Convention Today Tests Lodge Control and Anti Machine Drive
At Tremont Temple the Republican convention opens with Henry Cabot Lodge’s leadership challenged by anti machine factions. The fight centers on platform asks for free hides and other goods and on using secret ballots versus open acclamation to select nominees including Hall for lieutenant governor and Draper for second on the ticket.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Tremont Temple
Committee On
Councillor Hall
Draper
Hall
United States
Massachusetts
Shifting Alliances Postwar: Powers Seek Peaceful Realignments
After the Russo Japanese war a new chessboard of diplomacy emerges. Britain and Japan forge a strong east bloc while Russia may align with England and Japan or Germany to counterbalance Anglo Japanese power. France could join Russia and Germany to front a so called yellow peril. All plans aim at peace as the condition for success.
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East
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
England
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Senator Cummings Renominated Seeks Legislature Amendment
Senator Cummings of Brookline accepts renomination by the Republicans of the second Norfolk district and pledges to offer and advocate in the coming Legislature an amendment to a key issue.
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Cummings
Brookline
Norfolk
Call for General Laws Over Special Street Railway Privileges
The article cites Senator Gummhings arguing for a constitution requiring all legislation on corporations to be general laws. It condemns granting special privileges to individual street railway companies and suggests abolition of special legislation would be beneficial for equal rights.
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Gummhings
Holden Guarded Beacon Hill Legislation for New York Life
President McCall of New York Life revealed that W J Holden supervised Massachusetts legislative sessions for 2000 dollars a year, while the insurer spent over one million dollars on similar oversight. McCall notes other executives like Hamilton Buckley with larger sums and broader influence.
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McCall
New York Life
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
W. J. Holden
Holden
Beacon Hill
Massachusetts
Hamilton
Buckley
New York Insurance Department
Mr. Holden
Prosecute Them Voices Demand Immediate Action on Insurances Scandals
District Attorney William T. Jerome urged rapid prosecution after legislative investigations into life insurance scandals. He said delays until the next Legislature convenes would let falsified books, untruthful sworn statements, and diverted funds go unpunished despite clear criminality.
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William T. Jerome
New York Supreme Court
I Was That Student Says President Eliot at Harvard
President Eliot and Professor Ostwald of the University of Leipzig spoke at a Harvard Graduate School meeting. Eliot recalled his own student days at Harvard and urged preserving freedom while advancing research as a core teaching method. Ostwald echoed the call for teaching fused with original investigation.
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Ostwald
University of Leipzig
Crimson University
Harvard Graduate School
Eliot
Harvard
University Hall
Leaf from Browns Grammar Lesson
A schoolroom poem recounts Barbara Brown teaching private English lessons after hours. The speaker and Barbara discuss nouns and sentence structure with playful mischief, ending with the promise of a final test and a postscript note from Alice Allen.
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Barbara Brown
Barbara
Alice EB. Allen
Lippincott’s
Nifty Nat Seeks Vengeance After Indian Tragedy
Nifty Nat vows to kill Indians after discovering his wife and child killed and scalped. He is captured but escapes, then eludes pursuers with a trick. He infiltrates the Indian camp, battles the chief, escapes again, and crawls away through a tunnel.
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Nat
Nifty Nat Escapes Indian Capture in Plains Tale
A frontier boy named Nifty Nat hides among bushes after a band of Indians corners him. He overhears plans to capture him and contemplates a risky escape while the Indians move about near the camp. The scene ends with a promise of the next chapter as readers receive more letters and jokes from Georgie and friends.
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Lissen
Varied City Notes Show Candid Snapshots Of Life
Observant Citizen recalls quirky incidents from Waterbury to Provincetown, Boston theater posters and a Christmas of harvest moon and husking season. Mentions Mrs Matterhorns restless night, 27 bluejackets marooned, Mme Bernhardt poster in Boston, and local figures Lyman Fiske Ashdown Horton McNary.
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Charles M. Matterhorn
Waterbury
Conn
Superior Values at Boston’s Best-Equipped Store
Eiderdown morning sachets crochet edge and ripple material in fine color assortment. Regular 1.25 value.
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Boston
The New Domestic Sewing Machines Sale Offer
Special notice from an agent of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co announcing reduced prices for Boston area buyers. No. 6 high arm machine priced to agents at 30.00, our price 19.00. No.6 Automatic Drop Head 45.00, our price 25.00. No.8 cabinet model 50.00, our price 35.00. No.7 chain stitch looper machine 65.00, our price 45.00.
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Sewing Machine Co
Boston
Vicinity
Hidtcla Ok
Wicdiacs
Bugler Higgins Saves Regiment With Scarf to Warning
In a South Africa campaign, Johnny Higgins, a hungry underage bugler, uses his bugle to warn a marching British detachment of an ambush. His warning forestalls a massacre, but he is killed shielding his mates as natives attack. His brave act spares the main force and the flag draped body is mourned by both factions.
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Lyman
Custom House
John M. Fiske
Johnny William Higgins
Aldershot
South Africa
Johnny
Vaal
London
Cabman
Natal
War record details reveal hidden patient at hospital
Wartime testimony shows Piptey Stringer confessing to hiding among wounded in a hospital. Mrs Easy questions the truth while the patient confirms exposure to battle injuries.
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Piptey Stringer
Improved Blinker aside inquiry on Mrs Blinker’s weight gain
A fragmented dialogue questions Mrs Blinker’s recent weight gain and her health. The exchange hints at social commentary and light gossip within a domestic or gossip-column setting.
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Blinker
Mra
Gabbleton
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