Doctor Brinckerhoff and the Leprosy Breakthrough Story
The article chronicles Dr. Walter Reinsen Brinckerhoff born 1874 who helped discover the smallpox protozoa with Harvard colleagues and, after leading a leprosy isolation project on Molokai, pursued germ culture and antitoxin research. He married Nellie White in 1906 and died after a long illness.
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United States
Pacific
Brinckerhoff
Molokai Island
Winchendon Springs
Nellie White
Nelson D. White
John D. Lone
Boston
Washington
Honolulu
Island
Notable Visitors and Banquets Narrate City Delights
President Mellen of New Haven stayed at the Touraine and left for home with colleagues in a private car. Massachusetts Police Association members dined at the American House. Jefferson Maine Club held its fourth annual banquet at Crawford House with welcome by Frank Linscott. Colonel Barron of New Hampshire visited, praising the Weeks Appalachian measure. A Scottish guest registered at United States Hotel and explained a plan to keep his greatcoat for a waiting friend.
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President Mellen
The
New Haven
Touraine
Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association
Crawford House
Jefferson Maine Club
Frank K.linscott
Matilda Trask Boynton
Jefferson
Herbert A. Clark
Oscar G. Barron
Fabyans, N. H
Granite State
Brunswick
Barron
United States
Wool strike to continue at American Woolen mills
At a mass meeting in Lawrence over 500 menders finishers and others vote to continue the strike begun by 87 girls at the Ayer Mill. Matthew Hart of New Bedford presides and plans to stay to lead the action as more workers may walk out. Reports say a striker assaulted a strike breaker yesterday. Five police are on strike duty at the mill gates.
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American Woolen Company
Wood
Washington
Ayer
Prospect
Hart
James Whitehead
Fall River
Textile Workers’ Association
Brookline Elects Walter J. Cusick To Board Of Selectmen
In Brookline the village section elected Walter J. Cusick to the Board of Selectmen as the first village candidate in over 25 years. The selectmen vote totals show Cusick with 1517 and Baldwin leading other contenders. the school committee race returned Dr. Walter Channing, Dr. Arthur A. Cushing, and William H. White.
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Brookline
Walter J. Cusick
Board of Selectmen
George S. Baldwin
Cusick
Walter Channing
William H. White
Arthur A. Cushing
Mills
White
Frederick Hayes
Boston University Law School
Everett M. Bowker
Patrick J. Cantwell
John A. Curtin
Horace James
Philip S. Parker
Fred L. Hayes
Improving Terminal at Sullivan Square in Boston
The Boston Elevated is remodeling the Sullivan square terminal to improve loading and unloading. A new platform sub-structure is well started and will serve Boston-bound trains only when finished, within about nine months.
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Boston
Sullivan Square Terminal
Accuses Brother in Divorce Case in East Cambridge Court
George Gutknecht of Lowell testified in the East Cambridge Divorce Court that he found his wife Julie and his brother Adolph together in his home. He said he drove them from the house after seeing them and hired a detective to confirm the affair.
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George Gutknecht
Lowell
East Cambridge
Quinn
Julie
Walter
Regina
Gutknecht
Adolph
George
Merrimac Manufacturing Company
Prior Gilbert Higgins Invited Cleric Visits City
London born Canon Regular of the Order of St. Austin Prior Gilbert Higgins is visiting this city as guest of his cousin Charles J. Kidney Roxbury. He is a renowned orator and leader in the Order of St. Austin with ties to churches in Rome and a noted preacher in England and Europe. He plans to visit Washington and Georgetown College and may preach at the Cathedra of the Holy Cross upon his return.
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London
Gilbert Higgins
Order of St. Austin
Charles J. Kidney
Roxbury
Higgins
St. Peter In Chains
St. Agnes
Rome
Bridlington
England
Europe
Westminster Cathedral
United States
Rouen
France
Joan of Arc
Church of San Silvestro
Prior Higgins
Washington, D. C
John F. Quirk
S. J
Georgetown College
Archbishop O'Connell
Cathedra of the Holy
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Harvard
Walter Reinsen Brinckerhoff
New York
Chicago
Harvard School
Lawrence Scientific School
Harvard Cycle Association
Mott Haven
Harvard Medical School
Boston City Hospital
Gallup’s Island
Paul Carson
George B. Magrath
William T. Councilman
Pine
Councilman
Brinckernoff
Ernest E. Turger
Manila
Corps of Physicians
Marine Hospital
Che
Hanover
Aig B
Ryana
Ais
Importers’ Outlet CO
Essex ST
Tunnel Station
Essex
Elm ST
Hanover St
Greater Boston
Revere
A. R. van Tassel
du Bois
Pennsylvania
Adams House
Keystone State
Charles D. Woods
Orono
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Bellevue
A. C. Richards
Brittany
United States Hotel
Mr. Rickards
Taft
West
Charles B. Gilbert
Thorndike
Gilbert
Mr. Gilbert
Yale
Bac
Selectman
Sullivan Square
Lowell Man
Weigert & Myer
Dietz Bros
Gray
Oxford
Washington, Hanover and
Elm Sts
Adler
Span
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