New Insurance Building Opens Home for SBoston Insurance
The SBoston Insurance Company unveils its new Italianate six story home at Kilby and Milk streets. The building houses marine underwriting fire departments and executive offices on its floors with a history of capitalization surplus reserves and losses since 1873.
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Sboston Insurance Company
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Boston Ice
Marine Udterwriting
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Ourth
Garden party at St Aidan's Brookline to showcase parish work
Parishioners of St Aidan's Church Brookline plan a garden party on Pleasant Street in Brookline tomorrow from 10 a m to 10 p m. The event marks the first under Rev John T Creagh D C L and features music dancing games and multiple booths including St Aidan's St Helena's the sodality and Sunday school. Activities include a pergola refreshment area a work box housekeepers corner and a homemade candy table with afternoon tea served 3 50 to 6 o'clock.
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St. Aidan's Church
Brookline
Pleasant Street
St. Aidan’s
John T. Creagh
St. Helena’s
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Sodality
St. Aidan's
James A. McGeough
John J. Daniels
Daniel J. Wiley
St. Aidan’s Parish
St. Aidan's Parish
Pleasant
Freedman Streets
J. T. Creagh
Torchy Debuts in Sewell Ford’s New Sunday Adventure
Torchy justifies himself in a fresh role as Sewell Ford introduces a new Torchy adventure in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine. The feature promises humor, daring actions, and the familiar wild wit readers expect from Torchy moves.
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Torchy
Sewell Ford
Next Sunday Post
First Class Day Observed At Massachusetts College Of Osteopathy
Degrees will be conferred on 17 students at the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy in Cambridge this afternoon marking the institution’s first class day. Speeches by Dr. George A. Haines and Dr. Edwina Knight, with prophecy by Dr. Maguire and poem by Claus Sandwell, will comprise the program.
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Massachusetts College of Osteopathy
Cambridge
George A. Haines
Chelsea
Edwina Knight
Newbury Street
Boston
William P. Maguire
East Poston
Claus Sandwell
Gertrude G. Townsend
A. L. Hicks
Colin P. Adams
Brookline
Eldredge D. Atwood
Woburn
John J. Costello
Charles Dickerman
Fast
Lexington
John W. Finnerty
Annie J. Hills
Fawina Knight
Cora J
Counterfeit Bills Found in Cambridge
Cambridge police report hundreds of skilfully made counterfeit bills circulating in the city. Suspected to come from a Concord counterfeiting plant raided weeks ago, the notes are being passed to small shopkeepers. Secret Service agents are on the trail with no solid clues yet.
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Cambridge
Concord
Secret Service
Catholic Church Activities and Parish Events Across the Boston Area
Arlington forms a branch of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Society with officers including Miss Mary Khlund and Mrs. Annie Healey. The Confraternity of the Holy Cross meets at the Cathedral. St Aidan's Brookline hosts the second annual garden party tomorrow. St Charles Waltham hosts confirmation with Bishop Anderson. Holy Cross College announces speakers for commencement. Corpus Christi observances planned at Immaculate Conception Church. parents asked to notify if children will join the procession.
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Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent Society
Arlington
St. Agnes’ Church
St. James’ Church
Mary Khlund
Annie Healey
Bessie Butler
Helen O'Keefe
Alice Murphy
Katherine Cahill
Rose Meehan
Elizabeth Imweaney
St. Charles’ Church
Waltham
Anderson
Immaculate Conception
F. P. Powers
Capt McSorley Marks 31 Years as Cambridge Fireman
Peter F. McSorley captain of Engine 5 in Cambridge observed his 31st year of service with the fire department yesterday by working all day. Appointed in 1888 he has fought major fires in Cambridge and Boston and now oversees the city’s first motor driven apparatus recently placed in service.
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Peter F. McSorley
Cambridge
Cambridge Fire Department
McSorley
Boston
Retired Patrolman Walsh Receives Pension
Patrolman John F. Walsh of the La Grange station retired after 88 years 11 months of service. He patrolled near South Station and inside the terminal, earning a $700 annual pension.
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John F. Walsh
Lagrange Station
South Station
Walsh
Force
South Terminal
Boston Trough Closures to Remain in Effect says Walker
Commissioner Walker of the Massachusetts Department of Animal Industry states there is no truth to rumors that the order closing all public watering troughs in Greater Boston will be rescinded. The measure was adopted months ago to control glanders among horses and remains in force.
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Massachusetts Department of Animal Industry
Greater
Boston
Noted Master Henry Miner's Long Boston Teaching Career Ends
Henry B. Miner, master of the Edward Everett School District in Dorchester, retires this month after fifty years in teaching, forty five of them in Boston schools.
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Dorchester
Boston
Veteran Dorchester educator Henry Miner to retire after 50 years
Henry B. Miner longtime head of the Edward Everett School Dorchester marks 50 years in teaching with 45 in Boston schools. Born Sept 17 1848 he graduated Brown University valedictorian 1864. He began teaching in Providence 1864 then Canton and Tileston School before Edward Everett tenure.
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Edward Everett
Dorchester
Boston
Miner
Brown University
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Canton
Tileston School
Hyde Park Public Library
Boston Library Board
Sailor Hurt in 40 Foot Fall From Mast
Leslie H. Jenks a 28 year old single first mate on the schooner Leonard C. at Boston wharf South Boston fell forty feet while scraping a mast injuring a fractured knee and internal injuries serious enough to place him on the dangerous list. He hails from Nova Scotia.
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City Hospital
Leonard C
Boston Wharf
Boston
Nova Nicotia
Judge Signals Sherman Act Inquiry Into United Shoe Purchase
Judge William I. Putnam in the United States District Court hinted the $6,000,000 purchase of the Thomas G. Plant Company by United Shoe Machinery Company may violate antitrust law. He said his mind was open but his remarks on the Plant deal were significant amid the monopoly trial.
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Thomas G. Plant Company
United Shoe Machinery Company
William IL. Putnam
United States District Court
United Company
Putnam
Plant Company patents central to Sherman act case
The Plant Company, sole manufacturer with a full line of shoe machinery, sold to the United Company including its shoe machinery business. The government argues the purchase aimed to stifle competition, while defense claims it secured valuable patents for development. Judge Putnam questioned whether buying out Plant reduces competition.
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United Company
Putnam
Charles F. Choate
Plant
Choate
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
South Boston man dies from gas poisoning after wife’s death
James Scott, 66, of 187 West Seventh Street, South Boston, dies by inhaling illuminating gas after his wife’s death. His stepson James M. McCarthy arrived home after 6 pm and smelled gas, finding Scott on his bed with a gas tube and escaping gas. Medical Examiner Magrath rules death by own action.
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James Scott
West Seventh Street
Boston
James M. McCarthy
Magrath
Cobb's Grocery Ad Promotes Low Wholesale Prices
Pure Lard 12c per lb Pea Beans 712c per qt Evaporated Milk 7c per can Creamery Butter 4 lbs 1. Consignment of Oranges 10c per dozen. Cobb's corner Hanover and Union streets Boston. The house advertises wholesale pricing and high quality goods, claiming the largest grocery business in Boston.
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Cobb’s
Hanover
Union Sts
Boston
Engineer Kills Self in Hotel
Humphrey H. Swift a 43 year old travel ing representative for Morse Twist Drill Machine Co New Bedford committed suicide by shooting himself in the head yesterday morning in the American House He was identified at the city morgue by his brother Robert Swift and cousin Amund Grinnell Swift a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate had been with the New Bedford company for years and was a prominent Wamsutta Club member He checked in as Henry H Smith of Providence and a book in his effects bore the name Henry W Swift of New Bedford Police and hotel staff uncovered no immediate clues to his identity until relatives arrived and confirmed the body Newman House case details followed with the revival of the hotel room scene and the discovery of the revolver and running watch
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New Bedford
Morse Twist Drill Machine Company
Robert Swift
Amund Grinnell
Swift
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Bedford Drill Machine Company
Wamsutta Club
Boston
City
Henry H. Smith
Providence
Henry W. Swift
Timothy Callahan
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