Col William M Bunting Dies at 58 in Boston Hotel
Col William M Bunting a long time Boston business and social figure died at the Somerset Hotel after a short illness endocarditis. He had built the Penn Mutual agency with Plympton and later served on the company board. Survived by wife Miss Mary A Alexander a son and a daughter with extensive ties to Boston clubs and civic trusts. He previously lived in Swampscott and Winters in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Bunting
Boston
Somerset
Colonel Bunting
Sual
James Mason
Rothwell
Downing Road
Brookline
Florence Rothwell
Plympton & Bunting
New England
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
New York City
Penn Mutual
Noah A. Plympton
Tother
Colonel Plympton
Bunting
North End Savings Bank
Justee
One Hundred Associates Fund
Beacon Trust Company
St. Bernard Commandery
Knights Templars
House
Algonquin Club
Tedesco Country Club
Boston Press Club
Boston Athletic Association
Eastern Yacht Club
The
Beacon Society
Country Club of
E. W. Kinsley Post
Greenhalge
Wolcott
Massachusetts
Swampscott
Mgr Ronan is Honored by Dorchester Parishioners
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Peter Ronan of St. Peter's Church Dorchester was honored with two receptions attended by over 1000 parishioners. He received a bouquet and a plaque from St Mary's Ladies' Aid and Sisters of St Peter's.
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Mgr
Peter Ronan
P. R
St. Peter's Church
Dorchester
St. Mary’s Font Asylum
Mgr. Rowan
St. Mary’s
Dolores Miller
Butterfly Hats Forecast Spring Millinery Trend
Epsom Butterfly hats rise in popularity as a spring style. The lace butterfly motif grows larger from winter use as a sole trim for picture hats. Designers urge using rare lace fragments wired wing by wing to craft four wing structures and height to flat hair. White lace leads on light and dark hats. black and ecru also feature.
Reverend Dr Cortland Myers denounces divorce in Tremont Temple talk
The Rev Dr Cortland Myers argued that the United States is the most stained land for divorces and broken marriage vows. He defined love as sacrifice, attacked men overly courteous to other men’s wives, and warned that infidelity and neglect ruin homes. He urged stricter gospel-based marriage standards and cautioned against trifling with a woman's heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cortland Myers
Tremont Temple
Six Rescued At Revere Fire Involving Smoke Injuries
A three story wooden building at 188 Waverly avenue Revere Beach caught fire from an overheated furnace. Six people including two women and four children were rescued by neighbors and firefighters as two firefighters suffered smoke inhalation and a citizen injured his hands. The blaze forced evacuations across adjacent apartments and caused extensive damage to the structure and contents.
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Revere Beach
Albert Nash
Engine 2
Harry J. Harding
Combination 1
Waverly Avenue
Samuel Kaufman
Jacob Watchmaker
Watchmaker
Kaufman
Harry Maniff
Fires in Somerville Quickly Contained by Rescue Crews
Three fires broke out in Somerville yesterday but were swiftly battled by firefighters. Crews reported minimal damage and no injuries as the blazes were confined to noncritical areas on two floors of a building.
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Somerville
Students Exhibit Artwork at Museum of Fine Arts
A large crowd viewed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts summer student show featuring oil and water paintings and sculpture. The exhibition runs through the 18th. Prizes awarded include A. T. Hibbard for A Pair, Beatrice Whitney for Eyelet Embroidery, Marjorie Conmat for A Portrait, and Caroline Speare for The Sycamores.
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Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
A. T. Hibbard
Beatrice Whitney
Marjorie Conmat
Sycamores
Caroline Speare
Philip Lyford
Clytie
Winifred Warren
Edith B. Price
Edith l. Long
Bessie Pfaff
Abraham Lincoln
Antonio Sallome
Fire Incidents Sharp in City Then and Now
A paint shop owned by George H. Wickes near Lincoln street and Broadway saw four horses saved by Patrolmen Chisholm and McGrath after a fire caused $100 loss to adjacent stable. Later a $10 fire at Patrick Bowen’s Congress Place dwelling was extinguished, followed by a chimney spark fire at James C. Davis’s home, 402 Highland Avenue, causing about $300 damage.
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Lincoln Street
Broadway
George H. Wickes
Chisholm
McGrath
Patrick ‘Bowen
Congress Place
James C. Davis
Highland Avenue
Kidder Champ Manager Bresnahan Amid Signals Spy Claim
Bresnahan is hailed as the National league champion manager while speculation swirls that Giants mascot C Victor Yaust spied for Connie Mack and relayed signals. The chatter also boasts Arnold Hauser as a noted fighter as hush sounds linger.
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Bresnahan
Bushnell Family Loses Home in Fire at Rockefeller Getaway
Mr and Mrs Ericsson Bushnell guests of John D Rockefeller Jr at Auguste Ga suffer a blaze destroying their West 73rd Street home. Bushnell a Fifth Avenue Baptist Church choir singer and son of Cornelius Bushnell builder of the Civil War ironclad Monitor. Four children ferried out by nurse as damages reach 26000. News reached the singer by long distance call.
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John D
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Auguste
Ericsson Bushnell
Seventy-third Street
Bushnell
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Mr. Rockefeller
Cornelius Bushnell
Monitor
Fair Lillians New Gow It to Be a Robe of Towers
New York report on Fair Lillian Russell preparing for a February 19 stage appearance in a gown sparkling with jewels. The robe, costing about 1000 dollars, features Cullinans Koh I Noor rubies pearls and sapphires and aims to look like a million dollars. Designer E H N Kramer traveled to Paris for materials and plans. the gown will symbolize wealth and grandeur.
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New York
Lillifan Russell
Shelba
Cophetua
Miss Russell
E. H. N. Kramer
Fifth Avenue
Paris
Russell
Lillian Russell
Richeson Outing in Cold Prison Yard Exercise
Sheriff Quinn yesterday gave Clarence V. T. Richeson the first open air exercise since imprisonment. He spent about forty five minutes in the prison yard in cold weather.
Richeson Forsakes Bible for Magazines in Jail Stint
Richeson, jailed after being removed from the Edmonds house in Brookline, has stopped reading the Bible and now asks for popular magazines. He dressed in a black suit and paddock coat with muffler and gloves, enjoyed an outdoor stroll, and slept two hours after returning to his cell. Sheriff Quinn notes the open-air rest improved his condition.
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Richeson
Edmonds House
Brookline
Quinn
Quinnn
Sheriff Quinn
Monkey on freighter keeps sailors busy in exotic tale
The British steamer Indramayo from the East carries oriental goods and a large orangutan named Diogenes. Lascars and Malays fear the creature, who has fought with fellow monkeys and even dropped coal from the engine room, delaying the voyage as the crew tried to manage the troublesome animal.
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Far East
Halifax
Lascar
Diogenes
New York
Walnut Park Methodist Episcopal Church Dedicated in Roxbury
Prominent clergymen and lay leaders attended the dedication of Walnut Park Methodist Episcopal Church on Walnut Avenue Roxbury. Bishop John W. Hamilton preached with Rev Chadbourne assisting, and more than 500 members filled the service. The former Egleston Square society dated to 1876 and relocated after the Elevated railway forced dissolution and sale of its old building.
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Greater Boston
Methodist Episcopal Church
Walnut Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Walnut Avenue
Roxbury
John W. Hamilton
D. D
LL. D
John P. Chadbourne
C. F. Rice
C. F
Editor of Boston Papers Faces Ad Pressure Probe
Livy St. Richard editor of the Boston Common spoke at Wells Memorial Hall on Boston newspapers and control by advertisers. He divided his talk into Servility to Advertisers Unfaithful Reporting and Masked Ownership critiquing press independence.
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Boston
Livy St. Richard
Boston Common
Wells Memorial Hall
Richard
Reunion Plans for Young Men's Lyceum in Moon Street
Plans are complete for the Young Men's Lyceum reunion in St Johns Hall Moon Street on Monday Feb 19. Attendees include Mayor Fitzgerald Congressmen Murray Curley and other officials. A grand march led by the mayor and Mrs Fitzgerald, a reception and program, a 40 piece orchestra, promenade concert and dancing follow. Floor marshal Philip J McGonagle and assistant Francis D O Donnell. John O Hare heads the reception committee. Temporary schoolrooms will be removed to make space for the program. The hall will be decorated with red white and blue bunting and plants on the stage.
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Young Men’s Lyceum of
North End
St. John’s Hall
Moon Street
Fitzgerald
Murray and
Curley
John F. Fitzgerald
Philip J. McGonagle
Francis ,D. O'Donnell
John O’ Hare
Miss Taft to Act in Fairy Play by Mrs Anderson
Washington February 11 Miss Helen Taft will lead in Little Madcap a fairy play by Mrs Larz Anderson mother’s friend The President’s daughter joins amateur theatre for charity with a large cast including Alice Meyer Gladys Ingalls Abbie Ingalls Eugene O Connell and others awaiting the result.
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Miss Taft
Mrs. Anderson
Washington
Helen Taft
Larz Anderson
Playhouse
Washington Playhouse
Belgium
Alice Meyer
the Navy
Meyer
Taft
Gladys Ingalls
Abbie Ingalls
Barnard
Cincinnati
Elsie Aldrich
Preston Gibson
Oden Horstmann
Newton Gulick
George O'’Conner
Captain Little
Burrell Huff
Sam Elliott
Minnie Hawk
De Koven Considered to Write Trilby Grand Opera
Reginald De Koven, composer of Robin Hood and The Wedding Trip, visited Boston for social functions with Mrs Deven and to select an enlarged orchestra for his new opera. Andreas Dippel of the Chicago Philadelphia Opera invited De Koven to write Trilby grand opera, to be produced first in Chicago next fall, under consideration.
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Reginald de Koven
The
Majestic
Boston
American Dickens Fund Reaches $10008 in Subscriptions
Joseph H. Choate announced the Dickens centenary fund has reached 10008 in American subscriptions. Gifts pour in from across the country with Boston and Philadelphia leading the contributions for the author's five granddaughters.
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New York
Joseph H. Choate
Dickens Centenary Fund
Boston
Philadelphia
American fund aims to match London subscriptions
The fund expects to raise more than 500 dollars sourced in New York with Clarence Mackay as treasurer. American managers plan to match the 36000 pounds already subscribed in London.
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Ceeding
New York
Clarence Mackay
London
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Col. Bunting
Ronan
Taiu Et Bala
Epson
Underwood & Underwood
Dr. Myers
Revere
Maniff
Rose
Beatrice
John Alrolla
Hoseman Nash
Ajrelia
Hoseman Williams
Nash
Harding
White
Dunn
Elizabeth
Phoebe Ropes
Boston: Museum OF Fine Arts
Kidder Champ
Supplant Bible
Monkey
Walnut Park
Young Men’s Lyceum
Helen’ M'Gonagle
Hall of the Young Men's Lyceum
Hoto
Conlin
Mary E. Doyle
Young Men’s Lyceum of the
DE Koven
Prince Edward Islanders
Eee
Artakaba and Ball
Prince Edward Island
Paul Revere
Talbot Halls
Unbington
Densmore Merc
Tremont St
Wolf's
Postland
Hanover Streets
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