Poet Legislator Weds Housekeeper in Quiet Union
George W. W. Edson, 74, former Massachusetts Representative and famed verse campaigner, secretly married his housekeeper Claire Mac Kay, 66, after a long illness. The ceremony took place on April 19 at Deaconess Hospital in Concord, officiated by Rev. James H. Moulton of Stow.
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Claire
Deaconess Hospital
Concord
James H. Moulton
Stow
George W. W. Edson
Massachusetts
Old Civil War Veteran Names Wife Executor
The elderly veteran explains he trusts his wife to handle his affairs if he does not recover after surgery. Edson defies doctors who gave one in a thousand chance of survival and now reports feeling better. Mrs Edson, long a Stow and Hudson social figure, came from Bath Maine 21 years ago and held several local leadership roles.
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Edson
Stow
Two Bits for Finding Bottle on Cape Cod Currents
Leslie Nickerson of Roxbury weighs how to split a 25 cent reward after finding a bottle from a Washington Bureau of Fisheries set afloat off Highland Light. The Dawn crew 20 men from Roxbury ponder sharing with townmates while Coast Guard reports currents by date time location.
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Leslie Nickerson
Roxbury
Boston
Dawn
Highland Light
Bureau of Fisheries
Washington
South Channel
Nickerson
Cape Cod
Big Four Chiefs to Meet Chicago Managers Over Shopmen Strike
Cleveland July 11 four chief executives of the Big Four transportation brotherhoods will meet in Chicago with railroad managers to discuss protests by members over managers asking them to perform work normally done by striking shopmen and related strike issues.
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Cleveland
Big Four Transportation Brotherhoods
Chicago
Brotherhood
Conference to discuss shopmen strike issues in Chicago
Brotherhood leaders and railroad managers will meet in Chicago tomorrow to address working conditions raised since the shopmen’s strike. Attending are Warren S. Stone and other presidents from the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Firemen and Enginemen, Conductors, and Switchmen Union. attendance by regional directors requested. Protests to the Interstate Commerce Commission already filed over airbrake, flue, water glass, and headlight deficiencies.
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Brotherhood
T. DeWitt Cuyler
Association of Railway Executives
Chicago
Mr. Cuyler
Warren S. Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
W. G
Warrens. Stone
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bryant the Massachusetts Poet Who Shaped American Verse
The article recounts William Cullen Bryant born in Cum\-mington Massachusetts in 1794 and the delayed emergence of his poem Thanatopsis. It notes his Mayflower descent, early farming life, limited college funds, and how he hid the poem for six years before its 1817 publication in the North American Review, marking a new era in American poetry.
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George William Curtis
William Cullen Bryant
Massachusetts
Cummington
Hampshire County
Ashfield
Northampton
Bryant
Longfellow
John Alden
Priscilla Mullins
Young Bryant
Williams College
Yale
Worthington
North American Review
New York
U S Plans Evacuation of Santo Domingo
The State Department announced a tentative evacuation programme for American forces in Santo Domingo, to be carried out after obtaining majority Dominican support. Sumner Welles was appointed envoy to the Dominican Republic to gauge population views on the American withdrawal.
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U. S
Santo Domingo
Washington
State Department
Department
Sumner Welles
New York
Dominican Republic
U.S Pilots Enter Gliding Contest for France Race
MIT students design the entry for an international gliding race in France this August. Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates Edmund T Allen and O C Coppen designed the machine and tested it at Choate Island Ipswich before departure.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
France
Technology
Le Savoie to Sail for France With Contest Pilots
The steamship Le Savoie will sail from New York next Saturday carrying pilots who will operate machines in the international contest at Puy de Dome near Clermont Ferrand France during the week of August 15.
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France
le Savoie
New York
Puy de Dome
Clermont- Ferrand
Keene Manufacturer Charged in $16,000 Fraud Case
Bernard Morgan president of Morgan Manufacturing Co. of Keene was arrested on a fugitive warrant for defrauding Frank G. Carey of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, of 16 000. Morgan waived extradition and posted 3000 bail for Providence District Court appearance. Carey argues Morgan is George Steinhart who sold him 12 000 shares of mining stock in Providence, stock deemed worthless. The report notes Paraguay’s gender ratio with women outnumbering men by about five to one.
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Keene, N. H
Bernard Morgan
Morgan Manufacturing Company
Keene
Frank G. Carey
Fitchburg
Mass
Providence
R. I. Morgan
Providence District Court
Carey
Morgan
George Steinhart
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Niagara Falls
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Saguenay River
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Washington St
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Big Four
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Jamaica
the Clicquot Club Company
Millis, Mass
U.S. A
BAY State Fibre CO
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Clicquot Club Co. Millis Mast
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