Lowell knitters press for 10 percent wage rise
In Lowell on April 1 the Lawrence hosiery knitters voted to seek a 10 percent wage increase from Agent Nourse and join a sympathy strike if refused. About 100 knitters gathered, while 100 others in the hostelry did not join. The move follows pressure from other textile unions amid a looming shutdown as Merrimac and Hamilton print works prepare to close.
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Lowell
Lawrence
W. H. S. Hayes
Representative Hayes
Conroy
Textile Council
Merrimac
Hamilton
Lawrence Hosiery
Nourse
City Hall
Plan Big Demonstration Lowell April 1
Lowell braces for Patriots' Day demonstration as 20,000 workers strike though no mass action yet. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor expected to speak. tensions surge over hosiery layoffs and mill practices amid claims of mill agents seeking to spark a wider walkout.
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Lowell
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Lawrence Manufacturing Company
Textile Council
Lawrence Hosiery
Nourse
New Market
N. H
Post
Uncertainty in Lowell Mills Reflects on Local Business
Uncertainty over mill reopenings in Lowell affects minor businesses as idleness grows. Restaurant workers face layoffs and diners reduce spending. A Merrimac street dining room reports drop in daily receipts from 25 80 to 20, prompting owner to lay off staff and work himself. Continued on page 4-Sixth Column.
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Lowell
Merrimac Street
Count Zborowski Killed in European Hill Climb Crash
Nice, April 1 Count Elliot Zborowski American millionaire famed as an automobilist died in a hill climbing race between Nice and La Turbie when his car wrecked at a sharp curve. His chauffeur Baron de Pallange died later and another driver was mortally injured.
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Nice
Prance
Elliot Zworowski
Europe
Here
la Turble
Isis
Baron de Pallange
Count Zborowski
Zborowski Born Here
Count William Eliot Zborowski a native of Boston is related to the Eliot family of Des Moines Des Moines Iowa April 1 reports establish his lineage and ties to local figures in Des Moines.
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Zborowski
Des Moines
Wiliam Eliot Zborowski
Boston
Eliot
Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Forecast for Boston and vicinity: Thursday expected to be fair and warmer with light east to south winds. Friday likely to bring rain.
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Boston
Temperature Yesterday at Thompson's Spa
The thermometer at Thompson's Spa on Washington street registered a reading yesterday. The report notes the best tonic in the spring era but provides no precise temperature data.
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Thompson's Spa
Washington Street
Young Woman Badly Burned After Candle Accident
Jennie Donovan a young married woman of 184 Halleck street Roxbury was badly burned on hands and body when her clothes caught fire from a lighted candle while she was in the cellar getting wood. Dr Murphy sent her to the City Hospital.
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Jennie Donovan
Halleck Street
Roxbury
Harvard Receives 50000 for Ismerson Hall Gift
A donor pledged 50000 toward a new hall of philosophy at Harvard, named Ismerson Hall, with total projected cost around 150000. Sixty five thousand already raised and a further 16000 promised if all funds are secured by May 4, Kimer son’s birthday.
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Harvard
Ismerson
Kimerson
Barrington affidavit witness to testify on disappearances
Lawyer Jesse M. Gove will appear before the committee on elections to explain the missing Harry Brown affidavit and its track to SS Albans Vermont. The panel notes parts of the document are suspicious as they deny charges never made by Brown. Attorney-General Parker is also summoned to cross examine Minkell and Mullen.
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Harry 8S
Malloy
Harry Brown
Kiley
St. Albans
Harry 8
Harry Browne
W. D. Chandler
Jesse M. Gove
Republican City Committee
Committee On Elections Today
Brown
SS Albans
Nathan Parnett
Representative Riley
Parker
Minkell
Mullen
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Gompers
Pittsburg
Penn
Avril L
Roosevelt
Horseshoe Curve
Altoona
Allegheny Mountains
Loeb
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Seward
Reading
Baltimore
Focht
Union
Senate
Tam
Gamaliel
Washington
Republic
Elliot Zborowski
France
Father John
Barnett Deaclares
WWE
Minkle
Browns
Minkle and
Treate Hi
MR “Fairman
Hurlburt
Riley
MR. Barnett
State House
Norman
Minkles
Barnett
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