Boston tax rate climbs to record high for 1913
The Boston assessors set the 1913 tax rate at 17.20 per thousand, the highest in city history, amid a total valuation surpassing 1.52 billion dollars. The rise stems from larger city and state taxes and higher costs, with real estate gains dwarfed by bank stock increases and notable ward differences in property valuations.
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Boston
Martin
Hyde Park
Back Bay Ward
Ward
North End
South End
Back Bay
Bulgars Relinquish Adrianople Claim
Constantinople dispatch reports Bulgaria renounces its claim to the fortress of Adrianople in direct negotiations with Turkey in exchange for compensation elsewhere. The deal ends a long dispute over the strategic city.
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Adrianople
London
Constantinople
Turkey
Bulgaria
Bird Scores Strike Plan of Gardner for Governor
Charles Sumner Bird the Progressive candidate denounces A P Gardner plan to place railroads and street railways under compulsory arbitration. Bird calls the plan impractical noting state arbitration cannot regulate interstate commerce and criticizes Gardner’s remarks at Lake Washacum last Saturday.
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Charles Sumner Bird
A. P. Gardner
Gardner
Worcester
Lake Washacum
Bird
Mr. Bird
Massachusetts Arbitrate Stirs Labor Talks Across Rail Disputes
A speaker attacks Congressman Gardner for backing compulsory arbitration to settle strikes. He argues Massachusetts cannot decide interstate railroad issues and cites Erdman act limits. He warns such laws would worsen labor unrest and compares to Canada’s milder approach, urging root-cause reforms.
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Benton
Gardner
Massachusetts
New Haven
Boston
New England
Massachusetts Arbitration Board
Washington
National Congress
Lawrence
Hopedale
Ipswich
Tt Am
Canada
Bloodhounds Trail Knowles in Wilderness Test
Knowles plans a two month solo trek without gear to prove man can live from nature. He leaves birch bark reports each two weeks and a search party will follow if missing. Harry M. Pierce provides a bloodhound to track Knowles using discarded clothes as the scent anchor.
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Knowles
Harry M. Pierce
King and Bartlett
Pierce
Knowles Urged to Learn Primitive Living by Grinnell
Henry Br. Grinnell of Randolph writes to the Post proposing methods for artist Knowles to obtain tools for primitive living. He suggests making a fire, heating quartz and flint to crack edges, and pounding hemlock roots for strong lines, detailing a survival outline.
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Henry B. Grinnell
Randolph
Post
Knowles
Henry BR. Grinnell
Randolph, Mass
Knowles Feat Inspires Reader Poem and Warning
A Post reader offers an original poem inspired by Knowles unique feat and warns that a foolish mutt with a gun may mistake him for a bear. The verse cautions that in pursuing his Adam like feat Knowles should hesitate about sleep or risk losing a rib.
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Post
Knowles
Unique Campaign for Lt Governor Goetting Heads a Hat
Col August H Goetting Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor runs a frugal campaign with headquarters under his hat He has served 28 years as State committee chairman and council member winning five Western wards He emphasizes public service over spending and has helped many people during his long career
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August H. Goetting
Lieeutenant
Goetting
Flo
Republican Party
Take Off Trains to Summer Resorts
The Boston and Maine railroad yesterday began reducing service to summer resorts. Several trains were discontinued and more will be removed nearly every day through mid September.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Freckles Vanish With Ethine Prescription Guarantee
A prominent physician writes a freckle removal remedy that claims rapid results. The ethine treatment is sold by Riker Jaynes and Houghton & Dutton with a money back guarantee if it fails. Early applications reportedly reduce freckles and can lighten the complexion.
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Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
Houghton & Dutton Drug Dept
Catholic Teachers Institute Opens at Boston College Hall
About six hundred attendees from parochial schools in the Boston archdiocese gathered at Boston College Hall for the fifth annual Catholic Teachers Institute. Rev. George A. Lyons organized the event, which runs through the week, with lectures led by Rev. Robert Swickerath of Holy Cross College Worcester.
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Boston
Catholic Teachers’ Institute
Boston College Hall
George A. Lyons
Robert Swickerath
S. J
Holy Cross College
Worcester
Institute Aims to Elevate Christian Education Through Lectures
About 440 teachers from 25 religious orders attend a diocesan institute led by Father Lyons and Father Swickerath. Sessions cover recitation methods, use of blackboard, geography, catechism lessons, liturgy, study techniques, imagination, and the teacher pupil relationship. A critic warns against the pumping in of knowledge and stresses developing faculties and self activity.
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Sisters of Notre Dame
Sisters of St. Joseph
Dominican Sisters
Sisters of Charity
Xaverian Brothers
Father Lyons
Father Swickerath
Schokerath
Canadian Polar Expedition Vessel Karluk Wrecked Off Alaska
NOME Alaska Aug 25 The old whaler Karluk carrying Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian polar expedition ran into heavy ice off Point Barrow and may have to unload cargo The damage is not fully known but a large hole in the hull is reported by the revenue cutter Bear crews
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Nome
Alaska
Karluk
Vilhjalmar Stefansson
Arctic
Point Barrow
Bear
Five Year Old Burns to Death Playing With Matches
Edmund Chatney of Winter Street is dying at City Hospital in Haverhill after his clothing caught fire while he played with matches near his home. The boy had been sent to buy a box of matches for his mother and began to amuse himself on the way home.
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Haverhill
Edmund Chatney
Winter Street
City Hospital
Alpine Re elected President of Plumbers Union
John R. Alpine of Chicago formerly of Boston was unanimously re elected general president of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers Gas Fitters Steam Fitters and Steam Fitters Helpers of the United States and Canada at the closing session in Ford Hall yesterday.
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John R. Alpine
Chicago
Boston
United Association of Journeymen
United States
Canada
Ford Hall
Williams Treatment ad promises kidney relief and offers free advice
An unsolicited advertisement claims The Williams Treatment cures kidney and bladder diseases rheumatism and uric acid troubles. It promises free medical advice from Dr. Williams and a 60 cent bottle for ten cents plus postage, directed to The Dr. D. A. Williams Co in East Hampton Connecticut.
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Williams
Dr. D. A. Williams Co
Postoffice
East Hampton
Connecticut
Pipe fitters close convention with officer slate
After a week of sessions the pipe fitters adjourned with major business completed. General Secretary Thomas E. Burke of Chicago was re elected. Officers elected include vice presidents from cities such as San Francisco Chicago Rochester Norfolk Denver Memphis and more. Next convention set for Cleveland in 1916.
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Thomas E. Burke
Chicago
John Coefield
San Francisco
John P. Villikia
George Hilliard
Rochester
NW. Y
Frank Jordan
Norfolk
James McKee
Fitisburg
Louis Gurard
Montreal
James Bulger
Denver
Col
Martin Conroy
St. Paul
Bert Cone
Memphis
E. W. Shirk
Cleveland
A. J. Ironsides
Vancouver
W. J. Scanlon
Springfield
Mass
Edward Duffy
New York
Joseph Sullivan
St. Louis
Edward W. Leonard
New York State
Frank J. Kennedy
William Lynn
Cincinnati
James Higgins
Thomas “B. Clark
James H. Sheehe
Boston
John W. Brace
Toronto
Kidney remedy advertisement for Dr Kilmer Swamp Root
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a gentle herbal remedy for kidney liver and bladder trouble. It appeals to quick relief and lists 50c and 1 size bottles with a mail sample offer and pamphlet from Kilmer & Co. Bing hamton NY.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Boy Becomes Living Torch After Fire Set in Store
Five year old Theodore Whalen was set on fire by a Playmate at 121 Spring Street Cambridge last night around 10. He ran toward his home at 119 Spring Street and was saved by a passerby who smothered the flames. He suffered severe burns but was taken to Cambridge Relief Hospital where doctors say he will likely recover.
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Theodore Whalen
Mary St. Martin
Spring Street
Cambridge
Cambridge Relief Hospital
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