Revelry at Baltimore Club Ends in Comical Typhoid Clinic Prank
A Baltimore Elkridge Hunt Club dinner featuring disguised physicians and nurses ends with Mrs. Ral Parr being ducked in a water tub amid seltzer spray. Prominent railroad men including Oscar G. Murray act as doctors in a mock medical clinic staged as a party centerpiece. The scene devolves into a chaotic fall but is described as the warmest revel in Baltimore society.
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Baltimore
Elkridge Hunt Club
Ral Parr
Oscar G. Murray
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Dr. Bull
Bull
Murray
Republicans plan May 26 state convention in Waco
The executive committee of the reorganized Republican party, with white and colored members, arranged a State convention at Waco for May 26 to select delegates to the Chicago convention and endorsed Vice-President Fairbanks as presidential nominee.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Republican Party
Waco
Chicago
Fairbanks
Lundin to Wrestle Gotch in Worcester Tuesday Night
Hjalmar Lundin the big Swede arrived in Worcester and began training to meet champion Frank Gotch in Mechanics Hall on Tuesday night.
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Worcester
Hjalmar Lundin
Mechanics’ Hall
Frank Gotch
No More Indigestion With Diapepsin Triangles
An advertisement promotes Diapepsin triangles as a stomach digestion aid. It claims rapid relief from indigestion, heartburn, and belching by using pepsin and natural digestive agents, urging readers to buy a 50-cent case from a druggist for improved appetite and comfortable meals.
Machinery workers vow strike over piecework system
Railroad Machinists' Lodge 667 in New Haven announced unanimous opposition to the piece or bonus pay plan set to start March 10. The union, allied with cart workers painters boiler makers blacksmiths and upholsterers, will oppose wage cuts and send a representative to the Buffalo convention on April 6. H W Churchill of Lynn urged members to resist wage reductions.
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New Haven
Washington Street
Union of Railroad Machinists
Buffalo
H. W. Churchill
Lynn
International Machinists’ Association
Boston Typographical Union condemns Mayor Hibbard over union stance
The Boston Typographical Union 18 denounces Mayor George A. Hibbard for saying he would not appoint an active trades union member to lead a city department. The union calls the remark un-American and discriminatory against 60,000 Boston labor members and urges adherence to the Constitution.
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Hibbard
Boston Typographical Union 18
Boston
George A. Hibbard
Two Women Die in Separate Suicides by Fire
In Allentown Miss Emma Fink, her mother’s death grieved, then she doused her clothes with oil and set them ablaze in Slatedale. In Cleveland Mrs August a Strey, 73, burned her clothing claiming she was a burden to her grandson, who faced job loss and a large family.
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Allentown
Penn
Emma Fink
Slatington
Slatedale
House of Huer Friends
Cleveland, CO
Mrav Augusta Strey
Arrests Over Black Hand Letters Spark Boston Fear
Police say two men tied to the Bowdoin Street area were arrested after letters threatening a man named Piscopo matched the envelope and stamp style used in prior extortion notes. Investigators found the same stamp and papers at a store linked to the suspects, with one man described as living on Bowdoin Street for years and the other seen near the store for weeks. The case marks the first Black Hand arrests in the state, with Mr. Piscopo aided by detectives and a Winthrop officer following threats and a demanded $1000 contract by February 25 or 26.
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Piscopo
Watts
Bowdoin Street
Fréderico Barlyndo
Marabito
Boylston Street
Rizzo
Mr. Piscopo
North End
Hotel Piscopo
Fleet Street
America
Enrico Barlyndo & CO
Boston Catholics Celebrate Centenary of See and Jubilee
A sermon by church leaders recalls Boston’s Catholic growth from the Holy Cross era to a modern metropolis with a large archdiocese. Plans include a March parish collection and a fall charity drive, plus a public reenactment at Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Symphony Hall.
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New England
Fristian
Kingdom of God
Cheverus
Boston
Bordeaux
Church of the Holy Cross
Matignon
Christendom
Pius VII
Pius X
Diocese of
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Symphony Hall
Hart Established Saturday Half Holiday Denied
Sanitary and Street Cleaning Teamsters Union 149 disputed recent statements about Mayor Hibbard ending the Saturday half holiday. The union resolution asserts the system was established by Mayor Hart and first practiced under his administration, detailing dates and circumstances.
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Hart
Collins
Union 149
Hibbard
Train collision claims Spring Valley team
A train struck a wagon carrying the Spring Valley basketball team, killing six and injuring three. The gate remained intact, and frightened horses caused the wagon to be pulled from its pole before the impact. The animals were unharmed.
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Spring Valley
First Sunday Ford Hall talk on working class reforms
The opening of a six Sunday series in Ford Hall addressed working class issues. Edwin Mead Henry Abrahams C C Barry and Robert Woods spoke on philanthropy labor rights and municipal reform. Next week Charles S Smith of the People's Institute will discuss The Brotherhood of Man.
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Ford Hall
Ashburton Place
Baptist Social Union
Edwin D. Mead
Henry Abrahams
C. C. Barry
Robert A. Woods
Ford
England
Charles S. Smith
People's Institute
Cooper Union
Brotherhood of Man
How to Get Strong Axiom on Wheat and Maps Flake
The text asserts nourishment depends on digestion not intake and explains wheat requires thorough cooking. It describes steam cooking six hours, curing ninety hours, thinning into flakes, and 400 degree toasting thirty minutes, presenting Maps Flake as a superior indispensable hotel and club food product.
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Mrs
Ral Park
Baltimore Society
Henry Clews, Jr
Lundin
Gotch
Earl S. Sloan
Mass
Greene
34 Place
Mati
Mass, Delegation
Black Hand
Europe
Federico Barylyndo
Fen‘wick
Fitzpatrick
Williams
Jesus Christ
Christ
Nyack
West Nyack
West Shore Road
Young May
Oneway Teat Poop Company
Mich. USA
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