Taft Hosts Japanese Commission in Minneapolis Toasts Emperor
President Taft welcomed 50 members of the Japanese commercial commission to the United States in Minneapolis. He praised Japanese industry and patriotism, declared no danger of friction between nations, and toasted the Japanese Emperor as a warm friend of America amid strong audience enthusiasm. Baron Shibusawa, Tokyo banker and chair of the delegation, lauded Taft as a leading man of the age.
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America
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Fall services resume across archdiocese at Cathedral
Catholic churches reopen full fall and winter ceremonies. Archbishop O Connell attended the solemn high mass at the Cathedral, celebrated by Rev. James J. McCarthy with Rev. M J Scanlan and Rev. Thomas R. McCoy as deacon and subdeacon. Sermon by Father Crane. At Immaculate Conception Harrison Avenue, Rev. A J Rache S J celebrated high mass with sermon by Rev. Thomas I Gasson, president of Boston College.
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Taft Leads Guests in Three Banzais for Japan Health
A warm and true friend of Japan, he proposed the health of the President and led fellow countrymen in three resounding Banzais. Mr. Taft proposed the health of the Emperor with a Banzai, echoed by American guests.
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Taft
Woman Masker Missing in Portsmouth Hotel Escape
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on September 19 a woman identified as Mrs Henry Melvin vanished from the Hotel Kearsarge between midnight and 6 am. She had earlier unsettled hotel staff and police by switching from men's to women's clothing the day before.
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Mystery Visitor Registers as Henry Melvin at Local Hotel
Mrs Melvin arrived Thursday in a man’s suit, registered as Henry Melvin, and spent two days posing as a man. Police, led by Deputy Chief Hurley, tracked the guest who vanished at midnight after a fire escape exit toward Congress street. The husband she claimed to await did not appear, leaving investigators baffled about the true gender of the mysterious guest.
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Census reveals Massachusetts population shifts 1905
The census shows 3,000,000 residents in Massachusetts with 2,966,762 white and 34,041 colored, plus 2,224 Chinese 100 Japanese and 553 Indians. Urban areas reach 77.74 percent, Everett grows fastest, Adams declines, and foreign-born share rises in Fall River Lawrence Holyoke Chicopee Lowell and other cities.
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Bitter rivalry seen in Boston ward primaries tomorrow
In a bitter political battle both parties prepare for state primaries in Boston with close fights expected. The new charter bill shifts ward committee elections to tomorrow, instead of at the city primaries, shaping local contest dynamics.
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Pope Stops Title Sale Regains Papal Revenues
Rome September 19 The Pope has for months refused to grant nobility titles transmitted through the secretary of the congregation of the briefs Traditionally the conferring of titles brought large income to the Vatican authorities and Vatican circles regret the halt of this revenue stream.
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Caught by Police After Long Chase at Malden
Albert H. Long, 40, captured after a lengthy woods chase near the City Hospital in Malden and jailed on probation violation charges. He had been released on probation on August 5 after being accused of drunkenness, and was apprehended by Officer Muldoon.
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Miss Grace E Stanley ordained at Temple Congregational Church
Miss Grace E Stanley was ordained to the ministry at the Congregational Church in Temple Maine last week completing a 25 year journey in gospel work. She began as Sunday school assistant to Rev George I Kenngett in Lowell then studied at Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy and served as pastor's assistant at Courtland Street Church Everett. She later led a pastorate in Weston Vermont before moving to Temple about a year and a half ago.
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Gold Hunters Haunt Hovey Estate in Hubbardston
Albert I. Smith, owner of the famed Hovey estate, fights nighttime trespassers who creep onto the land with shovels and lanterns in search of rumored $14,000 in buried gold. Local men continue their graveyard shift raids despite warnings.
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Shots Fired in Card Row in Roxbury Street Row
After a revolver shot in Taber street Roxbury last evening about 7 30 o clock a dozen police rushed to the scene from the Dudley street station and after searching the neighborhood Patrolmen McDonald and Reiser arrested Pasquale Carruso 30 of 2 Crosby street The police finally sifted it down to a row over cards Carruso accused his companions of taking some of his money An argument followed and when the men started to run away Carruso fired a shot at them which missed.
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Italians in Boston Celebrate Rome Fall Picnic
About 50 Italian societies in Boston and nearby areas join to mark Rome’s 1870 entry by Italian soldiers. A picnic is planned at Point of Pines in Revere to observe the anniversary.
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