Clergyman's carload of converts sparks Topeka case
Miss Lizzie Bell of Topeka joins Rev F W Sandford's group en route to Shiloh Mission Training School in Maine. Mothers try to stop them as about forty men and women travel in Sandford's private car from Kansas City to Maine, with eight workers joining in Topeka. Mrs Phelps accuses Sandford's followers of exploiting religious fervor.
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Kansas City
Sandford
Maine
Topeka
Mary
Miss Lizzie Bell Leaves Home for Missionary Work
Kansas girl Miss Lizzie Bell who was said to have become insane under Ida Sandford at Shiloh Me is now in the care of strangers in Topeka. She persuaded Ida and Cora Miller and Mr and Mrs Matchett to join the company on her departure. Her father relaxed efforts to restrain her stating she was of age and seemed determined to go. He hoped the school might help.
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Topeka
Kan
Lizzie Bell
Greene
Shiloh
J. M. Bell
Harrison Street
F. W. Sandford
Bell
Sandford
Durham
Kansas City
Tacoma
Wash
Kansas
Ider Sandford
Shiloh Me
Tme
Miss Bell
Misse
Ida
Cora Miller
Vin Buren Street
C. ‘. Matchett
Beil
Fifteenth and
Forest Avenue
May
Bessie Phelps
Daughters Escape From Sandford School Spark Mission Search
Mr Bell learns of his daughter Lizzie Bell fleeing Sandford's school after letters saying she wished to come home. A search found no results until a telegram reported she was safe in a neighboring town. Lizzie later went to Greene Maine and expressed a wish to return home to Topeka, while staying awhile to work off expenses.
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Sandford
Palmer Citizen Mourns James C Wing Prominent Palmer Resident
Palmer Sept 14 Funeral services for James C Wing a leading Palmer citizen were held at his Central Street home with Rev F B Harrison officiating. Burial follows in Wing family lot at Wayne Me. Wing born June 12 1829 Fayette Maine traced Wing ancestry to 48 and Miles Standish. He served as superintendent for Front Building and Construction and helped erect the academy gymnasium at Monson. He leaves a widow two sons and held posts in Masonic Odd Fellows and local religious groups.
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Front
Monson
Last Ear
James Cordis Wing
Fayetts
Wennebec County
Theodore Wing
Henry VII
England
John Wing
Sauus
Mass
Pilgrims
Plymouth
Miles Standish
John Alden
J. C. Wing
Fayette
First Baptist Church
Lynn
Second Congregational Church
Palmer
Masonic
Odd Fellows
Grand ‘Odge
United States
Palmer Historic Society
Pretty Home Wedding in Boothray for Gertrude Sommers
Gertrude Sommers and Boston resident Perley Walker wed at Mrs. Elizabeth Sommers residence. Rev Donald McCormick officiated under a asters and ferns arch. Guests from New England and Boston attended. After a collation there was dancing song and games. The couple will live on Columbia Road Dorchester after their return.
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Mrs. Walker
Columbia Road
Dorchester
Odd Bits of News From A Wandering Column
A collection of short remarks notes and curiosities across the globe. Topics include Icelanders eating dried fish, a cauliflower crop cornering syndicate in Philadelphia and missionary book orders paused in China. Also remarks on hunting in Alaska and European city visitor counts, Swiss labor importation, a St. Louis woman’s labor as a stonecutter, and California teaching Japanese and Chinese. Bees as weather prophets and cholera inoculation among tea planters in India are mentioned.
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Philadelphia
Long Island
China
Alaska
United States
Berlin
Vienna
Hamburg
Switzerland
Italy
Bohemia
Silesia
St. Louis
London
West End
University of California
Boston Post Opens Weekly Photo Contest for Amateurs
The Boston Post will continue three weekly cash prizes of 10, 5, and 3 dollars for photographs. Submit with title, name, and address on the back. include a brief note on any interesting circumstances. Photographs cannot be returned. winners announced weekly in Sunday Post for photos printed up to Saturday’s issue.
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Boston Post
Sunday Post
the Post
Boston
The Hollis Street Theatre Opens With Hamlet and More
The Hollis, altered for opening in October, will present Hamlet with E H Sothern and Virginia Harned at the Garden Theatre New York next Monday Ophelia will be played by Miss Harned Anna Held appears in Papas Wife at the Tremont next Monday week Ziegfeld has engaged a large company for her Paramount fine casting at the Tremont George Lederer produces The Belle of Bohemia at Casino September 24 and Sibera starring Theodore Babcock opens October 2 in Harlem Boston stage details include Monte Cristo rehearsals and a Galveston relief benefit event at Grand Opera House and Grand Theatre performances with Furthers
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Hollis
E. H. Sothern
Virginia Harned
Mr. Sothern
the Dane
Garden Theatre
New York
Miss Harned
Ophelia
Anna Held
Papa
Tremont
Ziegfeld
Charles Evans
Herald Square Theatre
Anthony
George W. Lederer
Casino
Theodore Babcock
Siberia
Harlem
George Lederer
Sire Brothers
Knickerbocker Theatre
Francis Wilson
Malabar
J. Cheever Goodwin
Ludwig Englander
Maud Hollins
Madge Lessing
Boston Theatre
James O’neill
Liebler & Co
Edmond Dantes
Frederick de Belleville
Warren Conlan
Thurlow Bergen
Robert Paton Gibbs
Edmund Breese
Augustus Cooke
Rebecca Warren
Annie Ward Tiffany
Vicencia Martinez
Boston
Boston Museum
Hodge, Podge & Co
Peter F. Dailey
Grand Theatre
Grand Opera House
Byrne Brothers
Grandpera House
Galveston
Dairy Farm
Tremont Theatre
Schoeffel and Wallick
Hollis Street
Isaac B. Rich
Abby
Neil Burgess
Parks Theatre
Louis Wesley
William Gould
Gilbert Gregory
Columbia
Catherine Lingard
Mae Crossley
Maude Thomas
Belle Gold
Monte Cristo
Castle Square Theatre
Marie Wainwright
Keith’s
Justin Huntley McCarthy
Lady Dye
Sam
Kitty
Clara Morton
Louise Dresser
Pickaninnies
Drawee
Les Frasettes
Hecker and Lester
Johnnie Carroll
Brooks Brothers
Mal Myota
Willis
Loretto
Rambler
Rambler Burlesquers Present Their Merry Entertainment and J. J. O’brien
K. Inoue
the Howard
Russell Brothers
Tony Cummings
Mary Young
Boston Music Hall
Musee
Old Pumstead Hall
Eden Musee
Minco
City Club
Palace
Tom Thumb
Austin & Stone’s
Count
Baron Magri
Norumbega Park
Point of Pines
Revere
Nantasket Beach
Perkins
Theron D. Perkins
Rowe's Wharf
Nantasket
Pemberton
Beach Electric
Fall Harbor
Big Boston Theatre Benefit Concert for Galveston Sufferers
A large audience is expected at the Boston Theatre next Sunday for a benefit concert to aid Galveston victims. Mayor Hart and Dr Joan Dixwell lead the effort with strong support from Boston companies. Ticket sales begin at the box office Monday morning, with many venues volunteering.
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Boston Theatre
Galveston
America
Hart
Joan Dixwell
Boston
Park
Columbia
Castle Square
Bowdoin Square
Howard, Keith’s
Music Hall
Doan’s Ointment Promises Safe Relief for Delicate Skin
An old advertisement asserts Doan’s ointment cures dry itchy skin without harm to sensitive skin. It urges readers to buy at any drug store and notes the product is offered in 60 cent size.
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Doan
Sunday Church Services in Boston Area
Sunday religious listings across Berkeley Temple Tremont and nearby churches feature sermons by Rev I Vyrnwy Morgan Rev George Co Lorimer and Rev Carey W Chamberlin among others. Include matins, Sunday schools, gospel temperance, and musical offerings by choirs quartets and soloists with universalist and spiritualist events noted.
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Berkeley Temple
I. Vyrnwy Morgan
England
Christian Endeavor Meeting
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
George Co. Lorimer
D. D
Galveston
Gilbert Hall
W. P. Goudie
Young People’s Prayer Meeting
Yuorimer
Confucius
Christ
Welecome
Second Universalist
Columbus Avenue
Clarendon Street
S. H. Roblin
G. W. Chadwick
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Freehold
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Mt. Pleasant Avenue
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Minneapolis
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Chicago
BIG
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Tremont Street
Edward Judson
D. B
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Old South Church
Third Church
Lyman Abbott
M. EB
Concord and
Tremont Streets
C. BE. Davis
Jerico
Joshua
People’s Temple
Columbus Evenue
Berkeley Street
Mrs. Wright
Cornet
Miss Morse
Adams
Macy
Frey
Wrestlowrerian
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Warren and
Woodbine Streets
J. J. Dunlop
Minnie M. Soule
The
Gospel of Spirit-Return Society
Assembly Hall
Huntington Avenue
M. Callarran
Boston Common—Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
Unitarian
Beaton Street
Fifth Tree
Charles Street Mall
A. Staples
H. D. Stevens
Edward A. Horton
Celinneaus
Church OF the Disciples
West Brookline Street
Warren Avenue
Charles G. Ames
Liberal Forum
Washington Street
Goldstein
Hospitaller Sunday Institute
Joel
Arthur ST. James
Worcester
B. Y. M. Christian Union
Union Hall
Boylston Street
A. D. Mayo
Annie P. Winter
Frank B. Greeley
Masters J. Sidney Murphy
Warren Fowler
Augusta F. Winter
O Shining Light
Love Divine
Stainer
Dream of Paradise
Gray
the Heavenly King
Marks
George Mendal Taylor
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Universal Brotherhood Hall
Mt. Vernon Street
Mar H. Knox
Allan J. Carswell
Jas. H. Wallick
Eleanor Merron
IBS Neeit
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Wallick
Mayor Hart
George W Magepf
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Byrae
LEE, Igginson & Chu
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Elena Fetter Royle
Elinore
Prele
Americus Comedy 4
Cyprene
Roma
Green and
Werner
Richard Harlow
Ida Fuller
Julie Yackay
Howard Thurston
Clarice Vanca
Almont and
Lamont
J. W. Warrington
Biograph
Marie Wainwright and Company
McIntyre and Heath
Hacker and Lester
Pines
Berkeles
Beachmonts Revere Ruber CO
Forbes Lith
CO. Ascension
Farraguts
Rickey Crew
Charles Rivers
W. Lynn Boat Club
Lynn Cadet Band—Vaude
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Great Artis
Cue'wea
Creat Big Company
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Will Leare
Commercial
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Theron Perkins
Roweee
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G. P. Cushing
S&s. and
Hamilton Place
Winter Street
Rossow Vidveta
Johnstone Brothers
Joseph Hare
Howley
Leslie
Clifford and
Burke
Tony Fernandez
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Tucker
Delmore
Lee
Hessicamb
Hines
Remington
Anderson
de Muths
Connors
Robbins
Treneman
Vitagraph
Aleony
Castle Tex Theatre
Tremont St
Tel
Branei
Oxford
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Monte Gristo
Ruetle Moeatre
Norumseca Park
Bratenserika
Electric Pountain
Isweee PO
Specialty CO
Vastus
Newton Boys
Subway
Eugene Tompkins
Mgr
Ronigse St
the Bic
James O'Neill
Chicago Bosto Bicycles
Serae
Appleton & Bassett’s
Washington St
Connelly
Adams House
Horter
Atlas Stores
S&s P
Geo. F. Tilton
City Wass
Congress St
New England
30Ston Young Men's Christian Association
G. W. Menhaffey
Neil Burcess
Bass Poins
Alex
Lincoln Wharf
Bass Point
Nahant
A. P. Lane
Bowdoin Wticnt
Wood
New Stock Company
N. S. Wood
Burke Gros
O’brien
Inoue
Quaker City Quartet
Bonita and
la Rue
Astin & Stone
Pat
Ace
Ncer
Haymarket
Berkeley Hall
McInnes
H. H. M’imwes
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