Concord Women's Club to preserve Orchard House for Louisa May Alcott
The Concord Women's Club aims to buy repair and open Orchard House the Alcott home to the public as a lasting memorial. Funds and donations pour in from clubs and individuals including a child donor of five dollars. The plan includes furnishing and a caretaker with a small guest fee to cover upkeep.
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Concord Women’s Club
Louisa M. Alcott
Concord
Miss Alcott
Meg
Bath
Amy
Prominent Hebrew Scholar Gustavus Kurtz Dies in Boston
Gustavus Kurtz, a leading Boston Jew and noted Hebrew scholar, died of pneumonia at his Roxbury home after four days illness. In 16 years in Boston he taught at Temple Israel Sabbath school and filled pulpit duties for Rabbi Fleischer. A 32d degree Mason and member of the Boston Spanish Club, he is survived by his wife and daughter Wilhelmina.
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Gustavus . Kurtz
Boston
Humboldt Avenue
Roxbury
Mr. Kurtz
Temple Israel
Commonwealth Avenue
Rabbi Fleischer
Boston Spanish Club
Wilhelmina
Somerville Police Officer Sentenced for Larceny
William E. Taylor, a former Somerville police officer, pled guilty to larceny and breaking and entering in multiple Somerville locations. Judge Dana sentenced him in the Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge to 14 months in the House of Correction.
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William E. Taylor
Somerville
Dana
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
House of Correction
Injunction Sought Over Will by Reading Woman
Charles F. Cross of Boston petitions in East Cambridge court seeking a conservator for 81 year old Charles W. Cochrane of Reading. He alleges sister Mabelle J. Call coerced a transfer of over 50000 dollars in property to her and asks reconveyance to a conservator.
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East Cambridge
Mabelle J. Call
Reading
Charles W. Cochrane
Charles F. Cross
Boston
Cochrane
Temporary injunction over Mrs Call and two Reece companies
Judge Lawton in the Probate Court issued a temporary injunction preventing transfer of Mrs Call stock in the Reece Folding and Reece Button Hole Companies and any Cochrane property. The action mirrors earlier steps by Mr Cross seeking a guardian for Mr Cochrane. Cross asks to appoint a conservator for Cochrane, citing age and mental weakness.
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Lawton
Probate
Call
Floyd C. Coon
Thomas E. Call
Portsmouth
Cross
Cochrane
Wish Marriage Knots Untied in Cambridge Divorce Court
In Cambridge Divorce Court Katherine A Stanton of Waltham and Watertown accuses Michael H Stanton of non support and cruelty after a reported beating and knife attack. The husband was defaulted. Other cases involve Ralph W Loud and Charlotte Richards Loud, and Beatrice A Eugley seeking divorce from Perley W Eugley amid years of alleged abuse.
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Katherine A. Stanton
Waltham and
Watertown
Michael H. Stanton
Cambridge
Boston
Stanton
Ralph W. Loud
South Weymouth
Raymond
Charlotte Richards
Massachusetts Avenue
Hemen- Way Street
Mary B. Marshall
East Boston
Charles Marshall
Cape
Bagley
Rockland
Charlestown
Katherine E. McDermott
Roxbury
Leon E. Basil
Basil
North Adams
Old 1840 Campaign Banner to Be Shown at Evacuation Day Banquet
A large South Boston campaign banner from the Harrison Tyler 1840 race has fallen to W E Dillaway of the International Trust building Boston. He will recount its history at the Evacuation Day banquet in South Boston on Thursday evening where the banner will be featured. It is nearly seventy years old.
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Boston
South Boston
Harrison-Tyler
International Trust Building
Milk Street
Roslindale Unitarian Church Honors Pastor With Mortgage Gift
At a church dinner the Rev. Joseph Crocker received a gold watch and the entire mortgage of 1800 was subscribed by congregants. Crocker, recently ill, had been recuperating in the Carolinas after a hotel fire claimed his belongings. The note ends with an ad for Adamson's Balsam.
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Joseph Crocker
Roslindale Unitarian Church
South Street
Roslindale
Crocker
North Carolina
South Carolina
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