The Union Church of Boston Through Years of Service
A historical overview of Boston's Union Church tracing its origins from January 1819 and its formal organization in 1822. It details name changes, first and current worship spaces, and a lineage of pastors including Nehemiah Adams and Nehemiah Boynton up to the late 19th century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Church
Boston
Essex Street Church
Park Street
Old South Church
Braintree
Essex Street
Samuel Green
Nehemiah Adams
Henry M. Parsons
Adams
Frank A. Warfield
Warfield
Allen A. Stockdale
Berkeley Temple
Two 27000-ton dreadnoughts contracted to builders
Contracts for two 27000-ton dreadnoughts were awarded to New York Ship Building Company and Fore River Ship Building Company. New York Ship Building will provide reciprocating engines while Fore River will install Curtis turbine engines. Vessels named Oklahoma and Nevada. Congress allotted six million dollars. Secretary Meyer expects to sign the contracts soon.
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Washington
New York Ship Building Company
Camden
N. J
Fore River Ship Building Company
Quincy
Mass
Curtis
Meyer
Oklahoma
Nevada
Congress
Mrs Andrew Casey Celebrates 80th Birthday in Cambridge
Mrs Andrew Casey of 1318 Cambridge Street Cambridge marked her 80th birthday with a party featuring eighty crisp greenbacks and a large 80 candle cake. Relatives and friends arrived from near and far to offer congratulations amid a garden of flowers. The gathering ended at midnight with wishes for many more happy returns. A Pawtucket relatives group attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Casey
Cambridge Street
Cambridge
Casey
Pawtucket
Schooners Held In Icy Grip Off Bonne Bay
A dispatch reports from Bonne Bay Newfoundland that Captain Lemuel Firth of the Gloucester fishing schooner Sylvania says all vessels breaking from Bonne Bay toward the open sea, except his, are trapped five miles from Bonne Bay light and need immediate aid. The trapped ships include Smuggler T. M. Nickison Oriole Gossip and the British Stratchoma.
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Gloucester
Bonne Bay
Newfoundland
Lemuel Firth
Sylvania
Bonne Bay Light
T. M. Nickison
Oriole
Gossip
Stratchoma
Icebound fleet gains brief hope for home return
A group of 18 vessels attempting to reach open sea from the Bay of Islands was trapped again by shifting ice off Bonne Bay. The Sylvania made it back to Bonne Bay, while cutters Androscoggin and Gresham were sent to assist, and officials urged rapid relief.
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Bonne Bay
Sylvania
William H. Jordan
Cape Ray
Androscoggin
Gresham
A. B. Alexander
Carling
N. F
Jordan
Bay of Islands
Bonne Bay Light
Portaila
Boston Art Club Hosts Major Show of 47 American Paintings
The Boston Art Club opens a grand exhibition of modern American pictures featuring prize winners E Irving Couse Eugene Speicher Gardner Symons and numerous prominent artists. Works include San Juan Pottery and Where Brook and River Meet with many pieces loaned by national academies and galleries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Art Club
E. Irving Couse
Eugene FE. Speicher
National Academician
New York
Gardner Symons
Rome
Couse
San Juan Pottery
Isidor
Speicher
Helen Appleton
Thomas Proctor
Symons
Lillian Genth
Joseph DeCamp
Roosevelt
Harvard College
Boston College Debaters Pick Eight For Winter Intercollegiate Debates
The Marquette Debating Society of Boston College selects eight men for winter intercollegiate and prize debates including Lee Murray Edward Sullivan and Robert Quirk. They will debate Clark Holy Cross Worcester and Georgetown Fordham with Fulton Debating Society members joining as alternates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston College
Marquette Debating Society
Clark
Holy Cross Colleges
Worcester
Lee Murray
Edward Sullivan
Robert Quirk
Edward Burns
Joseph Collins
Lee Morrissee
Suncook Valley Road to Stay with Boston & Maine for Two Years
In Manchester New Hampshire on January 19 the Suncook Valley Railroad agreed to lease itself to the Concord & Montreal Railroad for two years at a 3 percent annual rental. The move keeps it within the Boston & Maine system as lessee. The decision follows earlier stockholder objections to renewing the lease at a lower rental.
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Suncook Valley
Manchester
N. H
Suncook Valley Railroad
Boston & Maine System
Concord & Montreal Railroad
Boston & Maine
Concord & Montreal
Wedding Gift in Bouquet Stuns Metropolitan Audience
New York January 19 Alice Nielsen received an unusual marriage proposal pinned to a bouquet at her first season appearance as Mimi in Puccini La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera House. She refused to name the author but called the tribute among the most touching of her career as her singing drew ovations after each act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alice Nielsen
Metropolitan Opera House
Mimi
Miss Nielsen
Bankruptcy alleged against Hurvitz Brothers jewelers
An involuntary petition of bankruptcy was filed today against Hurvitz Brothers & Co, jewelers, based in Rochester New York. The action marks a formal move to reorganize or liquidate the firm under bankruptcy law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewellers
Rochester
N. Y
Hurvitz Brothers
Blum and partners face asset shortfall in Liabilities report
Blum jewellers with the Horton Angell Co Attleboro Walcott Mfg Co Providence and Whiting Davis Co Plainville show liabilities of 86000 dollars while assets total less than half that amount, indicating a significant deficit.
Burton Holmes Tour of South America at Tremont Temple
The second Tremont Temple lecture by Burton Holmes surveyed a cruise to South America. From Liverpool through Spain Portugal Madeira and Lisbon the journey featured bullock sleds and coasting at Funchal tropical scenery and a crossing of the equator. The voyage continued to Pernambuco Bahia Rio de Janeiro Montevideo and Buenos Aires with varied adventures before the call to repeat this afternoon.
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Burton Holmes
Tremont Temple
South America
Liverpool
Spain
Portugal
Lisbon
Madeira
Holmes
Funchal
Equator
Father Neptune
Pernambuco
Bahia
Rio de Janeiro
Montevideo
Buenos Ayres
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National Academy
Rhode Island School of Design
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Rathburn’s Pond
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Robert Reid
William Ritschel
Chauncey F. Ryder
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Edmund Co. Tarbell
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Peoria, IL
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Chicago
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Hawaii
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