Boston Notes and Local Happenings From The Observant Citizen
In Boston a Jesuit Father Jutz visits the German Church on Harrison Avenue after aiding Sioux tribes in 1901. Northern Lights display over the city captivates bystanders. Knights of Pythias discuss travel in South Boston, while rainstorm crowds listen to youths swimming through street rivulets at Dudley Street terminal. An open car near Dudley Street carries eighteen men and a woman. a stout woman quarrels with another over seating. A severe Friday electrical storm drives pigeons from Old South Church roof to a vacant office in Old Booth building. Daniel Fallon returns from Nova Scotia health improved. Cambridge figures include Rev John R McCagl and ex-Senator Frederick W Dallinger, both noted for public spirit and swimming prowess. A youth in a smoking car suffers smoldering trousers from crumpled paper and a match. Requiem high mass at Roxbury Mission Church for James Hayes. Charlestown couple vacationing at Bay View Weymouth host guests. two Dorchester visitors rescue a boy in Quincy Bay.
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Washington Street
Old South Church
Booth
National Shawmut Bank Hosts Employee Outing at Bass Point
President W A Gaston and bank directors sponsored a outing for about 250 officers and clerks and 420 guests including wives. They traveled to Bass Point and enjoyed a shore dinner in a large tent on the lawn. The event was declared a genuine success by participants.
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W. A. Gaston
National Shawmut Bank
Bass Point
Austrian Ruler Orders Balloon for Nephews
Archduke Henry and Joseph Ferdinand win Emperor Francis Joseph's approval to have a private airship. The military aeronautic school will construct a balloon with a capacity not exceeding 1300 square metres for the pair amid the imperial passion for ballooning.
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Archduke Henry
Joseph Ferdinand
Francis Joseph
Military Aeronautic Institution
Wrong Font Smith and the river rescue
In pole Massachusetts printer Wrong Font Smith loses his job and endures quiet despair. Garlick saves Smith’s daughter Amy from the river and later provides work as Smith recovers, expressing gratitude while the family faces hardship.
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Font Smith
The
Tribune
Green
Garlick
Ter
Smith
Jim Tid
Bill Garlick
Amy
Mr. Garlick
Appendicitis Link Claimed To Cooking Utensils
Dr. William B. Wilkinson of Staten Island says two thirds of appendicitis cases in the country stem from cooking utensils. He notes a drop in cases twenty years ago when copper utensils were common, arguing utensil material influences incidence.
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New York
William B. Wilkinson
Staten Island
Wilkinson
Village Cookery Through Old Style Kitchen Tips
A collage of home recipes from Mrs. Bangert, Mrs. Perry, and others detailing corn and potato chowder, beet pickles, onion sauce for fowl, orange cabinet pudding, salt fish with pork and onions, creamed spice mix, and a cider aging method. Various names and addresses appear as attribution.
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Frank Bangert
Myrtle Avenue
South
Portland
Farmer Wins $20 Prize by Raising 23 Children
London August 9 George Farmery a farm laborer has won twenty dollars from the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society for raising twenty three children on less than four dollars a week without aid from the poor law authorities.
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London
George Farmery
Lincolnshire Agricultural Society
Miss Helen Gould Followed by Crank in Kingston
Miss Helen Gould, traveling from Irvington-on-Hudson to Roxbury, Delaware county, was followed by a crank in Kingston. The man was driven away from Roxbury station by her chauffeur.
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Helen Gould
Kingston
N. Y
Irvington-on-the-Hudset
Roxbury
Delaware County
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American Federation of Catholic Ties
Father Jutz
Harrison Avenue
Boston
Knights of Pythias
Dudley Street
Massachusetts
Columbus Avenues
Daniel E. Fallon
Pictou, Nova Scotia
John R. McCagl
Astor
St. John’s Church
North Camridge
University City
Father McCool
Cambridge Overseers of the Poor
Frederick W. Dallinger
Cambridge
N Street
Mr. Dallinger
Mission Church
James Hayes
St. Alphonsus A. A
M. J. Farrell
Prospect Street
Charlestown
Bay View
East Weymouth
William J. Hagerty
Joseph Magee
Dorchester
Quincy Bay
Fiose Rose
Russia
Gibson
Boys’ Union
Lisle
LIS
Batiste
Pire
Alaska Co
Snadalarica
Whee Pres
Press
Rena Sete
Shantung Pongee Coats
the Post
Sunday Post
E. F. Fisher
Box 314
East Wal
Pole
Ned
Tad
Garrick
New England
Nellie A. Perry
Nantucket
Florence E. Pearce
Norfolk Street
Roslindale
F. H. Raddin
Endicott Street
Lynn
Avon
Walsh
A. T. Freeman
Monument Street
Edgar W. Chase
Newburyport
Farmer
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