Wooden Buddha shines in new Museum of Fine Arts exhibit
Visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts marvel at an 11th century wooden Amida Nyorai statue at the entrance to the Chinese and Japanese departments. The piece, a first for the new Huntington avenue building, has drawn thousands this week with more expected today and tomorrow.
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Amida Nyorai
Art Museum
Copley Square
Huntington Avenue
NEW Museum OF Fine Arts
Ballinger Denies Fraud Claims and Corporate Ties
Secretary Ballinger of the Interior denies charges from a magazine report accusing him of aiding fraud against the government. He traces Alaska coal land history, rebuts claims of stock holdings, firm ties to Alaska Petroleum Coal & Coke, and alleged advisory roles for Standard Oil. He also counters assertions about rights of way affecting a Deschutes Canyon power plant.
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Washington
Ballinger
Interior Department
Alaska
Roosevelt
Garfield
General Land Office
Congress
Alaska Petroleum, Coal & Coke Company
Standard Oil Legal Adviser
Seattle
Hill
Harriman
Deschutes Canyon
Oregon
Canyon
Proper personad laxative syrup for regular bowel habits
Purported advertisement claims Syrup of fig for constipation can cure with proper use, aiding nature rather than replacing it. Recommends nourishing living and right habits. promotes GETUANE California Syrup as the remedy sold by druggists at a fixed price per bottle.
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California
Hair Scalp Cleansing Remedy Promotes Lustrous Hair
An ad explains scalp health and hair shedding caused by clogged pores and oily secretions. It claims tonics are frauds and promotes Birt's Head Wash as a cleansing treatment with ingredients listed, and suggests consulting a doctor. Price is 50 cents.
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Birt
Appeals for New Museum in Boston Urges Continued Support
A letter to the Editor argues Boston must fund art amid its Puritan reverence for mind and life. George A. Gordon says the city has a worthy museum and needs ongoing revenue to enrich it, appealing to all who love Boston.
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Sir
Boston
George A. Gordon
Stage schedule and cast changes in Boston theaters
The Globe plans a posthumous premiere of Fitch's The City next Monday. The Blue Mouse ends tonight. Lillian Russell remains at the Hollis in The Widow's Might for a week, then Detective Sparkes with Hattie Williams. Viola Allen's White Sister closes tonight at the Majestic, then Maxine Elliott in The Chaperon. The Love Cure plays to a satisfied crowd at Tremont. Elsie Janis promotes The Fair Co-Ed at the Colonial. Max Rogers follows. Three Twins ends November 27. The Circus Man with Macklyn Arbuckle to follow. The Gentle man From Mississippi shows staying through New Year at the Park. Contested Woman returns at Castle Square next week with Caroline Miskell Hoyt. Two showings of The College Widow today. The Sporting Deacon ends at Grand Opera House tonight. Monday brings The Creole Slave's Revenge. Chevalier at Keith's Monday leads a strong bill, Jardin de Paris models with Carl Henry and Nellie Nichols. Pauline the hypnotist visits the American Music Hall next week for scrutiny by physicians. Bowdoin Square Theatre produces Kit the Arkansas Traveller next week. Dreamlands ends a strong week tonight. Jardin de Paris Girls arrive Monday. The Frolicsome Lambs perform for the last times at the Columbia today. Dave Marion headlines fanmakers this week. Hastings Show headlines the Gaiety Theatre next week. Hub program closes today with ten vaudeville acts at New Palace Theatre.
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Lillian Russell
Elsie Janis
Colonial
Harvard
Max Rogers
Boston
Macklyn Arbuckle
the Park
Mississippi
Caroline Miskell Hoyt
Castle Square Theatre
Grand Opera House
Chevalier
Keith’s
Jardin de Paris
Carl Henry
Nellie V. Nichols
A. O. Duncan
Gruber
American Music Hall
Pauline
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Kit
Arkansas Traveller
Frederick van Rennselaer
Edytha Ketchum
Dreamlands
the Howard
Marion
Jardin de Paris Girls
Columbia Today
Dave Marion
Hastings
Gaiety Theatre
New Palace Theatre
Ardele and
Leslie
Margaret Rosa
Harvard Yale gridiron shown at Boston Electrical Show
The Electrical Show in Boston draws crowds daily and becomes an annual event after great success. This afternoon the Harvard Yale football game will be reproduced on the Irwin score board with reserved balcony seats for a small fee.
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Boston
Harvard
Gift of 150000 to art museum from Evans widow
The Museum of Fine Arts receives 150000 from R D Evans via his widow. Twenty five thousand dollars completes his large building fund subscription. Evans loved art and gifted a Van Dyck and a Rubens double portrait now on loan or on display.
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R. D. Evans
Mr. Evans
Evans
van Dyck
Rubens
Trustees Honor Evans Death and $185,635 Museum Appeal
Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts post a resolution honoring Robert Dawson Evans who died July 6 1909 and note his generous building fund gift now added to the maintenance fund. Funds raised total 185 635 by noon yesterday with 125 000 earmarked for the maintenance fund and 5 300 received recently. Boston MIT President Richard C Maclaurin praises art’s civic value urging continued support as locals rally to meet the remaining fundraising goal.
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Museum of Fine Arts
Robert Dawson Evans
Richard C. Maclaurin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Market Place
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
F. L. Higginson
Wage Cut Expected for Fall River Mills on December 13
The 30,000 operatives in Fall River cotton mills face about a 9 percent wage reduction on December 13 unless manufacturers invoke the sliding scale provision. The cut stems from high cotton costs over six months and stagnant finished product prices.
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Fall River
Score
New York Board boosts supreme court justices salaries
The New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment adopted a resolution to raise the salaries of State Supreme Court justices in New York City from 17,500 to 21,500 dollars a year. The increase takes effect January 1, 1910.
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New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Suffragettes Seek American Legal Aid Over British Jailings
English suffragette leaders seek American government help to protect citizens from violence amid prison tactics in Bristol and Holloway. Theresa Gurnett, jailed for an attempted attack on Winston Churchill, and Alice Paul, held eight days without food and later taking prison fare after a stone thrown at Guild Hall interrupted the Lord Mayor’s King Edward birthday speech.
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London
Theresa Gurnett
Bristol
Alice Paul
Philadelphia
Holloway
Miss Gurnett
Winston Churchill
Paul
Guild Hall
King Edward
Mangano Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Philip Mangano, who shot and killed his daughter, a New York school teacher, six months ago, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in the Supreme Court. He faces the electric chair at sentencing on Tuesday next.
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New York
Philip Mangano
Supreme Court
Bar Harbor Seaman Drowns Off Ship
Augustus McCauley of Bar Harbor was knocked overboard from the schooner Clara A. Comee off Rockland Maine. The 42 year old seaman disappeared and his body was not recovered. His parents live in Quincy Massachusetts.
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Rockland
Clara A. Comee
Bangor
Boston
Augustus McCauley
Quincy
Mass
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J.a.greene
England
Slayer OF Daughter
National Biscuit Company
Howard Jones
Yale
W. H. Lewis
Harry Kersburg
Leo Leary
Cambridge University
Sunday Post
Chef Dellamano
Parker House
Chet Merrick
United States Hotel
Sunday Post Boys
Louis Tracy
Six Thanksgiving Post Magazine
Anagram Game
New Hampshire
Uncle Sam
Rogers
Fairhaven
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