Quimby Girl to Return Home Today
Gertrude Quimby a 15 year old Latin School pupil who vanished and was briefly detained in New York is to return home today Mrs Mary Burnett of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Migs Quimby's mother left for New York yesterday to secure the girl from the Children's Society custody granted by the Children's Court justice
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Gertrude Quimby
New York
Mary Burnett
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Migs Quimby
Children’s Society
Guardian Named for Gertrude After Guardian Interview
News despatches from New York describe the police account given by the stagestruck child. Mr and Mrs A H Werner of 519 Audubon Road Back Bay were interviewed by Mrs Burnett. They secured Mrs Warners consent to a different guardian satisfactory to the girl.
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Gertrude
New York
A. H. Werner
Audubon Roail
Back
Bay
Girl in Court Over Boston Flight to Home Arranged
Miss Gertrude Quimby was arraigned before Judge Hoyt in New York's Children's Court and remanded to the Children's Society. Investigators said she had been shadowed by officers regarding an actor she met in Boston but she denied complicity beyond meeting him with another girl.
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New York
Gertrude Quimby
Boston
Forbes
Curry
San
Broadway
50Th Street
West 28Th Street
Kathleen O'Brien
Hotel Albert
Kathleen West
Hev
King Edward Hotel
West 47Th Street
Marguerite Creil
Castle Square Hotel Tremont and Chandler
European Plan on over one mile front, private baths in every room, long distance telephone access, and no tipping in dining rooms. 60 single suites with private baths priced at $1.50 per person, 100 private baths for two, 60 double suites with private baths at $2.50 per day, with baggage transferred free.
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United States
Dorchester Day to Feature First Boston Municipal Ball
Boston plans its first municipal ball as part of Dorchester Day on June 10 at Rogers Walcott school hall. Free admission for Dorchester residents with free ice cream cake and lemonade. Mayor Fitzgerald may lead the grand march while other events include track meet at Franklin Park, horse racing, yacht racing, street games and statue dedication.
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Boston
Milwaukee
Rogers Walcott School
Dorchester
Fitzgerald
Charles J. Glidden
Franklin Park
Franklin Field
Dorchester Bay
Locust Street
Hadward -Everett
Edward Everett
Frederick L Burnham Dies At 39 In Cambridge
Frederick L Burnham president of the Massachusetts Normal Alumni Association and state agent for the promotion of manual art died at his home 9 Vincent street Cambridge after a three days illness with pneumonia aged 39 years He was also a member of the 20th Century Club.
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Frederick L. Burnham
Massachusetts Normal Alumni Association
20Th Century Club
Vincent Street
Cambridge
Rites At Bull Home Described In Will Contention
Alfred Maine May 23 Witness Nicola Roberta described in court a Cambridge studio house ritual to purge psychic power from a departing woman. He testified of silent meditations in multiple rooms, a leading chanting woman, incense burning, and rubbing furniture with olive oil and ammonia to remove the spirit deemed undesirable.
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Alfred
Ole Bull
Cambridge
Roberto's Italian Journey Narrated in Column Trap
Roberto travels from Italy to share his story and become part of a continuing feature. Mrs. Continued on Page 2 Firasat Column.
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Roberto
Italy
Firasat
Charles F Choate Dead
Charles F Choate, noted city lawyer and 20 year president of Old Colony Railroad, died at his Southboro home aged 83. He retired from railroad leadership in 1907 and from active life, spending summers in Southboro. After a year of declining health, his death occurred as all expected.
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Charles F. Choate
Old Colony Railroad
Southboro
Railroad
Memorial for Mr. Choate, Salem native and legal titan
Born in Salem on May 16 1828 Mr Choate rose from Harvard and Harvard Law School to a storied legal career council to Old Colony railroad director and later head of several major institutions He served as citizen regent of the Smithsonian in 1908 and held leadership roles with the New England Trust Company the Essex Company and Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company at his death
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Mr. Choate
Salem
Harvard University
Harvard Law School
Old Colony Railroad
Railroad
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Richard Olney
Choate
Cheate
N. Y
N. H. & H. Railro
New England Trust Company
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company
Essex Company of
Lawrence
Taft to gain a brother-in-law this summer
Washington May 23 When President Taft leaves for Beverly Mass this summer the presidential family will be augmented by Major Archibald Butt the bride-to-be is Mrs Lucy Hayes Herron Laughlin sister of Mrs Taft The engagement and wedding date will be announced before the first of the month Political society gains a solution for housing Archibald Butt bachelor aide to the President
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Washington
Taft
Beverly
Mass
Archibald Butt
Lucy Hayes Herron Laughlin
Mrs Laughlin and Major Butt in Pittsburgh Tragedy Shadowed Affair
Washington watchers followed a year long romance linking Mrs Laughlin sister of Mrs Taft to Major Butt. The couple’s proximity rose after Thomas K Laughlin of Pittsburg, her first husband, died by self destruction soon after a Europe trip and a prolonged separation due to his illness. Mrs Laughlin, guest and assistant to Mrs Taft at the White House, arrived in Pittsburgh after his death. The Laughlins, major figures in Pittsburgh steel, sought to quiet the death as natural. Major Butt attended the funeral with Mrs Laughlin and became her chief companion during the mourning period.
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Laughlin
Washington
Taft
White House
Laughlins
Pittsburg
Mrs Dexter's Dog Returned After Weeklong Mystery
Mrs Wirt Dexter's 18 pound Viennese dog valued at 300 dollars, coaxed from the front yard at 398 Commonwealth avenue, was found yesterday. A Back Bay officer located the hound hiding near an unoccupied dwelling on Commonwealth avenue, and the dog was returned in a delivery wagon under police escort.
MIT Receives Additional Bequest From Emma Rogers
More than 500000 is left to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the late Emma Rogers as filed in Suffolk County Probate. The total to the school for new buildings and equipment now exceeds 2 million, including a 500000 gift by T C Dupont announced Monday and a recent 1000000 pledge from the state.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emma Rogers
Suffolk County
T. C. Dupont
Rogers heiress leaves Technology institute large residue
Mrs Rogers spouse of William B. Rogers, first institute president, leaves half a million dollars with few restraints. After specific bequests, the residue including all real estate goes to Technology. Trustees narrow campus site choices to four: Longwood Ave near Pasteur, Charles River Basin near Esplanade, Allston Golf Club area, and land bounded by Centre Cas tleton and South Huntington Lockstead.
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Longwood Avenue
Corner Avenue
Louis Pasteur
Fenway
Harvard Medical School
Charles River Basin
Massachusetts Avenue
Esplanade
Back Bay
Allston Golf Club
Commonwealth Avenue
Brighton
Boston & Albany
Centre and
Castleton Streets
Huntington and
Lockstead Avenues
Jamaicaway
Long Awaited Rain Deluge Hits New England Coast
A heavy rainstorm with thunder and lightning moved along the North Shore from Portsmouth to Boston. The storm, arriving after a temperature drop, struck Boston around 2 am lighting up the sky and pouring rain. Telegraph and telephone wires were damaged as farmers and residents feared fire from wet conditions and downed plants suffered.
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North Shore
Portsmouth
N. H
Boston
Resi Ems
Danger Point Rules Sharply Hit At Hearing
Opponents of the Commonwealth avenue traffic rules pour into City Hall as Park Commission representatives chair a public hearing. Automobiles dealers associations drivers groups and residents condemn the keep to the left rule especially near the Fricson monument known as the danger point. A second hearing will be held after objectors notify friends.
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Commonwealth Avenue
Robert Peabody
Daniel Coakley
Park Commission
City Hall
John F. Fitzgerald
Fricson
Park rules debate over Commonwealth avenue traffic changes
A well attended hearing featured many speakers urging park commissioners to change rules governing Commonwealth avenue from Arlington street to Ericson's statue. They argued current rules differ notably from other U S thoroughfares. Page 7, third column.
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Park Commissioners
Commonwealth Avenue
Arlington Street
Ericson
United States
Today’s anniversaries from historic dates
John N. Stearns founder of National Temperance Society born in 1829. First message sent by telegraph in 1844. Richard Mansfield actor born in 1857. George G. Barnard sculptor born in 1863. New York and Brooklyn bridge opened in 1883. Battleship Oregon completed trip around the Horn in 1898.
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John N. Stearns
National Temperance Society
Richard Mansfield
George, G. G. Barnard
New York and Brooklyn Bridge
Oregon
Horn
Boston Area Forecast Unsettled With Warmer Temperatures
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for unsettled conditions on Wednesday with possible showers and higher temperatures. Thursday remains unsettled with moderate easterly winds shifting to southerly and a likely rain absence. Across New England, unsettled weather is expected with showers midweek and rising temperatures by Thursday as winds shift from east to west.
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Boston
New England
Undertakers Staged Odd Prank at Abbotstown Hotel
In Boston a hoax caused a parade of undertakers to the Abbotsford Hotel in Commonwealth Avenue. Guests and proprietors spent hours yesterday in wrathful search for the joker behind the strange prank that drew a corps of coffins and fake corpses to a Monday gathering.
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Boston
Abbotsford Hotel
Commonwealth Avenue
Back Bay
Undertakers Converge On Hotel After Mixed Calls
Phone lines buzzed Monday night as numerous undertakers arrived at the hotel at varying hours. One by one they entered then formed a long procession of sombre vehicles. The hotel manager faced a chaotic lobby while residents feared a catastrophe had struck the town.
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Tours
National Sporting Scores and Tennis Update
National standings list Chicago and Boston in top slots with Brooklyn Pittsburg and New York close behind. American headlines show St Louis Detroit Washington New York and Cleveland in various matchups with scores noted. Johanson added a starter to Shrubb Queal race, and England college tennis reaches finals as Miss Osgood leads Boston in a Yale loss to American rivals.
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Bostom
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Philadelphia
St. Louisa
Detroit
Washington
Cleveland
Johanson
England
Nals
Osgood
Boston
Yale
Amheret
Bates
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Guardian
Gertrude ‘Quimby
Bain
Castle Square
Tremont and Chandler
Sts. Charlies FE
Burnham
Boylston St
Old Colony Road
Charles F. Choate, SR
Major Butt
Mrs. Laughlin
Mrs. Taft
Thomas K. Laughtin
Harris Aind Hwing
Wushiheton
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the Park Commissioners
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Arthur P. Teele CouMser
BAY State Auto Assoc
Francis Hurtubis
Ounsel Wat
Criss Cross Park
J.B Sullivan
JF Counssi
Boston Auto Assoc
Robert Homans
G. Morcross
A.M
Undertakers
Joker
Panta
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