Conductors End Convention in Tremont Temple
The Order of Railway Conductors wraps up its session in this city with a 9 o'clock final session at Tremont Temple. Officers will be elected and the convention site for 1911 chosen, with Jacksonville, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Rochester among the cities seeking the gathering.
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Tremont Temple
Offeers
Jacksonville
Fla
Columbus
Cincinnati
Rochester
Telepost First
St. Louis
Missouri
New England
Discrimination in Royal Academy shelves sparks notice
The 141st Royal Academy show relegates American artist John Sargent’s paintings to Gallery 8 rather than Gallery 3, delaying visibility as they prepare for installation in the Boston Public Library. The works, part of the decorative panel Israel and the Law, are praised for majesty, simplicity, and refined color.
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London
Royal Academy
John Sargent
Boston
Law
Boston Public Library
Optimistic Tourist Hints at Staying Pace with Ballymaloney Walk
A light hearted Punch caption tracks a cheerful tourist who asks hourly how far Ballymaloney is and receives the same reply each time. The traveler, undeterred, comments that they are keeping pace with the distance and remains upbeat about the trek.
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Ballymaloney
Suburban riders recall antics and a brave schoolmaster’s spat
Observed on Huntington avenue and Arlington Heights cars were children swinging on straps and a Tufts coed kicking a ruffian’s shin to reclaim space. A schoolmasterly elder disciplined a youngster while a woman defended another rider. Local notes praise Mrs. Messer of Mascot Division 59 and comment on rising wireless amateur stations along the commuter lines.
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Arlington Heights
Packard Avenue
West Somerville
Tufts
Sullivan Square
Arlington
Roxbury
Back Bay
Columbus Avenue
X-Zalia Liquid Promises Quick Relief from Brown Tail Rash
An advertisement claims X-Zalia liquid stops itching, draws out poison, and heals brown tail rash with topical use. It urges immediate wetting of the affected area to halt the rash and soothe the flesh.
The Count Who Was No Gentleman
A girl recalls Agatha Deane's failed elopement with a German tutor, a rich heiress, and a disguise ready nobleman. She meets Sir Walter Raleigh lookalike, a detective in plain clothes, who crashes into her life seeking thieves. In the end the burglar is caught and the mustached impostor is unmasked by a gate-crashing policeman.
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Agatha Deane
Agatha
Sir Walter Raleigh
Tennyson
Portieres
Count
Papa
Mamma
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter
Tina
Fin
Letters reveal a cruel act of vanity by a club member
A 19 year old girl asks if she should expose a Boston club member who used her letters to brag. The adviser terms him a traitor and advises silence, urging avoidance and dignity, noting the act merits apology but predicting no manners.
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Miss Champagne
Boston
Correspondence Advice on Meeting Suitors from Letter Partners
A reader asks if two young men from Philadelphia and Maine whose letters suggest kindness should visit Boston and be invited to the home. The advisor notes that a year of correspondence via friends is proper, urges caution, and warns that good letter writing does not guarantee reliability.
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Hull
Miss Champagne
Philadelphia
Maine
Boston
M. H
Y. W
Home for Horses Seeks Funds and Summer Visitors
The Red Acre Farm directors appeal to the public for donations as their treasury is empty and summer approaches. They plan to welcome old and worn horses needing care and treatment, inviting readers to a field day on Saturday afternoon May 29 with train departures from North Station and South Acton, free transport to the farm, exhibits, tea, and prizes for best appearing horses. Henry C. Merwin, Secretary, Red Acre Farm.
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Red Acre Farm
South Acton
Henry C. Merwin
West
Cedar Street
Hard Luck Little Bobby and the Cyclone
A quip from the Christian Register reflects on child curiosity with a joke about a cyclone tossing houses and a sea serpent. The exchange ends with the child noting the boredom of never seeing such wonders.
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Bobby
Papa
Christian
Home style recipes from Annie Semple Stark Wendell
A collection of vintage kitchen instructions includes cabbage salad dressing with eggs butter salt sugar and vinegar, a salmon pie with mashed potatoes and top crust, baked potatoes filled with fish hash herbs and Parmesan, and signatures from Mrs. Annie Semple Mrs. Jennie F Stark and Mrs. C E Wendell of Boston and New Hampshire.
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Annie Semple
Mt. Hope Street
No. Attleboro
Jennie F. Stark
Hoytcourt
Laconia
N. H
Jane
C. E. Wendell
Hudson Street
Boston
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Coe
S.slattery Ga
Tremont Street
E. T. Slattery Company
Copenhagen
GEO. G. Fox CO
the Bakers
Charlestown
Hub
Telepost Company
5Th Ave
N.Y
Hanover St
Walter M. Hatch & CO
Theodosia Garrison
Seo
God’s Green Inn
God
Rami
Huntington Avenue
Charles
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Charles Seymour Messer
Mascot Division 59
Cecil Harper
Harper School of Oratory
Huntington Chambers Hall
Mercury
Anderson
Vatican
Antietam
Washington Street
the Post
The
Sunday Post
Harriet Milton
Humboldt
Martha Washington
Plymouth
Oldtown
Kenberma
Brussels
Japan
Jordan Marsh Co
Jordan Marsh Company
Hildred
New England Housewives
Weingarten Bros
New York
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