Notable Local News Bits From Cambridge and Boston Notices
The year opens with a police veteran’s 40th anniversary Chief Frederick B. Pullen of the Cambridge police, born in 1845 in Vermont, a Civil War veteran and longtime Post 186 G. A. R. member. A grand Mardi Gras tone lands in New Orleans style confetti and late New Year whistles on trains in Sullivan Square. East Boston friends report Daniel Eldridge’s full recovery from pneumonia. Lieutenant Lawrence Flaherty earns a commission after drill-winning honors. Debutante Fitzgerald’s daughter draws praise at her coming-out event in Washington and New York venues. A friend mentions a clock by Frank A. Dolan, crafted in spare moments from press board and metal. Santa Claus awaits thanks from a New Hampshire patron, maple sugar promised in spring. Engagement notices for Rosamond Lang and Frederick Ruthven Galacar surface with Yale, Harvard, and club affiliations cited.
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Frederick B. Pullen
Cambridge Police
Pullen
Vermont
Post 186
New Year Learns From Old Year On City Gates Tale
A snowy northern city hosts a fateful New Year tale as the year arrives. The Old Year warns the New about careless returns of days. The crowd cheers as the New Year distributes days freely, some joyfully, some broken, amid celebrations and adulation.
Boston Elevated Railway holds annual meeting and reports rise
Stockholders meet in Wesleyan Hall as directors are re elected for a year led by Major General William A Bancroft. The board notes a shift of the next meeting to November and records over two million dollars paid in taxes rents and contributions. Revenue passengers for nine months total 220 127 890 an 5 31 percent rise with a 10 446 18 surplus. There are 4014 MA stockholders owning 176 799 shares.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Wesleyan Hall
Frederick Ayer
William A. Bancroft
John J. Bright
Samuel Carr
Frank FE. Peabody
James M Prendergast
James L. Richards
Quinct A. Shaw
Williams. Spaulding
Robert Winsor
Bancroft
Boston Elevated
West End
Massachusetts
Papes Diuretic Claims Quick Kidney Relief
The advertisement promotes Pape's Diuretic from Cincinnati Ohio as a rapid cure for kidney and urinary troubles. It asserts relief from backache and related symptoms within days and warns against delaying treatment to prevent dropsy or Bright's disease. It mentions widespread reliance by professionals and merchants for the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Bright
Pape, Thompeson & Pape
Cincinnati
Ohio
Teachers' pay focus fuels Boston school race
Michael H. Corcoran Jr and Dr Thomas F Leen campaign for the Boston school committee urging higher teacher wages and healthful school meals. Corcoran links purchasing power decline since 1896 to wages and vows fair pay. Leen prioritizes pupil health with hot lunches and better nourishment. They spoke at Ward Room Maverick Street Boulevard Hall East Boston Ward Room Bunker Hill Street and Charlestown Lower Roughan Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael H. Corcoran, Jr
Thomas F. Leen
Public School Association
Boston
Leen
Mr. Corcoran
Ward Room
Maverick Street
Boulevard Hall
East Boston
Bunker Hill Street
Lower
Roughan Hall
Charlestown
Edison as Twenty Great Men Rolled in One
The piece extols Thomas Edison as a mighty inventive figure who toils in his den and achieves yearly triumphs. Walt Mason contrasts Edison with dead inventors, praising his ongoing, world changing creations and his tireless, gleaming workshop craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bales
Edison
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Boston Coal Receipts Reach Over Six Million Tons in 1910
Boston coal shipments from domestic and foreign ports totaled 6,229,982 tons in 1910, with 4,403,858 tons bituminous and 1,826,124 tons anthracite. The year shows an increase of 800,015 tons over 1909, and 2,797 coal carriers arrived, including 349 steamers, 259 schooners, and 2,189 barges.
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Boston
Cape Breton
Liverpool
Salem
Portland
North Shore
Veal loaf recipe and multiple home dishes from Worcester to North Abington
A scanned collection of home cooking instructions from various readers. Recipes include veal loaf with tomato sauce and rich cream, a jelly fruit log with citrus and nuts, fried salt pork with potatoes and milk gravy, a sugar raisin cookie dough with ginger and spices, and an old Indian Orchard note. Names and addresses accompany each entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma E. Muir
Bear
Ashland Street
Worcester
Orton
Monument Planned For Moisant Death Site In New Orleans
New Orleans on January 2 reports a granite and bronze monument will be erected in marshes near Harahan to honor John B. Moisant, who died Saturday after his Bleriot monoplane crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
John B. Moisant
Harahan
Mildred Champagne on Love and Truth in Advice
A 21 year old woman writes of breaking off a 30 month relationship with a man three years older over his habit of lying. The columnist warns against a chronic falsifier as a husband and advises the reader to avoid a life of constant distrust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Champagne
Old Man and Young Bride Match Sparks a Moral View
A letter from G. L weighs in on a young 18 year old who loves a 63 year old farmer with two married daughters. The adviser deems the match inappropriate, urging a partner closer in age and life stage to share a life together.
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Miss Champagne
G. L
Rockefeller gift starts endowment boost for Vermont
Burlington Vermont January 2 a Rockefeller Foundation grant of 67966 dollars reached University of Vermont Treasurer C D Smith as the first instalment of a 100000 dollar gift conditioned on raising 400000 dollars elsewhere. The 400000 dollars has been subscribed with 271000 dollars collected. The half million dollars will be added to the university endowment for general use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Rockefeller Foundation
C. D. Smith
University of Vermont
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Frank A. Dolan
Engine 4
Dolan
Washington
New York
Back Bay
Fitzgerald
Santa Claus
Santa
New Hampshire
Lawrence Flaherty
Ninth Regiment
Flaherty
Boston Post
Sullivan Square
B. J. Lang
Rosamond
Frederick Ruthven Galacar
Charles E. Galacar
Springfield
Mr. Galacar
Yale
University of Goettingen
St. Botolph, Puritan
Harvard Musical
Eastern Yacht and
Union Boat Clubs
Daniel Eldridge
Eldridge
Harbor
Pace
FE. A. Groster
Mercy ME
By Williams
Polly
Miss Puzzler
Punk
Miss Dazzler
Cary
Claribel
Sarah Heavysiua
Lady Macbeth
ARS
the Post
The
Sunday Post
Rubi Pearle Meyer
Pleasant Street
Wakefield
Thomas Edison
Walt
Wesels
New England Housewives
L. M. Bumpus
Plymouth Street
North
Abington
Minnie H. Sprague
Bassett Street
Providence
R. I
Moisant
Mildred Champagne
University
John D. Check
Tarious
Jordan Marsh Company
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