Thrilling rescue at Everett fire leaves guests endangered
Margaret Holloweena woke guests in a fashionable Everett apartment house as a fire roared through the kitchen and back hall. Morley and Mrs Whipple and Mrs Whipple’s bedbound status forced panic before two hours of firefighting. Firefighter Captain Hatch was knocked unconscious by a live wire. Damage totaled 18000 with 10000 to the building and 8000 to furnishings.
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Margaret Holloweena
Everett
Morley
Whipple
W. H. Cottle
Harrison W. Cottle
John Cameron
George Hatch
Harvard '08 graduates pursue business and advanced study
Secretary Guy Emerson reports the Harvard class of 1908 mostly entered business or professions after June graduation. Sixty two joined professions, about 250 went into business, 61 teach, and 81 study medicine or law. A few entered mining or civil engineering, journalism, clergy, or social and settlement work. One serves at West Point and 127 remain unaccounted.
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Guy Emerson
Harvard
West Point
Divinity Schools
Harvard grads show living costs and work patterns
A Harvard class survey reports travel and residence abroad trends among graduates with three to four Japanese living in Japan. It details living expenses at Harvard, noting 300 of 506 paid between 500 and 1000 dollars yearly, 70 under 500, and 126 at or above 1000 yearly. About 187 worked summers or part time, and 188 engaged in philanthropic work during college.
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Europe
Harvard
Settlement and Social Improvement Undertakings in Boston
The report notes unusually large numbers for settlement and social improvement work conducted in Boston and surrounding areas, highlighting the scope of the efforts and the notable scale involved.
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Boston
Votes for sale of kosher meat on Sunday
The House passed to be engrossed a bill permitting Sunday sale of kosher meat. The vote was 97 to 93. Representative David Mancovitz of Ward 8 Boston introduced the bill noting that worshipful observance by certain citizens should be respected and that law should not force them to abandon their day of worship.
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David Mancovitz
Ward 8
Boston
Captain Stephenson’s Carrie D Knowles Missing at Sea Five Years
Elisha Payne recalls escape from a Venezuelan prison after the Carrie D Knowles left Provincetown with 13 crewmen in 1904. The schooner vanished in a fierce gulf storm off the Venezuelan coast. Payne arrived in St Vincent after a treacherous flight from Kingston, with authorities verifying his tale and holding him for confirmation.
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Payne
St. Vincent's
Carrie P. Knowles
Dominica
Collin Stephenson
West Indies
Stephenson
St. Vincents
Alcyon
George Knowles
Carrie D. Knowles
Provincetown
Henry A. Martens
Knowles
Atlantic
London
Boston
Elisha Payne
Kingston
Maracaibo
Columbia
St. Vincent
Carrie Knowles
Venezuela
Castro
Cure for Eczema Quoted From Cuticura Remedies
Charles T. Bauer of Volant Pennsylvania reports twelve years of eczema on hands arms and feet with swelling itching and dryness. After failing with salves doctors and arsenic he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and saw rapid healing with no recurrence after over a year. Dated March 11 1908.
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Charles T. Bauer
Volant
Mar
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Sole Props
Boston
Mass
Parents Battle Over Four Year Old Child
Immigration officials detained Irene after a prolonged parental custody battle. A special board of inquiry heard both sides as reconciliation failed. The mother claimed she should keep Irene, while the father’s relatives argued against her suitability.
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Irene
Bill for Drunks Gallery Is Killed In Senate
Representative Andy Doyle’s bill required saloons to keep a gallery of drunks and would have forced identification by a wife mother or sister who warned a saloonkeeper not to sell. The measure failed in a 18 to 18 tie, with Senator Harvey of Waltham defending the existing proof burden on liquor dealers.
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Andy” Doyle
Senate
Harvey
Waltham
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