SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Edwin C. Swift of Boston, is 
expected at ‘‘Swiftmoor,’’ Pride’s 
Crossing, tomorrow for a ten days’ 
sojourn. ‘‘Swiftmoor’’ has been 
closed the past season, as Mrs. Swift 
summered abroad. 
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The Guy Normans have closed 
their Beverly Cove cottage for the 
season and moved to Newport. The 
Bryce Allans will not move in town 
until December 1. Mrs. Norman and 
Mrs. Allan are sisters. 
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With gifts from Unitarians on the 
Pacific coast and from many other 
States interest in the seventh bi- 
ennial fair of the Young People’s 
Religious Union of Boston, is wide- 
spread. Hon. Louis A. Frothingham 
is one of the patrons, together with 
Mrs. Roger Wolcott, Dr. and Mrs. 
Charles W. Eliot, Miss Alice Long- 
fellow, Miss Emma C. Low, national 
president of the Women’s Alliance ; 
Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. Robert D. 
Evans and many others who appre- 
ciate what this organization stands 
for. The fair was held at Hotel Ven- 
dome, Boston, yesterday and will 
continue through today and tomor- 
row. Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw is 
honorary president of the committee 
in charge of the fair. 
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Numbered among the departures 
from Manchester the past week 
were the Clay Arthur Pierces of St. 
Louis; the G. H. Washburns and A. 
J.- Crolls of Boston—from West 
Manchester, Mrs. Edward S. Grew of 
Boston. 
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Mrs. Maria Louise Brackett, wife 
of Walter M. Brackett, the venerable 
Boston artist, died suddenly at their 
studio home at 154 Boylston street, 
Boston, on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. 
Brackett, before her marriage to the 
artist, was Miss Maria Louise Lor- 
ing, the daughter of the late Caleb 
A. Loring. Her marriage to Mr. 
Brackett took place in Boston on 
January 15, 1850. He is now in his 
eighty-ninth year and _ is Boston’s 
oldest living artist. He continues 
vigorous and active in his profession. 
The Loring families of the Pride’s 
colony are relatives of the deceased. 
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Two distinguished members of the 
Lower House at Washington, with 
prominent North Shore affiliations, 
Augustus P. Gardner, who saw the 
light of day forty-six years ago, and 
Nicholas Longworth, who lagged be- 
hind in the race four years, cele- 
brated the anniversary of their birth 
on Monday. 
RMORED automobiles are expected to play important parts in the hos- 
tilities between Italy and Turkey. 
experimenting with autos as a means of quickly moving smal] bodies 
of troops and also for the mounting of light artillery. Machine guns 
mounted on autos can be transported fifty miles as quickly as horses could 
drag them a third or a fourth that djstance. 
armored automobiles belonging to the war departments of the two countries. 
inister of war and his staff are shown, 
while the upper picture shows Chevket Pasha, the Turkish minister of war, 
The portrait is that of Chevket Pasha. 
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In the lower photograph the Italian m 
seated in an armored auto. 
Beverly has published her annual 
list of the heaviest tax payers. In 
ward four: Mrs. R. D. Evans swells 
the amount by a payment of 
$76,057.12; in ward six: Quincy A. 
Shaw, trustee, $28,824 and Frederick 
Ayer, $17,032.25. Of non-residents, 
Henry C. Frick contributes $8,685, 
Armored Automobiles Will Play 
Big Part In Turko-Italian War. 
Photos by American Press Association. 
Every European nation has been 
The pictures above show 
Miss Mildred Bond, one of the 
daughters of Mrs. Charles H. Bond 
of Commonwealth avenue, Boston 
and Swampscott, sailed from New 
York on Saturday for Europe. Mrs. 
Bond and Miss Edith L. Bond ae- 
companied her to New York to see 
her started on her journey. 
