Real Estate Delegation Heads to National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Seventy five members of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange travel in three cars to Washington for the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. Taft to host a 2 30 reception with a 6 dinner and reception for Massachusetts officials and lawmakers. Speakers include Ramsdell Moore and Small of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association.
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Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
National Congress
Taft
Senate
House
Massachusetts
Joseph FE. Ramsdell
J. Hampton Moore
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
John Humphrey Small
Taft to Hear Cadets Dismissal via West Point Cases
President Taft promised a hearing likely on Saturday for those connected to the recent dismissals of West Point cadets for drunkenness, detailing a review of the cases.
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TAFT
Washington
West Point
Fireworks plant blast prompts state police probe
The Hunt fireworks plant explosion in West Weymouth Landing injured six and shook Weymouth. State police will investigate cause while owners Fred and Russell Hunt face questions about possible deliberate triggering. Six injured include Joseph Walsh and Thomas Murphy, with glass injuries to Angie DeNeal and Frank Clapp. The blast wrecked sheds and shattered windows across eight buildings.
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Hunt
West Weymouth Landing
Fred
Russell Hunt
Joseph Walsh
Weymouth
Walsh
Thomas Murphy
Broad Street
Angie DeNeal
Frank Clapp
Russell
Fred Hunt
Miss
Mussell Hunt
Mayo Men Hold 7th Annual Ball Tonight
The Mayo Men's Benevolent Association hosts its seventh annual ball in Paul Revere and Talbot halls this evening. Mayo figures including Mayor Fitzgerald and leaders from Irish clubs attend, with guests from New York and Philadelphia. The grand march is led by President Joseph M. Thornton and Mrs. Thornton, and a souvenir of great historical events will be given to each patron.
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Mayo Men’s Benevolent Association
Paul Revere
Talbot
Mayo
Mayor Fitzgerald
P. J. Sullivan
O'Connell Memorial Celtic Club
Jeremiah Carroll
Gaelic Alliance
Michael J. Jordan
United Irish League
Dr. Dillon
Peter A. Conroy
Central Council of Irish County Clubs
James E. Kenney
Daniel J. Dwyer
Katherine R. Walsh
Patrick J. O’daly
Boston College
Boston
Joseph M. Thornton
Philadelphia
P. F. Hastings
P. H. Brogan
New Uniforms for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company will unveil new parade uniforms next June on Boston Common for public display. The design features a dark blue wool lined coat with a shield, pearl gray vest and trousers with a red stripe, and a shaker hat, blending Continental and Colonial styles.
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Artillery Company
Boston Common
London
Artillery
Salvation Army of Massachusetts Aid Surpasses 27,000 in Coverage
The annual report shows 27,000 helped with food rent coal and medicine and 2579 found employment while four were aided from self harm. Thanksgiving and Christmas efforts fed 16,225 and 3,000 children received gifts as nearly 4,000 garments were provided.
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Salvation Army of Massachusetts
New England
Organization For Relief Work
Massachusetts
State Board of Charities
Theodore Roosevelt
Rider Haggard
The
Salvation Army
England
Harvard Wellesley romance culminates in New York wedding
Miss Marjory Rimmer of Wellesley 1908 marries Ralph Fogg Whitehead, Harvard 1904, in New York City. Rimmer, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Herrick Rimmer of New York, finished Wellesley in three years and led the Debating Club. Whitehead, an architect and builder, is son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. W. Whitehead of Newton Highlands. After a monthlong Southwest trip, the couple will reside in Brookline.
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Harvard
Hyde Street
Newton Highlands
Glimpses of Old Boston Praised by Local Reader
Edward E. Whidden of Ashmont writes to the Boston Post commending the Glimpses of Old Boston series. He urges readers to study the pictures and captions for better historical education and suggests a published collection of the installments.
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Boston
Boston Post
Edward E. Whidden
Bailey Street
Ashmont
Mathieson Heads New Prince Edward Island Cabinet
J A Mathieson serves as premier and attorney general leading the new Conservative cabinet of Prince Edward Island. J A McNeill is public works commissioner, Murdock McKinnon agriculture with others including John McLean Charles Dalton J A McDonald A E Arsenault W S Stewart and Murdock Kennedy. The house currently has 16 Conservatives and 14 Liberals. A general provincial election is set for the second week in January.
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Charlottetown
Senator Hoke Smith Refuses Dual Salary
Washington reports Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia declined pay as both U.S. senator and Georgia governor. He elected Georgia salary starting July 12 and returned about $8000 accrued senator pay, leaving the federal treasury $3000 richer.
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Washington
Hoke Smith
Georgia
United States
Sith
Seaver seeks details on eight forgery charges
Augustus Seaver, charged with making and filing forged nomination papers in the last gubernatorial campaign, moved in Superior Criminal Court yesterday for specifications on each of the eight counts. Patrick F. Sheehan, arrested and arraigned with Seaver, was again brought before the court after posting $5000 bond with probation terms.
Dedication of Driscoll School in Brookline
Four hundred people attended the dedication of Driscoll School on Westbourne Terrace Brookline named for Michael Driscoll longtime school committee member Franklin W Hobbs chaired the ceremony Father Thomas F McManus gave the invocation George W Martin former State Board of Education secretary spoke Musicians from the High School performed under Samuel Cole Driscoll thanked the committee and citizens for forty years of service and said words fail to express his gratitude.
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Westbourne Terrace
Brookline
Michael Driscoll
Franklin W. Hobbs
Thomas F. McManus
St. Lawrence Church
George W. Martin
State Board of Education
Samuel Cole
Driscoll
Hobbs
Deserter James Wood Dies Aboard Bay State Steamer
James A. Wood of Portland Maine died on the Bay State steamer from morphine overdose believed self administered. He had just completed a ten month desertion sentence from the Woodbury revenue cutter and was found unconscious in Stateroom 162 with a four tablet morphine supply. An autopsy was planned at the North Grove Street morgue and a note mentions a South End woman.
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James A. Wood
Forestreet
Portland
Woodbury
Cumberland County
Bay State
Eastern Steamship Company
Wood
Boston
South End
Magrath
North Grove Street
James Wood
Johnson
Basis of United Shoe suit aired in Boston court
Hearing in the Harry E. Cilley case before Judge Colt examined the basis of the Sherman anti trust suit. Cilley claims 100000 damages alleging the United Shoe Machinery Company drove him from business via lease contracts and uniform royalties.
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United Shoe Machinery Company
United States
Harry E. Cilley
Boston
Shoe Machinery Trust
Colt
United States Circuit Court
Shoe Machinery Company
Cilley
Everett N. Curtis
United Shoe Machinery
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