Cambridge News Briefs Highlight Local Fringe Happenings
Local notes report on Murphy's Wall Papers rivaling on styles and prices and the International School of Music opening at 579 Massachusetts Avenue. Also covered are Cape shooting trip plans, Cambridge post office figures, property chatter, social events, obituaries, political caucuses, and upcoming theatre and club activities in East Cambridge and Cambridge proper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
Cambridge
International School of Music
Massachusetts Avenue
H. J. Bushway
Bushway
Cape
Cape Way
John Collins
Collins
Richard White
Central Square
John Rockefeller
New York
Institute Hall
McMenimen
East Cambridge
Benjamin Copeland
Pleasant Street
Flora J. Tarbell
Sewall Street
West Newton
Charles River Road
Mason, N. H
Hiram Tarbell
Benjamin F. Wyeth, Jr
Arequipa
Peru
Harvard Observatory
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Jas. Ryan
Cambridge Street
Wm. Gordon
Bridge Street
Thomas H. Rideout
Newtonville Avenue
Newtonville
Osborne Street
Ernest Rexford
Main Street
Henry Schulman
Jim’ Murray
Maine
Edward J. Conroy
Mt. Auburn Street
Holy Ghost Hospital
J. D. Shea
Helping Hand Mothers’ Club
Frank Smith
Putnam Avenue
New Hampshire
M. A. Taffe
Frederick L. Murray
Ward
Murray
Mary A. Doherty
Green Street
Worcester
Helping Hand Mothers' Club
Houghton School
A. J. Daly
May Egan
Daniel Barry
Anderson
Jay Street
The Platypus of Australia and Its Odd Egg Laying Habit
A quirky review of the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs and hatches them like birds. The article notes its beaver like traits, habitat in Australian and New Zealand forests, rarity due to wartime natives’ actions, and local superstition driving natives to kill platypuses near water sources.
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Australia
New Zealand
The Sea Eagle Powerful Pirate Bird Catches Elder Ducks
The article describes the white tailed sea eagle’s feeding habits in Greenland, noting salmon as summer prey and elder ducks in autumn. It details perch strategy near water with cliff background, the hunting sequence, and the eagle’s keen vision enabling capture, including lifting a full grown elder drake.
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Greenland
Drake
London
Austrian Night Gatekeepers and a 4-Cent Toll
An Austrian custom requires houses to close from 10 PM to 6 AM with a hausbesorger or caretaker in charge. Entering during the hours costs 20 hellers per person, creating a social contrast where early and late arrivals differ in payment and reputations. The system acts as a moral conservator, though its success is debatable.
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Hausbesorger
Nighthawk
Mr. B
English In Switzerland and a Brave Woman Duchess
An old guide by the Association of Hotel Keepers highlights quirky English. Aigle Grand hotel offers invalid phrases like pill rest physic at the estatl while rest and bill create confusion. The Duchess de Gramont earns the label pockmarked and spoke bluntly to revolutionaries before her Paris execution, saying you are right to kill me.
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Switzerland
Association of
Hotel Keepers of
Aigle Grand Hotel
Algle
Duchess de Gramont
Revolutionary Committee
Paris
Voter instructions and polling sites listed for Middlesex and Suffolk districts
The document details election choices for multiple state offices and district representatives in Massachusetts. It lists polling hours from six in the morning to four thirty in the afternoon, by ward, with specific schoolhouses and public spaces serving as polling venues in Wards Five through Eleven. It is signed by City Clerk Edward J. Brandon and references ward-specific polling locations such as Parker Schoolhouse and City Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aldermen
Institute Hall
Cambridge Street
Taylor Schoolhoush
Charles Street
Second
Third
Otis Schoolhoush
Otis Street
Thorndike
Eeyerawn
Parker
Broadway
Sixth Street
Harvard Street
Stearns
Prospect Street
Felton
Summer and
Amory Streets
INMAN
Springfield Street
City Hall
Massachusetts Avenue
Ward Six
Boardman
Corner School
Winsor Streets
ODD Fellows’ Hall
MORSE
Allston
Brookline Streets
WARD
Central Square
Tarbell
Howard, Grigg and Magee Streets
River Street
Washington
Cambridge
Felton Streets
Grand Army Hall
Massachusetts, Avenue
Bowghanne
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Helen Connell
Castle Square Theatre
Mechanics’ Hall
Huntington Avenue
Boston
A. J. Sylvester
Knights of the Razor
Louis G. Little
Daly
Little
Brookline Street
Thayer
Mary Casey
Garden Street
Ireland
Newburyport
Charles W. Murch
Auburn Street
Baldwin
South Bridgton
Cambridge Historical Society
Sanders Theatre
Commonwealth
Harvard University
First Church
Col. T. W. Higginson
Richard H. Dana
Stevens
Superior Court
Henry H
Aslaw
John Schidlofski
Arlington Golf Links
P. H. Sullivan
Winslow
Samuel Whitaker
Whitaker
Middlesex
Overseers of the
Henry
Huntington Saville
Shepard Street
John E. Buckley
Emerson Hall
St. John’s Literary Institute
Rose Club
College Row
College House
Harvard
Peter Robertson
Ella May Barnes
Robert W. Barnes
Magazine Street
George W. Bicknell
Marion G. Barnes
George N. Parker
Charles E. Tucker
J. Garfield Stone
Thomas Aldham
Johnston
Norfolk
Elm
Magoun Square
Somerville
Mr. Johnston
Alice Parson
Tremont Street
Edwin F. Butters
Market Street
Foresta
Shelburne
Nova Scotia
Butters
R. H. Marshall
Third Street
Grace J
Charles
JH. Handly
Quebec
Canada
William
Russell
Amory Hall
Cyprus Hall
Tom Edwards
Agnes
Catherine Long
Mis
Margaret Long
Montreal
Charles P. Dawson
Berkshire Street
Harvard Square Outing Club
Iriday
James A. O'Donnell
South Boston
Joe Slocumb
Nelse” Erickson
Ladder Company
No. 2
Truck 2
Portland Street
Sea Eagle
City of
Massachusetts
Cam
Cillor District
Suffolk
Second Middlesex
First Middlesex
General Court
of Mid
Dlesex
Revere
Winthrop
County of Mid
Edward J. Brandon
S Street
Riverside
Hayes Street
City Building
Brattle Square
Lowell
Lowell Street
Unity Hall
Upland Road
Booth
Huron Avenue
Russell Street
Cedar Hall
Cedar
Dudley Streets
Main St
Mass. Ave
Harvard Sq
Central Sq
Bost
LaBreque
Mass
Ave
James J. Shea
John T. Shea
Shea Bros
Pearl Street
Fifth Street
E. T. Bynner
Bynner
Cambridge, Mass
Brooks & Conley Real Estate and Insurance
Charles Linehan
Cragie Bridge
Bridge St
Cambridge St
Hampshire St
Teins
A. R. Henderson
Harvard Square
Arthur R. Henderson
Dana Hill
Cunningham Bros
Tate and Insurance
John A. Cunningham
Henry J. Cunningham
School Street
Monahan
Hermitage
James Hennessey & Co
Jameson's
Hunter Baltimore
Wilson
Ee Miller’s Gamecock
Leetee
Traverse Street
Northern Union Station
Friend Street
IN the Furniture
Estima
Austin A. O’toc
Telephone LE Br
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Cambridge Commercial School
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DR. Cox
Massachusetts Ave
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