Rabbis Speak at Boston Religious Association Conference
The Religious Association hosts a two day meeting at the Boston Museum beginning tomorrow at 10 a m with President Lewis G Jones opening. Speakers include Rabbi Joseph Silverman Dr of Temple E l New York on Jewish Conception of Jesus and Cornell’s Nathaniel Smith on The Man Jesus and the Traditional Christ. Swami Abhedanda discusses Did Christ Teach a New Religion and John White Shadwick presents The Historical Jesus and Modern Christianity. Afternoon sessions feature a symposium on The Ethics of Religion Relationships with Frank O Hall Ida C Hultin de Fletecher and local figures. The festival closes with a poem by Sam Walter Foss and remarks by Ward Howe Charles E., Mrs Ednah D Cheney Fleischer Silverman.
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Boston Museum
Lewis G. Jones
Jesus of
Swami Abhedanda
India
John White Shadwick
Brooklyn
N.Y
Hutchinson GOP Committee Chooses Next President Candidate
The Hutchinson Republican city committee prepares to nominate a president successor after notices from Secretary Thomas Cotter. The race centers on a single candidate chosen by a 25 member committee, with Thomas E. Cake and George N Swallow among contenders amid tense party discussions. The governor and council extended a respite to November 9 for the committee’s action.
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Republican City Committee
Gove
Thomas Cotter
Tee
Skerete
St Ists
Thomas E. Cake
N. Swallow
Hutchinson
McKinley Party Ends Continental Trip in Ohio Stop
President and party finish a 32 day journey covering about 6675 miles with a brief stop in Canton Ohio. Mrs McKinley and her sister Mrs Barber plus niece Ida Barber accompany to Washington. Ohio stations along the route were decorated with flags and crowds waved as the train departed.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Washington
Ohio
Canton
McKinley
M. C
Last Link of Elevated Trackage Near Pleasant Street
Workers moved trestle supports to the station platform as the last south bound track section beneath Pleasant street is prepared. About a third of the track can be laid before surfaces cars shift into the subway. If all goes as planned final clearance could come next Saturday night with a rapid removal of the trestle and completion of nearby curves and switches for looping.
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Pleasant Street
Tremont Street
AE Tee
Major Gould Issues Appeal to Reunite Union Veterans
Major Daniel W. Gould of Chelsea, commander of the Union Veterans' Union, issues a circular to reunite divided Massachusetts commands after a split over changes to the national constitution led to secession. The circular endorses a per diem service pension for veterans and urges united action to restore the order’s influence and honor in national affairs.
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Daniel W. Gould
Chelsea
Union Veterans’ Union
Order
Massachusetts
Dyrenforth
Washington
Major Gould
Union
Veterans’ Union of
Army of Teachers Move To Philippines Rail School Plan
President Taft of the Philippines Commission demands rail transport facilities to move 600 teachers for island schools. Over 300 educators have been cleared to sail to Manila aboard the Sheridan this Saturday and the Hancock on June 5, with full deployment expected by mid August.
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Washington
Taft
the Philippines Commission
War Department
Philippines
Department
Civil Service’ Commission
Manila
Sheridan
San Francisco
Hancock
Bird
Hoax suspected as river search continues for missing woman
In Waltham on May 2 officers drag the river after finding a white straw hat with red band, gloves, belt, jacket and red ribbon on Moody Street bridge bank. Investigators believe the clothing may have been placed to create a sensation as no missing person is identified.
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Waltham
Joe Lood
Moody’ Street
Flood
Mrs Sampson to Lead Flower Strewing Memorial at Boston Harbor
Mrs William T Sampson wife of the admiral will oversee a unique Memorial Day ceremony at Boston Harbor to honor the dead of Lane Raye and others lost at sea. Schoolchildren will assemble aboard the old Constitution and cast flowers onto the water as a tribute to those who perished.
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Sampson
Boston Harbor
Bs Lane Raye
Tom
Pickering
Weenae
Metuchen Pompton oppose Socialistic Free Love colony plan
New Jersey towns Metuchen and Pompton protest Rev Dr Herron plan to start a bride’s farm Socialist colony claiming it will defy marriage laws. Local preachers and teachers denounce the project as a moral menace and oppose Herron’s bride room outreach.
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New York
New Jersey
Metuchen
Pompton
Herron Te
Grinnell College
Mason
Larz Anderson Plans Neo Italian Marble Residence in Washington
Larz Anderson of Boston has bought a fine building site on Massachusetts avenue Washington between Florida avenue and Twenty first street from the Misses Patten for about 100000. He proposes a magnificent winter residence costing near 1000000 and begun at once with completion not expected for two years. The structure will be white marble in Neo Italian style.
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Washington
Married Women Teachers in Boston Schools Revealed
A list of married women employed in Boston public schools was compiled by Professor Frank Vogel and circulated to school committee members. The document shows 90 married teachers, with many bearing children and varying husband occupations, sparking debate on whether married women should retire from teaching.
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Boston
Frank Vogel
Lst
Institute of Technology
Boston Fire Department
Enwright
Charlestown
Old-Time Boston Merchant Joel Goldthwait Dies at 111
Joel Goldthwait, a veteran Boston merchant, died at his Victoria Back Bay home yesterday morning aged 111 years. Born April 5, 1831 in Marblehead, he moved to Boston in 17 and helped form Bates Goldthwait & Co, later Goldthwait & Co. He led the firm after 1864 and remained active at the Marlboro Street location for over 70 years. A respected figure, he was a Mason, director of the Old Wren’s Home and Home Savings Bank, and member of the Merchants’ Association. Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 o’clock at his Marlboro Street home.
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Joel Goldthwait
Victoria
Back Bay
Mr. Goldthwait
Marblehead
Boston
Bates & Goldthwait
Bates, Goldthwait & Co
Goldthwait, Snow & Knight
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Goldthwait
Central Church
Bekeley
Newbury Streets
Cne
Merchants’ Association
Wren’s
Home Sav Ange Bank
Marlboro Street
Pickering Moon Photographs Stir Astronomy Insight
Professor W. H. Pickering’s moon surface photographs from Jamaica reveal heat presence and possible atmospheric or surface phenomena. The atlas shows varying textures across the lunar surface taken at five times between sunrise and sunset, prompting renewed interest in lunar studies.
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Prof. Pickering
W. H. Pickering
Jama Oo Weat Indies
Tersiow
Pickering
Jamaica
Short Sessions Delayed Subway Bill In Legislature
In the House yesterday Mr Saunders of Boston moved to postpone the subway bill until Monday. Messrs McPherson of Framingham and Dean of Brookline opposed but the motion prevailed. Both chambers held brief sessions as many members attend state memorial exercises.
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Saunders
Boston
Messrs. McPherson
Framingham
Dean
Brookline
House
Senate
House Defers to State House Changes Amid Budget Save
In a Boston led session several members opposed relocating boards in the State House to accommodate the Highway Commission the Cattle Commission and county comptroller. Opponents argued over moving the Grand Army headquarters and reducing room for the Savings Bank Commission. The report passed and a move to reconsider the engrossing of the State Board of Pharmacy duties failed 8 to 8.
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Callender
Boston
Committee On
State House
Highway Commission
Cattle Commission
Grand Army
Moore
Gardner
Savings Bank Commission
Brown
Dalton
Senate Debates Amend Caucus Regulation Amid Voting Clash
In Essex Senator Currier opposed a House order for an investigation into baking powder composition by the State Board of Health, which was rejected. A Howland caucus regulation bill faced a 10 to 22 Senate vote against referral to the next General Court. The chamber engrossed several measures including a street railway policy and an amendment to raise the town population threshold for caucus applicability, 19 to 18.
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Senate
Currier
Essex
House
State Board of Health
Howland
Shaw
Boston
Sullivan
Suffolk
Chamberlain
Fitzgerald
Dowd
Ater Howland
Hebrew Sunday bill rejected in Senate vote
By 6 to 15 the Senate rejected Mr. Sullivan's motion to recommit the Borofsky bill allowing Sunday labor for Sabbath observers. Mr. Chamberlain questioned whether half the Hebrew population would open on Sunday while others stay closed. The bill failed 21 to 6, without a roll call.
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Senate
Sullivan
Borofsky
Judiciary Committee
Chamberlain
Plymouth
Harvard Opposes Street Widening Taking Arboretum Land
The Boston Committee on Cities heard that the Board of Street Commissioners may seize land from the Arnold Arboretum and the eastern burial ground near Walter Street for widening Walter Street to speed a potential six cent fare to Roslindale. Harvard College objects citing a covenant that no public street be laid over the arboretum without park approval. city officials warn of possible court action if the bill passes.
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Committee On Cities
Thomas N. Ha
Salem D. Charpy
Board of Street Commissioners of
Boston
Arnold Arboretum
Walter Street
Weld Street
Mr. Breed
Roslindale
Andrew J. Batley
Aie
Salem D. Charigg
Charles Change
Coum
Samuel Hoar
Harvard College
Arnold
Charles Francis Adams
Treasur
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Houghton & Dutton
Free Religious Association
Hyde Park High School
Hyde Park
Hig School
Waverly Hall
Henry B. Goodridge
Charles T. Hilliker
William W. Cann
Company A
Clement Bradley
Willard ‘French
Wilbur H. Powers
Arand
Winnie Sweet
Harold K. Merrow
Jamie Tower
Mary Elliott
Edna Runnelis
Helen Keyes
Lillian Beatty
Mabel Sweet
Annie
Old K. Merrow
Pace Hyde Park High School Battalion
Storti
Council
Mas
M’kinley
Dudley Street
Sullivan Square
Army OF Teachers
William T. Sampson
Colony
Dr. Herron
Larz Anderson
Prof. Vogel
Professor Toad Snow
Blake
America
Adams, Taylor & Co
State St
Harvard
Hart
Arboretum
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