Debutante Miss Shaw Hosts Notable Commonwealth Tea
Society coverage details Mrs Henry S Shaw’s debutante daughter at a Commonwealth avenue tea with 500 invitations. Includes attendees such as Miss Jennie Kimball, Mr and Mrs Thomas W Pierce, George Agassiz, George Higginson Jr, Mrs John Livingston, Alicia Livingston, Dr and Mrs C R Weld, and arrival notes of guests from New York and Newport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry S. Shaw
Louise Towne
Commonwealth Avenue
Miss Shaw
Thomas W. Pierce
Victoria
Virginia
Hamilton
George R. Agassiz
Yarmouthport
George Higginson, Jr
John (. Livingston
New York
Bar Harbor
Alicia Livingston
Quincy
Newport
Samuel R. Honey
Europe
Fanny Foster
Boston
KE. Rollins Morse
Safeguards urged for St Anne’s Annex after fire
Lawrence reports all young victims of yesterday’s St Anne’s Schoolhouse fire are expected to recover. Fire Chief Rutter urged those in charge to keep the wooden annex vacant until it is fitted with safe means of escape and proper heating equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
St. Anne’s
Rutter
Fire Department
Lawrence Mill Girl Missing From Home
Alphonsine Dendievel, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Dendievel of 15 Mason Street, left her home after drawing pay at the Duck Mills on Saturday and has not been found. Police and mother suspect she may be in this city. no motive is known for the disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Alphonsine Dendievel
Alphonse Dendievel
Mason Street
Countryman meets city lawman at South Station
A countryman from Simmonds County, traveling with a bag of money, meets Perkinsville resident Mr. Perkins in Boston. They share whiskey, then the disguised traveler is revealed as undercover detective Simpson and taken into custody with bracelets.
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Reuben
Wayback
Country Wilds
Dewey Square
Perkins
Perkinsville
Simmonds County
Simmonds County Way
Jones
Deacon Jones
Bosting
Silas Perkins
Simpson
John Jones
Thomas Jones
John Johnson
Perkinsvile
Genesis of the Flag entertains Waltham crowd at reunion
At Waltham on November 23 the program Genesis of the Flag staged in Ashbury Temple by Mrs. Ida Louise Gibbs featured Commander-in-Chief James Tanner and General Nelson A. Miles among honored guests. F. P. H. Rogers Post 20 G A R Women’s Relief Corps and D A R attended. Mayor John J. Harvey and Silas A. Barton also participated, with Miss Alice Barton Willard singing historic songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Barton Willard
John J. Harvey
Silas A. Barton
Annie M. Ward
Peabody man jailed for blank revolver firing at teens
Old Peter Brown aged 60, lifelong Peabody resident and Civil War veteran, was arrested for discharging a blank revolver at Raymond MacDonald and Osborne Palmer both 17 after being teased by town youths. Brown said he fired to scare them not harm, while Palmer and MacDonald offered conflicting accounts of the incident near Steven Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peabody
Peter Brown
Raymond MacDonald
Steven Street
Osborne Palmer
Merrill
Peabody High School
Brown
Ray MacDonald
Sister rejected by relatives after Brockton search
A 40 year old woman arriving from Farmington N S T sought relatives in Brockton last night but found her sister and brother in law refused entry. After a failed search she was forced to sleep at a hotel. Officials tried to locate her parents who had recently left the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Farmington
N. ST
Marshal Allen
Batchelder
Love and Sentiment in Courtship Advice from Mildred Champagne
The advice responds to a reader questions about a young man who loves a girl yet avoids marriage talk. It argues love should be paired with a marriage proposal when intent is serious, discourages casual kissing, and urges the woman to guard her own dignity while assessing a lover’s true intentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Champagne
Sealskin coat bought for $1 at charity sale riot
In Chester Pennsylvania a Negro woman bought a sealskin coat valued at 200 dollars for 1.50 at a rummage sale held by the Ladies Auxiliary of the YMCA. Police retrieved the coat from the purchaser who resisted returning it, then agreed to surrender it after paying for a replacement garment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Penn
Ladies
Young Men's Christian Association
Front Street
Speeches by School Boys Who Are 90 Years Old
At the annual reunion of the Old School Boys Association of Boston yesterday in Young's Hotel, speeches were given by Spencer W Richardson Winthrop Quincy School 34 and George Washington Warren born in 1815. Officers elected for the year include Thomas Hills president George H Worthley vice president Elisha D Eldridge secretary Merril N Boyden treasurer and several directors. A manuscript Old Boston School Boys of 50 Years Ago and Prior by William W Hubbard born 1824 was read along with a poem Declaration Day by Fredcherk Walter Brown. Of the charter members in 1981 only nine are living including Henry W Bowen aged 81 N A Daniels aged 82 E J Jones 85 George W Robbins 90 G W Prescott 85 A C Slater 87 W S Smith 84 and A R Turner 83.
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Old School Boys’ Association of
Boston
Young’s Hotel
Spencer W. Richardson
Winthrop Quincy School
George Washington Warren
Thomas Hills
George H. Worthley
Elisha D. Eldridge
Merril N. Boyden
Thomas F. Temple
William H. Hill
Albert S. Austin
Albert S. Folsom
Richard C. Humphreys
Otis N. Howland
Henry M. Rogers
Charles W. Sawyer
Albert R. Whittier
Old Boston School
William W. Hubbard
Fredcherk Walter Brown
Henry W. Bowen
N. A. Daniels
E. J. Jones
George W. Robbins
G. W. Prescott
A. C. Slater
W.S. Smith
A. R. Turner
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Grenoble
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Johnson
Miada
Richardson & Robbin
Curtis
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Heinz's
Bishop's
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Turkeys
Vermont
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Asa
Florida
Ign
Maine
Hebron
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Royal Wikstar Holland
Tarragona
Burgundy
Mt. Diablo
Sautarne
Aquinas
Hs. Express
Washington ST
Canal ST
Elm & Union Sts
Jennie Kimball
The
Empire, Commonwealth Avenue
ST. Anne’s Annex
Lawrence Mill
Butler
Mr. Gotchinks
Henderson
Naples
Spenderson
Sunday Post
Ruby H. Martyn
Norfolk
Mass
Miles
Commander Tanner
Waltham Reunion
Man
W. B
Brilliantine
Oxford
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Isc
Jersey Union
Umbrella
Mildred
Wilton
Brussels
Cornhill
Ante EO
Capobianco
Waterbury
Conn
Ciriarco Capobianco
Silas A. Robinson
Wetherfield Prison
Angela Solomita Capobianco
Sjte
Robinson
Widarker
Washington Street
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