Father Dies as Daughter Becomes Nun in Alleghany
Miss Agnes R. Flanagan of East Boston was inducted into the Order of St. Frances at Alleghany New York in a ceremony attended by her mother and four family members while at home her father John A. Flanagan died from acute indigestion during the night. John A. Flanagan had worked for the city of Boston and earlier as a State Street newsboy. The family had traveled to Alleghany for the ceremony.
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Agnes R. Flanagan
Bennington Street
East Boston
Sisterhood Order of St. Frances
Alleghany
N. Y
John A. Flanagan
State Street
Hfe
Boston
Sisterhood
Mary A. Flanagan
The Bull Baiters Umpire and a Girl Playread Story
A noted baseball tale by Gerald Beaumont appears in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece centers on an umpire and a girl in a pivotal play he could not call, titled The Bull Baiters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Beaumont
Boston Sunday Post
Hampton Falls Plans 200th Anniversary Celebration
Residents of Hampton Falls New Hampshire plan a grand 200th town anniversary on August 24 with events and a program featuring Alice Brown writer and poet and Mrs Alvan T Fuller sing with Arthur Foote providing piano.
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Hampton Falls
N. H
Granite State Village
Alice Brown
Alvan T. Fuller
Fuller
Massachusetts
Arthur Foote
Boston
Hampton
New England
Ralph Adams Cram
Franklin B. Sanborn
Will Cram
Claims lodge losing power in road to 1920 Senate race
Judge Riley spoke at Holyoke and Springfield rallies for Sherman N. Whipple, accusing Lodge of guiding a faltering Republican administration. He faulted Congress at a low ebb, the tariff stalemate, and the Farm Block takeover, while urging Gaston to back Democratic candidates and policies.
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Thomas P. Riley
Holyoke
Springfield
Sherman N. Whipple
United States
Lodge
Washington
Harding
Congress
War Weeks
Republican Party
Senate
Old Guard
New England
William A. Gaston
United States Senate
Riley
Boston Elevated Company
Boy Nearly Drowns at Glen Echo Lake
Thomas Kelley nine year old Roxbury youth narrowly escaped death while swimming at Glen Echo Lake in Stoughton. Campers aided by Martin McNary of South Boston brought him to shore after a near drowning incident. Continuous supervision aided by Mrs. Julia Edwards and family.
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Stoughton
Thomas Kelley
Mary Kelley
Pontiac Street
Roxbury
Julia Edwards
Indian Lane
Glen Echo Lake
Martin McNary
South Boston
Father of Nineteen Sentenced After Apple Orchard Altercation
William Daniels of Saugus spent a night in Concord jail and paid a $5 fine for assaulting Ivar Peterson of Acton after his children, 19 in number, took apples from an orchard while he changed a tire. He said the punishment mattered less than the fruit his children did not receive.
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Saugus
William Daniels
Concord
Ivar Peterson
Acton
Walter
Peterson
Darby Field First Summit of Mt Washington Recalled
The 1642 ascent by Darby Field is described as the first climb of Mt Washington in the White Mountains. A Boston man exiled from England he began from Exeter New Hampshire with Indian guides who balked at the summit fear. Field pressed on alone then returned with two followers amid chasms and dense woods.
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Mt. Washington
Darby Field
White Mountains
Boston
Old Boston
Tincolshire
England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Exeter
Pigswacket
Fryeburg
Pigwacket
Bose
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Boston Post
Office of the Post
Summer Street
Post
Washington Street
N. Y. World
Prece Pub. Cos
Los Angeles
Ite
Chamber of Commerce
California
Whipple
Ajax Crewe
Ajax Rubber Company, Inc
Brookline Avenue
Wilson Bros
Court St
Scollay Sq
BY William Justin Mann
R.h.white Co
Beach
Muslin
Chintz
Nahant
la France
White Star
Norfolk
Boys’ Own Store
Toy Dept
Welzut
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