City mulls prisoners' work options on Deer Island
Boston city officials on a tour of Governor's, Deer and Spectacle Islands considered using Deer Island inmates for making fire and police uniforms and farm labor, and for a municipal quarry at Squantum. Proposals aim to employ about 1500 prisoners and boost island improvements while planning Governor's Island harbor park for summer visitors.
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Deer Island
Squantum
Governor's
Deer and
Spectacle Islands
Freds. Gore
Dennis PD. Driscoll
Cronin
Gore
Squantum Head
Governor’s Island
Attridge, Ballantyne
Kenny
Hale
McDonald
John F. Dever
Mayor Attacks Courthouse as Unfit for Pigs in South Boston
South Boston's district courthouse was called vile enough for pigs by Mayor Fitzgerald after a courthouse visit prompted by Judge Fallon. He urged the City Council to act quickly on the proposed appropriation for a new police station and courthouse in the area.
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South
Boston
Fitzgerald
Fallon
Divorcee Weds Boston Fireman In Secret Dover Ceremony
Mildred Barutio Tracey, formerly married to Capt. James J. Tracey U.S.N., secretly wed Walter H. Green, driver of Engine 8 in Boston, in Dover New Hampshire after a Catholic church dispensation was denied. The ceremony occurred Thursday afternoon with witnesses present and was confirmed by Green at the Salem Street fire station.
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Boston Fire Department
Mildred Barutio Tracey
Capt
James. K. Tracey
Portsmouth
N. H
James J. Tracey
M.C
Walter H. Green
Boseman
Dover
Mr. Green
Salem Street
Green
M. J. White
Annie Reed
Quimby
James K. Tracy
R. H. White Co Workers Dance at Spring Shirt Waist Party
The R H White Mutual Benefit Association held a successful spring themed dance at Hort icultural Hall with 16 dances plus extras. Floor director Henry J Driscoll led a large staff of helpers and vocal solos were performed by several listed singers.
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R. H. White Mutual Benefit Association
Horticultural Hall
Henry J. Driscoll
Joseph Doyle
Franklin Magee
Rose Murray
Alice Liston
Lucie Moran
Anna Tarpy
Miss J. Griffin
Helen Wells
W. Higgins
J. Anthony
F. Simpson
Bernard Kershaw
William 5. O'Keefe
John Cartwright
William H. Russell
Benjamin Alberts
Harry Davis
Jacob Neitlicle
William Cahill
Philip Nixon
John Hewitt
Charles Jennings
Thomas Madden
John Dempsey
Mr. McCarty
Sol Abbott
Mr. Horne
Arthur Shannon
Edward McCarty
Frank C. Deering
William Jones
Red Cross Chinese Famine Fund Receipts Total $1528.50
Gardiner M. Lane reports Massachusetts Red Cross branch receipts for the Chinese Famine Fund totaling 1528.50 including contributions from B Preston Clark Mrs Arthur Little and others. The list names dozens of donors from Dorchester Yarmouth Cambridge and Gracffs Lutheran Church Stoyestown with a final total of 1528.50.
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Gardiner M. Lane
State Street
Massachusetts
American Red Cross
B. Preston Clark
Arthur Little
Dorchester
M P
Kenneth Lincoln
Yarmouth
C. E. Society
Toktic
BE. S. G
John M. Gourgas
Harriet H. George
Percy Chasse
G. L
Dependence S. Waterman
Walter B. Waterman
Cambridge
Charles Kettle
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C. KE. Society of Gracffs Lutheran Church
Stoyestown
Penn
J. M. Knight
Melrose Population Rises by 806 in Year
Figures from Melrose assistant assessors show a total population of 16 118, up 806 from last year and 883 above the government figure counted last April.
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Melrose
Chamber to discuss Aldrich plan and local constitutional amendment
A special Chamber of Commerce meeting next Wednesday at the American House will cover the National Monetary Commission's Aldrich plan for a Reserve Association, the proposed state constitutional amendment on excess condemnation, and a Boston & Western railway charter. Committees urge endorsement of the plan's general provisions, support the amendment to permit a city highway above the railroad tunnel, and back a charter for the Boston & Eastern railway given local expenditures and engineering promises.
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National Monetary Commission
Reserve Association
Aldrich
Boston & Wastern Railway
Chamber of Commerce
American House
Chamber
Committee On Banking and Currency
Public Utilities Committee
Boston & Eastern Railway
Earle and Julia Kuttner Divorce in New York Supreme Court
Justice Newburger signed the final judgment annulling the marriage of Julia Kuttner and artist Ferdinand Pinney Earle in New York on April 28. Kuttner was Earle's second wife, following his first marriage.
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New York
Dorchester Groups Unite Against Park Street Garbage Plant
Dorchester citizens led by M. T. Thurber residents of Savin Hill Yacht Club and local Improvement Associations renew opposition to a proposed garbage receiving station at Park street. They cite past defeats under Mayor Collins and plan to press city officials with protest resolutions and renewed efforts.
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Savin Hill Beach
Dorchester
Park Street
M. T. Thurber
Savin Hill Improvement Association
Dorchester Yacht Club
Savin Hill
Thurber
United Improvement Societies
Collins
First Unattached Co Vets Hold Reunion
Thirty seven survivors of the First Unattached Company of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry reunite at the Revere House on April 28 1864 enlistment anniversary. Hosts drummer boys Charles T Gallagher and Samuel H Proctor recall early service with a facsimile speech and a veteran photograph.
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Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Lincoln Guards
Boston
Revere House
Charles T. Gallagher
Samuel H. Proctor
Ayer
Gallagher
No Evidence of Lowell Graft Clears City Officials
A Middlesex grand jury told Judge Fred Lawton there was no evidence of graft in Lowell city government as charged at a Lowell City Council meeting. The panel censured those who made the accusations and urged condemnation of the remarks.
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Middlesex
Fred Lawton
Superior Criminal Court
East Cambridge
Lowell
Grand Jury
Bernard Tracy
City Messenger
Thomas Donahue
Lawton
Benefit Dance for Letter Carrier's Widow
Letter carriers and clerks from the South Boston Postal Station with Pere Marquette Council K of C members plan a testimonial concert and dance on May 4 at Bethesda Hall. Proceeds aid Mrs Geary and her five children after carrier Joseph F Geary’s recent long illness and six years of service. Several artists have volunteered to perform.
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South Boston
Pere Marquette Council
K. of C
Joseph F. Geary
Bethesda Hall
Geary
Arbor Day Observed with Tree Planting Across Fitzgerald
On Arbor Day Mayor Fitzgerald will plant a tree on the Common and help plant four more at Paul Revere school in the North End. Governor Foss issues a second Arbor Day proclamation urging schoolchildren to plant saplings and seeds to aid forestry and combat pests like the gypsy moth, stressing individual owner involvement.
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United States
Fitzgerald
Paul Revere
Foss
13 Year-Old George Zaczouc Missing From Allston Brighton
The 13 year old George Zaczouc of 67 Franklin street Allston has been missing since Saturday after a disciplinary incident. He attended Thomas Yardner School in Brighton and speaks Arabic and English. He wore a gray knee breeches suit black shoes stockings and a blue cap at the time of disappearance. Relatives have been unable to locate him.
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George .Zaczouc
Franklin Street
Allston
Thomas Yardner
Brighton
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