Cambridge Eyes Bridge Fix Before Big Yale Dartmouth Games
Cambridge streets chief George M. Clukas says Harvard will be told of efforts to strengthen the drawbridge leading to Cambridge after games for spectator safety. Fences will be added to reduce crowding though no firm rebuilding date is set. Mayor Fitzgerald and Patrick F. MacDonald join in plans, with only fences possible before the Yale game.
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Thompson
Harvard Athletic Association
Yale
George M. Clukas
Cambridge
Dartmouth
Clukas
Fitzgerald
Patrick F. MacDonald
Boston
Harvard
Rare Gifts Enrich Boston Museum From Morgan Bigelow
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston received gifts from J Pierpont Morgan of New York and Dr W S Bigelow. Morgan’s contribution is a three volume catalogue set on paintings in London collections with plates and illustrations. Bigelow provides five volumes of catalogues and miniatures scarce to obtain, including photo gravures and hand colored plates.
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Museum of Fine Arts of
Boston
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
W. S. Bigelow
Mr. Morgan
Dr. Bigelow
Princess Gate
Dover House
London
T. Humphrey Ward
W.W. Robert
Betty Delme
Sir Joseph Reynolds
Gainsborough
Duchess of Devonshire
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Miss Farren
Countess of Derby
Fines Imposed in Municipal Court for Auto Violations
Fines totaling fixed at ten dollars each were handed down in the Municipal Criminal Court for automobile law violations. Defendants include Eldredge G. Lavender for fast driving Harry B. Durant Harry Lee for operating an unregistered machine and Benjamin S. Gerrian for overspeeding on Commonwealth Avenue.
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Municipal Criminal Court
Eldredge G. Lavender
Harry B. Durant
Harry Lee
Benjamin S. Gerrian
Commonwealth Avenue
Demagogues and Demi Gods Lesson From M'Sweeney Talk
Edward J. M'Sweeney addressed the St Pauls Club at Newman House Cambridge on demagoguery. He traced demagogues through history from Jack Straw to Chartists and the Knights of Labor, warning that radicalism harms labor and society.
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St. Paul's Club
Harvard College
Newman House
Cambridge
Edward J. McSweeney
Cain
Beacon Hill
Washington
Jack Straw
Wat Tyler
John Wycliffe
America
France
Queen Victoria
England
House of Commons
Daniel O'Connell
Young Ireland Party
Knights of Labor
Shattuck Men’s Shop Sells Out To Siegel
The Henry Siegel Company buys Shattuck's Men's Shop on Boylston Street and plans a Friday and Saturday sale at half price. Shattuck, in business seven months, promises new goods and big bargains for high class furnishings. Shattuck to meet friends at Siegel's event.
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Henry Siegel Company
Shattuck
Boylston Street
Boston
Siegel Company
Postoffice Looted at River Point Rhode Island
Providence reports a River Point Rhode Island post office robbery. Thieves forced entry and took a large quantity of stamped envelopes including 2 cent and 1 cent denominations. Police investigation underway with details scarce.
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Providence
R. I
River Point
Pawtuxet Valley
Schiff's Boston Visit Stirs Bankers
Jacob Schiff, the New York financier, spent a quiet day at the Touraine in Boston after registering Wednesday. He declined to comment on New York absence, President Mellen's anti corporate agitation remarks, or any impending financial crisis, adding only that no crisis is known to him.
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Boston
Jacob Schiff
New York
Schiff
Touraine
President Mellen
First Woman Editor Dies at 91 in New York
Harriet Farley Donlevy, once Harriet Farley editor of Lowell Offering, the leading woman editor of a U S magazine, died at her New York home aged 91. She lived at the Home for Incurables and funeral rites were planned at the home chapel.
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New York
United States
Harriet Farley Donlevy
Harriet Farley
Donalevy
Lowell Offering
Lowell
Mass
Duckrey Wins $2000 Defamation Verdict in Cambridge
The Rev. J. Henry Duckrey former pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cambridge won a $2000 defamation verdict against former Deacon A. B. Jones in Middlesex Superior Civil Court East Cambridge yesterday. Duckrey charged defamation of character.
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J. Henry Duckrey
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Colored
Cambridge
A. B. Jones
Middlesex
East Cambridge
Duckrey
Woed and Won While Abroad Romance Ends in Boston Wedding
Mrs. Augusta B. Burrows of Boston and Lowell married Francisco J. Manrique of Bogota Colombia at 109 Commonwealth Avenue. The couple met in Europe while Mrs. Burrows traveled with friends and arranged the wedding by cable.
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Augusta B. Burrows
Boston
Lowell
Francisco J. Manrique
Bogota
Colombia
Samuel Cabot
Commonwealth Avenue
Robbers Ravaging Brookline Terrify Residents With Break-Ins
Brookline police battle a trend of daring robberies, with at least 20 incidents reported in the past month. Jewelry, silverware, and cash vanished from multiple homes between 4 and 7 pm. losses mount to thousands. A resident urged citizen patrols as the thiefs evade capture.
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Brookline
Post
Brent FE. Johnson
Lancaster Terrace
Oswell Labdon
Flora Street
C. A. Sinclair
Beaconsfield
Back Bay
Charles R. Cutter
Oswald Kunhardt
Carlton Chambers
Boylston Street
Cutter
Boston
Marlboro Street
Ex-Rep Adams Addresses Daughters of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Massachusetts held a reception at the Brunswick Hotel for members who returned from abroad. Ex-Representative Charles H. Adams gave a talk titled Colonial and Modern Newspapers, comparing work and field of the two institutions.
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Daughters of Massachusetts
Brunswick
Austin C. Wellington
Charles H. Adams
F. M. Newcomb
Old Deputy Sheriff James W. Riley Dies at 86
James W. Riley, believed oldest deputy in Massachusetts by years of service, died at 86 in North Attleboro. Appointed in 1865, he served continuously and is famed for leading the 1873 capture of a counterfeit gang in the town.
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North Attleboro
James W. Riley
Massachusetts
Humble Beginnings End Life in Insane Asylum
Chicago report describes Mrs. Emmanuel Ruehl once famed as multilingual musician and artist and a prominent entertainer for Prince Henry of Prussia during his American tour. She was widow of architect Peter Ruehl and elder child of the Ruehl brewery founder, now confined at Dunning asylum.
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Chicago
Prince Henry of
Prussia
America
Emmanuel Ruehl
Peter Ruehl
Dunning
Somerville Firefighters Get Pay Increase On Dec 1
Aldermen raised pay for permanent Somerville fire department members at last night’s meeting. Ernest A. Day of South Acton, 22, detained at East Cambridge jail on larceny charge for $290 against A Merriam Co. Patrick Kelleher, 7, of East Cambridge, injured by a horse with near severed upper lip. Spruce Pride of 3 Strong Place, a West End color man and a police officer chased after a broom theft near Blossom Street. Pride arrested for larceny of the broom from C W Abbott on Blossom.
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Somerville Fire Department
Ernest A. Day
South Acton
East Cambridge
A. Merriam Co
South. Acton
Patrick Kelleher
Gore Street
Blossom Street
Amrest
Spruce Pride
C. W. Abbott
Estate receives seven thousand in Rockingham case verdict
The jury awarded the estate of Albert C. Anderson seven thousand dollars against the Rockingham County Light and Power Company of Portsmouth for the death of Mr. Anderson. Also reported are enterprising brief items from Maine and Connecticut including a technical larceny arrest in Lewiston and a quarantine station appointment on Peaks Island.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Albert C. Anderson
Rockingham County Light and Power Company of
Anderson
Blessed Babies Flocked to South Boston Church
In the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer East Boston about 500 babies aged six months to four years were blessed yesterday afternoon. Rev Father Minan and Jesuit priests led the ceremony with Father Lawrence McCarthy among the observers. Parents and relatives filled the pews as the crowd watched the future parents of the coming generation.
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Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Boston
Father Minan
Sion
Lawrence McCarthy
Gas explosion kills worker in Bridge Street factory
Union City reports a fatal gas explosion at the Metal Finishing Company on Bridge Street. Frank Paterycke, 30, died. John Petruski is said to have sustained probable fatal injuries. Authorities note the accident occurred in the Japanning department and workers were investigating the blast.
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Union City
Conn
Bridge _ street
Tfrank Paterycke
John Petruski
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