Long Noted Builder Foote Dies in Pittsfield at Age 8
George W. Foote, an eight year old famed for shaping Pittsfield’s early blocks and homes, died at his home from pneumonia. Born in Chester, he was the youngest of 16 children. two siblings survive. He built Frederic Schermerhorn’s Lenox villa, the Lee Library and Savings Bank, and the Thomas Allen stone house in Pittsfield.
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Pittsfield
George W. Foote
Chester
Mr. Foote
Frederic Schermerhorn
New York
Lenox
Lee Library and Savings Bank
Thomas Allen Stone
Lupus Steamship Brought Into Hamburg Amid Contraband Report
The Norwegian steamship Lupus formerly the Gilchrist has been brought into Hamburg. The Lupus, a 3871 ton vessel on the Great Lakes, is reported to have been carrying contraband.
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Berlin
Sayville
Lupus
Gilchrist
Great Lakes
Hamburg
Bar Liquor Ads From All Cars
Mrs. George B. Gallup urged banning liquor advertisements from all rail cars trains and stations to align with a policy against drunks on public transit. She argued liquor ads encourage consumption and drunkenness and create inconsistency for railroads to ban drunks while advertising liquor. John H Fahey called for broader public control of newspaper policy via stock companies to reduce political or capitalistic influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Gallup
Women’s Publicity Association
John H. Fahey
United States Chamber of Commerce
Weiner Divorce Trial Details Treacherous Household Accusations
Mrs. Sarah Weiner testified against her husband Harry Weiner in a Superior Court divorce trial before Judge Dubuque. She alleged he pegged rocks at her in the street threatened to cut her throat broke dishes at home and struck her about the shoulders. Weiner said he paid all wages weekly yet she gave him nothing and he borrowed car fare from the milkman to reach work.
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Sarah Weiner
Harry Weiner
Weiner Denies Abuse as Custody Battle Proceeds
The husband Weiner denies attacking his wife while she seeks custody of their child and alimony. She cites income gaps with her father and brother earning $3 to $40 weekly versus his $10, later $16. The judge took the case under advisement. Separately Mrs Stella Sentner received a decree nisi as she labeled her husband’s trances alcoholic and cited chronic non support and cruelty.
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Weiner
Brighton
Russia
America
Stella M. Sentner
John Sentner
Etta M. Barrus
Horace C. Barrus
Protestant Church Services and Clergy Schedule
Church notices list Groton School preacher Mr. Grover Harrison and Cathedral staff member Rev Malbone Birckhead as noonday preachers. Bishop Roots leads clergy devotion Jan 16. Next Sunday features bishops Brewster Roots and Rev Addison and speaker J Thayer Addison. Willard Sperry lectures on Religion in Poetry of John Masefield with a second talk on Poems of Humanism. Milwaukee minister Rev Walter Greenman preaches at King's Chapel with Rev Joseph Kennard Wilson and Rev Thomas Van Ness also scheduled Friday. Milton S Rees revival in Worcester gains broad church cooperation from local congregations.
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Grover Harrison
Groton School
Groton
St. Paul
Malbone H. Birckhead
Bishop Roots
Benjamin Brewster
D. D
Episcopal
Maine
J. Thayer Addison
Logan H. Roots
Hankow
Willard L. Sperry
Central Church
Berkeley
Newbury Streets
John Masefield
Walter F. Greenman
Unitarian Church
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
King’s Chapel
Joseph Kennard Wilson
The
Watchman Examiner
Boston
Thomas van Ness
Second Unitarian Church
Brookline
Harvard Men in Social Service 279 Students
Harvard's contribution to social service workers in Greater Boston totals 279 students. The largest group, 123 leaders of boys' clubs across the Metropolitan district, followed by 99 teachers at night schools and similar classes, and 19 acting as Boy Scout leaders.
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Harvard
Greater
Boston
Pheasant Chased Through City Streets
A fast running pheasant sought refuge in a dark hallway at 177 Eliot street after a hot street race. Joseph Lehalle, a French meat market owner at 166 Eliot street, seeks the bird owner. If not found, the Franklin Park Zoo may take the bird.
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Eliot Street
Joseph Lehalle
Lahalle
Franklin Park Zoo
Seek Relatives of Samuel S Gaynor
Mayor Curley reports a request from the U S consul at London for relatives of Samuel S Gaynor who died at sea on the liner Devonian. Authorities found a substantial sum in his trunk and wish to turn it over to his relatives. He was 60 and left Boston on November 7 1916.
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Curley
O’meara
United States
London
Samuel S. Gaynor
Boston Invites National Shoe Retailers for 1918 Convention
Mayor Curley invites the National Shoe Retailers Association to hold its 1918 convention in Boston. The invitation is sent to A H Genting secretary at the Hotel Gibson Cincinnati and aims to boost Boston as a convention city.
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Curley
National Shoe Retailers’ Association
A. H. Genting
Gibson
Cincinnati
Boston
Harvard Men Ambulance Drivers to Serve in France
Thirty Harvard students will temporarily quit college after mid year exams to serve as ambulance drivers in France for the American service. Captain Walter H. Wheeler leads the student committee coordinating recruitment begun at the allied bazaar in Boston.
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Harvard
France
Allied Bazaar
Boston
Walter H. Wheeler
Fisherman Drowned When Dory Swamps Near Cape Small Point
Harvey A. Alexander 25 of Cundy's Harbor was drowned when his dory aboard the sloop George C. Bowden was swamped by a heavy sea about eight miles off Cape Small Point. Word of the accident came to Portland via Captain Ernest W. Darling.
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Portland
Harvey A. Alexander
Cundy’s Harbor
George C. Bowden
Cape Small Point
Ernest W. Darling
Favor Strict Law on Fires by Massachusetts Painters
The 26th annual convention of the Society of Master House Painters and Decorators of Massachusetts urged strict adherence to fire prevention laws as an economic move. Vice-President Ivory H. Morse of Hyde Park spoke on fire hazard laws for Boston shops and the Metropolitan District and called for cooperation with the Fire Prevention Commissioner to reduce losses and insurance rates.
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Society of Master House Painters and Decorators of
Massachusetts
Horticultural Hall
Ivory H. Morse
Hyde Park
Boston
Jinxed Wakefield Man Fractures Knee In Fall
George W Briggs of Main Street Wakefield, a Bay State Street railway repair tower truck driver, fractured his right knee after a three foot fall while dodging a falling bracket near the Melrose Wakefield line. He has a history of dangerous climbs and near misses but now lies in Melrose Hospital.
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Father Jinx
George W. Briggs
Main Street
Wakefield
Briggs
Melrose Hospital
Bay State Street Railway
Melrose-Wakefield
Nevins Gifts Methuen Farm to Massachusetts SPCA
Mrs David Nevins of Methuen donates nearly 400 acres plus farm equipment and funds to the Massachusetts SPCA to support a rest and convalescent home for animals linked to Angell Memorial Animal Hospital. President Francis H Rowley announced the gift at a directors meeting.
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Methuen
David Nevins
Massachusetts S. P. C. A
Angell Memorial Animal Hospital
Nevins
Francis H. Rowley
Society
Rowley
Angell Memorial Hospital
Funeral for A Tenney White Noted Textile Maker
The funeral for A Tenney White a prominent textile manufacturer who died suddenly after a brief illness will be held this morning at his Brookline home 96 Rawson Road with Rev Willis H Butler officiating. White was a director of the LaConia Car Company of Laconia New Hampshire and a member of multiple textile and professional clubs including the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers the Southern New England Textile Club the Algonquin Club Engineers Club of Boston and the Brae Burn Country Club of Newton.
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A. Tenney White
Rawson Road
Brookline
Willis H
Butler
Old South Church
White
Laconia Car Company
Laconia
New Hampshire
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Southern New England Textile Club
Algonquin Club
Engineers’ Club
Boston
Brae-Burn Country Club
Newton
Reliable Business Directory page listing Boston suppliers
A dense directory style listing detailing firms in Boston across manufacturing insurance drugs electrical hardware plumbing and more. Entries include Blake Conlan Co 71 Franklin St Howe French 99 Broad, F H Thomas Co 691 Boylston, Pettingell Andrews Co Pearl & Atlantic, and many others with addresses and specialty lines from grocers to ship chandlers and service trades.
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Accountants—Certified Co. P. A
Jas. D. Glants & Co
Congress St
Partridge & Co
Tremont
Boston Mailing Co
Atlantic Ave
Union Paste Co
Malling F
Root Co
Beacon St. Hay
Yh. James
Summer St. Ox
Dway
Chelsea
Robert Miller & Co
State St
Ryan Cushing Co
Summer St
Pearl
Ealing
John A. de Vito Co
Co-Operative Pioneer-Homestead-Guardian
Bromfeld Bank
Broad St
Ays
Joseph Bea! & Co
Bostonston
Washington At
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co
Washington St
Pape Chas
E. Moss Co
Broad
Brain
Spaulding Print Paper Co
Federal St
Robert Burlen
Main
the New England News Co
Arch
Fox, Fultz & Co., Inc
Blackstone St
ROY Tongheran Tn
Boston
Card Co
Purchase &J. Catnip
Cats’ Daniels
Milk St
Geo
William Hesslein
Tremont St
Blake
Conlan Co
Franklin St
Howe & French
Saer
Diamond Disc
Phono Records
F. H. Thomas Co
Boylston
Electrical MI Merchandise
Pettingell Andrews Co
Pearl & Atlantic
Boston Armature Wks
Thacher St
Stuart, Howland Co
Joseph Meyerson
Commercial
Boston Electrotype Co
Purchase St
American Typefounders Co
Maclary & Sons Co
Payne Co
Richdale Ave
Houghton & Ware
A. Stanley Gibson
M. D
Boylston St
Fred
E.&t G. Buckley
Dudley, Cor
Atkinson Police Co
Holmes, Luce & Co
Washington
Furriers
Kakas Bros.,Inc
Chauncy St
Louis B. _ Schiller
Wash. St
Kakas Bros., Inc
Edwin F. Jordan
Hayward Pl
Causeway St
Cyrus Brewer & Co
Kilby Wm. A. Muller & Co., Corp
Kilby
Dewick & Flanders
W. H. Moulton
Portland
Chardon
Ieether
Her
M. A. Fiske Co
Mullaney’s
Charlestown
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C. F. Hovey Company
Chauncy & Avon
Mass
Tel. Beach
S. S
Ss.white Dental Mfg
ST. Philadelphia
Addrese
TL Ferry
Dr. King
Old Country
Harry Stein
Isadore Stein
Milton
Rees
Worcester
Trinity
Methodist
First Presbyterian
Grace Methodist
Old South Congregational
First Baptist
First Church of Christ
Blue Hill St.ay
Blue Hill Street Railroad
Public Service Commission
Canton
Phehasant
Joseph Lahalle
Dory
Anniazes
Mayme Morrison
Miss Morrison
U.S. School of Music
Sirs
Mayme
Mra Minnir Morrison
Morrison's Moter
Pere
Pama
Wilcox
Kohler
Bickford
Clark, Knoll
Newman
Rument
Atharu
U. S. School of Dept
Fifth Ave
New
York City
U. S&s. School OF Music
New York City
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Bayonne
the Globe
Wernicke Co
J. W. Hammond Co
Northern Ave
Petes At
Manifold Books
A. HE. Martell Co
Devonshire At
Mayfair
P. P. Dempsey Co
House of Tycra Standard Neckwear Co
Essexey
Kinnear
Ager Mfg. Co
American Metal Co
Cornhill
Westerly Granite Co
R. Dagnino & Co
Fulton St
Carpenter-Morton Co
Sudbury St
Old South
J. Dobinson Eng. Co
Washington Plasterers’ and Masons
Harmon Wastcoat Dahl Co
Standard Plate Glass Co
Pauvery
Harvard Place
Eastern Live Poultry Co
Beach St
A. B. Reade Co
Stapler’s
Federal
F.H
Chas
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