Saxman Coal & Coke Co forms to mine in West Virginia
Chester West Virginia September 8 The Saxman Coal and Coke Company of Philadelphia is formed under West Virginia law with capital stock of 200000. Directors include R H Averson Brookline MA A R Graustein Cambridge MA Henry L Shattuck Boston MA William H Best Boston MA and John B Pierce Boston MA. Only 50 of the capital stock is paid in though this is nominal. The firm plans to mine coal and manufacture coke on a large scale in Greenbrier and Nicholas counties West Virginia.
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Chester
W. Va
Saxman Coal & Coke Company
Philadelphia
West Virginia
R. H. Overson
Brookline
Mass
A. R. Graustein
Cambridge
Henry L. Shattuck
William H. Best
John B. Pierce
Boston
Green Brier
Nicholas Countries
Cuticura Remedies Ease Severe Childhood Eczema
Mrs. Charlies Baker of Albion Maine reports two daughters suffered severe winter eczema including scalp patches and arm sores. After medical treatment failed, use of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills produced smoother skin and relief, with ongoing use preventing roughness and irritation. husband also benefits from Cuticura for a lifelong sore head.
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Charlies Baker
Albion
Cuticura Ointment Aids Severe Skin Troubles
Cuticura Ointment is touted as a top remedy for skin and scalp disorders causing itching burning and disfigurement with a single treatment of Cuticura Soap bath and Cuticura Pills. It promises relief and potential cure when other methods fail with sales nationwide from Potter Drug and Chem Corp Boston.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Columbus Ave
Boston
Cuticura
Night Classes of the Mass College of Commerce Offer Better Education
The Mass College of Commerce presents special night classes that fit around daily work and aim to boost earning capacity through self-improvement. Write or phone for details and a representative will call at your convenience. Our students learn to earn.
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MASS
College of Commerce
Governor Draper attends Laurel Hill Association outing in Stockbridge
Governor Eben S. Draper and part of his military staff joined the Laurel Hill Association outing in Stockbridge. Guests included Senator Allen T. Treadway, Lieutenant-Governor Frothingham, Brigadier-General William H. Brigham, Major Philip S. Sears, Captain John Nicholson, and Lieutenant Freeman Hinckley. The party will stay overnight and proceed to North Adams for Governor's Day at Old Home Week.
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Stockbridge
Eben S. Draper
Laurel Hill Association
Allen T. Treadway
Frothingham
William H. Brigham
Philip S. Sears
Beverly
John Nicholson
Pittsfield
Freeman Hinckley
Boston
Draper
North Adams
Laurel Hill Association gathering honors education and ethics
A Berkshire event drew about 500 attendees including Joseph Choate Richard Gilder Robbie Tytus Harry Garfield and other notable figures. President Garfield spoke on old New England respect for education and integrity with multiple officials delivering addresses and Richard Gilder reading a poem. Officers elected included Alexander Sedgwick as president and Joseph Choate Frederick Crowingshield as honorary vice president.
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Joseph Choate
England
Richard Watson Gilder
Robbie Peyster Tytus
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Daniel Chester French
Alexander Sedgwick
Stephen W. Field
Frederick Crowningshield
John E. Parsons
New York
Lenox and
Stockbridge
New England
Draper
Frothingham
Senator Treadway
Berkshire
Joseph H. Choate
Henry Cecil Haven
John W. Kohlsaar
Charles McBurney
Frederick Crowingshield
Theodore W. Luling
Taft remains silent on Ballinger controversy in Beverly
President Taft offered no statement after concluding conferences with Interior Secretary Ballinger in Beverly. Ballinger has returned to Washington and will not meet Taft again until September 29 in Seattle unless he travels to Montrose, Colorado, for the Gunnison irrigation project visit.
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Beverly
Ballinger
Taft
Washington
Seattle
Montrose
Colo
Gunnison
Taft May See Pinchot During Western Trip
President Taft said he had no appointment with Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot but might meet him during a western trip. He held talks with Nagel and Durand on census supervisors and approved most selections, excluding a few in large cities. Lloyd Griscom met the President. Mrs Taft’s sister and Professor More arrived, and the Mayflower yacht entered Beverly Harbor as Taft planned to present the Taft cup aboard Joyette for the German American sonderklasse win.
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Taft
Forester
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot
West
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Durand
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Lloyd Griscom
Italy
Professor More
Biddeford Pool
Longworths at Beverly Prepare to See Taft in Washington
Congressman Longworth and Mrs. Longworth arrived in Beverly to visit President and Mrs. Taft. They stay with Longworth’s aunt at Mingo Beach while Mrs. Lewis T. More arrives from Biddeford Pool aboard the Sylph. Mrs. More will stay with Mrs. Taft during the President’s western trip, with Taft’s return planned for November 10 after an 18,000 mile voyage.
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Beverly
Congressman Longworth
Nicholas Longworth
Taft
Mr. Longworth
Mingo Beach
Lewis T. More
Biddeford Pool
Miss Kate Barnard to Speak at Faneuil Hall on Liberty
Miss Kate Barnard known as the Good Angel of Oklahoma will address Faneuil Hall on The Struggle for Human Liberty. She championed the child labor law after winning the Oklahoma post by a 65 000 vote majority and praised the Boston 1915 movement as a model for the nation.
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Kate Barnard
West
Good Angel
Oklahoma
Faneuil Hall
Barnard
Boston
Men Found Hiding After Break In Brookline House
Joseph Barney of Woodsville New Hampshire and Frank Barton of 62 Grafton Street Lowell were arrested on a charge of breaking and entering the unoccupied home of Edward N Vallandigham at 701 Boylston Street Brookline. Patrolmen Pinner and Harris heard a noise and found the two men hiding in a closet after inspecting a cellar window.
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Joseph Barney
Woodsville
N. H
Frank Barton
Grafton Street
Lowell
Edward N. Vallandigham
Boylston Street
Brookline
Pinner and Harris
Barney
Barton
Cremation for Harvard Professor's Widow in Cambridge
The funeral of Mrs Elizabeth Sedgwick Child widow of Professor Francis J Child of Harvard was held yesterday at Appleton Chapel Cambridge Rev Dr S M Crothers conducted services The body was cremated at Mt Auburn and ashes taken to Stockbridge to be interred beside her husband in the Congregational cemetery
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Elizabeth Sedgwick Child
Francis J. Child
Harvard University
Appleton Chapel
Cambridge
S. M. Crothers
Mt. Auburn
Stockbridge
Congregational
Consumed by illness to health with Father John’s Medicine
Roswell H. Lewis of Gloversville New York recalls his life threatening battle with consumption. After weight loss and near failure a church prayer meeting celebrated his recovery following three bottles of Father John’s Medicine. He urges others to try the remedy.
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Roswell H. Lewis
Second Street
Gloversville
N. Y
Lewis
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Father John
John
Mr. Lewis
Montague Elected President of City Republican Committee
At Wesleyan Hall last night the 25 ward committees resolved the intra party rifts. David T. Montague, head of Ward 10, was unanimously elected president, replacing Edward G. Graves of Ward 1 who was ousted after a Superior Court ruling found him illegal as presiding officer.
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Wesleyan Hall
David T. Montague
Edward G. Graves
Ward
Superior Court
Montague Elected City Committee Chairman Amid Pact for Mayor Victory
Montague, new city committee chair and Ward 10 representative, secured unanimous election as chair by a smooth vote of the convention. He is allied with Ward 10 GOP leader Innes and pledged to back a Republican mayoral candidate, sidelining Mayor Hibbard. Heintz and Squires were named first and second vice presidents with Henderson third.
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Guy Ham
Hibbard
Montague
Benjamin Campbell
Graves
Hormel
Ham
Charles A. Heintz
William A. Squires
James H. Henderson
David T. Montague
House of Representatives
Charles Innes
Register of Probate
Winthrop Votes to Pay Old Bill and Plans Water Works
Winthrop residents met to settle a $146.25 debt owed to George A. Douglass for repairs to town fire houses over ten years. The meeting also adopted a measure to borrow $40,000 to establish and maintain a water works system.
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Winthrop
George A. Douglass
Douglass
Harriman Financier Near Death After Operation
Reported by sources in New York that financier E. H. Harriman was in desperate condition after a risky operation. Two doctors were transported to the Harriman summer home by train orders mistaken for a station call, and a guarded room surrounds the patient with no clear word on outcome. Rumors from Wall Street and others swirled as oxygen tanks and medical consultations surfaced.
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Harriman
New York
Wall Street
Turner and Arden
Lyle
Mrs. Harriman
Frank Billings
Chicago
Marshall Field
Holland House
Pettengill and Scott Bride in Melrose Highlands Home
Herman Judson Pettengill of Minneapolis and Elizabeth Hart Scott of Melrose were wed by Rev. Frederick Wood at the bride’s parents home in Melrose Highlands. Pettengill, Yale Sheffield Scientific School graduate, 1907, and Scott, Wheelock’s School graduate, a former Melrose public school teacher, honeymooned and will reside in Minneapolis where the groom works for Stone & Webster.
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Herman Judson Pettengill
Minneapolis
Elizabeth Hart Scott
Melrose
Frederick Wood
J. H. Scott
Walton Park
Melrose Highlands
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Paul Hansen
Milwaukee
Malden Belle Weds Revenue Cutter Officer In Quick Dispatch
Sept 8 in Weston the non arrival of a trousseau nearly halted a Malden socialite's wedding to Lt. James Albert Alger of the United States revenue cutter service. An automobile sped a makeshift bridal outfit from Malden, allowing Miss Marjorie Hill, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. James Frederic Hill, to marry Lt. Alger who is stationed in New York.
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Weston
Trousseau
Malden Society
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Malden
Marjorie Hill
James Frederic Hill
Chamberlain Road
James Albert Alger
New York
Wedding Trunk Delays Threaten Barberry Lodge Ceremony
A Boston area society wedding at Barberry Lodge, William H. Hill estate, relied on a last minute trunk containing the bride’s wedding finery after it failed to arrive from an express company. The groom’s brother John Alger and Miss Pearl Richardson led a society gathering with ushers, flower children, and a 1696 Massachusetts house as the backdrop.
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Barberry Lodge
William H. Hill
Lewis W. Hicks
Wellesley
Trousseau
William H. Bell
Captain Hill
Malden
Miss Hill
Alger
Massachusetts
Boston
Brookline
New York
John Alger
Miss Pearl Richardson
Ruth Harvey
Frederick Rahr
Dudley T. Rogers
James Curwen
Donald M. Hill
Philip Schuyler
Russell Partridge
Brewer Whitmore
Man presumed drowned in Providence River found alive in Texas
Frederick Longton of the Prudential Insurance Company announced evidence that William D. Adams of Randolph is alive and living in Texas, despite a body identified as his being found in the Providence River last July. Trustees of Randolph Central Cemetery discussed exhuming the body but took no action pending further evidence.
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Randolph
Frederick Longton
Prudential Insurance Company
William D. Adams
Providence
Viola Simmons
Texas
Central Cemetery
Adams
Longton
Trade Boards Hold Outing at Bass Point NAHANT
Essex County Associated Boards of Trade held its second annual outing at Bass Point with 350 delegates from every Essex county town. Guests included Congressman Augustus P. Gardner and Congressman Ernest W. Roberts, Professor Charles Zeublin, and mayors from Lynn Beverly Gloucester Newburyport Lawrence and Haverhill. Zeublin urged home rule while criticizing Boston charter plans.
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Lawrence
Edwin H. Moulton
Haverhill
Professor Zeublin
Boston
Men Call Off Steel Strike at Schoenville Plant
Pittsburg Sept 8 By a nearly unanimous vote today the Pressed Steel Car Company strikers at Schoenville decided to return to work and accept the concessions granted by the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
Schoenville
O'Brien Opens Campaign With Open Air Rally
Representative William J. O'Brien of Ward 16 opened his bid for re election with an open air rally at Edward Everett square. He told supporters that his past work entitles him to another term and stressed his role in securing the telegram filing bill passed by the last Legislature.
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Wiliam J. O’brien
Ward 16
Edward Everett Square
The
Fair Sex
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