Lapham Paint Mine Sparks Boston Drama
Bartley Hubbard interviews Silas Lapham about his mineral paint business begun from a Vermont oil-stone find. Lapham recalls farm roots, marriage to Persis, and rapid townwide adoption of the paint’s fire and water resistant mix. The tale previews Lapham’s rise amid early success and conflict over landscape use.
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Bartley Hubbard
Silas Lapham
Lapham
Boston
Mr. Lapham
Vermont
Texas
Hubbard
Father
Persis
Nehemiah Lapham
Bartley
Kanuck
S. L. I. Isod
Tapham
Marcia
Lumberville
Turkey renews Armenian massacres amid war shifts
Diplomatic dispatches report renewed Armenian killings in Asiatic Turkey after Bulgaria joined the war as an ally. Morgenthau notes unmet promises to allow Armenian departure and refuge. financial aid exists but no broad resettlement. Grey condemns massacres and deportations in Lords debate.
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Washington
Turkey
Bulgaria
State Department
Morgenthau
London
Marquis of Crewe
House of Lords
Edward Grey
House of Commons
Foreign Secretary
Breakfast foods a Harvard ritual across Cambridge menus
Historians may look elsewhere but Harvard keeps a dozen breakfast foods on Memorial Hall menus. The 1100 students gather for three meals daily and rely on breakfast items at lunch and even in desserts, a tradition tied to Cambridge and university kitchens.
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Europe
Massachusetts
Cambridge
City
Bailiwick
Harvard
Memorial Hall
Przemysl
Battle Creek
Mich
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Harvara
Zeppelin fright closes St. Pauls
London Oct 12 announced that Sunday evening services at St. Pauls Cathedral would be discontinued to conform with regulations requiring the darkening of streets amid wartime security concerns.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Dedham Contractor Attacked by Ex-Employee
Matthew J. McGuinness a Dedham contractor narrowly escaped serious injury after being slashed in the neck and fired upon by Joseph Balor whom he had discharged from his crew of about twenty. Balor fled into the Dedham woods after the assault, McGuinness remained hospitalized but not critically hurt.
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Matthew J. McGuinness
Dedham
Joseph Balor
Curve Street
McGuinness
Bishop Usher
Everett Man Struck By Automobile Injured At Corner
John McDonald aged 64 of 42 Cottage Street Everett was struck as he stepped from an electric car at Broadway and Reed Street. He suffered a fracture to the right shoulder plus multiple cuts and bruises and possible internal injuries after being dragged 30 feet before the car could be stopped.
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Broadway
Reed Street
Everett
John McDonald
Cottage Street
Eagle Lock Employees Strike at Terryville
In Terryville Connecticut 1100 Eagle Lock Company workers walk out to press for a 10 percent wage raise and a 50 hour week replacing the current six hour schedule after a mass meeting.
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Eagle Lock
Terryville
Conn
Eagle Lock Company
Michael E. Rice Dead At 0 Years In East Boston
Michael E. Rice longtime janitor at the South ferry slip died at his home 209 Paris street East Boston after a week long illness. He leaves two daughters Mary and Margaret who resided with him and a brother Thomas Rice of Dorchester.
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Michael E. Rice
South Ferry
Paris Street
Boston
Mary
Margaret
Thomas Rice
Dorchester
Rector Exonerated After Church Rectory Shooting
New Orleans report says Parish grand jury exonerated Rev. Byron Holley rector of St. George's Episcopal Church in the rectory shooting of Lansing G. Pearsall. Holley said he mistook Pearsall for a burglar and no charges followed. Witnesses indicated Pearsall had been drinking.
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New Orleans
Byron Holley
St. George’s Episcopal Church
Lansing G. Pearsall
Micka
Pearsall
Admiral Benson to Attend Naval War College Conference
Rear Admiral Benson chief of operations will go to Newport Rhode Island to attend a Naval War College conference on the navy war game. The game showed the Atlantic fleet defeated and a hypothetical landing of a hostile force in Delaware Bay. The discussion will be held Thursday with fleet officers and war college members.
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Washington
Benson
Newport
R. I
Naval War College
Navy
Delaware Bay
The
War College
Woman Taken to Worcester Hospital by Ambulance in Severe Rheumatism
Mrs. Eleanor M. Wood of Worcester describes extreme knee and arm pain from rheumatism. After failing conventional treatment, she used Var-ne-sis, improving to walk unaided and discarding crutches and an iron knee brace. She credits the remedy with relief and urges others to investigate testimonials.
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Worcester Hospital
Eleanor M. Wood
Tirrell St
Worcester
Mass
W. A. Varney
Lynn
Boston
Boylston St
Riker-Jaynes
E. M. Wood
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Ang Ling
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Fatima
Danger Bee
U. S
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Euphrates
ST. Paul's
Neal
Riker - Jaynes
Admiral Benson
Sargel Company
Binghamton
Sargol
Viesh Builder
Sargol Co
Herald
Pinghamton
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