Duchess of Marlborough Speaks for Suffrage at Newport
The Duchess of Marlborough addressed a Newport suffrage gathering at Marble House, describing English prisons and hotels for women. She outlined creches for children of prisoners and municipal lodging houses, praising reform efforts and calling for votes for women.
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Duchess of Marlborough
Newport
Marble House
Rose Schneiderman
New York
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Maud Ballington Booth
Mary M. Bartelme
Dorchester police hunt for boy gang led by 'Fagin'
Dorchester police seek a youth believed to lead a band of boy robbers blamed for 25 breaks in the district. Their headquarters was in an abandoned sewer off Woodrow Avenue. Two boys were captured early yesterday selling cigars said to be loot.
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Samuel R. Hull
Dickens
Fagin
Foster
Dudley Street
Grove Hall
Clifford Whitehouse
Mascot Street
Allen Grant
Mountain Avenue
Dorchester
Blue Hill Avenue
Crowley
O'Neil
Edward G. Linehan
Stratton Street
Clarence H. Peltier
Willowwood Street
Melville Avenue
Canfield Street
Woodrow Avenue
Hull
St. Bernard
Italians of New England Aid Salem Fire Victims
A committee of Italian leaders in New England organizes relief for Salem fire victims. Rev Anselmo Lenzi of St Leonard Church serves as treasurer with Vincent Brogna as president and James Bacigalupo as secretary. A circular urges funds from Italian communities. one mutual society has given 19 dollars.
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New England Star
Anselmo Lenzi
Father Lenz
Salem Reli
Mattapan man Frank H. Drown dies after long statistics career
Frank H. Drown, longtime statistician with the State Bureau of Statistics, dies at his Mattapan home after a lengthy illness. Born in Boston in 1856, he joined the bureau in 1880, rose through multiple clerical posts, served as deputy director, and retired in 1912 after a career spanning chief clerk to special agent in charge of manufactures statistics.
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Frank H. Drown
State Bureau of Statistics
Mattapan
Aingering
Boston
Navy
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Department
Carroll D. Wright
H. G. Wadlin
Bureau
C. F. Pidgin
Drown
C. F. Gettemy
Bureau of Statistics
Burnham Calls Teaching Shift Against Traditional Sunday Schools
Professor William H. Burnham of Clark University urged replacing instruction by training in Sunday schools at the Universalist convention. He warned against premature religious instruction and pressed experiential moral work by children, such as assisting church activities. A $500 fund was set to support Sunday school work, with $100 pledged by Aunty Brown. The convention voted to add an evangelistic department to recruit members and boost enthusiasm.
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William H. Burnham
Clark University
Universalist Sunday School Society
Burnham
Brown
The
Universalist Church
Pipe Recalled for Boston Water System Correction
The Finance Commission urged Mayor Curley to reject seven miles of water pipe delivered for Boston's proposed high pressure fire protection system. If the city had already accepted the pipe a substantial rebate should be given and the pipe coated to meet contract specs.
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Curley
Finance Commission
Boston
Public Works Criticizes Pipe Coating Quality And Oversight
The commission says the contractor used inferior coating on pipes and the city allowed recoat without proper safeguards risking a high pressure system. It urges not to employ inspector W R Conard again and notes most of $160000 contract paid though $5000 withheld until pipes meet standards.
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Public Works Department
Salem
W. R. Conard
Burlington
N. J
Public Works
Rourke
Frank A. McInnes
Sewer and Water Division
Finance Commission
Tractor Draws Fire Engine Up Parker Hill Test
The Parker Hill incline test on Longwood Avenue featured Engine 37 with a new tractor attachment. The engine reached seven miles per hour on the slope and both tests proved the tractor satisfactory, including a mid ascent restart.
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Parker Hill
Longwood Avenue
Take Dys-pep-lets for vacation stomach comfort
A damaged ad advises carrying Dys-pep-lets on trips to ease sour stomachs after unsuitable meals. It promotes a quarter-box purchase at druggists and notes discomfort if untreated.
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Rebels Turn Down Peace Plan in Mexico City Talks
Washington dispatches report that the constitutionalists declined the mediators invitation for informal peace conferences with Huerta representatives. The account, from sources close to General Carranza, notes the rejection was not fully confirmed.
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Washington
Huerta
Carranza
Constitutionalists oppose peace conference plan in Mexico
Word from informed sources says a majority of constitutionalist generals rejected the plan for conferences. Argentina’s Naon reads despatches with surprise as Bryan declines to discuss the matter before Carranza's formal reply. The plan Guadalupe favored a military government after Mexico City conquest and no elections until pacification.
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Rafael Zubaran
Luis Cabrera
Carranza
Naon
Argentina
Washington
Bryan
Carrangia
Guadelupe
Mexico City
Bichloride Kills Student At Culver Cadet
Chicago July 21 A Culver Military Academy student 21 years old Wade of Cambridge Massachusetts died in Wesley Hospital from bichloride of mercury poisoning. He ingested the poison by mistake while a student at Culver. An operation on his kidneys failed to save him after he was rushed to Chicago by special train as his parents Mr and Mrs Francis Wade from Salem Massachusetts arrived. Wade had just graduated from Harvard.
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Chicago
Lee Wade
Francis Wade
Cambridge
Mass
Wesley Hospital
Culver Military Academy
Culver
Ind
Salem
Wade
Harvard
Reward Offered For Wakefield Dynamite Outrage Suspects
Police in Boston and Wakefield seek two bomb throwers who dynamited Richard S. Stout’s Wakefield home early Wednesday. A $500 reward is promised for information leading to conviction as investigators review footprints photographs and a matches box left at the scene. Local I W W organizer Caleb F Howard defends workers while factory leaders and town officials discuss the reward and investigation.
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Wakefield
Boston
Richard S. Stout
Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Rattan Company
Polke
Stout
Main Street
Melrose Highlands
Caleb F. Howard
W. W
Lawrence
Langdon
Lynn Band Concert Yields 4000 Profit In Lynn
A Lynn relief committee sponsored concert at Kean Park Lynn drew 259 musicians from four bands and over 100 attendees. About $2000 from admissions and another $2000 from refreshments was raised and will be given to the Salem authorities.
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Kean Park
Lynn
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