Home Improvement Conference Draws Massachusetts Club Women
Representative club women from across the state gather at Mechanics Building for a two day Home Beautiful Exposition linked event. Mrs George Minot Baker chairs the federation meeting with speakers Mrs Harriet Emmons Miss Grace Horne and Royal Farnum outlining future home progress and country living benefits.
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Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs
Mechanics Building
Federation
George Minot Baker
Concord
Home Bureau
Eastern States’ League
James J. Storrow
Boston
Storrow
Chester I. Campbell
Baker
Grace Horne
Harriet Cole Emmons
Modern Princilla
Royal Farnum
Massachusetts Normal Art School
Frank Waugh
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Amherst
O. M. Camburn
State Department of Agriculture
Massachusetts
Gloria Caruso Heads to Italy to Train in Voice
Gloria Caruso aged two travels to Italy with her mother for six months each year to study singing. The mother hopes the sunny climate will develop her throat as it did her famous father, and predicts Gloria may become a great singer like him.
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Gloria Caruso
Italy
New York
United News
Gail
Gloria
Pearl White Near Death in Paris Plane Stunt
Pearl White, famed film star, escaped serious injury in a Casino de Paris air act when a Farman aircraft flew from the stage toward the audience. A heavy pulley weighing hundreds of pounds tore loose from the ceiling just as White stepped from the plane, crashing into the platform moments later.
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Paris
Pearl White
Casino de Paris
Farman
Miss White
Migs White
Builders Propose New Wage Scale and Accord
The Building Trades Employers' Association adopted a plan for a wage scale and working agreement to govern Boston area builders. The proposal, to be shared with the United Building Trades Council, aims to address the Bricklayers' Union No. 3 strike of one dollar per hour. A mass meeting at City Club was scheduled for contractors to discuss the situation, with details undisclosed.
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United Building Trades Council
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Boston City Club
Board of Counciillors
City Club
Greater
Boston
Bricklayers’ Union
Double Bill at the Arlington Theatre in Boston
A semi professional matinee at the Arlington features a double bill of We Girls and Virginia Steps In with Shirley Warde in the title role assisted by Warren Krech and Arthur Boyer. John Craig marks his first public appearance as dramatist. Prominent visitors include Leon Errol Marilynn Miller Eleanor Painter William Courtenay Charlotte Walker. We Girls ends Boston engagement Saturday evening limiting further viewings by Mary Young and Juliette Day.
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Arlington Theatre
We Girls
John Craig
Virginia
Shirley Warde
Warren Krech
Arthur Boyer
Mr. Craig
Leon Errol
Marilynn Miller
Eleanor Painter
William Courtenay
Charlotte Walker
Boston
We Girla
Mary Young
Juliette Day
The Golden Girl of Resins Sea Yarn by Williams
A Boston author Ben Ames Williams writes a standout whaling tale titled The Golden Girl of resins, highlighted in the Boston Sunny Post Magazine. The piece showcases Williams through vivid nautical narrative and strong sea lore.
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Williams
Boston
Ben Ames Williams
Golden Girl of
Sunny Post
Red Cross to Install Radiophone in Boston HQ
Boston Red Cross officials announce immediate equipment of headquarters with radiophone receivers to broadcast public health talks and first aid lectures. Transmitting gear to follow, enabling public alerts on fires floods storms or calamities via radio.
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Red Cross
Boston
Red Cross to Equip Ambulances with Radiophone Sets
Emergency receiving sets will be installed in district ambulances with expert radio operators and nurse supervision. The first Red Cross radiophone ambulance will debut at the Boston Radio Exposition in Mechanics Hall next week. Mrs. Ellen Reardon and Mrs. Susan Briggs will head the radiophone department and operate the ambulance gear at the exhibit. A new record long-distance broadcast of 2000 miles was set by Station WGY in Schenectady, while the Luckenbach steamship reported a concert program from seven degrees north of the equator south of Panama. Jersey City’s station WAAT has received a full license replacing its old 200 meter operation.
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Mechanics Hall
Ellen Reardon
Susan Briggs
Amrad
Medford Hillside
WGY
General Electric
Schenectady
Luckenbach
Panama
Pacific
Equator
Jersey City
Ladies' Aid menu suggestions ad from Baker Extract Co
Church Ladies' Aid seeks supper menu ideas by writing Baker Extract Company in Springfield Massachusetts for a new and novel cookbook folder. Ad suggests fundraising or promotional material tied to recipe ingredients and flavor ideas.
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Ladies' Aid
Baker Extract Company
Springfield
Mass
Catches Two Auto Thieves By Revolver On Arlington Streets
Patrolman Harold Pick, a new Arlington officer, halted a speeding car with a revolver after an initial interception on Massa chusetts avenue. The thieves, later identified by the station, were taken in custody as Pick kept them covered.
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Harold Pick
Arlington
Massachusetts Avenue
East Arlington
Arlington Centre
Lake Street
Pick
Arthur Eld
Two Men With Stolen Car Apprehended in East Boston
Police report two men riding a stolen car at 1290 Washington Street East Boston were captured after investigators traced the vehicle to Mrs. Henrietta Gipiosa of 4 Gladstone Street East Boston. The suspects and the machine were turned over to Boston police.
Dorchester Club Observes Club Day Afternoon
The Mothera and Homemakers' Club of the Dorchester School Centre will hold club day tomorrow afternoon in the Dorchester High assembly hall. Mrs. Robert A. Woods will discuss benefits of cooperation in Boston’s ongoing clean-up campaign, with James J. Freany chairing and the club's dramatic section performing.
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Mothera
Dorchester School
Dorchester High School
Robert A. Woods
Boston
James J. Freany
Fehlman Sees Woman's Intuition as Guesswork
F. M. Fehlman, president of the New York Advertising Club, told St. Louis business leaders that woman's intuition is guesswork and fails about half the time.
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ST. Louis
Fehlman
New York Advertising Club
Chamber of Commerce
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