MGR O Callaghan Honored at 40th Year Banquet in South Boston
The Rt Rev Mer Denis O Callaghan was feted at Young's Hotel for 40 years as pastor of St Augustine's Church South Boston. Speakers included General Charles H Taylor Mayor George Hibbard and others praising his work with all faiths. He recalled his start in 1865 with Rev William A Blenkinsop and urged citizens to remain united Catholic and civic alike.
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St. Augustine's Church
South Boston
Mer
Denis O'Callaghan
D.D
P.R
Young's Hotel
James A. Gallivan
O'Callaghan
Mer. O'Callaghan
Charles H. Taylor
George Hibbard
Taylor
Strachan
William Ludwig
London
John H. Burke
Hibbard
Boston
E. P. Barry
Governor's Council
A. Shuman
Josiah Quincey
Thomas Will
South Boston Savings Bank
John B. Martin
Richard J. Monks
Edwin L. Logan
Mgr. O'Callaghan
Clarum
William A. Blenkinsop
Peninsula
South
Dorchester
Fair City
St. Augustine’s
Summer Underwear Stock Attracts Value Conscious Buyers
The ad promotes summer underwear from 59c to 4 dollars 50 cents per garment. It highlights seoven from Egyptian cotton with reinforced seams taped waistbands and silk trimmed fronts. Shirts come in sizes 34 to 50 with long or short sleeves while drawers range 30 to 50 with regular or short legs.
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Seoven
America
Straw Hat Styles Spark Quick Popularity in Store
The shop touts two fast selling straw hats. The first is the narrow brim with a medium crown priced at 2 dollars, labeled splits. The second is the Panama Tele scope hat with a wide brim priced at 5 dollars and tiltable angle. Other straw hats range from 1 to 10 dollars.
Britain Fires a U S Consul in Charlottetown
The British government revokes the exequatur of John H. Shirley American consul in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. Shirley has left for Cape Breton to pursue a manufacturing property and is president of the Illinois Car Wheel Company which is opening a plant at Sydney. No reason given for the action.
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Charlottetown
John H. Shirley
Shirley
Cape Breton
Illinois Car Wheel Company
Sydney
Wingate Weds Chester B Kelley in Winchester
Miss Helen Wingate daughter of Mr and Mrs James D P Wingate married Chester B Kelley son of Captain and Mrs Anthony Kelley at the Church of the Epiphany Winchester. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the bride's home 19 Yale street and the couple will tour the South before settling on Wildwood street.
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Winchester
Helen Wingate
James D. P. Wingate
Chester B. Kelley
Anthony Kelley
J. W. Suter
G. M. G. Nichols
Haverhill
Joshua Co. Kelley
Mary Ll. Leavitt
Cambridge
Polly W Leavitt
Melrose
Mabel Wingate
Josephine Wingate
Marion Gray
Ida Shattuck
Newton
Edward G. Kelley
Herbert Kelley
Harvard
Carleton Apollonio
Harold W. Hovey
George Nickerson
Boston
Winthrop Barta
Yale Street
Mrs. Kelley
Wildwood Street
Debate on episcopacy size and book committee reform
The Methodist Episcopal general conference in Baltimore debated the episcopacy report which proposed ten new bishops. The body settled on eight after lengthy discussion and rejected 12 and six options. A near unanimous vote backed unifying book business in one city under a 25 member board to serve eight or 12 years. Periodicals may be published in Cincinnati.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
General Conference
Cincinnati
Fight Over $15 000 Estate in Probate Court
In probate court Judge Flint hears a contest over the will of Martha W. Merrill who died last January at age eighty. J R L Henegan once a hotel night clerk seeks to gain the entire estate claiming adoption by Merrill. Thomas Weston Jr opposes probate of the first will and supports a second will naming Weston as beneficiary and Mrs Julia M Sears with a $3000 legacy. Undue influence is alleged. hearing set for next Thursday.
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Flint
J. R. L. Henegan
Hemenway Chambers
Martha W. Merrill
Henegan
Thomas Weston, Jr
Miss Merrill
Weston
Julia M. Sears
Hemenway
Claude JL. Allen
Melrose
Captain Walaas Opens Harbor Entrance With Wife On Bridge
Mrs. Captain Walaas sails aboard the Norwegian steamer Agnella as it departs Boston for New York. She has joined her husband on multiple voyages, says she will continue six months per year at sea, and plans to live in Bergen the rest of the year. The Agnella carried 19 000 banana bunches from Sama Cuba and docked at Commercial Wharf.
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Agnella
New York
Walaas
Post
Bergen
Norway
Boston
Sama
Cuba
United States
Commercial Wharf
Two Yankee Women Are Golf Winners Abroad
In St. Andrews Scotland on May 12 play began in the British women’s championship with 148 entrants the largest field yet. In the second round Sumpter Hunstanton defeated Griscom defending American champion 3 up 1 to play Leith England defeated Phelps America 9 up 8 to play Anita Phipps Springfield beat Scovell Irish player 8 up 2 to play Marjory Phelps Brookline defeated Edith Leith England 8 up 4 to play.
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Yankee
ST. Andrew’s
Scotland
Great Britain
Cecilia Leith
England
M. F. Phelps
America
Anita Phipps
Springfield
Scovell
Marjory Phelps
Brookline
Edith Leith
Son Kills Father to Prevent Second Marriage
A quoted confession from George E. Sterry Jr describes planning to kill his father to stop a second marriage. He notes a violent impulse and claims God urged the act. He mentions following after his father and evading witnesses if encountered by potential threats.
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Son
Father
Prominent Bloomfield Victim and Family in Turmoil
George E. Sterry Sr a respected mill owner and church leader aged 72 was murdered. His son and firm secretary was charged with the crime while other family members served as directors and officers of Weaver Sterry Co. The elder man planned to wed Miss Rachel Blaikie a 32 year old East Orange schoolteacher provoking family disapproval.
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Rachel B. Blaikie
George E. Sterry, Jr
Sterry
Bloomfield Mills Company
Spring Coal Mining Company
Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church
American Bible Society
American Tract Society
Princeton Theological Seminary
Ciety
Manhattan Square Hotel
Weaver & Sterry
William DeWitt Sterry
John W
James W
Rachel Blaikie
East Orange
N. J
Blaikie
Miss Blaikie Frustrated By Oranges Tragic News
Miss Rachel Blaikie of East Orange learned tonight that George FE Sterry had been murdered by his son in New York and then killed himself. She collapsed on hearing the news and requires constant medical attention. A Europe trip planned for early fall was postponed. Sterry had longtime ties to the Blaikie family.
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Orange
N. J
Rachel Blaikie
George FE. Sterry
New York
Blaikie
East Orange
Europe
Sterry
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Morse Special Balbriggan Underwear
Adams Square
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U. S
Charles Dana Gibson
Gibson Girl
Merry Widow
Methodists
Mrs. Walaas
Cattalin Walaas
Captain Walaas
Norday
Shawmut Furniture Co
Tremont St
Double Legal
Hanover and
Portland Streets
Latte
Ninth Avenue
New England
REX Dental Company
Washington St
Tevision
Essex St
Bastic
Mrs
Boston School OF Piano
Miss Blaikie
Plimpton-Hervey Go
Washington Street
Talbot's
Eddy
Howell
Columbia Road
G. En Glennon
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