Observant Citizen notes shipper Miss Nance O Neill sails for Liverpool
The Observant Citizen reports actress Miss Nance O Neill is a passenger on the White Star liner Cymric, sailing today from Boston to Liverpool to England for professional plans next season. The piece also mentions a proposed Russia Club in Boston and a Calico of local curios while recounting various brief items around Roxbury and Charlestown.
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Nance O'Neill
Boston
Liverpool
Miss O’neil
England
France
Advice to a wife torn between love and duty in a social dilemma
A letter from Dollie asks how to handle an extramarital romance. The response urges maintaining her marriage, resisting the other man, and focusing on duty, honor, and personal welfare to preserve home, social standing, and happiness.
Beatrice Rejects Wily Suitor Amid Family Strife
Beatrice awaits her lover at the window seat while nursing the ailing aunt. Carter presses for marriage and money from the aunt’s estate, but Beatrice denounces the match, returns his ring, and rejects his loan and plans.
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Beatrice
Jack
Letty Hyde
Letty
Aunt Hildegarde
Bee
Mr. Carter
Remembering Abdul Hamid and Ben Bolt in 1909 verses
A nostalgic verse by Matt Mason lampoons Abdul Hamid II and Ben Butler as the Young Turks flex power. It recalls the Yildiz Palace, Turkish sultans and wives, garlicked meals, and decrees of divorce while hinting at reform and decline.
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Ben Bolt
Abdul
Abdul Hamid Ben Bolt
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The Window and the Maid’s Quiet Resolve
A maid contemplates a cruel betrayal from Mr. Carter then sobs at the window in moonlight. She regains calm, cares for her ailing aunt, and finds resolve in duty and faith after heartbreak.
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Bessie
Mr. Carter
75 Year-Old Riverman Becomes Father of 23d Child
In Dubuque on May 28 Captain Kimbel aged 75, a riverman, became the father of his 23d child. His present wife, aged 19, is his fourth wife. They married a year ago.
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Dubuque, In
Kimbel
Turquoise Jewelry Fad and Paris Amethyst Color Rage
A turquoise fad in jewelry grows with locket watches and wide velvet hat ribbons. Paris is in a rage over amethyst hues as panel style widens for children. Black hats rise in popularity while satin wedding gowns and crinoline dominate fashion. Jetted lace cloaks and florid millinery trim appear. Bronze pumps with straps and rosettes trend alongside pongee covered handbags and silver trimmed belts. Grass linen petticoats feature ruffles and colored lawn edges.
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Paris
Coffee Jelly and Meringue Dessert From A. D. Bartlett
A recipe blends coffee milk sugar and gelatine, then folds whipped egg whites with vanilla and remaining sugar to set into a chilled mold served with cream. Includes author A D Bartlett Brookline. Also includes beef gravy over potatoes baked with eggs and browned crust by Mattie B Flynn East Boston and a doughnut recipe by Mrs M K Colby Bradford. Veal hearts fried and simmered with dressing and gravy by Mrs Elmer Andrews South Essex.
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Brookline
Mattie BH. Flynn
Lexington Street
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Boston
Memorial Day Boston Horse Parade Sees 850 Entries
The Memorial Day work-horse parade in Boston will be the seventh and largest yet with 850 entries. Each horse costs about 4.5 dollars to sponsor and over 60 compete in the old horse class for prizes in money and medals. Three large concerns are excluded for humane concerns, and the association appeals for donations to cover parade costs.
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Boston
Buy a Straw Hat for Decoration Day Sale
Straw hats offered for Decoration Day at a discounted price. One of New York’s largest manufacturers closed out his entire stock. On special sale Saturday. 1000 men’s straw hats in new split-straw shapes, priced around two dollars and one dollar.
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New York
Notable Passengers Include Actors And Educators On Cymrie
A party of 40 teachers and several named individuals travel on the Cymrie. Passengers include F. Dunn, Mr and Mrs B Atwood Rob inson, Mrs F R Spaulding, Evans Spaulding, Francis Spaulding, and Miss Margaret G Marshall known privately as Nance O Neill the famous actress.
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F. R. Spaulding
Evans Spaulding
Francis Spaulding
Margaret G. Marshall
Nance O'Neill
Longtime West Somerville Sunday School Teacher Dies
Joseph Sawyer of West Somerville died suddenly of heart disease on his Bedford farm on Thursday after fifty years as a Methodist Episcopal Sunday school teacher. The Rev. Herbert J. White, former Roxbury pastor now in Tacoma, has accepted a call to Hartford’s First Baptist Church. The Rev. George Luther Cady and Mrs. Cady of Pilgrim Congregational Church will host at home for church members and friends next.
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Lenox
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Wellington H. Tinker
Brookline
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West Somerville
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Noted Passengers Sail on Cymric for Queenstown and Liverpool
The steamship Cymric of the White Star line departs Hoosac docks Charlestown at six this morning for Queenstown and Liverpool carrying 11 saloon and 320 steerage passengers. Among them are Chief Justice Emery of Maine, US Minister to Greece George H Moses, British Consul General Frederick P Leay, Major William H Kell and Mrs Kell, Yale professor H C Emery, Mrs William Atherton and others.
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White Star Line
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Charlestown
Queenstown
Liverpool
Justice Emery
Maine Court
United States
Greece
George H. Moses
Frederick P. Leay
William H. Kell
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Percy Lee Atherton
C. J. Bishop
J. A. Chambers
Doreathy Chambers
John
Great men rise from small beginnings in satire
A moralist notes that greatness grows from humble roots. The demoralizer quips about a 300 pound president as an example. The exchange uses humor to underline unlikely origins and the idea that stature can follow from small starts.
Rexall Orderlies Endorsed For Constipation Relief
A Rexall drug store ad touts Rexall Orderlies as the best remedy for constipation. It claims the product is pleasant to take, gentle on the system, and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Two sizes priced at 10 cents and 25 cents.
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