San Francisco to become an art centre says sculptor
Anna F. Ladd reports San Francisco will host an art centre with the Palace of Wine Arts remaining open until May 1. The aim is for the palace and its collection to form the city's art museum after the 1906 quake. Ladd’s works include Wind and Spray fountain at the Palace of Fine Arts and Lady of the Chain bust. Boston artists on the committee include Mrs. Ladd Mrs. Montgomery Sears Bela Pratt and Cyrus Dallin.
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Anna F. Ladd
San Francisco
Palace of Wine Arts
Add
Clarendon Street
John L. Gardner
Boston
Montgomery Sears
Bela Pratt
Cyrus Dallin
Missing Malden man Crosby Sought by Boston Police
Thomas Crosby of 47 Madison Street Malden has been missing since November 10. A mason's tender by trade, Crosby left home in the morning to work in Boston. He is about 45 years old, 167 pounds, medium complexion, with a mustache and 5 feet 7 inches tall. His family has requested police help in locating him.
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Thomas Crosby
Madison Street
Malden
Greater Boston
Boston
Crosby
Now Official Bird Catcher Now Official Bird Catcher
Wellesley College hires John H. Oakes of 56 Linden street for laboratory sparrow capture to supply dissection specimens. He receives 40 dollars monthly though not faculty, with traps placed around Wellesley and Natick. The old cat method was dropped after a 4 year dispute and a prior court case.
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Wellesley College
Beauty and Culture
John H. Oakes
Linden Street
Wellesley
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Hiram Brown
Oakes
Natick
South Boston Girls Enter Religious Novitiates
Several South Boston young women became novitiates this week in different orders. Lena T. Larkin and Margaret O Leary joined the Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Waltham. Elizabeth Regan will enroll as a postulant at the Sisters of Charity convent in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with Irene Kennedy of Roxbury also joining.
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South Boston
Lena T. Larkin
James J. Larkin
Winton Street
Margaret O'Leary
Walter Brown
Sisters of the Sacred Heart
Waltham
St. Augustine's High School
Sisters of Charity
Bridgeport
Conn
Elizabeth Regan
Jeremiah Regan
K Street
Irene Kennedy
Roxbury
West Roxbury Car Service Restored
The Pub Nic Service Commission orders the LL road to restore through service in West Roxbury between Spring and Centre streets and Forest Hills station via Grove and Washington streets as it existed before Oct 2, 1915.
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Pub
Nic Service Commission
Ll” Road
West Roxbury
Spring
Centre Streets
Forest Hills Station
Grove
Washington Streets
East Boston driver fined $50 for beating horse
Joseph Monti was arraigned in the Central Municipal Court on cruelty to animals after agents of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed the complaint. He appeared and was fined $50 for the charge.
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Joseph Monti
Boston
Central Municipal
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of
Man pleads guilty to false statements in marriage license
Frank Otto Kelley of Providence admitted in District Court he made false statements when applying for the license used Wednesday to wed Mary Bennett, 20, of this town. He claimed five marriages and three divorces with two living wives, one in Lynn, Mass., and another here.
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Cumberland
R. L
Lynn
Mass
Frank Otto Kelley
Beacon Avenue
Providence
Mary Bennett
St. Joseph’s Church
Woonsocket
Central Falls
Michael Finn
Man's tangled marriages span several states and years
A man in custody for false statements on a marriage license claims multiple marriages dating back to 1913 in Everett, Lynn, Hoboken, and Brooklyn with three Mary Bennetts. Police deem many details conflicting as Chief Finn plans to travel to Lynn to verify a prior Lynn wedding and pursue bigamy charges.
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Everett
Mass
Susan Bailey
Mamie Brodie
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hoboken
N. J
Louise Wolf
Lynn
United Shoe Machinery Company
Mary Bennett
Common
Sacred Heart Church
Finn
Providence
United States Navy
Nurse Back From Russia Returns Home Via Trans Siberian Route
Miss Mabel Burnham Rich American Red Cross nurse has returned from Kiev Russia after six months with a Red Cross unit. She traveled by Trans Siberian railroad to Vladivostock Japan and San Francisco. In Japan the party was entertained by the Japanese Red Cross and she praises the international Red Cross cooperation. She visits her brother L B Rich at 72 Main Street Winthrop before spending winter with her mother Mrs Laura A Rich at South Truro.
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Mabel Burnham Rich
Red Cross
Kiev
Russia
Vladivostock
Japan
San Francisco
Miss Rich
Red Cross Society
Red Cross Societies
L. B. Rich
Main Street
Winthrop
Laura A. Rich
South Truro
Two Funerals In Same House In Quincy
The funerals of Andrew Nugent and Joseph Pitts both of Quincy are set for tomorrow. Nugent, 78, caretaker of the Thomas Crane Public Library, will be driven to St John’s Church for an 9:00 am high mass after departing the Allen home at 8:15 am. Pitts, 32, brother of Mrs Allen, will follow with a second service at St John’s Church at 10:00 am, after a return visit to the Allen home.
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Andrew Nugent
Joseph Pitts
Quincy
Mr. Nugent
Thomas Crane Public Library
Henry Allen
St. John’s Church
Allen Home
Pitts
Allen
Harvard Freshmen Special Chapel Service Planned
The annual special chapel service for Harvard freshmen will be held tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. Rev. Dr. Edward Caldwell Moore, chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers, will lead the services with remarks by President Lowell, the Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, and Rev. William G. Thayer.
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Harvard
Appleton Chapel
Edward Caldwell Moore
Harvard Board of Preachers
Lowell
William Appleton Lawrence
William G. Thayer
St. Mark’s Church
Boston men claim wireless copying device
Henry GC Gawler, U S radio inspector for New England, and Herbert M Hammett of Roxbury claim to have invented a simple wireless apparatus. Tests allegedly copy German messages and listen between German stations, Canal Zone, and Newfoundland. They plan to offer the machine to the government.
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Henry Gc.gawler
United State Radio
New England
Herbert M. Hammett
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
Boston
Germany
Canal Zone
Newfoundland
Colonizing of India a Missionary Enterprise
Professor J. W. Planter of Andover Theological Seminary said at the Twentieth Century Club luncheon that British colonization of India is a missionary enterprise. He argued the proof is the Indian support for England in the recent war.
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J. W. Planter
Andover Theological Seminary
Twentieth Century Club
India
England
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