Magnificently equipped hospital car on exhibition by Boston and Maine
The Boston and Maine Railroad showcased a new hospital car designed for injured or ill travelers at North Station. The exhibit highlighted a patient compartment with an automatic call button, nurse access points, nine parlor chairs, three berths, kitchen and heating systems, and a quiet suspension for smooth motion, with finishes of Mexican mahogany and quartered oak. The car will enter service immediately.
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Boston
Maine
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
North Station
Boston & Maine Railroad
Well Known Banker Herman Kountze Dies
Herman Kountze longtime Omaha financier and senior partner in Kountze Brothers bankers died last night in Wat kins New York He led First National Bank Omaha and was linked to George Francis Train in Credit Mobilier Union Pacific history The death ends a high profile era among Boston and Omaha stockholders and regional banking circles
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New York
Herman Kountze
Watkins
N. Y
Omaha
Kountze
Train
Neb
Boston
Union Pacific
First National Bank
Old Hands at the Helm Again
Twenty nine members of the Massachusetts Board of Trade executive council met at the Hotel Vendome for the 1906 1907 session. Officers were reelected and committees named. biennial elections and postal currency were approved. a death notice for Jacob McGaw Haskell was read. The group adjourned to luncheon and discussed boosting the board s efficiency.
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Massachusetts Board of Trade
Hotel Vendome
Charles E. Adams
Lowell
Henry M. Batchelder
Salem
Benjamin B. Whittemore
Boston
Chamberlain
Brockton
Bernard E. Donigan
Lawrence
William A. Hunnewell
Cambridge
John Hopewell
Gorham D. Gilman
Walstein R. Chester
Edgar Potter
South Framingham
Robert Luce
Somerville
Edwin L. Sprague
Dolliver
Spaulding
Mansfield
Boad
United States
Committee On Finance
Jacob McGaw Haskell
Pastor With Thousands of Sacraments Hosts Anniversary
The Rev. Dr. R. Perry Bush of Church of the Redeemer Chelsea will host a large reception at 20 Lawrence Street Chelsea on Friday evening honoring his 25th wedding anniversary. He has performed over 1200 marriages and presided at more than 3000 funerals and is known as a writer and thinker active in Everett Somerville and other Greater Boston areas.
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R. Perry Bush
Church of the Redeemer (Universalist
Chelsea
Lawrence Street
Bush
The
Divine
Dr. Bush
Everett
Somerville
Boston
Longworths Visit Groton to See Kermit Roosevelt
Boston society hosts Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth visiting Groton School to spend the day with Kermit Roosevelt. They travel from Boston after a private stay at the Hotel Touraine and plan quiet engagements with Harvard and family relatives amid illnesses and social duties. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. joins the outing, hosting duties for the Harvard Yale game.
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Longworths
Groton
Kermit Roosevelt
Boston
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Longworth
Touraine
George C. Lee
Colonial Theatre
Mayfair
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Millionaire Henry Chisholm Weds Stenographer Secretly
Henry Chisholm son of Wilson B. Chisholm, a Cleveland millionaire, secretly married Anna Laughray a stenographer. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Patrick Farrell at St. John's Cathedral bishop's house.
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Cleveland, O
Henry Chisholm
Wilson B. Chisholm
Cleveland
Anna Laughray
Patrick Farrell
St. John's Cathedral
Croker Says Father Will Quit New York Politics
In New York on Nov 21 Richard Croker Jr announced his father James Croker is through with New York politics. The son, aboard the Baltic, said he has not seen his father in nearly two years and plans to visit Glen Cairn.
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Nsw York
New York
Richard Croker, Jr
White Star Line
Baltic
Glen Cairn
Lawson's Friday the Thirteenth Opens as Serial Novel
Readers on Wall Street and at the Boston Stock Exchange followed the first installment of Thomas W. Lawson's Friday the Thirteenth in Everybody's Magazine. The chapter centers on a Virginia heroine who enlists two Harvard men to recover her father’s fortune amid Street machinations and sugar speculation.
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Arcadian
Boston Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Thomas W. Lawson
Everybody’s Magazine
Virginia
Lawson
Harvard
Mrs. Davis Posthumous Letter Stirs Mississippi
A caustic letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis to Judge A McC Kimbrough, kept private until after her death, angers Mississippi residents. She criticizes state public men and notes Beauvoir as her husband’s resting place while lamenting the high guard costs of $6500 yearly.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
A. McC. Kimbrough
Kimbrough
McDonough Denies School Committee Candidacy
Ignatius S. McDonough says he is not a candidate for the school committee nomination and hopes his name will not be presented.
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Ignatius S. McDonough
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Whitman
Mrs. R. Perry Bush
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Filene’s
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Washington St
Adams Square
Brussels
Wilton
Members of Home Furnishers’ Association of Mass
Connecticut
Tienry Roberts
New York Navy Yard
Norwalk
Alate, St. Brant
Mace of Nature
Gols St Cy
Martha Dean
Pattern Department
the Post
Delvery
Poplin
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