Her Husband's Shopping Scene at Blank's Department Store
Mrs Earle visits Blank's with a young clerk at a busy counter to shop for underwear. The banter covers weight sizes, heat, and the husband’s measurements while the clerk struggles with the comical requests for fancy buttons and pastel colors. The scene ends with a playful bet and a curtain close.
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Blank’s Department Store
Mrs. E
Clerk
Mrs. 15
John
Blank’s
Haberdasher’s
Sommer Sets Cross-Country Record With Six Passengers
In the Ardennes on January 26 Roger Sommer carried six passengers in a large biplane. He circled the aerodrome at 100 feet then flew to Romilly and back, setting a world record for cross-country flight with passengers and a new total weight lifted.
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Doscey
Ardennes
France
Roger Sommer
Romilly
Keith Receives Birthday Cheer at Halcyon Hall
The Boston theatrical manager B F Keith, spending winter in Miami Florida, received birthday congratulations from coast to coast as heavy mail and telegraph service arrived at Halcyon Hall.
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Miami
Fila
Halcyon Hall
B. F. Keith
Boston
Keith
Springfield offers 3 million and 30 acres for Tech move
Dr. Richard Maclaurin considers Springfield’s 3 million dollar bid and a 30 acre riverfront site while Cambridge and Boston options loom. He notes Tech prefers staying near Boston but could relocate within Greater Boston if land is cheaper. Cambridge faces potential political hurdles with Harvard land.
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Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
Springfield
Institute of Technology
City
Maclaurin
Technology Corporation
Board of Trade of Cambridge
Charles River
Flatvard
West Boston
Cambridge
Institution of Applied Science
Dr. Maclaurin
Harvard
Tech
Cambridge Seeks Technology Institute Relocation
Cambridge citizens urge the Institute of Technology to move to Cambridge land near the Riverfront by the Shoe and Leather Building opposite Riverbank Court. The plan, backed by the Cambridge Citizens' Trade Association, argues tax losses could be offset by greater population and development as building rises.
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Cambridge
Institute of Technology
Harvard
Shoe
Cambridge Citizens’ Trade Association
Committee On Public Affairs
Tech
Husband seeks divorce claim wife an anarchist
Herman Oppenheim testified in court that his wife Estella W. Webber, a widowed mother of three, was an anarchist and made life unbearable. He said they married Oct 17 and she moved out with household items after demanding 25 a week, prompting conflict including throwing a knife and plate. Judge White reserved decision.
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Herman Oppenheim
Oppenheim
Estella W. Webber
Man Crushed in Elevator Shaft at New England Tel Building
Michael Longo was killed when a freight elevator descended in the new New England Telephone building at High and Oliver streets. He lived on Endicott Street with a wife and two children in Italy. coworkers found the body in the shaft yesterday.
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Michael Longo
New England Telephone &Telegraph Company
High and
Oliver Streets
Longo
Endicott Street
Italy
Neck Injury From Ice Pick Incident In Georgetown
Edward Morris, foreman for Abbott Ice Company at Rock Pond Georgetown, was stabbed in the neck by a fellow worker with an ice pick. He received 12 stitches and is in serious condition at his South Groveland home, with risk of pneumonia after being transported on a trolley car. The injury occurred around 4 PM in the ice house when the weapon was hurled onto the ice.
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Haverhill
Edward Morris
Abbott Ice Company
Rock Pond
Georgetown
South Groveland
Morris
Watered stock in Methodism driving church vitality
Knoxville Tenn Jan 26 The Rev Henry Spencer Booth of Centenary Methodist Church Morristown resigning his charge issued an open letter to Rev William F Anderson presiding elder Holton conference declaring there is too much watered stock in Methodism and that he is cutting at the roots of the evils sapping Christianity. He says the church has gone daily on organization and machinery and thus crushed the life of real religion.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Henry Spencer Booth
Centenary Methodist Church
Morristown
William F. Anderson
Holton Conference
Booth
Head Injuries Reported After City Collision
Morris and Jones sustained head injuries after a collision, limped to a car and rode on the rear vestibule as they refused to enter. Jones required 10 stitches at a local doctor's office while both men remained in precarious condition. Morris is 42 and a family man.
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Morris
Jones
Ladies Footwear Sale Listing With Calf Oxfords Boots
A short catalog note lists women’s gun metal calf oxford shoes at 2.50 from 4.00 and tan Russia calf boots in blacker cut with flexible soles at 3.63 from 5.00. Ends appear as a sale pricing segment from a department listing.
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Wren
Russia
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