Tabernacle Feast Observed in City Tents across Ends
The Feast of Tabernacles inspires pious Hebrews to dwell in succos across the North West and South Ends. Families construct tents on yards and rooftops with evergreen roofs, fruit decorations, and a central dining table while recounting prayers and blessings.
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Tabernacles
Baldwin Place
Salem Street
Frankel
Jacob .Shooker
Salem
Mr. Finkelstein
Margolis
M. D. Lourie
Allen Street
Isaac Cohen
Poplar Street
West End
Cohen
Boston
Canteens to be Maintained at National Soldiers’ Homes
General MacMahon of the board of managers says the board will keep canteens at all National Soldiers’ Homes. He cites experience showing it benefits veterans and local communities.
Heiress to $40 000 Died in Poorhouse
Rudolf Bock a Brooklyn bookbinder died 1893 leaving 40000. Executors found no relatives until learning a distant relative Mrs Istiana Nathias once lived in Wilkes Barre. A representative traced her but learned she died in the poorhouse last November.
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Mra. Istiana. Nathias
Mackerel Invade Boston Harbor At Quarantine
A shoal of mackerel was seen off Quarantine in Boston Harbor yesterday. News spread quickly as a boy, his brother and father joined locals who fished along the harbor front. The Sunday fishing law was ignored and the catch was sizeable though mainly small in size.
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Boston
Harbor Front
Catholic Sunday Schools discuss unified system in Roxbury meeting
The gathering at St Alphonsus Hall Roxbury drew clergy from the archdiocese of Boston to refine organization of Catholic Sunday schools. Rev Mer Magennis presided and educators described graded instruction and class divisions as groundwork for future meetings.
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St. Alphonsus Hall
Roxbury
Boston
Mer. Magennis
Agennis
Jamaica Plain
Mary Mellyn
Boston Normal
Mary CC
Gartland
Aicknor-Benool
South Boston
Mararet
McCabe
Union Kindergarten
Brighton
Francis J. Butter
F. J. Glynn Melrose
United in ceremony Union Jack joined with Stars and Stripes
Memorial services for the late President ee were held at the Second Universalist Church in Boston with a martial display from the Fusiliers V eteran Association and other groups. A union jack was presented to Rev Roblin, who delivered the memorial sermon praising public opinion and the press as powerful forces in the United States.
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Graham
Theritish Naval and Military Association
H. Roblin
Boston
Queen Victoria
United States
Theological conference scene with Rev Thomas Van Ness
The Rev. Thomas Van Ness of the Second Unitarian Church Boston returns to Brookline after a Maine trip and attends a Buffalo memorial service. In Saratoga he joined a biennial Christian conference debating constructive work unchurched outreach and social settlement value with Jane Addams and others. The Boston church plans a 250th anniversary celebration.
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Thomas van Ness
Second Unitarian Church
Boston
Brookline
Maine
Buffalo
van Ness
Unitarian Church
Delaware Avenue
Saratoga
Christian Conference “This Conference,” Said Mr. van Ness
Post
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Giddings
Frank Moss
New York
Efficacy of Prayer At Park Street Church
The Rev. Dr. Withrow argued that prayer did not prevent President McKinley’s death and urged that God does not answer every prayer. He cited Civil War days when collective prayers failed to avert danger, comparing insistence on miracles to a spoiled child who gets everything but remains ineffective.
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Withrow
Park Street
McKinley
Lincoln
Union
Dr. Dixon on the Common Opens Open Forum Session
On the Charles street mall yesterday the Rev. A. C. Dixon of Ruggles Street Church spoke to a large audience. J. Dixon praised the open forum method as possibly more effective than formal church services and urged public discussion in the pulpit setting.
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Charles Street
A. C. Dixon
Ruggles Street
J. Dixon
Woman in final illness denied voyage back to Liverpool
Annie Sullivan, stricken with consumption and alone in Boston, was declared unfit to sail on the Saxonia. A tug ferried her ashore at Deer Island where she awaited her fate, longing to return to old friends and die among them. She was later escorted to the Cunard office to claim a return fare, and her fate after that remains unknown.
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Annie Sullivan
Boston
Saxonia
Liverpool
St. Stephens
Juno
Kemp
Europe
Deer Island
Blate Street
Cunard Company
Annie Bullivan
Hindoo Evangelist Miss Susie Sorabji Speaks In Boston
Miss Susie Sorabji of Poona India, a Zenana Bible and Medical Mission worker, preached at Rugnee Street Church in Boston after Dr. A C Dixon invited her following her August Northfield talk. She leads evangelistic work among women in Poona and oversees Bible women missions across zenanas and villages.
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Susie Sorabji
India
Poona
Pandita Ramabal
Northfield
A. C. Dixon
Rugnee Street
The
Zenana Bible and Medical Mission
United States
Vrona
Juggles Street Baptist Church
Boston
Erent
Ander
Sorabji
America
Zenanas
Gospel and Education Speech Urges Gospel and Education Cure
The Rev. J William T McElveen of Shawman Congregational Church spoke on Nation problems Suggested by the Presidents Assassination He argued liberty must have restraint and that free speech tied to the president as a unity symbol is being abused by educators labor leaders and caricaturists He urged gospel and education as the remedy.
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J. William T. McEelveen
Shawman Congregational Church
Tremont and
Brookline
Washington
Serine
Boers Banished by Kitchener Proclaims Peace Steps
Pretoria Sept 29 A pamphlet under Lord Kitchener's authority announces the permanent banishment of several Boer leaders captured since Sept 15 and includes a letter from Kitchener replying to Acting President Schalk Burger. He pledges to send the Schalkburger letter to the imperial government and asserts war responsibility lies with the burghers. A sale process for in-field burgher properties is outlined.
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Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Schalkburger
Volksraad
Cape Colony
South Africa
Greatin
Cape
Kitchener Seeks More Mounted Men and Power to Ban Rebels
The Daily Express reports Lord Kitchener requests 25 000 more seasoned mounted men and authority to ban rebels traitors and murderers without reference to the home government.
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London
Daily
City Briefs: Injuries and arrests in city incidents
John W. Roden, 32, had a leg crushed when his foot caught in a shifting table at Field's Corner and was taken to Si oy Hospital. A 13 year old, Lubec Street, Boston resident, fell 18 feet from a window breaking an arm and was sent to City Hospital. Police arrested two women for illegal liquor sales, Mary Sheeran and Mary Nelson, while Stee severe internal injuries left another man in critical condition at City Hospital.
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John W. Roden
Freeman Street
Hance Torres
Era Standone
Lubec Street
Boston
Mary Sheeran
South ‘Margin -Street
Mary Nelson
Cichael Slattery
Nash
Tyler Street
City Hospital
Stee
Religion and Rubber Stir Melrose Free Baptist Church
In Melrose Highlands on Sept 23 a rift grows between Rev G M Howard and Deacon M T Emery over church finances. Howard promotes rubber ventures in Guatemala to fund maintenance, forming a nine member group with 3000 capital that could involve up to one million rubber trees. An investigation was ordered last Friday night, fueling local speculation and church tension.
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Melrose Highlands
Free Baptist Church
M. T. Emery
G. M. Howard
Washington
United States
McNally
Guatemala
la Gomera
Mery
Quaint prizes for school children in Boston art contest
Bunkio Matsuki a prominent Boston Japanese merchant launches a competition for public and private school pupils. Twelve prizes of Japanese art workmanship valued at 800 dollars total will go to the best drawings on Japanese pottery. Drawings due October 30 exhibition by November 25 in Boston. entries must use Japanese paper and brush. colors or monochrome allowed.
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Bunkio Matsuki
Boston
Matsuki
Japan
America
Filipinos Kill Card Continues On Page One
Insurgents may have heard only fragmentary reports of the tragedy and might think the shooting was a spontaneous uprising against the President.
Filipino Fight Near Candelaria Costs U S Troops
Captain Lawrence J. Hearn reports a severe engagement near Candelaria in which Twenty-first infantry troops suffer one killed and two wounded while insurgent losses are unknown. Americans seize 30000 pounds of rice and several hundred rounds of ammunition.
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Manila
Lawrence J. Hearn
Twenty-first Infantry
Candelaria
Record of the Ninth Chinese service officer names
Washington reports detail Company C of the Ninth Regiment of United States Infantry, which served in China during the Boxer outbreak. Lieutenant Bumpus, who escaped, is mentioned alongside Isa Quincy. The report notes the unit’s movements and roles in Sept. 29 dispatches.
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China
Bumpus
Isa Quincy
Washington
Ninth Regiment of
United States Infantry
C. A.coolidge
Ninth U. S. Infantry
Philippines
Army Officers and Troop Movements Mentioned in Sampson's Report
The passage notes officers connected with Company C nearly wiped out by insurgents and lacking a second lieutenant. It mentions W. Connell appointed to the military academy from New York in September 1899 and First Lieutenant Bumpus promoted from Quincy after serving as a private. Surgeon Griswold recently joined the army and accompanied Adjutant-General Corbin to the Philippines. General Sampson’s message refers to Samar and Manila service details.
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Manila
Samar
Chaffee
Despaich
W. Connell
Cemande
Military Academy
New York
Bumpus
Quincy
Mars
First
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
Griswold
Pacific Ocean
Corbina
Palippines
Island conflicts and guerilla danger noted in report
The report describes dispersed fighting in the islands with Company C surprised far from General Hughes's headquarters. Samar is singled out as troublesome while coast natives are friendly. interior natives are viewed as dangerous guerillas in the area.
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Company C
Hughes
Samar
Lieut Bumpus’s Career in the Spanish War
Osward Avery Bumpus, a Harvard man, joined Battery A First Heavy Artillery of the Massachusetts militia at the first call for volunteers. He left his studies to serve in the Spanish war, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in June.
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Osward Avery Bumpus
Harvard
Massachusetts Militia
Weymouth
Mass
Soldier Lieutenant Lemirpus Bumpus Civil War to Spanish American era
From public schools he entered Thayer Academy and Harvard prep. He joined the First Heavy Artillery and studied architecture at the university. A respected athlete, he is tall and strong and the son of Judge E i C Bumpus of Guiney. His father and grandfather both served as officers in Civil War Massachusetts regiments. Lemurpus served as second lieutenant July 8 1893 with the Twenty first U S Infantry after private service in Battery C First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery from May 12 1896. He faced a court martial around July 28 1893 on a charge of permitting at Pateta.
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Thayer Academy
Harvard
E.i C. Bumpus
Guiney
Massachusetts
Anidfather
Antmacle
Duris Sherman
Tieutenant Lemirpus
Leutenant
Twenty-first United States Infantry
First
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
Bumpus
Patete
Ormesby to Carry First Full coal Cargo to Europe
A British steamer Ormesby sails from Philadelphia with 3600 tons of coal for Europe to fuel stoves, destined for Stettin and Berlin. The dispatch highlights larger American steamers like Lyra and notes bids to build a steel vessel to replace the Chandler, with details on a forthcoming fast government craft for international arrivals.
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Ormesby
Philadelphia
Europe
Stettin
Germany
Berlin
Wals
Eleanor A. Percy
Lyra
Boston Towboat Company
Dominion Line
Norseman
Jverpool
Ned McField
Brasilia
Harland & Wolff
Belfast
Ire
Dominion and Leyland Lines
Chandler
New York
Hamlin
Chelsea
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Isucco
Searles & CO
Devonshire St
Abe
H.W. Pattee & CO
Gatholic Sunday Schools
Cers Kelliher
Diehl
Cambridge Street
Cambridge
Lynn
Causeway Stud
McKinley Memorial Services
DR. Dixon
Hindoo
Susie Sorabsji
Dr. McElveen
Kitchener
Melrose
Howard
Guatemala Plantation
Makuzu Kozan
E.A. Bumpus
Company CG
Lieut
SitiPrina
Ronton
Queenstown
Portland
Vancouver
Dominion
Toston
Gibraltar
Naples
Genoa
Commonwealth
A S. Cambroman
Poe
Roston
Alexandria
Egypt
State Street
Cunard Line
Bogton
Sanonta
Satyrn Altonea
Alenanhi Martin
Mavs
Warren Line
Sagamore
Michigan
Hoozoo Tunnel
Charlestown
Warren & CO
Mile Street
White Star Line
Cymric
Germanic
Majestic
Oceanic
Discount
F. C. Houghton & Co
State St
Cor
Broad St
Savannah Line
Ocean Steamship Company
Lewin
No. River
Savannah
Oston
Maaile
Araet All -All
Sound
Metro- Caan
S. Co
Igi
York
Tatue
N. EK. A
Atlantic.ave. Downing
Agt
Ornate Ave
Simmons A “Marsters
T. A
Warh'n- St
A. Pleasants
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Co. Steamship Lines
Norfolk
Baltimore
Newport News
Providence
Attuth
West
A.M. Cratlam
Battery Wharf
Wiifbeton
Summer Street
W. I. Corla
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Line
P. Wing
Central Wharf
F. B. Sampson
Fiske Building
International S. S
Calais
ST. Andrews
Eastport
Lubec
Commercial Wharf
Portland, &c
St. John
City Ticket Office
Portland Steamship CO
Seamship Guy
Dingley
Gay Stale
India Wharf
Chas. R. Lewis
JOY Line
1St Glass
Ton ST. Tel
Mair
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