Family of seven perishes in Buffalo fire
Fire on Broadway, Buffalo, destroys a two story building. Henry Pearlstein his wife and five children aged 12 to 112 perish. Building owner Joseph Supowski and Karl Brack detained. Supowski insured for 9000 dollars. Fire blamed on lamp accident. stairway collapse traps family. bodies found eight hours after fire ends.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Henry Pearlstein
Joseph Supowski
Karl Brack
Supowski
Pearlsteins
James
Pearlstein
Heavy Tax List Shows Boston Estates Top The Bills
The list names William S. Dexter and associates paying the heaviest Boston tax bill this year at 149000 plus. Charles B. Cotting, Boston Electric Light Co., and multiple railroads and trusts follow with large tax amounts. The detailed schedule names hundreds of trusts and corporations with recorded sums, including Oliver Ames, Boston & Maine Railroad, Harvard College, and many others paying between 10 000 and 150 000 dollars.
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William S. Dexter
Boston
Charles B. Cotting
Oliver Ames
Boston & Maine Railroad
J. Montgomery Sears
Arioch Wentworth
Boston Electric Light Company
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Gas Light Company
Boston Terminal Company
Boston Wharf Company
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Boston & Lowell Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Boston & Providence Railroad Company
Brookline Gas Light Company
James B. Case
Charles A. Cotting
William Dalrymple
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Fitchburg Railroad Company
William A. Gaston
Harvard College
Fben D. Jordan
Moses Williams
New England Railroad — Company
Joshua M. Sears
Quincy A. Shaw
West End Street
State Street Exchange
Francis C. Welch
Charles F. Adams
Francis Reel Estate Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Frank W. Andrews
J. P. Bowditeh
Central Wharf & Metropolitan Dock Corporation
Edmund D. Codman
Nathan Cushing
Charles O. J. Dillaway
Frothingham
George A. Gardner
John C. Gray
Jane N. Grew
Johnc. Haynes
Augustus Hemenway
J. Parker Heirs
Andrew G. Weeks
Samuel. Wells
William F. Wharpe
KB. P. Whitney
Henry B. Williams
H. Hollis Hunnewell
Samuel Lawrence
Massachusetts Brewery Company
Massachusetts General Hospital
Nathaniel Thayer
Adams Real Estate ‘Trust
Frederick J. Ames
Jason S. Bailey
Horace W. Baxter, Jr
Bay State Gas Company
James M. Beebe
Josiah TI. Benton, Jr
Meria C
William 0. Riske
Boston University
Alfred Bowditeh
Boylston Market Association
Richards M Tradley
A. T. Brown
George E. Cabot
Samuel Carr
Thomas Carter
Charlestown Gas & Electric Company
Commercial Wharf Corporation
Elisha S. Converse
D. P. Corey
George A. Cary
Daniel L. Demmon
Franklin Dexter Hetra
Gordon Dexter
William Dennison
Harry Dutton
Tatta M. Grabtree
Arthur Croft
Nathaniel H. Sammens
Equitable Life Assurance Company of New York
Arne &. Faulkner
Benjamin Fitch
Guardian
Eugene Xnoss
Jonathan French
Franklin Tailer
George Gardner
Kidder, Peabody & Co
D. Kimball
Samuel G. King
Joseph A. Laforme
Amory A. Lawrence
John Lawrence
Lee, Higginson & Co
Tewis Wharf Corporation
Liberty Square Warehouse Corporation
James L. Little
William P. Mason
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company
James ©. Melvin
Mercantile Wharf Corporation
Merchants’ National Bank
Thomas Minns
Lawrence Minot
William Minot
William and Edwin Sheare
Shepard, Norwell&Co
Abraham Shuman
Albert F. Sire
Tristess
David Snow
Standard Rope & Twine Company
Martha T. Thomas
Charles E. Morrison
John T. Morse, Jr
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Nash, Spaulding & Co
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Old South Church
Charles H. Parker
Parker, Wilder & Co
William K. Porter
Penjamin S. Pray
Acacia A. Rand
I. Ratshesky
Annie T. Richards
Riverbank Improvement Company
Roxbury Gas Light Company
David Sears
Frederick R. Sears
Frederick T. Sears
James S Stone
Washington BB. Thomas
James C. Tileston
Andreas Tomfohrde
Joseph Walker
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Francis ©. Welch
George BR. White
G. Whitney
G. Wigglesworth
T. Wigglesworth
S$. Wildes
Louise H. Williams
Newsboys Honor Mayor at Boston Protective Association Installation
The Boston Newsboys' Protective Association installed officers at 30 Hanover Street. Retiring president Harris M Rubinovitz and incoming president Nathan Sederson presided. Resolutions thanked Mayor Collins for addressing conditions of newsboys and thanked Mayor Collins secretary Mr Curran for courtesy during the committee visit.
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Boston Newsboys’ Protective Association
Hanover Street
Harris M. Rubinovitz
Nathan Sederson
Newsboys’ Protective Union of Boston
American Federation of Labor
Collins
Curran
Two Chelsea Men Missing Reported by Worried Families
Two Chelsea men are missing prompting family concern. Henry Finklestein, 28, of Arlington street, was reported to Chief Drury as absent after several days. Wilfred Mason, 23, of Cherry street, a driver for Cobb Aldrich Co Boston, was reported missing moments earlier and is described as having a good reputation.
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Chelsea
Henry Finklestein
Arlington Street
Chief Drury
Wilfred Mason
Cherry Street
Finklestein
Cobb, Aldrich , Co
Boston
State Ball at White House Hailed for Shrove Tuesday
Washington January 12 reports a grand ball planned at the White House by President and Mrs Roosevelt for Shrove Tuesday. The February 11 date also marks the 18th birthday of Miss Alice Roosevelt and will invite the diplomatic corps and leading figures. The event aims to match historic White House levees such as those hosted by Dolly Madison and General and Mrs Grant. About 1000 guests are expected.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Alice Roosevelt
Dolly Madison
Tyler
Grant
Frederick Dent Grant
McKee
Harrison
Canadian minister dies in horse accident at Folkestone
The Hon. Richard Reid Dobell Canadian minister without portfolio was thrown from his horse near Folkestone yesterday and died. The incident occurred in the earlier hours, and Dobell was a figure in Canadian politics.
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Folkestone
Richard Reid Dobell
Petition Urges Roosevelt to Enforce Neutrality Law
Chicago branch of the American Transvaal League held a meeting and adopted a petition urging President Roosevelt to enforce neutrality. Prominent judges and lawyers signed, arguing U S neutrality in the British South Africa war and that stopping Britain’s military supplies at New Orleans would hasten peace. The petition claims horses and mules for military use fall under military supplies per the Washington treaty and asks strict Article VI enforcement.
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Chicago
American Transvaal League
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
South Africa Republic
New Orleans
Roxbury Manie No 79 Installs Officers in Boston
Officers of Roxbury Manie No 79 German Order of Harugari were installed at Kossuth Hall by grand marie of Massachusetts. Jacob Bernhardt Jr was O G Fritz Diemer U G Max Kantrowitz S Carl Gebauer I8 Marcus Kallmann Sch August Schoenherr T. Members and guests marked the change in Teutonic fashion in the reception hall.
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Roxbury Manie
Novel Robing Scene Promises Titillating Stage Access
A Columbia Theatre program for My Antoinette offers behind the scenes dressing-room intrigue with a chorus of pretty young women. Other items note Mrs Pat Campbell’s Boston plans, Eleanora Duse’s 1902 08 season, Pauline Russell pupils recital, Kubelik in Boston, Ruth White in the Explorers at Tremont, Knox Wilson with sax, and King Dodo at the Tremont amid theater gossip and mystery.
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Charmion
the Turtle
Zaza
Antoinette
Columbia Theatre
Pat
Eleanora
Duse
Pauline Russell
Faelten Hall
Huntington Chambers
Boston
Jan Kubelik
Symphony Hall
Ruth White
Tremont
Knox Wilson
Herbert A. Kenney
Morrison
Grand Theatre
Dodo
Boston Theatres Feature Variety of Shows This Week
The column lists numerous engagements across Boston venues including My Antoinette at Columbia Theater with Evans Hall Wesley and a star chorus, Morocco Bound at Park, James K. Hackett at Museum in Don Cesars Return, and The Fatal Wedding at Grand Opera House with Mordant Miltern Quilter Ralph Humphreys and Little Cora.
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Antoinette
Boston
Columbia Theatre
Charles E. Evans
Josephine Hall
Louis Wesley
Edith Bradford
the Park
James K. Hackett
Museum
Don Cesar
Grand Opera House
Edwin Mordant
J. E. Miltern
Richard Quilter
Julia Ralph
Ola Humphreys
Little Cora
Henrietta Crosman
the Tremont
Nell
Boston Theatre
Joseph Hart
Carrie DeMar
Bijou
Hollis
Blanche Bates
W. H. Crane
David Harum
Colonial
Keith
Music Hall
Blanche King
Lady Babbie
The
Howard
Billy B. van
Nellie O'Neil
Nini Diva
John Mayon and Company
Emsma Krause
Roger Dolan and Company
Blanche Sloan
Bingham’s Grocery
Rossi Sisters
Lyons and Crowley
Clara Helyett
Rocky Mountain Panthers
Austin
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Bilious
Thomas Beecham
St. Helens
Eng
Canal St
New York
Newsboys
Castoria
Roxbury Harugari
Faust
Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Ellen McDonald
Portland
Warrenton Street
Martin Monahan
City Hospital
Entertainments
Harry N. Iaten
Alfred E. Aarons
D. W. Arthur
Georg Dance
Ivan Caryll
Paris
Lady Slavey
My Antoinette
Tate Evans & Hoey
Am Maxim's
Templer Saxe
Maud Barnard
Gilbert Gregory, E. Lovat Fraser, Nettie Black, Mabelle Bouton
PARK
A. H. Chamberlyn
Heigh
Lewis Strang
the Journal
Colonial Theatre
Ko’gs
Mats. Weed
Charles Frohman
Crane
Thei
Patsey
Billy B. van Nellie O’neil
the Howard
the Piquant Parisienne
Roger and
Belle Dolan
Emma Krause
Williams and
Cyclorama
Tremont Street
Nan IN the
Ape Man
Africa
Brander
Beaufort
Bonavita
Bic Liz
Baby
Lawrence McCarty
Lessee
Mgr
W. A. Brady
Hamilton
Winter St
Oxford
Weber & Fields
Wee Minister
All Maude Odell
Eleanor Falk Lillie Lawson
Jane Bernard Margaret Asht
Augustus Cook
Robert Dailey
Frank Lator
Sam Sidman
Robert Harris
Jake Bernard
Tremont St
Tel
Bronson Howard
Marble Heart
Tremoon Teleatre
Crosman
the Explorers
Bijou Opera House
Keith’s
Boston Theatres
Maritana
Tremont Theatre
OPERA
Matinee
Gertrude Haynes
James Burns
NEW Royal Burlesquers
Sembrich
Amzi
Baptist Church
C. C. Case
C. Dixon
Ruggles Street
Boston Poultry Association
Oultry Igeons ET Stock Mechanics
Isaac B. Rich
Klaw & Erlanger
Marry B. Smith
Liberty Belles
Boston Museum
James K
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Don Casar
Bowdoin Streamh
Revere House
Chickering Hall
Kreisler
Theat T Theatre
Tesa
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