Consternation at City Hall Over New Orleans Flag Scheme
Read like a frontier rumor with Alderman Berwin and the New Orleans flag committee pressing to import a Confederate flag. A telegram from New Orleans derails plans, sparking talk of fraud and various schemes including a trip by balloon or steamship as they debate authenticating the flag.
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New Orleans
Boston
City Hall
Tisa Bluff
Doherty
Joyce
Berwin
Iun
Alderman Berwin
Faneuil Flats
London
John Priest
Tom Doherty
General Jackson
Bill
Germany
Priest
Mexico
John
Kneeland
Growth of Ivy to Cover the Harvard Stadium
Harvard athletic committee approved exterior ivy around the Stadium with a provision against ivy on the baseball cage. Stone was named manager of the association football team, Woodman assistant manager, Short assistant manager of the hockey team, and Powers manager of the shooting team. The shooting schedule includes the intercollegiate match with Princeton on November 24 and the dual with Yale a week after.
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Harvard
Harvard Athletic Committee
Kk. BE. Stone
I Woodman
C. W. Short
H. S. Powers
Princeton
Yale
Funeral for Mrs Regan and Infant at St Joseph’s Church
Funeral services were held for Mrs Mary Frances Regan and her infant daughter who died Saturday at 69 Mt. Vernon Street Somerville. A requiem mass was sung by Rev I J Ryan. The mother wore her wedding dress from Thanksgiving Eve 1905. The bodies lay in one coffin with the child in the mother’s arms. Mrs John Kennedy sang Nearer My God to Thee as they left the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Frances Regan
Mt. Vernon Street
Somerville
St. Joseph’s Church
I. J. Ryan
John Kennedy
Veterans Home London Chelsea Enjoys Music Night
The Soldiers' Home Chelsea hosted an evening of music and song featuring Comrade George W. Coots of Post 34, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Mrs. Alice Gustine Coots of Salem as the entertainers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers’ Home
Chelsea
George W. Coots
Post 34
A. R
Alice Gustine Coots
Salem
Flight prize for Dumont in new airship Bird of Prey
Paris November 15 Santos-Dumont in his airship Bird of Prey soared 210 meters in 21 seconds at a height of 10 to 12 feet. He blamed spectator conduct for the failure to claim the Deutsch Archdeacon prize of 50 000 francs. After two earlier tests the craft suffered minor faults, with a large crowd obstructing the field. A next trial for the prize is expected within a few days.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
Bird of Prey
Deutsch-Archdeacon
Santos-Dumont
Wass and Mrs Kirkham to wed after divorce decree
In Gloucester on November 13 reports say Preston O. Wass, a wealthy real estate owner, will marry Mrs. Clara Davis Kirkham once the divorce ban is lifted. Witnesses described social intrigue around his wife Mife Merchant Wass and the trial's focus on alleged platonic affection and nightly walks in Pigeon Cove. Next month the decree in the Wass divorce is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Preston O. Wass
Will
Clara Davis Kirkham
Mife Merchant Wass
Wass
Mrs Haley Seeks Child In Sleeper Custody Case
Lynn November 13. It is believed those in a position to know that Mrs Fred Haley who is at issue with Alden Sleeper in a $100000 suit for alienation of affections visited the city to gain possession of her child Constance. The child cries for her mother and cannot understand why she is away.
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Lynn
Fred Haley
Alden B. Sleeper
Constance
Father John's Medicine Claim by James B. Rice
James B. Rice of Fairmount West Virginia reports gaining sixteen pounds in six weeks after using Father John's Medicine.
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Th. A. Crinnian
Stanley, Ky
John
James B. Rice
Fairmount
W. Va
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