American Boy Scouts to Attend Great English Rally
The Boy Scouts of America may send several troops to England for the third national rally of the Boy Scouts Association in Birmingham from July 2 to 9. James K. West, chief scout executive, asks leaders to schedule visits to Birmingham for the rally. The event features a King George tribute demonstration, sea scout displays, and a scout craft exhibition showing first aid, carpentry, dairying, electricity, gardening, leather work, pathfinding, photography, pioneering, poultry farming and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Robert
Baden-Powell
British
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts’ Association of Great Britain
Birtim
Eugand
England
Scout Movement
Birmingham
James KE. West
New York City
King George
Sea Scouts
Chameleon Perfume Hypnotizes Parisians With Shifting Scents
Parisian craze features a perfume that emits a different odor per wearer and even per skin touch. The scent reportedly blends flower notes and changes with color, mood, and time, while chemists seek its secret amid a simple formula of floral extract alcohol benzoin tincture and rosewater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ima
English Tory vows keep beard until Tory return to power
E F Boxwell a Democrat in the United States had his hair cut after sixteen years on March 4. In England Fred Wilkins, landlord of the Trow Tree Inn near Hereford, swore not to cut hair or shave until the Tories regain power. His waist‑length beard and mid back hair are on public display when he visits Hereford market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Boxwell
United States
Fred Wilkins
Trow Tree Inn
Burghill
Hereford
England
Wilkins
Oxygen Helmets Ordered for Navy Submarines and Warships
The Navy Department orders a limited supply of oxygen helmets for submarines and battleships that use crude oil as fuel. The gear is intended to protect crews from poison gas inside hulls and deadly fumes in emptied oil tanks, and to aid rescue of firemen or boiler tenders endangered by bursts in steam systems.
Indian music preservation plan appoints O Hara instructor
Secretary Lane appoints composer O Hara to record native American Indian music and arrange it for Indian schools. He will live on reservations to collect songs and develop use of Indian songs in schools.
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Lane
O'Hara
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Local Firms Named in Business Directory Listing
A compact listing shows multiple companies including Concord Haynes Co Bedford Co H Mead & Co Acton Tutt le & Newton South Acton C A Parmenter & Co Sudbury and Conant & Co Littleton referenced in a regional business directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oe Goncord Haynes CO
Maynard
Lincoln tax sale notice for parcels in Lincoln Massachusetts
Lincoln Massachusetts tax collectors warn owners of unpaid 1912-13 taxes on parcels in Lincoln town, with auctions set May 10 at 3 PM in the town hall to recover taxes and costs. description covers an 82 acre tract along Trapelle Road and Lincoln Street with multiple land parcels. Charles Henry Dabney and Charles S. Wheeler listed as officials.
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Lincoln
Mass
Lincounty
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charles Henry Dabney
Trapelle Road
Lincoln Street
A. H. Hartwell
Hartwell
Charles L. Wiles
Said Wiles
the Farrington Memorial, Inc
Said
Farrington Memorial, Inc
Farquhar
Page
Charles S. Wheeler
Executor named for Jane of Maynard estate appointed
Notice announces the subscriber as executor of the will of Jane, late of Maynard, Middlesex County, who has accepted the trust by bond as required by law. All persons having demands against the estate must present them, and those indebted must make payment. Worcester, Mass. March 25, 1913. A316
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Late
Maynard
Middlesex
Worcester
Mass
Witty cents for putting in to tome mutt Boston
Readable fragments describe a playful note likely from a Boston publication mentioning cents and a mutt. The exact context is unclear but the tone hints at a humorous or dismissive comment about spending or saving. No clear events, persons, or organizations are identifiable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mortgagee’s Sale of Bedford Middlesex Tracts In 1913
The notice describes a mortgagee sale of about 100 acres on Middlesex Turnpike and adjacent lands in Bedford and a 32-acre parcel, with bounds to Blanchard Rogers Crosby and others. Terms at sale. Also a probate citation for Alice M Wheeler seeking letters testamentary in Cambridge with notice to heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimee
James H. Wight
Altes
Middlesex
Hannah F
Daniel McIntyre
McMtyre
Joseph Blanchard
Blanchard
Bedford
Thompson
William F. Burrows
Middlesex Turnpike
County of
Josiah Rogers
Rogers
Michael Crosby
Delmont A. Butterfield
Henry L. Wadsworth
Water Street
Boston
Mass
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Thos. F. Parker
Ideal House
W. F. Barton Jr
Brockton
North Main St
MS Quinby Co
Chicago
Merican Boy Scouts
Tories
NAVY
Littleton
F.C
Crenier
West Acton
I. A. Arengneemts
Alice M. Wheeler
Ladley
Faith P. Wheeler
Faith P. Hadley
Cambridge
Sudbury
Charles J. McIntire
W. E. Rogers
Register
Massachusetts
Garfield Late
Concord
Emma E. Bennett
Concord Jet
E. A. Comeau
John J. Flannery
Bedford Street
John R. Comley
Green Houses
Elm St
Bedford Centre
D. E. Perkins, and
R. Wells Co
O. Box
Bedford, Mass
First Church OF Christ
Intervale Farm
Sandy Pond Road
George F. Root
Dexter Spinney
Joseph Kulscar
New York
Summer Street
A. Fernald
Béyiston St
Boston, Mass
Charles Parker Tucker
War UN M
Fidar
C. L. King
Maynard Block
Mans
Maynard, Mass
D. C. Harris No. Acton, Mass
Faa
Carhon Jou
Shoe Hudson
E. Boeske
Maynard, Rtass
Ient Servicy
Chas. S. Hunt
South Sudbury
Mase
Reves
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