Firemen Are Hub Guests in Buffalo Visit
Nearly 200 Exempt Volunteer Firemen from Buffalo Maryland and families arrived as guests of the Barnicoat Veteran Association. A reception at Providence led by Captain Thomas P Bagley greeted them. On arrival at South Station at 8 30 pm a line formed and the visitors were escorted to the Quincy House for their stay.
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Exempt
Volunteer Firemen’s Association of
Buffalo
M. D
Barnicoat Veteran Association
Providence
Barnicoats
Thomas P. Bagley
William Colby
William Colby and A Detail of 20 Firemen From the Regular Department
Daniel O'Brien
Tower 3
Fred Battis
Engine Il
Summer Street
Tremont
Brattle Streets
Quincy House
Tafts Coming On Saturday For Beverly Visit
President Taft will spend one of the first summer weekends at his new country place in Beverly Massachusetts arriving from Washington early Saturday morning with Mrs Taft Miss Taft and Robert and Charlie Taft They will drive to the summer White House the Peabody cottage Parmatta a real White House freshly painted located about three quarters of a mile from last year’s Burgess Point Green cottage
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Washington
Taft
New “Country Place
Beverly
Mass
Boston No Party Enrollments Under New Primary Law
City leaders announce the Luce direct primaries nullify old party enrollments across Boston and other towns. Voters can request any party ballot in the state primaries, with cross signing allowed before enrollment policies take effect. After primaries, voters must align with a party to vote in primaries and only enrolled Democrats may sign non Democratic nomination papers.
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Luce
Boston
Radcliffe Grants 84 Degrees In Cambridge Commencement
Radcliffe College conferred 84 degrees at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge. Sixty seven bachelor of arts and 17 master of arts were awarded as President Le Baron Briggs Dean Mary Coes and Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell attended. Lowell spoke on vocational education and graduates were urged to apply a broad college training to chosen work.
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Radcliffe
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge
le Baron R. Briggs
Mary Coes
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Radcliffe Council
Mary Reed
Miriarm Hills
James Hardy Ropes
V.D
Briggs
Lowell
Ropes
Tender silver set to miss Ginsburg
Miss Frances Ginsburg of North End received a silver table set from the Pequot Social Club at her home reception last evening. The event honored her upcoming marriage to Samuel Lupovitz of Lewiston Maine set for next Tuesday. The couple will reside in Lewiston and club president Benjamin Bergman spoke at the presentation.
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Frances Ginsburg
Sheafe Street
North End
Pequot Social Club
Samuel Lupovitz
Lewiston
Benjamin Bergman
Governor Foss Pushes Competitive Bids for State Funds
Governor Foss urged legislation to allow competitive bids from banking houses for state funds. He noted a daily cash balance of about $8 million and argued that 2 percent and 2 1/2 percent rates on state cash are too low.
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Foss
Atlantic Conference Celebrates Silver Jubilee at Beverly
A Boston merchant, A Shuman, hosted the Atlantic Conference silver jubilee observance at his Beverly summer home Hetmere. The Atlantic Conference gathers Boston area business and professional leaders for annual reunions and celebrations.
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Beverly
Hetmere
A. Shuman
Boston
Atlantic Conference marks silver jubilee with luncheon trip and poetry
Twenty five years after forming on the Cunarder Cephalonia the Atlantic Conference held a Beverly gathering to celebrate its silver jubilee. Attendees included Rev. Minot J. Savage’s successors and notable Essex County figures with Dr Savage absent on a Calcutta trip. A silver framed group photo was given to each guest and poems were read during the luncheon at Hetmere.
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Cephalonia
Liverpool
Minot J. Savage
D. D
Church of the Unity
Boston
Atlantic Conference
Exchange Club
Savage
Calcutta
Shuman
Double Stamp Offer At Wolf's My Clothier Store
Morning sale alert at Wolf's My Clothier corner Hanover and Portland streets. Purchases before noon include double stamps for customers.
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Wolf's
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Washington Street Tunnel
Friend
Union St
Wolf’s
My Clothier
Notable Boston Leaders Named in Public Works Board List
A roster of prominent figures appears in the record including Francis M. Stanwood George R. White the Rev Edward A Horton Colonel C N Wallace John Shepard William M Bunting H H Sprague and others associated with financial industry religious leadership civic boards education and major Boston corporations. The list also mentions George H Lyman EF Fish S P Mandell Charles H Taylor and Lucius Tuttle among others linked to public service and corporate board positions.
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Samuel J. Elder
Wallace L. Pierce
Jerome Jones
Edward F. Mitton
Lucius Tuttle
Melvin O. Adams
William H. Wellington
Samuel L. Powers
H. Staples Potter
J. Nelson Parker
Charles YT. Gallagher
Frank G. Webster
Charles H. Taylor
A. Shuman
Wallace Robinson
Hadward A. Horton
Notman
Harvard Senior Commits Death by Own Action
A Harvard senior, once joyful over a near pass in his final exam, killed himself after learning he did not earn his degree. He had planned mining engineering studies and to work with his father in the West, and was a popular, high achieving student in Lynn Classical High School and Harvard.
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Harvard
Lynn
Boy Missing Father Searched After Western Lead
Mrs. Pike reports the boy’s father may have left Salt Lake City and is traveling west for his work. She hopes to locate him in time to return before the burial. The boy’s brother arrived in Cambridge after being informed of the situation.
Direct Legislation Bill Falls in House
The direct legislation amendment failed to reach the required two thirds in the House with 125 votes for and 75 against. Crane urged Republicans to heed public demand while Speaker Walker kept order amid allegations of vested interests influencing the Senate. Saunders denied impropriety.
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Crane
Cambridge
Republican Party
Senate
Walker
Saunders
Clinton
Cushing
Brother Shot Brother by Accident in Roxbury Home
Charles Barker five years old lies dying at City Hospital with a brain bullet after his eleven year old brother James accidentally fired a revolver found on Ruggles Street. James says the trigger snapped while swinging the weapon at their East Lenox Street home.
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Charles Barker
City Hospital
James
East Lenox Street
Roxbury
Ruggles Street
Fast Lenox Street
Boys Find Revolver on Street and Shoot Brother
Police investigate how a 22 caliber seven shooter ended up on Rug gles street as James and a sister found the revolver and brought it home. James tested the trigger and the bullet struck his brother Charles in the forehead limb, life perilous. hospital probing failed to locate the bullet.
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Ruggles Street
James
East Lenox Street
Katherine
Charles
Catherine Carey
City Hospital
Harrison Avenue
Wills Leave Large Gifts to Harvard and Dartmouth
The will of Dr. E. Peabody Gerry filed for probate leaves Harvard University 5000 to fund a Dr. E. Peabody Gerry Scholarship for needy first year medical students. Dartmouth College receives the residue after the deaths of two sisters and a niece, to fund a memorial building named Gerry Memorial with a Dr. Charles Colby Pike wing for use by medical or academic departments or a dormitory.
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Harvard University
Dartmouth College
E. Peabody Gerry
Harvard
Martha J. H. Gerry
Dartmouth
Gerry
Warvard
Ex Mayor Matthews and Brandeis back Foss income tax plan
Ex mayor Nathan Matthews and Louis D Brandeis testified yesterday before the committee on constitutional amendments in support of Governor Foss urging a constitutional change to permit a state income tax by the Legislature.
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Nathan Matthews
Louis D. Brandeis
Committee On Constitutional Amendments
Foss
House Passes Stock Transfer Tax Bill Vote 64 to 29
The bill to tax stock transfers passed the House with a 64 to 29 vote. The measure moves to the Senate for consideration and faces possible amendments.
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Buffalo Association
Boston Veterans
TAFTS
Serge
Summer St
Westminster St
New York
West Sith Street
Philadelphia
Chestnut
Miss Ginsburg
GOV. Foss
Shawmut Furniture Co
Morse Furniture CO
Washington Street
Col. Common Street
William A. Bancroft
North Shore
Edward A. Horton
Old
Neptune
Friendship
William A. Gaston
National Shawmut Bank
Thomas P. Beal
Presi
F. Gray CO
Oswego Mills
Hanover Streets
Portland and
Sudi Yay
Dr. Gerry
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