Danish Dancer to Marry a Noted British Lawyer
Adeline Genee the Danish dancer will wed Frank Isitt a legal adviser to the Duke of Newcastle next Saturday. The couple’s romance drew wide attention with Isitt leaving his practice to pursue her. Queen Alexandra adores the bride and noble houses send gifts while vows include potential continued stage work.
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Adeline Genee
London de Spatches
Frank Isitt
Duke of Newcastle
Adeline
Genee
England
America
London
United States
Queen Alexandra
Duchess of Newcastle
Duchess of Somerset
Miss Genee
Ethel Temperley
Isitt
Delegates from Britain Ireland and America Attend Boston Temple Meeting
Delegates from England Scotland Ireland Wales and America spoke at Tremont Temple in a Boston Sunday school workers gathering. The program featured brief addresses by Mrs Hamilton McCleery Mrs Alexander Gibson the Rev Joseph Evans and others from London Belfast and Scotland. The day included tours of city churches prison outreach and an evening program at Park Street Church and Ford Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
America
Tremont Temple
Boston
W. N. Hartshorn
George W. Penniman
Massachusetts Sunday School League
Hamilton MecCleery
Belfast
Alexander Gibson
Ondon
Joseph Evans
Daniel
East Side
London
Charlestown
Park Street
Women’s Baptist Social Union
Ford Hall
Puzzle Pictures for Everybody by Boston Floating Hospital
The Boston Floating Hospital will soon distribute puzzle pictures to applicants. Clubs, Sunday schools, and societies may request them from Manager G. Loring Briggs at 54 Devonshire Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Floating Hospital
Greater Boston
Floating Hospital
G. Loring Briggs
Devonshire Street
Pell demands to see son
New York, June 5. While their 8 year old son is at a Canadian outdoor school near Toronto, Mrs. Mary Hutton Pell Daly and her former husband Alexander Mercer Pell will ask the court to decide how they shall share his companionship. Pell seeks visitation at least weekly. Daly contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Toronto
Mary Hutton Pell Daly
Alexander Mercer Pell
General Mercer
Bucksaw Champion Gilboa Denies Transfer to Silas Knight
Millbury June 5 Louis Gilboa of Sycamore Street says his Bucksaw title remains with him after rumors he has passed the championship to Silas Knight Knight seeks a match with any skilled wood sawer Gilboa recalls winning the title in 1888 against Perley Hammond and notes their hour long cut totaling about six feet of wood with three cuts per stick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millbury
Louis Gilboa
Sycamore Street
Silas Knight
Gilboa
Perley E. Hammond
Hammond
Mr. Gilboa
Silas
Bucksaw
New Pier for STRS Harvard and Yale
Metropolitan line shifts operations to pier 14 North River near Cortland Street New York City effective Sunday June 12. Harvard and Yale passenger steamers and freight ships will arrive and depart from the new terminus, previously used by Red Star line, offering easy access from Manhattan and Jersey rail terminals.
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North River
New York
Metropolitan Line
Harvard
Yale
Pier 14
Cortland Street
New York City
Red Star Line
Jersey
Norton and MacVeagh aides gain praise in Taft administration
Washington dispatch notes Charles Dyer Norton secretary to the President has, in one year, become a bulwark of the Taft administration. The young Chicagoan, brought on by Secretary Wayne MacVeagh as assistant secretary of the treasury, has thus far made good and earned praise in official Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles Dyer Norton
Taft
Wayne MacVeagh
the Treasury
Menner
Portrait of Mr Norton as a deft political operator
The description portrays Mr Norton as a tall, slim, striking man in his forties with a youthful bearing. He is depicted as a persuasive, detail oriented diplomat who works to win friends for the Taft administration. He is praised for direct questioning and effective lobbying at the Capitol and before the Senate finance committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Norton
Norton
Taft
Congress
Capitol
Treasury Department
Senate Committee On Finance
Nelson W. Aldrich
Cullom
Honor Dead on Memorial Day
Department Commander J Willard Brown of the Grand Army in Massachusetts defends Memorial Day against claims it should be abolished. He urges keeping the forenoon sacred for honoring the dead and postponing sports to the afternoon to honor Civil War veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Willard Brown
Grand Army
Massachusetts
Brown
Lasell Girls Hear A Sermon On Love
Bishop William F. Anderson of Chattanooga delivered the bac calaureate sermon to the Lasell Seminary senior class. He cited John’s gospel and urged that love be the universal environment for mankind and the key to modern society’s problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Anderson
Ss. T. D
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lasell Seminary
Anderson
Bishop Anderson
Palace of Peace near completion at The Hague
The Palace of Peace in The Hague funded by Andrew Carnegie nears completion. It will house the Hague Peace Tribunal to settle disputes that led to historic wars, including the U S and Great Britain Newfoundland fishing grounds dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Holland
Andrew Carnegie
Hague Peace Tribunal
United States
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Underwood & Underwood
Oldest monarchs listed as European rulers with ages
London report notes aging European sovereigns, listing Francis Joseph at 80 and Albert at 95 among others. It ranks rulers by age from Belgium to Portugal, with George VI of Britain at 44 and Alfonso of Spain at 24.
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London
England
Italy
Servia
Saxony
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Portugal
Turkey
Belgium
Europe
George
Austria
Francis Joseph
Roumania
Charles
Frederick
Peter
Greece
Mehmed V
Gustav
Germany
Wilhelm
Bulgaria
Ferdinand
Russia
Nicholas
Great Britain
Victor Emmanuel
Haakon
Albert
Spain
Alfonso
Manuel
Home Mission St Vincent de Paul Society Report
The annual report covers the St Vincent de Paul Society in Boston since 1861. It lists 44 conferences with 557 members aiding 1576 families and 6716 people, plus 21 920 visits and 162 placements, costing 32423 dollars for charitable work. The text notes aid to delinquent and immigrant children and appeals to Catholic supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Council
The
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Frederic Ozanam
St. Vincent
Archdiocese of
Boston
Brothers starved after five days in box car voyage
Jerry and Dennis Skillener, aged 15 and 16, were found half starved in a box car at Chicago's Forty-seventh street crossing. They said they rode from West St. Louis to Gary Indiana, were locked in at Pittsburg, then escaped Columbus by cutting a door with a pocket knife, and finally reached Chicago with railway staff in pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jerry
Dennis Skillener
Forty-seventh Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
West St. Louis
Gary
Ind
Pittsburg
Columbus
Ohio
Hub Men Fly Over 3 States
A balloon named Massachusetts piloted by William Van Sleet, Jay Benton, and F P Bowker ended a five hour cross state flight with a safe landing near Bennington Vermont after passing through New York and hovering near the Hudson at Troy. The trio started in Pittsfield and reached a peak altitude of 7200 feet. Spectators at a hotel followed the flight by car as it descended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
William van Sleet
Pittsfield
Jay B. Benton
F. P. Bowker
Boston
Massachusetts
New York
Hudson River
Troy
Vermont
Oil Burner Sparks Waterfront Alarm In City
A large plume of smoke from an oil burning steamer at the Metropolitan Wharf sent Back Bay Roxbury Dorchester and nearby districts into a stir. The glow and heavy fumes darkened State Street as crowds gathered, fearing a Chelsea style blaze.
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Back Bay
Roxbury
Dorchester
Chelsea
Metropolitan Wharf
State Street
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Son
iCourt
New Pier
Strs
Lasell
Emperor Joseph
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Paine
Gov. Bradford
Plymouth
Mayflower
Brewster
Barnstable
Paine Furniture Company
Canal Street
North Station
Haymarket Square
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