End of Year Reflections and Local Anecdotes In Boston
The column reviews a difficult year ending with cautious optimism and notes on business, trusts, and education funded by corporate magnates. It also recounts recent street incidents in Boston, a drowning report, and notes on Honolulu health issues observed by ex Alderman Faulkner.
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Walter L. Faulkner
Lynn
Honolulu
General Electric Company
Royal Palace
Health Board
Men of Many Callings and Church Circles Stirred
A London bishop and church figures spark chatter by insinuating devilish interference in administration. Mentions of Dewey renting a pew, Rev Mackay, and various church links surface amid confessional flurry and local holy society notes.
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London
Devil
Ral Dewey
St. John’s Episcopal
Mr. Mackay
Kate
Jicctnemwaa
New Year Punch Bowl Tempts a Lineage of Temptation
Willis Maynard resists alcohol after a New Year punch bowl temptation that echoes a ruined family past. Ruth Maynard urges elegance over principle, but a vision of a dying mother stops him from drinking. The tale ends with a vow to avoid punch bowls in future celebrations.
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Willis
Ruth Mayrd
Willis Maynard
Rat
Buss
Ruth
Willis Magnara
Dhaw
Fogg
Illis
T Ruth
Nevermore
Breakfast hints from Daily Table menu items
Breakfast items listed include Wheatena Cream and Sugar, Muffins, Grape Nut, Fried Chicken, Baked Potatoes, and Fruit. The note mentions items such as BREAKFAST and DAILY TABLE HINTS.
I Counted Twenty Two Steps Through a Hidden Hall
A nameless narrator recalls living in a third floor hall, noticing a rivally elegant neighbor across the hall, and puzzling over why counting his own hall to the rear room yields twenty two steps while the larger rooms vary. The reflection crescendos into a mystery to be continued in the Sunday Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyre
Sunday Post
Public safety vs. railroad grade crossings debated
In East Boston a hearing before grade crossing commissioners showed public demand for abolition of crossings due to safety and comfort concerns, while the railroad cites cost. Public sentiment favors removing crossings despite corporate interests, highlighting a clash over city convenience and resident safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
SB Railroad
Kipling Draft Poem Aboard the Needle Sings the Sea
Kipling’s poem In the Matter of One Compass appears in the Century for January. The excerpt, written in 1892, paints a ship at sea with a helmsman facing the wind as the compass light guides through a storm and the rigging sings in the gale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
Wit and whimsy cross the morning pages
A jumble of quips and light jokes from Chicago News Cleveland Plain Dealer and other papers. Silly exchanges touch on gifts, mistletoe, brain meals, fortune tellers, Santa queries, and a shoe seller at heaven's gate with humorous misstatements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Chicago News
Connecticut
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Chicago Times-Herald
Charles
Indianapolis Journal
Freddie
Puck
Pearly Gates
St. Peter
Amherst College Class Holds Twentieth Reunion Dinner
Amherst alumni gathered at the University Club for the twentieth reunion and sixteenth midwinter dinner. Toastmaster W. Parker led the event with poems by J. Loftus and other sentiments from EB. Wood, H. Wilbur, A. Alvord, C. Eustis and F. Goodwin.
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Amherst College
University Club
W. 4. Parker
J. P. Loftus
EB. L. Wood
H. L. Wilbur
A. E. Alvord
C. W. Eustis
F. J. Goodwin
Women of Enterprise and Arts Mentioned in Society Note
Mrs H Henley of Tullahoma Tennessee runs a Cumberland plateau distillery with a 4000 gallon monthly capacity. English society women known as hunters include Miss Anna Lawrence and Mrs Keith-Falconer. Isa Bowman, once Lewis Carroll’s child friend and the original Alice, plans a book about the author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Henley
Tullahoma
Wonderland
United States Senate Appointment Lauded as Artistic Gain
Through Editors Spectacles the ten delegates commend W. W. Allen of Nebraska for Senate appointment calling him a distinct wind painter and a self made school. Opinions differ on Will Roberts Candahar work and Kitchener’s Sudan conquests with England reportedly hesitant to predict victories for its idols.
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Ten. W. W. Allen
Nebraska
United States Senate
Allen
New York Mail and Express
Roberts
Candahar
Kitchener
Soudan
England
Chicago
Editor argues for nuance in wage earning by women
A letter to the editor suggests modifying a prior stance on married women workers. It distinguishes two classes of workers: those needing income for maintenance and those seeking extra pin money. The author notes widows are excluded and that hardship can drive women to breadwinner roles.
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Daily Post
Monnett
Ohio
Twentieth Century Club
Standard Oil Trust
Cooper Union
New York
People’s Institute
General Monnett
Mr. Rockefeller
Chicago University
General Mcnhnett
Hanies
Ember
Washington Street
Webser
Chaubtnagungamaug
Lylower Byethard
North Carolina
King
Conoberts
Utah
Tme
Dr. Wells
Presiyterian
Berlin
the Post
Cornelia Wesson Boyden
Worcester, Mag
Boston Lawton Fund
Gov. Wolcott
Henry W. Lawton
Ais
Gale
Ted
Shortstory Pubblishing Company
Eighth
Lexington
THE
Short Story Publishing Company
Kipling
T. J. Coolidge
Secretary of War I
Wolcott
Quincy
Lawton Fund
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Devonshire Street
Roger. Wolcott
W. Murray Crane
Niche
R. W. Emmons
Charles W. Galloupe, Sr
Friend R. . Eere
A S. Covel
H. J
Dwight Prouty
Amherst Reunion
Glass of
Spectacles
Houghton & Dutton
S. Men’s Corner
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