Youngest Star on the American Stage Elsie Janis
The captioned piece proclaims Elsie Janis as the youngest star on the American stage. Born in Columbus Ohio about 18 years ago she began in 1898 with the Neill stock company in Cincinnati. On McKinley’s advice she moved to vaudeville as Little Ossie the pocket edition of Cissie Loftus. She now headlines an extended Park Theatre season opening tonight.
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Elsie Janis
Miss Janis
Columbus
Iste
Neill Stock Company
Pike's Opera House
Cincinnati
McKinley
Ossie
Cissie Loftus
Park Theatre
London Looks For Lost Girl
London reports the disappearance of Miss Leslie Gully, 10, ward in chancery and granddaughter of Viscount Selby. Her father, Hon. James Gully, took her from 3 Buckingham Gate after a visit and vanished. Authorities fear they may have fled to the continent or to America.
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London
Chancery
Leslie Gully
James
Lord Selby
Buckingham Gate
Continent
America
Pretty Women on Increase in Berlin Visitor Gibson Studies British Masters
Berlin the 9th reports Charles Dana Gibson visited from Paris with Francis Teneil of Pittsburg to view the Royal Academy loan exhibition of British masterpieces. Gibson muses that English women today rival the 18th century beauties, noting Britons grow more handsome with time.
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Berlin
Charles Dana Gibson
Paris
Francis Teneil
Pittsburg
Royal Academy
Gibson
England
Charlestown Man Found Dead. Death Due To Natural Causes
Shortly after noon yesterday William McManus aged 50 single of 328 Main Street Charlestown was found dead by his landlady who summoned him to dinner. Death was due to natural causes.
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William McManus
Main Street
Charlestown
Nurse Feeds Pins To Child Confession In Nassau Jail
Aurelia Lightborne a 16 year old West Indian maid in Rockville Centre confessed to feeding hairpins matches and safety pins to a two year old child to gain time for religious meetings. She was locked up in Nassau county jail as authorities investigate the abuse.
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Mineola
Aurelia Lightborne
Nassau County
Aurelia
William J. Purdy
Rockville Centre
Trial timing uncertain as Cole awaits notification
Speaker John N. Cole of the House says he has not been notified about his trial on the charge of obtaining reduced rail rates for school children. He states he seeks a speedy trial and will not delay proceedings, with decisions resting with his lawyers.
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John N. Cole
House of Representatives
Mr. Cole
Boston passengers aboard Kenig Albert to Genoa via Gibraltar
Among the travelers sailing yesterday from New York on the steamship Kenig Albert of the North German Lloyd line were Boston residents Mr and Mrs H. Arnold A C Ratshesky and Mrs A M Wheatland.
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Kenig Albert
North German Lloyd Line
New York
Genoa
Gibraltar
Boston
H. §. Arnold
A. C. Ratshesky
A. M. Wheatland
Cement "Poor Man's Palace" touted by Edison in West Orange
Orange New Jersey February 9 Edison declares a safe electric storage battery enables a car to travel a hundred miles per charge and unveils cement Queen Anne cottages priced at five dollars monthly rent. He plans to turn iron casts over at cost and start building in June between Newark and Bloomfield, promising durable homes for the poor and affordable housing to curb tenement congestion.
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South
Spring Lake
Newark
Bloomfield
New York
Lost Diamond Found In Girl Hair Mystery
Jamaica New York February 9 an unset diamond valued around 1000 dollars was recovered in an extraordinary way. Miss Tda Rowan of 81 Pontine Street Jamaica is the helper who dropped the missing gem while preparing for a dance. The stone allegedly popped from a setter's hands and lodged in her hair, later found by her mother. She returned the gem to the diamond shop, where staff had been searching for it all night.
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Jamaica
L. I
Manhattan
Tda Rowan
Pontine Street
Miss Rowan
Former Williams College President to Wed at 70
Dr Franklin Carter aged 70 former Williams College president and head of Clarke Institute for the Deaf at Northampton has married Mrs Elizabeth S Leake widow of Williams professor Frederick Leake. Mrs Leake is 68. Carter, Yale graduate 1861, longtime Williams professor and president 1881 1901, plans New Haven home.
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Cambridge
Franklin Carter
Clarke Institute For the Deaf
Northampton
Williams College
Elizabeth S. Leake
Williamstown
Frederick Leake
Williams
Carter
Leake
Dr. Carter
Yale
New Haven
Henry Williams
Prospect Hill
Clarke Institute For Deaf
Elizabeth 8. Leake
Killed by Cold Near His Doorway
Mapleville R. 1 Feb 8 Within 200 feet of his doorstep Austin LaPlash died from exposure early today. LaFlash lost his way in the dark while returning home from the village late last night and sank down behind a stone wall where he was found by searchers today. He was 55 years old, an employee of the Oakland Worsted Mill, and leaves a widow and one son.
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Mapleville
R. 1
Austin LaPlash
LaFlash
Oakland
Railroad Man for 50 Years Richard Hapgood Retires
Richard Hapgood, longtime superintendent of tracks for the Boston Elevated system, marks sixty years with the company and its predecessors. From 1858 start as a stable man to civil war service and ascent through roles, he shaped New England streetcar development from Cambridge to Boston. He led multiple divisions, culminating as superintendent of the West End and later the Boston Elevated tracks, overseeing operations for a quarter billion annual passengers.
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Richard Hapgood
Boston Elevated Company
United States
New England
Cambridge
Boston
Hapgood
Union Railway Company
Cambridge Company
William A. Bancroft
Elevated
Consolidated Street Railway Company
South Boston Railway Company
West End Railway
South Boston
General Bancroft
West End Company
West End
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Woman Binds Hands and Feet to Detain Husband in Chicago
In Chicago on February 9, Mrs. Robert Rossing tied her hands to a table leg and her feet to a sewing machine crossbar to frighten her husband into staying home from prayer meetings. She admitted to police she bound and gagged herself to trap him and claimed burglars were the cause.
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Chicago
Robert Rossing
Division Street
Rossing
Moral Man Bryan Sermon Referenced by Rev Herbert
Rev Stephen Herbert at Columbus Avenue Universalist Church praised William J Bryan as a moral man and urged a Lincoln spirit in leadership. He contrasted Governor Hughes calm message with the fiery presidential message, noting public reaction to each and praising perseverance under attack.
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William J. Bryan
United States
White House
Stephen Herbert. Roblin
Columbus Avenue
Lincoln
Dack
Hughes
Bock
Psychology Club
Second Universalist Church
Clarendon Street
F. W. Hamilton
Tufts College
Dudley Street Baptist Church
State House
Washington
King's Chapel
Charles G. Ames
D. D
Boston
Cymric Crew to Attend Man of the Hour Event at Tremont
The entire Cymric lifeboat crew from the White Star liner Cymric, about 100 people, will be guests of the Man of the Hour company and Tremont Theatre this evening. Eight boxes are reserved for the party and the theatre will be attractively decorated.
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Starliner Cymric
Tremont Theatre
Poor Girl Loses Earnings For Music Training
Ada E. Rogers, a young musician and teacher near Boston, reported losing a purse with all her savings on a cross-town car between Albemarle Street and Tremont Street. The purse contained money destined for music study and training, along with a music roll and muff. Police and transit staff investigated to locate the missing pocketbook and identify nearby passengers who may help explain the loss.
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Ada E. Rogers
Park Street
Miss Rogers
Boston
Conservatory of Music
Dear Miss Champagne on Love and Shyness Advice
Miss Champagne counsels Rose on a fiancé who reads or plays chess with family, urging patience and tact. She notes the fiancé’s shyness may mask care, suggests writing a heartfelt letter to bridge the divide and consider revealing feelings to win his love.
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Miss Champagne
Mark
Rose
Young woman seeks wealth after majority and love interest
A letter from a young woman to Miss Champegne declares she will turn 21 next August and expects to gain wealth upon reaching her majority. She states she is in love with a 24 year old man she has known for some time.
Police claim they prevented robbery in East Boston
Patrolmen of Division 2 say they stopped a robbery and arrested Joseph H. Houghton, 27, of Bennington street, East Boston, on a charge of breaking and entering the office of John S. Richardson at 49 Cornhill just after 4 A.M. Officers found Houghton warming himself before an open grate.
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Division 2
Joseph H. Houghton
Bennington Street
Boston
Johns
Richardson
Cornhill
Houghton
Centenarian Friends Celebrate Bright Old Ladies
Among the Churches of Greater Boston notes tell of Mrs. Hannah Moffit 98, Mrs. Chloe Fitts 96, and Mrs. Charlotte Brothers 100 in Oxford and Springfield. They receive visitors, flowers, and treats on birthdays, while Mrs. Moore 94 recalls Lincoln and plans more time with friends. The piece also covers church activities and public notices, including Sunday discussions, a Lincoln tribute, and local civic plans.
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Hannah Moffit
Chloe Fitts
Oxford
Charlotte E. Brothers
Margaret Moore
Springfield
Fitts
Times
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the Park Theatre
Cole
Mediterranean
Welch, Margetson & Co
Madras
Jostuny
Bos
Messrs. Allen, Jolly & Co
Vous Kgoeg
Washington and
Bostos, U.S.A
Edison
New Electric Auto
Bryan
Rev. S. H. Roblin
THE
Cymric
Park St
St. Botolph St
Mildred Champagne
Cig
Aars
Charlotte
Browers
Moffitt
Secret
Abraham Lincoln
Lowell
Greater Boston
Shawmut Congregational Church
West Brookline
Tremont Streets
St. Theodore
Roosevelt
Card
Moore
Stone
Women’s College
Miss James
Miss Royce
Miss Hutchins
William T. McElveen
Lewis
W. H. Lewis
Massachusetts
Saisz
Warren
Samuel Mills Warren
Church of the New Jerusalem
High Street
Brookline
James Reed
Bowdoin Square
Mr. Harvey
Walnut Hill Cemetery
Genulln
Wellbach
Welsbach
Welsbach Company
Summer Street
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