Portraits by Adelaide Cole Chase at Guild of Boston Artists
Visitors to the Guild of Boston Artists in Newbury Street will recall Adelaide Cole Chase’s group exhibition as a marker of a Boston woman painter’s rising rank in contemporary portraiture. Notable works include the Rev Father Field S. J. E. portrait for the Church of St John the Evangelist and the striking Mrs Robert Treat Paine portrait praised for flesh tones light shading and lively yet reserved pose.
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Father Field
Adelaide Cole Chase
Boston Guild of Artists
Newbury Street
Guild of Boston Artists
Boston
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Robert Treat Paine
Yale Fellow Harry Day Resigns Over Ill Health
New Haven January 14 The resignation of Harry G Day class of 1846? Sheff as a fellow of Yale corporation was announced today. The reason given is ill health.
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New Haven
Harry G. Day
Sheff
Yale Corporation
Maurel Recital Delights Boston Audience in Jordan Hall
Miss Barbara Maurel mezzo-soprano made her Boston debut in Jordan Hall. Critics praised her unusually fresh voice, precise technique, and intelligent interpretation across Italian French and English texts. Her program ranged from Gluck to Handel with nuanced mood and clear enunciation, marking her as a notable new artist in Boston.
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Barbara Maurel
Boston
Jordan Hall
Miss Maurel
Alsace-Lorraine
America
de Reszke
Paris
Covent Garden Opera Company
Gluck
Handel
Moussorgsky
Rachmaninoff
Debussy
Green
Proper height for wall pictures to enhance rooms
The article advises avoiding high mounts for most pictures, keeping eyes as the level reference, and notes exceptions for over fireplaces. It suggests matching picture height with furniture layouts, creating pleasing groupings, and treating chairs as integral to wall composition for balanced décor.
Two-Alarm Fire Strikes State Street Building
A two alarm blaze began shortly after 1 am at 216 State Street, damaging the eastern end of the building and lower floors. Cause undetermined but likely started on a lower level occupied by Park Sausage, with offices on the second floor. Firemen fought for over an hour in frigid conditions as water froze and windows blew out. The Johnson Appleby firm at 218 State Street and Walter H. Moreton’s stationary and marine gas engines occupy the adjacent lower floor, while the U S Vibrator Company sits on the upper floor.
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State Street
Park Sausage & Provision Company
Atlantic Avenue
Johnson-Appleby Company
Walter H. Moreton
U.S. Vibrator Company
MIT President Maclaurin Seriously Ill At Home
President Richard C. Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seriously ill at his home. Dr William Robbins reported that his condition was about the same as during the day, described as critical but with no immediate danger.
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Richard C. Maclaurin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Robbins
Darger
Demand for More Nurses Crisis Warned by Nursin Leaders
New York January 14 Miss Lillian Clayton president of the National League of Nursing Education declares a nationwide nurse shortage is rapidly becoming a crisis. Advisory council meeting at the Hotel Pennsylvania hears that Public Health Nursing Bureau Red Cross expects to place at least 1000 nurses within six months and fears an inability to meet the demand.
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New York
Lillian Clayton
National League of Nursing Education
Hotel Pennsylvania
Public Health Nursing Bureau of the Red Cross
Electrical Workers Dance at Strand Ballroom
About 600 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers gathered at the Strand ballroom on Huntington avenue for the first postwar dance. The event opened with an 8 to 9 pm concert, followed by dancing until midnight led by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Queeney. The IBEW includes field, engineer and clerical workers of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Charles Magee chaired the organizing committee.
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Strand Ballroom
Huntington Avenue
J. R. Queeney
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Charles Magee
Friendly intervention urged to stabilize Mexico
Edward Field Harvey, vice-president of Laguna Company of Mexico, told a Senate foreign relations subcommittee that friendly intervention could restore order in Mexico. He urged blockading ports and occupying Mexico City, calling for a constitutional convention and reorganization of the government as a first US step. He warned Mexican radicalism threatens US industry.
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Washington
Mexico
Edward Field Harvey
Laguna Company of
Senate Foreign Relations
Harvey
Mexico City
United States
Minimum $2500 a year for garment workers
New York on January 14. Meyer Tondon counsel for the workers told the State Board investigating the garment strike that a working man's family needs at least $2500 annually to live under current conditions. He said living costs have outpaced wage increases since early 1917 when the War Labor Board set $1900 as the minimum.
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New York
Meyer Tondon
War Labor Board
Anti-Lynching Law Urged at Senate Hearing
Washington January 14 federal legislation to prevent lynchings and race rioting was urged at the initial Senate judiciary sub committee hearing on riots and preventing recurrence. Senator Curtis presented a Justice Department report detailing agitators among Negroes in cities with past riots.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary
Senate
Curtis
Republican
Kansas
Department of Justice
Vaccination Ultimatum Issued for Georgetown Town
Dover Delaware January 14 Dr L Conwell head of the State Board of Health issued an ultimatum that small pox vaccination will be enforced at Georgetown or the town will be quarantined. The action followed last night's demonstration in which Dr H Wells a special health commissioner was ordered out by a crowd of several hundred men. Conwell said he was considering asking Governor Townsend to send a military detachment to enforce the order.
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Dover
Del
L. Conwell
State Board of Health
Georgetown
H. Wells
Deportation flotilla sails from Kiel to unnamed Russian port
The United States army transport Buford departed Kiel at seven this evening carrying a party of undesirable aliens to an unnamed Russian port. The move follows wartime immigration controls and reflects ongoing deportation policy.
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Kiel
United States Army
Buford
United States
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