Pretty Mabel McAvoy In Jail For Larceny
Pretty Mabel McAvoy a 16 year old city point resident spent last night in Charles street jail after pleading guilty to larceny from Mannasyah H Hirsch of 28 Lawrence avenue. Detectives say she stole 76 in gold from Mr Hirsch while employed as a houseworker then traveled to New York Saratoga and elsewhere using luck at race tracks to win 5000 on a dark horse which she later lost. Her parents defend her while neighbors speak well of her. She was held on 200 bail to appear again Sept 10 and will be bailed out early tomorrow.
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Mabel McAvoy
City Point
Charles Street
Roxbury
Mannasyah H. Hirsch
Lawrence Avenue
Miss McAvoy
Mr. Hirsch
New York
Saratoga
Boston
McAvoys
Mabel
New Jersey
F. P. Gray
Dudley Street
Missing 14 year old girl found in Coney Island case
The missing girl Lottie Woods aged 14, last seen at home on Berkeley Street, was located in Coney Island after weeks away. Her mother flew to New York as investigators trace her movements from Providence with a young man and subsequent drift to Surf Avenue, Coney Island.
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Lottie Woods
Coney Island
New York
Berkeley Street
Surf Avenue
Providence
National banks prosper with 36 new charters in August
National banks continued to grow as 36 new charters were issued in August with total capital of 1,315,000 and bonds deposited of 382,250. By Aug 31, 1900 there were 6,070 national banks with authorized capital of 759,277,095 and circulation of 380,076,321 backed by bonds. Compared with March 14, 1900, the period shows net gains of 1,453 banks, 14,969,000 in capital stock, 136,874,860 in security bonds, and 163,701,526 in circulation.
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Washington
Thayer Brooks Wedding at Newport a Society Affair
Miss Gladys Baldwin Brooks and Eugene V. R. Thayer Jr. wed at Trinity Church Newport in a full society ceremony attended by a large crowd. The reception followed at the bride’s Bellevue Avenue home with extensive floral decor and a wedding breakfast in tents served by continuous music from visiting orchestras. The couple departed for a wedding tour whose dates remain unannounced.
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Thayer-Brooks
Newport
Nswport
R. I
Gladys Baldwin Brooks
H. Mortimer Brooks
Eugene V. R. Thayer, Jr
Trinity Church
Bellevue Avenue
Marion Fish
Constance Livermore
Anna Thayer
Katherine Thayer
Adelaide Randolph
Fannie Iselin
Messrs
Reginald Brooks
Delancy Jay
Philip Livermore
Theodore Douglass Robinson
Charles E. Perkins, Jr
George Fairchild
Hugh Minturn
George Snow
Reginald Boardman
Ernest J. Dennen
Sherrard Billings
Groton School
Rodkhurst
Statue of Winthrop Faces Move From Old South Church Location
The bronze statue of Governor John Winthrop, moved to guard the Old South Church entrance by the East Boston tunnel, may need relocation again as Washington street widening plans threaten its 15 foot enclosure at Milk and Washington streets. The plan may sink the sidewalk or build an arcade, directly impacting the statue’s site.
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John Winthrop
Old South Church
Boston
Governor Winthrop
Scollay Square
Old South
March of Progress
Washington Street
Washington and
Milk Streets
Milk
Washington Streets
Old South Meeting House
Summer Homes of Well-Known Bostonians at Pride's Crossing
Colonel Hugh Cochrane and family return each summer to Pride's Crossing where they host tea and games on the lawn of a white country house. The Amorys join this year, with young Mrs. Amory recently married and fresh from a European wedding tour. The household enjoys outdoor life, golf at Montserrat, croquet and tennis at the Essex County Club, and daily social visits amid sunlit afternoons.
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Hugh Cochrane
Pride’s Crossing
Cochrane
Amorys
Amory
Europe
White House
Montserrat Links
Essex County Club
Obey in marriage debated by readers and editors
A public discussion on whether the word obey should remain in the marriage ceremony features letters from Mrs. Mary A. Livermore as judge and contributors from Malone New York to Jamaica Plain and Dorchester. Views range from keeping obedience as a headship to removing it in favor of equality amid changing laws and social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Livermore
Malone
N. Y
Frank Bigelow
St. Paul
Hazel A. Wheeler
Columbia Road
Dorchester
Room for all says Seaver
Superintendent Edwin P Seaver asserts there will be room for all children who want to attend school next Tuesday He notes no serious crowding is expected and temporary wooden structures or rented halls can accommodate excess pupils He downplays past alarm and cites Boston as capable while defending the schoolhouse commission's pace and decisions
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Moses A. Wood
Peter
Abraham
Sara
Timothy
Albert F. Tenney
Edwin P. Seaver
Post
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
New York City
Girls’ Latin School
Hugh O’brien
Rome
The Funniest Story Ever Told From Everett to Haymarket Square
A prominent Everett man visits seashore and fortune tellers in pursuit of his wife. After three fortune tellers warn him, he returns to find Dolly confesses trouble and urges attending a bankrupt sale at Webster, Cook & Co. Haymarket Square for honest woods at low prices.
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Everett
Frank E. Freeze
Webster, Cook & Co
Haymarket Square
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Cosby
Colonel Cochrane
Westminster, Mass
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Orchard Street
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Ipswich, Mass
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Richfield Street
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