Women at Work Children’s Missionary Festival in Berkeley
The Congregational Woman's Board of Attentions will hold a children's missionary festival tomorrow at 2 30 p m in Berkeley Temple presided by Rev James L Barton D D The program includes talks on Village Schools in Turkey by Rev J K Browne of Harpool east Turkey Village Schools in India by Rev George H Gutterson New England secretary of the American Missionary Association and Village Schools in China by Rev Harlan P Beach Springfield School for Christian Workers Pledges will be made for future work.
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Congregational Woman's Board of Attenions
Berkeley
Temple
James L. Barton
D. D
Turkey
J. K. Browne
Harpool
India
George H. Gutterson
New England
American Missionary Association
China
Harlan P. Beach
Springfield School For Christian Workers
City Council approves loan for school sanitation work
Last evening the Common Council set a city record with ninety orders introduced and acted upon in about four hours. They unanimously passed resolutions honoring City Messenger Peters and Clerk Hilliard, and approved a $300000 loan for improving sanitary conditions of schoolhouses. An Aberdeen engine house project and underground trolley wire study were also ordered, with cycling path changes debated.
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Common Council
Finance Committee
Peters
Hilliard
Barnes
Aberdeen
S Farrington
Ward 2
Walden Smith
Smith
Consolidated Cycling
Park and city committees tighten safety and fire escape rules
Boston City Council debates smoke nuisance from gas houses in Ward 6 and orders a special committee to study the issue. It also asks the school committee to establish a post graduate course and seeks counsel on paying contract workers. A report on schoolhouse fire safety urges removal of Dunn fire escapes and new stairs, with a $50,090 funding plan.
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Shannon
Connorton
Mahoney
Ward 15
Barnes
Ward 1
Boston
Banchor
Ward 17
Kelley
Maverick Square
East
Quincy
F. W. Chandler
Frederic Tudor
S. Homer Woodbridge
Dorchester
Water Front Dispatch of Ship News and Trades
Hon L E Baker arrives from Yarmouth on business with Yarmouth Steamship Company. Rail and steamship lines meeting to set summer passenger rates adjourns to May 12 at Halifax. Portland steamer hauled for repair then to Portland Me. Brundage buys fishing vessel Mat tie Brundage to sail in two weeks from Gloucester with Dennis O Neil captain. William Cobb sold for 4600 to Calais, Me. Captain Maddocks’ York schooner Frank stolen after being left by Gloucester wharf. Carinthia reports large icebergs. stowaway James Richards from Jamaica to be sent back. Cephalonia skipper Seccombe named in new post after Majestic voyage. Clans McLeod and Rachel Emery spoken at sea. Brave brig Sullivan noted. Steam drill No 3 moved for ship channel work. repairs at Atlantic Works include Nantasket and several steam yachts.
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L. E. Baker
Yarmouth Steamship Company
Yarmouth
Smith
Intercolonial Line
Commercial Wharf
Portland
C. W. Brundage
Atlantic Avenue
A. D. Story
Gloucester
Mattie Brundage
Dennis O'Neil
Thomas Brundage
William Cobb
William H. Cook
Calais
Red Beach
C. E. Maddocks
Little York
Frank
Inman
Cunard
Carinthia
Liverpool
James Richards
Kingston
Jamaica
Seccombe
Cephalonia
Sullivan
Allen
Humacoa
S. R
Deaf mute witness in dog bite suit awarded $100
In Middlesex Superior Civil Court Judge Fessenden and a jury heard Louis Packard sue John F Holmberg for a dog bite. The plaintiff mother, a deaf mute, pantomimed testimony while an interpreter explained signs. Coakley and Winslow represented the parties.
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Middlesex
Fessenden
Louis Packard
John F. Holmberg
Timothy W. Coakley
H. H. Winslow
Local Wringer Company Ad in Tremont Boston
The American Wringer Company advertises wringers and Bissell carpet sweepers at 15 and 6 Broadway extension and 29 and 31 Corn hill Boston. Repairs are called for and delivered without extra charge. Write or telephone Tremont 764.
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American Wringer Company
Broadway
Cornhill
Boston
Bissell
Call for Salary Reform for Boston Teachers
A Boston teacher argues city salaries fail to reward women and men equally and cites examples from grammar and primary schools. He notes vast gaps between master and assistant salaries and describes duties beyond teaching. He asks why better pay cannot attract college graduates and support pedagogical progress.
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Boston
M. J. Savage
Puritana Pill Puzzle Declares One Drop Superior
An old puzzle declares a single drop of Puritana weighs more than a dipperful of rival tonics. The ad touts Puritana as the cure for digestive ills, nervous prostration, and general weakness, citing testimonials of relief and revived health.
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J. S. Daly
Cambridge
Mass
Salem brakeman loses limbs in Danversport accident
Danversport incident leaves Charles Bixby, 35, of Salem, with both legs and one arm severed after a fall between moving freight cars this afternoon. He is not expected to survive.
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Danvers
Charles Bixby
Salem
Danversport
All Rail Line to Rangeley Lakes Opens Fishing Reach
The Rumford Falls and Rangeley Lakes railroad extends a continuous anti-rail route from Boston to New England fishing grounds. The line from Rumford Falls to Bemis will open by May 15 if possible, with conveyances from end of line to Bemis if delays occur. Boston & Maine offers reduced round trip tickets to northern fishing resorts starting May 1, with folders and connection details available May 10.
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Boston
Sportsman
Rumford Falls
Rangeley Lakes
Bemis
Rangeleys
New England
Boston & Maine Railroad
Benefit at the Bijou Opera House Showcases Local Talent
Rachel Noah headlined a fashionable audience at the Bijou Opera House benefiting a local cause. The program featured a tender play The Tie That Binds with Dr. L B Fenderson Gwendoline Sandham and Penelope Peterson, plus a tenor solo by Dr G A Stiles, dances by Frances Owen and a recitation by Linda Rosenfeld. W S Gilberts Pygmalion and Galatea was well staged with Noah as Cynisea, Fenderson as Pygmalion, and Sandham as Galatea.
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Rachel Noah
Bijou
L. B. Fenderson
Gwendoline Sandham
Penelope Peterson
Harvard Odontological Society Dinner Guests Speakers
The Harvard Odontological Society held its monthly dinner at Young's last evening with about thirty members in attendance. President Dr. W. E. Boardman presided as host, while Dr. Samuel J. Mixter and William Lincoln Smith spoke as the principal guests of the evening.
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Senate
Young
James Pierce
Middlesex County
Horace H. Coolidge
Stephen H. Rhodes
Harvard Odontological Society
Samuel J. Mixter
William Lincoln Smith
W. E. Boardman
Young Editor Read Immovilli Dies at 14
Henrietta Nina Immovilli, 14, editor of Youth's Bell, died Wednesday night at 8 due to pulmonary trouble at the House of the Good Samaritan. She began publishing the paper at Everett at age 11, worked with Miss Ethel Silsby, and authored five children's stories. Immovilli was fluent in English, French, and Italian and translated Italian tales published as Short Stories for Post readers.
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Henrietta Nina Immovilli
Bell
House of the Good Samaritan
Everett
Ing
Ethel Silsby
Immovilli
Post
Cambridge officer found not guilty of neglect of duty
Patrolman Scully of Station 3 Cambridge appeared before Mayor Bancroft to answer a charge of neglect of duty stemming from not investigating a report of a pool game in a Casey store on Sunday morning April 5. The mayor ruled the evidence insufficient and urged officers to suppress internal ill feelings to avoid impairing efficiency.
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Scully
Station 3
Cambridge
Bancroft
Cloyes
Casey
Butcher
Mayor Quincey Heads New Assessors Board Meeting
At the annual organization in the Common Council chamber Mayor Quincy addressed the assembly. J T Priest administered oaths to forty two first assistant assessors and Co B Huntley was chosen chair of the Dooming board. The Mayor urged prompt poll return for the election board and said general registration books should begin around June 15, important for the Board of Election Commissioners to have the assessed poll list by then.
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Common Council
Quincy
J. T. Priest
B. Huntley
Priest
Board of Election Commissioners
Theosophists Plan Boston Center For Lost Antiquity
Theosophists announce a new school and open house in the United States to revive lost antiquities. At a New York convention last Sunday night they subscribed 10 000 dollars and secured 40 000 dollars in pledges for plumbing furnishing and related work. Boston is favored as the building site though plans are still embryonic and the center will house adepts hierophants and students with libraries and copies of the Vedas and Zoroaster. The aim is to locate the historic Alexandrian library scrolls and parchments with the help of mahatmas or adepts.
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New York
Boston
Abbott B. Clark
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Zoroaster
Boston Office Abolished by Grand Trunk Rail Road
The Grand Trunk railroad will abolish district passenger agencies at Detroit Buffalo Ogdensburg and Boston. George B Oswald of Ogdensburg and M J Grace of Boston become traveling passenger agents with offices at St Albans and Portland Maine respectively. Ticket offices will open at Ogdensburg Detroit and Boston will be handled by the Central Vermont railroad.
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Toronto
Grand Trunk Railroad
Detroit
Buffalo
Ogdensburg
Boston
George B. Oswald
M. J. Grace
St. Albans
Portland
Central Vermont Railroad
Grand Trunk
Judge orders capias issued in labor union case
In the Superior Court equity session Judge Braley heard a petition by police commissioners to compel J F O Sullivan, president of the Central Labor Union, and a local newspaper reporter to testify about an alleged assault by Patrolman Busby of Division 4 on Adams House night clerk A J West. No legal excuse was given for not testifying. capias would be issued, though the matter might be continued with voluntary appearance by O Sullivan.
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Superior Court
Braley
J. F. O'Sullivan
Central Labor Union
Busby
Division 4
Adams House
A. J. West
O'Sullivan
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