Mark 50 Years of Colored Freedom in Boston
Boston colored citizens marked the 50th anniversary of the 13th amendment with services at Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner statues and a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall. Speaker William D. Brigham urged real equality and denounced segregation while urging white allies to back civil rights and voting.
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Boston
Wendell Phillips
Charles Sumner
Faneuil Hall
William D. Brigham
Brigham
United States
Boston Latin School
E. T. Morris
Equal Rights League
Wendell Philips
Phillips
Sumner
Garrison
John Boyle O'Reilly
W. J. Furlong
Mr. Cook
Furlong
Theodore Drury
Citizens’ Committee
Mary E. Gibson
New England Suffrage League
Alexander Wright
St. Mark Literary Union
J. Gordon Street
Wendell Phillips Association
Home Destroyed Dormitory Prompts Prayer for Reconstruction
In Hatboro Christ's Home for Homeless and Destitute Children recounts a fire last Thursday that destroyed a $20,000 dormitory building. Seventy workers and 180 children petition God three times daily as they hope for reconstruction and restoration.
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Philadelphia
Christ’s Home For
Hatboro
Submarine Foolkiller Found in Chicago River
The submarine Foolkiller, missing for 25 years, has been located at the bottom of the Chicago River and will be raised and preserved. It earned its name after debuting in 1871 when submarines were new and it reportedly sank its first owner during a trial run.
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Chicago
Fattest Woman in U S Ill with Pneumonia in Rhode Island
Miss Elma Moore of Oil City Penn the nations heaviest woman at 749 pounds is ill with pneumonia at Blackstone Hospital Pawtucket Rhode Island where she had been visiting E A Hazard of Darlington when struck down about two weeks ago.
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Oid City
Penn
United States
Pawtucket
R. I
Elma Moore
Oil City
Blackstone Hospital
E. A. Hazard
Darlington
Miss Moore's Hospital Transfer Follows Folding Door Solution
Miss Moore, carried by eleven men, was moved to a second floor room with folding doors after no standard entry could fit in. Her mother, Mrs. John B. Moore, remains with her as Dr. Elizabeth Naylor reports rapid recovery.
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John B. Moore
Elizabeth Naylor
Miss Moore
Threshing Crew Kills 150 Rattlers Near Wakeene y
A crew near Wakeene y in Trego County killed 150 rattlesnakes in minutes while threshing, reducing the reptile count from midweek totals.
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Wakeeney
Kan
Trego County
Immigrant Champion Calls for Equity in Democracy
Dr. Edward A. Steiner of Grinnell College Iowa argued at Ford Hall that millions proposed for military preparedness should instead fund full and fair chances for every immigrant. He asserted that true democracy is found in immigrants, declaring one may inherit fondness for codfish balls but democracy must be born again.
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Edward A. Steiner
Grinnell College
Iowa
Ford Hall
Democratic Making speech on immigration and labor at Ford Hall
The speaker in Ford Hall’s new volume Democracy in the Making calls immigration a challenge to universal brotherhood. He notes Indians were first to fear conserving change and cites Ellis Island arrivals as proof of ongoing labor shifts and the need for fair distribution of newcomers. He criticizes government inefficiency and favors redirecting defense funds to provide equal opportunity.
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Ford Hall
America
Ellis Island
New Plea for Arlington St
Boston citizens urge preserving the Common while fixing traffic congestion without damage. They cite subway station intervals on Tremont and Beaulston sides and accuse the elevated railway of failing to meet legislative station requirements. The authors press for better circulation to unlock business and property values and oppose widening streets or removing cars from Washington street.
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Boston
Tremont
Park Streets
Tremont Street
Beaylston Street
Arlington Street
Washington
Adam and Eve settlers begin Boston trek from Portsmouth
Walter S. Estes and his wife, who recently lived as Adam and Eve in the Maine woods, started a walk to Boston from Portsmouth at 5 p.m. today. He aims to reach Newburyport by 11 p.m. and Lynn by 9 a.m. tomorrow, while his wife plans to join in Lynn and continue to Boston. she stayed in a hospital here three weeks with frozen feet from their Maine ordeal.
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Portsmouth
Walter S. Estes
Maine Woods
Boston
Newburyport
Lynn
Maine
Estes
Kearsarge House
Funeral of Ivory Allen at Chelsea residence
The funeral of Ivory R. Allen former Chelsea Board of Assessors chairman was held at his 12 Clark Avenue home with Rev. Arthur L. Howe officiating. Delegations from Post 35 G A R and other veterans groups led the burial service, pallbearers included city and lodge representatives, and burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Ivory R. Allen
Chelsea
Theodore Camp
Sons of Veterans
Walter I
Chadbourne Command
Women’s Relief Corps
William A. Prescott
Charles F. Joy
George H. Willey
Duncan Henderson
Winnisimmet Lodge of Odd Fellows
Woodlawn Cemetery
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Cornelius
Christ Child
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God
Xmas Leather Goods
Morocco
Levant
Juliette
Paradise
la Belle
Fifth Avenue
Emergency Baggage CO
Washington St. Washington St
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Corner West Street
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Hi & Essex
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Steiner
Ates
Arlington ST
Richard M. Bradley
Paul M. Hamlin
Boylston Real Estate Owners’ Association
Eve
C. A.W. Crosby & Son Jewelers & Silversmiths
Crosby
Washington St
Ivory Allen
Army
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