Chauncy Hall School Alumni Dinner at Harvard Club
Former Chauncy Hall judge Robert O Harris will preside at the Boston Harvard Club meeting and dinner for graduates. Odin B Roberts and Henry Quinby will speak on Chauncy Hall history and patriotism. Apollo Club volunteers provide musical entertainment for president Courteney Guild and treasurer Thomas Hall. Dinner 6:30 p m January 26 1916. tickets from M G Sellers 111 Devonshire St Boston.
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Robert O. Harris
Superior Court
Chauncy-Hall School
Harvard
Odin B. Roberts
Henry C. Quinby
New York
Apollo Club
Courteney Guild
Thomas H. Hall
Chauncy-Hall
Thomas Cushing
Tommy
Chauncy Hall School
Boston
Harvard Club of
M. G. Sellers
Devonshire Street
Oil burning liner Bostonian arrives from London
The Leyland line’s motor driven liner Bostonian completes its Atlantic voyage from London to Boston under Captain J Trickey amid stormy seas. The 400 by 52 by 27 foot ship carries 5200 tons and limited passenger space. a 1500 ton freight discharge is under way at Hoosac docks.
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Atlantic
Bostonian
Leyland Line
London
Boston
J.trickey
Cornwall
Hoosac Docks
Ex mayor Duane to be federal deputy in two shifts
Charles F. Morse resigns as chief deputy United States marshal after nine years. Patrick J. Duane of Waltham is named to succeed him, following two mayoral terms and service in the legislature. Morse will leave on Feb 1 under the plan stated by United States Marshal John J. Mitchell.
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Charles F. Morse
John J. Mitchell
Mr. Morse
Patrick J. Duane
Waltham
Nine Pneumonia Deaths Reported by Health Department
Reports of nine deaths from pneumonia received by the health department up to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, compared with ten deaths on Monday from 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. The latter figure was double the normal number of deaths usually recorded.
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Health Department
Harrison Company's Big Mark-Down Coat Sale Ad
Advertisement for marmot lined over coats at 150 in stock up to size 50 with Persian lamb collars and broadcloth shells. Mens coats priced at 45.00 and 18.50 with location at 662 672 Washington Street, corner Beach Street.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Corner Beach Street
Harrison Company's Great Mark-Down Sale on Coats
A sale at 662 672 Washington street Corner Beach offers coats and suits discounted from 25.00 to 11.00. The ad highlights overcoats in Scotch heathers black kerseys meltons and rough shet lands as perfect models for the price cut.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Corner Beach
Benefit Matinee For Firemen Families At Majestic Theatre
A benefit matinee of The Only Girl will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Majestic Theatre. Proceeds aid the families of Firemen Charles C. Willette and Dennis A. Walsh, who died in the West End fire.
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Charles C. Willette
Dennis A. Walsh
West End
Majestic Theatre
Firemen’s Benefit Fund
the Majestic
Benefit performance arranged by Shu bert and Wilbur stars
The entire production team including box office staff ushers stage hands and musicians will volunteer their services and the players will accept compensation as the benefit show proceeds. Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom waive royalties for the occasion and Joe Webber directs efforts from Boston. The company features Wilda Bennett Vivian Wessell Louise Kelly Olga Roller Leona Stephens Thurston Hall and others as they strive to ensure a successful event.
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Messrs. Shubert
A. L. Wilbur
Victor Herbert
Henry Blossom
Joe Webber
Boston
Wilda Bennett
Vivian Wessell
Louise Kelley
Olga Roller
Leona Stephens
Thurston Hall
John Findlay
Ernest Torrence
Jen Prouty
Richard Bartlett
Janet McIlwaine
Marion Sitgreaves
Gladys Schultz
Gertrude Thurston
Antoinette Morton
Gretchen Thomas
Cardinal O Connell Gives 50 For Firemen’s Children Fund
The relief fund for families of Boston firemen Walsh and Willett, killed at a Cambridge Street fire, climbs to nearly 3300 with pledges and donations. Cardinal O Connell sent 50 to Treasurer O Hearn at Hibernia Bank, joined by a 50 gift from J R Whipple Company. The event reflects broad support, including theater workers from The Only Girl company touring for subscriptions.
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Walsh
Willett
West End
O’hearn
Hibernia Bank
Cardinal O'Connell
J. R. Whipple Company
Majestic Theatre
William A. Tighe
Association Trust Fund
High Street
Boston
Mass
Cardinal O’connell
Patrick O’hearn
Hibernia Savings Bank
Charles C. Willett
Dennis A. Walsh
Cambridge Street
Co. J. Sullivan
Peter EB. Strauss
City of
F. X. Mahoney
Harrison Company Mark-Down Sale Overcoats
Great mark-down sale on overcoats including Chesterfields ulsters and three-quarter lengths at Harrison Company's Beach district location 662 672 Washington street. Velvet collars split sleeves silk and satin trims featured as a value purchase.
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Harrison Company
Washington Street
Corner Beach
List of Donors and Amounts Noted in Os 10.00 Ae Tide
A fragmented ledger style item lists multiple contributors with specified amounts. Names include Joseph M. Herman Alexander Whiteside Jr Horace Binney Katherine E. Bullard Cardinal William Gove P A McDonald J B Hunter Nelson Whitney Exeter Theatre Arthur Winslow A Fiend J R Whipple and others with donations ranging from 2.00 to 50.00 dollars.
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Ae Tide
Wright & Potter ‘Printing Co Pe
Ocroeta
Joseph M. Herman
Alexander Whiteside, Jr
Horace Binney
Katherine E. Bullard
William Cardinal CV
Ocmnains
Isin Dhoes
Hxeter St. Theatre
Ceeneeeeuas
Arthur Winslow
Seeuneever
A. Fiend ci Pices
Congressman Tinkham Pushes Charlestown Navy Yard Warship
Congressman George Holden Tinkham seeks an appropriation to equip navy yards for constructing 30,000 ton super-dreadnoughts at Charlestown. Senator Green will submit the resolution urging Congress to fund the work. Tinkham believes Charlestown has good chances to secure the contract costing 16 to 18 million dollars per ship, contrasted with a 950 thousand dollar supply ship already underway.
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George Holden Tinkham
Charlestown Navy Yard
Congress
Navy Yards
Green
Charlestown
Back Bay
Navy Yard
Services for Charles Ward Cole
Funeral services for Charles Ward Cole 49 an assistant cashier at Old Colony Trust Company will be held at 2 o clock tomorrow at his mother's Auburndale home. Born in Newton Oct 7 1866 he lived much of his life in Auburndale and died Monday afternoon. He joined the Old Colony Trust Company in 1892 rising to assistant cashier and he played a rich baritone voice in amateur theatricals around Boston.
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Charles Ward Cole
Old Colony Trust Company
Mary H. Cole
Vista Avenue
Auburndale
Cole
Bellevue
Newton
Boston
Fire Loss Cut By Half Million In Boston
Fire Commissioner Grady announced that Boston’s fire losses for the year ending 1915 would be at least half a million dollars less than 1914. He quoted 1914 losses as 3 044 627 dollars and 1915 losses expected to be under 2 500 000, with exact figures due in a month at least.
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Grady
Boston
Mayor Curley Praises City Employees Credit Union Leaders
Mayor Curley commends Felix Vorenberg and other prominent Jewish merchants for steering city of Boston employees away from money lenders. He credits the City Employees' Credit Union, started by Vorenberg and colleagues, with making the influence possible.
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Curley
Felix Vorenberg
Massachusetts Credit Union
Boston
City Employees’ Credit Union
Vorenberg
City Employees' Credit Union Support Boosts Loyal Service
The Mayor cites the revocation of licenses for Louis Levi and I M Strauss as proof of strict small loans regulation. He credits Felix Vorenberg and Massachusetts Credit Union leaders for forming a City Employees' Union to aid workers, reduce loan shark dependency, and improve city service with supervised loans.
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Frank W. Pope
City Employees’ Credit Union
Felix Vorenberg
Massachusetts Credit Union
Stirs Over Ruling of Two Small-Loan Licenses
Frank H. Pope, supervisor of small loans, revoked the licenses of two loan agents for violations. The action stirred money-lending circles and borrowers, marking the harshest sanction faced by lenders from a state regulator. He pointed out prior practice allowed charging three times the rule rate and reimbursement only after complaints.
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Frank H. Pope
Pope
Former Milliner of Back Bay Indicted
Back Bay friends were surprised as Mrs. Robert Seaver Hale was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for declaring a reduced value of imported baggage. Hale, formerly Miss May Wilson, a Wilson & McEnany milliner of Boylston Street, allegedly declared millinery worth 212 dollars at 100 dollars after returning from Europe on the Oceanic on August 5, 1912.
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Back Bay
New York
Robert Seaver Hale
Hale
May Wilson
Wilson & McEnany
Boylston Street
Europe
Oceanic
Symphony Square Proposed for Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues
The Huntington Avenue Improvement Association moved to petition street commissioners to name the Huntington and Massachusetts avenues intersection square Symphony Square in honor of the forthcoming Back Bay post office at Huntington Avenue opposite Symphony Hall. A circulating petition seeks support and a committee will seek aid from Major Henry L. Higginson and others connected with Symphony Hall. The association president M H Gulesian sent a formal request for a hearing.
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Huntington Avenue
Symphony Hall
M. H. Gulesian
Trabs of Wholesale Trousers Marked Down at Harrison
Thousands of men’s trousers from wholesale stock in worsteds serges cheviots and English stripes offered at great markdowns. Every pair guaranteed. Har rison. Beach Street location promotes the sale with substantial discounts.
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Harrison
Washington Street
Corner Beach Street
Stylish Overcoats and Imported Scotches Sale in Boston
An advertised sale offers overcoats at 35.00 and finest imported Scotches with rich kerseys and shetlands. Silk and satin lined garments are available in all models. Described as handsomest and most luxurious in Boston. Open evenings at 9 p.m. during the sale.
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Boston
Harrison Company
Washington Street
Corner Beach
Norman Prince Sails to Fight for Allies
Norman Prince of Boston sailed from New York on the Rochambeaux for France to rejoin the French army with the Allied cause. His brother Frederick H. Prince Jr. accompanied him and will also train as an aviator. Prince’s wartime flights are described as daring and helpful to France.
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New York
Norman Prince
Boston
France
Frederick H. Prince, Jr
Prince
Hanover street police arrest man in theft cash shower
Francesco Coelho sought restitution for a $1000 theft and hurled $615 in cash plus a note onto Lieutenant Hurley’s desk at Hanover Street station last night before fleeing. He was chased down and arrested for the alleged larceny from Manuel Linhares of Inlock Cal. Coelho, a lodging house keeper at 25 Fleet Street, had disappeared after the Dec 23 robbery and was found in Chicago before returning to Boston.
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Francesco Coelho
Hanover Street
Hurley
Coelho
O'Donnell
Chaisson
Manuel Linhares
Inlock
Cal
Fleet Street
Chicago
Captain Watkins
Bryan protesting NY testifying under duress in libel case
William Jennings Bryan resisted a New York libel suit requiring his appearance and testimony at his own expense. He said he was here under duress to avoid contempt, denying knowledge of gunfire control secrets or influence letters involving Agamemnon Schliemann.
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New York
William Jennings Bryan
New York State
Dr. Bryan
Bryan
United States
Greece
Idaho
Mississippi
Agamemnon Schliemann
Schliemann
Navy Department
State Department
Petros P. Tatania
Roosevelt refuses ballot placement in primaries
Colonel Roosevelt says he will not permit his name to appear on primary ballots in states selecting national convention delegates. He sent a letter from Oyster Bay to Secretary of State Vaughan in Lansing asking that his name be kept off ballot as a candidate of any party. Vaughan had informed him that sufficient signatures had been filed by adherents of both Republican and Progressive parties to qualify him.
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New York
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Vaughan
Lansing
Mich
Cannon pleads not guilty in child murder case
Elizabeth B. Cannon, charged with murdering Lucille Monty Thomas, pleaded not guilty in Superior Court Springfield today. She is held without bail and will not be tried before February. Prosecutors allege she poisoned the child and set the house on fire to conceal the crime.
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Springfield
Elizabeth B. Cannon
Lucille Monty Thomas
Miss Cannon
Geelong Sunk in Collision With Bonvilston
London reports the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co states the Geelong was sunk in a collision with the Bonvilston. No lives were lost. The sinking had been reported last night with no cause given for the loss.
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London
Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Company
Geelong
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Georges
Philadelphia
Providence
Buffalo
Pop
Will
Harvard Club
The
Leyland
Duane
Coats
Total
Charles Cole
Welix Vorenberg
STIRS
Silver
John L. Des Lauries
Winter Street
T. RS
HATCO
Hanover, Union and
Marshall Streets
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