City Club Hosts Aida Night at Boston Opera House
The Boston City Club held its annual meeting at the Boston Opera House with the opera Aida. Mme Gay Amneris and the celebrated cast performed as the club honored Mme Gay, popular with the company. The audience filled the house as Zenatello substituted for Riccardo Martin, with Weingartner conducting.
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Zoni
Boston City Club
Boston Opera House
City Club
Aida
Boston Opera Company
Mme. Gay
Opera Company
Carmen Melis
Amneris
Maria Gay
Radames
Zenatello
Amonasro
Polese
Jose Mardones
Mr. Moran
Buckley Drunk Bill Sparks Debate in Legislature
The Buckley drunk bill to treat drunkenness as a disease rather than a crime was discussed by the Legislature's legal affairs committee. Representative John H. Buckley urged state efforts to cure drunkenness, while Police Commissioner O'Meara warned the measure could encourage drinking and said sending women to penal institutions for the habit would be a crime.
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Buckley
Legal Affairs Committee
John H. Buckley
Dorchester
O’meara
Woman Lays Down Law To Lawyer In Divorce Court
Mrs. Mary C. Marble of Cambridge, an elderly witness, dominated the cross examination in yesterday's Divorce Court session and almost took control of justice from Judge Irwin.
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Mary C. Marble
Cambridge
Irwin
New Central Vermont Railhead Appointments Named
Montreal Feb 4 The Central Vermont railway announces a set of new appointments by President Edson J Chamberlin. J C Jones moves to vice president in charge of construction transport and maintenance. M M Reynolds named vice president in charge of financial and accounting. J K Dalrymple to run traffic and freight. S F Russell becomes general superintendent with offices at St Albans Vermont. Reynolds and Dalrymple hold parallel roles on the Grand Trunk railway which controls Central Vermont.
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Montreal
Central Vermont Railway
Edson J. Chamberlin
E. H. Fitzhugh
J. C. Jones
M. M. Reynolds
J. K. Dalrymple
S. F. Russell
St. Albans
Reynolds
Dalrymple
Grand Trunk Railway
Central Vermont
Bill Limits Public Service Refusal of Service
Massachusetts lawmakers consider broad protections for utility customers. The bill prohibits public service firms from denying service for unpaid bills absent a court judgment and requires railroads to prove unlawful ticket use before denying passage. It also safeguards telephone, gas, electric, and water customers against disconnection for prior arrears and permits advance payments or deposits. Violations carry fines and treble damages.
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House of Representatives
Clarence W. Rowley
Massachusetts
Telephone Corporation
Predicts New School Ideas on Peculiar Children
Dr. Frank Richardson spoke at the Evans Memorial urging segregation of so-called peculiar children in public schools. He favored grouping by themselves and intensive study of types to differentiate abilities and proclivities, warning parents against condemning or overemphasizing faults while highlighting each child’s good points.
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Frank Richardson
Evans Memorial
Richardson
Urge Judge Brown to Succeed Colt in Rhode Island
It is understood that Judge Arthur L. Brown of the United States District Court at Providence will be presented to President Taft to succeed Judge LeBaron B. Colt, who resigned from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to become a United States Senator from Rhode Island on March 4.
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Arthur L. Brown
United States District Court At
Providence
Taft
LeBaron B. Colt
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
Rhode Island
Embezzler Black Sentenced in San Jose
Marshal Black former State Senator and wreck er of Palo Alto Building and Loan Association received a combined ten year prison term on three embezzlement indictments in San Jose.
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San Jose
Cal
Marshal Black
The
Palo Alto Building and Loan Association
Buckley bill on drunkenness faces police detention plan
The Buckley bill defines a drunken person as unable to care for themselves and allows police detention until sober, with name and residence recorded. Supporters say habitual drinkers should be held for court while infrequent drinkers might be cured. opponents fear danger and overreach.
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Buckley
Boyle
Winchester
Henry O. Marcy
Commonwealth Avenue
Warren F. Spalding
Massachusetts Prison Association
Edwin Mulready
Probation Commission
William J. Sullivan
South Boston
O’mearan
Sanford Bates
Fights Prison Penalty Opposed by Railroad Attorney Venomous Bill
Attorney William H Coolidge of the New Haven railroad opposed a bill imposing a 1000 dollar fine or one year imprisonment on rail road officers who violate limits on capital stock extensions without Legislature consent. Lawrence and Haines supported the measure while Washburn questioned prison impact. Lawrence urged New Haven may own trolley lines in Connecticut without harming state accommodations.
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Railroads Committee
William H Coolidge
New Haven Railroad
William B. Lawrence
Haines
Medford
Lawrence
New Haven
Connecticut
Washburn
Worcester
Speed Limit Urged as Autos Speeding and Roads Wear
Chairman Sohier led a roads and bridges committee session urging a 25 mph speed limit for autos due to rising speeding and worn roads. The panel continued a motor truck registration fee bill and heard mixed views on raising the limit to 30 mph. People argued enforcement issues and town funding.
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Legislative Committee On
Highway Commission
Sohier
Commission
William A.thibodeau
Francis N. Hurtubis
Milton
Hingham
Heman &S. Fay
Marlboro
Louis R. Speare
State Automobile
Cruelty Claim in East Cambridge Divorce Case
Mrs Antoinette A Carpenter a Lincoln school Everett teacher testified before Judge Hall that Frank M Carpenter an attorney and former Everett clerk began drinking two months after their 1904 marriage and continued amid eight years of alleged abuse She said he threatened her intoxicatedly struck her and threw her against a wall as she admitted slapping him in retaliation She said he often away at nights for work and she could not reach him earlier in the case contestation.
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Antoinette A. Carpenter
Lincoln School
Everett
Judge Hall
East Cambridge
Frank M. Carpenter
Fairhaven
Linden Street
Irving H. Marble
Irwin
Mina B. Marble
Old Age Pension Bills Hearing Today in Legislature
The legislative committee on social welfare hears old age pension bills today. Several measures are proposed, aiming to implement a broad pension system similar to Germany. The subject has not been reviewed since 1910 when a commission opposed it.
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Legislative Committee On Social Welfare
Marble Divorce Case Dives Into Husband Wife Conflicts
Irving H. Marble seeks a divorce from Mina B. Marble alleging cruelty and abuse. The elder Mary C. Marble testified about the wife’s fury and called the libellant rotten, while a 12 year old letter from the mother was ruled not probative. The libellee claimed Marble contributed little to support and that she worked as a dressmaker, with the case adjourned to morning.
Engaged twins born in same flat stun East St Louis
Miss Clara Carter Mallett and Mallet Carter, born in the same flat on the same day, are engaged to marry. The parents, astonished by the coincidence, plan to raise the children together and foresee a long future wedding, though the ceremony is years away.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Clara Carter Mallett
Mallet Carter
Executions Sought Against General Sickles in Monument Fund Claim
The sheriff received two more executions against General Daniel E. Sickles for 8015 dollars to August Heckscher and 542 dollars to the National Bank of Orange County, NY, to be satisfied from his property before state recovery on the monument fund shortage. A third co-defendant is named in the latter claim.
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New York
Daniel E. Sickles
August Heckscher
National Bank of
Orange County
General Sickles
Mantell Stars In Julius Caesar At Shubert Theatre
A large Shubert Theatre audience last night witnessed Mr. Mantell in Julius Caesar with a strong supporting cast. Mantell’s Brutus impressed as historical and human, with superb scenery throughout. Leiber as Antony, Royce as Cassius, Lindsley as Caesar, Rockwell as Portia, and Scott as Calpurnia gave solid renderings. Matinee today features Richelieu. Macbeth on the program this evening.
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Brutus
Fritz Leiber
Marc Antony
Brigham Royce
Cassius
Guy Lindsley
Julius Cesar
Florence Rockwell
Portia
Calpurnia
Cesar
Agnes Elliott Scott
Richelieu
Macbeth
Fort soldiers looting thwarted as arrests and executions occur
In Pekin on February 4, a group of forty soldiers began looting yesterday. A majority were seized by authorities and executed, signaling a harsh response to the incident and indicating significant instability within the force.
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Pekin
Pawtucket Weavers Strike Grows At Hope Webbing Mills
In Pawtucket Rhode Island on February 4 about fifty weavers walked out at the Hope Webbing Company mills demanding wage increases from 65 to 10 percent. Officials refused any raise as the strike, begun a week earlier by about a dozen workers, has grown with more joining. The mill employs about 1400 workers.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Hope Webbing Company
Moving Pictures of Gould Wedding Shown
The first moving pictures of the wedding of Miss Helen Gould and Finlay J Shepard are shown at B F Keith's Theatre this week. The film includes Lyndhurst, Gould family members such as George J Gould, his wife and children, Frank J Gould, Edwin Gould and their son the Duke de Talleyrand and his son.
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Helen Gould
Finlay J Shepard
B. F. Keith
Lyndhurst
Miss Gould
Tarrytown
N. Y
Gould
George J. Gould
Frank J. Gould
Edwin Gould
Duke de Talleyrand
Dock Men to Receive Agents Reply Tonight
Boston longshoremen district council holds a meeting at Roughan Hall to hear the Transatlantic Steamship Agents conference reply to its rejection of the wage scale compromise proposal after a year in abeyance.
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Boston Longshoremen’s Trade District Council
Roughan Hall
Transatlantic Steamship Agents
Shade Tree Suit Filed by Brookline Town
Brookline has filed a $5000 suit against Joseph Marcus alleging damage to a shade tree caused by another tree falling on it.
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Brookline
Joseph Marcus
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief for Grippe
Claims show that after the first dose the cold breaks and grippe symptoms ease, with full cure expected after taking doses every two hours for three doses. Describes rapid relief from headache, feverishness, nasal congestion, sore throat, and rheumatic pains, and urges buying the 25 cent package from any druggist.
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Pape
Grippe
Croxone Promises Quick Relief for Kidney and Urinary Ailments
An advertisement touts Croxone as a universal remedy for backache kidney trouble and rheumatic pain. It claims rapid action by cleansing poisons from the blood and kidneys, with money-back guarantees from druggists if it fails in any case.
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Allcock
Earth
Musterole relief for sore throat and pains advertised
An old musterole advertisement touts mustard oil ointment for sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup and many other pains. It claims fast relief and hospital use with 25c 50c jars and a $2.50 hospital size and offers mail order from Cleveland Ohio. Customer quotes praise from George I Moxley Martinsburg W Va.
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Musterole Company
Cleveland
Ohio
George I
Moxley
Martinsburg
W. Va
Reliable old fashioned health and beauty tonics and remedies
An advertisement lists several home remedies including kardene tonic for blood cleansing and energy, a shampoo from canthrax to remove oil and dandruff, an eye tonic using crystal dissolved in water, and a depilatory paste with delatone to remove hair. The copy promises improved health skin hair and eye comfort with simple preparations.
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