State Gave Sealers $9100 Final Fund Totals Revealed
The Newfoundland sealers fund committee met to report final sums. John O'Connell of Brockton led with $856.42, the largest outside Boston, Lynn contributed $500, Gloucester and Chelsea added $900, with Greater Boston totaling $7,401.42. Massachusetts overall reach was about $9,100. The committee praised Frederick W. Mansfield Joseph H. ONeil Rev James ONeil Edwin A Grazier and others for their support.
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John O'Connell
Brockton
Boston
Lynn
Gloucester
Chelsea
Greater Boston
Massachusetts
Frederick W. Mansfield
Joseph H. O'Neil
James H. O'Neil
Edwin A. Grazier
the Post
Allan Hudson
Albert HE. Jones
Cambridge
Paine
Memorial and Intercolonial Club Subscriptions Listed
Memorial Corporation and the Inter colonial Club of Boston report yesterday’s subscriptions totaling 7401.42. Names include Michael Fleming Brockton contributors three sympathizers Newfoundland Charitable Association and R Durrell among others.
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Michael Fleming
Brockton
Newfoundland Charitables Association
R. Durrell
Baby seal behaves like household pet in Biddeford tale
Reuben Chapman of Biddeford Maine found a lost baby seal near Cape Elizabeth while returning from Portland. He kept the creature aboard and fed it after returning to the pool, but the seal cried plaintively and tried to climb onto Chapman's lap like a dog.
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Biddeford
Reuben Chapman
Portland
Cape Elizabeth
Mr. Chapman
Deny Colonel Roosevelt to Attend Boston Field Day
Progressives insist Colonel Roosevelt will appear at Fenway Park on July 24 despite New York reports of cancellation. Secretary Anglin says Roosevelt remains in contact and plans to be in Boston. A sub committee will meet Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to finalize visit details.
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Roosevelt
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Anglin
Progressive City Committee
Boston
Oyster Bay
Hoosevelt
Lauriston Ward
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New England
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Cambridge Protest Alleys Gambling and Prostitution Rumors
Mayor Good of Cambridge will meet a 15 member citizen committee led by Rev. John Campbell to protest Police Commissioner Cunningham. The group formed after clergymen led a mass meeting alleging rampant gambling illicit liquor sales and boxing exhibitions with an affidavit accusing backers of the club of paying for protection.
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Cambridge
John Campbell
Central Square Baptist Church
Cunningham
Big Decrease in Infant Mortality in Boston First Half Year
The Boston Board of Health reports a drop in infant deaths and infectious disease fatalities for the first half of the year. Twenty two lives saved compared with the same period last year, and the death rate falls from 17.41 to 17.31 per 1000 inhabitants.
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Board of Health
Boston
Fire at Diamond Union Stamp Company injures driver and ice cream cart
Fire crews respond to a blaze on the third floor at 173 Washington Street. Engine 4 driven by Patrick Wall collided with a Stamford and Green streets ice cream cart, injuring driver William Carlton who treated without need for medical care. The fire caused smoke from burning rubber and was quickly extinguished. Loss and cause remain undetermined.
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Patrick Wall
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Stamford
Green Streets
William Carlton
Carlton
Diamond Union Stamp Company
Futurist Music Heard in London Controversy
In London at the Coliseum Theatre Sig Marinetti's orchestra faced strong disapproval as the gallery shouted Stop the row. Aristocratic stalls and circle clapped ironically while the entire house booed the discordant performance.
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London
Sig. Marinetti
Coliseum Theatre
Marie Lohr to star in Little Minister in London
Charles Frohman engaged Marie Lohr in London to headline at the Duke of York's Theatre and then bring a revival of The Little Minister to the United States, a play previously made famous by Maude Adams.
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London
Charles Frohman
Marie Lohr
United States
James M. Barrie
Maude Adams
US and Canadian Troops Celebrate in St Albans
United States and Canadian troops joined in a dual Independence Day celebration and centennial of peace observance in St Albans Vermont. The squadron from Fort Ethan Allen and a detachment from Montreal attended church together before the Canadians returned to Montreal.
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United States
Great Britain
Second United States Cavalry
Fort Ethan Allen
Second Brigade Heavy Artillery
Montreal
Dancing to poems tops Paris ballet trend
A new Paris fad debuts with dancing to poems rather than music. Nicol Ayeva, daughter of a Russian general, has premiered at Enghien Theatre amid parental opposition to her art.
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Paris
Nicol Ayeva
Enghien
Six Month Health Report Shows Shifts in Disease Deaths
The report notes 2723 scarlet fever cases in the first half of 1914 versus 1116 in 1913, with scarlet fever deaths 25 percent lower. Diphtheria cases rose while deaths fell, and deaths increased for violent causes Bright's disease cancer and heart disease. The six month totals read 6479 deaths in 1914 against 6384 in 1913 with Jamaica Plain outbreak adding sixteen deaths.
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Bright
Board of Health
Jamaica Plain
Sioux Sues Sioux Wife for Divorce
James Hears-The-Wind, a Crow tribe Sioux, sues Lillie Hears-the-Wind of the Wats Creek tribe in Buffalo County Circuit Court for divorce. Both are full-blood Sioux.
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S. D
Circuit Court
Buffalo County
James Hears-The- Wind
Lillie Hears-the-Wind
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