Wife Says Husband Floped on Her Money
Mrs. Annie Shoffer of Chelsea reports to police that her husband Jake Shoffer eloped with widow Sarah Suran of Providence. She says he withdrew funds from Chelsea Savings Bank and New York accounts to fund a trip, then fled to New York with Suran. The suspect is a Chelsea tailor. Suran is noted as a Providence social figure.
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Annie Shoffer
Spruce Street
City
Russia
Jake Sheifer
New York
Sarah Suran
Providence
Jake Shomfer
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Lord Wimborne Dies in London Polo Pioneer and Heir to Marlborough
Ivor Bertie Guest Lord Wimborne, born 1868, died in London. He married Cornelia Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough. He owned 83,600 acres and his heir is Lord Ashby St Ledgers. He organized the polo team that plans to challenge for the International Cup next year now held in the United States.
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London
Ivor Bertie Guest
Arsthaver Wimborne
I. Tit
Cornelia Spencer-Churchill
Duke of
Dr E W Taylor Lectures On Nervous Instability At Harvard
Dr E W Taylor warned against excessive self analysis and reiterated that nervous instability stems from essential attitudes of mind. He urged parents to offer friendship over restraint and to educate children about human nature, asserting overwork rarely causes nervous invalidism and stressing proper concentration and self knowledge.
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E. W. Taylor
Harvard Medical School
Taylor
Start Life Near Equal: Infant Potential Can Counter Inherited Tends
A speaker argues that birth does not seal destiny. Most are born with fair chances and can be guided to success despite nervous parentage. Early intervention can counteract inherited tendencies as a child develops.
Prince the Clever Swimming Dog Captures Beach Morning Guard Duties
Lewis Hermance of 908 Broadway South Boston writes of Prince a dog famed for swimming and friendly yet firm language lessons. Prince loves the water, joins family swims, sits on the beach guarding clothes, and entertains with curious stunts as children splash nearby.
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Prince
Lewis Hermance
Broadway
South Boston
Catholic Church Notes and Parish Events in Boston Area
A morning requiem at Sacred Heart Church Roslindale honors Rev. William Brett J. professor of ethics at Boston College. The Ronan building at Meeting House Hill opens this evening with Fr Peter Ronan and St. Peter's parish hosting the Married Women's Sodality. The Catholic Union presents Cardinal O Connell coat of arms with Irish art tracery at a pre Lent smoker. Edwin Mulready spoke on Social Justice. A dual parish reunion for St Marys Quincy honors Rev Thomas R McCoy, former Cathedral of the Holy Cross priest. Memorial Masses across the diocese mark deceased Knights of Columbus members.
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Roslindale
William Brett
Boston College
John J. Cummins
Mass
Ronan
Meeting House Hill
St. Peter’s Parish
Sodality
Mer. Peter Ronan
D. D
St. Peter's Church
Catholic Union of
Boston
Cardinal O'Connell
Daniel J. Dwyer
John Morton
Edwin Mulready
St. Marys Church
Quincy
St. Josephs Hall
Thomas R. McCoy
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Sunday Liquor Raids Reported Across Divison 1 Areas
Officers from Division 1 conducted Sunday liquor raids yielding a crop report. Lentino Dantanio at 16 Battery Street had 45 gallons of ale and lager beer. Antonio Mendes at 326 Cormener Street ejal street produced 14 gallons of beer and one whiskey. Antonio Malata at 11 Sheaf Street had 10 gallons of beer.
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Division 1
Battery Street
Antonio Mendes
Antonio Malata
Seaman Lost in Gale Off Vineyard Haven
The schooner William H. Clifford reporting from Vineyard Haven says a crewman, Silva Lopes, was washed overboard 15 miles southeast by east of Fire Island during a Feb gale while inbound to Boston. Lifesaving lines reached him but he drifted away and could not be saved.
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William H. Clifford
Jacksonville
Boston
Starr
Fire Island
Silva Lopes
Protestant Church Conferences and Religious Events in Boston
A country church conference supported by Baptist Congregational Episcopal Methodist Unitarian and Universalist bodies will meet in Boston March 4 and 5 with three daily sessions at Pilgrim Hall Channing Hall and Kingsley Hall on the first day and at First Methodist Church on Thursday. West End Mission held Washington Birthday services at 2 Green Street with speakers Dorham Barvirick Farnum Miss MacKenzie Mrs. Mary Sheehan and Frank Curtis. Rose Pastor Stokes of New York will speak before Congregational ministers at Pilgrim Hall. Norumbega district of the Massachusetts Sunday School Association meets at First Baptist Church Watertown on Wednesday afternoon and evening with Rev I I Petersen Mrs Etta M G Luce Miss Lawson Dr Albert M Hyde Hamilton S Conant and Newton Theological Institution students. Rev George A Gordon of Old South Church to give Lent lectures on What is Religion with topics March 1 8 15 22 29 and April 5. The 48th annual Boston Young Women's Christian Association meeting is set for Tuesday afternoon March 3 at the Hotel Vendome with a 3 PM reception and Miss Mary Woolley president of Mt Holyoke College delivering an address on The National YWCA Work.
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Pilgrim Hall
Channing Hall
Kingsley Hall
First Methodist Church
West End
Washington
Green Street
Clive Dorham
Waltham
Lex. Barvirick
Clarence Farnum
Miss MacKenzie
Mary Sheehan
Frank Curtis
Norumbega
Massachusetts Sunday School Association
First Baptist Church
Watertown
I. I. Petersen
Etta M. G. Luce
Martha K. Lawson
New York
Albert M. Hyde
Brockton
Hamilton S. Conant
Newton Theological Institution
George A. Gordon
Old South Church
Boston Young Women's Christian Association
Hotel Vendome
Mary Woolley
Mt. Holyoke College
National Young Women's Christian Association
Redfield to Speak at Ohio and West Virginia Trade Groups
Secretary Redfield of the Department of Commerce travels from Washington to Wheeling West Virginia to address the local Board of Trade. He will then speak Tuesday to the Greater Dayton Association in Ohio and Wednesday to the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.
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Washington
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Wheeling
W. Va
Board of Trade
Greater
Women to March Up Hill Again
Prominent members from all three parties will appear before the legislative committee on election laws to oppose the straw vote bills on woman suffrage. Suffragists will march to Beacon Hill tomorrow to contest the bills with vigor, aiming to influence the hearings and kill the measures as last year.
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Legislative Committee On
Beacon Hill
Thomas P. Riley
Democratic State Committee
Matthew Hare
Progressive Party
William F. Kinney
Teresa A. Crowley
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Mary A. Mahan
Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers
Straws Vote Bills Debated By Legislature And Suffragists
Attorney Michael F Culliney leads opposition to three straw vote bills on equal suffrage. Suffragists say the proposed votes are costly about fifty thousand dollars and nonbinding and urge putting the issue directly to voters under the state constitution. They argue the ballot would delay decisive action and waste resources.
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Michael F. Culliney
Boston Work Horse Relief Ass announces entry details
The Boston Work Horse Relief Association lists matries closing May 1 with no entry fee. Age favors entrants. old harness or wagon acceptable. Thin, lame, or galled horses excluded. blind horses may enter. Special class for old horses with gold and silver medals and cash prizes, plus prizes in huckster express and barrel rack classes. A driver serving 40 years or more earns a medal. twelve drivers get silver medals and one gold.
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