
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Joseph B. Hughes
Belle Harper Hughes
Hughes
Noted Society Figures Figure in Plaza Rooms Story
Mrs Hughes occupies a Plaza suite after Justice Bischoff names a commission with Dr H Valentine Wild John H Judge and James S Meng. Her husband is away awaiting tomorrow's return. Hughes, six years married to a stage star, has a wealthy, dramatic, transatlantic backstory including a $12000 damage award and a career as promoter and stock broker.
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Felix Warburg
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Hughes
Warburg
United States
Trenton
Broadway Traveling Barber Car Planned Between New York and Jersey Shore
A new firm The Witch Hazel & Bay Rum Company aims to run mobile barber shops in a touring car service between New York and Atlantic City. John J. Reisler backs the project capitalized at 25000. The car will feature a barber inside and a chauffeur outside signaling arrivals. A roof tank feeds shampoo tubes and products hazel lilac lavender and Alfaila hair grower will be offered.
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New York
Witch Hazel & Bay Rum Company
Ldd
New Jersey
Broadway
John J. Reisler
Atlantic City
Bayonne
Redbank
Highlands
Seabright
Pleasure Bay
West End
Asbury Park
Ocean City
Egg Harbor City
Alfaila
Claudine to Become Comic Opera in United States
Paris reports G. P. Contamini, aide to Gatti Cassazza, plans to stage Claudine as a comic opera in the U S next season. The work, based on Claudine at School and related stories, will feature music by Rudolphe Berger and aims to rival The Merry Widow and Waltz Dream.
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Paris
G. P. Contamini
Gatti Cassazza
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
United States
Claudine
Willy
Rudolphe Berger
Mrs Pierce Sails Amid Police Incident At Sea
New York reports Mrs Alice C R Pierce the horsewoman sailed on the Vaderland after a clash with police over fast driving near Pelham station. Adele Ritchie the actress accompanied her to see off, but both faced arrest for fast driving and cursing police respectively.
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New York
Alice C. R. Pierce
Vaderland
Mrs. Pierce
Pelham
Adele Ritchie
Miss Ritchie
Lion launches as world’s largest armored cruiser
The armored cruiser Lion, the largest, fastest and most powerful cruiser, was launched at Devonport. It carries eight 12. inch guns in four barbettes, displaces 26 350 tons, and uses turbine engines of 70 000 horsepower for a projected speed of 28 knots.
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London
Lion
Devonport
Whose Team Is This Five Dollar Reward for Driver
A Boston Post promotion asks the North End photographed team driver to identify his team within five days at the City Editor’s office at 275 Washington street. The driver must prove identity to receive five dollars in gold. The May name Cahill of 84 C street South Boston is stated as the driver from Saturday’s photo. The horse’s name is Nigger.
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Boston
Washinton Street
Nnex
Washington
Washington St
Friend St
Weybosset St
Providence
Main St
Fall River
Purchase St
Neford
New York
Brooklyn
Rochester
N. Y
Philadelphia
London
England
N. B
North End
Post
The
Washington Street
M. J. Cahill
C Street
B. J. Makepiece
S. D. Cohen & CO
Hobble skirt breaks limb in New Rochelle fall
Miss Lillian Shuttleworth, 23, of 945 Huguenot Street New Rochelle, wore a hobble skirt for the first time at Glen Island yesterday afternoon. While running down a steep incline she tripped and fractured her left leg, fainting from the pain as she was helped by several nearby young women.
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New York
Lillian Shuttleworth
Huguenot Street
New Rochelle
Glen Island
Albany financier dies at Bar Harbor summer home
A. Becker Banks of Albany New York dies at his Bar Harbor Maine summer residence at age 72 after long illness. The remains will be sent to Albany for burial.
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Bar Harbor
A. Becker Banks
Albany
N. Y
Man Slashes Throat in Barber Shop Suicide at Pittsfield
John A. Hall 32 of Springfield, son of a former insurance company president, killed himself in a Pittsfield hotel barber shop. He examined a razor, then slashed his throat in three places before collapsing. He had a nervous condition and rented the hotel room since last June as his sister in Springfield survives.
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Pittsfield
John A. Hall
Springfield
John Hall
Springfield Mutual Life Insurance Company
Hall
Second Death Follows Raid in Haverhill
James J. Devine of Elm Street in the Bradford district died at 2 15 AM after a gas stove valve was found open and a burned match nearby. Police consider possible accidental cause but speculate self harm, following an earlier raid that found liquor. This marks the second similar case in 24 hours, with Arthur W. Fellows found dead by hanging.
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Haverhill
Elm Street
Bradford
James J. Devine
Devine
Smith
Arthur W. Fellows
Arlington Street
Quahaugs Drag Man to Death at Oakland Beach
Arthur M. Turcotte a 40 year old Providence man drowned at Oakland Beach Warwick R I after returning with a bag of quahaugs strapped about his neck to his wife and child waiting on the opposite shore. He sank and did not resurface the body was recovered.
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Warwick
R. I
Oakland Beach
Arthur M. Turcotte
Providence
Turcotte
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