Engagement of Elizabeth Sherley Ends with Captain Shevlin
Baltimore December 26 Miss Elizabeth Sherley says her engagement to Yale football captain Tom Shevlin was broken for reasons not due to her youth. She states she will not disclose the exact causes at this time.
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Elizabeth Sherley
Shevlin
Baltimore
Tom Shevlin
Yale
Sherley
George W. Ewing
Brook
Elizabeth Sherleyaptain
Louisville
Boston School Board Ends 1905 Session In A Comical Skirmish
The 1905 Boston school committee session devolved into retorts and rhetoric as Dr. Harkins led a procedural shakeup including appointing the senior Board of Supervisors member as temporary superintendent. The board approved a plan for evening school teacher allocation and granted one year half pay to Miss Frances M. Budge, while disputes over payrolls and truancy measures kept the room tense, ending with the board effectively going out of commission.
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Dr. Harkins
Board of Supervisors
Walter S. Parker
Frances M. Budge
Eliot
Bodge
Boston
Ryan
Washington School
Harrington
Mr. Sheehan
Mr. Merritt
Brett
Mr. Harkins
Kip
Harkins
Hanlon Brothers Scrapbooks Chronicle Global Acrobat Rise
Cohasset studios house the Hanlon brothers scrap books detailing a career from acrobats to pantomime stars and later producers. The volumes trace reviews from Madrid to Hong Kong and Yokohama, St. Petersburg to Buenos Aires, covering 1850 onward with multilingual clippings and woodcut art.
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Hanlon Brothers
Hanlons
Cohasset
New England
Madrid
Seville
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Buenos Ayres
Mexico City
Chile
Hongkong
Yokohama
Java
South Africa
Lynn Girl Declares She Is No Heroine After Christmas Fire
Miss Alice Bresnahan four years old of 128 Chestnut street saved her parents and siblings from a house fire caused by an overheated stove. She woke them, urged the children from their rooms, and rang the alarm while neighbors sheltered the kids. Her father Maurice heads Bresnahan Shoe Machine Co. The loss runs to several thousand dollars.
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Lynn
Alice Bresnahan
Chestnut Street
Maurice Bresnahan
Bresnahan Shoe Machine Company
Mounted Officer Wins Breakneck Mounted Race
Patrolman Curran of Station 11 rode a runaway horse attached to a light vehicle. The horse bolted from in front of 43 Washington Street Dorchester and sprinted to Columbia Road before being captured. The horse belonged to Lawrence Clinton of 13 Washington Street Dorchester.
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Curran
Station 11
Washington Street
Dorchester
Columbia Road
Lawrence Clinton
Passenger's Yarn Not Engineer's Tale of Missing Girl
Efforts to locate a girl believed seen on the Boston & Albany express after leaving Boston at 3 32 p m on Christmas Day yield no results. The railroad's Boston offices deny any engineer report and say a passenger who alighted at Framingham relayed the matter instead.
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Boston & Albany Express
Boston
Railroad Company
Framingham
Critics Divided on As Ye Sow in New York Theatres
The New York holiday theatre scene offers many options from Alice Sit by the Fire with Ethel Barrymore to Sapho with Miss Nethersole. Critics differ in evaluation with The Herald praising acting and character work, The World noting flaws in portrayal, and The Tribune harshly condemning the burlesque style and coherence.
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New York
Rounders
Alice
Ethel Barrymore
Criterion
Garden
Lyric
Liberty
Sapho
Frank Gillmore
Franklin Roberts
Douglas Fairbanks
Bar Harbor
Cape Cod
Charlotte Walker
Olive Wright
Forrest Robinson
Miss Barrymore
the Tribune
London
Malden
Mass
The
Herald
Rankin
Redway
the Herald
Fred Walton
Fox
Walton
Miss Nethersole
Planning MO Against FIN Opponents Weigh Public Works Board
Proponents in Missouri consider a bill to create a five member Board of Public Works overseeing pav ing street cleaning bridges sanitary sewers ferries water wires and city engineers departments. The Governor would appoint three members and the Mayor two with party assignments to appear bipartisan. The plan would curtail Mayor elect Fitzgerald s patronage and bind city control to the Governor. A referendum acceptance by Boston voters seems unlikely if the bill is offered.
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Board of Public Works
Fitzgerald
Boston
Promin
Miss Barb Cole Out In Tragic Incident
Unclear readable text shows Miss Barb Cole involved in a tragic event with nervous moments noted. Further details unavailable in the fragment.
Wheeler for Police Head
General Jose Wheeler, a longtime New York resident and retired U S Army officer, emerges as a leading candidate for police commissioner. Advocates say his Civil War cavalry renown and service in the Spanish and Mexican campaigns bolster his fitness for the role.
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Joph Wheeler
New York
Jose
McClellan
Wheeler
United States Army
McKinley
General Wheel
United Co Army
Santiago
Shafter
Washingto
Gener Wheeler
Santago
Missioner
Boston Bound Schooner Albertha Arrives Leaking
The schooner Albertha from Bridgewater bound for Boston with a cargo of lumber arrived in port badly damaged and leaking. Sails were torn and the crew reports need to discharge cargo to proceed.
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Liverpool
Albertha
Bridgewater
Boston
Wit
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Merritt
Hanlon Bros
Taber
William Hanlon
Photo Studio
Edward Hanlon
Lynn Girl
Coman
W. $. Gilbert
Mr. Barrie
Mrs. Grey
Amy Grey
Beatrice Agnew
Cole
McAdoo
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