Brockton Bank Weighs Industrial Life Insurance Dept
Ex governor William L. Douglas leads the movement as Brockton's People's Savings Bank considers opening a savings and insurance department under the new state law. Trustees must be ratified by incorporators with a $5,000 cash expense fund and a $20,000 insurance guaranty fund required for licensure.
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Brockton
William L. Douglas
Massachusetts Savings Insurance League
People’s Savings Bank of
Massachusetts
Douglas
Louis D. Brandeis
League
Savings Bank
John L. Bates
State House
Florida
Commonwealth
Warren A. Reed
People’s Savings Bank
General Insurance Guaranty Fund
Guild
Norman H. White
Brookline
Savings and Insurance Bank
Autumn Field Music and the Birds of Fall
The piece describes how bird songs shift with the seasons, highlighting meadow lark bluebird and song sparrow. It notes larks sing best in dim meadows, bluebirds resume in September with mature notes, and the song sparrow remains hopeful through late fall and even winter. Published in the Chicago Evening Post.
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Bluebird
Kcago Evening Post
Marlboro local notices and social movements in town
Marlboro reports many residents visiting Brockton and Ipswich, arrivals from Spencer and Avon, and movements of workers to the Marcy Bros. shoe factory. A high school athletic association presidency is noted, along with a poll tax tag from Robert F. Brown now sent from Tacoma. Mayor Brown attends Eagles event in Worcester and tax matters are updated.
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Roscoe Giles
Charlestown
George Cutting
Framingham
George
Brockton
C. Waldo Brigham
Main Street
Ipswich
Albert
Goulet
Preston Hall
Felix Léedue
Spencer
Elm Street
Dewitt C. Morgan
Haverhill
F. C. Curtis
Sons of Veterans
J. H. Harris
Webster L. Bagley
Rockland
William Emory
Cay
Joseph Crossley
California
Lois Beauregard
Marlboro Business College
Helen Proctor
Elm Sr
Mildred Wheeler
Northfield
Winnie Paul
Susie Potter
Avon
Olive Paul
Do. F. Barton
Ashland High School
Adolphe Vallee
Joseph Charron
Theophile Rivard
North Adams
Arthur Cyr
Salem
Theople Goucher
Grant Street
John Rock
West Main Street
Howard Morse
High School Athletic Association
Sylvia Moineau
Whitman
Wilfrid Moineau
Broad St
Michael J. Mee
Newark
N. J
Thomas Mee
F. T. Curtis
Bertha Parmeter
Hdwani Green
Worcester
Mary EB. Carr
Catherine Greene
Boston
Martin Frazier
Lower Montague
Prince Edward Island
Frank Landry
Broad Street
Marcy Bros
City Farm
Ralph E. Walker
Beverly
Thomas Ewart
Leominster
Telephone Exchange
Union Club
Charles Cunningham
Preston Street
Alton Balcom
Maplewood Avenue
Cornelius Dunn
Hudson Street
Wilbrod Denis
E. F. Brown
Theodore Bell Cal
The
Eagles
John T. Duggan
Charles G. Washburn
George S. Taft
John R. Thayer
Robert F. Brown
John P. Brown
W. H. Osgood
Tacoma
Brown
The Importance of Everyday Electricity
A compact look at how electricity has become a constant, unseen part of daily life. The piece traces morning routines from door bells and telephones to cars, elevators, and entertainment, all powered by electricity and ending with secure burglar alarms at home.
Maine College Football Players Train With Wood Piles
Bangor Commercial suggests Maine colleges Bates Colby University of Maine and Bowdoin use farm wood pile training. Brown University coach Rob inson has players sawing wood as a wind making training method adopted from prize fighting to trim the squad and cut winter chores from farm labor.
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Maine
Brown University
Brooklyn
Conn
Robinson
Bates
Colby
University of Maine
Bowdoin
Bangor Commercial
Locomotives Old and New Show Rail Power Progress
A reminiscence tracing the 1831 Baltimore and Ohio locomotive proposal with a $4000 price and 15 mph capability, contrasting it with the GE No. 6000 electric locomotive for the New York Central. It notes steam’s limits on grades and curves and the bold claim that electric locomotives will eventually replace steam due to higher speed and hauling power.
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United States
Baltimore &Ohio Railroad Company
General Electric Company
New York Central Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Unique Buffet Style Church Supper Suggested
The Delineator proposes a new church supper model with lunch counters and buffets. Guests choose from ice cream, cake, sandwiches, tea, coffee, lemonade and other drinks, allowing cheaper per-item pricing and potentially higher revenue. The note also questions Uncle Henry Gassoway Davis's potential run for governor of West Virginia.
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Henry Gassoway Davis
West Virginia
Gassoway
Alton B. Parker
Malden Evening News
The Old Way Versus New Way Polish Ad Promotes 6-5-4 Shine
An advertisement touts a new stove and stove pipe polish called 6-5-4. It claims the product shines without rubbing or washing off and lasts for months with each application. John M. Keyes is named as the dealer.
Petition for Lowell Road relocation in ConcordMass
Five or more Concord residents petition Middlesex County Commissioners to relocate Lowell road from the Concord river to the Carlisle line. Order directs sheriff to notify interested parties and hold a view and hearing November 4 at Concord Selectmen's room with notices published in Concord Enterprise and posted in two public places.
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Concord
Mass
Middlesex County Commissionery
East
Cambridge
Lowell Road
Concord River
Carlisle
Middlesex
Lowell
View
Concord Enterprise
Roger H. Hurd
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Concord School
Concord, Mass
Leon Edwin Ryther
Walter Lincoln Colby
T. F. Parker, H. D
Maynard
Main
B.D. Holmes
Reguiae
Witking
Institution For Savings
Maynard, Mass
C. J. Bodfish
Board OF Investment
C. H. Persons
J. W. Ogden
A. G. Haynes
South Acton Coal & Lumber CO
J. P. Fletcher
South Acton
Automobile Supplies
G. W. Hopkins
Thomas Lipton
Memoriam
F.E. Harris
Larerooms
Bedford
Kererog
Willow ‘Bt
Marlboro
B. F. Pond
Dayton, Ohio
Charles Clark
Yarmouth
Coney Island
Diamond M
Papa
Mamma
S. R. Kitchin
Mer
John M. Keyes
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Chas. G. Whitman
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