Mayor-Backed Bridge Proposed to East Boston
Residents of East Boston and nearby towns attended a hearing in the mayor’s office as Mayor Fitzgerald and Streets Superintendent Louis K. Rourke urged united effort to secure a new bridge from Boston proper to East Boston. They pledged to improve ferry service while stressing that a bridge is the logical solution to the area’s traffic woes.
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East Boston
Boston
Fitzgerald
Louis K. Rourke
Rourke
East Boston Eyes Bridge Hope, Ferry Upgrades Sought
Mayor urges unite for Proposed bridge costing about six million dollars to spur East Boston development. Local business reps call for improved ferry service with longer hours and an extra boat amid frequent 15 to 30 minute delays. Mayor says initial council denial blocks funds but pledges action if appropriation granted and suggests East Boston citizens meet with City Council President Ballantyne to press the matter.
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East Boston
Georges. Webster
R. W. Pigeon
John H. Smith
William J. Donovan
Atherton Loring
George Fpf
Stebbins
Ballantyne
Refuses Warrant for Secretary Frank Chase
Judge Murray refused a warrant for the arrest of Secretary J Frank Chase of the Watch and Ward Society after Attorney William R Scharton showed no criminal intent in making a $600 false check to secure testimony in the white slave action against Max Peretz The application followed Peretz'' discharge and was held under advisement before the judge ruled on forging and uttering charges in municipal court Superior court pending outcome
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J. Frank Chase
Watch and Ward Society
William R. Scharton
Murray
Chase
The
Society
Max Peretz
Dwizht Street
Municipal Court
Pearl found in Lake Corning mussel by blacksmith
J James Grays ham a blacksmith in Corning opened a mussel while fishing for bait and found a 15 grain pearl said to be worth about 200 dollars. Judges call it a fine specimen and the find is likely to attract more pearl fishers to Lake Corning.
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Corning
Ark
James Graysham
Taft Goes Golfing at Bar Harbor
Taft and party arrive from Eastport aboard the Mayflower and plan a Bar Harbor stay through Saturday. The President will golf each morning while being hosted at luncheons and dinners by local friends, with Captain Archie Butt accompanying him.
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Taft
Bar Harbor
Eastport
President Taft
Archie” Butt
Kebo Valley Club
Taft Arrives at Beverly Mayflower for Social Visit
President Taft lands at the yacht club pier with crowds cheering. He plans work with tariff commission chairman Emery and aims to shape a scientific tariff basis. A Mayflower voyage through Bar Harbor brings a crowd, with Senator Hale and former governors among the local escort.
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Island
Yacht Club
H. Cc. Zmery
New Tariff Commission
Finnery
Germany
Beverly
Taft
Emery
Ellsworth
Reynolds Kinkade
Toledo
Kinkade
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Clergy and church groups across Greater Boston plan summer activities and honors. Rev George W Owen and Mrs Owen will vacation at a Peabody farm with pulpit duties covered by Rev George W Stanford. Rev A T Dykeman and family vacationing in Nova Scotia. Rev Riley A Vose receives honorary doctor of divinity from Colgate University while serving in Owego New York. Somerville First Baptist undergoes extensive summer alterations including electric lighting. East Boston Our Father Unitarian receives first $10 000 from Caroline Barnard will.
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George W. Owen
First Congregational Church
Lynn
Riley A. Vose
North Avenue Church
Cambridge
Colgate University
Vose
Owego, N. Y
A. D. K. Shurtleff
Unitarian Church of Our Father
East
Boston
Caroline Barnard
Suicidal suitor uses lemon in heartbreak tale
Colorado Springs dispatch reports 16 year old Lottie Collins rejected James Hunter 8 with a lemon symbol. Hunter, after a month of hopeless love, confronted Lottie, then shot himself in a park, dying instantly.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Lottie Collins
James
Hunter
Lottie
Bottom of Well Falls On Pinckney Street Beacon Hill
Pinckney street on Beacon Hill wakes after the bottom drops out of a well for the first time in a century of quiet. The unusual incident disrupts the famed calm of the neighborhood as residents note the sudden noise and disturbance.
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Pinckney Street
Beacon Hill
Subways Under Beacon Hill Ripple Through Pinckney Street
Residents along Pinckney Street report a curious collapse and ongoing subterranean noises as a new subway tunnel under Beacon Hill progresses. Workmen in khaki survey yards at night seeking the well’s top while sounds from below travel into nearby homes. The shield passes the street and the bottom of the well caves in, heightening curiosity and fear about future noise levels when construction finishes.
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Pinckney Street
Beacon Hill
Coast Artillery Corps Coul
Subway
Boston
Advertisers Meet. Dobbs Re-elected in Omaha
Liam D. Dobbs of Atlanta was re-elected president of the Association of Advertising Clubs of America in Omaha. Boston selected as the site for the 1911 convention.
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Omaha
Neb
Liam D. Dobbs
Atlanta
Association of Advertising Clubs of America
Boston
Preacher Beat Women in Religious Sect Investigation
Washington police opened a probe into a new religious sect after white women testified they were beaten with a leather belt by Jonah Samuel Sturdivant, a Black preacher already jailed in Baltimore for bigamy. He is sought by New York and Philadelphia police.
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Washington
Jonah Samuel Sturdivant
Baltimore
New York
Philadelphia
Norwegian Girls Starve Beliefs Ignite Local Alarm
Washington health authorities were startled when Gertrude Monson was taken to Georgetown Hospital with pellagra. Olga Branton, arriving from Norway, learned from Addie Codding that Hilda Johnston and Monson have starved themselves for three months under a divine revelation. They are now near death in a black hospital, while Codding remains loyal to Sturdivant's movement and may be placed in an institution for a mental examination amid ongoing inquiries into his past bigamy conviction and prior exiles.
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Washington
Gertrude Monson
Georgetown
Olga Branton
Norway
Hilda Johnston
Sturdivant
Miss Branton
Addie Codding
Johnston
Monson
Williams
Miss Codding
Boston
New York
Baltimore
Park closes to outdoor sleepers after Bayonne reports
City officials in Bayonne New Jersey closed the park to all outdoor sleepers this afternoon following complaints from church members that young women of prominent local families had been sleeping there during the heat wave.
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City Park
New York
Bayonne
N. J
Mildred Champagne Talks On Love And Sentiment
Advice column excerpt where a young man explains he notices his partner comforts others when they are down but remains quiet himself when he feels blue. The response suggests his sensitivity signals deep love and understanding, not lack of care, and contemplates whether opposite temperaments enhance happiness in love.
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Miss Champagne
the Post
Dear Miss Champagnie To I would say I think that the young man to decide which one
A letter discusses choices for a young man to select a partner by coin toss and visiting potential housekeepers unannounced to judge suitability. It mentions gratitude to "Blue Belt" for a prior reply titled "How Often 2" and references a piece “Two of a Kind.”
Nine in ten Lindsborg residents are churchgoers
A canvass by Miss Anna Carlson of the Lindsborg News finds about 2000 residents, nine tenths of Swedish descent, and concludes that nine out of every ten inhabitants are church members, leaving little need for missionary work in town.
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Lindsborg
Kan
Anna Carlson
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