Famous Authors in That $10,000 Contest
The Sunday Post Magazine features two prominent short story writers in its $10,000 prize contest. Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson’s pupil, contributes God in the Foothills, with a career including collaborations on The Wrecker and The Ebb Tide and works like The Motormaniacs. Adachi Kinnosuke, a Japanese master, presents a powerful tale of two Japanese mothers, reflecting his mission to interpret the Far East to Occidentals.
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Lloyd Osbourne
Adachi Kinnosuke
Sunday Post Magazine
Sunday Post
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Osbourne
Mr. Osbourne
San Francisco
University of Edinburgh
Great Man
Guy de Maupassant
Flaubert
the Adventurer
Adachi
Kameyama
Kobe
Tokio
United States
Vanderbilt University
Far East
Iroka
Curtiss Tests Hydro Plane On Warship Off San Diego
In a secret demonstration Glenn Curtiss flies his No. 4 hydro aeroplane beside the armored cruiser Pennsylvania, then hoists aboard and lowers back into the water. The test proves a hydroplane can operate from a ship without special deck facilities, with the entire hour long sequence conducted smoothly.
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San Diego
Cal
Glenn Curtiss
Pennsylvania
North Island
Navy Department
Curtiss
Navy
Ely
San Francisco
Doctors Failed Again the Great Kidney Remedy Saved Her
Mrs. Geo H Decker of Reading Penn endorses Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney trouble that doctors failed to cure. She reports back pain and muddy urine improved and cured, dated July 12 1909 before J E Bruce Alderman.
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Chapel Terrace
Reading
Penn
J. E. Bruce
Endeavor Fund Surpasses Eighty Thousand in Gifts
The Christian Endeavor international building fund reaches 30,614 dollars with major new gifts from Boston firms Jordan Marsh Company paying 600 and Ginn & Co. 600, Brainerd Leeds & Thayer 200, plus several smaller contributions. Previous total 29,312 with individuals adding modest sums to reach the grand total.
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Christian Endeavor International Building Fund
Business Men’s Committee
Boston
Jordan Marsh Company
Ginn & Co
Brainerd, Leeds & Thayer
Charles H. Collins
George E. Briggs
B. Walter Burns
John P. Jewell
Miss Nutter
Maurice Coleman
H. B
Longmeadow U. P
C. E
H. EB
Biddle May Meet English Conqueror of Junior Drexel
A. J. Drexel Biddle hints at a future bout with Hon. Seaton Beresford who defeated A. J. Drexel Jr. in Lakewood. Biddle vows to challenge the British visitor after he struck Biddle’s cousin in the solar plexus.
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Biddle
Drexel
New York
A. J. Drexel Biddle
Seaton
Robert Beresford
A. J. Drexel, Jr
Lakewood
N. J
Drexel and Beresford Box in Amusing Bout Read by London Gossips
The account describes a light heavyweight bout between Anthony Drexel Jr and Hon Bobby Beresford. Seton Beresford recalls the lively exchange with four ounce gloves, women shouting, and Drexel being knocked out. Lord Alastair Graham served as referee.
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Anthony, Jr
Bobby Beresford
Lord Weeces
Ladies Club Finances Collapse After Property Loss
A Boston women led corporation formed in 1896 with $150000 capital lost $130000 in a crash after financing a Beacon Street building. Audited accounts show real estate profits offset by mortgages and expenses, leaving a small treasury balance and plans to wind up.
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Treasury
Beacon Street
Back Bay
Elisha Converse
Huntington Avenue
Potter Hall
Howe Hall
Julia Ward Howe
Moving Picture Company
Corporation
William E. Hingston
Boston
Charitable Contributions List Includes Boston and Nearby Towns
A long ledger of donations is recorded with dozens of names and cities such as Boston Roxbury Newton Cambridge and Belmont. Amounts range from five to over one thousand dollars with notable gifts from Mrs. Elizabeth G. Gay and Miss Cornelia Warren among others.
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Mary J. Reilly
Gleasondale
Margaret A. Richards
Roxbury
F. D. Sampson
Newton
A. L. Stow
Belmont
M. L. Swain
Boston
F. Smith
Adaliza F. Spaulding
Brighton
Ruth Williams Sears
Margery Shaw
Helen M. Shaw
S. E. Taggard
K. M. Thayer
Harriett
Tolman
Edward B. Trumbull
Salem
M. O. Tyler
North Andover
Elvira A. Tibbetts
South Boston
Elizabeth J. Tisdale
E. W. Thayer
Floretta Vining
Hull
Thomas F. Galvin
C. E. Gary
E. B. Gerry
Watertown
A. B. Gilman
Winches
Ter
S. E. M. Guild
Brookline
Emma Geiger
Ella L. Gregory
Willam A. Gaston
Elizabeth G. Gay
Dora M. Goodwin
John Wales
ER. N. L. Walton
Cornelia Warren
Henry Whitman
A. G. Williams
M. R. Wilmarth
Roxford
Windsor
H. M. Winslow
Shirley
Roger Wolcott
Lucy A. Woods
A. G. Woolson
Windham
L. A. Wright
Lucy M. Welch
Ella B. Weston
Medford
Mercy E. Woodin
Martha A. Williams
Isabella H. Williams
Allston
Mary E. Wood
Kate R. Winch
Alice F. Whitaker
Washington, D. C
Frederick A. Woods
Stark Supply Co. Ad for Meats and Prices
A 1895 storefront ad lists Ox Tails seven cents and four for a quarter, short lamb chops ib prices, with a note to go to Fresh Park by strip and a Stark Supply Co address at 1895 Washington Street Rox. The listing includes telephone number 1100 Rox. and emphasizes bulk meat availability.
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Fresh Park
Stark Supply CO
Washington Street
Obituary notices from Boston area on Feb 15 16 17 19
Multiple funeral announcements list names of the deceased and their relatives across Roxbury Charlestown East Boston Cambridge Somerville Woburn and Winthrop. Entries include Beals Bliss Bonney Brady Carlson Collins Creden Cruise Casteran Comerford Desmond Doherty Domini Ep Opiano Hancock Hunt James Mann McCarthy McMullen Mealey Meehan Oakes O Reilly O Brien Philbin Pratt Pride Reardon Ronan Smith Stanton Stone Young and others with dates Feb 16 17 18 19 1911 and service details at various churches and cemeteries.
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Carlson
Cambridge
Gustaf Norman
Swedish Lutheran Church
Broadway
Collins
Roxbury
Margaret Collins
Clancy
Limerick
Ireland
Tremont Street
Mission Church
Cruise
Boston
Walter
Joseph H
Elizabeth A. Cruise
Notre Dame Des Victoires
Isabella Street
Comerford
Jamaica Plain
Catherine A
John B. Comerford
John Desmond
Doherty
Charlestown
Catherine J
Owen
Annie Doherty
Harvard Street
St. Mary’s Church
Warren Street
Domini
Giovanni Donnini
North Bennet Street
Sacred Heart Church
North Square
Epopiano
Dorchester
Eliza J. Fopiano
John Keenan
West Park Street
Church of St. Leo
Holy Cross Cemetery
Malden
Hancock
Winfield D
Nellie M. Hancock
Peterson
Everett Street
Church of the Assumption
Enscott Street
New Calvary Cemetery
Lawrence
M’mullen
Somerville
John McMullen
Owen A. Hogan
Cragie Street
Bacon Street
Plymouth
Mass
Pride
Browning Road
Edwin Pride
Beverly Farms Baptist Church
Berkeley Street
Winthrop
Gregory Stone
Hawthorne Avenue
Ocean
Spray Station
Young
B. Franklin Young
Christ's Church, Cambridge
Vaneton Street
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Tomorrow’s Sunday Post Magazine
Curtis
Caufornia Fig Syrup
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Boston Daily Post
Endeavor Fund
Hunyadi
Underwood & Underwood
George J. Gould
Lakewoood
Anthony Drexel, JR
Lord Decies
Bobby
England
Tony’’ Biddle
Jack O’brien
Fin
Bey
Anthony J. Drexel
Bobby’ Beresford
Anthony Drexel Tiddle
Mr. Drexel
Seton R. Beresford
Drexel Plant
Tony
Dofne
Drexel All In
Lord Alastair Graham
The
Daughters of the Revolution
Cibiekvesssiads
Srereeeres
Anderson
J. K. Adams
North Woburn
A. N. Allen
M. Allen
Braintree
M. W. Allen
J. Avery
Helen M. Alden
A. J. Bailey
B. Bailey
J. A. Beebe
C. P. Bigelow
F. E. Bigelow
A. H. Preeton
B. Brooks
H. W. Brown
H. M. A. Burrill
Howard F. Butler
Henry E. Barney
Emily J. Burbank
Mercy S. Buxton
Margaret A. Brigham
Waban
Robert O. Brigham
E. B. Cahill
Frederick B. Carpenter
N. W. Carson
E. Channing
C. S. Chapin
Andover
Caleb Chase
E. L. Chase
E. L. Cheney
B. N. Cheney
B. P. Cheney
Alice T. Curtiss
A. S. Colby
M. J. Cilley
L. A. Cobb
Chelsea
M. E. B. Cole
H. Collamore
C. C. Converse
P. F. Coolidge
L. A. Cooper
Oliver Crane
E. V. Crowell
M. E. Cushing
Abbie J. Copeland
Melrose
Laura E. Clark
Helen A. Cox
Caroline Couchier
Wollaston
Marion F. Cushing
Lore S. Chase
Haverhill
Dalton
Ingersoll & Co
M. E. Dinsmore
Ditson
M. E. Dobson
H. H. Drew
Delilah S. Davis
Lillian 8. Dreyfus
L. F. Edwards
Nellie G. Emery
Evelyn Emerson
N. M. Farmer
F. M. French
Nellie J. French
Adeline M. Ferguson
Roxanna
Fort Roxbury
W. M. Farrington
Bordman
H. F. Hathaway
John C. Haynes
EK. F. Kelley
Winchester
C. A. Kennard
F. Kenney
Annie M. Kilham
Beverly
A. C. Kimball
H. L. Kimball
M. A. Knapp
Greenwich
Conn
Maranna F. Keen
S. T. Leighton
East Boston
8S. O. Libby
J. J. Lous
Weymouth
A. M. Lougee
BE. C. Lovering
Marie Ware Laughton
Sarah E. Laughton
Bridgewater
Charlotte Lawrence
Joseph P. Livermore
E. L. Mack
Ss. E. Mansfield
E. L. Marsh
M. B. Martin
M. E. Miller
S. H. Miller
BE. L. D. Moffatt
A. C. Morse
J. G. Moseley
M. Murdock
A. G. Murray
Laura F. Mead
Everett
Catherine L. Marion
Carrie W. Nickerson
Grace L. Oliver
Mary E. Ordway
M. E. Peirce
A. B. Pillsbury
C. A
E. F. Pope
W. K. Potter, Jr
S. T. Potter
W. W. Potter
F. B. Pratt
Sarah G. Putnam
Annie J. E. Perkins
Helen W. Potter
Henrietta Paige
Sarah J. Parker
Isabella Potter
Laura B. Platt
A. A. Permaine
Harriett Packard
Mary D. H. Prang
Rebecca A. Pickett
M. L. Ray
E. T. Russell
Josephine W. Rose
M. O’keeffe
O'Keeffe
Crosse & Blackwell
John T
Price
Connor
UNION
Greater
Butter and Egg Trust
Fied
Brookside
Katherine
Olaf B. Anderson
Germania
C. BE
Thuswelda Lodge
Clara Lodge
Anna Lodge
Columbus Avenue
Creden
William
Caroline Creden
Taber
Harrishot Street
St. Joseph’s Church
Circuit Street
New Bedford
Providence
Meehan
Denie Meehan
St. Peter’s Church
Meeting House Hill
Oakes
Woburn
Lucinia B. Oakes
Leopold Oakes
Montvale
O'Reilly
John C
John J
Mary O'Reilly
O’brien
Malden Hospital
Bartholomew O'Brien
Main Street
Mary O’brien
Ronan
Patrick
Annie M. Rowan
Langdon Street
John P. J. Rowan
Glendale Street
St. Patrick’s Church
Dudley Street
Calvary Cemetery
Beacon Florist
Beacon ST
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