Boston Museum of Fine Arts Gains Three New Art Works
Art expert Jean Guiffrey at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has secured W Y T Dannats Portrait of Eva Haviland from Paris, and the La Farge window, both heading to Boston. The Turner Falls of the Rhine at Schaffauser has arrived and is hung in the directors room. M Paul Vitry, Louvre assistant curator, will lecture in Boston under Alliance Francaise during November or December.
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W. YT. Dannat
Eva Haviland
Luxembourg
Paris
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Jean Guiffrey
Boston Museum
Mortgage forgery charges shake Joliet community
James OConnor, a Joliet real estate broker, was arrested on a chain of forgery charges. He allegedly circulated 250000 in forged mortgage notes as local lawyers report claims totaling 125000 and rising. Many notes bear signatures of prominent merchants, drawn by widows and laborers who invested small sums.
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Joliet
Ill
James O’connor
Shots Fired As Stable Fire Sparks Police Chase
Early this morning Brighton police and reserves pursued a man who fled a rear stable at 207 Western avenue after a fire was discovered. Officers fired four or five shots as the suspect escaped, leaving a heavily damaged building owned by William H. Wood.
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Brighton
Western Avenue
William H. Wood
Five Year Old Escapes Death Under Shop Door
A heavy screen door fell on a five year old girl as she entered the Fiske Brothers store on Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington Massachusetts. The door pinned her to the ground until a man passing by lifted it. The child ran home crying but was apparently unharmed.
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Fiske Brothers
Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington
Pankhurst says she expects no US entry bar amid talks
Paris reports Emmeline Pankhurst staying at a quiet hotel and planning to sail October 1 aboard La Provence. She says her visit aims to describe the suffrage movement to American women, not to push militancy, and predicts progress in England is near an end. She plans speeches in America and Canada, focusing on white slavery and contagious diseases.
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Paris
Emmeline Pankhurst
United States
Ellis Island
la Provence
America
England
London Pavilion Music Hall
Israel Zangwill
Remarkable 11 Foot Sunflower Surprises Watertown Backyard
Patrick Burns of East Watertown reports a giant sunflower growing without warning in his yard. The plant stands 11 feet 11 inches tall with 28 inch leaves and a 14 inch blossom, crowned by Irish fur hedges planted by Burns’ son from seed brought from Ireland last May.
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Patrick Burns
Mt. Auburn Street
East Watertown
Mother Earth
America
Ireland
Robert Burns
Mrs Sulzer Not Known by Brokers
New York report explains Governor Sulzer’s Wall Street dealings from June 27 1910 to July 14 as described under oath by Melville D Fuller Sulzer’s broker. Fuller says Sulzer paid him sixteen thousand dollars within about a month after the election and asserts no dealings with Mrs Sulzer.
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New York
Sulzer
Wall Street
Melville D. Fuller
Assembly
Fuller
Sulzer’s brokerage account details with Harris and Fuller unfold
Fuller recounts Sulzer opening an account on June 27 1910 while a representative. By 1910 11 he borrowed 23000 with 400 Big Four shares as collateral and added American Smelting stock later. By 1911 06 the holdings included Big Four 400 American Smelting 200 Union Pacific 100. In 1912 a further 100 Big Four shares raised the balance to 48964. By Nov 1912 Sulzer paid 50612 in cash after election as New York governor. In Dec 6 1912 he paid 36000 more in person.
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Fuller
William Sulzer
Harris & Fuller
Sulzer
Mr. Fuller
Big Four
American Smelting
Union Pacific
Mr. Sulzer
New York
Sulzer Debt Payment Tied to Securities Collateral
Testimony before the managers revealed that William Sulzer’s debt to Harris and Fuller was reduced by payments totaling 5350 since June and included a cash payment. A check from ex governor A E Spriggs and a July 14 1913 order signed in Sulzer’s name for collateral securities were cited as part of the settlement while Joseph Thal received the stock left as collateral. The signature on the order was Sulzer’s according to Fuller, who could not explain the words for Mrs Sulzer. The session adjourned to hear more testimony tomorrow.
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Sulzer
Mr. Fuller
A. E. Spriggs
Montana
Joseph Thal
Harris & Fuller
Fuller
William Sulzer
Westwood Grange Holds Third Annual Fair
Several hundred people attended the opening of the third annual fair at Westwood Grange held on the fair ground. Exhibits included vegetables fruit homemade cooking fancy work and embroidery on display in the town hall.
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Westwood Grange
Westwood
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