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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1908

Page

4

Boston Sees Key Speech On Tuberculosis Fight

Dr R W Philip of Edinburgh addressed about 400 at the Conservatory of Music during the tuberculosis congress praising Boston and New York anti disease steps. He urged compulsory notification, better housing, dispensaries, and city hospitals for incurables, stressing home reach of dispensaries and the need for coordinated campaigns.

R. W. Philip Royal Victoria Hospital Edinburgh Conservatory of Music Philip New York Boston

The Rubicon Verse by William Winter Amid Illness

A fragment from Putnam's and the Reader presents William Winter’s meditative lines on nearing death. He reflects on the brink of life and the future beyond, contemplating death’s unmasking of truth and the possible passage to a lucid, transcendent birth.

William Winter Lord Tennyson

Prober Sughrue Faces City Campaign Cash Claims

The Finance Commission probe reports officials were questioned about forced contributions to the Fitzgerald campaigns. A city employee admitted contributing to Fitzgerald in 1906 and recalled contributing to Sughrue's recent district attorney bid. The interview ended with the official record of his contribution.

Finance Commission Sughrue Fitzgerald Cty

Longtime rector F W Brathwaite gravely ill in Stamford

The Rev F W Brathwaite, rector of St Andrews Episcopal parish for 46 years, is critically ill and not expected to recover. In New York an overcharged blast in an excavation near Fifth Avenue and Eighty Fifth Street damaged two apartment houses and upset several wealthy residents.

Stamford F. W. Brathwaite St. Andrews’ Episcopal REW York Fifth Avenue Eighty-fifth Street

Trade School Opens Monday

The Evening Trade School, supported by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, will open next Monday. Preliminary registration is tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at 111 Huntington Avenue. The program includes plumbing carpentry drawing sheet metal work pattern drafting tile setting bricklaying house painting and practical electricity with a new pattern drafting class for journeymen sheet metal workers the first in Boston.

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Huntington Avenue Boston

Local notes on factory stitching girls and a walking club

A brief from Meredith New Hampshire mentions girls employed in the stitching room at a local factory and a walking club enjoying a jaunt to Avon. George N. Eaton of Meredith Neck claims to have read about 15 inch cucumbers and a 24 inch long cucumber and a pumpkin too large for a washtub.

Avon Meredith, N. H George N. Eaton Meredith Neck

Lincoln Park Baptist Pastor Denounces Convention Decision

Rev. Dr. Edwin F. Snell of Lincoln Park Baptist Church West Newton spoke at the North Baptist convention held yesterday in Old Cambridge Baptist Church. He warned that while his group will continue to support believers in prayer they object to the convention’s assertion that their church dissociated itself from the event.

Edwin F. Snell Lincoln Park Baptist Church West Newton Old Cambridge Baptist Church

Heated Baptist debate on church membership without immersion

Delegates clashed over Dr. Snell's Lincoln Park Baptist Church admitting members without immersion. Dr. Henson and Rev Johnson led opposing sides while Dr. Campbell pressed for action. A committee of pastors and lay members was formed to study the issue for a year as churches threaten withdrawal if non immersion practices are ratified.

Snell P. S. Henson Tremont Temple Henson Herbert 8. Johnson Warren Avenue West Newton Boston Baptist Church

Tel Electric Piano Solo At Warerooms

A Tel Electric piano concert was held last evening at 405 Boylston Street with tenor Thomas N. Johnson violinist Albert M. Kanrich and cellist Frank Porter. The instrument uses electricity, with the transmitter containing music rolls and expression devices connected by a flexible cable.

Boylston Street Thomas N. Johnson Albert M. Kanrich Frank Porter

Mimic World Day At Park Square Fair At Majestic

A 2 pm event at Park Square Coliseum features The Mimic World company arriving from the Majestic Theatre. Gertrude Hoffmann and the Maxim chorus join the Boston Food Fair activities with a free vaudeville show and Sousa band concerts. Ongoing attractions include 1200 pounds lifted by Onaip and a bowling exhibit with Grace Tyson challenging Helen Royton.

Majestic Theatre Park Square Coliseum Gertrude Hoffmann Salome Maxim Girls Boston Sousa Onaip Mephistophelian Hindoo Grace Tyson Helen Royton

Burdett Night School Enrolls Nearly 700 Pupils

Burdett Night School opened last Monday with about 700 students. A final class for delayed pupils starts next Monday with seats assigned in order. A waiting list begins Tuesday for next year. Burdett College is described as the country’s largest private night school with an alumni base earning about 12 million dollars annually in Greater Boston.

Burdett Burdett College Greater Boston

Woman Credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound For Recovery

Mrs Helen Barton of 27 Parton Street Chicago Illinois writes she was run down and ill in bed from overwork and worry. After a week on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she began to improve and is completely restored to health. She hopes other women will benefit similarly.

Helen Barton Pearton Street Chicago Lydia E. Pinkham

Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Advertisement

For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands of women troubled with displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration. Why not try it.

Lydia E. Pinkham

Winchester Bridal: Miss Winn Weds Arnold Whittaker

Miss May Louise Winn of Winchester married Arnold Whittaker of Somerville at the bride’s mother’s home 8 Elmwood Avenue Winchester. The groom serves as president of the Ward 1 Republican Club Somerville and sits on the city committee. He works with Commonwealth Trust Company Boston and Winter Hill Co operative Bank Somerville.

Winchester May Louise Winn Arnold Whittaker Somerville Mary Louise Winn Elmwood Avenue Republican Club Ward 1 Commonwealth Trust Company of Boston Winter Hill Co-operative Bank

Paper mills restart with 5 percent wage cut in Franklin

Two Inter national Paper Company mills and three pulp mills in Franklin resumed full operations today after workers accepted a five percent wage reduction that led to a strike on August 1. In Paris Charles Page Bryan American minister to Portugal arrived on leave, reporting quiet conditions back home.

Franklin, WN. H International Paper Company Paris Charles Page Bryan Portugal

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Washington ST Jabon S. Bailey Beack E. C Dresden Co. O. D Mosse Hazard Stevens Whiton Fiall Dorchester William L. Garrison R. E. Bisbee Stevens Republican Party Congress Bisbee Marceau RR. W Philp, SM A. M Jordan Hall The Rubicon Putnam’s and the Reader Newton Church Newton Dr. Campbell Central Square Baptist Church Cambridge Campbell Watson Rowley First Baptist Church of Princess Batiste Wallace Oxford Cardinal Anaeun Tel Park Square Miss May Louise Winn Mrs. Barton Whittaker—Winn Jordan Marsh Co Houghton & Dutton R. H. White Co Henry Siegel Co Brockton and Taunton C. H. Goldthwaite Lynn Salem Bev G. He & Deus Co New Bedford Lawton Fall River J. C. Acer Haverhill M. F Flynn, Lowell— Ellingwood & Co Lawrence Charles Clark & Son Manchester J. J. Holland Regal Chemical CO Mass Lyon DDS Houghton & Dutton Co
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