Vice-Consul Conry to Avoid Local Elections This Year
Former Congressman Joseph A. Conry, now Russia’s vice-consul, will not participate in state or city elections. He succeeds T. Quincy Browne, who retired. Conry plans to engage Boston merchants in establishing a steamship line from Boston to Riga in the Baltic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Conry
Conry
T. Quincy Browne
Cantry
Congress
John A. Kelcher
Boston
Riga
Baltic
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The Dudley Street Baptist Church morning and evening pulits were filled by Rev. Herbert S. Johnson and Rev. Roland Dwight Grant. An athletic night at Dudley Street vestry featured prizes for baseball and tennis and talks by Samuel Lindsay on Golf. Unitarians of Boston held a meeting led by Rev. Charles W. Casson at Copley Square. The Episcopalian Club planned at Hotel Somerset with Faunce and Brackett speaking on lay civic duty. Congregational Club met at Ford Hall with Rev. Cortland Myers among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Herbert S. Johnson
Warren Avenue Church
Roland Dwight Grant
Samuel Lindsay
Scotland
John D. Rockefeller
Lindsay
Unitarians of
Boston
Copley Square
Charles W. Casson
Fipiscopalian Club
Somerset
Faunce of
Brown
Dr. Brackett
The
School For Social Workers
Congregational Club
Ford Hall
Japanese Women Tour Boston With Husband Party
Japanese women visiting Boston accompany their husbands on all city outings. They toured the Museum of Fine Arts and Public Library, attended a Vendome reception, and marveled at Japanese art, costumes, and the library’s photographs while police guarded them. Baron Shibusawa and party later visited Newport’s Commodore Perry tomb, with remarks on Boston and Newport, plus commentary on football by Shibusawa’s associate Shingoro Takaishi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New Museum of Fine Arts
Public
Hotel Vendome
Japanese Society
Naniwa Club
Baron Shibusawa
J. P. Morgan
Flowery Kingdom
Newport
Commodore Perry
Saibusawa
New Art Museum
L Public Library
Severy Department
Baroness i Shibusawa
United States
Japan
Harris Kennedy
Milton
S. Yamanaka
Walcott
Buyer Nakano
Tokio
Associated Chambers of Commerce
Pacific Coast
Louis A. Coolidge
Boston Chamber of Commerce
R. I
Empire
New York
Shingoro Takaishi
Harvard
A Japanese Visitor’s Views on Football
Shin goro Takaishi compares American football to his country’s ancient ball kicking game. He finds football rough and brutal and doubts its longevity, recalling a much older game from Japan.
Japan Pleased With Tokyo Reception For Visitors
Oct 24 In Tokyo Japan expresses pleasure at the reception given to visiting Japanese business men in America and notes surprise at reports of broad dislike. Officials in Tokyo and major papers describe courteous hospitality as sincere and well received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
America
Japan
Foreign Office
Whitehead Defends Swedenborg Against Eliot Critique
The Rev John Whitehead challenged Harvard President emeritus Charles Eliot yesterday at Huntington Chambers Fall, arguing Eliot mislabels Swedenborgian heaven and hell as fantastic. Whitehead cites Eliot’s own remarks on a future religion with departed spirits and argues Swedenborg’s doctrine is rational with support from James LomBroso and Sir Oliver Lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whitehead
Charles Eliot
Harvard University
Huntington Chambers
Swedenborg
Heaven
Hell
Eliot
Mr. Whitehead
James
Lombroso
Oliver Lodge
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed by Boston Resident
P H Hynes of 140 Bremen Street Boston testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills restored his health after kidney trouble with back pains and dizziness. He reports relief in 1905 upon a slight return and again after use. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
P. H. Hynes
Bremen Street
Mass
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Wild Auso pins down two men
Edward C. Tripp a 40 year old Frankin Engraving Company treasurer of Boston and W Herron a 46 year old eye specialist were seriously injured in Hyde Park when the steering gear failed causing their car to plunge down a nine foot embankment on Metropolitan avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park
Edward C. Tripp
Franklin Engraving Company of Boston
W. §. Herron
Langham
Boston
Metropolitan Avenue
Hyde Park auto crash leaves two men severely hurt
Edward C. Tripp eye specialist of 815 Washington street and 25 St Stephen street Back Bay, and W S Herron treasurer of Franklin Engraving Co, both injured when a speeding Metropolitan avenue car crashed after steering gear failure. Witnesses say brakes failed and vehicle zigzagged before overturning and ejecting the occupants. Both men taken to Hyde Park Hospital with serious injuries. Tripp skull fracture, Herron arm fracture and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde Park Hospital
Tripp
Herron
Metropolitan Avenue
Boston
Edward C. Tripp
Washington Street
St. Stephen Street
Back Bay
W. S. Herron
Hyde Park
Langham
Franklin Engraving Company
Robert Herron
United States Railway Mail Service
Cherry Valley
Worcester
Bert Rollins
New York Man shoots chorus girl wife at Union Station
William H. Short of New York shot his chorus girl wife after she chose her stage life over him in the Union Station west portico. He then shot himself, dying an hour later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William H. Short
New York City
Union Station
Col Enoch Farrington Dies In Augusta Maine
Colonel Enoch Co. Farrington of Augusta a long time Maine public figure dies at his residence after a long illness. Born in Fryeburg Oxford County 76 years ago he leaves a widow and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Enoch Co. Farrington
Maine
Fryeburg
Oxford County
World’s Costliest Pennsylvania Station Nears 1909 Completion
The new Pennsylvania Railroad terminal between Seventh and Ninth avenues and Thirty-first to Thirty-third streets in New York will open December 1. The project, the world’s greatest terminal, totals about $100 million for building and tunnels, with $60 million more for connecting improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seventh and
Ninth Avenues
Montauk Point
N. J
Bawknot
Manhattan Island
South Station
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Thirty-third Street
Staieways
Sunnyside
Harrison
New Jersey
Long Island
New York City
Homeless At Journey's End
Nora Frances Beaton an 11 year old girl arrived unaccompanied from Bakerville British Columbia seeking shelter. Police found her sobbing at the North station and she was taken to Station 1 then the Chardon Street Home. She said her mother placed her on a stage coach with a note for Mollie Fitzgerald 14 Ferry Street Boston. She traveled via Ashcroft Vancouver Montreal to Boston. Her parents once lived in the city before moving to Western Canada. No one at 14 Ferry Street answered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Frances Beaton
Bakerville
British Columbia
Allen
Daniel Beaton
Mollie Fitzgerald
Ferry Street
Boston
Ashcroft
Vancouver
Montreal
Canada
Witzgerald
Chardon Street
Fulton's Renal Compound Praised By Doctors in Extremis
The May 1, 1909 issue notes several favorable reports from physicians in various cities about Fulton’s Renal Compound, especially when used before extreme decline. It argues orthodox treatments fail unless applied early, cites a San Francisco physician Gardner as an example, and urges reporting all nonrecoveries to John J. Fulton Company for literature and guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Bright
San Francisco
Gardner
Fulton
Jaynes & Co
Washington Street
John J. Fulton Company
First Street
Cal
Battle Won by Rebels in Nicaragua Action near Boca San Carlos
Bluefields Nicaragua Oct 24 The first important battle of the revolution ended in a decisive rebel victory. General Chamorro's forces defeated 1000 government troops at Boca San Carlos on the San Juan River. About 100 government soldiers were killed and 300 wounded. Rebels seized two Krupp siege guns and 400 rifles. Chamorro advances slowly while reinforcements to the insurgents mount. The Yulu steamship reports Cape Gracias a Dios captured with minimal casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Colon
Blanca
Greytown
Chamorro
Zelaya
Boca San Carlos
San Juan
Managua
Yulu
Hmery Company
Cape Gracias A Dios
Gold Dust Promises Easier Dish Cleaning
The ad claims Gold Dust makes dishes whiter sweeter and cleaner than ordinary soap. It says the product cleans deeper removing germs and hidden particles, dissolving as soon as it touches water, and saves half the time and labor for repetitive washing.
Blood Tonic for Spring Health from National Home Monthly
A spring health tonic claim promotes kardene mixed with sugar alcohol and hot water to produce a quart of tonic. It warns that spring fever dullness and skin eruptions signal a need to purify the blood and awaken the liver and prescribes one tablespoonful before each meal and at night.
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Greater Boston
Hub
George W. Brown
General Electric
Lynn
North Shore
Park Boulevard
H. DeForest Lockwood
Pacific Mills
Lawrence
Simmons College
Wellesley
Bouble
A Ee Eass Ss. Bailey
Ylard Bas
Hyde Park Street
Col
E. C. Farrington
Augusta, ME
Pennsylvania
Gotham
Pennsylvania Station
South
McKim, Mead & White
Caracalla
Rome
Worknrse Lunes No
AN Noo Tran
Rookwood
Red-Man
Earl & Wilson
Tremont St
Summer St
A.g.van Nostrand, Bunker. Hill Breweries
Batile
New England Maple Syrup Company
Ward
Franklin St
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