Mayor Fitzgerald Rejects Bill Posters Offer for Boston
Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald declines the National Billposters and Distributors offer to post free promotional posters across the United States and Canada. He cites public opposition and urges acceptance only with Boston residents’ approval, while reaffirming optimism for billboard advertising's growth.
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Fitzgerald
United States
Canada
Boston
Association
Exchange Club
Edward C. Donnelly
James F. O’mealia
Jersey City
Robert C. Campbell
Chicago
Barney Link
New York
Charles Bernard
Bill Posters
Associated Bill
Rector Building
Ill
John F. Fitzgerald
Julian Eltinge Returns From Nine Month European Tour
The female impersonator Julian Eltinge reports a highly successful nine months abroad in Europe including Boston and other cities. He will sail from Naples to the United States and promises several novelties for his coming season new act.
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Julian Eltinge
Boston
Naples
United States
Julian. Eltinge
Massachusetts Tops Pure Food Laws Says Dr Harrington
Dr Charles E Harrington of the State Board of Health told Harvard Medical School that Massachusetts has the purest food laws in the civilized world and that the state has conducted about 3000 prosecutions with $60 000 in fines under its pure food statute.
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Massachusetts
Dr. Harrington
Charles E. Harrington
State Board of Health
Harvard Medical School
Harrington
District of Columbia
Massachusetts Food Law Oddities Spark Debate
The article notes 90000 milk samples and 16000 drug samples tested while impure milk dropped from .75% in 1883 to 93 10% last year. It cites quirks in state law allowing cocaine wines, bans on sale of certain imports, and interstate food rules penalizing cross border ice cream with eggs. It also quotes a claim about maple sugar that is undetectable by taste or chemistry.
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Massachusetts
Newburyport
Portsmouth
N. H
Conspiracy in Two Divorces Ties to Wedding of Principals
Denver report details two secretly granted divorces linked to a romance involving Milton Smith a prominent attorney and Aimee Hargrove wife of Ernest Hargrove. Smith allegedly advised one divorce then married Hargrove’s wife. Ernest seeks to overturn the decree and custody.
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Denver
Col
Milton Smith
Democratic State Committee
Aimee Hargrove
Ernest Hargrove
American Development & Investment Company
A. R. Neresheim
Hargrove
Susan Smith
John I. Mullin
Smith
Matt S. Hughes
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Kansas City
Rogers, Gregg & Shafroth
Colorado
Shaw defends Salome and Wilde amid censorship uproar
George Bernard Shaw argues that critics misunderstand him and Wilde, praising Strauss and Salome while condemning censorship. He says the public misinterprets heroic themes and that "wholesome" plays are often filthy. He rejects limiting dramatic license and jokes that real murder on stage would revive drama.
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Shaw
Salome
Him
Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Strauss
Hindoo Women in Male Dress Work as Laborers
In Grand Forks B C hundred Hindoos crowding the city Captain W Bentley reports fully one third are women disguised as men wearing the same attire and headgear as men. He says the women are skilled tailors and have taken woodcutter jobs they know from India.
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Tacoma
Wash
Grand Forks
B. C
W. Bentley
India
Meyer Dines With Emperor William In Berlin Audience
American ambassador Mr Meyer met Emperor William in Berlin and joined luncheon with the imperial family. He sat beside Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig Holstein, fiancée of Prince August William, fourth son of the emperor, and later had a long conversation with the monarch.
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Berlin
Mr. Meyer
Emperor William
Alexandra Victoria
Schleswig-Holstein
Prince August William
Boston to offer free six week Esperanto study
The Boston public may study Esperanto with free six week courses. MIT provides rooms and the Boston Esperanto Society supplies instructors. Over 100 people attended the prior two courses, and tomorrow evening at 7:30 the new series opens in Rogers Building.
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Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Esperanto Society
Rogers Building
Immigrant Debate at South Congregational Church
Economist Meyer Bloomfield urged that vast genius is lost due to immigration laws and argued Americans can turn immigrant talent into American material. He claimed poverty motivates effort, critiqued the slum label, and warned that emigration and consumption threaten both Italy and the United States.
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Meyer Bloomfield
South Congregational Church
Bloomfield
United States
Eliot
Agassiz
Missionaries Fund Drive Emphasized by Bishop at Old St. Pauls
Bishop Lawrence urged greater missionary support citing recent large charitable giving and a global spiritual revolution. He praised Dr. McKenzie for curing Li Hung Chang's wife and lauded the Alaska mission nurse who helped Eskimo children. He warned on Russian influx, noted Boston’s Black population, and linked democracy and Christendom to progress.
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Lawrence
Old St. Paul’s
Porto Rico
McKenzie
China
Empire
Li Hung Chang
Alaska
Yukon
Boston
Family development over population urges moral growth
Rev Chauncey J Hawkins at Central Congregational Church Jamaica Plain argued against chasing larger numbers. He said Europe’s birth rate decline stems from varied causes and may reflect a social good when children are fewer but better born. He urged communities to value well developed men and women over sheer population size.
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Central Congregational Church
Jamaica Plain
Chauncey J. Hawkins
Europe
America
Dr Henson Uses Grapes of Eshcol For Biblical Honesties
The Rev. Dr. P S Henson preached that the Bible presents all virtues and sins openly unlike some modern biographers. He likened the Grapes of Eshcol to a sample of Canaan's milk and honey and compared the cluster to fruits of the spirit Paul mentioned.
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P.S. Henson
Dr. Henson
Eshcol
Canaan
Caleb
Joshua
Henson
St. Paul
St Johns Institute Plans Minstrel Show Tonight
Members of St Johns Literary Institute of East Cambridge assisted by twenty score women from the auxiliary will present a minstrel oddity at Institute Hall tonight. Over 100 have rehearsed for weeks under John S Watts of Woburn. The program features president Frank Shaughnessy as end man with John Wilson Joseph M Quinn and Frank Sullivan as assistants. Soloists include Theresa Carey Marietta Emery Susie Potter John ONeill and Peter Curran. The show will repeat tomorrow evening followed by dancing.
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St. John’s Literary Institute of
East Cambridge
Institute Hall
John S. Watts
Woburn
Cambridge
Frank Shaughnessy
John Wilson
Joseph M. Quinn
Frank Sullivan
Susie Murtagh
Edith English
Madeline Merritt
Thomas McDonough
Mabel M. McCarthy
Knights of Columbus
William Toohy
Theresa Carey
Marietta Emery
Susie Potter
John O'Neil
Peter Curran
ST. John’s Literary Institute and
Ladies’ Auxiliary OF
Burning and morality through the Tree of Life sermon
Rev. Dr. Edward Cummings preached at South Congregational Church on The Tree of Life. He urged optimism about people and suggested hell is less needed as more people are seen as just not fit to burn.
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Edward Cummings
South Congregational Church
Dr. Cummings
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