Sir Arthur Sullivan Dies After Illness in London
London November 22 Sir Arthur Sullivan the noted composer died of heart failure at 9 am after a period of illness since returning from Switzerland. Born May 13 1842 in London he rose from a child prodigy to partner of W S Gilbert in a string of operatic comedies and serious works including The Lost Chord The Mikado and Haddon Hall His career spanned over four decades with many premieres at the Opera Comique Savoy and Lyceum theatres and royal honors including knighthood and the Legion of Honor.
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London
Arthur Sullivan
Switzerland
Wee Ur Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Kneller Fall
Mary Coghler
Palace of St. James
Mendelssohn
Conservatorium
Osic
Shakspere
Kenilworth
Prince of Wales
William Schwenk Gilbert
Sullivan
Cambridge University
Oxford
Frederick
Gilbert and Sullivan
Opera Comique
America
England
Patience
Bunthorne
Savoy
Henry Irving
Sydney Grundy
Sir Arthur
Haddon Hall
Burnand
Beauty Stone
Arthur Pinero
Sineatret
Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Tennygon
Fairs and Recitals Color Boston Social Calendar
Madelaine Stuart notes charity fairs in Roxbury and Boston as Norse and Danish church groups press fairs at Gilbert Hall and Pilgrim Hall to Saturday. A sale for St Monica’s Home drew ladies and donors, while Needlework Guild activities supported hospitals and asylums. A Boston society wedding, a Rivals stage event, and dances at Turn Hall and Roughan Hall fill the social page with details and dates.
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Boston
Gilbert Hall
Tremont Street
Ladies’ Society
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Pilgrim Hall
Washington Street
Dies’ Society
Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Norskkirke Basar
Tremont Temple
Benoa
St. Monica's Home
Vendome
Katherine
Pamela C. Dean
St. Monica
Pulsifer Dean
Paul Dean
Mary Lindsay
John Ambrose
Frederick K. Thayer
George P. Sanger
Needlework Guild of America
Grundmann Studios
John H. Morrison
William W. Doherty
St. Mary's Infant Asylum
Odd Bits of News Recap from Historic Clippings
A collage of brief notes covers voting records, museum acquisitions, ancient weaponry, buried rifles, and social statistics. It cites rising female turnout, Milton’s commonplace book at the British Museum, a thousand-year span of cannons, a preserved magazine rifle in Nuremberg, and marriage versus divorce figures in Japan. Additional items note Vesuvius precautions, a bullet lodged in an Australian volunteer’s brain, Bible writing efforts by a Liverpool Christian woman and a Midlands preacher, Chicago’s three-day death surge linked to weather, and a finding that newborn chicks swim instinctively.
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Milton
British Museum
Frederick Graham
Netherby
Cumberland
Crecy
Nuremberg
Japan
Vesuvius
Liverpool
Midlands
Chicago
Lloyd Morgan
Movements of warships report across Atlantic and Pacific
The cruiser Albany arrived at Manila while the Amphitrite rests at Norfolk and the Monterey reached Canton. Scorpion sails from Port au Prince to Kingston. Farragut reports to Admiral Kautz for Pacific duty. Vixen enters Nuevitas due to rough weather and heads to Puerto Padre. Dixie, the training ship, has arrived at Corfu.
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Washington
Albany
Manila
Norfolk
Monterey
Canton
Scorpion
Port-au- Prince
Kingston
Farragut
Kautz
Pacific
Navy Department
Nuevitas
Puerto Padre
Dixie
Corfu
Boston Industrial Home Thanksgiving Dinner Charity
The Boston Industrial Home at the Davis street and Harrison avenue corner will provide a Thanksgiving meal for the poor and asks for funds or provisions. The institution, a longtime known charity, assures gifts will be used properly and requests notification to Superintendent T. D. Roberts to call for materials if desired.
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Boston
Davis Street
Harrison Avenue
T. D. Roberts
Rail service expanded for Harvard Yale game travel
The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad schedules extra trains from Boston Terminal station for the Harvard Yale football game. Regular at 8 a.m. via Willimantic Hartford and special at 8 35 a.m. and regular at 9 a.m. via Shoreline, arriving New Haven at noon twelve thirty percent and one p.m. respectively. Excursion rate on regular trains twenty five percent on special train ten percent.
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Boston
New Haven
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Terminal Station
Willimantic
Hartford
Shoreline
Robert L. Alexander Drowns Returning to Mainland
Robert L. Alexander principal of Orr's Island School drowned Wednesday afternoon while returning to the mainland in a light skiff. His disappearance prompted a search by his family and locals. he was the only son of Isaac Alexander of Harpswell and Bowdoin College graduate.
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Portland
Robert L. Alexander
Orr's Island School
Alexander
Isaac Alexander
Harpswell
Boston Post Photo Contest Seeks Amateur Submissions
The Boston Post continues weekly cash prizes of 10, 5, and 8 for photographs with news value and human interest. Submit titled photos with name and address on back, brief context, and consent for publication. Photos not returned. winners announced Sundays with payments mailed weekly.
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Boston Post
Bostops Post
Sunday Post
The
Boston
Porter Screen mill fire at Winooski causes $100,000 loss
Burlington dispatch reports the Porter Screen Manufacturing Company plant in Winooski burned late last night, wiping out about $100,000 in property. Two hundred workers were employed. the mill began operation November 1 after a summer shutdown. The plant, valued around $250,000, carries $192,600 insurance. Cause of the fire is unknown, with rebuilding likely.
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Burlington, Vt
Porter-Screen Manufacturing Company
Winooski
Mrs White Recommitted to Westboro Insane Asylum
Mrs Etta A White was ordered recommitted by Judge Morton in the Supreme Court to the Westboro Insane Asylum after her habeas corpus petition failed. The case challenged an July 9 commitment by Judge Grant of the Suffolk Probate Court as an habitual drunkard. Judge Morton lamented the injustice of male versus female commitment procedures but said the law must be followed.
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Etta A. White
Morton
Supreme Court
Westboro
Grant
Suffolk Probate Court
Two Women Seek Pardon In Maine Council Session
Augusta. November 22. Two petitions for pardon were submitted to the Governor and Council. One seeks commutation of Mary B. Barrows of Kittery from a life sentence for murder to a 16 year term. The other requests pardon for Susie Mae Kimball of Portland from the Hallowell Industrial School for Girls. The next Council meeting date was moved from November 29 to November 28, with Stain and Cromwell pardon cases slated for hearing.
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Augusta
Lfe
Mary B. Barrows
Kittery
Blaney
Susie Mae Kimball
Portland
Hallowell Industrial School
Stain and Cromwell
Hayes on Chaffee Staff Appoints Webb Hayes Aide
Washington November 22 It was announced at the War Department that Webb C Hayes son of ex president Hayes and late lieutenant colonel U S Volunteers after reporting at Pekin September 8 was appointed a volunteer aide de camp on the staff of Major General Chaffee commanding the relief expedition General Chaffee issued a general order directing that the new aide de camp be obeyed and respected accordingly
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Washington
War Department
Webb C. Hayes
Hayes
Leutenant
U. S. Volunteers
China
Pekin
Chaffee
Wedding of Gurney and Litchfield Ends With Brief Boston Trip
The bride wore white muslin and the groom a blue organdie attendant attire featured Miss Litchfield in a cream figured chalice. A reception followed the ceremony, and the couple departed on the 10:40 train for a short wedding trip. They will reside in Boston and be at home after December.
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Iss Gurney
Miss Litchfield
Boston
Boston University medical school reception and ball evening
A reception and ball will be tendered to the freshman and sophomore classes of Boston University Medical School by the senior and junior classes this evening at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Dispensary on Harrison avenue. Mr Francis L Higginson of Boston will give a dinner to Harvard crew members with substitutes at the Somerset Club this evening. Attending guests include C M Sheafe L H Bancroft L W Ladd W Shuebruck B Ood N Biddle H A Wad eigh H Bullard J M McConnell G Bancroft H P Henderson R H Howe Jr N W Tilton D D Evans D M Goodrich E C Storrow J J Storrow G B Mumford. The Thalian Club of Dorchester will hold the first of three dances tonight in Whiton Hall with patrons Mrs M Beals Mrs L C Le Fray and Mrs Co L Sparks.
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Boston University Medical School
Massachusetts Homeopathic Dispensary
Harrison Avenue
Francis L. Higginson
Boston
Harvard
Somerset Club
C. M. Sheafe
H. Bancroft
W. BE. Ladd
W. Shuebruck
N. Biddle
H. A. Wadeigh
H. Bullard
J. M. McConnell
G. Bancroft
H. P. Henderson
R. H. Howe, Jr
N. W. Tilton
Buena Vista Footlight Club Presents Roxbury Entertainment
A large fashionable audience attended a Buena Vista Footlight Club performance in the Roxbury Universalist Society chapel hall. Dana J. Stevens led the cast with Miss Gertrude Cheyne, Leander Abbott Jr., Miss Mabel Baker, Pete Hull, Miss Mae Stockwell, Miss Lucille M. Card, R. E. Woodward, O. W. Bowman and Harry Lowd. Stevens also wrote the play and Miss Eva Bridge was the pianist.
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Ublic
Buena Vista Footlight Club
Roxbury
Roxbury Universalist Society
Buena Vista Street
Dana J. Stevens
Gertrude Cheyne
Leander Abbott, Jr
Mabel Baker
Petc Hull
Mae. Stockwell
Luc
M. Card
R. E. Woodward
O. W. Bowman
Harry Lowd
Eva Bridge
Crime and Punishment Pace in Manila Cited by Chaplain
The Rev. Oliver C. Miller, chaplain with the Fourth Cavalry, reports to the War Department that Manila has remarkably low crime and swift punishment, remarking on the city’s policing under Generals Bates Young and Lawton.
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Washington
Oliver C. Miller
Fourth Cavalry
Bates, Young
Lawton
War Department
United States
Manila
May Win Red Hat At Rome Consistory
Washington Nov 22 reports that the approaching papal consistory in Rome is drawing strong interest in Catholic circles. The potential cardinalate honors may go to American church representatives, with names including Mgr Martinelli Archbishop Chappelle and Archbishop Ireland among those mentioned as likely recipients.
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Rome
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Mgr
Martinelli
Chappelle
Ireland
Orion schooner overdue with oyster seed cargo feared lost
The 11 ton schooner Orion of Patchogue under Captain E T Smith is several days overdue. It sailed from Bridgeport for Freeport with a cargo of oyster seed valued at $1000. W H Patterson, custodian of the cargo, will conduct a search for the vessel.
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Orion
Patchogue
L. I
E. T. Smith
Freeport
Bridgeport
Property Sale in South Boston Ends With Modern Building Plan
John B. Fitzpatrick sold for Edward M. Foster a 2348 square foot land lot Nos 2 to 261 on West Fourth Street to John J. Sullivan. Sullivan will erect a modern building suited to the locality. The entire lot carries an assessed value of 1900.
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John B. Fitzpatrick
Edward M. Foster
West Fourth Street
Boston
John J. Sullivan
Florida and West India Short Line Train Service
Advertises the Florida and West India Short Line as the fastest route to Savannah Jacksonville Tampa and Florida points with double daily service through Pullman drawing room and buffet cars from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington and Richmond. Winter excursion tickets on sale to Jacksonville Tampa and Florida points with arrivals and departures at Pennsylvania stations. For information contact Shoemaker New York Boston and Washington agents or the General Passenger atPR Nedkee Fure B 8 John Allen.
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West India
Savannah
Jacksonville
Tampa
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Shoemaker
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Broadway
C. L. Longsdorf
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Washington Street
Boston
Mass
W. M. McConnell
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
PR Nedk Ee Ee
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