City official named as buyer of stock in 1918 probe
A Boston official prominent in 1918 politics is expected to be named by the investigating committee as having bought street railway stock with funds from Fidelity Trust connections. Former Senate president McKnight and Representative Lyman defend loans as business. Open hearings emphasized as the probe proceeds this week.
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Springfield
Frank FE. Lyman
Easthampton
Ways and Means Committee
President McKnight
Senate
Post
Fidelity Trust Company
House
McKnight
Lyman
Representative Lyman
Martin M. Lomasney
4 Tin Hays
Boston
Fuller
Executive Council
Lomasney
Frederic H. Chase
Concord
The
Superior Court
Sherman L. Whipple
Whipple
Cox
Chase
Boston Elevated Railway
Judge Chase
Daniel G. Wing
First National Bank
George IF. Willett
Norwood
Willett
Kidder, Peabody & Co
F. S. Mosely & Co
Robert F. Herrick
Messrs. Wing
Herrick
Kidder, Peabody
Elevated
Ward 5
Planty
Lective
Great Fire in Holden Destroys Wood Estate Buildings
A fire in Holden on April 3 swept 126 acres of woodland and destroyed the J. W. Wood estate buildings now owned by the Quinapoxet Woolen Company. The barn served as a storeroom for rags machinery and automobiles. Townspeople aided firefighters after the blaze began shortly after 9 am. Suspected arson by several local boys was noted as they fled the scene.
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Holden
Los
Motorman Faints Then Cars Crash in Chelsea Strike
A Beachmont-Everett streetcar colliding with a second car near Gerrish avenue and Broadway in Chelsea trapped a motorman who fainted. About 50 passengers struggled to escape the automatic doors as both trams carried injuries but no hospitalizations were reported.
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Beachmont-Everett
Gerrish Avenue
Broadway
Chelsea
Revere Beach
Boston
Car crash at Beachmont EveretT injures Perrio and Cronin
Walter Perrio operator of the Beachmont Everett car lies seriously injured after a crash half a block away Patrolman John O Neil arrives, frees panicked passengers Perrio revived then faints again and is taken home at 224 Mountain Ave Revere William Cronin another car operator suffers back injury but continues to Chelsea square and goes home 2 Park Street Revere Names of shaken passengers listed from Beachmont and Revere Beach cars including Mrs W E Miller Burt Staples J J Smith J Higgins Annie Simons Bert Harrison A Gordon.
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Walter Perrio
Beachmont
Chelsea Square
Park Street
Revere
W. E. Miller
Water Street
Everett
Burt Staples
Winnisimmet Street
Chelsea
J. J. Smith
Lynn Street
J. J. Higgins
Walnut Avenue
Annie Simons
Elm Street
Bert Harrison
Grape Street
Malden
A. Gordon
Arlington Street
Four Taunton men held on liquor law violations after highway chase
Bridgewater police chase Saturday night leads to arrests of Arthur Sirois and Tony Andrews both claiming Taunton addresses, and B V Mattos of Taunton for refusing to stop. Officers found a car with 10 gallon kegs and a hidden quart liquor container, while the car owner and hiree identities are traced to Taunton.
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Bridgewater
Arthur Sirois
Tony Andrews
Park Street
Monroe Street
Taunton
B. V. Mattos
County Street
James Moore
Moore
Mattos
Will Tweedy
Somerset Street
Lemuel F. Spellman
Ware Street
Evening meetings and events listed for today
At 4 30 p m City Mission Night at the Ford Building Boston Baptist Social Union. At 6 p m school committee meets. At 8 p m Irish Relief mass meeting at the Boston Opera House. At 8 p m Industrial Arts hall of Bos ton Women's Trade Union League Cop ley Plaza. At 8 p m Philomatheia Club annual Gentlemen's Night at Boston College.
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Boston Baptist Social Union
Ford Building
Boston Opera House
Industrial Arts
Boston
Women's Trade Union League
Copley Plaza
Philomatheia Club
Boston College
Methodism Needs Music Revival Says Bishop Hughes
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes urged a revival of congregational singing at the 125th New England conference in Springfield. He called Methodism a singing religion and warned against relying on choirs quartets or soloists for all singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Edwin H. Hughes
Revival through song and ordinations at Methodist conference
A Methodist gathering in New England urged revival in congregational singing pairing hymn books with the Bible. The bishop ordained Walter O. Terry and Karl E. Harper, conferred deacon and elder orders, and consecrated five women as deaconesses. Babies were baptized, and a pageant on the India mass movement was staged. The conference closes with appointment announcements. numerous resolutions were scheduled.
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New England
Hughes
Walter O. Terry
Warren
Karl E. Harper
Waltham
Lucile Iona Coffin
Marion Wolfe Hamilton
Jeanette Golden Hubbard
Boston
Edith Mae Quick
West Somerville
Viola Gertrude Williams
Needham Heights
Suzanna May Kernahan
A. FE. Kernahan
Dorchester Memorial Church
West Roxbury
Paul Chester Hoyt
H. C. Hoyt
Southbridge
Melville Ellsworth Osborn
New York
Getting Tabs on Young Harding
In Chicago agents found young Harding actively aiding Cousin Warren's candidacy. He posed as a government campaign manager and promised patronage on multiple occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Harding
Vention
Chicago
Harding
Warren
Gompers Nephew Samuel Gompers Kin Married
Louis Isaac of 8 and 8 King Street Dorchester and Flora Stepner of 31 Fay Street South End were married yesterday at the groom’s parents home. The ceremony joined the nephew of Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and his bride in a private family setting.
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Samuel Gompers
Louis Isaac
King Street
Dorchester
A&a
American Federation of Labor
Flora Stepner
Fay Street
South End
Wakefield Campaign Opens for Better Movies
The Parents Teachers Council launched a drive for better cinema in Wakefield with a sermon by Rev. Frederick 8. Boody of the Baptist Church on Clean Hearts and the Community Life.
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Wakefield
Parents Teachers' Council
Frederick 8
Boody
The
Baptist Church
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