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Alma's friend is only a small part of the article, but the rest of the article puts you right in the time it was written: the war talk, the reporters meeting the incoming ship, the Saltonstalls, and the Jewish refugees. A fine first scene for a movie.
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Liner Passengers Report Situation Tense in England
Steamship Laconia In From Liverpool Disembarks 74 At East Boston
Great Britain’s strenuous war preparations were the principal topic of conversation among 74 passengers who disembarked at East Boston yesterday from the Cunard liner Laconia, in from Liverpool, Belfast and Galway.
London is filled with troops in training and the gas mask is found in every home, according to Mrs. Donald W. Sherwen, the former Miss Kay Dobyns of Newton, wife of an Englishman. Mrs. Sherwen, who is observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home, would like someone to invent a gas mask more becoming to woman’s dress. She resides in Yorkshire.
Returning from an extended trip abroad were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Leverett Saltonstall. He is a cousin of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall. Mr. Saltonstall’s home is in La Jolla, Calif. He married the former Miss Paule Ponce de Leon of Oxford, Eng. She is a descendant of the famous Ponce de Leon who searched for the fountain of youth in Florida.
Mr. Saltonstall, a former resident of Dedham, will visit his mother, Mrs. Joel E. Goldthwait, at Marthas Vineyard. He is a writer. He said that England expects war any minute and the situation is tense, while in France the people seem calmer and pay no attention to war scares.
Attracting much attention wearing her native dress at the pier was Mrs. Fannie Thivy, of India, a lecturer at the Women’s Christian College, Madras. A skilled Botanist, she will study this Summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, where she will be the guest of Miss A. G. Stokey. She will enter the University of Michigan in the Fall.
A refugee from Germany is Walter Cohn, native of Hamburg, who disembarked with his wife. The couple were assisted by Miss Helen Alpert of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. They will become American citizens and make their home in Boston. Mr. Cohn is a merchant.
Others landing here were Frank Oliver, Mrs. Lucille and Miss Elizabeth Sargent, Salem; Mrs. Clara Howe, Cambridge, John Kelly, Winthrop; Miss Helen Kimball, formerly of Newton, who is on her way to Hawaii; Miss Mary Cannon, Brookline, and Edith Wykes, Cawnpore, India, who will visit Bradford Edmands, Newton.
The Laconia, Capt. C. G. Illingworth, left yesterday afternoon for New York with more than 200 passengers.
Steamship Laconia In From Liverpool Disembarks 74 At East Boston
Great Britain’s strenuous war preparations were the principal topic of conversation among 74 passengers who disembarked at East Boston yesterday from the Cunard liner Laconia, in from Liverpool, Belfast and Galway.
London is filled with troops in training and the gas mask is found in every home, according to Mrs. Donald W. Sherwen, the former Miss Kay Dobyns of Newton, wife of an Englishman. Mrs. Sherwen, who is observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home, would like someone to invent a gas mask more becoming to woman’s dress. She resides in Yorkshire.
Returning from an extended trip abroad were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Leverett Saltonstall. He is a cousin of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall. Mr. Saltonstall’s home is in La Jolla, Calif. He married the former Miss Paule Ponce de Leon of Oxford, Eng. She is a descendant of the famous Ponce de Leon who searched for the fountain of youth in Florida.
Mr. Saltonstall, a former resident of Dedham, will visit his mother, Mrs. Joel E. Goldthwait, at Marthas Vineyard. He is a writer. He said that England expects war any minute and the situation is tense, while in France the people seem calmer and pay no attention to war scares.
Attracting much attention wearing her native dress at the pier was Mrs. Fannie Thivy, of India, a lecturer at the Women’s Christian College, Madras. A skilled Botanist, she will study this Summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, where she will be the guest of Miss A. G. Stokey. She will enter the University of Michigan in the Fall.
A refugee from Germany is Walter Cohn, native of Hamburg, who disembarked with his wife. The couple were assisted by Miss Helen Alpert of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. They will become American citizens and make their home in Boston. Mr. Cohn is a merchant.
Others landing here were Frank Oliver, Mrs. Lucille and Miss Elizabeth Sargent, Salem; Mrs. Clara Howe, Cambridge, John Kelly, Winthrop; Miss Helen Kimball, formerly of Newton, who is on her way to Hawaii; Miss Mary Cannon, Brookline, and Edith Wykes, Cawnpore, India, who will visit Bradford Edmands, Newton.
The Laconia, Capt. C. G. Illingworth, left yesterday afternoon for New York with more than 200 passengers.
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London is filled with troops in training and the gas mask is found in every home, according to Mrs. Donald W. Sherwen, the former Miss Kay Dobyns of Newton, wife of an Englishman. Mrs. Sherwen, who is observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home, would like someone to invent a gas mask more becoming to woman’s dress. She resides in Yorkshire.
I found that Donald and Kay Sherwen were married on June 16, 1938, but that's pretty much all I found. I keep thinking that "observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home" is an odd phrase. Maybe Donald expected to be sent overseas, and wanted his wife to be safe? And as for the business of inventing prettier gas masks, oh dear, that was unnecessary.
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Returning from an extended trip abroad were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Leverett Saltonstall. He is a cousin of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall.
Leverett Saltonstall 1892-1979 served as governor of Massachusetts from 1939 to 1945. He later became a US Senator. I couldn't find how Philip Leverett Saltonstall was related to him. I did find a couple of Philip Leverett Saltonstalls, but the marriage details didn't fit.
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Attracting much attention wearing her native dress at the pier was Mrs. Fannie Thivy, of India, a lecturer at the Women’s Christian College, Madras. A skilled Botanist, she will study this Summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, where she will be the guest of Miss A. G. Stokey. She will enter the University of Michigan in the Fall.
This was not Mrs. Thivy's only visit to Woods Hole. I've put her in the Non-Family Woods Hole folks page.
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A refugee from Germany is Walter Cohn, native of Hamburg, who disembarked with his wife. The couple were assisted by Miss Helen Alpert of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. They will become American citizens and make their home in Boston. Mr. Cohn is a merchant.
I couldn't find anything on Walter Cohn. Drat. But the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society still exists.
London is filled with troops in training and the gas mask is found in every home, according to Mrs. Donald W. Sherwen, the former Miss Kay Dobyns of Newton, wife of an Englishman. Mrs. Sherwen, who is observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home, would like someone to invent a gas mask more becoming to woman’s dress. She resides in Yorkshire.
I found that Donald and Kay Sherwen were married on June 16, 1938, but that's pretty much all I found. I keep thinking that "observing her first wedding anniversary with a trip home" is an odd phrase. Maybe Donald expected to be sent overseas, and wanted his wife to be safe? And as for the business of inventing prettier gas masks, oh dear, that was unnecessary.
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Returning from an extended trip abroad were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Leverett Saltonstall. He is a cousin of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall.
Leverett Saltonstall 1892-1979 served as governor of Massachusetts from 1939 to 1945. He later became a US Senator. I couldn't find how Philip Leverett Saltonstall was related to him. I did find a couple of Philip Leverett Saltonstalls, but the marriage details didn't fit.
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Attracting much attention wearing her native dress at the pier was Mrs. Fannie Thivy, of India, a lecturer at the Women’s Christian College, Madras. A skilled Botanist, she will study this Summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, where she will be the guest of Miss A. G. Stokey. She will enter the University of Michigan in the Fall.
This was not Mrs. Thivy's only visit to Woods Hole. I've put her in the Non-Family Woods Hole folks page.
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A refugee from Germany is Walter Cohn, native of Hamburg, who disembarked with his wife. The couple were assisted by Miss Helen Alpert of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. They will become American citizens and make their home in Boston. Mr. Cohn is a merchant.
I couldn't find anything on Walter Cohn. Drat. But the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society still exists.
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