Lapham Pursues Beacon Street Home as Daughters Meet Corey
Silas Lapham, once a Vermont farm boy, has built wealth via a mineral paint from a family mine and rises in Boston business. He plans a Beacon Street residence to aid his daughters Irene and Penelope’s social rise, meeting Thomas Corey through Beacon Hill connections. Corey joins the paint venture after Colonel Lapham mentors him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Lapham
Vermont
Boston
Irene
Penelope
Nankeen Square
South End
Lapham
Beacon Street
Thomas Corey
Beacon Hill
Quebec
Corey
Colonel Lapham
Nantasket
Department of the Fine Arts
Tom
Bromfield Corey
Colonel Lapham Praises Corey Jr and Persis Brand Paint
Bromfield Corey visits Colonel Lapham to discuss his son’s work at the paint business. Lapham extols the son’s drive, compares effort to gym training, and praises the family, the Corleys, and Persis Brand paint while noting the partnership’s potential and social connections.
Four Win Buffalo City Commissioner Seats
Arthur W. Kreinweder Charles M. Heald Charles B. Hill and John F. Malone elected city commissioners under the commission form of government effective January 1. Two Republicans and two Democrats among the winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Arthur W. Kreinweder
Charles M. Heald
Charles B. Hill
John F. Malone
Commission
Taken After Year's Chase
Patrick J. Harrington formerly of Boston and Needham was arrested near Rainbow Mountain Maine after a yearlong manhunt. He is charged in connection with the murder of farm hand Preece at South Paris Maine during potato digging last October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick J. Harrington
Boston
Needham
Preece
Paris
Maine
Rainbow Mountain
Kineo
Fred J. Weyand
Harrington
Newspaper Advertising Class Heard From Townes and Foote
Harry A. Townes of Collins Fairbanks Company and N. Frederick Foote of a New York magazine firm spoke at Boston University on advertising. Townes noted low costs for reaching patrons via newspaper space and praised local papers for copy and illustration services. Foote said national advertisers increasingly use newspaper ads to connect with local store promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Townes
Collins & Fairbanks Company
N. Frederick Foote
New York Magazine
Boston University
Townes
Sugar Cargo for England Sets Sail From Boston
With 98 560 bags of refined sugar weighing over 9 000 000 pounds the British steamer Polruan departs Boston for Queenstown to receive orders for an English port likely London or Liverpool. The shipment, first of its kind from here, is said to go to the British government. A second liner, the Monarch, leaves at noon for Glasgow with 5000 sacks of flour 1000 cases of eggs 128 000 bushels of wheat rye and barley 12 000 barrels of apples 500 tons of steel 12 cars of machinery 12 autog and 400 standard of deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polruan
Boston
Queenstown
Ireland
London
Liverpool
Allan Line
Glasgow
Woman struck by auto taken to hospital
Eugenia Kilrain 38 of Johnson street Lynn was hit near Massachusetts avenue and Beacon street yesterday afternoon by Edward M Sawyer of Hill Crest road Reading. She was conveyed to City Hospital with injuries to the right hip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O'Rourke
Lawrence
Cambridge and
Charles Streets
Massachusetts General Hospital
Eugenia Kilrain
Johnson Street
Lynn
Massachusetts Avenue
Beacon Street
Edward M. Sawyer
Hill Crest Road
Reading
City Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Slong
Persis
W. D. Howells
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Dayton
Ohio
Library Bureau
L. B
W. R. Washburn
Federal Street
Ana
Kendall Square
Cambridge
Michael F. O'Malley
Tremont Street
Dunn
England
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