H C Larrabee of Maryland Is Elected General Grand Master
Maryland’s H C Larrabee is elected general grand master by the grand council on a day marked by ceremonial welcomes in Corinthian Hall and Ionic Hall. The session featured credentials, necrology, and notices of future tours and conventions, with remarks on peace among nations and the Cryptic rite’s status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Larrabee
Maryland
Ionic Hall
Crandon
A. P. Swanstrom
St. Paul
Minn
Swanstrom
General Grand Council
Whoop It Up at Pops Concert and Peruna Endorsements
Harvard Pops night drew a full Symphony Hall crowd with glee club numbers and orchestra selections. The Harvard men teased the ladies with college songs and cheered wildly, while Peruna testimonials from Mrs. Caldwell and others appeared in the same column.
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Harvard
Pops
Back Bay
Vienna Woods
Cambridge
Symphony Hall
Ellis
Comee
Harvard Glee Club
Glee Club
Old Harvard
Crimson
Bribery fight roars as Gethro Swig report to be voted
The House moves today to expel Frank Gethro and censure Simon Swig amid a heated clash over rules committee findings. Speaker Cole backs sustaining the report while opponents seek postponement or direct referral of evidence to District Attorney Moran. Swig and Gethro supporters brace for a battleground floor showdown.
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House
Committee On Rules
Frank J. Gethro
Ward 9
Simon Swig
Taunton
Cole
Moran
Swig
Gethro
Isaiah R. Clark
Quinlan & Co
Clark
Representative Turtle
Pittsfield
John Quinn, Jr
Thomas W. Lawson
Quinn
Turtle
Quinlan Concern
Mr. Swig
Brigham of
Marlboro
State House
Brigham Amendment
Kidnapper Captured After Boy Rescued in Philadelphia
Detective Blair arrested John Joseph Kean after a long hunt that tracked him from three vacant West Philadelphia houses to a North Sixty‑second Street address. Kean, once a bank bookkeeper and broker, admitted abducting Charles Muth Jr for money, keeping the boy in unseen houses until capture.
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Taylor
Kean
Blair
Sixty-second
Charles Muth
Papa
Columbia Avenue
New York
Harlem Bank
Philadelphia
Joseph Sager
Haverford Avenue
Sager
Charles J. Cooke
Muth
Clare
Vale
Sixty-second Street
Freddie
Riot Terrors in Bialystok Leave Dozens Dead
A correspondent describes street scenes of arson and pillage in Bialystok Russia. Jewish hospitals overflow with dead and wounded as corpses lay in the grass and bloodstained paths. A teacher named Apstein was tortured before death. a later attack on the police station ends with Cossacks dispersing revolutionaries.
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Bialystok
Russia
Red Cross
Teacher Apstein
Grand Council Royal Masters entertained delegates in Boston
At the Algonquin Club last evening the ladies of the delegates and the newly elected grand officers were entertained by Grand Council Massachusetts Roy al Masters. A banquet for 200 followed with Grand Master Edwin S. Crandon presiding. A gathering in the Vendome state parlors of Arkansas featured a large throng of delegates and their wives. Reception committee included Peter Brickey M. J. grand master A F B Oden deputy grand master C L Brown grand P C W Fay Hempstead grand recorder.
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Algonquin Club
Grand Council
Massachusetts
Edwin S. Crandon
Vendome
Grand Council Royal
Arkansas
Peter Brickey
M. J
A. F.B. Oden
C. L. Brown
Fay Hempstead
Greeks Give 60 000 for Athens Gymnasium
Consul George Horton reports from Athens that the recent Olympic games stirred Greek public interest in athletics. Two wealthy Egyptians, Rostovis and Tsanakles, donated 60 000 dollars for a new gymnasium to be built under the personal supervision of Crown Prince Constantine.
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Washington
George Horton
Athens
Egypt
Messrs
Rostovis
Tsanakles
Constantine
Jerome as Governor Candidate Emerges in New York Race
Democratic leaders look to Jerome to salvage the statewide campaign after Mayor McClellan praised him in a Schenectady speech last week and set him up as a potential gubernatorial candidate.
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New York
Jerome
McClellan
Schenectady
Society Girl Weds and Heads to St Petersburg
Miss Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch daughter of Dr. Henry Bowditch marries Hendrik W. Van Loon of The Hague. The ceremony at Bowditch home in Jamaica Plain features bridesmaids Miss Sabine Miss Fanny Bowditch and Mary Hodges Stone. The groom, Cornell and Harvard alumnus, is on the Associated Press staff in St. Petersburg. The couple depart tomorrow for Russia to reside there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch
Henry Pickering Bowditch
Harvard Medical School
Hendrik W. van Loon
Hague
Holland
Bowditch
Pond Street
Jamaica Plain
Cornell University
New York
Harvard
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Russia
Catherine Sabine
Brookline
Fanny Bowditch
Mary Hodges Stone
Boston
William Sabine
van Loon
Captain Moore Retired From Navy Yard After 40 Years
Captain William S. Moore, a Massachusetts man and head of the steam engineering department at the Charlestown Navy Yard, received notice that his retirement request under the 40 years service provision has been favorably acted upon by the retiring board and secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Moore
Massachusetts
Charlestown Navy Yard
West
Sec
Boston and New York Air Line Sold to New Haven
At a noon meeting in New Haven Massachusetts officials announced the Boston and New York Air Line Railroad stock and assets were unanimously sold to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. Details on price were not disclosed. The line, previously the Middletown and Willimantic, opened in 1873 and had been operated under a 99 year lease since October 1882.
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New Haven, Conn
Boston & New York Air Line Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Air Line Company
Air Line Road
Boston & New York Air Line Road
Old
Middletown & Willimantic Railroad
Canada Aroused by Evolutionary Text Books
Ottawa reports a religious uproar over Ontario and Manitoba school texts. Bishop Hamilton accuses a High School Geography of teaching evolution as truth, opposing Holy Scripture and church doctrine. The book argues the universe and humanity evolved from inferior animal life.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Anglican Synod
Hamilton
Ontario
Manitoba
Mayor Fitzgerald Receives Ovation in Watertown
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston headlined a St. Patrick's parish field day in Watertown with 3000 attendees. James H. Vahey introduced him, and the mayor spoke on Catholic progress in the region to an enthusiastic crowd.
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Watertown
Fitzgerald
Boston
St. Patrick’s Parish
James H. Vahey
Funeral services for Mrs Tirzah H Holbrook in Abington
Mrs Tirzah H Holbrook oldest woman in Abington was buried after funeral services held at the Congregational Church in North Abington. The Rev George Benedict officiated.
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Abington
Tirzah H. Holbrook
Congregational Church
North Abington
George Benedict
Agreement Reaches Meat Inspection Bill Adjustments
The White House and House Agriculture Committee reached a near final accord on meat inspection legislation. President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon agreed on key provisions, including a $3,000,000 annual appropriation and withdrawal of civil service waivers. The bill omits the court review clause and labeling date, with inspectors empowered to access packing plants whenever needed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Committee On Agriculture
White House
Cannon
Cowan
Texas Cattle Growers
Secretary of Agriculture
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Master Masons
Grand Council of
Corinthian Hall
Masonic Hall
Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren
United States
Japan
R. B. Lang
Wisconsin
H. W. Woodhurst
Indiana
R. Perry Bush
Chelsea
General Grand Sentinel
J. T. Kimball
Roxbury
G. D. Dodge
P. G. M. A. R. Dewey
Iowa
P. G. M. William Ryan
Kentucky
Graff M. Acklin
Ohio
J. Albert Blake
C. H. Heaton
Vermont
H. W. Mordhurst
E. W. Wellington
Kansas
G. A. Newell
W. F. Cleveland
Concord
Lexington
Harvard University
Royal Arch Masons Too
Grand Chapter
Royal Arch Masons of
The
Harry Hunt
Peruna
Sophia Caldwell
McGavock St
Nashville
Tenn
Caldwell
John Hoop
Webster Ave
Glendale
S. 1
N. Y
Jvie -Watarrh
URS
Stock Exchange
Mr. Turtle
Brigham
Senate
Hilton
Wellville
J. B. Cook Piano CO
Haines Bros
Marshall & Wendell and
Armstrong
Steinway
McPhail
Chickering
Vose
Knabe
New England
Eee
Boston Herald Office
Capt. Moore
AIR Line
N.Y
N.H
National Biscuit Company
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