Rug gift from Lotta Crabtree at Brewster Hotel shines in lobby
Dr C 8 Scofield, Vermont legislator tied to Peace Conference, stays at American House. The Brewster Hotel showcases a $2800 Gerevan Persian rug given by Miss Lotta Crabtree, a 12 by 30 foot hand made piece, first presented to the Brewster on the hotel’s opening. Dentists at the Somerset Hotel convention discuss care and precision in their craft. Samuel Elder leads Worcester Academy dinner with Daniel Webster Abercombie and about 76 attendees.
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C. 8. Scofield
Vermont
American House
Scofield
Boston
West End Children’s Hospital
Lowell Island Hospital
Royal Palace
Brewster Hotel
Charles W. Rodgers
Massachusetts Dental Society
Somerset Hotel
Samuel Elder
Worcester Academy
Oxford Hotel
Elder
Daniel Webster
Abercombie
Academy
Karl Baedeker Dies In Esslingen At Merit Publisher's Sunsets
ESSLINGEN Wuerttemberg May 12 Karl Baedeker son and successor of the noted publisher of traveller guides died in Esslingen today He had retired from business several years ago.
Evans Memorial Building to Rise at Boston Museum
Mrs. Robert D. Evans informed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts trustees she will give a memorial addition costing about 500000. The new gallery block will extend across the tapestries gallery facing the Fenway, connected by a second 150 foot passage. Architect is Guy C Lowell.
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Robert D. Evans
Evans
Art Museum
van Dyck
Charles I
White House
Beverly
Boston Art Museum
Fisher Files Bankruptcy Petition Over 94700 Liabilities
Erwin C. Fisher a tanner of 179 South Street filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S District Court listing liabilities of 94700 with no tangible assets. Principal liability is accommodation paper for BE with Fisher Corp at 84 State Street and others including Lucius Beebe of Boston, Berlin National Bank of New Hampshire, and Abe Stein of New York.
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Erwin C. Fisher
South Street
United States District Court
Fisher Corporation
State Street
Lucius Beebe Boston
Berlin National Bank of
Berlin National Bank of New Hampshire Holds $18,600 Worth of It, and Abe Stein
Ark of
Arrest of Roxbury man after door breach in assault case
Fred S. Eaton, 29 Benton street Roxbury, a lodger at Beatrice M. Hill’s home, was arrested by Patrolmen Petit and McCarthy after he resisted arrest by barricading his room door with a bed. The 14 year old Hill accuses Eaton of an attack. Eaton is linked to a Charlestown wife support charge and works as a chauffeur.
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Fred S. Eaton
Benton Street
Roxbury
Petit and
McCarthy
Beatrice M. Hill
Paton
Eaton
Hill
Charlestown
Police pledge to catch North End arsonist in Unity Street fire
Superintendent William H. Pierce vowed to seize the man or men responsible for fires in the North End after an incendiary basement blaze at 7 Unity Street endangered over twenty residents. Captain Otis F. Kimball coordinated plainclothes patrols and monitored every fire alarm box in the area.
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North End
William H. Pierce
Unity Street
Otis F. Kimball
Hanover Street
Fire Bug Strikes Salem Street Area Repeatedly
Fire investigators traced the spree from tenement districts near Sheafe street through Margaret Snow Hill Salem Baldwin Place to Endicott ending at Salem street. Police details patrolled in plain clothes. North End officials vowed round‑the‑clock watch across the district to trap the arsonist. A fire in a barrel of excelsior packed into a wine barrel was extinguished by Engine 8 after a box 707 call, with the cellar found to contain the initiating material. Residents and business district holders cooperated with police and fire officials to curb the attacks.
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Sheafe Street
Margaret
Snow Hill
Salem
Baldwin Place
Endicott
Salem Street
Pierce
North End
Fox
Higes
Careful watch urged on fire alarm boxes after gas blaze threat
Chief Mullen warns of a firebug technique using a pin and hammer to puncture lead gas pipes. A small hole allows gas to escape and ignite a pin head blaze within 25 to 30 minutes, a method once doubted by fire officials but shown possible in tests. Police have a boy and his accompanying man described after two weeks of alarms.
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Chief Mullen
Mullen
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