Methodist Churches Consolidate to Form One Boston Society
The Bromfield Street and Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Churches merge under the corporate name Methodist Religious Society of Boston, commonly Bromfield Street Church. Pastors Revs. Joel M. Leonard and Leopold A. Nies will jointly lead the single society.
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Joel M. Leonard
Leopold A. Nies
One Society
Tremont Street Church Merges Into New Boston Circuit
Bishop John W. Hamilton approves consolidation with Rev. Dillon Bronson guiding the petitioning Boston pastors. The Eighth Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston known as Tremont Street Church ceases as a separate entity though its Tremont Street house remains a worship site until trustees choose a new location. Delegates to the New England conference meeting at People's Temple next month will represent a unified church with divisions resolved, promising a strong progressive future.
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People’s Temple
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Harvard to Establish Japanese Philosophy Chair
Harvard plans a new chair in Oriental philosophy funded by 20 000 from Japanese alumni. A Japanese professor will lecture for two year terms with aims to invite imperial university scholars and arrange professor exchanges with Asia. Harvard already hosts about 20 Japanese students and has over 100 alumni.
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Raffles Weds Pastor's Wife Tied to Chicago Scandal
March 13 Chicago report details Rev. Nestor K. Clarkson's exposure of his wife who left five children to be with Owen W. Conn the so called society burglar. Conn claimed honorable aims while Clarkson notes repeated visits to the Clarkson home and a Christmas Eve confrontation that ended in the wife choosing Conn.
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Prisoner’s letter ties Clarkson to Conn romance at Waupun
Clarkson recalls in intercepting a letter to his wife from Conn, jailed in Waupun Wisconsin for a Milwaukee robbery. The note, a mild love letter, thanks Mabel Clarkson for slippers and warns of deceit from another woman. Excerpts show Conn promising steadfast support during hardship.
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Music for Lighthouses Brighten Coastal Harbors
Vessels entering the harbor will hear music as they arrive with lighthouses along the coast, once grim sentinels now lively venues. An auto piano player was installed at Deer Island Light and many other towers are expected to receive pianos or players soon.
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Four Brothers Society Clarifies George King Association
The Chinese tong known as the Four Brothers states George King, recently shot in Chinatown, was not a member. The society’s members from the Lew Quang Chung and Chew families say King was ineligible and regrets his name being connected with the incident.
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New Schooner Knickerbocker Ready for Cape Horn Trip
The Knickerbocker, a Gloucester built auxiliary knockabout fishing schooner, arrived at T wharf for outfitting for a voyage around Cape Horn and to Seattle to fish halibut. Captain Robert Lathagee aims for record quick passage, with Bay State as a sister ship already built.
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Jordan Marsh Basement Birthday Sale Sets New Trade Record
A huge crowd filled the Jordan Marsh basement store for its third anniversary birthday sale. The event features 58 departments under the main building and annex, offering new spring merchandise at lowest possible figures without profit. The sale is a thanks offering to customers and is not a winter markdown.
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Militant Suffragists Plan Continued Action in London
March 12. Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst remains ill enough to miss a Kensington meeting where she was to speak. Organizers vowed militant tactics would persist with Miss Brackenbury urging victory by any means if ladylike methods fail.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Kensington
Brackenbury
Wearin' of the Green Highlighted in Post Magazine
No 48 in the Illustrated Songs series for next Sunday's Post Magazine presents the famous Irish melody Wearin' of the Green with an illustration from a painting by W J Aylward.
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Dakota Dan Escorted Out at Suffolk County Court Hearing
Dakota Dan appeared late at the Russell identity hearing and was escorted from the Suffolk County Court house by a court officer due to his condition. He refreshed his birthright tale in the corridors and on Pemberton square before again being escorted away. Attorney Eugene C. Upton led the respondents’ counsel with cross-examination continuing.
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Scharton
Harvard Cambridge Fire Douses Top Floor Lab Blaze
A storage room fire in the Jefferson physical laboratory at Harvard near Kirkland street Cambridge damaged $1500 worth of apparatus. About twenty students and professors discovered the blaze on the top floor and, with instructors, used emergency extinguishers and alarms to confine the flames until the Cambridge Fire Department arrived and extinguished it.
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Cambridge
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Dickey Initiates At Harvard Square Crowd Watches Five Candidates
A new group of Dickey society initiates staged a public ceremony in Harvard Square attracting about 500 spectators. Five candidates, dressed in bright and grotesque costumes, performed feats to entertain the crowd.
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Harvard Men Take Air Rides
Aviation becomes the latest outdoor sport as nearly twenty Harvard undergraduates try aeroplaning. They have experienced exhilaration and now take rides every few days at Cliftondale aviation field in spring.
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Easter features on the Post Homes page
The Post announces next Sunday's homes page with aster decorations Easter cards for children spring gardening tips and money making ideas for women as key features for readers planning seasonal activities.
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