Social Work Debate at Parker Memorial Meeting
The Benevolent Fraternity held a closed annual meeting at Parker Memorial Hall with Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham presiding. Officers elected included Frothingham as president and Cummings as vice president. The group discussed shifting from church to social work for young women and cited Morgan Memorial’s 3000 adults and 1000 children enrolled. A proposal urged legislature to require boarding houses to provide sewing parlors for workers. The session adjourned to mid October without action.
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Theodore Parker
Benevolent Fraternity
Parker Memorial Hall
Paul Revere Frothingham
Edward Cummings
W. T. Fowler
Ernest Jackson
Thomas van Ness
Fred O. North
Courtney Guild
Henry Yester
Edward Park
Lincoln
Mr. Cummings
Morgan Memorial
Frederick Nazro
San Carlo opera company opens Boston tour at Park Theatre
The San Carlo opera company arrives in Boston for Opera Week at Park Theatre with It a Boheme, led by Alice Nielsen Fiorencio Constantino and director Henry Russell. The group resumes a grueling American tour after New Orleans and Chicago, praising American audiences and planning another winter run.
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Winsome
Alice Neilsen
Boston
Opera
Park Theatre
North Station
San Carlo Opera Company
America
New Orleans
San Carlo Company
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Grasmere
Alice Nielson
Fiorencio Constantino
Henry Russell
Miss Nielsen
Bostonians
West
Naples
Bellini
Marguerite
London
Covent Garden
Opera House
Madame Melba
la Boheme
Russell
Italy
Louisville
California
Europe
Paris
Rome
Constantino
Portland
Ore
Vahey Spero Debate Socialism in Pilgrim Hall
The debate before a Socialist audience at Pilgrim Hall Washington Street featured State Senator James H Vahey and James Spero of Cigar Makers Union 97. Spero condemned capitalist control over workers while Vahey claimed society is not fundamentally wrong and warned against destroying individuality.
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James H. Vahey
State Senate
Labor Lyceum
Pilgrim Hall
Washington Street
James Spero
Cigar Makers’ Union
Spero
Democratic Party
Vahey
C. N. Wiley
Mr. Spero
Stone Crashes Window At 38 Chestnut Street Home
A stone forced through a rear sitting room window at the home of Charles Atkinson a retired merchant at 38 Chestnut Street last night. The stone about the size of a duck egg narrowly missed Mr Atkinson as he and his family, including several women, sat in the parlor. Police say four rowdies were seen nearby shortly before the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Atkinson
Chestnut Street
Atkinson
Pope Receives $5000 Peter's Pence Gift in Audience
Rome May 5 Pope Pius received in private audience Bishop Joseph J Fox of Green Bay Wisconsin who presented his Holiness with five thousand dollars in Peter's pence funds from his diocese.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Joseph J. Fox
Green Bay
Wis
Peter
Boston Club Women Reject Idea Women Proposing Marriage
Boston clubwomen scoff at New York acceptance of women proposing marriage. Prominent figures including Miss Mary Boyle O Reilly and Mrs Belle De Rivera dismiss the notion as radical and inappropriate for New England society.
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Boston Club
Boston
New York
Belle de Rivera
New York City
Clusive Electric Club
Mary Garrett Hay
Mary Boyle O'Reilly
State Board of Charity
Charles G. Chick
Hyde Park
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Madrid Crowds Expect Queen Victoria Acouchement
Immense throngs gathered before the palace in Madrid after a newspaper promise of Queen Victoria’s imminent acouchement. She appeared in good health both morning and afternoon, greeted warmly, with speeches by Rev Father Philip J. O'Donnell J H Sheehan and John H. Dillon. The Randolph degree staff will be in Boston and the degree to be worked on the last Sunday in May.
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Madrid
Queen Victoria
Philip J. O'Donnell
J. H. Sheehan
John H. Dillon
Randolph
Boston
Infanta Maria Theresa Struck By Measles
Madrid May 5 The Infanta Maria Theresa has contracted measles while nursing her husband Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria.
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Infanta
Maria Theresa
Madrid
Infanta Maria Theresa
Prince Ferdinand of
Bavaria
Division 60 A. O. H. Holds Meeting at Hampden Street
Division 60 A. O. H. held a large meeting yesterday at 172 Hampden Street and heard addresses from Division 50 A. G. H. representatives.
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Division 60
Hampden Street
Horseshoers strike for new wage scale and union gains
Sixteen horseshoers begin a morning strike to back a minimum wage of 19 dollars weekly for drivers and fitters. The 1907 agreement raises pay to 15 dollars for packers, 16 for teamsters, and 17 for drivers, while unions claim broad organizing in Chelsea and New England. Pp J Flannery spoke in New York as unions report cash aides and leadership changes.
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Horseshoers
Plano and Furniture Movers
Teamsters
International
Pp. J. Flannery
Chicago
A. F. of L
New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
M. (. Roche
New England
Journeymen Horseshoers’ Union
Chelsea
Edward
Briggs
Boston Gaelic School Reports Growth in Irish Language Moves
Regular Sunday session at 1157 Washington street conducted in Irish. M Mulroy and P J O Daly led classes and read communications from New England schools showing strong interest in Gaelic week. O Daly notes push to include Irish in parochial and Boston public schools. Post office allows Irish letters to go directly to Queenstown. Irish societies urged to uphold language movement bylaws.
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Boston
Washington Street
M. Mulroy
P. J. O'Daly
New England
O'Daly
Queenstown
Murderer Planned Death by Own Action in Segerville
The article describes a man who plotted his own death and compelled his nephew to leave the home. Albert worked at a Segerville drug store near Medford and Washington, where a clerk recalls Smith's intense obsession with his aunt and his stalking of her house across many days.
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Albert
Somerville man questioned in murder case after alibi
A. L. Littlefield says Albert L. Smith of Somerville spent Saturday at his Medford home with relatives and played violin before the police found him early Sunday. Littlefield asserts Smith appeared unsettled but was a friend who visited often.
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Medford
Albert L. Smith
Somerville
Caroline A. D. Smith
A. L. Littlefield
Orchard Street
Smith
Two Aged Boston Fishermen Fight Sea on Grand Banks
Two Boston men over sixty from Neponset and Boston survived four days adrift after losing their dory and the Mystery in a fog off the Grand Banks. They endured hunger thirst and near madness before Coast Guard help and a New Brunswick landing. They and the other four crew members remain missing.
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Boston
Grand Banks
Yarmouth
John Baker
Neponset
Michael Shea
Man Fatally Struck in Cambridge Auto Collision
A man identified as Warren Batchelder of Hotel Bellevue Boston was struck by a passing light touring car at Brookline Street and Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge at 1 o'clock. He suffered a compound skull fracture and was taken to Cambridge Relief Hospital where his condition was described as critical. The car fled the scene and its license number was not obtained.
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Brookline Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Warren Batchelder
Bellevue
Boston
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Hotel Bellevue
Brighton
Lost bark Osberga May Be Lost At Sea
The long overdue bark Osberga left Turk's Island March 15 with a salt cargo for local parties. Commanded by Captain Arthur S. Hatfield with 14 crew and his wife aboard, the vessel is believed doomed after a dismasted bark in distress on April 2. The Osberga, built in Maitland Nova Scotia in 1884, 1116 tons not register, owned by Thomas Douglass of Halifax, valued about $10,000.
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Osberga
Maitland
N. S
Thomas Douglass
Halifax
Lost Ibsen Manuscripts Found in Rome Notebooks Revealed
Admirers learn of a 20 000 word epic and fragments that formed the nucleus of Ibsen’s later works including Brand. The manuscripts were dumped with rubbish in 1864 when a Rome society sold the bags. A Dane kept them, later bequeathed to the royal library for publication by Carl Larsen. The release awaits Ibsen heirs approval.
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Christiania
Henrik Tbsen
Ibsen
Brand
Rome
Scandinavian Association of Rome
Pontopiddian
Copenhagen
Royal Library
Carl Larsen
Larsen
Swanstrolm
Associated Press
Loevborg
Hedda Gabler
Bartlett Campaign War Opens as Democrats Rally Behind Nominee
General Bartlett enters the fight as the Democratic standard bearer with broad backing from across the state and unexpected sources. Mayor Fitzgerald hopes for unity at the convention while Edward Barry argues for a people’s candidate over machine politics.
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Fitzgerald
Post
Messrs
Bartlett
Whitney
Democracy
Edward Pr. Barry
Moran
British Cabinet Divided Over Irish Council Bill
London May 5 The Irish Council bill fuels a Cabinet split between home rulers led by Campbell Bannerman and Birrell and anti home rulers led by Asquith and Haldane Asquith warns of resignation if the bill breaches pledged limits while Haldane also resists any move toward home rule concerns.
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London
Augustine Birrell
Ireland
House of Commons
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Birrell
Herbert H. Asquith
Exchequer
Richard
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Alice Unwielsely
Svgnidor Constanting
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Yahey
Stone Crashed Into
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Pope
Martha Dean
Guimpe
Waltst
Pattern Department
Au Post
Devery
LABOR
Celtic Temple
Mayo Men’s Association
Mayo Men's Association
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Castelbar
Foxford
Industrial Association
Michael Davitt
Wells Memorial
Mr. Davitt
Boston Gaelic School
Jolnty
Dory
Shea
Seal Island
Coastguard
Wood’s Harbor
Brennan
Wood's Harbor
Baker
John
George Steele
Burgess
Duxbury
Bark Osberga
General Bartlett
Washington St
Old South Church
Burdon Haldane
John Redmond
Asquith
Haldane
Mr. Haldane
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