Italian Bunco at North Station Nets Lost $180 and Franks
Tomaso John Battista of Concord New Hampshire was buncoed by two young North End Italians just before his planned trip to Italy. They lured him with a misrepresented chance to inspect a steamship and passed him a counterfeit ten dollar note wrapped around a bundle of green paper before absconding with $180 and 100 Italian francs. Police could not locate the suspects.
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Italy
Tomaso John Battista
Concord
N. H
North End
Battista
Southern Club at Wellesley Welcomes Southern Freshmen
Wellesley Oct 6 One distinction offered to a few freshmen is membership in the Southern Club open to all claiming Southern birth parentage and residence. The club founded in 1900 by Miss Abercrombie Texas girl aims to build closer ties among Southerners at the college. The badge adopted in 1901 features a gold discordant device, a Dixie motif, and a cotton ball. Mrs Durant wife of the founder is an honorary member. Miss Moody of Texas is president for the year. meetings are every three weeks in members rooms.
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Welesley
Wellesley
Southern Club
Abercrombie
Texas
Dixie
Durant
Profit Some Way
A quip about office dynamics where a boss explains a stenographer’s visitors are tolerated because it keeps the bookkeeper busy and productive. The exchange highlights workplace humor and the boss’s pragmatic management style.
Summer Hotel Proprietor Offers Stone Paving Jobs
A summer hotel proprietor tells waiters that the season is ending but offers to hire them in town for his street paving contract, promising work handling stone duties.
Dear Miss Champagne How to Handle a Faithless Fiancé
A woman writes about ten years with a fiancé who left for another, keeping gifts worth about 250 dollars. She asks whether to return the presents and how to forget him. The advisor notes many such letters and urges caution in engagements, citing legal redress as small but real punishment and a warning to other girls.
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Miss Champagne
Dear Miss Champagne Have Read Your Valuable Advice
A reader writes from Boston seeking guidance after a four month romance with a 25 year old man. She later fears he moved away after she did not introduce him at her home. She cannot locate his home address and asks how to reconcile. The columnist suggests requesting his address from his employer and sending a conciliatory message if he truly loved her.
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Miss Champagne
Fonder
Boston Post
Dear Miss Champagne Weighs In On Beleaguered Bride
A heartbroken reader seeks advice about a long relationship ending after engagement. She was promised marriage, received an engagement ring and gifts, now discovers the man is with another and refuses recognition. She asks whether to return or keep the presents and what character to ascribe to him.
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Miss Champagne
Dorchester Woman Hosts Welsh Rarebit Supper
Miss Elsie Troy of Bowdoin street Dorchester entertained a number of friends at a Welsh rarebit supper last evening. A musical programme followed with piano solos by Miss Troy and Miss Kittie Walsh vocal solos by Miss Alice Crawford Miss Helen Casey and William Doyle recitations by Miss Anna Haley and Fred Fitzpatrick and cornet solos by Harry Flynn.
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Elsie Troy
Bowdoin Street
Dorchester
Miss Troy
Kittie Walsh
Alice Crawford
Helen Casey
William Doyle
Anna Haley
Fred Fitzpatrick
Harry Flynn
Popular Medicine Endorsed by Physicians for Hydrozone Glycozone
A popular medicine earns strong testimony from physicians who prescribe it in practice. Hydrozone and Glycozone are highlighted as effective germicides, noted for numerous cures of eczema and related skin disorders.
Parlor Bakery Helps Van Wyck Family Adapt
Mrs. Van Wycke plans a home bakery to supplement income after loss of riches. Her daughter Helen promotes a parlor bakery on Elmhurst cottage grounds, gaining social footing and netting a small profit while Dr. Armstrong seeks help for a pantry shortage as an old college chum visits.
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van Wycke
Mrs. van Wycke
Helen
Hfe
Miss van Wycke
Boston
Miss Helen
Elmhurst Cottage
Women Aid in Government at Drummers' Fair
In Mechanics' Building the Drummers' Fair women delegates discussed "Women's Work for Good Government." Speakers included Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, Miss Sherriff Bain of New Zealand, and Mrs. William Pyles of Manchester. They argued for social governance, suffrage organization, and voter influence on education and public welfare.
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Women’s Department of the “Drummers’ Fair
Mechanics’ Building
Jane Addams
Chicago
William P. Byles
Manchester
England
Sherriff Bain
New Zealand
Edwin D. Mead
Miss Addams
Death of ossified woman at Sherburne ends era
Rome New York October 6 Mrs Emma Ewing Palmer died today at Sherburne aged 50 she was the last of the two ossified sisters and had been motionless blind and rigid for 27 years due to a rheumatic disease following her marriage to William Palmer of Oneida Miss Stella Ewing her sister died here two years ago from the same affliction.
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Rome
N. Y
Emma Ewing Palmer
Sherburne
Elmhurst Cottage Hearts and a Moonlit Drive
Dr Armstrong courted Helen after a moonlit drive during which he pledged lifelong prospects at his Elmhurst home. The tale ends with Helen’s venture proving successful as guests enjoyed hospitality and the old elm sign faded from view, marking a new chapter.
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Elmhurst Cottage
Helen
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Reach Boston Morning
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company returns from Norfolk, arriving in Philadelphia at noon and dining before departing for Jersey City at 1 30 pm. Two steamers carried them from Old Point Comfort to Washington, with remaining members joining in Washington for the final leg toward Boston expected to reach at 10 am Friday.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Norfolk
Jersey City
Washington
Old Point Comfort
Boston
Gloucester
M. & M. T. Company
Edison threats over using his son's name in battery schemes
Edison, in Stewartsville New Jersey, says he will criminally prosecute any man who uses the name of his son T A Edison Jr in the magnet electric battery scheme or any other venture. He declares he will expose and pursue those who misled his son to protect innocent people and his name at all costs.
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Stewartsville
N. J
T. A. Edison
T. A. Edison, Jr
Post Office Closes Today For Funeral of Payne
The post office will close from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. out of respect for the memory of Postmaster-General Payne. His funeral is set for tomorrow in Washington. There will be only two deliveries, the early morning and the late afternoon.
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Payne
Washington
Colorado Trial Board Set to Meet in Boston
Washington dispatch reports the Colorado battle ship will begin its trial trip on Oct. 26 with the trial board convening in Boston on Oct. 24. The notice outlines dates for the inspection and performance tests to certify the ship’s seaworthiness.
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Colorado
Washington
Boston
Bargain Counter Clearance Footwear Sale
Readable sale listing for women and girls shoes and boots at various prices. Includes oxfords slippers rubbers and school boots with multiple size ranges and discount figures.
Motor Pirate chase ends in cliff escape and reunion
In a high speed pursuit from Penzance to Land's End Mannering the Motor Pirate is forced to a climactic showdown. The white car crashes over a grassy slope after Evie Maitland is seized. the hero and Inspector Forrest barely survive while Evie is found safe at a hotel. The tale explains how Evie fell into Mannering’s clutches and why she aided the pursuit.
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Mannering
Brighton
Evie Maitland
Inspector Forrest
Penzance
Forrest
Land’s End
Sennen
Evie
St. Alban’s
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