Famous Japanese visitors descend on Boston for HarvardBrown game
A 60 strong Honorary Commercial Commissioners and Trade Experts of Japan arrive from Providence in three groups. Baron Eiichi Shibusawa leads the delegation including five wives and two female secretaries. They tour Fore River, Waltham Watch, and Harvard, attending the football game and a Gordon Club reception later at the Algonquin.
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Boston
Japan
Providence
Pacific Coast
Harvard
Chambers of Commerce of
The
Tokyo
Yokohama
Kobe
Kioto
Osaka
Nagoya
Eiichi Shibusawa
Dai Ichi Bank of
John D. Rockefeller
J. Pierpont Morgan
Baroness Shibusawa
Associated Chambers of Commerce
South Station
Fore River Ship Building Company
Fore River
Longfellow House
Cambridge
Colonial Club
Jerome D. Green
Harvard Corporation
Harvard Athletic Association
Harvard-Brown
Ooraine and Parker House
Algonquin Club
Boston Chamber of Commerce
French expert offers free bust development secrets to American women
Madame Dorothy De La Revere, a French society figure, claims to teach women how to develop and firm the bust and neck via a method approved by authorities. She invites letters with four cents postage to respond personally, promising results in weeks and improved health and happiness.
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Dorothy de la Revere
America
Mme
Madame Dorothy de la Revere
Byron Street
Chicago
Ill
Golden Bath Powder softens and sweetens bath water
The advertisement promotes Golden Bath Powder as a product that softens and sweetens bath water, making water fit to use for bathing. A trial offer costs 10 cents and is available at major department stores and from Golden Perfume Co., New York.
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Jordan Marsh Co
R. H. Whith CO
Houghton & Dutton
Klein’s, Woodward’s
Henry Siegel CO
Golden Perfume CO
New York City
Pierrot of the Minute at Symphony Rehearsal
Willy Hess concertmeister soloed at a public Symphony Hall rehearsal where Granville Bantock's The Pierrot of the Minute first premiered in America. Beethoven's Eighth Symphony closed the concert. The piece, based on Dawson's poem, centers on Pierrot and a Moon Maiden in a Parisian glade, with critical notes on Bantock's style and the performance of Hess.
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Willy Hess
Symphony
Symphony Hall
Granville Bantock
Dawson
America
Bantock
Pierrot
Parc du Petit Trianon
Cupid
Lynn Shoe Man Killed In Baltimore Auto Crash
Edward W. Pecker, Lynn shoe manufacturer and head of the Edward W. Pecker shoe manufactory on Willow street, died at University Hospital Baltimore after a collision near Savage Maryland. He resided in Swampscott and was a leading Mason and Knight Templar. Survived by widow and two children.
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Lynn
Edward W. Pecker
University Hospital
Baltimore
Savage
Pecker
Washington
Mr. Pecker
Swampscott
Knight Templar
Virginia
Willow Street
Senators in a Pact on Curtis
Senators Lodge and Crane have agreed to urge President Taft to appoint Edwin A. Curtis as port collector and George H. Doty as sub treasurer. The move aims to calm a brewing split from the old feud over Taft delegates and pledges. Curtis and Doty backed Crane’s program.
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Curtis
Lodge
Crane
Taft
Edwin A. Curtis
George H. Doty
Doty
Taft Loyalists Shake Up Massachusetts Port Posts
Collector George H. Lyman will not seek reappointment as Taft backers name Curtis and Doty for the posts. Senator Lodge Crane and others discuss McCarthy and Cobb as likely candidates, with McCarthy urging anti Taft opposition to Lyman’s successor and noting his strong Taft and Sherman ties. Lyman’s term ends in April amid a late campaign reshuffle.
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Port
George H. Lyman
Taft
Mr. Lyman
Curtis
Doty
Curtis and
Senator Lodge
John C. Cobb
Jeremiah J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Lodge
Crane
Surveyor McCarthy
Senator Crane
Sherman
Massachusetts
Chicago
Lyman
Gore Addresses Blind Students at Perkins Institution
United States Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma visited the Perkins Institution for the Blind in South Boston, addressing hundreds of blind attendees. He urged practical aims, praised talent, and urged following the motto life is duty, after receiving an enthusiastic, five-minute ovation.
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Perkins Institution For the Blind
United States
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
South Boston
M. R. Deming
Allen
Gore
Mary Garden Considered For Catholic Faith In Paris
Paris gossip swirls as American soprano Mary Garden contemplates converting to Roman Catholicism after her New York engagement ends in March. She plans to retire briefly to study catechism, citing the beauty of Catholic ceremonies and church splendor as her motivation.
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Paris
Mary Garden
New York
Temps
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Harvard University
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Boston, Mass
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Washington St
Franklin St
Pierrot of the Minute
BY Olin Downes
Dukas
Hess
Joachim
Senator Gore
Inna
Essex Sts
Mass
United
Siegel
Stein-Bloch
Tailor’s
Sir Henri Hats
Stein-Bloch Canta
Auto
Mili
Prince Albert
Walwood
Slumber
Ola
Saturday Evening Post
Dic
Washburn-Croshbyno
Minneapolis, Mill
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