Archbishop O Connell Celebrates Mass at Roxbury Orphan Asylum
Archbishop O Connell led a solemn high mass in the chapel of St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum on Camden Street Roxbury for benefactors of the institution. Father Conway of Boston College attended. Walter Winston, a BC student, served as altar boy and Miss Mary Edwards directed the children's choir. The archbishop spoke to the congregation and, as asylum president, offered encouragement to the children.
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Archbishop O’connell
St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum
Camden Street
Roxbury
Father Conway
Boston College
Walter Winston
Mary Edwards
Asylum Corporation
Rear Admiral Leutze to retire November 16
Washington, Nov. 12 Rear Admiral Eugene H. Leutze commandant of the Washington navy yard will retire on Nov. 16 on account of age. He will remain in command of the office for the present until a successor is selected.
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Washington
Eugene H. Leutze
Washington Navy Yard
Navy Department
242 Aliens Put in Quarantine after Canopic Case
Following a smallpox case on the White Star liner Canopic on arrival, 242 immigrants held aboard were moved to Gallup's Island for eight days of observation. Dr. Paul Carson, port physician, notes no symptoms yet, while 920 of the total aboard have been discharged.
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White Star
Canopic
Gallup’s Island
Paul Carson
Verdicts Award $4513 for Steamship Co to Canada Atlantic
A U S circuit court jury found two verdicts totaling $4513.40 with interest for the Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship Company against former Boston officials Alfred Hayes and George B. Gale. They allegedly voted themselves illegal salaries following a prior president's ousting.
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United States
Canada Atlantic & Plant Steamship Company
Alfred. Hayes
Boston
George B. Gale
Somerville man jailed for forgery and larceny
William W. Smith Jr., 32, of 48 Derby Street, was sentenced to 13 months in the East Cambridge House of Correction after pleading guilty to forgery and larceny against the city of Somerville. His wife pleaded for clemency citing illness and hardship, but Justice Wentworth upheld the sentence.
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Justice Wentworth
Somerville
William W. Smith, Jr
Derby Street
East Cambridge House of Correction
Wentworth
Smith
Hear Where Grain Went in Canner Freedman Case
Merchants from the Chamber of Commerce attended the resumed trial in the United States District Court to hear testimony on the disposition of large loads of hay and grain allegedly concealed from creditors. Teamsters Chas M Elvey and Robert Reader testified about grain concealment, with Elvey corroborating his father’s account of a wagon load removed by Canner from his stable in Fast Boston in 1908. The case will resume Tuesday.
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Chamber of Commerce
Canner-Freedman
United States District Court
Chas. M. Elvey
Robert Reader
Elvey
Canner
Fast
Boston
Fire origin disputed at 7 Chauncy Street
Officials of the M Sharaf Company say the blaze on Nov 1 at 11 10 p m did not start on their fourth floor occupied area but on the floor below according to authorities.
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Chauncy Street
M. Sharaf Company
Historic stone for monument at Provincetown portal
Reuben K. Nickerson, 78, a veteran stone cutter, finished lettering a stone to stand near the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown. The inscription notes the original door stone from Governor Thomas Prence’s Eastham home of 1646. Gift from Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson of Brewster weighs several hundred pounds.
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Brewster
Reuben K. Nickerson
Provincetown
Thomas Prence
Eastham
Mass
Pilgrim Monument Association
Samuel M. Nickerson
Cape Cod
Nickerson
Polly
Cook
Woman Doctor Denounces Double Moral Standard in Lecture
Dr Evangeline Young spoke at the 1915 exhibition in the Art Museum building about the double standard of morality. She urged better sex education, warned of dangers in marriage to men with a past, and called for a living wage for women to gain independence.
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Dr. Young
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