Dancer to Get Pay After U S Supreme Court Ruling
Xenia P Makletzova won a 4500 award from Sergei Diaghiloff in a contract dispute with the Russian Ballet chief. The New York Supreme Judicial Court ruled no error occurred at trial. The dancer claimed breach after refusing the Enchanted Princess due to an unsafe partner in 1915 Petrograd to Boston performance.
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Xenia P. Makletzova
Boston
Sergei Diaghiloff
Supreme Judicial Court
Petrograd
United States
Boston Opera House
Makletzova
Diaghiloff
Opera House
Build Bright Minds With Red Blood and Body
A health warning urges balance of brain and body, comparing the mind to a high performance engine. It notes many fail when relying on brain and nerves alone amid grind, and promotes nutrition, air, exercise, sleep, and Pepio-Mangan to strengthen blood and stamina.
Pepto Mangan Promoted as Blood Builder Remedy
Physicians have prescribed Pepto Mangan for over 25 years as a blood building tonic. The ad warns of substitutes and counterfeit bottles and urges buying only the original sealed package from M. J. Breitenbach Co. in New York for sale at drug stores.
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M. J. Breitenbach Co., Manufacturing Chemists
New York
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Aids Ogdensburg Patient
Mrs. Etta Dorion of Ogdensburg Wisconsin suffered severe female troubles with back and side pain and weakness. She avoided surgery and credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with full recovery after six bottles. The ad praises herbal remedies as effective when physicians cannot help.
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Ogdensburg
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Etta Dorion
Insanity Claim Sought to Nullify 1913 Chicago Marriage
Simone Belgiorno petitions to annul his marriage to Angela D Arpa on grounds she was insane at wedding time in Chicago March 25 1913. D Arpa, from Sicily, later lived with Belgiorno in East Boston and Foxboro State Hospital has held her since. The judge delayed ruling after guardian Sacco reported on D Arpa life, jealousy and multiple hospital stays.
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Chicago
Belgiorno
Boston
Scollay Square
Sacco
Taunton State Hospital
Psychopathic Hospital
Foxboro State Hospital
Lawton
Feast of Shabuoth Observed Across Boston Synagogues
With the sun setting tonight through Monday, Jews will observe the Feast of Seven Weeks. Special services fill synagogues and temples in Boston for the two day festival. Homes and Hebrew institutions will be decorated with green fruits and trees reminiscent of Sinai. Dairy foods and cheese cakes will be prepared symbolizing the Torah as milk and honey. Zionists worldwide will designate Sunday and Monday as Back to Palestine days amid talk of a Jewish autonomous state.
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Boston
Sinai
Palestine
Boston Public Safety Panel Forms Women’s Food Conservation Committee
The City of Boston announces a public meeting of the Public Safety Women’s Committee on Food Conservation to organize a new women’s committee. It will be held in the Aldermanic Chamber City Hall on Thursday May 31 at 10 45 AM.
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Aldermanic Chamber
City Hall
Boston
Superfluous Hair Roots Come Right Out
An early 20th century advertisement touts Phelactine depilatory claiming it removes hair at the root instantly for a smooth, hairless skin. It promises easy instructions and a money back guarantee, with claims of painless use and non irritant formula.
Had $1000 but Took Handbag in Central Court
Thomas Mowley of Charlestown admitted stealing a handbag from a Montgomery Street doorway at 1 AM, snatching it to Canton Street before Officer Foley nabbed him. He claimed unrewarded affection and asked to be let off with a $100 line, stating he would not be arrested again.
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Thomas Mowley
Charlestown
Brookline
Ireland
Central Court
Montgomery Street
Canton Street
Foley
Thomas
Adams Square
Tom
Red Cross Benefit at Park Square Theatre Draws Crowd
Park Square Theatre hosted a Red Cross benefit organized by the Junior Charity Club. Miss Mabel Paul and Mrs. EB Richards led the event with Marguerite Hamilton directing. Notable performers included Donald Sawyer Polly Preyer Ruth Boyd Evelyn Williams John Charles Thomas Robert Ober the Dolly sisters Minna Gale Haynes Guy Bates Post and Marguerite Hamilton performing the first act of Treasure Island and Song of War.
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Park Square Theatre
Red Cross
Mabel Paul
EB. BE. Richards
Marguerite Hamilton
Donald Sawyer
Polly Preyer
Mr. Rennie
Ruth Boyd
Evelyn Williams
John Charles Thomas
the Highwayman
End Big Week of Unitarians Held at Cambridge Church
The 21st annual Young People's Religious Union meeting followed by a service and reception at First Parish Church Cambridge. Nelson J. Springer of Meadville gave the field work address. Frederick M. Eliot of Cambridge was re elected president but granted leave for base hospital chaplain duties. Wetherell named acting president McCurdie treasurer. Prohibition resolutions adopted. A 5 to 7 pm reception preceded a 7:30 pm consecration service led by Rev Adelbert L. Hudson.
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American Unitarian Association
First
Cambridge
Young People’s Religious Union
Nelson J. Springer
Meadville
Penn
Frederick M. Eliot
Eliot
Carl B. Wetherell
Watertown
O. A. McCurdie
Belmont
Mr. Springer
Boston
South Middlesex
Adelbert L. Hudson
Quincy
Peninsular Yacht Club to Raise Flag Wednesday
The Peninsular Yach Club opens its season with a flag raising ceremony at the clubhouse on Wednesday May 30. Special exercises and entertainment will mark the event.
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Peninsular Yacht Club
Peninsular Yach Club
Adamson's Balsam Advertisement Asserted Cold Cure
An old advertisement fragment claims Adamson's Balsam will cure a cold, stating its effectiveness in a concise promotional line.
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Adamson
Naval airmen fired upon near Marblehead patrol post
Naval reserves of the aeronautical division guarding the Marblehead coast patrol post were fired on early this morning. Sixty armed reservists scoured the area from the Lighting Company's pier to near the Burgess airplane factory but found no trace of the shooter. Police and naval searchers collaborated but failed to locate the assailant who vanished into darkness.
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Marblehead
Aeronautical Division
Marblehead Lighting Company
Burgess Airplane
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