Unique Handicraft Collection At Deerfield Society Exhibit
A Deerfield Society of Industries collection is on display this week in the Women's Educational and Industrial Union handiwork room on Boylston Street. The exhibit features old-fashioned blue and white needlework rugs blankets curtains table covers and embroideries. The society organized in 1899 has produced many notable pieces since.
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Society of Deerfield Industries
Deerfield
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Boylston Street
Woman Uses Bonds To Paper Shelves In Seattle
In Seattle a son bought 4000 dollars in Seattle Improvement bonds for his mother to provide income. After a long illness she reportedly forgot about the bonds, and they were later found used to paper pantry shelves when checked by City Treasurer E. L. Terry and Accountant A. B. Lund.
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Seattle
Wash
E. L. Terry
A. B. Lund
Unclear OCR: local grocery price list fragment
Fragmentary shopping ad item prices show small quantities and varied cans with prices like 10c to 15c, but no complete items or context.
Wreckage Found Off Maine Coast Suspects Three Masted Schooner
Reporters found two large masts and blocks between Small Point and Orrs Island suggesting a three masted schooner of about 1000 tons. The vessel may have wrecked during a recent gale near Ragged Island. A third mast was towed ashore at Cliff Island. No identity or crew information available.
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Portland
Small Point
Orr’s Island
Green Island
Ragged Island
Les Betwen
Point
Coast Guard
Cape Elizabeth
Cliff Island
Marines Drill at Legion Dance in Jamaica Plain
A company of Marines from Charlestown navy yard will exhibition drill tonight at the Michael J. O Connor Post American Legion dance in West Roxbury High School hall Jamaica Plain. The post receives a stand of State and national colors presented by Jamaica Plain Council Knights of Columbus. Dr Karl Baker oversees arrangements.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Michael J. O'Connor
American Legion
West Roxbury High School
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain Council
Knights of Columbus
Karl Baker
Boston Tonight Local Events Include Parades and Balls
Today's events start with a Red Cross drive closure at 5 a.m. and a Boston Floral Week parade at 10 a.m. A symposium on baseball and a lecture on Congress open at 10:30 a.m. Meetings, socials, and Legion balls fill the evening, with Revere and Cambridge posts hosting dances and receptions at local halls and venues. The Boston Press Club wraps the night with Shubert Gaieties at the Majestic Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Boston
Evangelical Alliance
Lord’s Day League
Park Street
Maud Wood Park
Business Women’s Club
Boston School Committee
Horace Mann Benevolent Association
Hotel Vendome
Michael J. O’connor
American Legion
West Roxbury High School
Jamaica Plain
Enos Sawyer
Cambridge
St. Mary’s Hall
Prospect Street
Revere Post
Revere City Hall
Quinine Laxa Tive Tablets Marketed Despite Jumbled Label
A fragmented OCR excerpt describes a quinine product named LAXATIVE or QUININE tablets with tonic and laxative effects. The text mentions usage guidance and possible digestive relief, though the legibility is poor and branding unclear.
Ladies Night At Back Bay Post To Form Auxiliary
Wednesday marks a big night at Back Bay Post No 117 American Legion with the launch of a ladies auxiliary. Under Commander Coolidge the event aims to introduce members and families, featuring Fielding Players, Mae Lambert, Sadie Campbell, Rothberg, Abe Cohen, and special guest Laura Carpenter recently from overseas service.
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Back Bay
No. 117
American Legion
Commander Coolidge
George Richards
Fielding Players
Mae Lambert
Sadie Campbell
Harry Lauder
Rothberg
Abe Cohen
Fort Andrews
Laura Carpenter
France
Germany
Belgium
Holland
Charlestown Couple to Wed at St Mary's Rectory
Miss Georgianna Corbett of 49 Chestnut street Charlestown and Richard A. Leonard of 16 Cedar street will be married on Wednesday at 2 o'clock in St Mary's rectory. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John F Corbett and former clerk's office employee. Leonard is the son of Mr and Mrs Richard F Leonard, a Yankee Division lieutenant and bravery cited officer now deputy collector in the internal revenue department.
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Georgianna Corbett
Chestnut Street
Charlestown
Richard A. Leonard
Cedar Street
St. Mary’s Rectory
John F. Corbett
Clerk Campbell
Pemberton Square
Young Ladies’ Catholic Club
Leonard
Richard F. Leonard
Internal Revenue Department
Fortune 10 Girl Left by Tramp in Osage Area
Nine years ago in Osage a 16 year old girl Sarah Lindley lived with her parents on a West Osage farm. She visited her uncle G O Lunde near Nora Springs for a short vacation and carried $2 given by her father for spending money.
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Osage
Town
Sarah Lindley
Ole Lindley
Sarah
G. O. Lunde
Nora Springs
Yonder Place
Bequest Tale Spurs Local Folly and Fraud Claim
A Minnesota widow named Sarah Lindley resists a con man claiming a tramp left her 65 000 dollars from a Mescal bank. Attorney Carr confirms the 1918 Stewartville will, revealing 150 000 plus in bequests, but she rejects multiple callers and preserves thrift amid offers and gossip.
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Osage
Bert A. Day
Mann
Mescal, Mann
Sarah Lindsey
Iowa
John Brunsvik
Stewartville
Minn
Carr
Sarah Lindley
Mescal
Miss Lindley
France
Sarah
Suffolk Law School Drive Opens with Early $11800 Gift
Suffolk Law School on Mt. Vernon street reports $11800 raised in the first week of a drive for a $50000 fund to provide larger quarters, announced by Dean Gleason L. Archer last night. The campaign has been underway one week.
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Suffolk Law School
Mt. Vernon Street
Gleason L. Archer
Missouri to ban shimmy and new dances in rural schools
In rural Missouri the shimmy and other modern ballroom dances are doomed as chaperons and social norms push a return to square dances the old-time waltz and a modest two-step. The article notes prior clashes with chaperons over dancing and predicts a revolution in interior Missouri dancing next winter.
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Fayette, Mo
Missouri
Dog Causes Delays on Brooklyn Streetcar Line
A dog accompanied its master to Flatbush and Foster avenues in Brooklyn and boarded a hobble-skirt streetcar. The driver halted the line and ejected the animal, then the dog rode other cars for half an hour causing further delays before leaving shyly.
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New York
Flatbush and
Foster Avenues
Brooklyn
Co-eds Battle Bats At DePauw in Mansfield Hall
In Greencastle Indiana on November 9 60 co ed residents of Mans field Hall at DePauw University armed with tennis racquets brooms and towels fought 32 bats that entered an unoccupied dormitory room. The residents wore towels on their heads to deter bats from lodging in their hair during the hour long fight.
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Greencastle
Ind
Mansfield Hall
DePauw University
Prominent Baker George Cross Dies in St Johnsbury
George M. Cross longtime head of the George H. Cross Company bakers and confectioners died today in St Johnsbury Vermont. Born in 1836 in Concord New Hampshire he studied in Montpelier and married Ellen Matthews of Fort Covington New York in 1868. Survived by his widow and a daughter Mrs J Frank Trull of Biddeford Maine. he retired from the bakery business eight years ago.
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ST. Johnsbury
George M. Cross
George H. Cross
Concord
N. H
Montpelier
Ellen Matthews
Fort Covington
N. Y
J. Frank Trull
Biddeford
Kids Fire Sparks Danger at Neighboring Door
Francis Emelie of 2 North Margin Street started to go inside when his children lit a match and a Sunday newspaper near a gas tank. Firemen arrived in time to prevent serious damage and neighbors were alarmed as the youngsters were calmed by parents.
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Francis Emelie
North Margin Street
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Back Bay Legion Post
Ruth
Legion Post
Back Bay Post
Catherine Carroll
Carman Sylville
Mary A. Scanlon
Ethel Roberts
Dorothy Grandison
Kay Korbett
Eileen Skinner
Betty LeMont
Dorothy Nedmond
Florence May
Millie Ollie
The
Connor
Brookside Creamery
Brookside
Crisco
Northfield
aTo
Ouraine
John T.connor CO
Greater
N. E
Maine
Legion Dance
Dark
Thayer McNeil
Thayer McNeil Company
Temple Place
West Street
Fortune
Suffolk Law
Dog
RAND
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Wm. Filene’s Sons Co
Gillette Safety Razor Co
Old Colony Trust Co
United Fruit Company
R. K. LeBlonde Company
United Shoe Machinery Company
Miami Copper Company
Rand Company
North
Tonawanda, N. Y
Devonshire St
Fort Hill
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