Roosevelt and Taft Girls Still Singing School Days
Washington Oct. 20 Miss Ethel Roosevelt remains in a schoolroom with governess Miss Helen Taft and the younger Bar oness Rosen sails Nov. 6 for debut in St Petersburg. Taft graduates Bryn Mawr and the Rosen girl prepares for Russian court life after a two year American stay marked by strict supervision.
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Roosevelt and Taft
Washington
Ethel Roosevelt
Helen Taft
Elizabeth Rosen
St. Petersburg
Bryn Mawr
Baroness Rosen
America
Thaw Album Disappears As Detective Hunt Continues
Mme Marie von Veltheim, Boer war heroine and royal portraitist, vanished with the large black album containing hundreds of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw portraits valued at over $1000. Detective work across the country seeks the book to be used in Harry Thaw’s upcoming trial, with Evelyn Nesbit Thaw strongly tied to the collection. Harry K. Thaw has been approached with an offer to buy the lost album for $300, while authorities, led by Daniel O Reilly, pursue the owner through clues from a recent letter.
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Marie von Veltheim
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
O'Reilly
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Harry KK. Thaw
Daniel O'Reilly
Europe
Dom Paul” Kruger
Mr. O'Reilly
Harry Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
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Fifty-ninth Street
Dudgeon
Rev J Edgar Park Accepts West Newton Pastorate
Rev J Edgar Park, three years pastor at West Andover Congregational Church, accepted the call to succeed Rev T P Prudden at the Second Congregational Church of West Newton. Born in Belfast in 1879, he studied at Belfast Academy Queen's College and later at Royal University Edinburgh University and Leipzig University. He will begin next month and his family includes a wife and one daughter. He comes from a line of Presbyterian ministers.
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Edinburgh University
Leipzig University
Princeton College
Park
Hie
Hotel Nottingham Hosts Hotel Chaplain Movement Meeting
Crowds gathered in a Boston hotel parlor to hear Rev. Eugene C. Webster outline the year long effort known as the hotel chaplain movement or Little Church Around the Corner. The plan aims to hold weekly Sunday services at a major city hotel for the public.
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Nottingham
Boston
Eugene C. Webster
St Marys Episcopal Guild Plans Winter Evenings in Dorchester
The St Marys Episcopal Guild of Dorchester plans Thursday night entertainments in the church parlors Uphams Corner. A score of young ladies will preside. The program includes talks whist vaudeville and similar activities with a light collation served after each session.
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St. Mary's Episcopal Guild
St. Mary’s Church
Dorchester
Upham’s Corner
Pastor Hun Gate Resigns for Colton Cal Call
Holyoke reports Reverend Jesse A. Hun gate, pastor of the First Baptist Church, read his resignation today effective December to accept a call to Colton California.
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Holyoke
Jesse A. Hungate
First Baptist Church
Colton
Cal
Society Girls Witnesses in Leominster Driver Case
Worcester report says grand jury will hear the Arthur Johnson case tied to Miss Louise Vanderbilt of New York. Johnson, Leominster chauffeur, was charged with reckless driving while driving Vanderbilt and two Fitchburg socialites to Boston on Sept. 18. charge revised to reckless driving. Fitchburg pair did not appear. Vanderbilt avoided service by fleeing to New York.
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Arthur Johnson
Leominster
Louise Vanderbilt
New York
Vanderbilt
William K. Vanderbilt
Boston
Fitchburg
Rachael Lowe
Helen Wallace
Miss Vanderbilt
New York City
Marital Wires Crossed in Clinton Telephone Tale
Worcester dispatch details Hattie A. Barnard once a Clinton beauty and Palmer switchboard operator who eloped to Ware and wed Harry H. Farnum in 1902. Now aged 20 or 17, she seeks absolute divorce from alleged cruel and abusive treatment, with Walsh and Walsh as her attorneys.
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Clinton
Hattie A. Barnard
Palmer
Ware
Harry H. Farnum
A. B. Bassett
Farnum
Telephone
Walsh
Weddings Allowed on Weekends Says Boston Official
Boston officials say marriages will not be forbidden on Sundays or Saturdays in the city. Vicar-General William Byrne notes Pittsburg’s ban was due to local conditions and foreign weddings causing noise on evenings. He doubts a similar restriction will be needed in Boston and cites Chelsea as an unlikely precedent.
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Boston
Pittsburg
Regis Canevin
Chelsea
Life in Boston by Rev Charles Gordon Ames
The Rev Charles Gordon Ames spoke at the Church of the Disciples on Life in Boston. He contrasted past and present in the city noting its ugliness and beauty and warned of rising crime despite millions spent on education and welfare. He urged that salvation is possible with community effort.
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Charles Gordon Ames
Church of the Disciples
Constantinople
House of Correction
Asylum For the
Almshouse
Not Guilty for Umbrella Mender Robbery Verdict
Sherman Doolittle told County Attorney De Graff that booze led to his arrest after a jury found him not guilty of robbing F. L. Winterhouse, an umbrella mender. He warned that if he ever drinks again he should be shot on the spot.
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Des Moines
Sherman Doolittle
de Graff
F. L. Winterhouse
SOZODONT Promises Gum health and fresh mouth aroma
Established 1868 is free from harmful elements. Its alkalinity destroys mouth acid germs. It permeates the entire tooth and mouth structure with its healthy fragrance. A tonic to the gums, SOZO DONT is an article of merit. Its popularity of sixty years will attest to that. Remember SOZODONT.
Dolls depict life of Jesus at Dorchester church
A four year old tells the crucifixion story as dolls act out Bible tales at Baker Memorial Church Upham's Corner Dorchester. Children use sand water and wooden crosses to reenact baptism walking on water and the last supper, with charts and pictures aiding memory.
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Baker Memorial Church
Upham’'s Corner
Dorchester
Jesus
John
Mine creep hits New Castle area causing major damage
News dispatches report a serious creep in old mine workings beneath New Castle city’s residential quarter. Fifteen acres of buildings are affected with damage estimated at about half a million dollars.
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Sydnet
New Castle
Mrs Wong Sun Yue Seeks Police Protection in Frisco
Mrs Wong Sun Yue sister of Mrs Howard Gould appeals to San Francisco police chief for protection from detectives hired by Howard Gould who have stalked her for months seeking derogatory information about her sister. The chief promises she will not be molested in the future.
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San Francisco
Wong Sun Yue
Howard Gould
Chief of Police
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