Forget Yourself Record Gala by Harry Lauder on Victor
Victor Talking Machine offers 15 new records by Harry Lauder, billed as the best entertainer on the American vaudeville stage. Accompaniments by Victor Orchestra, durations and prices listed for twelve inch and ten inch records, with titles such as I Love a Lassie, Stop Yer Ticklin Jock, Tobermory, Wearing Kilts, and When I Get Back Again to Bonnie Scotland.
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Harry Lauder
Victor
Jock
Tobermory
Rob Roy MacIntosh
Lauchie McGraw
Sandy McNab
Bonnie Scotland
Red Seal Record by Caruso and Alda at the Met
A new red seal Caruso Alda record with the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus reprints the Miserere from Il Trovatore. It adds to the Rigoletto quartet and Lucia sextet, priced at four dollars. Also 420 special Caruso records and Peary north pole tale on a 12 inch disc for 1.25. Vic tor Victrolas priced 125 to 250. Victor catalog with 150 pages and 3000 records offered free entertainment from comic songs to complete operas.
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Caruso
Alda
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus
Lucia
Peary
North Pole
Talking Machine
Victor
Council Deadlock Persists Over City Council Presidency
Boston's City Council completed its second meeting with no break in the deadlock for president. Nine ballots were taken yesterday, 12 since organizing, narrowing the contest to Hale or Collins with four votes each, though Ballantyne has one vote. The deadlock remains unresolved and unsettled.
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Boston
Taok
Hale
Collins
Ballantyne
Intricate Council Balloting Delays Collins Victory
The council votes reveal shifting loyalties among Attridge Collins and McDonald with many leaders maneuvering. Brand Buckley and Ballantyne figure prominently as blocks shift. Hale switches from candidate to supporter, delaying a decisive result until the final tally shows Collins and McDonald aligned with Attridge and Kenny.
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Attridge
Collins
McDonald
Municipal League
Brand
Buckley
Ballantyne
Hale
Curley
Shkenny
Kenny
Lasting Cure for Rheumatism Promoted by Pink Pills
An advertisement claims a lasting cure for rheumatism through Dr Williams Pink Pills. It recounts Michael M Leene of Pittsburgh cured after twenty years, detailing severe symptoms and relief after four to twelve boxes. The pills promise blood purification, no opiates, and are sold nationwide with a free booklet available.
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Michael M. Leene
Singer Street
Pittsburg
Williams
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Miss Gazzam Declares Plan to Seek Ideal Husband
New York heiress Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam, wealth estimated at 590000 to 3000000 dollars, announces she will devote her life to advancing ideas on heart, religion, and society. She seeks a well balanced partner, urges spousal equality, and favors legal separation if ideals clash.
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New York
Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam
Storm King Mountain
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson
Miss Gazzam
Marshall Clark
Clark
Makes 5000 Children Glad Champion Valentine Giver
Alexander J. Peckham, Boston attorney and Tremont building resident, distributes 5000 valentines to South and West Lands children. He personally delivers each, plans completing the task by Thursday night, and is active with the Boys' Club of the Hope Chapel and the Boston Newsboys Club. He rejects philanthropy as a simple friendship with street children.
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Alexander I. Peckham
Boston
Tremont Building
Mt. Vernon Street
Peckham
Hope Chapel
South Church
Shawmut Avenue
Harvard
Boston Newsboys’ Club
Newsboys’ Club
Alexander J. Peckham
Grocer’s Clerk Dares Fire To Save 80-Year-Old Woman
Frank Weldon a young grocer’s clerk rushed into a burning three story house at 15 Paris street and carried Mrs. Mary Cooper an 80 year old resident down three flights to the street. She was uninjured but Weldon suffered burns. The blaze started on the second floor and spread upward rapidly.
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Frank Weldon
Paris Street
Mary Cooper
Weldon
John Dolan
Edward Duggan
Jacob Sleeper Named Secretary of Havana Legation
Washington February 14 Jacob Sleeper of Massachusetts was named by the President to be secretary of the legation at Havana and his nomination was sent to the Senate.
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Washington
Jacob Sleeper
Massachusetts
Havana
Senate
Uncle Joe Cannon Calls for Majority Power in Congress
Washington reports from February 14 describe Representative Cannon warning colleagues to maintain majority power to enable orderly procedure. He defended the rivers and harbors bill while criticizing criticism from the minority and foreseeing a population surge and expanding railway needs to move growing commerce.
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Washington
Joe
Cannon
Illinois
Is Thinnes Embarrassing A Social Observation
The excerpt portrays social stigma against thin individuals and praises flesh as attractive, noting digestive and blood absorption differences. It promotes a questionable tonic mixture containing essences and compounds to purportedly gain weight, advising specific dosages and routines.
Gang of yeggmen terrorizes town in Massachusetts visit
Southbridge reports a pistol fight between officers and robbers foiled the gang’s plan to break the post office safe in town early this morning. The incident follows a winter spree of the same gang across Massachusetts, triggering turmoil in Southbridge and Franklin.
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Southbridge
Franklin
Massachusetts
Night highwaymen rob Franklin sleigh rider under masked threat
Two masked men attempted a roadside robbery near Medway and attacked Woolford Boucher of Franklin who lost about $100 before fleeing. Patrolmen James Coughlin and Edward McGurk confronted two men near the post office at 2 am. the robbers fired then escaped after a brief exchange. No injuries reported as investigators survey the area and send messages to nearby towns.
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James Coughlin
Edward McGurk
Boucher
Ready defence for assailed patriots
New England historians librarians and patriotic groups defend James H. Stark's The Loyalists of Massachusetts against charges of bias. Critics say Stark misstates figures like Samuel Adams John Hancock and Patrick Henry while supporters defend revolutionary motives and note limited harm from past misdeeds.
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New England
Boston
James H. Stark
Massachusetts
Mr. Stark
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
Cabots
Beverly
Alexander Hamilton
John Hancock
Harvard University
Stark
Hancock
W. P. Greenlaw
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Four Thousand Watch Makers Idle at Waltham
Four thousand workers at the Waltham Watch Company will be idle for ten days starting February 19 due to overproduction. The shutdown, the third in as many months, ends March 1 with workers returning to their jobs.
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Waltham Watch Company
Harvard Co-op gets large flood damage payment
The Harvard Co-operative Society received a check of 13 833.84 dollars from the metropolitan water board for damage to its building and stock caused by a water main burst in Harvard square on the evening of December 24.
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Harvard Co-operative Society
Metropolitan Water Board
Harvard Square
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