Tiny Miss Perkins Leads Papa's Band Debut on Boston Common
Boston’s final public band concert on the Common featured Rhona Irene Perkins, 313 years old, daughter of band director Theron D. Perkins, conducting The Star Spangled Banner with a tiny flag. The program included harp and double bass, vocal solos, and Auld Lang Syne as the crowd applauded the young conductor. The city commission praised Perkins for reviving interest and expanding features in the concert series, noting 200,000 attendees across eleven concerts this year.
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Labor Is Life in Frances Sargent Osgoods Poem
Poem exhorts labor as life and glory, linking steady work to health wealth and virtue. It contrasts idleness with effort, urging perseverance, hopeful vision, and noble deeds as a form of prayer. The piece celebrates work as a sacred, renewing force.
Motorman Falls From Roof Of Car In Medford Square
James Carew a 43 year old motor man for the Boston Elevated slipped from the roof of his car after fixing a broken trolley rope in Medford square yesterday. He was carried to the curb and found to have a fractured wrist a laterated elbow and a broken thumb.
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Boston Elevated
Medford Square
Dear Miss Champagne on Love and Sentiment
An 18 year old girl asks if her 26 year old lover will quit drinking and gambling and marry her despite weekly earnings. The advisor urges youth, notes four years together is long, and says true love would demand readiness and shared standards before marriage. She is advised to end the relationship unless he reforms.
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Beechers
Cincinnati
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Prussia
Elizabeth
Rholuck
Apollo
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Barrel Skirt Divorce Suit Opens in Steubenville
James R Wyant sues Mrs Mary Ons low Wyant for divorce claiming she appears in public wearing a barrel skirt and ridiculous garments to attract male attention. The case raises whether such attire justifies dissolution of marriage under local grounds.
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Steubenville, CO
James R. Wyant
Mary Onslow Wyant
Southern Girl and Newton Man to Wed
Naval circles note the engagement of Miss Annie May Williams of Ocala Florida to Second Lieutenant Harold C Daniels U S M C of Newton on duty at Charlestown Navy Yard The wedding is planned for October at the navy yard quarters of Lieutenant Commander and Mrs Yancey S Williams The bride to be is a South Carolina born Winthrop College graduate Daniels has served in the Philippines and China and is a favorite at Charlestown Navy Yard
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The Beaufort Dignitary and the Restless Exile
A weary former Beaufort town resident recalls leaving Kerry hills with hope for fortune and wisdom gained abroad. Returning home, wealth and fame clash with change as John Kearney, once revered master of the town school, remains the town’s perceived wisest and richest man.
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Motor Boats Rounded Up In Fresh Boston Raids
The Winnisimmet set a new record by inspecting more than 20 motor boats in raids conducted Sundays for four weeks. The task was aided by the police boat Watchman under Sergeant F J Swendeman. Boats were directed to the Clyde Street Pier and the inner bay was patrolled to turn boats over for equipment compliance checks.
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Clyde Street
Boston
Cornerstone Laying for East Lexington Jewish Synagogue
Nearly 100 attendees watched the ceremony marking the first cornerstone of the new Jewish synagogue at 68 Sylvia Street East Lexington. Congregation B'nei Jacob of East Lexington, a small Jewish settlement drawing about 75 people from East Lexington and Arlington Heights, led the event yesterday afternoon.
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Duck tramps to make them work in Brady Montana
Citizens in Brady North of Great Falls dispatch a vigilance committee of 20 men disguised as white caps to seize loafing tramps in a saloon and duck them into work. A tramp forced to work leaves town with a farmer an hour later.
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Governor Davidson Visits French Consul in St Pierre
Governor W E B Davidson of Newfoundland and Madame Davidson arrived with French consul Delarouque for a courtesy visit to Administrator Marchand at St Pierre de Fort. They will stay until September 4 when Marchands depart for Paris. Janesville residents fear draining the Horicon marsh will reduce Rock River flow and power.
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St John’s Preparatory forms Alumni Association in Danvers
More than 200 former students joined St John’s Preparatory School in Danvers to organized an alumni association. Officers elected were John Lynen president Edward Heffernan vice president and William Joyce secretary. Delegates and speakers from Georgetown Notre Dame Bates Tech Boston College Holy Cross Catholic University Clark Villanova and Fordham attended.
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Thomas B. Comber
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St. Joseph's School
Somerville
Henry Lynch
Georgetown
William I. Joyce
Bates
John Urban Riley
Notre Dame
Ind
Hugh Ferguson
Patrick F. McMahon
Catholic University
Washington
Charles Murphy
Edward IT. Mee
Institute of Technology
Boston College
Holy Cross
Clark
Villa Nova
St. Charles College
Mt. St. Joseph's
Fordham
Dog Barks Four Days Revealing Death of Master
In Alpena Michigan a water spaniel whined outside his late owner Frank Cleveland’s shanty for four days. Neighbors offered food, but the dog refused. The dog’s persistent cries led to discovery of Cleveland’s body inside the dilapidated dwelling.
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Frank Cleveland
Love Letters Reveal Harriet Beecher Stowe and Professor Stowe
A newspaper excerpt recounts the courtship of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvin Ellis Stowe. It notes Harriet's birth in Litchfield and travels from New England to Cincinnati, their meeting near Lane Theological Seminary, and a year after their marriage the exchange of affectionate letters praising each other’s talents and devotion. It highlights a preserved note urging resilience in a new life and a celebratory reply lauding Stowe’s qualities.
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Ohio
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Calvin Ellis Stowe
Meteor Recovered From Seaconner River by Tiverton Fisherman
A fisherman from Tiverton Rhode Island hauled a several hundred pound meteor from Seaconner River between Gould Island and Stone Bridge after a storm. Yale graduate Charles Parker estimates it nearly equals the size of the Yale museum’s meteor and valued in the thousands. The mass is mainly iron ore and is now in the possession of A L Carr who has turned down high offers.
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Raids Target Italian Quarter in Wakefield Liquor Sweep
Chief Pollard and nine officers raided five Wakefield locations in the Italian quarter after a six week campaign against illegal liquor selling. Liquor and other evidence were seized in three of the sites yesterday morning.
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The Younger Set School Suits at Filene’s on Fourth Floor
Filene’s offers navy and black Younger Set suits in serge and cheviot with belted fronts and gathered backs for twelve to fourteen year olds. Prices range from 18.50 to 25 with matching coats and new dress styles, including plaid and serge skirts, Norfolk dresses, and Sailor-collar ensembles for school wear.
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