Mayor Peters Best Man Bid Sparks Wedding Plans
Dr Grace Adams a self styled metaphysician living at 20 Isabella Street Sout End failed to secure an interview with Governor Cox and asked Mayor Peters secretary to arrange him as best man for her wedding at Faneuil Hall on April 19. She warned she would use influence to compel his attendance if refused.
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Grace Luella Adams
Isabella Street
Sout End
Peters
George Canty
Mayor Peters
Wedding Plans Shift to Paul Revere House in North End
Dr. Adams filed marriage intentions March 22 at City Hall with Elwin Leland Fisher of 34 Maple Street Newton. If Faneuil Hall cannot be obtained, the couple will wed at the Paul Revere House with Rev Izetta B Sears Hill officiating.
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Paul Revere
North End
Izetta
B. Sears-Hill
Adams
City Hall
Elwin Leland Fisher
Maple Street
Newton
Charlie Chaplin Again Linked to Young Actress
United News reports Charlie Chaplin practicing a quiet courtship with 17 year old May Collins, aiming for a new marriage. The article recalls his first wife Mildred Harris, also 17 at the time, whose split followed years of trouble. May declines to discuss the matter, calling it a personal affair.
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Los Angeles
United News
Charlie Chaplin
Pretty May Collins
Charlie
Mildred Harris
Chaplin
Miss Collins
Looter Busy in Belmont Breaks Eight Times in Three Weeks
Belmont house of Harold T Hall at 31 Pine Street robbed again. Thief took Liberty bonds worth 450 dollars and jewelry valued at 200 dollars while family away at 9 pm. Police found lawn tracks. Newton officers called due to similar patterns suggesting a single offender aware of occupant absences.
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Belmont
Harold T. Hall
Pine Street
Newton
Railroad Labor Plan Submitted by Five Unions
Five railroad labor unions with 500000 members submit to President Harding a plan to end disputes by convening a conference of both sides. They seek new rules for working conditions to replace the current national agreements under dispute before the railroad labor board. The proposal is sent through B M Jewell of the AFL and calls for wage disputes to be held in abeyance pending the conference.
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Chicago
Harding
Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employees’ Department
American Federation of Labor
Seven Bridgesport Brookyln and Detroit men on car theft ring
Testimony in Federal Court in Detroit details a conspiracy to steal seven high priced cars in Detroit and haul them by land to Eastern cities. Almon C. Basden, a participant who pleaded guilty and was jailed at Leavenworth, described taking cars from rail hubs and parking areas, using hired drivers to transport multiple vehicles each trip.
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Detroit
Bridgeport
Basden
Leavenworth
Accused Daughter Threatens Squeal Over Marriage
Rutland Vermont April 7 Made line Longe the first to publicly accuse her father Peter of the murder of Owen Hayes at Fair Haven on Oct 1 last threatened to reveal details unless he consented to her marriage to Louis Bishop the widower she had been involved with.
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Herbert L. Baldwin
Rutland
Madeline Longe
Peter
Owen Hayes
Fairhaven
Louis Bishop
Pershing warns against foreign influence in US unity
General Pershing spoke at two mass meetings in Philadelphia on April 7 during American Day exercises. He praised foreign born citizens for fighting under the flag in the Philippines Mexico and France while warning that foreign influences may threaten ties binding Americans together.
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Philadelphia
General Pershing
Philippines
Mexico
France
America
Taft Picked as Prober in El Case by Worcester Panel
Worcester lawyer George S. Taft was chosen by a special investigating committee as counsel to begin inquiries next week into the Fidel ity Loans case. Taft will probe what prompted the transactions and expose relevant factors. The selection was announced by Robert T. Brady.
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Prober
Worcester
George S. Taft
Middle District
Special Investigating Committee
Nantucket Buried in Oil After Gaelic Prince Stranding
An old whaling ghost returns as coconut oil washes ashore on Nantucket after the Gaelic Prince struck Great Round Shoal. Tons congealed on the beach while residents harvest pieces for soap and dispute ownership with local authorities.
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Great Round
Here
Nan~tucket
John Skillen
Marine Board of Tinderwriters
Seek Man for McCarthy's Job in Massachusetts
Washington April 7 Senator Lodge struggles to pick a successor to Prohibition Director McCarthy. The advertised criteria emphasize Republican affiliation, party service, strong law enforcement without fanatical zeal, and the moral fibre to resist graft temptations.
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Lodge
Prohibition
McCarthy
Massachusetts
Woman Dies at Work From Suspected Natural Causes
Idella Gilmore aged 55 of Watertown collapsed from a chair at 184 Boylston Street early last night. Dr James L Koch of 419 Boylston Street pronounced her dead and investigators believe natural causes were responsible for the death.
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Boylston Street
Idella Gilmore
Irving Street
Watertown
James L. Koch
Farmer A Victim Of Foul Play
In Rockland Maine on April 7 Dr G L Crockett Knox county medical examiner concluded the hanging of Joseph Koskinen a farmer and milk dealer from Patterson's Mills East Warren was a blind to cover a murderous assault. An autopsy by Crockett and three local physicians found death resulted from a sequence of blows to the head and face rather than hanging.
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Rockland
G. L. Crockett
Knox County
Joseph Koskinen
Patterson’s Mills
East Warren
Unclear staged death attempt ends with hanging farmer Koskinen
The text suggests an attempted staged death by Koskinen, intended to mislead investigators. The body was found hanging seven feet above ground on a limb, challenging the notion of self harm given Koskinen’s height of five feet seven inches and lack of suitable footing.
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Koskinen
Police Feels He Is Not the Real Slayer
Two hours of questioning by New York newspapermen failed to shake Roy Harris’s confession in the Elwell murder case. Harris repeated the tale of how he and William Dun can hired by a mysterious Mrs. Fairchild waited four hours at Elwell’s home and then killed Joseph B. Elwell last June in New York.
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N. Y
New York
Elwell
Roy Harris
Joseph B. Elwell
Harris
William Duncan
Fairchild
Unsettled Boston Forecast and New England Weather
Forecast for New England indicates unsettled weather Friday and Saturday with probable showers and gradually rising temperatures. A Texas disturbance moves northeast, bringing rain east of the Mississippi and over the Atlantic states, with fresh east and southeast winds from Sandy Hook to the mid-Atlantic.
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paMeyernteres
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New England
Texas
Mississippi River
Florida Peninsula
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North Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Unsettled Weather Expected Today and Tonight
Forecast calls for unsettled conditions today and tonight with a chance of south winds and a warmer trend. Regions may see variable skies and brief showers as mild air filters in.
Yesterday's Temperature Report from Thompson's Spa
Yesterday's temperature readings show a high of 98 and a low around 38. The record includes multiple hourly values and notes an average temperature of 41.3 for the day and 8.15.24 for the previous year.
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Thompson
Spa
Otis
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