Burdett College Acknowledged as World’s Largest Business School
The Boston Herald notes Burdett College as a pioneer in practical business training in New England. It highlights updated bookkeeping banking stenography and typewriting methods including touch typing. The school expanded to ten rooms since September to meet growing demand and reduce waiting lists.
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Burdett
Theargest Commercial School
New England
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Burdett College
A World
Boston Herald
Death of Mrs Durgin a longtime New England resident
Mrs Abigail I Randall Durgin widow of Thomas Durgin and mother of Sarah Shurtleff died in Haverhill on Sunday August 9 after eleven months of illness from a fractured hip. She was born in Freedom New Hampshire and lived in Rochester NH Dorchester Winthrop and other towns. Survived by three daughters Cora Bennett Sarah Shurtleff and Ellen Furber and a brother Thomas Randall. Funeral services were held in Haverhill with Rev Mire Warren officiating and interment followed.
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Abigail I. Randall Durgin
Thomas Durgin
Sarah A. Shurtleff
Hawthorne Avenue
Haverhill
Ellen F. Furber
Freedom
Eels
Cora Bennett
Thomas C. Randall
Franklin
Rochester
Dorchester
Winthrop
Mire Warren
Atkinsotte O
Mani Cure Sketch Tops Ade Comedy at Keith’s Next Week
George Ade's popular humorist sketches include The Maid and the Mani cure featuring a western town mayor. Edwin Holt and company perform the piece with Holt noted as a leading comedian. Also featured are the Fadettes fare well program with Mrs Nichols and forty women, Kit Gabriel reproducing Remington paintings, and acts by the New England Four Rianos Acrobats Smith and Campbell Arthur Rigby and dancing Bugs.
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George Ade
America
Ade
Eve
Edwin Holt and Company
Fadettes
Kit Gabriel
Remington
New England
Rianos
Smith and Campbell
Arthur Rigby
Winthrop Letters and Misplaced Phrases
List of letters remaining at Winthrop station for the week ending August 2 includes Bailey Eva Babin H M Brown Elmer Burke Fannie Butler Thos J Connolly Mylo F Corbett Annie Dickinson Catherine Farley Josephine Glover I D Grout Fred W Hendrix A B Jameson Florence Lawton Chas Mason M D Pond Lillian Small Clyde Smith G Osborne Walsh Catherine Walsh Ethel Walsh John J Webster Frank E White Ellen. A dialogue asks the meaning of a well bred man and Stub McGuff answers a healthy Indian after a port Chile joke.
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Winthrop Station
Bailey
Iliss
Eva Babin
H. M. Brown
Elmer Burke
Fannie Butler
Thos. J. Connolly
Mylo F. Corbett
Annie Dickinson
Catherine Farley
Josephine Glover
I. D. Grout
Fred W. Hendrix
A. B. Jameson
Florence Lawton
Chas. Mason
M. D. Pond
Corpse Lynching Clocked as Legal Execution Time
In a London Tit-Bits retelling, Mahoney is hanged for half an hour then handed to friends who load the body for a cart. A companion’s playful blow kills further to silence the now alive corpse, sparking a murder doubt but no arrest since the man was deemed a legally hanged corpse.
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Great Briain
Ireland
Mahoney
London
African Market Prices for Wild Animals and Hints of Diplomacy
Prices for rhinoceroses and other animals vary with demand and transport costs. Baby rhinoceroses fetch 3875 to 500, a giraffe 250 to 500, hippos 250 to 450, elephants 875 to 875, lions and leopards 100 to 425, with gorilla and white rhinoceros auction potential 5000 to 30000. Diplomacy item notes a comic scene of a man claiming dyspepsia to dodge a visit.
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Nairobi
Fort Florence
Hampton
Willie and Raymond Recall Quiet Sunday School Moments
A German town woman’s son Willie plays with a neighbor girl and obliquely notes his mother’s absence. Raymond, five, returns from Sunday school excited as the superintendent praises him in prayer for thanks for food and Raymond, reflecting on modest pride.
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Raymond
Fresh Eggs Guaranteed Says Grocer
A woman questions egg freshness while a grocer asserts a strict guarantee that any bad eggs will be made good as quoted from Lippincott's. The exchange highlights consumer assurance practices in a historical shop scene.
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Lippincott’s
Phrase Fragmentary Advice From The Kansas City Journal
A garbled excerpt shows characters Maud and a dialogue about fatherly stubbornness and a tactic to keep one’s back to the wall. The text blends gossip and admonition with partial lines and unusual spellings.
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Maud
Kansas City Journal
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FacSinile Signature of
New York
Bears
Agastoria the Centaur Company
New York City
Gas ’ Electric Company Revere
Main Street
Charles F. Totten
Shirley Street
Winthrop Beach
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Boston
Sargent St
Jartisoc
Kener & Waterbury
Ranklin ST
Bush
Lloyd's
Andrew J. Lloyd CO
Washington St
Boylston St
Summer St
Massachusetts. Ave
Cambridge
Eastern Star Fair
Colonial Chapter of the
Eastern Star
Guy H
Maynard
Cliff Avenue
Germany
Beatrice Liver
Winchester
Charles Kelly
Austin Newton
Charles G. Crash
Joseph W. Hannes
Rodney W.walehs
Mabel Craib
David A. McDonald
Sarah—Stocker
Esther Stover
Chile
Stub McGuff
Jean
Master McGuff
London Express
Little Willie
Willie
Chelsea Investment Co
Beacon Street
Winthrop M. Samuel
Tell
Bowdoin St
Serepnone Winthrop
Ralph P. Badger
Nelson St
I Lynn
Lynn
Louis Racca
Eclass Custom
Washington Ave
R. R
Central
Revere Sts
Mayee’s Corner
C. E. Hall & Sons
Beachmont
Tel
James A. Welsh
Sumner St. E
Triton Ave
Winthro
East
Stone
Shirley St
E. F. Rogers
Lewis
Point Shirley Cottage
Ocean
Tufts Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
School St
Endicott
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