Miss Henrietta Wigglesworth to Wed Mr Porter of Boston
Society notes announce the engagement of Miss Henrietta Wigglesworth daughter of Mrs Edward Wigglesworth to Mr Alexander Sylvanus Porter Jr son of Mr and Mrs Alexander Porter. The couple are part of Boston high society with connections to Beacon Street Brimmer Street and North Shore estates. No wedding date is set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta Wigglesworth
Edward Wigglesworth
Beacon Street
Alexander Sylvanus Porter, Jr
Spruce Street
Alexander 8. Porter
Brimmer Street
Wigglesworth
Germany
Essex County Club
Manchester-by-the-Sea
North Shore
Porter
Miami
Oliver H. Story
Chestnut Hill
William H. Howard
the Vendome
Washington
Florida
Ponce de Leon
Edward Brandegee
Guy Norman
John Torrey Linzee
Boston
Aiken
Solomon P. Stratton
Katherine W. Stratton
Camden
D. C
Henry C. Frick
Palm Beach
Fricks
Ivernia
Pacifico Coast
California
William Elkins
Harvard
Elizabeth Tutkerman
America
Labor notes on Boston unions and wage actions
Henry Abrahams of Boston U S A will forward six dollars and forty cents to Fall River textile workers from the Boston Electricians Union. Stablemen in Boston will be asked to sign a new union agreement before February 15. Hebrew Painters’ Union 642 seeks renewal of the eight hour day wage scale to take effect April 1, with a minimum of two dollars eighty cents. Newly elected officers of the Joint Council of Metal Polishers Buffers Platers and Brass and Silver Workers Union are President John either Vice President Isaac Creighton Treasurer A O Langboro Secretary William B Alexander Trustees George Wer Albert Griffin and Walter Quinlan. President Joseph Maleedy of Plasterers International Union has urged Boston Local 10 to support the plasterers in New York. The Bricklayers and Masons Union executive bodies meet in Philadelphia on raft-related matters. The union plans its 41st annual ball at Odd Fellows Hall February 10 with floor director David Stevenson and assistants Arthur Doyle and Patrick Orumn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrew Painters’ Union 642
John Either
Isaac Creighton
A. O. Langboro
William B. Alexander
George W.er
Albert Griffin
Walter Quinlan
Joseph Maleedy
Plasterers’ International Union
Boston Local 10
New York
Bricklayers’ and Masons’ Union
Philadelphia
Odd Fellows’ Hall
David Stevenson
Arthur Doyle
Patrick Orumn
Brookline Special Town Meeting Allocates Local Funds
At a Brookline town meeting last night the town appropriated 300 dollars for general school expenses 100 dollars for maintenance of the Town Hall 1000 dollars for printing warrants and reports 1500 dollars for legal expenses 2500 dollars for expert assistance in plans for a new public library building and 1000 dollars for expenses of a committee to study improvements around Village square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline
Village Square
Statue for Shakspere in London Debate
From the Independent column in Ashford England the piece questions erecting a marble statue for Shakspere in London. It argues wisdom lives in his writings, not in monuments, and suggests time will erode stone while ideas endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Malden school dresses draw concern in annual report
Malden February 1 Superintendent Hervey of the School Board issues his annual report urging continued teaching of commercial branches in evening schools and calling on the committee to curb excessive expense among graduates. He cites costly dresses worn by young ladies as an example of unwise extravagance hitting parents' purses.
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Malden
Hervey
Want Receiver for Banking Co
Samuel Broadbent and others file a bill in equity against Equitable Banking Company and Equitable Homestead Company of 258 Washington Street. An order of notice returnable today directs show cause why a receiver should not be appointed. Petition alleges treasurer Sumner F Wilbur vanished with funds and that assets were conveyed to the homestead company. It seeks reconveyance of assets to the banking company by trustees M S Ficket and John F Morris. Plaintiffs are investors in the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Broadbent
Equitable Banking Company
Equitable Homestead Company
Washington Street
Sumner F. Wilbur
M. 8. Ficket
John F. Morris
Electric car collision injures Roxbury and Roxbury residents
Mary Rogers of Parker street Roxbury and John Dillon of Dillworth street Roxbury were crossing Washington street near Boylston when an electric car struck them last evening at about 7 15 PM. They had just left a north bound car and were crossing behind it as a southbound car approached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Rogers
Parker Street
Roxbury
John Dillon
Dillworth Street
Washington Street
Boylston
Second Charge Against Calnan
Patrick Calnan aged 29 of 46 Emerald Street was identified as the man with Bannon before a shooting. He faces two breaking and entering charges for Fitzgerald's liquor store at 3387 Washington Street and Florence Wine Company at 1898 Washington Street, Jan 31, allegedly stealing whiskey, cigars and cigarettes. Calnan was arraigned before Chief Watts and his photograph was taken for the rogues gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Calnan
Keene
Barry
Lewis
Bannon
Calnan
Fitzgerald
Washington Street
Florence Wine Company
Emerald Street
Watts
Rogues’ Gallery
Free Wool and Hides Topic at Manufacturers Banquet
Congressman James S. McCleary of Minnesota and Congressman Washington Gardner of Michigan spoke against free wool and free hides at the National Association of Wool Manufacturers banquet. President William Whitman said the group opposed tariff revision. They warned reciprocity would harm American producers and noted cattle and sheep interests oppose freeing hides and wool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. McCleary
Minnesota
Washington Gardner
Michigan
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
William Whitman
Association
Congressman McCleary
Gardner
N. D. North
United States Census
East
McCleary and
Congressional Committee On Appropriations
Deer Quest Goes Wrong On Bingville Mountain
Ike Witherspoon and Sam Parker recount a foolish misadventure aiming to shoot a deer despite current laws. They endure a blizzard, fall from a ledge, warm themselves by unusual means, and end up back at Sam’s edge of town with no quarry. Seth Dewberry warns they may be arrested, while the Bingville Bugle teases next Sunday’s edition with more laughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike Witherspoon
Sam Parker
Bingville
Ike
Sam
Sawbridge Mountains
Seth Dewberry
Seth
Jordin
Bridge Mountaing
Bingville Bugle
Sunday Post
Minstrel Show by Jamaica Glee Club Slated for Feb 15
The Jamaica Glee Club of Jamaica Plain announces its annual minstrel show at Eliot Hall on February 15. Rehearsals are nearly nightly as preparations intensify. The program will feature local hits and jokes with a large mixed chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica Glee Club of
Jamaica Plain
Eliot Hall
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Margaret Morse
Victoria Luise
West Indies
Robert M. Morse
Peter C. Brooks
Deerfield Street
Tuileries
Brooks
Beacon
Crene
Rence
Cunningham
Ruth Lawre
Macallar Parker Company Custom Department
LABOR
Henry Abrahams
Boston U. S. A
Fall River
Boston Electrical Workers’ Union
Stablemen
Brookline’s
Chicago Tribune
Shakspere
London
Alfred Austin
England
Ashford
Kent
THE
Independent
Want Receiver For Banking CO
Houghton
W. Stinson
Wilton
Iner
Vers
Globe
Imps
Pocket
Ibbers
Ino
Drug Stop
Prunes Russell Brand
Tolb
Man Brand
Boots Juliets
Lashmerette
Merch
iSc
Acus
Faramas
Pai
Morrell’s
Brighton
Noir
Hermsdorf
Lady Grey
Senate
Ward
Yama
Delory
Houghton & Dutton
Gocoa
Walter M. Lowney
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