Pastor Mallory Denies Rainmaking Claim After Worcester Deluge
Worcester Sept 8 Rev Rainmaker Mallory defends himself denying rainmaking powers amid debate over Sunday fairground work. He says his prayers sought divine help to defeat desecration and that Knowles’s accusations insult God. Farmers hoped for relief from drought as weather debates continue.
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Mrr. Mallory
Worcester
EE. S. Knowles
Worcester Agricultural Society
Mallory
New England
Local Controversy Over Prayer Day and Fair Attractions
In a heated exchange a speaker laments work breaking a day of prayer and cites a proposed law to allow work on that day. He denies boasting about interrupting an entertainment and criticizes an attacker for his low remarks about the Oxford fair midway and freaks. He says he will ignore related mail.
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Oxford Fair
Oxford
Catholic Church Notes Show Upcoming Masses and Guests
Beginning next Sunday solemn high mass resumes at St Marys Church North End with Rossini Stabat Mater on Sept 15 led by Miss Mary Barr. St Josephs West End hosted sermon by Rt Rev Edward P Allen with visitors Archbishops Ryan and Moeller in attendance. St Marks Ashmont plans concert and dance Oct 10 at Bloomfield Hall with John J Hoar as chairman and Mayor John F Fitzgerald leading reception committee.
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St. Mary’s Church
North End
Rossini
Mary Barr
Grace Gibbons
Claramond Thompson
Michael A. Finn
Thomas M
Dundon
St. Joseph’s Church
West End
Edward P. Allen
D. D
Mobile
Alabama
J. E. Millerick
Father Millerick
Archbishop Ryan
Philadelphia
Henry Moeller
Cincinnati
St. Mark’s Church
Ashmont
Bloomfield Hall
Father Mathews
John J. Hoar
John F. Fitzgerald
Free Love Artist Fights Back Against Journalists
New York August 8 Ferdinand Earle says critics of his marriage and elopement with his “affinity” expose a deeper social conflict. He argues reporters lash out to frighten society with a modern, humane approach while clinging to old church and state rules. He claims his wife and he faced slander and hostility, and that arbitration via The Hague would resolve personal disputes without destroying social fabric. He notes his wife’s Paris marriage and his own unconventional lifestyle drew intense press scrutiny.
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New York
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
America
Anthony Comstock
Mars
India
Thinks Earle Insane After Wife Abandonment
Miss Irene Smith of 11 Winfield Street South Boston claims Ferdinand Earle’s action in discarding his wife shows insanity. She spent five weeks with the disrupted family and cites his “artistic temperament” and odd behavior as evidence. A grandmother is insane and another relative was jailed after killing three children.
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Irene Smith
Winfield Street
Boston
Ferdinand Earle
Julia Kuttner
Miss Smith
East Weymouth
Nova Scotia
Ferdinand Fearle
Gaelic Students 10 Delve Into Erin's Literature
The Gaelic Literary Dramatic Club meets at St. Rose Hall Boston with aim to foster taste for standard literatures and Gaelic works. Officers include Rev M C Gilbride as honorary president and Miss Mary E McCarrick as financial secretary. A year of Sunday readings features Gerald Griffin Sheridan Moore Shakespeare and Irish revolutions.
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Gaelic Literary Dramatic Club
St. Rose Hall
Worcester Street
M. GC. Gilbride
St. Augustine’s Church of South Boston
Mary E. McCarrick
Centre Street
Brookline
Gerald Griffin
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ireland
Thomas Moore
J. and
M. Banim
Society
M. C. Gilbride
St. Augustine's Church
South Boston
Mary RB. Ryan
Telegraph Street
Mary E. Kearne Bos
Rev Samuel Eliot Delivers Sermon at King's Chapel
The Rev Samuel A Eliot president of the American Unitarian Association preached to a large congregation at King's Chapel. Using the text The Toilers in the Vineyard he urged that all are toilers in God's vineyard and will be held to account for their service.
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Samuel A. Fpliot
American Unitarian Association
King’s Chapel
Portland Resident Dies in Church Service
William J. Connolly aged 50 died of an apoplexy during morning services at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland Missouri. Bishop Walsh and attending priests administered the last rites.
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Portland
William J. Connolly
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Walsh
Clergy Oppose Funeral Flowers In Church Ceremony
In a St Johns Church sermon in Concord New Hampshire Monsignor Eugene M O Callaghan denounced funeral floral offerings as worldly and pagan he urged keeping flowers from the church and preferred modest black coffins with white possibly for small children he condemned lavish biers and warned against pagan displays at mass.
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Concord
N. H
St. John’s Church
Eugene M. O'Callaghan
New Hampshire
Mgr. O'Callaghan
Gloomy Day at Revere Beach Touches Crowds and Carnival
A raw day at Revere Beach kept crowds small with 25 000 visiting after rain cleared. The State bathhouse saw only two bathers in the water at 4 PM. Police reported no missing children, and carnival programs were not held due to weather conditions.
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Revere Beach
Steam Killed E C Blackmer in Des Moines Incident
Elbert C. Blackmer 42, formerly of Plymouth, died in Des Moines Iowa after a boiler plug blew and steam burned him while inspecting a boiler for Edison Light and Power Company. He lived three days after the accident and funeral was held with Odd Fellows rites. He is survived by his widow Jennie C Faxon and a daughter from a previous marriage.
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Plymouth
Des Moines
Iowa
Elbert C. Blackmer
Blackmer
Mr. Blackmer
Mankinh Blackmer
Wellesley
Mass
Jennie C. Faxon
Odd Fellows
Will Observe Feast of St Peter Claver Today
Catholic churches celebrate the feast of St Peter Claver the apostle of the negro and model of charity toward African slaves. Claver, a Spaniard from Catalonia, studied in a college with future canonized saints St Alphonsus Rodriguez and Francis Xavier. The text links his life of self sacrifice to the modern race problem and the belief in the equality of all men before God.
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St. Peter Claver
Apostle of
Francis Xavier
Claver
Catalonia
Porter
Alphonsus Rodriguez
Girl Seals Two Year Pact With Cupid in Chicago
In Chicago a 15 year old girl Eva Mandel and Paul Weinberg enter a two year love pact. They will shun contact including sight, words, and letters with exceptions to dream and think of each other. Violating the compact risks legal action and ruinous consequences at Tillinois justice.
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Cupid
Eva Mandel
Paul Weinberg
Tillinois
Weinberg
Max Mandel
State Street
West Side
South Side
Chicago
Cambridge youth arraigned in New York for $3000 theft
Arthur T. Brereton, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, arrested for stealing a $3000 check from his mother, was arraigned at the Tombs Court and held for detectives. He joked about prison and wondered if he would meet Harry Thaw, while the magistrate warned of confinement.
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New York
Arthur T. Brereton
Cambridge
Mass
Tombs
Droege
Brereton
Harry Thaw
Vaudeville Circuit Reports Record Week Across The Nation
Reports from 68 theatres east of Cincinnati and 8 west show record-breaking Labor Day business and strong totals for the week. Managers note unusually large matinees and a turnaway pattern in major cities as 150 theatres from Beeten to San Francisco operated smoothly.
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New York
United
St. James
Keith, Proctor
Keith & Proctor
Williams, Hammerstein
Kohl & Castile
Orpheum Circuit
Poli
Wilmer & Vincent
Chase
Washington
Davis
Pittsburg
Shea
Buffalo
Moore
Detroit
Katz of
Lynn
Hathaway
New Bedford
Sheedy
Newport
Fall River
Cincinnati
Beeten
San Francisco
Ward 19 candidates address Roosevelt Club in Roxbury Crossing
Candidates for political honors in Ward 19 and Roxbury District spoke at the Roosevelt Club. The meeting featured criticism of state and municipal representatives and a call for voters to scrutinize honesty and capability in public officials. Dr J F Sullivan urged electors to weigh merits and hold officials to account.
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Ward 19
Roxbury
Roosevelt Club
Roxbury Crossing
J. F. Sullivan
Fire Leaves Cooper Family With Two Survivors
Martin Cooper and his 5-year-old son John are the only survivors of a Norfolk Street home fire in Somerville. They remain unaware that five relatives died in the blaze. In hospital, John asks for his mother as friends tend him and a Teddy bear offers small comfort.
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Martin Cooper
John
Norfolk Street
Somerville
Somerville Hospital
Cooper
Attorney Cassidy Loses Valuable Boston Terrier
A blue ribbon Boston terrier owned by Attorney James T. Cassidy of Pemberton Square was struck by a car on Dorchester Avenue near Locust Street and killed. Cassidy released the leash after the Jordan Marsh Company outing, and the dog was fatally hit. Officer Philip B. Smith dispatched it.
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Boston
James T. Cassidy
Pemberton Square
Dorchester Avenue
Locust Street
Jordan Marsh Company
Cassidy
Philip B. Smith
Station 6
John J Mahoney Dead at 8 Wall Street Roxbury
John J Mahoney known as Johnny Mahoney died Saturday evening at his home after a six year illness. He had treatment in Rutland and doctors could not determine the cause. Survived by his widowed mother sisters Mary and Margaret and brother Frank. Funeral Tuesday at 9 at the Mission Church with interment at Holywood Cemetery.
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John J. Mahoney
Johnny Mahoney
Wall Street
Roxbury
Rutland
Mary
Margaret
Frank Mahoney
Mission Church
Holywood Cemetery
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