Aldrich Tax on Hides Sparks New England Meeting
Charles H. Jones accused Senator Aldrich of trading free hides for Western votes to pass the tariff. The New England Shoe and Leather Association adopted resolutions against free hides and resolved to confer with President Taft. Letters from Douglas Keith Estabrook and Dingley were read.
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Aldrich
Charles H. Jones
New England Shoe and Leather Association
United States Senate
Jones
Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Company
Washington
Hides
Senate
Republican Party
Taft
W. L. Douglas
George E. Keith
F. W. Estabrook
Frank Dingley
Searching for His Lost Wife in New York
J W McDonald of Lawrence Massachusetts, fire and public box superintendent, seeks police help to locate his wife Annie Ledger McDonald who vanished from their home on April 27. A May 3 letter to her mother Annie Ledger of Leominster says she found work as a servant in the country and asks not to worry. It was written on Yonkers hotel stationery and postmarked Longacre Square.
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New York
J. W. McDonald
Lawrence
Mass
Annie Ledger McDonald
McDonald
Annie Edger
Leominster
Longacre Square
Yonkers
Dartmouth Commencement Honors 191 Graduates in 1910s Ceremony
Dartmouth College conferred bachelor and advanced degrees to 191 graduates in a ceremony at Webster Hall Hanover N H. President Tucker was absent and acting president John K Lord led exercises. Honorary degrees went to Henry B Quinby Horace Fletcher Nathan Littlefield Lucius Thayer Thomas Doolittle James DeBoer Arthur Fairbanks Daniel Greene George Palmer and others.
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Tucker
John K. Lord
Harold Hutchins Fairbanks
Calais
Arthur Leslie Graves
Wells River
Philippines
Harold Wellingford Cortland
Dover
N. H
Charles Francis Richardson
Edwain Julius Bartleet
Boys to Learn Building Trades at Shirley State School
A new state school at Shirley will train boys in industrial trades and agriculture to replace reform school placements. Curriculum covers carpentry masonry blacksmithing and printing with laboratory work. Eight buildings are planned including three dormitories with orchards and woods surroundings. Twelve teachers will be employed. authorized by legislature in 1907 with an estimated cost of 95 000.
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State Reformatory
Shirley
Lyman School
Suffolk School
Massachusetts Reformatory
Concord
Lancaster
A Sultan's Costs Reflect Vast Palace Extravagance
The palace sustains a vast staff with 240 cooks and 500 scullions, 300 traybearers, and hundreds of horses. Ramazan brings large charitable queues for iftar as waste and peculation haunt the sultan's courts. The harem and related attendants number in the thousands, maintaining a grand but costly spectacle.
Curious Tibetan Race Commandant Clone Returns to France
A field report describes the Hsifans of northwestern Tibet as resilient horsemen with a light social structure like Scottish clans. They live in tents, rely on tea and barley, and undertake long raids with long lances and increasingly common Russian firearms. They inhabit fertile highland valleys and resist subjugation except in lower valleys where villages exist.
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Commandant Clone
France
Tibet
Scotland
Transvaal
Peculiar Race Blends Theologies in Ancient Practice
The text describes a group with a hybrid belief system mixing Buddhism Brahmanism and primitive river plain and mountain worship. They reportedly drink not before invoking the four compass spirits or the nation’s highest peak. They pray to him for both good and evil actions and revere him as strength while Buddha embodies virtue.
Silk Portieres From Reused Silk Rags Featured by Cy Corning
In a prior college project I sewed silk rags into portieres that stayed durable after 16 years. Narrow strips woven with silk or linen wrap, using linen carpet thread in varied colors, produced a firm curtain with bright effects. The design includes an 18 inch border and a two foot central stripe, admired as dens decor. Corning Ta.
Getting Power From Waves On Italian coast near Rimini
Italian engineer M. Pirandello tests a wave power device offshore Rimini. The system generates electricity for lighting and also decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen gases for storage.
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M. Pirandello
Rimini
Wife seeks missing husband Louis Walker
Mrs Minnie Walker of 12 Minot Street West End called the Post to aid in locating her husband Louis Walker whom she has not seen or heard of since February. She believes his disappearance may be due to unknown circumstances and asks authorities to help.
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Minnie Walker
Minot Street
West End
the Post
Louis Walker
Programs barred from park concerts this year
Park officials forbid printed concert programmes for the Fourth of July celebration. The city Music Commission is informed that no programmes will be tolerated in the parks, leaving attendees guessing the titles of pieces performed by various bands.
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Czar
Dartmouth
Gov. Quinby
Ea Ae the Greatest
Currier
Sheinwald Shoe Syndicate
Luddy & Currier
New England
Luddy & Currier’s
Sheinwald Syndicate
WL. Douglas
Luddy
Lady Betty
Colt
Russia
Summer St
Pare
Oxefords
Harney Bros
Lynn
George Snow
Oxfords
Provincetown
Newport
R. I
Atlantic Submarine Fleet
George W. Kline
Castine
Hibbard
New Finance Commission
Moston
Felix Kornfeld
Summer Street
C. O. Ds
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