Cost of Astor boy care sparks Boston debate
Boston social workers compare the 4 year old Astor boy’s care costs with general child expenses. They estimate a family could raise 140 children for a year on the Astor funds, noting nurse and physician costs and local incomes. The discussion questions lavish spending versus adequate care and cites figures from Miss Mary Beard and J Wr Murphy.
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Boston
John Jacob Astor
Madeline T. Force Astor
Mary Beard
J. Wrentice Murphy
Children’s Aid Society
Scar
West Land
Miss Beard
Murphy
Children Leap to Save Lives in House Fire at Poltsfield
Madeline Mason 15 and Lillian Mason 12 jumped from a second story window at 1 Pond Street as flames trapped occupants. Madeline landed unharmed though her feet were cut by broken glass. Lillian was aided by neighbor William Cooney. Deputy Chief William Lloyd carried down their mother Mrs Fannie Mason, who suffered smoke injuries. Four other families escaped as fire destroyed a cellar pile of old papers. Damages about 3000 dollars. insurance covers. House owned by Joseph Fleming.
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William Kk. Lloyd
Joseph Fleming
Boston Man Nominated for President by Socialist Labor Party
Arthur Elmer Reimer of Boston was named for President and Caleb Harrison of Chicago for Vice President by the Socialist Labor party in New York conventions. Reimer is a lawyer and four time party standard bearer. He advocates revolutionary industrial socialism via constitutional political action.
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New York
Arthur FE. Reimer
Boston
United States
Caleb Harrison
Chicago
Socialist Labor Party
Arthur Elmer Reimer
Mr. Reimer
South Boston
Capen
Thoms N. Pla
Boston Dinglish High Rehool
Reimer
Tremont Street
Boston Y. M
Elizabeth O'Connell
Dorchester
Mass
Steimer
Granada Avenue
Roslindale
Plans Ready for New York's Newest Hotel
Plans are completed for the Hotel Pennsylvania to be erected on Seventh Avenue between Thirty second and Thirty third streets opposite the Pennsylvania Station in New York.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-second
Thirty Third Streets
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Terminal
Body of 18 year old girl found near Oak Island by Boston and Maine tracks
The mangled body of Laura Di Pera, 18, of 0 Oxford Park Revere, was found beside the Boston and Maine railroad tracks near Oak Island. Police call the death suspicious and investigate. Brothers identified the body early this morning. Medical Examiner Magrath will determine prior injuries.
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Boston & Maine Railroad
Oak Island
Revere
Laura di Pera
Oxford Park
Tier Brothers
George Magrath
Two Cambridge Mass Meetings of Middlesex Catholic Federation
Two sessions of the Middlesex County Catholic Federation were held in Cambridge with both afternoon and evening meetings. In East Cambridge at Sacred Heart Church Rt Rev Ambrose Roche presided while speakers included Mansfield and Cunniff and Molan and Higgins. In North Cambridge at St John’s Chapel Rev Father James P F Kelly presided with speakers Father John J Ryan and Good and Carney and Heffernan and Fay.
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Cambridge
Middlesex County Catholic Federation
Sacred Heart Church
East Cambridge
St. John’s Chapel
North Cambridge
Mer. Ambrose T. Roche
Watertown
Middlesex County
Mansfield
P. Sarsfield Cunniff
Brighton
Thomas Molan
Somerville
James Higgins
St. John's Chapel
James P. F. Kelly
St. John’s
John J. Ryan
P. R
St. Paul's Church
Albert C. Good
Francis J. Carney
David B. Heffernan
Arlington Heights
Charles Id. Fay
The
Common Cause Society
Hotel Project Plans Big Seventh Avenue Building
A hotel will occupy 200 feet on Seventh Avenue and 10 feet on Thirty second and Thirty third streets. The first Seventh Avenue section rises 20 stories with 1600 rooms each with bath or shower. A second section will be three stories and can be raised to 20. Estimated cost about 11.5 million dollars. Opened next year.
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Seventh Avenue
Turks' Victory Attributed To Von Der Goltz
Amsterdam dispatch reports German papers credit the fall of Wit-el-Amara to preparations by the late Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz who died at Turkish headquarters on April 19. The Vossische Zettung calls Wirut-el-Amara surrender the heaviest blow to England thus far.
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Amsterdam
Holland
London
Wit-el-Amara
Berlin
Baron von der Goltz
Vossische Zettung
Wirut-el-Amara
England
Father John’s Medicine praised in a Frankford family ad
A Mrs. John M. Bell of Frankford Pa endorses Father John’s Medicine for her two sons Howard M. Bell and Junior C. Bell. She reports improved strength and health since starting the tonic at ages three and younger and notes she also uses it herself. The ad claims the product is alcohol free and safe for all ages.
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Father John
John’s
Howard M. Bell
Junior C. Bell
Gillingham St
Frankford
John M. Bell
John
Sunday Campaign Guaranty Fund Launched in Boston Churches
The Billy Sunday effort starts a pledge drive across Greater Boston churches with donations from First Baptist Malden Dudley Street Baptist and Park Street Church among others. Officials expect final tallies after next Sunday as businessmen join in backing the emergency sinking fund.
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Greater Boston
First Baptist Church of
Malden
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Park Street Church
Boston
Sunday Campaign Opens With 30,000 Hearers In Kansas City
In steady rain Billy Sunday launched a seven week revival in Kansas City drawing 10,000 listeners in the morning 10,000 more in the afternoon and a packed tabernacle at night The preacher praised the large audience and predicted a record in conversions If the trend continues a special guard detail attended him with a 1750 voice choir and a mixed Sunday party supported by Evangelical churches police protection covered his home and route to the tabernacle He dismissed rumors about his methods and followed a post sermon rubdown routine for recovery
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Guarantee Fund
George G. Dewey
Philadelphia
Boston
Greater
East Boston
Chelsea
Revere
Winthrop
Meridian Street Methodist Church
George H. Carter
Kansas City, Mo
Billy Sunday
Tabernacle
Kansas City
Baltimore
Sunday
Hiram Tramill
William J1. Wallace
Tie
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Reich
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Lucas
Sam’lu
Beckwithe CO
Washington St
Taylor
Winter ST
A. Spooks
Little Hougehold Articla Eit
the Press Publishing Co
Maurice Ketten
Workers of the International Industrial Union
American Federation of Labor
John L. DesLauries
Winter Street
von der Goltz
Tremont Temple
Dewey
Inoon
West Somerville Baptist Church
Newton
Dowey
McCall
Poston
Henry Penn
Tremont St
William Penn
Oxford
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