Spring Meeting Shows Active Committees And Musical Program
The Spring Meeting featured a well attended dinner at three local churches and a crowd pleasing music program at the town hall. Speakers included Prof. Edward F. Bigelow who urged letting children learn from nature, while addressing gender topics and nature education with stories and humorous anecdotes.
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Methodist
Mittee
Gladys Robinson
Helen Andrews
Unitarian Church
Baptist Church
Sonie Fairbanks
Ella Rice
Etta Hill
Byra Brigham
Jennie Patten
Florence Parker
Persis Russell
Mary Richardson
Selina Lameon
Annie Calden
Mildred Hitchings
Alice Brigham
Agusta Holden
Ruth Hill
Ruth Pill
Eva Brigham
Hazel Wellman
Anna Carpenter
Hudson Ladies
Edward F. Bigelow
Nature and Science
St. Nicholas Magazine
Agassiz Asociation
Bigelow
Mr. Bigelow
Liquor Licenses Granted as Fitchburg Area Expands
In Fitchburg twenty four liquor establishments will open Friday morning. H F McManus became the last of the 24 to secure a license after a prior unsuccessful attempt. The others secured licenses on the second try. In Leominster the overseers of the poor posted 50 notices to deter trespassers from the poor farm while allowing inmate access and preventing fires. In South Framingham a large Hibernian class initiated 150 candidates from Ashland Holliston Natick Saxonville and South Natick across four degrees.
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Fitchburg
H. F. McManus
Leominster
South Framingham
Order
Ashland
Holliston
Natick
Saxonville
South Natick
Webster Selectmen Allocate 12 Liquor Licenses
About 200 residents waited outside the selectmen’s rooms Monday evening as town officials issued 12 liquor licenses. Club licenses were denied and the Hotel Maenixit was reinstated after previously being dropped. A man with a name ending in skit was asked to step aside to create space.
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Webster
Tom Thumb Wedding Planned by Unity Church Group
SHERBORN A Tom Thumb wedding will be given in Unity hall by the Women’s Alliance of the Unitarian church on Friday evening. More than one person present will probably wish that it was the real thing.
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Mr. Bigelow
Bigelow
Ladies’ Home Journal
Margaret Morley
Col Mer
Sherborn
Unity Hall
Womens” Alliance of the Unitarian Church
Socialism Gains Ground Reported at Leominster Conference
At the quarterly socialistic clubs conference in Leominster on Sunday, Robert Lawrence read clippings from papers spanning ten years showing the cult making rapid and substantial progress nationwide.
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Leominister
Socialistic Clubs
Robert Lawrence
Marlboro Local Notes Show Social Visit and Events
Marlboro notes list visits by Richard Kruse from Cochituate and Henry Clark of Portland to local residents, along with relatives staying in Marlboro and a range of social calls. The Vernon A. C. hosts a dance May 12 at Preston hall. bids for painting the standpipe are due May 4. and a forest fire fight involved Milham firefighters. Alice Minehan and Kathleen O Connor, both 12, walked ten miles Marlboro to Whites Corner in two and a half hours.
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J. F. Child
Newton St
Richard Kruse
Cochituate
Frank Horne
N.Y
Vernon A. C
Preston Hall
Henry Clark
Portland
C. F. Robinson
Williams
East Mainst
Hudson
John Neville
West Main St
Wilfred Hamlin
Frye St
North Adams
Hamlin
Water Commissioners
Harry E. Brigham
Medway
Brookfield
Peterboro
N. H
Plymouth
Waltham
W. A. Berry
Milham
G.A.R. Relief Society
Grand Army Hall
Immacualte Conceptions Court
Catholic Order of Foresters
First National Bank
Fred Mansmann
Hildreth St
Marlboro Junction
Redgate
Rexford
Battery
Gately
Beaudreau
Batteries and team scores span early baseball games
New York reports on batteries and lineups across cities including Philadelphia Cleveland St Louis and Boston in a summary of recent games. The article also notes a federal grand jury presentment directing contempt proceedings against Campbell Outerson and Haupt over documents in the Fibre and Manila Paper Manufacturers case.
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New York
Newton and
Kleinow
Glaze
Burchell and
Carrigan
Philadelphia
Washington
Smith
Street
Plank
Maxwell
Carter
Powers
Cleveland
RHR
Clarkson
Joss
Bemis
Killian
Mullin
Thomas
St. Louis
H Bt
Tle
Gor
Graham, Dineen
Stephens
Spencer
Smith and Sullivan
Boston
Fibre and Manila Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Federal Grand Jury
Campbell
Dexter Sulphite Company
Outerson
de Gras Parper Company
Haupt
Munissini “Paper Company
Lacombe
Naval Surgeon Schwerin Dismissed By Court Martial
Acting Assistant Surgeon Schwerin of the torpedo destroyer flotilla was found guilty by a court martial and sentenced to dismissal from the navy. He allegedly neglected a sick fireman aboard the Hull and sent a hospital apprentice, the man later dying. His report was said to imply personal attendance. The Navy Department approved the sentence.
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Washington
Schwerin
Hampton Roads
Magdalena Bay
Navy
Gas Fatality Strikes Six Italians in Greenwich Lodging
Six unidentified Italian men were found dead in a third floor Greenwich street lodging house room New York after gas was left on. The door had been nailed shut from inside and the window sealed, suggesting a planned attempt to bar intruders. One man partially opened the ventilating stop before dying.
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New York
Greenwich Street
R. H. Macy & CO
Senate Passes Pension and DC Appropriation Bills
The Senate yesterday passed the pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills. The president's special message was read and part of Senator Warner's Brownsville speech was heard. Minor measures and a House resolution aiding cyclone victims in the south were also approved.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Senate
Warner
Brownsville
House
South
Schol laert cites need for allied consent on Congo State talks
Premier Schollaert said the Belgian government cannot publish the exchange of views with the United States and Great Britain on the Congo Independent State without consent. He noted the correspondence among the three governments is still ongoing.
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Congo
Brussels
Schollaert
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Great Britain
Congo Independent
Steamer Deike Rickmer damaged by sunken wreckage
Halifax ships report the steamer Deike Rickmer towed by St Bride sustaining propeller damage after striking sunken wreckage. Port side shows scrape marks and propeller three blades snapped as a port warden survey confirms the incident.
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Halifax
Deike Rickmer
St. Bride
Schell elected president of Iowa Wesleyan University
Rev Edwin A Schell of Laporte Indiana was chosen president of Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant Iowa. Brigadier General Alfred L Hough retired died at Princeton New Jersey aged 82 after Civil War service. China arranging welcome for American battleship fleet in Chinese waters. Chicago and New York Electric Air Line stockholders meet in Portland Missouri authorized to cut par value from 100 to 25. B F Taylor 30 was killed at Peachdale Manufacturing Company when overhead shafting belt fractured sending him thirty feet.
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Edwin A. Schell
Laporte
Ind
Iowa Wesleyan University
Mount Pleasant
Princeton
N. J
China
Chicago and
New York Electric Air Line Company
Portland
B. F. Taylor
Peachdale Manufacturing Company
Peachdale
R. I. Taylor
Train Wreckers Try To Stop Marlboro Branch
An unsuccessful attempt to wreck the Marlboro Branch train near South Acton disrupted service at 8:08 p.m. A pile of large rocks was placed on the track. the engine and pilot absorbed the impact and kept the Old Dolly moving. Conductor H. J. Bowers and engineer B. F. Gates ensured safety, with Detective Bradley probing the cold blooded act and Maynard residents suspected.
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Marlboro
South Acton
B. F. Gates
Ben
H. J. Bowers
Bowers
Boston
Bradley
B. & M. Railroad
Maynard
Stonewall
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Henry B. Whitcomb
Thomas Murray
Maud Day
Gertrude Walcott
R. W. Holt
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Rayo
Standard O1l Company of (Incorporated
Vicinity News
Broadway
Beenee
Jace
Valenciennes
Gibson
Tremaine
Acton
Cape
Forence
Florence
Central Oil & Gas Stove CO
Washington ST
Garowen
Mass
James H. Vahey
Jefferson Club
J. J. Mitchell
Newton —Henry CD. Cotland
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
New England
Great Bell System
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