Banker’s Golden Wedding Observed for Higginson
Major Henry L. Higginson and Mrs. Higginson mark their 50th wedding anniversary at 191 Commonwealth Avenue. Higginson, 79, heads Lee, Higginson & Co. and is a noted banker, Harvard benefactor, and patron of music and literature. Born November 18, 1834 in New York, he entered Harvard in 1851 but left before completing the course.
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Major
Henry L. Higginson
Commonwealth Avenue
Major Higginson
Lee, Higginson & Co
Harvard
United States
New York
Beame
Major Higginson And His Civic Legacy
The text recounts Major Higginson’s Civil War service with the First Massachusetts Cavalry, his later cultural contributions in Boston including Soldiers Field and the Union clubhouse at Harvard, and his roles with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New England Conservatory of Music. Ida Agassiz was his wife before marriage.
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S. & E. Austin
Vienna
Aldie
First
Massachusetts Cavalry
Higginson
Harvard
Union
Sargent
Soldiers Field
Major Higginson
Boston Symphony Orchestra
New England Conservatory of Music
New England
Carnegie Institute
Ida Agassiz
Cunarder Alaunia Heads to Boston With 1000 Passengers
Nearly 2600 travelers sail into Boston on Sunday from European liners. The brand new Cunarder Alaunia under Captain A. H. Rostron, famed for the Titanic incident, will bring about 1000 passengers. The White Star Cretic, arriving from Mediterranean ports, is due early Sunday with another 1000 steerage and 2560 saloon and cabin passengers.
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Bost
Alaunia
A. H. Rostron
Cretic
Mediterranean
Alumni tribute funds Amen professorship at Exeter
Generous tribute was paid to Harlan Page Amen former 18 year Exeter principal at the New England Exeter alumni dinner. An anonymous $50 000 gift to establish the Harlan Page Amen professorship was announced with secrecy requested.
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Phillips Exeter Announced
Harlan Page Amen
Phillips Exeter Academy
New England Exeter
Harlan Page
Dartmouth
James M. Morton
Herbert L. Dillon
New York
J. A. Tufts
Academy
Exeter Academy
Hibben
Nichols
Exeter
Amen
Richard Perkins Eaton
Wellesley Hills
Joseph R. Webster
Stay on Farm Party Reaches Washington
A thousand two hundred youths from Ohio arrive in Washington as a reward for outstanding corn growing by the boys and baking by the girls, advancing the stay on the farm movement.
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Washington
Ohio
Library of Congress Reaches 2,128,255 Books in 1913 Report
Washington December 4 The Library of Congress reports a total of 2,128,255 books and pamphlets. An addition of 115,862 volumes during 1913 sets a new record, second only to a prior fifteen year period.
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Library OF Congress
Washington
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
Roosevelt Arrives in Buenos Aires Seeks Navy Ties
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Buenos Aires after visiting Bahia Blanca and inspecting the Argentine squadron. The minister of marine hosted a luncheon aboard the cruiser Buenos Aires, and Roosevelt attended a reception this afternoon.
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Buenos Ayres
Argentine
Theodore Roosevelt
Bahia Blanca
Roosevelt
Buenos Ayres Equestrian Society Presents Argentine Horse
The Buenos Ayres Equestrian Society awarded a prominent figure an Argentine horse, a gesture reflecting longstanding equine ties and ceremonial exchange within the organization.
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Buenos Ayres Equestrian Society
Fined $3000 for Immigration Violation at Ritz-Carlton
New York December 4 Jean Milton head chef at the Ritz Carlton Hotel was fined $3000 for violating immigration law by bringing three assistants to work under contract from an unspecified location.
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New York
Jean Milton
Ritz-Carlton
Milton pleads for leniency in chef and artist analogy
France report notes Milton's guilty plea and appeal for leniency comparing a chef to a grand opera singer as a parallel to his own work. It mentions a forthcoming full size pattern for an art student apron with instructions in the next Sunday Post.
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France
Milton
Endless variety of goods at lower prices and free gift boxes
The passage highlights widespread new items of known quality sold at prices cheaper than high-rent stores. It mentions neat gift boxes provided free upon request.
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Mrs. Higginson
Silent, Philanthropist
Chinchilla
Boston
Washington Street
Watts Guards Expressmen
Beane
Boston Mass
B.watts
Watts Detective Agency, Inc
Mass
Watts
South Boston
Paris Green
Nellie Allen
D Street
City Hospital
Charles Duncan
Luden
Luden’s
WM. H. Luden
the House of Kuppenheimer
Brockton
Beverly
Hyde Park
Lynn
Worcester
Roger W. Babson
Saturday Evening Post
East
Kuppenheimer
Kennedy
Kennedy- Kuppenheimer
Carr’s Melton
Hawley Streets
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