Democratic Leaders Plan Washington Visit to Aid Massachusetts
Chairman Thomas P. Riley of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee travels to Washington to press for federal patronage distribution and to secure national speakers for John Mitchell’s Congressional bid in the thirteenth district. He will meet President Wilson to discuss tariff policy and the governor’s race while advocating party recognition and unity.
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Thomas P. Riley
Democratic State Committee
Washington
Wilson
John Mitchell
Congress
Judge Riley
Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Riley
Foss
Boston
Quincy
John W. Coughlin
Tom
State Committee
Walsh
Democratic Party
Mitchell Campaign Sees Victory In 13th District
Rallys in Franklin Plainville Wrentham and Norfolk tonight back John J. Mitchell amid claims of district support. Daley asserts voters from all parties back Mitchell to align with the majority party and serve the district, critiquing White and Weeks while highlighting experience and the shoe industry.
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Poindexter
Gifford Pinchot
John J. Mitchell
Franklin
Plainville
Wrentham
Norfolk
Daniel J. Daley
Mitchell
Washington
White
John Mitchell
Douglas
Weeks
Russian teen girl arrested after infant death near Fitchburg lodging
A 17 year old Russian girl, Mary Martin alias Josephine Jualanos, was arrested by Fitchburg and Lawrence inspectors after a laundry check tied to a dead infant found in a lodging house run by Mrs. Jennie Williams at 339 Main Street. She was taken to Burbank Hospital for treatment. Her parents in Lawrence had searched for seven months.
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Fitchburg
Jennie Williams
Main Street
Mary Martin
Josephine Jualanos
Lawrence
Thomas J. Godley
Inspector Godley
Blossom Street
Ilitchburg
Burbank Hospital
Explosion at Boston Elevated power house injures none
Crossed wires caused an explosion late last night at the Boston Elevated power house 66 Middlesex street Maldon. The interior of the building was seriously damaged and car traffic was tied up temporarily. Power was restored from the main station in Boston after about thirty minutes. No workmen in the building at the time were injured.
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Boston
Middlesex Street
Malden
Man Drowns After Jump From West Boston Bridge
A well dressed man, standing on the rail on the Cambridge side of the West Boston bridge, jumped into the Charles River Basin and drowned around 8 25 p m last night. A motorman on an inbound Brighton trolley witnessed the act from about 200 feet away near the Cambridge side.
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West Boston
Cambridge
Charles River
Brighton
Methodist Conference Opens April 8 In City Church
The New England annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will begin this week at the People's Temple corner of Columbus Avenue and Berkeley Street. Bishop John W. Hamilton will preside over an extensive programme.
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New England
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
People’s Temple
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
John W. Hamilton
Conference Opens With Epworth League Anniversary
The meeting runs seven days from Tuesday evening through Monday night with noted New England and national divines in attendance. The schedule includes a Wednesday morning conference organization, a 2 p.m. sermon by Rev Alfred A Wright, and the Board of Home Missions anniversary in the evening. Numerous devotions, sermons, ordinations, and society anniversaries fill the days, ending with a Monday morning business session.
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Epworth League
New England
Alfred A. Wright
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension Societies
W. F. Sheridan
People’s Temple Choir
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension Society
W. R. Newhall
D. D
Ward Platt
Philadelphia
Bishop Hamilton
W. A. Wood
J. Wing
N. T. Whittaker
Daniel W. Howell
General Conference
City Evangelization
Methodist Federation For Social Service
Methodist Brotherhood
EK. T. Curnick
Robert Moore
Brooklyn
People’s Temple Quartet
First Presbyterian Church
Frank D. Howard
FE. C. Clemans
Chicago
Warren W. Adams
Educational Society
L. Ws. Bughee
Thomas Nicholson
M. S. Seelety
H. J. Winston
Clara Pearl Dyer
O. H. Durrell
Benjamin
Haywood
Norman FE
Richardson
Edgar Blake
Conference Board of Foreign Missions
Francis D. Luce
Earl Taylor
Women to join Austria's army in support roles
Vienna notices Austria-Hungary will enroll women into the fighting force but assign them to administrative and auxiliary tasks such as sanitation, storekeeping, telegraphy and hospital work, replacing men in these duties.
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Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Protest Over Tariff Change On Fish Reaches Gloucester
April 6. News that President Wilson would remove the tariff on green fish and cut duties on skinned and boned fish by more than half alarmed Gloucester fish merchants. A protest is under way and a delegation of master mariners and fish dealers will travel to Washington.
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Gloucester
Wilson
Washington
Tariff changes debated by Gloucester fish dealers
Local dealers split on the proposed tariff cut. Fred L. Davis warns free fish would harm shipbuilding trades and Western trade, risking vessel use and higher consumer costs. Colonel Charles Wonson favors free or green fish, arguing no worsening effect and a preference for more fish availability.
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Gloucester
Atlantic
Fred TL. Davis
Davis Brothers
Nova Scotia
Blaze Destroys Seven Autos and Damages Stanhope Street Building
A five story brick building housing the O' Lalor Automobile Company on 62 to 68 Stanhope Street burned yesterday morning. The blaze destroyed seven automobiles and caused about 10 000 dollars in losses. Smoke reached the Back Bay Hotel, prompting guests to flee. Two men slept inside but escaped.
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Stanhope Street
O' Lalor Automobile Company
Back Bay
Honest burglar takes two dollars in Detroit
A thief called an honest burglar took $2 from H D Castle in Detroit. Mrs Castle found $18 in a jewel case reduced to $16 with a note reading Thanks lady I was hungry so I took J D. The incident was reported to police yesterday.
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Detroit
H. D. Castle
Swift Defends Militant Suffragettes as Emancipation War
Morrison I. Swift told the Humanist Forum in Franklin Union that militant suffragettes justify their tactics as a revolutionary act to free women from oppression. He urged men to pause before condemning the women’s violent methods in their fight for emancipation.
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England
Morrison I. Swift
Humanist Forum
Franklin Union
Women Move to Dismantle Male Rule in Social Turmoil
A polemical piece argues that women revolt against male dominance as men fail to reform a degraded world. It condemns industrial inequality, calls suffragists in England justified, and urges American workers to challenge capitalists to avoid civil war. The author frames class revolt as inevitable if the rich cling to privilege.
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United States
England
Massachusetts
Rosnow Denies Germ Discovery in Rheumatism Research
Dr Edward C Rosnow of Rush Medical College deplored publicity over his work on the rheumatism germ saying he is not the discoverer of the germ theory nor prepared to claim germ isolation He asserted the germ theory has been known for a decade and his work merely confirms its correctness.
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Chicago
Edward C. Rosnow
Rush Medical College
New Crew of Men for Hopedale
Workmen from Providence arrive Tuesday to begin work at Draper shops in Hopedale Milford. They will be quartered at the Park House, an unused boarding house. The building can house about 200 people as furniture from Boston arrives.
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Milford
Providence
Draper Shops
Park House
Boston
Striker Parade Ties Up Town as Draper Firm Refuses to Yield
About eight men arrange furniture and prepare for strike-breakers as the Draper company insists new workers will be permanent Americans, not strike-breakers. Over 800 strikers and sympathizers parade past the Draper monument led by Joseph M. Coldwell, with placards urging neighbors not to scab. The company awaits a reply to the arbitration board offer while organizers Wyman and Natilie of Boston address locals. A monster parade is planned with police expecting little trouble.
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Draper Company
Draper Monument
Joseph M. Coldwell
Papa
White Man
Coldwell
Charles River Driving Park
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
Wyman
Natilie
Boston
Metropolitan Park Police to Aid Hope Dale Detail
Twenty three members of the Metropolitan Park police will depart South station at 10 30 this morning for Hope dale. The contingent includes officers from several stations most from Revere Beach. W B de Las Casas said authorities at Hope dale requested the detail and, with the Governor's authority, they are being sent.
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Metropolitan Park Police
Hopedale
Metropolitan Police
Revere Beach
W. B. de Las Casas
Metropolitan Park Commission
Kansas Women Elect a Mayor in Kansas City Kan
Kansas City Kan voters tipped the balance with about 9000 women voters. Of them 490 backed C. W. Green who won the mayoralty, while Ex Mayor James E. Porter would have retained the office if men alone decided. Women backed most other office candidates and one woman on the ballot drew nearly all the votes from female electors.
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Teresa Crowley
Senate
Kansas City
Kan
James E. Porter
Cigar Store Gang Robs Yonk ers Outlet
Three men thought to be from the same gang that hit New York stores entered the Yonk ers United Cigar Stores shop, bound and gagged the clerk, and escaped with about 3850 in Saturday receipts.
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Yonkers, N. Y
United Cigar Stores Company
New York City
Pharmacy Degrees in Question Stir Senate Debate
A bill before the Senate questions the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy charter granted in 1852 and whether the college may confer degrees under its current charter. The college has long awarded Graduate in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemist, and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees, with hundreds of druggists nationwide receiving them.
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Senate
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
College and charter debate over degree conferral rights
Dean Theodore J. Bradley says the 182 charter already allowed diplomas to stand as degrees and that the college has conferred degrees for 40 years without challenge. He notes lawyers agree, and a bill seeks charter wording alignment with current size and plans for new buildings.
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Theodore J. Bradley
Dean Bradley
Bradley
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Frederick P. Fish
Brookline
Fish
Fathers Death Fatal to Son in Webster
James L. Lynch, 30, City Hotel proprietor, dropped dead of heart failure today after his brother Michael told him their father Michael Lynch, 78, had died yesterday. Lynch had suffered a long nervous breakdown. both men are to be buried after funeral services at St Louis Church Tuesday morning.
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The
Eagles and Elks
St. Louis’ Church
Bomb Explosion Injures Three in Bridgeport
Three persons were injured in a bomb blast at the doorway of Jacob Kelinberger a Water street clothier in Bridgeport Conn on April 6 One victim may be fatally hurt and several nearby stores suffered partial wreckage with broken windows within a block of the incident.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Jacob Kelinberger
Water Street
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