83 year old farmer secretly marries 35 year old teacher
Otis M. Smith aged 83 rich Cumberland farmer and former huntsman wed Lara May Thomas aged 35 Chicago high school teacher and Brown graduate. The ceremony was held last Saturday at Arnold's Mills Methodist Church performed by Rev. F. C. Barker, and the couple kept the marriage confidential.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Cumberland
Otis M. Smith
Lara May Thomas
Chicago
Brown University
Arnold’s Mills Methodist Church
F. C. Barker
Long-Awaited Union Sparks From Thirty Year Romance
Smith and Miss Thomas wed after a romance that began when she was a child visiting his farm with her mother. Brown graduate of 1901, she taught in Medway and Chicago before marriage. The couple's age gap did not hinder a loving bond, with Smith famed as huntsman and farmer.
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Smith
Thomas
Brown
Medway
Mass
Chicago
Smith Farm
Miss Thomas
Smith Estate
New Hampshire College Plans Farm and Home Economics Campaign
The New Hampshire College launches a state wide campaign educating farmers and their wives in agriculture and home economics. A $20,000 fund from the General Education Board and Smith Lever support will be used for on farm and in home demonstrations across New Hampshire. The college has long taught science applied to farming and now adds a home economics department for girls.
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Durham
N. H
New Hampshire College
New Hampshire
General Education Board
New Hampshire State College
Tree Cut From Washington Elm Replanted Near Boston Common
A slender cutting from the Washington elm, famed as Washington’s Continental army command site, now grows near the Park Street subway entrance on the Boston Common. Jackson Dawson oversaw the transfer to John Dillon, and the sapling has thrived, hinting it may someday rival its parent.
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Park Street
Cambridge
America
George Washington
Washington
Jackson Dawson
Arnold Arboretum
John Dillon
The
Park Commission
Widow of Bronson Howard Dies in London
Mrs. Alice Howard widow of the American playwright Bronson Howard who died in 1908 and sister of Sir Charles Wyndham the English actor died in London on Saturday June 22, news reports indicate.
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London
Alice Howard
Bronson Howard
Charles Wyndham
PAYS RECORD FINE OF 50000 DOLLARS IN LABOR CASE
The Dwight Manufacturing Company of Boston paid 50000 dollars to settle a government suit over alien contract labor law violations. The case charged the importation of Greek workers under false employment promises for mills in Chicopee Massachusetts and Alabama City Alabama. Special Agent A A Seraphie secured evidence and William H Garland prosecuted. Charles F Choate defended.
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Dwight Manufacturing Company
Boston
United States
Massachusetts
Chicopee
Mass
Alabama City
Ala
A. A. Seraphie
Department of Justice
United States District
William H. Garland
Charles F. Choate
Many Honors To Dr. Patrick At Dedication Event
Advices from Constantinople say Sultan Mehmet V conferred the Order of the Shefakat on Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president of the Constantinople College for Women, for advancing women’s higher education in the Near East. She also received an LL D from Smith College, and gifts included an American flag brooch from Ambassador Morgenthau and a silver tray from the Turkish capital community.
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New York
Constantinople
Sultan Mehmet V
Mary Mills Patrick
Constantinople College For Women
Near East
Patrick
Bosphorus
Smith College
George ‘. Plimpton
Smith
Henry Morgenthau
United States
Turkey
Economy Hits the Bathers in Rossbury
Citizens who use the Cabot street bathhouse face a new city economy. The bathhouse is closed mornings and only opens after 3 PM daily except Sundays. Officials say no more money is available for operations.
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Rossbury
Cabot Street
Sale on Womens Suits and Gowns Liquidates Classics
Large assortment of women’s suits and gowns offered at deep cuts. Items include novelty and plain eponge suiting in small sizes, silk crepe, gabardine, and linen suits with prices slashed from up to 45 dollars to as low as 0.25.00. Various gowns in crepe de chine, taffeta, and lace, with discounts ranging from five to twenty-nine dollars, plus summer dresses in lacquered fabrics.
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Tre Cine Sress
BOO
Fashion Coat Sale Slashes Prices Across Multiple Styles
Local department store advertises dramatic reductions on coats and sport coats. Silk and satin street coats drop from 35 to 15, taffeta and satin coats fall to 12 50, serge and Gabardine items reduced to 15 00 or 19 75 with motor, Inverness and golfine fabrics represented in sporty designs from 9 75 to 18 50.
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Ag Agee
Seta
Bargain Sale on Waists and Gloves Items
Wholesale sale offers Waists in organdie and lawn with vest effects priced from 2.95 to 3.95. Voile and white crepe de chine waists feature lace and pearl buttons with sale prices around 3.95. Gloves include milanese silk and glace kid styles marked down from 1.00 to 0.25 or 0.65.
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Dpicci Sewes
Ieee Sais
Babyland sale offers wide cuts on children’s wear
Prices cut on items from infants to 6 years, including embroidered middy dresses, linen and gingham outfits, serge coats, straw hats, rompers, and seersucker suits. Reductions range from 25 to 50 percent with most items selling under $2. A few slips list minor price inconsistencies.
Girls Wear Sale On Dresses And Coats
Local store advertises reductions across girls wear from ages six to twelve. Items include gingham and chambray dresses, dimity and seersucker styles, French linen styles, serge coats, middy skirts, and blouses with prices slashed from higher amounts to under five dollars.
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Chambray
Gingham
Dimity
Seersucker
Dorothy
David Copperfield
Teoo Geetic Aksaes Ae
DSO CO
Millinery Sale on Hats for Travel and Vacation Wear
The advertisement offers 160 dress and semi dress hats for motoring and travel, reduced from 10.00 to 8.50. It also lists 24 untrimmed Milan and lisere straw shapes, reduced from 6.00 and 8.00 to 1.00 and 1.50.
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Milan
Hosiery Sale Includes Silk and Lisle Hose Reductions
Print ad lists various women hosiery styles with prices cut from 35c to 85c and up to 1.50 reduced to 1.15. Items include black maco cotton hose double garter tops lisle thread hose silk boot hose lace open work lisle thread hose and imported silk lisle hose. Also advertised are crepe de chine negligees swiss muslin negligees white dotted short swiss kimonos and French hand made and embroidered short sacques with reduced prices.
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Censork Nine
Misses’ Suits and Dresses Sale Prices
Catalog of reductions on misses garments including serge suits, gabardine, faille, duchesse, and coats. Entries note original prices, ranges from 25.00 to 35.00, with many items reduced to 15.00 or around 5.00 to 3.00 for skirts and dresses.
Reduced prices on Swiss mercerized vests and lisle apparel
Imported Swiss mercerized vests priced at 35c now 25c. Swiss rib mercerized lisle vests with hand crocheted yokes 50c value, now 85c. Swiss rib silk mixed vests half China silk half lisle, value 1.00 now 85c. Lisle union suits with cuff or lace knee regularly 75c, now 5c. Lisle union suits with hand crocheted yokes, value 1.00 now 65c. Mercerized lisle union suits, value 85c, reduced to 79c.
Neckwear sale features lace and organdie pieces
Sale offers Pierrot collars of sheer organdie at 50 cents from 1.00. Oriental lace vestees with Byron collar effect priced at 1.00, organdie guimpes with wired standing collar at 1.00, embroidered vestees to waist at 0.50, and Byron collars with taffeta ribbon at 0.50. Dag editor notes list totals.
Women's Skirts on Sale at Discounted Prices
White French repp skirts priced at 2.95 after sale. White cordeline skirts marked 2.95 sale. White wash eponges and white golfline skirts listed with 7.50 value and sale price. White ash eponge skirts paired with Russian tunic priced 7.50 before discount.
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N. H. College
Axel
the Pride of the Movies
George
Lolo
Seorwgie
Flooeyy
Vont
Press Publishing Co
Greater
New
Tomorrow's
Edward Everett Elms
Rep
R. H. Stearns & CO
Dwight Mfg. Co
Sultan
Cabot St
Slattery Co
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