Six Best Seller debate features MackFarlane note and Porter charm
A critical essay discusses what qualifies as a six best seller citing MacFarlane Held to Answer and Wright Eyes of the World Porter Michael O Halloran. It praises Held to Answer as a strong literary work and highlights Six Star Ranch and How to Know Your Child by Miriam Finn Scott. The column also notes Rae Ware Bassett anti suffragist views and Birmingham Gosammer, plus Norman Angell’s travels after a grippe and war experiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Clark MacFarlane
Little, Brown & Company of
Boston
MacFarlane
Harold Bell Wright
Gene Stratton Porter
Michael O'Halloran
Booth Tarkington
Page Company
Six Star Ranch
Eleanor Porter
Texas
R. Farrington Elwell
Frank Murch
Miriam Finn Scott
Little, Brown & Co
Norman Angell
America
Central
South America
Angell
American Magazine March praised for American ideals and sturdy fiction
The March American Magazine is praised for its American focus from cover to cover, opposing muckraking sensationalism and highlighting Emerson Hough, Burns of the Mountains, and strong fiction by Steele, Canfield, Ade, Butler, Tarkington, and others. Hearst's March issue notes similar contrasts and introduces a new political phrase by John Brisben Walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
United States
Moses
Emerson Hough
Burns
Pearson’s
Alice Garland Steele
Dorothy Canfield
Sara Orne Jewett
New England
George Ade
Indiana
Ellis Parker Butler
Penrod
Mr. Butler
Tarkington
Hearst’s
Dooley
Miss Canfield
Gouverneur Morris
Chambers
Hearst
John Brisben Walker
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Runabout
Detroit
Senator Gore
Brotherhood of Music
Possum Glory
Pennsylvania
Mr. Walker
Protestant Church Week of Prayer and Preaching Planned
Bishop Lawrence leads a service at Cathedral of St Paul for Week of Prayer and Preaching with parishes and interested public. Unitarian Mission Week opens at King's Chapel with Rev Dr Ulysses G B Pierce among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Cathedral of
St. Paul
Unitarian Mission Week
King’s Chapel
Ulysses G. B. Pierce
Washington, D. C
St. John’s Memorial Chapel
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Arthur J. Gammeck
Fitchburg
Frederick G. Budlong
Chicago, Ill
Irving P. Johnson
D. D
Minneapolis
Sherrard Billings
Groton
William Lawrence
Diocese of
Massachusetts
Retrying Case Against Elevated Railroad Renewed in Court
Cornelius Kane as administrator for Daniel Kane renewed an action for damages of 5000 in the Superior Court before Judge Bell and a jury against the Boston Elevated Railroad Company. Daniel Kane was injured August 27 1902 on Bridge Street Cambridge by a speeding street car and died in hospital. case seeks loss of life damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelius Kane
Daniel Kane
Bell
Boston Elevated Railroad Company
Bridge Street
Cambridge
Kane
Threatened Chelsea High School Strike Off
The senior class at Chelsea High School halted a threatened strike after Pacific counsel’s mediation at a class meeting. Principal Gammons said the incident could be regarded as closed, following the resignations of John Macleod as class president and Morris Gerrig as class treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea High School
Pacific Counsel
Gammons
John Macleod
Morris Gerrig
Glass
Roosevelt Campaign Collapses in Massachusetts Race
Massachusetts Roosevelt support crumbles as anti Weeks forces gain traction. Colonel Roosevelt disavows his name being used in the Massachusetts primaries, shaping the remaining campaign effort by Young Guard leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Guard
McCall
Charles S.S. Baxter
Baxter
Senator Lodge
Roosevelt
Senator Weeks
Young Guard
United States
Crane
Big Four
Hughes
Lufkin
Boston
Washington
Congressman Gardner
City Club
Joseph Walker
Gardner-Cushing
Massachusetts
Efficiency in Home Urged during living standards lectures
Mrs Harriet L B Darling urged applying efficiency to household work to free time for the housewife, recommending a card catalogue system and scientific management to reduce waste energy. Miss Helen F Greene outlined simple menus while Mrs Schuyler F Herron led the home economics session at Perkins Hall in the W E & I U building on Boylston Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet L. B. Darling
Perkins Hall
Boylston Street
Helen F. Greene
Reading Women Hear Bliss Perry Lecture at Security Hall
About 300 persons attended the annual Reading Women’s Club meeting in Security Hall Reading. Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard delivered a lecture on The Local Types in American Studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading Women's Club
Security Hall
Reading
Bliss Perry
Harvard
Boys Spring Suit Sale at Wolf's My Clothier
Advertisement notes all wool blue serge boys suits on sale for 4.98 at Wolf's My Clothier corner Hanover and Portland Streets. LEGAL stamps offered with every purchase. Mother interest highlighted as boys come out in new spring attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolf’s
Hanover
Portland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Howard Russell Bangs
Rae
Are
Sara Ware Bassett
Cape Cod
Zenas Henry
New Jersey
Cape
GC. A. Birmingham
George H. Doran Company
Birmingham
Arthur Spencer Morley
Youb
Fleming Stone
Stone
Lucy Carrington
Lippincott
Blaney
Bethany Congregational Church of
Quincy
Thomas C. Richards
Westboro
Benjamin A. Wilmott
Immanuel Congregational Church
Roxbury
Richards
Williams College
Hartford Theological Seminary
R. W. Simpson
West Scend
Samuel J. Elder
Bulfinch Place
West End
League
W. F. Lufkin
Gardner
Cushing
Messrs
J. A. Desmond
Chelsea High
Neer Ingland
Amnmck
Mitte Herakthy
Betta
Baik Pothers
Ebore
Letty
Arphanwa
Hota
Etta- Porther
Sir Edward Carson
Sunday Post
Ireland
Edward Marshall
Mrs. Darling
Henry Reuterdahl
Tomorrow’s Sunday Post
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!