Millions Involved In Brookline Suit
A Brookline land dispute centers on a 1681 deed transferring Stevens property to John Stevens's executor Winchester. The plaintiff alleges forged postdeath signatures and improper recording, with heirs delayed by frontier dangers and family turmoil while researching Stevens lineage near Chelmsford. The land includes mansions such as the Ham estate.
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Winchester
Stevens
Elder Stevens
John Stevens
Chelmsford
Stockades
Northampton
Mass
Wallace H. Ham
Bancroft Opposed to Any More Subways
Three Boston subway bills were before the legislative committee on metropolitan affairs. Representatives Leonard Freitag and Barry urged extensions or new branches to ease Tremont and South Boston congestion while General Bancroft warned against further subway projects citing burdens on the public and the Elevated Road. The panel also weighed Foxboro asylum critique and Evacuation Day decorum as sessions adjourned with nominations and liquor-law actions noted.
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Boston
Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Joseph J. Leonard
Joseph K. Freitag
Public Garden
Copley Square
Edward P. Barry
Washington Stree
Degington Street
Broadway
Q Street
William A. Bancroft
Washington Street
Cambridge Street
Charles Street
Clarendon Street
Beautiful gowns worn by prominent society women
Mrs Elizabeth Laurence of Groton on Commonwealth avenue wears a winter dark iron gray tibeline street costume with a walking length skirt in large flat box plaits and a plain finish. She pairs a white shirtwaist with a three quarters length lace back coat, a lace collar, and a large gray turban adorned with artificial violets. The debutante.
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Elizabeth Laurence
Groton
Commonwealth Avenue
Miss Laurence
Laurence
Prisoner Cunningham Cites Note In Strain Case
An officer testified in Roxbury court that during a search of John J. Cunningham he found a note allegedly by Cunningham stating he left his money to a sergeant and that the girl had fooled him. Judge Bolster admitted the note as evidence and ruled it showed intent to kill himself. Cunningham is held in 60 bail on the intent to kill charge and 100 on a separate assault with a loaded pistol charge against Frank Lynch.
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Edward P. Barry
Boston
Newton
Barry
Mr. Barry
Mr. Newton
Cunningham
Roxbury Court
John J. Cunningham
Lillian M. Strain
Bolster
Frank Lynch
Miss Strain
Doctors Predict Spring Sickness From Winter Strain
Medical authorities warn that after a harsh winter the body's systems require regulation and strengthening. Orangeine is recommended to avert colds grip headaches and debility as spring approaches.
Mrs Erving Winslow Presents Final Reading at Potter Hall
Mrs Erving Winslow will give her final reading this afternoon in Potter Hall within the New Century building, delivering her performance of the work Peg Woffington as the culmination of her programme.
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Erving Winslow
Potter Hall
New Century
Peg Woffington
New Naval Magazine Location Drawn Near Hingham Beal's Cove
A plan shows the United States naval magazine placed at Back River Narrows near Nantasket and Weymouth. The 500 acre Hingham tract near Beal's Cove and Aunt Nabby’s Grave lies close to the Hingham Junction depot, with 220 acres at the Weymouth end near Nantasket Beach. Naval Engineers plan a fortification on the surrounding hills to defend the facility and protect the North Atlantic coast ordnance station.
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Hingham Town
Beal's Cove
Hingham Bridge
Weymouth
United States Naval Magazine
Hingham
Beal
Nantasket Beach
Boston
Naval Engineers
Notable Early Figures and Public Figures in Briefs
D E Thompson, 21, a Burlington brakeman in Nebraska, built wealth from real estate and industry, becoming a millionaire despite limited schooling. James T Churchill, 24, St Joseph sign painter, staged the first theater company there and later formed the first West circuit. Senator Fairbanks learned Washington poker culture early on amid a joke about officials’ gambling. Congressman Hogge recalls rough Colorado districts with a tale of a wild duck at a traveler's hotel. Miss Sophia Wright of New Orleans, 15 years ago, founded a free night school now serving about 1500, earning an annual city prize for communal service.
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D. E. Thompson
United States
Brazil
Burlington
Nebraska
James T. Churchill
St. Joseph
Lyons
Churchill
Atchison
Leavenworth
Kan
Fairbanks
Washington
Treasury Department
Pettus
Hogge
Colorado
Sophia Wright
New Orleans
Wright
San Francisco Woman Donates 1400 Artifacts to Memorial Museum
Miss Sarah M. Spooner of San Francisco presents 1400 articles including tapestries ceramics antique jewelry water colors and laces valued well over 50000 to become a permanent collection at the Memorial Museum where many items have appeared as valued loans.
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Sarah M. Spooner
San Francisco
Cal
Memorial Museum
Miss Floretta Vining A Boston Clubwoman Leader
Miss Floretta Vining of Hull is noted for patriotic society work and broad club involvement. A Scituate native with Quincy schooling she helped found Abbot Academy Club and the John Adams Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution among other leadership roles. She holds life memberships in Mary Washington and George Washington memorial groups.
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Floretta Vining
Hull
Women’s Movement
Miss Vining
Scituate
Alexander and
Fanny Margaret (Raymond) Vining
Quincy
Abbot Academy
Oread Collegiate Institute
Worcester
Professor Green
Sorosis Club
Mary Washington Memorial
George Washington Memorial
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Boylston Street
Europe
Beth
Boylston St
Beyision
Over Oblast
Brookline
Hostetter
Bitters
John A. Dunn
J. A. Abraham's
Canal St
Bancroft
Park Street
South Boston
Foxboro Institution
Foxboro
Committee On Public Charitable Institutions
Davis
Salem
Cobb
Trustees
Gaiter
Donahue
Fall River
Speaker Frothingham
Representative Hickey
Speaker
Stone
Lexington
Hickey
Bates
James A. Bailey, Jr
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Stephen B. Ashley
Trustee Textile School
Silas P. Smith
Everett
Emma T. Cornish
Harrys. Taft
Somerville
Thomas M. Doane
Cambridge
Committee On
Blaney
Lynn
House
Mrs. Winslow
Bay State
Naval Magazine
Back River Narrows
Hingham Town Farm
Beals’s Hill
Board of Naval Engineers
Samuel A. Green
Dr. Green
Massachusetts Historical Society
Canton
Clubwomen OF
Massachusetts
Miss. Floretta Vining
Wellville
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