Gifts Mark Epoch for Art Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts reports two major gifts and a new building block as part of a year of growth. Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans funds a 312 by 95 foot addition on the Fenway side for galleries while the Fenollosa collection and the Bigelow and Weld gifts enrich the Chinese and Japanese art holdings. President Lane notes rising admissions and subscribers, outlines deficits and the need for municipal aid and larger funds, and catalogs staff, committees, and donors for 1912.
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Museum of Fine Arts
Fenway Side
Robert Dawson Evans
Fenollosa
Charles Goddard Weld
William Sturgis Bigelow
China
Japan
Gardiner M. Lane
Massachusetts
Fitzgerald
Boston
Lane
Mr. Frick
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Central Park
Carnegie Pension Fund
Evans
Nathaniel Thayer
Georgiana G. Eaton
Gardiner Martin Lane
Francis Lee Higginson
Benjamin Ives Gilman
Frank Herbert Damon
Arthur Tracy Cabot
John Templeman Coolidge, Jr
Morris Gray
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow
George Robert White
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
John C. Gray
Laurence Minot
Arthur Frederic Estabrook
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Wallace Lincoln Pierce
Roger Walcott
Edward Waldo Forbes
Walter Scott Fitz
William Amory Gardner
John Munro Longyear
Francis Cabot Lowell
Bela Lyon Pratt
Francis Bullara
Gordon Abbott
Allen Curtis
Horatio Greenough Curtis
Francis Gleason Fitzpatrick
Charles Cobb Walker
Charles P. Curtis
Mary Shreve Ames
Augustus Hemenway
Joseph Lindon Smith
William Stuart Spaulding
Francis Wright Fabyan
Helen C. Frick
Edward Jackson Holmes
Harold Jefferson Coolidge
Ralph Adams Cram
Ernest Blaney Dane
Helen Sears
George Tyson
James Haughton Woods
Holker Abbott
Eben Dyer Jordan
Edmund Charles Tarbell
Walter Scott’ Fitz
Denman Walds Ross
Frances Greely Curtis
Harriet Smith Tolman
Charles Kimball Cummings
William C. Endicott
Henry Copley Greene
Charles William Eliot
Stratton Duluth
Plans for a Five Member Public Service Commission
Text outlines Massachusetts style reform proposing a five member Public Service Commission with five year terms. Incoming governors would appoint commissioners, supported by higher salaries to attract top talent. The plan centralizes policy making while delegating routine work to a subordinate bureau and emphasizes regulatory powers over schedules rates and facilities.
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Public Service Commission
Massachusetts
Brokers Cram Surrenders in Stock Fraud Case
Police say claimants accuse the defunct firm of stock scheme losses. chief plaintiff Mrs Alice E Robinson of Malden says she gave bonds cash and stock valued at 58495 between May 1910 and Jan 1911 as security for a loan. Other claimants include James H Leary Theodore P Driver Samuel Driver Florence M Greaves Hilbert F Day and Frank Lees. Mulliken awaits extradition. case to go to trial next week.
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Alice E. Robinson
Bartlett Street
Malden
Cram and Mulliken
James H. Leary
Theodore P. Driver
Samuel Driver
Florence M. Greaves
Hilbert F. Day
Frank Lees
Mulliken
New York
Boston
Eough
Waite
Dix
Grippe Remedy Promises Fast Cure At Home
An old newspaper notice touts a home remedy for grippe mixing glycerine whiskey and virgin oil of pine. It claims a teaspoonful every four hours cures quickly and notes the Leach Chemical Company Cincinnati brand as a way to verify genuine pine oil.
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Leach Chemical Company of
Cincinnati
Embroidery Designs Featured in Household Section
The Post's household page next Sunday highlights an embroidery design border for towels or pillowcases. It includes patterns for hand painted novelties and an illustrated lesson on pressing. Also ideas for Leap Year parties are included.
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Next Sunday’s Post
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Claim
Ad for Paro ointment promises pile cure in six to fourteen days with a money back refund offer. Claims itching bleeding and protruding piles respond to treatment. price listed as 60 cents and pharmacist involvement noted.
Drinking cup bill aims to give passengers car access
A bill passed the House requiring railroads to place a rack of drinking cups at water tanks so every passenger can obtain a cup with the same freedom as a House member. The measure notes the cups are available to all passengers in the car.
Witness Found After Three State Chase In Dynamite Case
United States Marshal Brown of the Toledo district served a summons on Charles Keiser of Fremont to appear before the Indianapolis grand jury in the McManigal dynamite case. Keiser, a shooter at Muncie, Ind., allegedly sold dynamite and nitroglycerine to one of the McNamara brothers and leaves for Indianapolis tonight.
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United States
Brown
Toledo
Charles Keiser
Indianapolis
McManigal
Muncie
Ind
Keiser
McNamara Brothers
Weekly Household Page Preview in Post
A note announces a full page of cooking recipes menus for the week a feature on arranging a formal dinner and a complete household helps section to be found in the household section of next Sunday’s Post.
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Uric-O Promoted as Cure for Rheumatism
An advertisement claims Uric-O cures rheumatism by removing uric and rheumatic acids from blood. It asserts the remedy works on muscles, blood, and kidneys and offers a no cost trial after sending name, address, and 10 cents to The Urije O Company in Binghamton New York.
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Urie-O
Urije O Company
Smith Bldg
Binghamton, N. Y
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