Boston Baptists Host Russian Speaker Fetler
The 450th Boston Baptist Social Union meeting in Ford Hall featured Rev. William Fetler of St. Petersburg Russia as speaker. Fetler conveyed greetings from Russia’s infant Baptists to Boston’s full grown Baptists and commented on Russian press accusations that he is an English spy seeking to make Russia an English colony.
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Boston Baptist Social Union
Ford Hall
William Fetler
St. Petersburg
Russia
Fetler
Boston
Russian Baptists Face Persecution and Exile in 1900s
Mir Fetler recalls arrests of 200 Baptists during a south Russia conference, police pressure, and threats of blasphemy charges to deter preaching against the Greek Church. He describes leaving Russia, attending the Metts Baptist Alliance in Philadelphia, and continuing ministry abroad while facing danger. the passage also notes a Newton Theological Institute night with a senior class, sermons, and musical performances.
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Mir
Fetler
Russia
Moscow
Pfainis
Metts Baptist Alliance
Philadelphia
Mort
Christiam Tife
Otel
America
Wewton Baptist Theological Institution
Lemuel Ackland
H. K. Rowe
Newton
George Todges
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Caldwell resigns from Water Income Division in Charlestown
Joseph H. Caldwell general superintendent of the income division resigns to attend to private business. He has held the post since 1895 and will be replaced after a successor is appointed. Caldwell lives at 2 Franklin street Charlestown.
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Joseph H. Caldwell
Water Dept
Water Service
Public Works
Rourke
Caldwell
Water Income
Water Department
Franklin Street
Charlestown
Boston Brides Break Records As 85 Couples Apply
Boston city registry reports a record turnout with 85 couples filing to marry in one day. The surge follows a wave of June weddings as couples sought marriage permits.
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Boston
Wild Runaway Girl Ahead of Portland Express
A four year old girl clung to a carriage as a runaway horse dashed along tracks near Greenwood and Melrose Highlands stations. Gate Tender George Baxter was knocked aside while heroically trying to stop the horse. The Portland express could not stop. the carriage barely outran the train over a trestle until baggage master George Leath halted them. The child, whose tongue bled from a bite, escaped with minor injuries. Both horse and carriage remained undamaged.
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Baxter
Greenwood Station
Portland Express
Melross Highlands
Melrose Highlands
Melrose Station
Metropolitan Parkway
George Leath
Melvore
Wtr
Louise Brophy
Melrose
Captain Charles B. T. Moore Named Next Rear Admiral
Captain Charles B. T. Moore of Illinois, a Naval Academy graduate, was ordered to Washington to prepare for advancement to rear admiral. He has served at Charlestown Navy Yard, on the Bennington during the Spanish War, governed Tutuila in Samoa, and most recently commanded the Naval Training Station at San Diego. Born July 25, 1853, he has several years of active service remaining before retirement.
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Charles B. T. Moore
Washington
Illinois
Naval Academy
Charlestown Navy Yard
Tutuila
Samoa
Sanclase
Hearings End On Reciprocity Bill In Senate Panel
Public hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill closed before the Senate finance committee. Representatives from the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Press testified last. Secretary of State Knox may be asked to explain the Root amendment and its accord with the treaty before executive session on Wednesday.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Associated Press
Bailey
Knox
Canada
Newspaper publishers defend fair reporting and reciprocity act
Herman Ridder and Melville Stone testified that U S newspapers did not bias coverage or suppress facts on reciprocity. They said the paper trust harms publishers and readers with high prices and poorer services. Ridder supported passing the bill as is to benefit the country.
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Herman Ridder
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
Bruce Haldeman
Publishers’ Association
Frank B. Noyes
Ridder
Batley, Smoot
la Follette and Clark
Mr. Stone
McCumber
Bailey
Health Board Fights Impure Ice Cream In Boston
The Boston Board of Health launched a campaign against impure ice cream. Health inspectors will visit all ice cream shops. Dr Mullowney warned that substandard ice cream risks ptomaine poisoning and dangerous health effects.
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Health Board
Boston Board of Health
Mullowney
The
Belasco’s Daughter Dies in Colorado Springs
Augusta Belasco, youngest daughter of New York theater manager David Belasco, died in Colorado Springs after a long illness. She married William Wilfott on January 22 and had recently spent time in Asheville, North Carolina seeking health relief.
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Belasco
Colorado
Colorado Springs
William Wilfott
David Belasco
New York
Augusta Belasco
Mar
Ried
Asheville
N. C
William Elliott
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Paper Trust
Te Fouenmedias
UNION
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