Debates Rise Over Trial Marriages In New York Sermons
The city erupts over Mrs. Elsie Clews Parsons book The Family and its trial marriage doctrine. Clergy and public figures including Rev. Morgan Dix Rev. R Heber Newton Magistrate Charles Whitan and actress Edna Wallace Hopper condemn the proposals as dangerous to marriage and social order. Rose Pastor Stokes supports women thinking while condemning marriage of convenience as a social evil.
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New York
New Book
Navy
Elsie Clews Parsons
Parsons
Morgan Dix
Trinity
R. Heber Newton
Charles §. Whitan
Charles H. Parkhurst
Charles McCreedy
R. C. Church of the Holy Cross
Edna Wallace Hopper
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Rose
No Attack on Mrs Stevens Denied by W C T U Officials
National W C T U press department announced an investigation found no attack on Mrs Lillian M N Stevens of Portland Me, president of the union, by Arcana lodge of Good Templars in Portland on Nov 11. The outside public work committee stated Dr Henry T Skillings remarks were not damaging to her character.
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National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
the Order of Good Templars
Henry T. Skillings
Stevens
Arcana Lodge of Good Templars
Arcana Lodge
Dreyfus Granted Absolute Divorce From Actress Wife
Emil Dreyfus a Broadway lace importer wins an absolute divorce from Beatrice Brevaine once noted as a leading member of the Anna Held company. Judge Greenbaum vacates alimony and dismisses the divorce suit as to abandonment while Dreyfus sues co respondent John S. Fee for alienation of affection with trial to follow.
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New York
Emil Dreyfus
Beatrice Brevaine
Anna Held
Justice Greenbaum
Dreyfus
West
Fee
St. Louis
Boston Bound Bark Ashore at Yarmouth
The iron bark Reform, Captain Spears, owned by William J. Lovitt of Yarmouth, ran ashore Friday afternoon on Barbuda island near Antigua while in ballast and bound from Rio Janeiro to St Martins to load salt for Boston.
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Yarmouth
N. S
Reform
Spears
William J. Lovitt
Island of
Barbuda
Antigua
Rio Janeiro
St. Martins
British West Indies
Boston
Irish Cause Illustrated in Charlestown Hall
The Irish cause was told in song and stereopticon at Monument Hall Charlestown under the Bunker Hill Allied Irish Societies. Father Hariey’s Roscommon church fund was boosted. John H. Dillon filled in as president in place of Matthew Cummings. John R. Murphy spoke of his Ireland visit and predicted Ireland’s liberty within months. Father Hurley provided a birds eye view of Irish history with pictures.
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Monument Hall
Charlestown
Bunker Hill
Thomas P. Hariey
Roscommon
Ireland
Matthew Cummings
Canada
John H. Dillon
SuVolk
Nine Year Old Heroine Guides Kineo Home From Storms
Nellie May Patten, nine, daughter of Captain F W Patten, earned newspaper fame as morale on the five masted steel schooner Kineo endured a 207 day voyage from Norfolk to home ports after typhoon and Cape Horn storms. The family, longtime Maine and Boston figures, credited Nellie’s cheerfulness with keeping crew spirits up during the harrowing voyage.
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Philadelphia
Navy
Nellie May Patten
F. W. Patten
Hawaiian
Captain Patten
New Gangland
Bath
Arthur Sewall & Co
Lottie Shaw
Daniel C. Shaw
Pattens
Portland
Boston
Kineo
Norfolk
United States Naval Station
Cavite
Manila Bay
Manila
Australia
Sandwich Islands
China
Hawaiian Islands
Samoan
Cape Horn
Patten
Nellie
Nellie May
Papa
Bomb Explodes in St Peter's Causes Panic in Rome
A noon bomb at St Peter's Basilica shocks Rome as bystanders and papal officials react. The pope, uninjured, prays for the miscreants while officials assess the damage and a citywide security tension rises amid successive anarchist incidents.
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ST. Peter’s
Rome
Disruptions Feared as France Prepares Church Inventories
Paris reports rising anxiety over resumption of church inventories under the separation law. Troops in Nord and Pas de Calais and Brittany districts are held in readiness to aid civil authorities, as disorder is considered likely during the process.
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Paris
Department du Nord
Pas de Calais
Brittany
Refused Drink Whipped Clerk in Malden
In Malden on a Saturday afternoon Roland Wright a clerk at his father's drug store was severely horsewhipped after refusing a man a glass of whiskey. The assailant a traveling man left then returned and whipped Wright before fleeing. Wright defended himself with a few blows. The attack stemmed from the whiskey request. Police report the assailant remains unnamed.
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Malden
Roland Wright
Wright
Young Writ
O'Meara Pushes Ordinance To Stop Child Vehicle Rides
Boston Police Commissioner O'Meara urges Aldermen to amend regulations to allow court summons for persistent youths riding on vehicles without drivers consent. He cites four deaths and nineteen injuries in three months and recalls a 9 year old leg injury from a wheel spokes accident.
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O'Meara
Board of Aldermen
Fitzgerald
Boston Little Fellows
Dorchester
Archbishop warns greed dangers during St Patrick's dedication
Lowell November 18 Archbishop William H O Connell native of this city spoke at the dedication of St Patrick's Church urging that labor be justly valued and wealth without gratitude fuels unrest. He warned prosperity worsens spiritual diseases and that greed harms both labor and society.
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Lowell
William H. O'Connell
St. Patrick's Church
O'Connell
Church
Hale Foresees Union Church in Washington Sermon
The South Congregational Church hosted Rev. Edward Everett Hale who preached on unity under the title That they all may be one. He urged a union church in which many preachers share central services and focus on living the faith rather than creeds.
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Mgr. Misciatelli
Apostolic Palaces
Mgr. Bissett
Vatican
Holy Father
Mgr. Kennedy
American College
Louis J. McCloskey
Philadelphia
Paul
King
New York
Pope
South Congregational Church
Edward Everett Hale
Tolstoi
Jesus Christ
Washington
Tired Christians sermon links marriage and church fatigue
Pastor Frederick B. Richards of Phillips Church South Boston laments tired Christians arise when love for the church cools. He argues young marriages weaken both partners and the church, warning that business and social life seduce youth into retirement from service.
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Frederick B. Richards
Phillips Church
South
Boston
East Boston Citizens' League Indorses Local Candidates
The East Boston Citizens' League met at Armory Hall at 3 yesterday afternoon to indorse Michael J. Leary for Alderman and councilmen Bernard Hanrahan Dennis O Neil and Joseph H Pendergast for Ward 2. After the meeting a collation was served and the endorsed candidates spoke briefly.
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East Boston
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Aragno
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Washington ST
Adams Square
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East Boston Citizens’ League
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Columbia Phonograph Company
Eek
Columbia Phonograph Co
Mass
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Bowdoin Sq
Market St
Lynn
ENS
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Tremont St
Col
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E. Burbank
Y and
Treas
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Gilchrist Co
Wintersrs
W. & A. Bacon
Roxbury
L. W. Cutting & Co
Mass. Ave
Cambridge
H. A. Skidmore
Broadway
Chelsea
R. J. Farrell
Union Sq
Someville
FEF
N. Joslin Co
Malden Murphy Bros
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Houghton & Dutton
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Beacon
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