Munyon cures touted in Boston ads and East Boston meeting
Miss Bessie Huntington of Yantic Conn credits Munyon's Catarrh Cure with a week of dramatic relief from nasal catarrh. Boston resident A Sport reports kidney trouble cured after Munyon's treatment. The page promotes Munyon remedies and devices, and covers a East Boston meeting on library needs and a new high school, with civic leaders pushing for funding and a branch library.
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Bessie Huntington
Yantic
Catarrh
Conn
Scarlet fever outbreak hits Lewis School in Roxbury
Eleven pupils in Miss Sherry's room contract scarlet fever since May 20 and one child, George McCusker, dies amid parent complaints of health department negligence. Reports cite furnace odors blamed for spread while officials insist contagion stems from contact with a fever case.
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Lewis School
Roxbury
Post
Miss Sherry
George McCusker
Townsend Street
O’neil
Guy Emerson
Dr. Emerson
Warren and
Rockland Streets
Harvey Emmerton
Ottawa Street
Frank Severans
Bower Street
Sherman Street
L. MecCariton
City Hospital
Walter Stevens Bower
Humboldt Avenue
Carroll Trafton
Monroe Street
Pierce
Clifford Street
Frank Mitchell
Emerson
Arnold
T. B. Shea
Durgin
The
Health Board
Massachusetts Medical Society
Sherry
Real Estate Sales Report From Alliston and Newton
Through the office of William D. Cochrane a house and 400 feet of land in Alliston owned by A Banford was sold yesterday to G O MacDonald and 16 987 feet of land in Newton to Madison Corey of Brookling.
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William D. Cochrane
Waller Street
Alliston
A.banford
G. O. MacDonald
Newton
Madison
Corey
Brookling
Anti Jag Cancer Cure Declared To Ward Off Drink
In a historic patent notice the Renova Chemical Co announces Anti Jag a claimed remedy for drink craving. The ad offers to send the product for one dollar by mail with directions and free information, discreetly labeled in plain packaging.
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Renova Chemical Co
Broadway
New York
Olga Gardner and Dr. George H Monks Wed at St Stephen's
The ceremony at St Stephen's Church on Florence Street joined Miss Olga Gardner, niece of Mrs Jack Gardner, to Dr George H Monks of this city. Pink peonies bedecked pews and woodchime trim highlighted the decor with Easter lilies in the chancel. Ushers included T Russell Sullivan.
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St. Stephen’s Church
Florence Street
Olga Gardner
Jack Gardner
George H. Monks
T. Russell Sullivan
Dyer Raymond Marries Miss Ethel Mears Raymond
Miss Ethel Mears Raymond daughter of Mrs. Charles E. Raymond Cambridge wed Henry Chauteau Dyer St Louis lawyer yesterday at Christ Church Cambridge. Harvard graduate groom, Rev Gamble officiated. Sister Miss Lelia Dyer was maid of honor. ushers included Raymond Lee Whitman Arnold Scott W D Flagg Edward M Stothers Raymond McAllister Edward Bergengren. They will reside in St Louis.
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Ethel Mears Raymond
Charles E. Raymond
Harvard Street
Cambridge
Henry Chauteau Dyer
St. Louis
Christ Church, Cambridge
Harvard
W. D. Flagg
Holyoke
Edward M. Stothers
New York
Raymond McAllister
Brookline
Edward Bergengren
Lynn
Woman Pastor Ordained at Chelsea Unitarian Church
The First Unitarian Church in Chelsea ordained Miss Margaret Bowers Barnard a Chelsea woman and Chelsea Woman's Club president in a large ceremony. The sermon was by Rev Anna Garlin Spencer of Providence R I. The service featured an anthem, hymns, and prayers by clergy from Chelsea Boston Salem and Boston churches.
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First Unitarian Church
Chelsea
Margaret Bowers Barnard
Chelsea Woman's Club
Woman’s Club
Anna Garlin Spencer
Providence
R. J
Second Church
Boston
Margaret B. Barnard
Ethel Bourne
Bessie Marshall
Louise Johnson
Stella Whiting
Anna Sibley
Ida Litchfield
Adjourned inquiry into Woburn fire false alarm charges
The adjourned meeting to inquire into charges against Company D of Charlestown concluded last evening at the police headquarters hearing room. Judge advocate Bangs presided with Captain Stover arguing for Company D and Mayor Feeney representing Woburn. The judge advocate took the case under advisement.
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Charlestown
Ferrin
Woburn
Counse Bangs
Rr of
Police
Stover
Company A
Fifth Regiment
Feeney
Bangs
Social Union Lawn Party at Cambridge Benefit
Cambridge Social Union held a successful lawn party at the Longfellow estate on Brattle Street. The event featured the Thomas Orchestra and Band, children's rides, games, a vaudeville act, sports, candy tents, lemonade stands, a shooting gallery, a fortune teller, a Turkish booth, and a bustling refreshment booth. An afternoon tea ran from 4 to 6, followed by a promenade concert and Harvard Glee Club songs with dancing in the evening.
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Institution of Cambridge
The
Social Union
Longfellow
Brattle Street
Thomas Orchestra
Ig 4
Presti Digitateur
Harvard Glee Club
Parade of British Veterans Plans Jubilee Procession
British Navy and Army Veterans' Union No. 1 met at the Hotel Savoy to arrange a jubilee procession for Monday. About 100 attended under President Hugh McDevitt. The Ancients will lead escorted by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company marching Bowdoin street to Beacon Dartmouth Copley square. Seamen from H M S Pallas will join as part of the escort.
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British Navy
Army Veterans’ Union No. 1
Hotel Savoy
Hugh McDevitt
George Speirs
Marshal Francis
Victorian Jubilee Committee
The
National Lancers
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Bowdoin Street
Beacon
Dartmouth
Copley Square
Ancients
Boston
Army Veterans’ Union
Pallas
First Degree Staff Dines at Putnam Lodge Dinner
The Putnam Lodge No. 81 I O O F first degree staff association held its inaugural dinner at the United States Hotel with about thirty members present. President C B Woolley presided. guests included District Deputy Thomas Barton of Mt Pleasant Lodge and Past Grand Kitsen of Warren Lodge.
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Putnam Lodge No. 81
United States
C. B. Woolley
P. G
Thomas Barton
Mt. Pleasant Lodge
Grand Kitsen
Warren Lodge
B. F
Bullard
Bethesda Lodge
J. C. Hurll
Association
Heat Wave Claims One Life In Chicago
Chicago reports a deadly heat wave with one death and twenty three prostrations. A carpenter Charles Allsen died after attempting to drink carbolic acid to cool down, amid extreme temperatures.
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Chicago
Bunker Hill Day Carnival Parade Plan and Participants
The official Bunker Hill Day observance in Charlestown features a morning parade with Rex floats from New Orleans and a restyled route through Chelsea Street City Square Park Street and Monument Square. Ex Governor John D Long will attend on board the Massachusetts battleship Massachuset.
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Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Carnival Association
New Orleans
Boston
John D. Long
Navy
Massachusetts
Wolcott
Bunker Hill District
Bunker Hill Street
Navy Yard
Polk
Mystic
Elm Streets
Chelsea Street
City Square
The
Park Street
Common
Winthrop
Adams
Chestnut
Monument Square
East Side
High Street
Elm
Bartlett
Monument Avenue
Main
Harvard Street
Washington
Union
Sullivan Square
Marshal Breen
John Collins
George A. Garland
James P. Callahan
John J. Shields
E. J. Twomey
Frank Curry
Thomas J. Keating
William Fish
R. H. Hanson
W. H. Wellington
Calvin Stowell
Joseph McEmery
Michael Driscoll
J. B. Corcoran
Feenry
Pike
George H. Bartley
Charles L. Foster
William J. Riley
Frank H. Bagley
A. Carter
John Hurley
Tally-ho
Perlie A. Dyar
Fusilier
King Andrew I
Andrew Byrnes
Knights of the Mystic Order of Giastic
F. A. Walker
Maynard E. Clemens
Lera Appt
Charles BE. Prichard
T. J. D’arcy
W. H. Doyle
H. J. Sheeney
S. Arthur Strong
Winslow Allen
Harradon
Walter Crockett
Lawrence Langley
Frank Hartford
G. R. Colman
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Lohengrin
Carthage
Medford Banda
Charon
Styx
Venice
Misae
Suffolk
East Boston Cadet Band
H. L. Hanson
Brereton Club
East Boston
Renee
Twentieth Century Maids
Workingmen’s Debating Club
Hung Chang
America
Bainbridge Athletic Club
Croker’s Jockey Club
Main Street
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Seaver
Gardner
Chelsea
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Park Streets
W. S. Tolman
Fred McDonald
William H. Oakes
A. M. Mossman
H. P. Ballard
A. C. Warren
A. B. Chick
Frank S. Wilson
BE. Bridges
William H. Casey
John C. Grouse
Cutting
Elmer E. Locke
G. I. Mann
Walter E
Trial Opens in James J. Laffey V. West End Railway
In the Superior Court third session the case against the West End Railway by James J. Laffey began. Laffey, a bespectacled middle aged peddler, alleges his wagon overturned and he was injured by an outward bound electric car on May 26, 1896, leaving him blind and nearly deaf. The proceedings also cover Thomas Horan and Harry L. Folsom suing for damages after a Dudley street collision on January 25, 1897. Horan was awarded $25 and Folsom’s case likely continued.
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Est End
Motte and Castle Streets
Washington Street
Thomas Horan
Harry L. Folsom
West End Railway
Muerte Court
Folsom
Dudley Street
Horan
Folsom i
Cecil Rhodes Narrow Escape From Fire at Kimberley
A Cape Town dispatch reports Cecil Rhodes narrowly escaped death when a fire broke out in his Kimberley bedroom. He woke only after police forced entry and after dressing himself, calmly helped extinguish the blaze before leaving for Rhodesia.
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London
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Kimberley
Rhodesia
Rhodes
Bald Beats Cooper In State L A W Track Meet
Eddie Bald won the mile open in a sprint finish with Tom Cooper and then won the final two mile handicap. Bald also lowered the track half mile record to 0.58 2.5. A strong east wind kept times slower despite good track conditions in Elmira, New York.
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Elmira
N. Y
Eddie Bald
New York State
Tom Cooper
Chelsea Board Rejects A J O Leary for Fire Chief
The Chelsea Board of Aldermen last evening rejected A J O Leary for the fire department and confirmed W J Shepard and Harry L Giggey. O Leary was voted down 9 to 1. Alderman Keefe warned of a move to reconsider at the next meeting.
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Board of Aldermen
Chelsea
A. J. O’leary
Fire Department
W. J. Shepard
Harry L. Giggey
O’leary
Keefe
Roberts
Hoag
Cape Cod Canal Land Sold in Sheriff Sale
Cape Cod Canal Company lost some land at Sandwich after sheriff sale. Buyer was George H. Titcomb of Boston, once canal project engineer. Titcomb claims $16,000 against the company, and the sale stems from his efforts to dislodge his interests. The price paid was large and the sale may complicate future canal title clarity.
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Sandwich
Cape Cod Canal Company
George H. Titcomb
Boston
Marion Manola and Jack Mason End Their Marriage in Amicable Separation
A Washington special to the World reports Marion Manola once a New York comic opera queen and Jack Mason a former Boston society leader have amicably separated. Mason moved to his Fenton farm in Michigan while Manola heads to New York to enter a health recovery institution. She hopes for a return to a first class comic opera company this autumn if she recovers.
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New York
Washington
Marion Manola
Jack”ason
Ator
Boston
Mason
Fenton, Mich
Driver v Boston Gas Light awarded $1000 in court
In a Superior Court session yesterday the plaintiff Abraham Driver won 1000 against the Boston Gas Light Company after injuring himself by stepping into an open trap door on defendant premises. The Clark Hutchingson Company suit for 437.22 remains in progress in the fourth session.
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Abraham Driver
Boston Gas Light Company
Clark-Hutchingson Company
Frank J. Straton
Sherman
Sherman In the Extra Session of the Superior Court
Manuel, Frye and Addler
Harry 8
David Levy
National Master Lumber Convention Opens in New York
Five hundred master lumbers from across the United States gathered at Grand Central Palace for the fifteenth annual national convention. General George Lb. Scott, first president of the national association, spoke briefly. W. F. Doyle of Philadelphia, the current national president, introduced him. Samuel L. Malcolm, president of the New York local branch, welcomed the delegates and introduced Mayor Strong, who also gave a welcome.
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New York
United
Grand Central Palace
George Lb. Scott
National Association
W. F. Doyle
Philadelphia
Samuel L. Malcolm
Strong
Banquet Highlights Latin American Call for Reciprocal Trade Unity
The Latin American delegation in Boston urged reciprocal, federation-like ties if tariff reform passes. Mayor Quincy hosted at the Algonquin Club with merchants and officials in attendance. Delegates praised U S Latin relations while M A leaders urged expanded trade and protection-free cooperation.
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Boston
North
South America
American
Quincy
Algonquin Club
America
John F. Fitzgerald
Congress of
United States
Congress
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bates
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
John Quincy Adams
Richard Olney
Europe
Senor Cordeiro da Graca
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Spanish-America
Henry S. Price
Barranquilla
Colombia
J. R. Leeson
Boston Merchants’ Association
Coolidge S. Roberts
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Edward Atkinson
Senor
Gerardo Lewis
Panama
Rafael de la Mora
Mexico
Victor
Leyland Company
Nahant
Lynn
Oxford Ub
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Chamber of Commerce
Havemeyer Seeks Church Control in Greenwich Case
At the Westchester Presbytery meeting in Irvington the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, tied to a $20,000 overdue mortgage held by Henry O. Havemeyer, faced possible foreclosure. The pastor Rev. Dr. J. T. Wills resigned. factions existed, and Havemeyer reportedly may take possession and later deed the property back to the Presbyterians.
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New York
Westchester Presbytery
Irvington
First Presbyterian Church
Greenwich
Conn
Henry O. Havemeyer
J. T. Wills
Knapp
Havemeyer
Knox
Presbyterians
Irish Independent League Meeting Attacked Davitt By Redmond
Dublin witnesses a large crowd as John P. Redmond M P condemns Michael Davitt for opposing Mr Balfour’s Irish civil government plan in a charged speech at a Dublin gathering.
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Dublin
Irish Independent League
John P. Redmond
M. P
Michael Davitt
Mr. Balfour
Rumor of Special Grand Jury Indictments Denied
City Hall rumors claimed a special grand jury would indict more fraud cases. Assistant District Attorney McLaughlin said the jury will meet likely Thursday but only to review existing fraud cases, with no new indictments planned unless directed by the district attorney. Ordinary criminal matters are slated for the docket.
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City Hall
Court House
McLaughlin
Manning
Citizens' Union backs Seth Low for Mayor plan
New York June 15. The Citizens' Union organization committee did not nominate tonight. It will hold mass meetings in all boroughs to gauge unanimity for Seth Low and has adopted a borough petition in support of his mayoral candidacy. The meeting was protracted and held behind closed doors.
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New York
Committee of Organization of the
Citizens’ Union
Seth Low
Executive Committee
Greater New York
Dauntless Carries Arms To Cuba Under Cover of Night
A vessel believed to be the Dauntless entered Hillsborough Bay at night and loaded arms and ammunition from a schooner off the Alasia River mouth before sailing. Rumors had claimed the Dauntless departed Key West with an expedition, a ruse to mislead authorities and the Spanish consul. The expedition reportedly operated for about twelve hours before being detected.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Tampa
Hillsborough Bay
Alasia River
Key West
Becomes a Countess in Detroit Wedding
Bishop John S Foley of eastern Michigan united Count Alfred von Matuschka Baron De Toppoleren and Miss Ella Walker at the bride's father Franklin H Waiker home in Detroit. Walker family wealth is estimated at fifteen to twenty million.
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Detroit
Mich
John S. Foley
Eastern Michigan
Alfred von Matuschka
de Toppoleren
Spatten
Ella Walker
Franklin H. Waiker
National Council of Women of Canada session opens
At Halifax on June 15 the council began with the topic Art as the first subject. A paper by Mrs Boomer of the London Council discussed attracting the rank and file of federated societies. Representatives from Montreal Ottawa and other centres joined the discussion. Miss May Wright Sewall of Indianapolis noted a useful information committee.
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Halifax
National Council of Women of Canada
Boomer
London Council
Montreal
Ottawa
May Wright Sewall
Indianapolis
Guests of Glasgow Toast to Colonial Empire Bond
June event in Glasgow hosted visiting colonial premiers with a banquet. Canadian premier Wilfrid Laurier spoke of pride in the British empire and the desire to remove disparities between home and colonial subjects while remaining citizens of the empire.
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Glasgow
Wilfred W Laurier
St Lawrence
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