Boston to Welcome New Year With Song and Illumination
Boston suffrage advocates stage a New Year celebration on Boston Common with Mayor Fitzgerald leading the final speech after a citywide illumination. Speakers travel from headquarters at 585 Boylston Street to Charlestown and Roxbury. Hotels and clubs prepare lavish programs with cabaret acts, bands, and special entertainment including novelties and midnight pantomime. The Quincy and Copley Plaza host large gatherings with extensive light displays, noise makers, and a planned midnight surprise.
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Boston
Woman's Suffrage Party of Boston
Boston Common
Fitzgerald
Boylston Street
Charlestown
Roxbury
Dorchester
Jamaica Plain
Harry Phillips
London
Florence Luscomb
Allston
Charles Park
Margaret Foley
New York
Woman testifies to elaborate divorce scheme and alimony
In a dramatic hearing Mrs. Guggenheim recounts how lawyers Werner and Untermyer arranged a Chicago divorce with a fake trunk and a $1000 deposit, the alimony of $500 a month, a $150,000 payment, and a later annulment push. She claims deception by the Guggenheim family and details clashes over money, residence, and identity.
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New York
Mr. Trainor
Daniel
Europe
Willian
Manhattan Hotel
West Forty-fourth Street
Chicago
Mr. Guggenheim
Mr. Werner
Guggenheim
Guggenheims
William Guggenheim
Untermeyer
Mr. Untermeyer
Mrs. Guggenheim
Manhattan
Herbert
Attorney Untermeyer
Seventh Street
Hurd
Baldwin
Circuit Court
Petit
Honore
Tuthill
Windes
William Lorimer
Judge Petit
Simon Guggenheim
William
This Pinex cough syrup recipe promises fast relief
The ad claims a pint of sugar syrup with two and a half ounces of Pinex makes a superior cough syrup costing about $2.50 to prepare. It touts quick relief for coughs including whooping cough, with a pleasant taste and tonic effects, and urges readers to obtain Pinex from druggists or The Pinex Co. in Ft. Wayne Indiana.
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United States
Canada
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Breakfast Food Trust Under Probe
A federal grand jury in Chicago opened an anti trust probe into the Quaker Oats Company over its purchase of Western Cereal Company. The move aims to determine if the deal created a monopoly in the prepared cereal market.
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Breakfast Food Trust
Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Quaker Oats Company
Great Western Cereal Company
Mayor To Lead Great Songeest New Year Celebration
The mayor will lead a city wide songfest on the Common with thousands expected to join in a grand chorus. The Common will glow with multi colored lights as hotels fill with merrymakers and harbor steamers whistle while city bells ring to welcome the New Year and a new epoch in New Zealand celebrations.
New Year Celebration on the Common Plans Elaborate Program
City readies for a New Year’s Eve festival on the Common under Mayor Fitzgerald and Superintendent Sullivan. An all star program includes Boston Opera company singers and theatre performers, with the municipal band and glee clubs from Dartmouth Boston College Catholic Association and others. The event runs 10 15 to 12 30 with fireworks at midnight and a lighted fairy scene.
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Fitzgerald
D. Henry Sullivan
Walter Finnigan
Music Commission
Boston Opera Company
Dartmouth
Boston College Catholic Association
Dorchester Club
Boston
Sullivan
Ring Out the Old Ring in the New Poem Card
Poem excerpt calls for ringing out the old year and its griefs while ringing in the new. It condemns party strife and wealth excess and urges truth, peace, charity, and noble living. The verse envisions a future of kindness, justice, and a Christlike spirit.
Chinese to adopt Christian New Year in Boston
The Chinese in Boston and across the country will begin their year January 1 under the Christian calendar. A 1913 calendar with January 1 as the start replaces the old February 4 5 New Year, signaling a radical reform and growing Anglicization. Chinese students study law and government as they prepare to apply what they learn at home.
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Boston
Chinatown
China
Chinese Students See Hope for China in Republic Aim
In Chinatown meetings at the Masonic Temple and Chinese Merchants Association rooms 100 Chinese college students from New England universities plan to discuss China’s future. Tsung Y. Goon from Dartmouth College says they aim to return home to promote a republic and closer relations with America, embracing Confucian peace principles.
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Chinatown
Masonic Temple
Chinese Merchants’ Association
Harrison Avenue
New England
China
Tsung Y. Goon
Dartmouth College
America
Confucius
Save All But One From Tug
Sea Isle City New Jersey December 20 After a desperate battle with heavy seas and a 30 mile gale at Seven Mile Beach lifeguards rescued 10 of 11 crew members from the ocean tug Margaret James Duffin was drowned while launching a lifeboat and the Tat ham power boat capsized but all hands were saved Duffin's body washed ashore The Margaret is breaking up and the government power boat washed ashore at Avalon
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Sea Isle City
N. J
Seven Mile Beach
Margaret
James Duffin
Tatham
Duffin
Avalon
Schooner reports fishermen drowning increases death toll
The Christmas gale adds to a long list of seamen lost as the fishing schooner Ethel RB. Penney reached T wharf with its flag at half mast for John Smith who died Christmas Eve while hauling trawls. Adamson's Cough Balsam advertised for coughs colds and grippe.
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Cape Shore
Ethel RB. Penney
T Wharf
John Smith
Boston Prepares Massive New Year Eve Celebration
Hotel and restaurant managers plan an elaborate 1913 arrival in Boston. Patrons estimated at 10,000 will spend over $200,000 in hotels clubs and cafes as the city marks the New Year with extensive festivities.
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Boston
Red Cross cough drops aid cough relief advertisement note
Fragmentary OCR item mentions Red Cross cough drops and a slogan about how they work. The readable bits point to a health product advertisement with no clear date, place, or full context.
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Gary
Red Cross
Advus
Wilson Back in Princeton After Health Return
Princeton newspaper reports President-elect Wilson arriving home in Beeats after a grant of conferences at the State House. He traveled by train both ways without incident and said his appetite had returned revealing full recovery from a grippe attack.
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Princeton
N. J
Wilson
Beeats
State House
Grippe
S. Sth
Wilmington
Del
C. A. Wippincott
Lippincott & Co
Market Street
Eckman
Egkman
State Board of Health
JAS. Squires
Gale
Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
Houghton & Dutton Drug Dept
Wekman Laborators
Philadelphia
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Women’s. Colored
Boston Evening Globe
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Bandstand
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Yale Boola- Scot
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Kelly
Old Kentucky
Nellie Gray
Swanee River
Alabama
Robert FE. Lee
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Sue Belon
Pis
Alfred Tennyson
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Tug
Adamson
Boston Rubber Shoe Company
Malden, Mass
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