Society News Highlights From Boston Town and Abroad
Dr and Mrs George H Monks return from England aboard the Ivernia with family plans in Marlboro Street and Swampscott. The final winter carnival at the Country Club, reception at the Vendome for Mrs Edward A Strong’s guest Mrs William Bullock Clark, and Mrs Dudley B Fays dinner dance for her daughter Ethel Fay are among society events. The season features debutantes, gowns, and social kinship with the Vanderbilt Hunnewell circle attending kennels and dances.
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England
Ivernia
George H. Monks
Marlboro Street
Monks
Olga Gardner
John L. Gardner
Boston
Europe
Elisha W. Cobb
Somerset
Swampscott
Edward’ A. Strong
Vendome
Waldo Richards
Dudley B. Fay
Tuileries
Helen Apthorp
John Vaughan Apthorp
Milton
Miss Apthorp
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Hollis H. Hunnewell
Wellesley
Vanderbilts
Hunnewells
Kennel Club
State Wades into Corset Controversy at Legislature
Madison reports an anti corset crusade as a bill proposes a commission to probe violent cases of women injuring themselves by overly tight corsets. A male lobby backs the measure, challenging recent moves to tax bachelors over 25. Six years ago an earlier anti corset effort failed amid a bitter fight.
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Madison
Wis
Sixth annual ball of Division 72 draws 700 in Suffolk county
Upwards of 700 persons including the president of many Ancient Order of Hibernians divisions in Suffolk attended the sixth annual ball of Division 72 at Paine Memorial Hall. Grand march began after 9 pm with Patrick Cooney escorting Nellie Cronin and William W Shine and wife, followed by about 100 couples.
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Order of Hibernians
Suffolk County
Paine Memorial Hall
Patrick Cooney
Nellie Cronin
William W. Shine
James Quill
Dennis J. Coleman
Jeremiah J. Ferris
William J. Cotter
Peter J. Holland
John Sullivan
Ship Trust Denied Bankruptcy Discharge in New York
Judge Holt in the United States District Court upheld Referee Stanley M. Dexter's report denying a discharge in bankruptcy to Daniel Leroy Dresser senior partner of Dresser & Co., promoters of the so called shipbuilding trust.
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Ship Trust
New York
Holt
United States District Court Today
Stanley M. Dexter
Daniel Leroy Dresser
Dresser & Co
Shipbuilding Trust
Subway Sore Throat Appeal to the Editor
A reader recounts a severe subway sore throat from cold waiting in Scollay Square and unsettled travel, urging creation of warmed waiting rooms. The letter praises Boston subway comfort while calling for public health measures led by General Bancroft and associates to prevent future cases.
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the Post
Cambridge
Scollay Square
Reading
Bancroft
Boston
Boston Subway
Rich Man's Poor Girl Bride Prefers Flat to Palace
In Torrington Connecticut Miss Fannie Holder, once earning 3 dollars weekly as a mill worker, married Senator Fuessenich's son in New York. She now seeks a modest flat for herself and husband, praising her mother in law and stating social class should not matter in marriage. The groom agrees, saying he married for love regardless of her past.
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Torrington
Conn
J. Cleveland Fuessenich
Fannie Holder
New York
Fuessenich
Senator Fuessenich
J. C. Fuesshnich
Connecticut
Panhandle Railroad Named After His Efforts
Minneapolis February 24 Colonel Charles H Wood 67 founder of the West Hotel dies of pneumonia. He served as general agent for the Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis Blue Line and Santa Fe at Chicago. He coined the Pan Handle name and helped Santa Fe enter Chicago. He established Kansas City freight terminals and the first union station.
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Minneapolis
Charles H. Wood
West Hotel
Wood
Pittsburg
Cincinnati & St. Louis
Blue Line
Santa Fe
Chicago
Kansas City
Union Station
Harvard Receives German Social Ethics Exhibit From Emperor
Professor Hugo Munsterberg announces that Emperor William gifts part of the St. Louis Exposition German exhibit on Germany’s social ethics to Harvard University. The collection will be tendered Tuesday and placed in Emerson Hall for the philosophy department, with Dr Theodore Lewald presenting and Dr Henry P Walcott presiding at the Germanic Museum ceremony.
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Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard University
Harvard
Germany
Theodore Lewald
Munsterberg
Division of Philosophy
Emerson Hall
Philosophy
University
William
Department of Philosophy
Psychology
Seward
Cambridge
Henry P. Walcott
Harvard College
Birthday party held at grave for deceased daughter
Appleton Wisconsin February 24 Mrs Albert Kreiss honored the 26th birthday of her dead daughter Mrs Kreiss Speedy by gathering many friends at the cemetery. After grave decorations the group returned to the Kreiss home for refreshments. A vacant chair draped in red white and blue stood at the head of the supper table and a 26 candle birthday cake was placed before it.
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Appleton, Wis
Albert Kreiss
Kreiss Speedy
Kreiss
Jilted Girl's Odd Revenge in Nebraska Senate
In Lincoln, a bill to require gasoline be kept in red cans to distinguish it from kerosene failed in the Senate after House approval. Rep Foster of Douglas county authored the measure. He claims Miss Olivett, secretary to Lt Governor McGilton, used her influence to defeat it, citing past engagement with Foster.
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Lincoln
Neb
Senate
House
Foster
Douglas County
Cape Fear River pilotage laws repealed opens Wilmington port
A Senate committee approved an agreement to repeal all state pilotage regulations on the Cape Fear River to Wilmington. The move makes Wilmington an absolutely open port.
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Raleigh
N. C
Senate
Cape Fear River
Wilmington
Expurgation Edict Fines Swearers in Clifton Heights
In Philadelphia on February 24 the Clifton Heights village enforces a 69 cent penalty for each swear word uttered. Chief James Lungen reports quarrelsome crowds prompting action as Squire Clevenger cites penalties and the village seeks to curb coarse language among residents.
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Philadelphia
Clifton Heights
James Lungen
Squire Clevenger
Blackstone
Double Tragedy in Macon Farm Barn
In Macon Illinois on February 24 I H Hull a farmer killed himself with poison. His 21 year old son Clinton, affected by the event, hanged himself in the barn. The father had been well to do and no reason is known. A previous owner hanged himself in the same barn two years earlier.
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Macon
I. H. Hull
Clinton
Third Rail Explosion Injures Men On New York Subway
In New York the third rail explosion south of Ninety sixth street seriously injured two men and bruised four others after a chisel dropped from a worker’s hand touched the charged rail. Adolph Dobbins led the circuit gang. The blast knocked the workers off their feet and halted service for over an hour.
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New York
Sixth Street
Adolph Dobbins
Brooklyn
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Parker
A. D. HL
Subway
Panhandle Railroad
Kaiser
ST. Louis Fair
France
Sunday Post
Fitzgerald
E. H. Baynes
Massachusetts
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