Bank Merger Completes As Eliot National Absorbed
The merger of National Shawmut and Eliot National banks took effect yesterday with Eliot losing its identity. A notice on the Eliot door in the John Hancock building announced all business transferred to National Shawmut. Two thirds of Eliot stockholders voted to liquidate and the bank was absorbed. Most Eliot employees joined National Shawmut.
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National Shawmut
Eliot National Banks
Eliot
John Hancock Building
Federal and
Hancock Streets
Comptrollers of the Currency
Washington
Eliot Bank
National Showmut
William Fyneve
First National Bank
Paul
State Street Trust Company
Cardinal Names Chaplains for K of C Councils
Cardinal O Connell announces the appointments of chaplains to Columbus councils. The Rev. Sagiety State chaplain joins Bishop Cheverus council fourth degree. The Rev. Wil A Connor of St Pauls Church Sebastes is chaplain of James E Hayes Council. The Rev. Denis P Crimmins of St Francis Xavier is Weymouth council chaplain. The Rev. Francis E Rogers of St Marys Church Winchester is Winchester Council chaplain.
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K. OF
O’conneill
Coetaneay
Columbus
Sagiety
Cheverus Aeons
Wil A. .Connor
St. Paul’s Church
Sebastes
James E. Hayes
Denis P. Crimmins
Tor
St. Francis Xavier’s Church
Weymouth
Weymouth Council
Francis E. Rogers
St. Mary's Church
Wincee
Winchester Coun
Father of 4 Missing
Mrs Bernice A Snow seeks her husband Albert C Snow the breadwinner missing from a home at 9 Condor Street East Boston The four Snow children cry for food as they await his return and Mrs Snow pleads for support or his return to the family.
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Albert C. Snow
Condor Street
Boston
Bernice A. Snow
Woman Heads Massachusetts Charities Conference
Miss Frances C. Curtis of Manchester was elected president of the Massachusetts State Conference of Charities at the closing session. Rev. M. J. Scanlon of Boston and Edward T. Estey of Worcester were named vice presidents, Parker B. Field of Boston secretary and David F. Tilley of Boston treasurer.
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Haverhill
Frances C. Curtis
Manchester
Massachusetts State Conference of Charities
M. J. Scanlon
Boston
Edward T. Estey
Worcester
Parker B. Field
David F. Tilley
Boston urged to accelerate port development after Hamburg-American pledge
Mayor Fitzgerald says Boston will gain steamship service as Albert Ballin guarantees Hamburg-American Line ships to the port. He predicts other lines will follow, making port development a matter of time and urging local business to get busy.
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Fitzgerald
Boston
Albert Ballin
Hamburg- American Line
Hamburg-American
Yale
Boston Eyes Growth as Hamburg America Line Glows
Mayor hailed a successful conference in New York with Herr Ballin and Hamburg American directors. They predicted future Boston support from other lines, boosting the port and city commerce over the next decade as Boston’s advantages attract steamer traffic.
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Herr Ballin
New York
Boston
May Strike Threatened by Canadian Pacific Workers
A. R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees, says another strike is threatened by 560 percent men including freight handlers clerks and baggage office staff. The claim follows tensions within the Canadian Pacific Railway at Winnipeg Manitoba on October 25.
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Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
A. R. Mosher
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees
Odd Supreme Court egg case prompts constitutional query
A Chicago man without a wife sues for an annulment while the Supreme Court weighs whether a rotten egg could be constitutional in a curious legal tangle.
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The
United States Supreme Court
Chicago
Jury convicts child slayer in Bronx murder case
A New York jury found Joseph J. McKenna guilty of murder in the first degree for strangling six year old Sigrid Eckstrom last June. The body was found in a Bronx apartment basement after McKenna, an army deserter, confessed then recanted at trial.
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New York
Joseph J. McKenna
Sigrid Eckstrom
Bronx
McKenna
Woman testifies husband attacked her in divorce court
Mrs. Marion G. White described to a divorce judge how her husband Thomas threatened to kill her with a razor gun and axe while she held their baby. She said he smashed furniture with the axe and knocked her unconscious by throwing her over a fence, later extorting money.
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Marion G. White
Thomas
Man sues Bay State Street Railway for injury after fall from car
George Dixon of Quincy sues the Bay State Street Railway Company in Dedham Superior Court seeking 30000 dollars alleging a conductor assaulted his son causing him to fall from a car and be run over, resulting in the loss of a leg.
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Bay State Street Railway Company
George Dixon
Quincy
Dedham
Army in Reserve Idea Proposed by General Wood
Major General Leonard Wood told a luncheon crowd in Los Angeles that he favors creating an Army in reserve of about 600,000 men. He would use a short regular enlistment followed by retirement on small pay to form the reserve force.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Leonard Wood
United States Army
Notable Preachers at Tremont Street and Dorchester Churches
Tomorrow morning at the Cathedral Church of St Paul Tremont Street Dean Edmund Rousmaniere preaches. Afternoon services feature Archdeacon Samuel G Babcock and evening bishop T F Davies. Davies long served as rector of All Saints Worcester. Choirs of 40 perform Spohr cantata God Thou Art Great. Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise at Shawmut Congregational Church. Walter S Hawkins soloist. Percy L Bryning directs. Evening sermon at St Ann s Dorchester by Rev William Harman van Allen.
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St. Paul
Tremont Street
Edmund
Rousmaniere
Samuel G. Babcock
T. F. Davies
Western Massachusetts
Bishop Davies
House of Bishops
All Saints’ Church of
Worcester
Spohr
Shawmut Congregational
Mendelssohn
Walter S. Hawkins
Percy L. Bryning
St. Ann’s Church
East Cottage Street
Dorchester
William Harman van Allen
Church of the Advent
Taft Heads to Washington After Poland Springs Visit
President Taft left Boston at 4 50 pm aboard the Buffalo Express to attend the Polish College dedication at Cambridge Spring Pennsylvania and then proceed to Washington. Secretary Knox awaits his return to resume a conference that began Wednesday. Mrs Taft and Miss Helen Taft will stay in Beverly a week and plan to reach theWhite House by November 4.
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Taft
Boston
Buffalo Express
Cambridge Spring
Penn
Washington
Knox
Poland Springs
Maine
Helen
Coal Miners Return to Work After 92 Percent Increase
About one thousand miners at Dorothy West Virginia end a spring strike after talks with mine operators. Three mines resume operations with wages raised 22 percent above the United Mine Workers scale, though operators refuse to recognize the union.
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Charleston
W. Va
Dorothy
United Mine Workers of America
Conventions Doomed, Says Hart in Harvard Diagnosis
New York Oct 25 Political conventions both state and national face natural death within a few years Harvard professor Albert Bushnell Hart says democracy suffers from conventionitis as a diagnosis of the current political system.
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HART
New York
Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard University
Hygience Exhibits At Public Library In Boston
State and city health boards present a public hygiene exhibit at the Boston Public Library. The educational display won honors at the International Congress of Hygiene and Statistics. Mayor Fitzgerald urges viewing, with the exhibit likely to remain for two more weeks.
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State and City Boards of Health
International Congress of Hygiene and Statistics
Boston Public Library
Fitzgerald
Boy Run Over by Freight Train in Cambridge
Eleven year old William Lynch of 63 Brookline Street Cambridge was playing near freight cars of the Boston and Albany line when he fell under a car. He is in relief hospital in serious condition.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Cambridge
William Lynch
Brookline. Street
Relief Hospital
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Mae
Ullers Apparel Shops
Washington & Winter Streets
Young Ladies
Choice
Saturn
Butler
Jacqueline Rose
Butler’s
Woodrow Wilson
Philadelphia Home and School League
Sioux City
Trenton
Christopher Columbus
William McKinley
Father Sues Railway
Greater Boston
White House
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