Lloyd Osbourne's The Floating Balance in Sunday Post Magazine
Lloyd Osbourne author of God in the Foot hills returns with The Floating Balance as entry No. 9 in the Sunday Post Magazine $10,000 contest. The piece follows a bank employee who, driven by pressure, diverts funds to gamble and crafts a paper fortune with an unforeseen ending.
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Lloyd Osbourne
Sunday Post Magazine
Sunday Post
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mabel Herbert Urner
Michael White
Roy Norton
Viola Roseboro
Herman Scheffauer
New England
Osbourne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
Young Osbourne
Stevenson
Mr. Osbourne
San Francisco
Uni
Tomorrow’s Sunday Post Magazine
Edinburgh
Great Man
Guy de Maupassant
Flaubert
Boston Chamber urges high pressure water system in business district
The Boston Chamber of Commerce urges an auxiliary high pressure water system between Richmond and Kneeland streets. The projected total cost is about 1.5 million dollars, to be installed gradually at up to 150 thousand dollars per year within the debt limit. The system is expected to lower downtown insurance costs by over 100 thousand dollars annually, with insurers promising substantial rate reductions.
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Richmond
Kneeland Streets
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Carmen Melis Stars in Puccini Manon Lescaut at Boston
Last night at the Boston Opera House Puccini Manon Lescaut featured Carmen Melis as Manon with Florencio Constantino Des Grieux. Conti conducted a vigorous if uneven performance praised for its swift action and vivid orchestration while some voices were faint.
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Puccini
Manon Lescaut
Boston Opera House
Florencio Constantino
Des Grieux
Carmen Melis
Manon
Fornarius Lescaut
Tavecchia
Geronte
Pactini
Mme. Melis
Mme
Melis
Constantino
Fornari
Will Build Up Water Front
The American Buildings Trust has acquired lands in South Boston to create a colony of fireproof factories warehouses and similar buildings with up to date wharves docks and shipping facilities. The group aims to cooperate with city interests to expand Boston’s waterfront and dock capacity, viewing Boston’s prospect as stronger than New York’s amid foreign investment interest.
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American Buildings Trust
Massachusetts
Boston
New York
Prominent Men Present Ring for Charlestown Teller
In Charlestown last night, prominent businessmen from Somerville Charlestown Waltham and about 500 former Boston and Maine employees presented a ring to Philip C McMahon at 43 Baldwin Street Charlestown. The gift honors his appointment as teller of the Charlestown Trust Company.
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Somerville
Charlestown
Waltham
The
Boston & Maine
Philip C. McMahon
Baldwin Street
McMahon
Charlestown Trust Company
Trial adjourned to examine 200 ledgers in racketeering case
The Superior Criminal Court adjourned the trial of Arthur B. Sederquist John E Barry D Eustace Bigelow and Harry F Curtis to Monday morning to allow Henry H Bond and Charles Smith special counsel to examine about 200 ledgers and other books of account central to the proceedings.
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Arthur B. Sederquist
John E. Barry
D. Eustace Bigelow
Harry F. Curtis
Superior Criminal Court
Henry H. Bond
Charles §. Smith
Court probes 1909 stock firm assets before collapse
Richard H. Reid testified about a May 1909 visit by the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange committee to Boston to view firm assets and securities. He described reluctance to disclose holdings, notes on an asset ledger, confidential client titles, and an insistence that some details not be shown.
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Curtis
Richard H. Reid
Brooklyn
Ways and H’eanse
New York Consolidated Stock Exchange
Boston
Congress Street
Badeau
M. R. Meyers
Jarvis
Barry
Sederquist
Meyers
Mr. Sederquist
State Street
Bigelow
Reid
Freeman, Rollins & Co
Modern Boy Not Equipped by City Life Concerns
David A. Ellis chairman of the school committee told 60 Massachusetts Reform Club members at Young's Hotel that the modern boy leaving school is less capable of coping with life than a generation ago. He blamed modern city life conditions more than schools, with Dr. David Sneden and Frederick P. Fish also speaking on public school system problems.
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David A. Ellis
Massachusetts Reform Club
Young's Hotel
David Sneden
Massachusetts
Attic Fire Rescuer Burned By Blaze at 102 West Springfield
Louis Koehler a 72 year old resident of 102 West Springfield street was found badly burned after single handedly extinguishing a blaze that started in his attic room. He lay on the floor for 12 hours with clothing burned away and vision destroyed. Koehler had no income and relied on charity from Mrs. Lucius Sargent of 315 Dartmouth street who once employed him seven years ago.
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Louis Koehler
Springfield Street
Lucius Sargent
Dartmouth Street
Tickets in Demand for Jewish Benefit at Colonial
Reserved seats for a charity performance to benefit the new Dorchester Home for Destitute Jewish Children go on sale. The Ladies' Helping Hand Auxiliary of the Home sponsors the April 2 show at the Colonial Theatre with Opera Company singers and a 25‑member orchestra.
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Colonial Theatre
Dorchester
Boston Opera Company
Aborn Opera Company
Boston Musicians’ Protective Association
Charles H. Hertz
George
Wy 1Hner
Her
Wry
Frank
Fussers and Rebels Dine Over Senior Banquet Dispute
The Tufts senior class split over sharing the banquet with Jackson seniors. Insurgents dined at Hotel Dreyfus in Cambridge with 23 men, while 21 feasted at Riverbank Court, Cambridge. Speakers at both gatherings outlined the dispute, with leaders including Allen F. McLane and Clifford E. Williams among the insurgence group, joined by female class officers Miss Audrey L. Duffey and Miss Adeline Steinberg in the mixed party.
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Tufts
Hotel Dreyfus
Riverbank Court
Cambridge
Dreyfus
Allen F. McLane
Roxbury
Clifford E. Williams
Willmantic
Conn
Frank W. Anderson
Audrey L. Duffey
Adeline Steinberg
Webster
Five-Year-Old Roxbury Girl Survives 30-Foot Fall
Louise Connelly aged five of 2 Heath Place Roxbury fell from a third story window about 30 feet to the ground yesterday afternoon. She was picked up by her sister Theresa and was unharmed.
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Louise Connelly
Heath Place
Roxbury
Theresa
Mayor Reveals Palm Beach Gambling Scene and Boston Reform Ideas
The mayor recounts Palm Beach gambling with high stakes and famous names present, noting a big winner and the house taking profits. He also proposes Boston city planning reforms, cites Philadelphia’s bureau, and urges a Boston bureau run by prominent business leaders. He praises Florida climate, comments on taxes, transit in New York, and urges quick funding for Boston Texas steamship lines.
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New York
Eleonora Sears
Harold Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Palm Beach
Florida
Boston
Ning
Philadelphia
City Club
Richmond
Jacksonville
United States
Broadway
Boston-Texas Steamship Lines
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