Massachusetts Horticultural Show Opens With Prize Chrysanthemums
Martha Doig poses with the Lady Hopetown chrysanthemum owned by Galen L Stone, winner of first prize at the horticultural show. The event features apples grapes celery and abundant prize fruits and vegetables with fragrant chrysanthemums and carnations on display. A trained chrysanthemum plant nears 5000 blossoms, while other flowers reach near child head size.
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Southboro
Lady Hopetown
Massachusetts
British steamers Rowanmore and Marina sinkings prompt German inquiry
Secretary Grew, acting for the U S in Berlin, was told to request Germany’s information on the Oct 28 sinking of the Rowanmore off Cape Clear. Berlin has also received inquiries about the Marina. No reports have reached the foreign office and the submarine involved is not expected back for several days.
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Berlin
London
Joseph C. Grew
Gerard
Rowanmore
Cape Clear
Foreign Office
Marina
Are You Paying Her Off With Love and Sun?
A poetic verse questions whether men adequately repay a woman for years of care and trust. It contrasts material gestures with true support and daily encouragement, urging ongoing, meaningful actions over empty compliments.
Rainbow Sinks German Steamer Reported Off Costa Rica
The Rainbow, a British warship, anchored at Bahia Salinas today. It is reported the Rainbow sank a German steamer off the Costa Rican coast, but officers did not confirm the report.
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LA Libertad
San Salvador
Rainbow
Bahia Salinas
Costa Rica
Dear Sewing Circle Letters on Inheriting Money
A reader discusses how a $25 000 inheritance should be spent to help others, praising those who aid poor babies over self indulgence. She recalls a lost child due to poverty and urges lending to fund medical care for families, arguing it would ease fears of motherhood and help aspiring couples.
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Sewing Circle
A Plan to Rebuild Tenements for Public Benefit
A reader proposes endowing an old ladies home and buying, tearing down, and rebuilding a crowded Boston tenement to provide clean affordable housing. The design envisions no long repairs, proper insurance, and rents that match bank returns, with aims to reduce slums and improve public health. The letter urges a benefactor with $35,000 to help domestic uplift and aid struggling businesses.
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Boston
Four Hurt in Collision in Walpole East Street Crash
Four people were injured in a two car collision near the Kendall street railroad bridge in Walpole. James Walsh, Joseph Hicks, J Carlin, and Edward Donovan were taken to Norwood Hospital with varying injuries including a fractured skull for Carlin.
Hanly Attacks Candidates On Prohibition Issues In Indiana
Old home trail hits again as J Frank Hanly returns to Indiana after a nationwide tour. The Prohibition candidate blasts Democratic and Republican foes for silence on dry issues and directs sharp attacks at Indiana’s vice presidential hopefuls.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
J. Frank Hanly
Indiana
Hanly
Fairbanks
Fashion notes on evening wear and accessories
Slipover and peplum waists pair with short suit coats. Skirts widen to the hipline. Blue frocks gain ruby red embroidery. Fur straps decorate corsages of evening gowns. Novel hipline pockets appear. Buckles on evening slippers receive attention.
Poems For Your Scrap Book Jealousy and Tempest of Love
A poem contrasts natural fury with love’s storms. Imagery ranges from red lightning and roaring seas to tornadoes and earthquakes, then shifts to jealous love as a heat wind that destroys joy, hope, reason, and happiness. The last line explains kamsin as a hot wind.
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Kamsin
Never Fail Doughnuts and Simple Cakes in Home Kitchen
A home cookbook excerpt outlines basic steps for Doughnuts, Dump Cake, Rice Pudding, and Fish Salad. Includes measurements and mixing tips, a surname from Mrs. Wallace Judkins of Oakland Me, and a mail box reference.
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Wallace Judkins
Oakland
Household Scissor Tips For Pies Beans And Fish Care
Household hints advise trimming pie edges with scissors and cutting string beans with scissors. For opening a fish use kitchen scissors instead of a knife. Miss E F Bowdoin 52 Belmont street Woodfords Me.
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E. F. Bowdoin
Belmont Street
Woodfords
Oldest Inhabitant Recalls Boston Weather Milestones
The oldest Boston observer cites historical cold snaps and heat records on this date. He notes official lows of 21 below zero in 1879 and 29 below in 1912 the coldest range, with highs of 74 in 1903 and 73 in 1914 the warmest. Rainfall measurements include 1.73 inches in 1910, and events occurred in 1893, 1899, 1905, 1913, and 1915.
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Boston
Grainger Delights Boston with Bach Partita Recital
Percy Grainger gave a notable Jordan Hall piano recital in Boston yesterday afternoon. He offered a varied program blending folk poetry captions and clever titles, plus Cyril Scott’s humorous captions, then delivered Bach's Partita in B flat with rare artistic clarity. His technique and tonal control drew praise as the audience, sizeable, urged encores.
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Percy Grainger
Jordan Hall
Charles Villers Stanford
Mr. Grainger
Boston
Bach
Grainger
Plea for Individual Child Focus From Massachusetts Education Chief
Dr. Payson Smith, now Massachusetts commissioner of education, told the Essex County Teachers Association in Tremont Temple that child rights must be recognized and school machinery subordinated to direct educational effort for each pupil. He urged teachers to focus on the child and quality work inspired by individual effort rather than rigid subjects or methods.
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Payson Smith
Noted Soldier for Harvard Appointed Professor of Military Science
Captain Alfred Bjornstad of the U S A is named by the War Department as a professor of military science at Harvard University. He will outrank Captain Constant Cordier, the current Harvard instructor, reflecting the expansion of military studies at the university.
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Alfred Bjornstad
War Department
Harvard University
Bjornstad
Constant Cordier
Harvard
Cordier
G O P Rally Draws Faneuil Hall Crowd
Seventy five Republicans gathered at Faneuil Hall to defend Valley Forge soldiers as mischaracterized by War Secretary Baker. Henry B. McDowell of Cambridge led the mass meeting after a torch light parade. Speakers included Mrs. William Lowell Putnam ex mayor Walter Wardwell and Clement G. Morgan.
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Faneuil Hall
Valley Forge
Baker
Villa
Mexico
Henry B. McDowell
Cambridge
Irving McDowell
Bull Run
McDowell
William Lowell Putnam
Walter C. Wardwell
Board of Trade
City
Clement G. Morgan
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