Prayer bride leaves Rev Lawson waiting at Roxbury church
Orange New Jersey December reports Rev George H Lawson of Roxbury Mass waited three hours for May Mason heiress who was announced as heaven sent bride The wedding was postponed amid publicity and the minister planned a private future ceremony He denied money mattered and said he would marry if the bride agreed calling prayer brides contrary to Christian teaching
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Orange
N. J
United News
George H. Lawson
Roxbury
Mass
May Mason
Lawson
Atlantic City
Mason
Tinkham Asks About the 14th
Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts issues a public letter to President Harding praising his plan to reference widespread disrespect for law tied to the 18th amendment and urging equal, impartial enforcement of the Constitution. He cites the 14th amendment’s mandate to reduce representation for disfranchisement as currently unenforced and nullified.
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Washington
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Harding
Congress
Andy Lawson Promoter and Self-Styled Hero Fades From Roxbury Turmoil
Known as Andy Lawson, a baseball promoter politician and ex soldier, faced divorce after wife May Mason fled to Atlantic City. He once opened a Dudley street shop named the Dugout and promoted several outlaw leagues including the Continental Baseball League, which collapsed after his $60,000 Massachusetts State House filing.
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George Herman Lawson
Roxbury
Andy’’ Lawson
East Orange
N. J
May Mason
Atlantic City
Europe
Dudley Street
Zeebrugge
House of Representatives
Lawson
Boston
Tremont Temple
Andy” Lawson
Ann Arbor College
Massachusetts State House
Russian Grand Opera Presents Boris Gougonoff In Boston
The Russian Grand Opera Company opens tonight at the Boston Opera House with Boris Gougonoff by Moussorgsky as part of a 16 performance run. The company boasts an active repertoire of over a dozen operas and extravagant costumes, prompting requests from American producers to copy originals. The costumes are lavish and costly, designed by leading Russian artists and enhanced by jewels and exotic coloring, with three wardrobe mistresses handling the fittings.
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Russian Grand Opera Company
Boston Opera House
Boris Gougonoff
Moussorgsky
Russia
Death in Lewiston from War Trophy Pistol
Bertram N. Dyer of South Portland was instantly killed in Lewiston when a German war trophy pistol discharged while he examined it at his brother Clarence S. Dyer’s home. The bullet passed through his hand into his chest.
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Lewiston
Bertram N. Dyer
South Portland
Clarence S. Dyer
Dyer
Dr. Mary Alice Emerson Dies. University Leader and Author
Dr. Mary Alice Emerson head of English at Boston University School of Religious Education died yesterday at Evans Memorial Hospital. Born 1865 in Grafton Vermont she was BU's first woman PhD recipient and earlier led English departments at Plymouth N H Normal School St Johnsbury Academy Bridgewater Normal School and Carleton College. She authored municipal pageant Pilgrims of the Old World and the New and founded the Boston Manuscript Club while serving various educational groups. She is survived by her mother Anice Wakefield Emerson.
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Mary Alice Emerson
Boston University School of Religious Education
Evans Memorial Hospital
Union Congregational Church
University
Grafton
Rufus
Anice Wakefield Emerson
Bridgewater Normal School
Wellesley College
Boston University
Oxford
Eng
Emerson
New England
Middle West
Plymouth
N. H
St. Johnsbury Academy
Carleton College
Northfield
Boston Common
United States
Europe
Boston Manuscript Club
Boston Y. W. C. A
American Pageant Directors’ Association
New England College Teachers’ Association
Wellesley College Shakespeare Society
Rhodes Scholars Named From New England Colleges
Swarthmore Pa Dec 3 The annual election of American Rhodes scholars to Oxford was announced by President Frank Aydelotte. New England winners include F O Mathiesson Yale Tarrytown N Y E B Ham Bowdoin College 16 Conant Hall Cambridge Mass H P L Perkins Williams College 16 Currier Hall Williamstown Mass T Anderson Dartmouth College 64 Kirkland Street Cambridge Mass J A Wilson Brown University 32 Hope College Providence R I G V Kidder University of Vermont Burlington Vermont.
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Swarthmore
Rhodes
University of Oxford
Frank Aydelotte
Swarthmore College
New England
Connecticut
F. O. Mathiesson
Yale
Tarrytown
N. Y
Maine
E. B. Ham
Bowdoin College
Conant Hall
Cambridge
Mass
Massachusetts
H. PL
Shot Duck After Sunset Near New London
Six men were arrested by deputy game wardens on a charge of violating game laws for shooting ducks after sunset on Eight Mile River near New London. L. C. Rudolf an inspector with the State highways department, Nathan McNamara a Hartford policeman, and B. M. Talcott Moodus town constable were among those taken into custody along with three local farmers.
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New London
Conn
State Highways Department
Eight Mile River
Here
L. C. Rudolf
Nathan McNamara
Hartford
B. M. Talcott
Moodus
Woman Dies on Lynn-Bound Train
Miss Marion F. Hoar, 65, housekeeper for John J. Hanlon of Peabody, fell ill on a Lynn-bound Narrow Gauge train yesterday afternoon and died soon after. Doctors said she suffered a heart failure attack.
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Marion F. Hoar
John J. Hanlon
Andover Street
Peabody
Ten Rutland railroad workers hurled from 30-foot embankment
Ten workmen on the Rutland railroad were hurled down a 30-foot embankment when a motor truck jumped the rails at Lebanon Springs New York this afternoon. Four men were seriously injured and brought to the House of Mercy Hospital in nearby Fittsfield. Names given include Charles Babcock Peter Babcock Pierie and Herbert Church along with Thomas Allen. The six others escaped serious injuries as the rails had spread.
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Fittsfield
Rutland
Lebanon Springs
N. Y
House of Mercy Hospital
Charles Babcock
Petersburg
Joh Pierie
Herbert Church
Berlin
Thomas Allen
Ryders Mills
Romanian Astronomer Reports New Star Discovery
The astronomer Royal says Romanian astronomer Zivierel has found a first magnitude star in right ascension 282 degrees and 63 degrees north of the pole.
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London
Astronomer Royal
Zivierel
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Whitby
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Italy
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