Miss Lily Lena Compared to Lillian Russell on Stage
Miss Lily Lena was voted best looking woman on the English stage and flooded by souvenir postcard publishers seeking exclusive rights to her photograph. The press began calling her The British Lillian Russell. She is known for lavish gown spending and is welcomed in England’s fashionable shops where clerks note she spends money like an American.
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Miss Lena
Lillian Russell
Miss Russell
England
Lena
Labor unions report 1909 officer elections across Boston region
Joseph F. McManus reelected president of Boston Bookbinders Union 16 with officers named including Henry D. Fallona and Thomas Patterson. Park Department Assembly 7576 master workman Patrick McKenzie re elected for 84th term. Various locals, from rail workers to teamsters, announce new officers and upcoming installations as wage talks and grievances proceed at city halls and union halls.
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Joseph F. McManus
Boston Bookbinders’ Union
Henry D. Fallona
Thomas Patterson
George Hoeffner
Ralph Shephard
Leonard Young
Central Labor Union
John Flaherty
Daniel Chute
John ©. Webber
Jeremiah Connelly
Winslow McElwain
William Allen
Allied Printing Trades Council
McManus
Fallona
Connelly
Patrick McKenzie
Park Department Assembly
Michael Martin
Charles Linehan
Michael O’ Toole
Esquire
Richard Haley
John Abbott
K. of L., Incorporated
P. J. McCarthy
Timothy Sullivan
John Haley
Michael Hartigan
James Broderick
City Hall
Hibbard
J. Cronin
Carman
Bay State Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
James J. Harrington
Charles Knutson
Daniel Collins
William Nye
John Dryan
Edward J. Trainor
Herbert S. Bowles
James J. Brown
Boston Lodge 97
Brotherhood of Railroad
T Yainmen
Fred F. Lambert
A. B. Abbot
M. V. Brennan
Charles Bennett
John Simonds
Photo Engravers’ Union 8
The
International
Pioneer Lodge 5
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
R. H. Kendall
Frank Chagnon
George French
D. R. Daniels
I. J. Selee
Oscar Lord
E. A. Booth
George Callahan
Lucius Lord
Chelsea-East Boston
John A. McGonigle
Bernard O'Hare
Joseph Lally
John BR. Noonan
Thomas Rannahan
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Joseph A. Francis
Edward J. Murphy
John J. Diamond
Bernard O’hare
John R. Noonan
A. F. of L
Walter A. Batley
Lawrence Kenny
John McNulty
William Meehan
John J. Leary
Joseph Putman
George Meehan
William Ross
Harry Downes
Martin Putman
League of Navy Yard Employees
Longshoremen’s Trade Council
Chelsea Board of Control
Chelsea City Men's Union
Michael F. O’brien
Lynn City Men
Painters’ Hall
Metropolitan Park Employees’ Union
Bailey’s Hall
Malden
Somerville City Men’s Union
Grimmons
Somerville
James H. Sheehe
Boston Plumbers’ Union 12
United Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steamfitters and Helpers’ Union
Attleboro
District Assembly
Knights of Labor, Incorporated
Tremont Street
Schneider
Bakers’ Union 45
Jack Lipp
Cigarmakers’ Union
Bagley
Tobacco Workers’ Union
Boston Bakers’ Union
New England District Council of Electrical Workers’ Unions
Hartford
Frank J. McNulty
Norwood Bookbinders’ Union
Temperance Hall
John J. Barry
Boston
Theatrical Stage Employees’ Union
International Executive Board
Chicago
Master Brewers’ Board of Trade
Brewery Workers’ Union
May Marry on Twelve Dollars a Week in Boston
Harvard economist Professor Thomas Nixon Carver says twelve dollars weekly could support marriage in Boston while acknowledging it is too low for New York. He debunks the idea that love alone sustains a marriage and suggests that six hundred dollars yearly, or twelve dollars a week, is a fairer minimum, noting cost of living differences by location.
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Boston
Thomas Nixon Carver
Department of Economics
Harvard
New York
Carver
Herbert Johnson
Isthmian Commission Buys Two Ships for Panama Canal
The steamers Shawmut and Tremont, now in Seattle, have been purchased by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the Boston Navigation Company for 1 157 391 dollars. The cost represents an eight percent discount from the vessels cost six years ago.
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Washington
Shawmut
Tremont
Seattle
Wash
Isthmian Canal Commission
Boston Navigation Company
Panama Canal
Delegates Fight Ambulance Station Move in Boston
Boston Central Labor Union delegates protested the transfer of the South Boston ambulance station from Carney Hospital to the City Hospital department. They argued it would endanger accident victims and urged the city to keep service in South Boston. A committee would seek Mayor Hibbard to block the transfer.
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Boston Central Labor Union
South Boston
Carney Hospital
City Hospital
East Boston
Hibbard
Henry Abrahams
Merchants’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Belef
John E. Baldwin
Board of Aldermen
Boston City Election Notice 1908 City Clerk Announces Polls
City of Boston election notice calls male voters to polls for three year Street Commissioner seven Aldermen two School Committee members and Common Council seats plus a yes or no liquor license question. Female voters may vote for two School Committee members. Polls open six A M close four P M at designated precincts. John I Priest City Clerk.
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Board of Election Commissioners
Common Council
Allest
John I. Priest
Explosion Wrecks a Leverett Street Home
A leverett street tenement at 87 Leverett street suffered a range explosion that hurled iron fragments through walls and ceilings and set the room ablaze. Three occupants escaped, with baby Sarah Marcus injured by burns and a blow to the forehead. Marcus and Miss Siegel prevented wider disaster by acting quickly to flood the fire and remove the child. Authorities consider dynamite or a miner lamp in coal as possible causes.
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Leverett Street
I. Marcus
Marcus
Sarah Marcus
Hannah Marcus
Sarah
Rebecca Siegel
Miss Siegel
Mrs. Marcus
Mr. Marcus
Noyes
Smothered to Death During Fit
Mrs. Anna Mc Guire 57 was found dead in bed in Rochester. She suffered an epilepsy attack during the night, rolled onto her face and smothered to death.
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Rochester
Anna McGuire
Girl says she was abducted in Amesbury
Mary Antell aged 15 disappeared Saturday afternoon after exchanging books at the Amesbury Public Library. She later said a man accosted her outside the library and forced her into a closed carriage to Ipswich, about 20 miles away, where she was kept overnight in a deserted house before escaping and returning to Amesbury.
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Amesbury
Mary Antell
John C. Antell
Amesbury Public Library
Ryan
Norman Grandin
Ipswich
Newburyport
Mayo Men's Benevolent Club Thanks the Post
A Mayo Men s Benevolent Club meeting at Friendship Hall 12 Kneeland Street followed initiation of candidates and reviewed the concert and ball held December 2 at Mechanics Building. Members thanked Miss McGregor and Miss Gill of East Boston for concert work and praised the Boston Post for publicity. Officers to be elected December 20.
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Mayo Men’s Benevolent Club
Friendship Hall
Kneeland Street
Mechanics’ Building
McGregor
Miss Gill
East Boston
Boston Post
Labor Report Shows Wage Boost in All Occupations
The first annual report on changes in wages and hours in Massachusetts covers the year ending September 30, 1907. It notes 176,510 workers had wage increases, 85,731 saw two raises, with 98.36 percent of boosts granted without strike totaling $190,845.76 weekly or about $1.10 more per worker per week.
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Massachusetts
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Mrs Corkery Recovers From Husband Attack in West Roxbury
Mrs Mary Corkery of West Roxbury is expected to recover after being stabbed and beaten by her husband at their Canterbury street home Sunday morning. Jeremiah Corkery died at the hospital from injuries to his throat and chest, sustained in the confrontation.
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Mary Corkery
West Roxbury
Canterbury Street
Jeremiah Corkery
Deaths in Somerville and surrounding towns notice
Death notices from Boston area papers list services for Henry Robert Bormann of Somerville at 63 Waterhouse Street Tuesday at 2 pm and Mary Carew of Cambridge with requiem mass next morning. Other obituaries include Catherine Collins of Boston. Mary Curran of Weymouth. John Harper of Charlestown. Annie Hart of Charlestown. Alice McGreal of East Boston. Edward Murray of Dorchester. John O Keefe of Back Bay. Winifred Quigley of East Boston. Macy Smith of Sagamore Farm Ipswich. Mary Vasconcelas of East Boston. with funeral details and mass times across multiple churches and cemeteries.
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Bormann
Somerville
Henry Robert Bormann
Waterhouse Street
Carew
Cambridge
Mary Carew
Cavanaugh
Martin Carew
Berkshire Piace
St. Mary’s
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Sydney
Cape Breton
Collins
Boston
Catherine Collins
Commercial Street
St. Stephen's Church
Curran
Weymouth
Mary A. Curran
Clark
Torrey Lane
Church of the Sacred Heart
St. Francis Xavier
Harper
John
Ellen Harper
Charlestown
Michael Teehan
Pleasant Street
St. James Church
Harrison Avenue
Hart
Annie G. Hart
Convey
James J. Hart
Yincoln Street
St. Mary’s Church
Warren Street
McGreal
Alice
Edward
Catherine McGreal
Bennington Street
Star of the Sea
Murray
Dorchester
Edward A. Murray
First Massachusetts Cavalry
Robert W. Murray
Dorset Street
St. Margaret’s Church
O'Keefe
Carney Hospital
John J. O'Keefe
St. Cecilia’s Church
Back Bay
D. T. O’keefe
Glen Road
Jamaica Plain
Quigley
Winifred
John Quigley
Liverpool Street
Church of Most Holy Redeemer
Smith
Miss Macy Smith
Mother
Sagamore Farm
Hamilton
St. Joseb's Church
Ipswich
Vasconsellas
Mary A. J
Manuel Cunha
Frank €. Vasconsellas
John Hancock Life Ins. Co
Chelsea Street
St. John the Baptist Church
North Bennet Street
Truro
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