Couple in Mercy Hospital Recover from Suicide Pact
Springfield reports Robert W. Kirwan and his wife Bessie have survived two weeks at Mercy Hospital after a suicide pact. Doctor Weiser says they are convalescent and soon may return home opposite the hospital. If Bob frees himself from illness, the couple may reconsider their tragic decision, while families plan a hopeful homecoming with autumn decor and visitors from Belchertown.
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Springfield
Robert W. Kirwan
Bessie
Mercy Hospital
Weiser
Recent Discoveries in Palestine to be Talked at King's Chapel
Professor D G Tyon discusses Recent Discoveries in Palestine at King's Chapel this afternoon as the Lowell Institute lecture series continues. Professors Lyon Toy Moore G J Moore Fenn and Emerton form a slate covering topics over the next four months. The program includes Formation of the Hebrew Flatter Naturalization of Christianity in the Far East and The Origin of Religion and Wearly Reformation Thought.
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Palestine
D. G. Tyon
King’s Chapel
Lowell Institute
Lyon, Toy
FE. C. Moore
G. J. Moore
Fenn
Emerton
Far East
Wisconsin Bishop Leads Harvard Mission at St. James
The Right Rev Reginald Heber Weller conducts a week long mission at St James Church North Cambridge before Harvard students. Sermons aim to revive individual consecration to baptismal vows and counter influences opposed to revealed religion. The series runs through December 2.
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Reginald Heber Weller
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Boston
Harvard
St. James’ Church
North
Cambridge
Mission talk on Hawaiian Islands by Honolulu bishop
Rev. Mr. Resterick bishop of Honolulu spoke at Immanuel Church on Newbury street about conversion work among 80 000 Japanese 20 000 Oriental children and many Chinese He noted Orientals share the same needs as Occidentals and that Polynesians are embracing Christianity rapidly with the call to Jesus Christ as in Hebrews Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever.
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Immanuel Church
Newbury Street
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Resterick
Occidentals
Asis
Jesus Christ
Boston Unitarian Sunday School Union to Lecture Series
The Boston Unitarian Sunday School Union gathers at South Congregational Church with two speakers. Mrs Clara B Bentley discusses A Graded Course of Study for Sunday Schools and Rev Walter I Greenman presents The Tone-topic System lessons in an address set to run through April 20, 1908.
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Boston Unitarian Sunday School Union
South Congregational Church
Clara B. Bentley
Walter I. Greenman
Study Normal Course Returns to Ford Hall Meeting
A Saturday session at Ford Hall began at 1 PM with organizing and planning the Sunday School program. The discussion moved to "Missions in the Sunday School" as part of a broader study of aliens and immigration in the curriculum led by experienced teachers.
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Ford Hall
Montclair Dairymen Groom Cows for Purity
Montclair dairymen respond to health board agitation by washing and grooming every cow in one herd before milking. They rub each animal with a clothes brush to impress state authorities with the herd’s cleanliness.
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Montclair
Health Board
Montclairig
Passengers Raise $3000 for Injured Polish Woman
In New Haven on Main Street Port Chester Madie Chisma a Polish resident received severe injuries after being struck by a train. Passengers pulled up, collected funds from crowded cars and handed about $3000 to her friends before she was removed.
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New Haven
Madie Chisma
Main Street
Port Chester
Richard R. Lytie
West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street
Manhattan
Howard Gould Strains at Wife's Unpaid Bills Ad Posted
New York Nov 17 Howard Gould announced through city papers that he will not be responsible for debts his wife incurs. The ad follows a separation suit with his wife who has spent the large allowance and charged bills to him.
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New York
Howard Gould
Gould
Middies Barred from Lending Coats to Ladies at Navy
Annapolis Nov 17 The Naval Academy bans midshipmen from loaning reefers overcoats and mackintosh to young ladies. Captain W S Benson, commandant, orders that middies no longer lend their rain gear to fair friends at Navy games to shield them from rain.
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Annapolis
Navy
W.S. Benson
Naval Academy
Woman seeks pardon for life prisoner Abbott in 1880 murder case
A nameless woman advocates freeing Stearns Kendall Abbott, jailed for murder in Charlestown for 27 years. Governor Guild may consider a pardon at Thanksgiving after years of appeals and Abbott’s continued assertions of innocence.
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Stearns Kendall Abbott
Charlestown
Abbott
Wife and child located after Athol disappearance
Mrs. Thomas R. O Connell and her eight year old son Thomas R Jr were found in Boston with Mrs James H Murphy at Shawmut avenue. A family acquaintance read the Post report and alerted Mr O Connell who retrieved them both today, the wife having been ill before they left on July 22.
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Worcester
Thomas R. O’connell
Thomas R., Jr
Athol
James H. Murphy
Shawmut Avenue
Boston
Murphy
Boston Post
Heir to Millions and Wife Separate in Brooklyn News
Irving W. Childs, a 22 year old Brooklyn heir to a $2 million estate, announced his wife Gertrude has left him and he will not assume her debts. He previously sued Eversley Childs, his elder brother, gaining $482,000 of their late father William H. Childs estate. Irving awaits his share until age 25.
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New York
Irving W. Childs
Brooklyn
William H. Childs
Gertrude
Childs
Eversley Childs
Irving
Eversley
Brookfield Lovers' Wall to be Beautified Not Replaced
Brookfield residents will not lose the Lovers' wall on North Main street. Catherine Lewis states the old wall, built over a century ago, will receive interior repairs only and a fence is not planned. The landmark will be preserved and beautified according to her description.
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Brookfield
Lovers’ Wall
North Main Street
Catherine Lewis
Joseph Lewis
Anderson
Teacher Institutes Harsh Tactics With Wormwood Diet
Waterbury Conn Nov 17 East Litchfield school district confronts a country teacher who abandoned conventional discipline and forced disobedient pupils to eat herbs wild turnip boneset and wormwood. The teacher defends her rodless approach saying she aimed to stop boys from plugging the chimney.
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Waterbury, Conn
East Litchfield
17YearOld Ida McCarthy Directs St Cecilia Organ
Miss Ida McCarthy 17 of East Boston stood in for the organist at St. Cecilia's Church and directed the organ smoothly. A East Boston High School graduate and three year choir member, she began music study at nine with Elizabeth Barron and has studied with Professor John A. O'Shea. She said she felt nervous at first but carried the solo duties well.
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St. Cecilia’s Church
Hoboken
N. J
Ida McCarthy
Monmouth Street
East Boston
East Boston High School
St. Cecilia’s Choir
Elizabeth Barron
the Holy Redeemer Church
John A. O'Shea
Miss McCarthy
The
Post
O’shea
Pretty Actress to Become Trained Nurse
Worcester, Nov 17 Miss Ethel Grant a Worcester woman formerly with the Malcolm Williams stock company is now at Worcester City Hospital. She has left the stage to pursue nursing saying she grew too slim for art and will wear a nurse's cap and apron.
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Worcester
Ethel Grant
Malcolm Williams Stock Company
Worcester City Hospital
Miss Grant
Revere Matron Rescues Boy from Icy Pit
Nov 17 Revere Massachusetts A three year old Albert Reith Jr nearly drowned when he stepped onto a frozen water pit in Paul Revere Park land. Mrs Charles Briand rescued him using a stick and guided bystanders helped pull him free. Fire and park officers aided in revival and the child and rescuer are expected to recover fully.
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Mrs. Briand
Albert
Joseph Benett
Edward B. West
Park Police
Turkey Prices Seen High But Markets Cautious
Prices for turkeys are expected to rise with forecasts of 3 and 40 cents per pound for natives and up to 30 cents for Western birds. Dealers say current market levels mimic the past five to six years, and Thanksgiving prices remain unpredictable amid concern over cost and supply. Albert Tapley of H L Lawrence Co. notes prices are similar to recent years.
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Vermont
Cape Cod
Albert
Tapley
H. L. Lawrence Company
Post
Aged choir leader dies same time as his wife
In Long Branch New Jersey A. H. Dennett longtime Methodist church choir leader died yesterday after learning two weeks earlier that his wife would not live. The couple had been married 60 years and she died on Tuesday. Dennett had paralysis 2% weeks before and was unconscious when his wife passed away at age 81.
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Bob
Kirwan
Carew Street
Randolph
Belchertown
Long Branch
N. J
Dennett
Man and wife wed in language barrier with humor
Arthur F. Keene of 283 East Eleventh Street married Luisa Minudri yesterday in New York. Keene speaks no Italian and his bride cannot speak English, yet they enter wedded life with optimism that she will not nag or henpeck him.
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New York
Arthur F. Keene
East Eleventh Street
Luisa Minudri
Keene
Kubelik Wife Endorses Public Kissing Of Violinist
In Chicago the Countess Marianne Szaky Czell Kubelik said she does not mind other women kissing her husband Jan Kubelik as a tribute to his genius. She added she does not object to kisses from all the ladies of Boston who admire his talent.
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Boston
Jan Mubelik
Chicago
Marianne Szaky-Czell Kubelik
Jan Kubelik
Western girls shower favors on the young artist
The artist’s wife remains calm as admirers courted him, while an Austrian anecdote features a beautiful young woman awaiting Jan’s arrival and declaring love. Interviewers ask how he would react to many kisses from admirers, and he replies that it would be different.
Governors 10 Talk to Teddy at White House Pine
President Roosevelt invites governors to meet at the White House May 13 14 and 15 to discuss conserving natural resources. Invitations will also go to members of Congress and the Inland Waterways Commission. The letter warns resources are depleted and urges urgent statewide action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Houses of Congress
Inland Waterways Commission
Vast Zuyder Zee Reclamation Plan Reconsidered
Information from The Hague indicates a renewed contemplation of the large scale project to reclaim the Zuyder Zee. The plan envisions vast land recovery with implications for Dutch geography and water management.
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Zuyder Zee
London
Hague
Maud Booth Speaks to New Hampshire Prison Convicts
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth of New York, head of the Volunteer Prison League, addressed convicts at the New Hampshire State Prison Concord. She praised the abolition of striped garb and the lockstep and urged parole for life term prisoners across states.
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Concord
N. H
Maud Ballington Booth
New York
Volunteer Prison League of America
New Hampshire
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Greater Boston
Lowell
Bishop Resterick
Hawaii
Unitarian Sunday School Union
Baptist Day of Conferences
Worcester Wanderers
Walker @ Pratt Mfg. Co
Union St
Purdy
St. Cecilia’s
Revere
Lad
Albert Reith
Turkeys
New England
Kubelik
Vienna
Jan
Teddy
Axminster
Wilton
Maud Booth
State Prison
Concord, N. H
Macallar Parker Company
Washington Street
Workincmens Co-Operative Bank
Tremont St
Col. Bromfield
Frank Sk. Burbank
See'y and
Treas
McDonald's
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