Puvis de Chavannes Mural Arrives For Boston Public Library
The large canvas by Puvis de Chavannes has arrived in Boston and will be placed in the Public Library bellway. Wallace of Providence and Highspar k of New York will install the piece, with a 19 by 1 foot box and a 59 foot long canvas backed by lead. Critics note its neutral tones and contrast with Sienna marble walls as experts prepare the setup.
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Puvis DE Chavannes
NEW Public Library
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Boston
Chavannes
Publi
Bay
E. A. Abbey
John S. Sargent
Wallace
Providence
Highspark
New York
Bates Hall
Raffaelli
Chevannes
Champs de Mars
Puvis de Chavanes
Henri Bremontiier
The
Presse
Public
Society of French Artists
National, Fine Arts Society
Messonier
France
Inspiring Muses Acclaiming Genive the Messenger of Light
Chavannes nearly finished a painting titled Inspiring Muses Acclaiming Genive the Messenger of Light but destroyed the first canvas and began anew. The work features the nine muses bearing lyres and a central bearer of light above a doorway, with a green hillside, blossom saplings, a golden green sky, and a blue sea backdrop.
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Chavannes
Genive
Messenger of Light
Bearer of
Wife of a Hero and Pen Name Mystery Inspires a Writer
Katherine Dangerfield born as Katherine Levick and later Mrs. Wangersen, daughter of a Crimean War hero, shares glimpses of her life. Her father survived Balaklava and Sebastopol. she began writing after a погression of gossip and finds in fiction her true vocation.
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May Agnes Fleming
Katherine Levick
W. F.wangerien
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Chicago
Boston
Katherine Dangerfield
Katie
Wangerien
Balaklava
Shef‘held
Eng
Light Brigade
Sebastopol
William Wetmore Story Dies In Italy A Talented American
An obituary notes the death of William Wetmore Story at his daughter’s Vallambrosa estate in Italy. Born 1819 in Salem, he was a lawyer, judge Joseph Story’s son, a prolific sculptor, painter and writer. He studied in Rome, produced famed statues like Cleopatra and Libyan Sibyl, and authored notable works including Roma di Roma. His family included Waldo Story, a sculptor, and Edith Story, who married Marquis di Peruzzi.
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Rome
William. Wetmore Story
Marquise Peruzzi
Vallambrosa
Italy
Eisha Stry
Nord
Joseph Story
Supreme Court
Harvard University
Greenleaf
Essex
John Frazer
Judge Story
Lawyer Story
Justice Story
Bar Association
Story
Barberini
Hawthorne
Egypt
Cleopatra
Metropolitan Museum
Fifth Avenue
New York
Edward Everett
William Prescott
Josiah Quincy
Harvard College
England
France
Italia
Nero
Boston
Miss Dldridge
New England
Edith Story
Marquis di Peruzzi
Florentine
Waldo Story
Julian
Eternal City
Crawford
Beethoven
Music Hall
Cambridge Fire Limit District Upheld by City Council
Cambridge City Council last night passed the ordinance creating a fire limit district that will bar construction of the Cambridge Temple on Massachusetts Avenue. The vote approved the measure after debates on a hearing request by Reverend Breen, with amendments and objections noted by several council members. Assistant City Clerk Edward J. Brandon was unanimously elected to fill the city clerk post, a position long held in effect by Walter W. Pike’s absence.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Temple
Massachusetts Avenue
Breen
Genleman
Morgan
Edward J. Brandon
Walter W. Pike
Brandon
Ireland
Webster Grammar School
Boston College
New England News Company
Common Council
Board of Cemetery Commissioners
Pike
Lunatic from New York Seeks Adoption at White House
Owen Jones arrives at the White House in Washington with a newspaper poem requesting adoption or employment by the president's family. He offers to wash dishes and be generally useful, following a prior threatening letter and is taken into custody by police for safety.
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Washington
Owen Jones
New York State
White House
Owen
Haverhill Identifies River Death As E W Calkins
Haverhill October 8 remains found in the river Sunday morning were identified as E W Calkins of Lowell. He left home a week ago last Monday and was last seen then. Identification was made by his clothing. no causes assigned for death by own action.
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House of Keys
Mr. Tynwald
Court of Tynwald
Caine
Peel
London
Hall Caine Heads to Canada on Copyright Mission
Hall Caine, famed Isle of Man author, passes through Boston en route to Canada on a diplomatic task for the English government to straighten a copyright tangle over his works. The 42 year old novelist, married with four children, is noted for The Deemster and The Manxman and has declined offers for stories and lectures.
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Hall Caine
Isle of Man
Boston
Canada
Mr. Caine
Liverpool Mercury
Coleridge
Son of
Hagar
Dempster
Deemster
Hall
Cape Breton native wounds near jugular at Boston street
William Hogan of Cape Breton attempted suicide at 48 North Bennet Street using a pocket knife. The blade was dull, leaving two ragged neck wounds, one near the jugular and the other close to the windpipe. He was taken to Station 1 for treatment by Dr Dunn and then moved to Massachusetts General Hospital.
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William Hogan
Cape Breton
North Bennet Street
Dunn
Massachusetts General Hospital
Counterfeit Cartwheel Arrested in Nut Stand Attempt
William J McDonough 35 of Lawrence is jailed at Station 1 on charges of trying to pass a counterfeit silver dollar to Nicholas Bilemis a Greek chestnut vendor. The incident occurred opposite Union Station as sergeant Fessenden and patrolman McCaffrey observed. Police found nearly $7 in his possession and he will be turned over to Treasury officials.
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William J. McDonough
Lawrence
Station 1
Nicholas Bilemis
Union Station
Fessenden
McCaffrey
Hanover Street
Bilemis
McDonough
United States Treasury
Nutting accident leaves Patrick Murphy near death
Patrick Murphy aged 26 of 35 Goldsmith Street fell from a nut tree in Bowders Lane West Roxbury while on a nutting expedition yesterday afternoon. He suffered a fractured skull a broken nose and serious injuries and was taken to City Hospital where he is listed on the dangerous list.
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Patrick Murphy
Goldsmith Street
Murphy
Bowders Lane
Conductor McSorley Attacked on Charlestown Trolley
An electric car bound for Malden with Conductor McSorley and Motorman Mullen on board was hit by a man who leaped onto the car on Alford street Charlestown in the afternoon. He struck Conductor McSorley three times in the face then jumped off and vanished.
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Malden
McSorley
Mullen
Alford Street
Charlestown
Strike of Sardine Workmen in Eastport
The sardine workmen strike in Eastport Maine entered its second week on October 8 1910 with expectations that workers may return to the old wage rate by next Thursday or Monday.
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Eastport
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Paris
Eugene Delacroix
Thomas Couture
M. Puvis DE
Mrs. Wangersen
Sultan
Levick
Turkey
Inkerman
Miss Florence Nightingale
Mr. Levick
Indianapolis
John Levick
Salem
Cestry
William ‘Wetmore Story
Mass
Tila
Metropolitan Museum of New York
William Wetmore Story
Cambrige
Newby
Haverhill
M'Sorley
Spruce Lumber
Alpheus M. Stetson
Ruby Strem
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