Sailors and Firemen Strike Forces European Crews
London May 7. National Sailors and Firemen's Union and National Union of Ships Cooks and Stewards call out all workers of the Peninsular Oriental Steamship Company. Demands include two white seamen and a coxswain per lifeboat, boosting European staffing. company refuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Sailors and Firemen’s Union
National Union of Ships’ Cooks and Stewards
Peninsular Oriental Steamship Company
Peninsular Oriental Company
Browning Centenary Celebrated by Boston Society
About 1000 people attended the Boston Browning Society centennial celebration of poet Robert Browning. The gathering drew admirers and Boston cultural figures to Huntington Hall at MIT for the commemorative event last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Browning
Boston
Boston Browning Society
Huntington Hall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Browning Centenary Tribute Read In Cambridge
Rev Woodman Bradbury presided as Professor Bliss Perry served as honorary chairman. Rev Dr George Hodges delivered the oration with portraits of Browning and Browning era roses displayed. Letters of greeting from Howells Lowell Hadley Benson and Crewe read aloud. Dean Hodges credited Browning’s broad influence beyond faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodman Bradbury
Bliss Perry
George Hodges
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Browning
Bliss
Ralph Kendrick
William Dean Howells
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Arthur D. Hadley
Yale
Arthur Benson
Marquis of Crewe
Westminster Abbey
London
Smith
Charlotte Porter
Professor Bliss
Dean Hodges
Charles Darwin
James Watts
Central Council Cables Redmond Acknowledgment from 32 Irish Counties
Central Council addressing John Redmond in London sent a cablegram from Boston Mays noting congratulations from 32 Irish county associations. The message lists John F. Clancy as President Joseph J. Downing as Vice President and James Harvey as Secretary.
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Central Council
John Redmond
Redmond
House of Commons
London
Boston
Mays
John F. Clancy
Joseph J. Downing
James Harvey
Hub Pressmen Aid Chicago Strike via Dues Vote
Boston Web Pressmen's Union voted to deduct a day’s pay per member each week to support Chicago strike efforts. The wage scale committee will meet publishers to discuss the wage scale and contract interpretation amid union readiness to press further if no resolution emerges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Chicago
Probe meat inspection hearings set by House committee
Washington May 7 The House committee of expenditures in the Department of Agriculture will begin hearings tomorrow on Representative Nelson of Wisconsin resolution to investigate the meat inspection service. Nelson says the service is run for meat packers rather than the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee of Expenditures
Department of Agriculture
Nelson
Wisconsin
Meat Inspection Service
Anniversary Day Observed at St Pauls School Concord
Anniversary exercises at St Pauls School in Concord New Hampshire are set for Wednesday and Thursday June 5 and 6. The program includes luncheon boat race tea dances alumni meetings holy communion reception of guests divine service address by Rt Rev Edward M Parker luncheon and speeches athletic events prize presentation and a concert with various school activities through the day and evening.
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ST. Paul’s
St. Paul’s School
Concord
N. H
Long Pond
Edward M. Parker
D. D
Alumni Association
Provincetown Whaler Returns From Sperm Cruise
Captain John A. Dunham, agent and owner of the whaling schooner Billen A. Swift, arrives with a sperm catch of about 100 barrels from Hatteras ground after leaving March 11 for a health cruise. George L. Dunham, his son, commanded the Swift on arrival.
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Provincetown
Luck
John A. Dunham
Billen A. Swift
Hatteras Whale Ground
Swift
Sam Bay
Santo Domingo
A Pleasing Home as a Lesson in Furniture and Credit
A contrastive editorial urges improving the home to attract friends and protect children. It praises a bright, well furnished household as a model, warns of neglect as blame, and promotes a liberal credit plan with low city prices and a large line of furnishings for readers to choose from.
Taft Loss Shown In Recount Across Cities
Recounts from last Tuesday's presidential primaries show Taft and Roosevelt tickets unchanged in latest tallies. Seiberlich’s ballot presence caused 12 cities to discard 1 829 votes, bringing total invalidated votes to 15 124.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Crane
Baxter
Seiberlich
Recount in Cambridge Wards Shows No Change for Taft Delegates
Everett May 7 report notes seven of eleven wards in Cambridge had no material change in Republican delegates at large after recounts. Registrars found 116 ballots listing Everett and showed a net loss of five Taft votes in Wards 11 8 5 and 6. In four examined wards 87 defective ballots existed, 83 favoring Taft renomination, with recounts not filed in other wards.
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Cambridge
Everett
Taft
Annual State Session of I O O F in Boston Today
In Odd Fellows Hall 615 Tremont street the annual session of the Massachusetts district I O O F M U is held today with delegates from cities and towns across the state. Boston Camp uniform rank hosted an entertain and welcome for hundreds and the gold degree was exemplified by Waltham team. Prominent speakers included James W Gregg James W Riley and other grand officers. The district shows membership gains 626 new leviable 9100 total. woman's sub district has 2177 members. Cash capital 21662869 with cash credit 22981691. Sick benefits 29342.98 and death claims 9300.
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Odd Fellows’ Hall
Tremont Street
Massachusetts
M. U
Kossuth Hall
Boston
Waltham
Edward Hudson
United States
James W. Gregg
James W. Riley
Joseph H. Handford
Grand Lodge
J. 5. B. Clark
Joseph W. Young
George W. Rockett
H. J. Wentzel
First annual Pierce minstrel show draws 1400 in Brookline
The S. S. Pierce Company Mutual Benefit Association staged its first annual minstrel show and dance in Whitney Hall Brookline drawing about 1400 attendees. Patrick J. Anglin directed the music Lawrence A. Corbett played piano with an orchestra and a 100 strong mixed chorus plus 12 tambo girls. End men included J. H. Morley and W. K. Sheldon who scored hits along with soloists Margaret Donovan Helen T. Lamb and Helen Langley.
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S. S. Pierce Company Mutual Benefit Association
Whitney Hall
Brookline
Patrick J. Anglin
Lawrence A. Corbett
Phil Brook
J. H. Morley
William Morley
M. B. Ricker
Henry W. Ladd
Harry Abbot
Benjamin Matthews
William K. Sheldon
Father
Mayor Blames Wasteful Economy and Education Abroad
Mayor Fitzgerald, speaking at Stanwood Hall, Malden, condemns waste and poor vocational training as root evils of American society. He lauds German education as superior in many respects and predicts rising living costs due to wastage by American families and the nation.
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Fitzgerald
Santa Maria Council
Stanwood Hall
Malden
Deaths notice brief highlights multiple obituaries
Several Boston area death notices list ages, death dates, and funeral details for Matilda Coolidge Thomas F Cullity Catherine Golden Frank Winthrop Eaton John A Graney Martha A Gregory James Hart Rachel M Kast Francis Lawler with funeral plans at various churches, hospitals, and family residences across Dorchester Charlestown Chelsea Roxbury Watertown and East Boston.
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Coolidge
Dorchester
Matilda
George H. Coolidge
Alban Street
Cullity
Charlestown
Thomas F
John
Mary
Whalen
St. Martin Street
St. Francis de Sales
Golden
Chelsea
Catherine
Thomas Golden
Bloomingdale Street
St. Rose Church
Eaton
Massachusetts General Hospital
Frank Winthrop Eaton
Charles Street
Wakefield
Mass
Graney
John A
Mabel Graney
Cambridge
Raftery Chapel
Tremont Street
Roxbury
St. Francis de Sales Church
Gregory
Watertown
Martha A. Gregory
Daniel A. Gregory
Russell Avenue
Hart
James
Annie Hart
Doyle
Catherine Sullivan
Cabot Street
Boston Cab Company
Kast
Boston
Rachel M
Jacob East
Maverick Street
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Cape Cod
Lawler
Boston City Hospital
Francis Lawler
D, EB
Noonan
Washington Street
Egleston Square
Obituary notices list multiple May funerals in area towns
The clipped notices announce numerous May funerals and wills across Roxbury Charlestown Jamaica Plain Roxbury Dorchester Charlestown Brookline East Boston Reading and other locales. Names include Lemke Lovett Moore Morris Mullaly Murphy O Neill Pratt Porter Quinlan and their relatives are invited to services from May 7 to May 9 at churches and cemeteries with masses and interments noted.
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Lemke
Winden Park Street
Roxbury
Prince Heinrich German War Veterans’ Association
Lovett
Melrose
Eliza Cameron Lovett
George F. Lovett
Hurd Street
Cave
Wyoming Station
Moore
Charlestown
James J
Ellen C. (Nee Mooney) Moore
High Street
St. Mary’s Church
Warren Street
Fifth Regiment
M. V. M. Morris
Joanna
Anthony J. Morris
Monument Avenue
Mullaly
Mary
John J
St. Thomas
St. Joseph's Cemetery
O’neil
Ann
Michael O'Neil
John T. O'Neil
Leon Street
Equiem
St. Francis de Sales
Vernon Street
O'Neil
Boston
Elizabeth A
Mary A
Calvary
Pratt
Brookline
Charles Herbert Pratt
Dr. Hale
Exeter and
Newbury Streets
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Porter
Dorchester
Taft Street
James Harrison Porter
G. . i. Pencerds
Post
Dudley
Vine Streets
Ellen M. McCarthy
Andrew
Collins Street
Orient Heights
Star of the Sea
Charles Bert Pratt
Quinlan
Reading
Michael F. Nan
North Main Street
St. Agnes’ Church
North Station
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