Authors' Guild Seeks Charter to Aid Publication and Authors
The American Authors' Guild filed incorporation notices, tracing its 1893 origin as the American Authors' Association. Colonel Higginson recalled the aims to improve publication systems and copyright, aid younger, independent writers, and push toward better author conditions, with leaders including James G. Wilson and others in New York and Boston. The group plans meetings and a New York dinner, signaling renewed growth and purpose.
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American Authors’ Guild
American Authors’ Association
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
New York
England
Boston
West
New England
New Yorkr
James G. Wilson
D. G
New York Literary Bureau
Beacon Street
James Grant Wilson
Julia Ward Howe
Moses Coit Tyler
Albert Matthews
Craven L. Betts
Titus Munson Coan
Thomas W. Higginson
Richard H. Stoddard
Louise Chandler Moulton
Ellen Hardin Walworth
Olive Thorne Miller
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Cynthia Cleveland
Newland Maynard
Edwin H. Shannon
Rail lines and firms outline new ventures and reforms
Florence sails for Aroostook. Massachusetts Car Company of Saco formed with 300000 capital. Big Four opens universal hospital system for 5000 employees with free treatment. Newburyport Amesbury and Haverhill lines join Lowell Lawrence system. Rail robberies rise. Senator Butler pushes interstate crime parity. New York Central curbs clerical discounts. Southern Pacific eyes daily express after weekly success. The Trackman reports these rail developments.
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Indianapolis
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Whitewater
Sandusky
Cairo
Newburyport & Amesbury
Haverhill, Merrimac & Amesbury
Lowell & Lawrence Road
Butler
South Carolina
Congress
George H. Daniels
New York Central Road
New England
Daniels
Southern Pacific Express
New Orleans
San Francisco
The
Express
Los Angeles
Evangelists draw near 4000 to Asbury Temple revival
Last night at the People’s Temple in Waltham nearly 4000 worshipers packed the building before 7 30 and filled ante rooms as Evangelist John E Hunter urged youth to shun liquor tobacco and blasphemy Calling out atheists and followers of Ingersoll Payne and Voltaire he praised the Salvation Army for aiding men in need The afternoon collection of 117, asked by Dr Brady, was given to save the temple and all congregations plan a special drive to stabilize finances through next Sunday night
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Temple
John E. Hunter
Bishop Brooks
Bob Ingersoll
Tom Payne
Voltaire
Salvation Army
Evangelist Crossley
Brady
Asbury Temple
Waltham
Waltham Temple
Spiritual Temple Seance Draws Huge Newbury Crowd
A morning meeting at the Spiritual Temple on Newbury and Exeter streets drew a large crowd with every seat filled and standing room taken. Dr. Keller led the exorcisms as Mrs. Bliss failed to attend. cards with messages from the dead appeared, and a cabinet display involved levitating hands and clothing removal while the man in the cabinet claimed no others were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newbury and
Exeter
Bliss
Keller
Dr. Keller
Police Raid Illicit Houses Target Windsor Big Six
Police actions reveal authorities determined to close venues dealing in vice. Saturday raids by divisions 3 and 4 netted sixteen arrests at Windsor Hotel Bowdoin Street known as the Big Six, plus couples seized at Causeway Street Pine Street and 35 Edinboro Street. Names given include Ferdinand W. Church and Sarah Barrett, with James Bonner Nellie Stone Mary Adams Napoleon Mongal Albert Kemp among those processed.
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Windsor Hotel
Bowdoin Street
Causeway Street
Pine Street
Ferdinand W. Church
Sarah C. Barrett
Church
James Bonner
Mary Howard
Premses
Edinboro Street
Mary Adams
Napoleon Mongal
Nellie Stone
Albert Kemp
Prussia Orders Food Inspectors to Check American Lards
Berlin reports provincial authorities in Prussia have ordered local food inspectors to carefully examine all American lards for impurities, aiming to ensure safety and prevent contaminated imports from entering markets.
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Berlin
Prussia
American Wringer Co Wringers Mangles and Sweepers Maker
The American Wringer Co acts as a city manufacturer at 13 and 15 Broadway extension. They produce wringers mangles spring beds and carpet sweepers and repair all types of wringers and sweepers. Orders by mail are promptly attended to. Telephone number Tremont 764.
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American Wringer Co
Broadway
Tremont
Extra Session Prep As Congress Nears Adjournment
The Fifty third Congress closes in on four weeks left with crowded days ahead. Debates on the District of Columbia bill and Sherman Treasury relief will test leadership as Democrats struggle in the Senate and House. Hawaiian and Samoan issues spark partisan clashes while the Springer's currency bill and an omnibus war claims measure await action.
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Washington
Fifty-third Congress
Senate
House
District of Columbia
McPherson
New Jersey
Finance Committee
Sherman
Treasury
Peffer
Blackburn
Kentucky
Lee Mantle
Clark
Montana
Hawaii
Honolulu
Senate Committee On Appropriations
United States
Hawaiian Islands
Prarty
Samoan Islands
Germany
Great Britain
Gresham
Aldrich
Hawley
Lodge
Hoar
Chandler
Allison
Teller
Platt
Allen
Nebraska
Alabama
Reese
Morgan
United Republican
Springer
Committee On
Sudden Faintness and Sarsaparilla Cure Ad Shared
A wife suffered stomach trouble causing faintness and incapacity until Hood s Sarsaparilla was tried. She improved before finishing a full bottle and can now perform her household duties. The narrator, also using Hood s Sarsaparilla, has endured catarrh since childhood and recalls a sore near the nose that later opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Walker and Stockslager Clash in Clark Office Probe
Washington February 3. Representative Walker and ex Land Commissioner Stockslager clashed during a meeting of House committees on ventilation and public buildings investigating Architect Clark's office. An interruption over questioning led to sharp words, then stockslager's explanation appeased Walker. Committees found no wilful maladministration, but Clark appears ignorant of some office management details.
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Washington
Walker
Stockslager
Clark
Capitol
House
Raids Nab Gambling Men At Multiple City Addresses
Officers from Division 4 raided several locations defeating festive celestials and seizing gaming implements. At Oxford street 6 a cache was seized and two Chinamen arrested. Harrison avenue 27 yielded further confiscations and four arrests. Oxford street 3 saw arrests and additional confiscations.
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Division 4
Oxford Street
Harrison Avenue
Fire damages dwelling at 45 Chandler street
An alarm from Box 71 at 1 19 yesterday morning reported a fire in the dwelling at 45 Chandler street owned by J C Lovering and occupied by Carrie Badger. A defective flue caused the blaze, damaging the property about $200.
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Chandler Street
J. C. Lovering
Carrie Badger
Ward 11 Workingmen’s Democratic Club Elects Officers
At the regular weekly meeting the semi annual election of officers occurred. Elected were J. Conroy as president, G. Stevens as president, S. Garvin as recording secretary and financial secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workingmen’s Democratic Club
Ward 11
J. Conroy
G. Stevens
S. Garvin
Sec
Towboat Law Favors Single Barges and Yacht Under Construction
The Post’s proposal to require tow vessels to haul only one barge gains support from local towboat captains and some firms, seen as reducing losses and accidents. A new 120 foot wooden steam yacht is under construction at Atlantic Works in East Boston for Mr. Converse of Malden, with completion aimed this June. The article also recounts Captain W H Trout of the Leyland steamer Philadelphian and a reporter’s long interview, plus notes on Nova Scotia timber control and a quip about a dynamo corset myth connected to women passengers.
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The
Post
Atlantic Works
Boston
Converse
Malden
W. H. Trout
Liverpool
Trout
Nova Scotia
Export Lumber Company of
New York
Suit Suited Morris But Morris Refkend Arrested
Morris Refkend a 20 year old resident of 5 North Hudson Street was arrested by Division 1 officers yesterday on a daytime breaking and entering charge. He allegedly entered Louis Epstein at 24 Sheafe Street and stole a suit of clothing and six dollars in cash.
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Morris Refkend
North Hudson Street
Division 1
Louis Epstein
Sheafe Street
Free Medical Services Offered by Dewey Medical Co
Free examinations and treatments for all diseases announced by the Dewey Medical Co located at 74 Boylston Street Rooms 7 and 8. Services available daily with hours 9 to 1 and 3 to 8, plus Sundays 10 to 4.
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Dewey Medical Co
Boylston Street
First Sunday at Boston Public Library Draws Tens of Thousands
The Boston Public Library in Copley Square opened its doors Sunday from 10 to 5 drawing an estimated 20 000 to 40 000 visitors. Most in Bates Hall rested or admired the map room newspaper room and pneumatic tube as officers ensured orderly viewing. A purse valued at $9 was reported stolen from visitor Mrs L E Meserve of Cambridge during the afternoon.
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Boston
Copley Square
Bates Hall
L. E. Meserve
No. 38
Pine Street
Cambridge
New Public Library
Division 16
Satolli in Connecticut at Italian Church Dedication
In New Haven the papal delegate Mgr Satolli led a February dedication at St. Michael's Italian Church on Wooster and Brewery streets. He celebrated pontifical mass, conducted vespers, and attended evening gatherings before planning tours to Danbury Bridgeport and Hartford. He declined commenting on the A P A matter, saying he overlooks it.
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New Haven
Conn
Mgr
Satolli
St. Michael’s
Wooster
Brewery Streets
Mer
St. John’s Club
Mgr. Satolli
Danbury
Bridgeport
Hartford
Mgr. Satelli
Harvard to Publish Alumni Weekly Like Yale and Princeton
Harvard announces a new eight page alumni weekly under the Harvard Crimson to keep graduates informed as events unfold at the university. A graduate will lead with three assistants, supporting a moderate $2 annual price and March start. It will complement the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine rather than replace it.
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Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Yale Daily News
Harvard Alumni
Harvard Crimson
Crimson
Harvard Graduates
Brockton Labor Union hears reports and plans action
The Brockton C. L. U meeting chaired by Vice-President Lowell of Whitman heard that $300 was sent to Haverhill with more to follow, sole cutters organized into a union, and a petition to legislators about weavers, Saturday half holiday and eight hour bills. The union meets in Rockland in two weeks. A North Abington web weaving factory will run as a union shop and a grain dealer dispute was amicably settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Lowell of
Whitman
Ross
New Bedford
Rockland
Kitchen Barroom Raids Net Liquor Following Busts
Officers from Division 15 raided Thomas Foley at 7 Gray Street and seized sixteen gallons of lager beer and 246 empty bottles. Mrs. Murphy at 50 Henley Street lost three gallons of lager beer. Sarah Todd at 30 Crescent Place sold liquor to an officer and was arrested. August Weiburg at 36 Cabot Street yielded three gallons lager beer four and a half gallons of whiskey three pints of wine and two quarts of mixed liquors in Division 19 raids.
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Division 15
Thomas Foley
Gray Street
Murphy
Henley Street
Spring
Sarah Todd
Crescent Place
Sarah
August Weiburg
Cabot Street
Division 19
First in Forty Years Await Murder Trial in Essex County
Three men Frank Little Josiah L Johnson and Frank C Hunt stand accused in the Henry Crosby murder a brutal Aug night robbery attempt in Meriimac. The case marks the first life trial before the Essex county bar in four decades with jurors to be drawn from a special list. Witnesses and lawyers from Moody White Peters Hurlburt Bartlett Brickett Jones prepare for a contentious trial environment with extensive defense challenges anticipated.
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Henry Crosby
Salem
Braley
Cochet
Frank Little
Josiah L. Johnson
Frank C. Hunt
Essex County
S Johnson
Newburyport
Hunt
W. H. Moody
A. P. White
W. S. Peters
Little
Henry F. Hurlburt
H. I. Bartlett
Johnson
B. F. Brickett
Boyd B. Jones
Jacob Crosby
Edward
Crosby
Mr. Crosby
Henry
Grand Jury
Vermont
Counse
Waterbury Meeting Warns of Industrial War on Labor
In Waterbury Connecticut a speaker denounced the relations between capital and labor and urged workers to organize. He condemned the Brooklyn strike and warned that an industrial war could start soon. About ten avowed Anarchists were present, with some using Concordia Hall until promoters refused use after learning Most would speak.
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Waterbury
Conn
Qu Hall
Jefferson Street
Brooklyn
Concordia Hall
Burns Lecture Draws Crowd at Columbia Theatre in Boston
Michael J. Dwyer heads a Burns themed evening in Boston under Knights of Columbus auspices. A large audience enjoyed readings and songs with soprano Mary L. Crowley contralto Theresa Maginnis tenor Joseph Judge and bass Edward MacHugh. James T. Whalen accompanied.
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Michael J. Dwyer
Boston
Robert Burns
Columbia Theatre
Mt. Pleasant
Edward MacHugh
James T. Whalen
Dwyer
Burns
Brig of Ayr
John Anderson
the Cotter
Cambridge Theosophical Society dedicates new hall in Old Cambridge
About 100 members and friends attend the dedication of Theosophical Hall in McNamee's block Brattle street Cambridge. Miss M L Guild presides and gives opening address. Mrs Mary H Wade speaks on The Brotherhood of Christ and Burcham Harding on Immortality.
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Cambridge Theosophical Society
Theosophical Hall
McNamee
Brattle Street
Old Cambridge
Casey Hall
Wideawade
M. L. Guild
Brotherhood of Christ
Mary H. Wade
Burcham Harding
Boston
New England
William Healy
Harvard
George D. Ayers
Malden Boanch
Preacher Defends Davis Imprisonment in Boston Common Case
In Brockton on February 3 Rev. W O Ayer of Larren Avenue Methodist Church spoke on Rev W M Davis jailed for preaching on Boston Common. He argued the law is unconstitutional and cited historical figures who upheld free speech. He urged Christians to follow Christ and claim the right to preach in public.
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Brockton
W. O. Ayer
Larren Avenue Methodist Church
W. M. Davis
Boston Common
Joseph Cook
Davis
Whitfield
Gordon
Phillips Brooks
Herman Lincoln
Jesus Christ
Hibernian Notes Feeds Roxbury Division Meeting Report
The regular meeting of Hibernian Division 17 Roxbury was held in Williams Hall led by President Stephen Gaffey. Seven new members were initiated and eight membership propositions received. A March 18 reunion was approved. The concert and ball committee reported strong ticket sales and mailed tickets to members. A social and literary entertainment followed.
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Division 17
Roxbury
Williams Hall
Stephen Gaffey
Young Men’s Industrial Art Club Meets in St Augustine Hall
A meeting of the Young Men’s Industrial Art Club was held in St Augustine Hall North Grove Street with Vice President Sullivan presiding. The entertainment committee reported a financial success and a vote of thanks to outside talent. Six new members admitted. J O Connor elected to board vacancy. Three classes formed wood carving music and modelling in clay. Rev Father Field to have full use of hall for trade school work as club moves to Cypress Hall 179 Cambridge Street. Communications to Secretary John J Fay at Cypress Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Industrial Art Club
St. Augustine Hall
North Grove Street
Sullivan
J. O’connor
Father Field
Cypress Hall
Cambridge Street
John J. Fay
Lady Henry Somerset Speaks on Temperance in Jamaica Plain
Lady Henry Somerset delivered an hour long temperance address under the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Jamaica Plain at Curtis Hall. The event drew over 120 attendees from local churches with Rev. James Yeames introducing the speaker and Rev. C F Dole offering the opening prayer. S B Capen followed with a short address before benediction by Rev. R M Hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Somerset
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Jamaica Plain
Curtis Hall
C. E. Withington
James Yeames
C. F. Dole
Lady Somerset
S. B. Capen
R. M. Hunt
Sanitary Ware Makers Association Dissolved in Hard Times
The Sanitary Ware Manufacturers' Association of the United States has been dissolved. Once smooth during five years, the group saw price cutting and internal strife as hard times hit. Producers will now set prices independently amid cutthroat competition and business aversion changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Sanitary Ware Manufacturers’ Association of the
United States
Unidentified Woman Injured Near Cambridge Broadway
A 50 year old woman was found unconscious on a Cambridge sidewalk near Broadway common early Saturday. She had a fractured skull, smelled of liquor, and carried a small gripsack with underclothing. Charles H. Wright notified police. she was taken to Cambridge Hospital and later partly regained consciousness. Local authorities seek identification.
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Cambridge Hospital
Broadway Common
Charles H. Wright
Wright
Station 1
Cambridg Hospital
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Brighton Avenue
Allston
Asbury Temple Collection
Spiritual Temple
Police
RAI 'L'Gal Houses
F. O. B. Providence
Mrs. H. W. Smith Hull
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Hull’s Cove
Ares
Massachusetts
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Sporting Chinese
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Connecticut
Brockton Labor Union
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Herr Most
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Young Men's Industial Art Club
Aia Plain
Earthenware Association
A. W. Wheeler & Co
Hanover St
Old Colony
Tremont Row
MA and I
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Wilson Bros
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Beachmont
Francis Walcott Whiting
Pune
South Boston
James Bjarty
Eral
St. Augustine's Church
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Fla
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Uera Freibbons
Mary's Chied
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Ydrich
Pneumoniphia Hospital
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Lewis Jones
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