Young Women Conference Opens At Northfield Event
Six hundred delegates attend the opening session of the Young Women's Northfield Conference in East Northfield. Major delegations include Keene New Hampshire and cities across New York New Jersey Delaware Maryland and Massachusetts with W R Moody presiding and Rev J Stuart Holden giving a brief address. Leaders and teachers from Newark Princeton Brooklyn Rochester and other cities outline upcoming courses.
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East Northfield
Northfield
Keene
N. H
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Hartford
Helene B. Montgomery
Rochester
Dwight HE. Potter
Irancis S. Downs
Rich Waltham woman marries Prince Faucigny Lucinge in Westminster
Mrs Joseph E Stickney once poor in Waltham wed Prince Aymon Faucigny Lucinge at Westminster Cathedral. The union surprised friends who recall her remark that riches make life hard for a wealthy woman.
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Joseph E. Stickney
Waltham
Westminster Cathedral
Prince Aymon
Faucigny-Lucinge
Stickney
Princess Faucigny-Lucinge and her British ties in 1900s society
The article profiles Caroline Foster later known as Princess Faucigny-Lucinge, noting international fame and high social attention after the death of Joseph E. Stickney. It mentions a rumored Hitchcock connection, Hitchcock's London visit, and her Waltham roots, Lasell training, and early social rise with ties to hotel and coal interests.
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Princess Faucigny-Lucinge
Stickney
Hitchcock
Jessip
London
Ritz
Waltham High School
Joseph E. Stickney
New Hampshire
Florida
Caroline Foster
Waltham
Lasell Seminary
Auburndale
Baron
White Mountain Hotel
Haley
Mrs Stickney and 25-year age gap charm marriage
At 52 and 25 years younger than her husband Mrs. Stickney wed a man 25 years her senior. After marriage she moved to his 847 Fifth Avenue residence in New York and a summer home at Williamsburg on the Hudson. He died years later leaving an estate of about 15 million dollars. She owned two Bretton Woods hotels in New Hampshire and was hailed by the Mikado as the world’s most beautiful woman during a Japan garden party.
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Stickney
Boston Heat Wave Claims Two Lives as Temperatures Soar
Two deaths and about 25 prostrations occurred during the second day of the first hot wave in Greater Boston. Mary Ryan 22 of Roxbury suffered a hand injury while adjusting an electric fan. Dennis O'Brien 50 of Somerville died after collapse and Horatio B Emerson 77 of Malden, a color bearer of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, collapsed at home.
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South
New Orleans
Phenix
Ariz
Boston
Mary Ryan
Hillside Street
Roxbury
Congress Street
O’brien
Dennis
Autumn Street
Somerville
Medford Street
Relief Hospital
Emerson
Horatio B
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Mountain Avenue
Malden
Greater
Firemen Flush Streets and Free Ferry Service Ordered
Mayor Fitzgerald directed Fire Commissioner Cole to flush congested streets yesterday. He ordered Public Works head Rourke to run East Boston ferries free for women and children and instructed Public Buildings chief Superintendent Fish to place benches on bridges. The Common was opened to the public for quiet sleep without police disturbance.
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Fitzgerald
Cole
Rourke
Public Works Department
Boston
Fish
Public Buildings Department
Prostrations widespread as heat overtakes workers citywide
A list of residents and workers from Boston and surrounding towns overcome by heat. Names include Fancroft George 45 Dorchester and O Hara 32 Charlestown, with many treated at City Hospital Relief Hospital and Grace Hospital. Several others moved to homes after episodes near factories streets and wharves.
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George
Helbeck Street
City Hospital
Holborn
Greenwich Place
Columbia Road
Cushing Avenue
Dorchester
O'Hara
Main Street
Charlestown
New England
Fargo Street
South Boston
Relief Hospital
Howard
Ellen
Chandler Street
Tremont Street
Gallagher
Herbert
Harvard Street
Melrose Street
Sweeney
Patrick
Shawmut Avenue City Hospital
Marston
Alice
Sargent Avenue
Revere
State Street
Herrmann
Abraham
Warren Avenue
Roxbury
Beach Street
Grace Hospital
Stanley
Robert
Washington Street
Summer Street
Cunningham
Shawmut Avenue
Tremont Row
Lucia
Alfred
Portland Street
Block
C. F
Long Wharf
Spencer
George B
Lowell Street
Malden
Broadway
Boston Heat Wave and Cooling Trends Report
The day reached 91 in the forenoon with a late afternoon drop to about 77 as a slight breeze and sea wind began. Humidity spared Boston from higher death tolls though officials provided parks, ferries, benches, and free rides to ease suffering.
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Boston
Weather Bureau
New England
Hottest Day Ever Reported on Cape Cod
Cape Brewster July 2 records 102 degrees in shade across the Cape making it the hottest day seen. Aged residents say they never saw such heat. Cranberry bog and farm work halted in many villages. Laborer Albert Joseph collapsed from the heat and others were carried home exhausted.
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Brewster
Cape Cod
Cape
Albert Joseph
Long Pond
Heat drives Boston postmen to cut noon mail delivery
Postmaster Mansfield ordered district superintendents to ease carrier workload during the heat wave. Many stations skipped the noon delivery to let mail carriers cool off, restarting at 2 o'clock to resume routes.
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Mansfield
Boston
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