Optimistic Tone Over Rail Strike Settlement Prospects
Chairman Hooper after a White House conference heads to meet the general policy committee of the striking shopcraft unions while Secretary Hoover attends a New York executives meeting. Officials expect unions to accept the proposed settlement though seniority rights remain a sticking point. Some rail executives fear restoring strikers would dismiss many proven workers and disrupt promotions.
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Hoover
New York
Harry Boland Shot in Fight in Skerries
Harry Boland, once Dail Eireann representative in the United States, was shot in the abdomen during an attempted arrest by National Army troops at the Grand Hotel in Skerries near Dublin. His companion was arrested as crowds gathered and the hotel filled with visitors. National Army forces also captured 150 Republican insurgents on the West Meath Cavan border, with leader Harry Killeavey implicated in an order to shoot uniformed men on sight.
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Belfast
Associated Pross
Harry Boland
Dail Eireann
United States
de Valeras
Wurlin Hospital
Dublin
National Army
Boland
Grand Hotel
Itn Skerries
National Ain
West Meath
Cavan
Harry Killeavey
Dundalk
Famous Detective to Take Bride Today
Harry J. Murray assistant superintendent of the Pinkerton Agency will marry Miss Josephine W. Hill superintendent of nurses at the Haverhill Sanatorium in St James Church Haverhill. The Rev Fr O Toole will officiate and they will honeymoon in Cuba Jamaica and Panama. Murray is a famed detective who helped capture many felons. Miss Hill is daughter of J Lester Hill of 104 Highland avenue Somerville.
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Harry J. Murray
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Josephine W. Hill
Haverhill
St. James Church
Thomage O'Toole
Cuba
Jamaica
Panama
Mr. Murray
Bertram G. Spencer
Springfield
Miss Hill
J. Lester Hill
Highland Avenue
Somerville
Boston
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Wool Duties Adopted in Senate Tariff Debate
Washington July 81 Consideration of the wool schedule, a major issue in the tariff bill, was completed by the Senate with approval of finances committee imposts for blankets, wearing apparel and floor coverings. Silk schedule taken up with expected committee amendments. Senator Lodge affirmed the bill would be passed and placed on the statute books. Quorum difficulties persisted as absentees were urged to attend. Smoot warned of effects on American wool goods and London fashion, noting various duty rates for clothing and woolen wear and related articles.
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Washington
Senate
Finances Committee
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Apa
London
Five Unhurt After Car Upset Near Kingston
A Ford touring car carrying four adults and a small boy slid off Summer Street known as Stony Brook Hill, rolled 19 feet, then tumbled down a 70 foot drop onto a swamp. All occupants escaped injury and the car was later repaired and sent back to Cambridge.
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Kingston
Summer Street
Stony Brook Hill
Cambridge
Florida
Plymouth
Duxbury
Hant
Little Kéllow
Rapids Prince Rescues Passengers From Treacherous Rapids
In Montreat on July 31 a modern sea sled powered by 300 horses, aided by native labor from the Caughnawaga reservation, freed several hundred passengers marooned since last night. The Rapids Prince rests on a rock ledge with minimal sinking risk, and 400 marooned are expected to be rescued by morning per J W Norcross of Canadian Steamship Lines.
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Canadian Steamship Lines
Seek Other Suspect in Salem Case
Police checked Tony Costello’s movements the day Henry P. McMahon was murdered in the Great Pastures case and trailed another suspect they believe could be an accomplice of the Spanish expressman.
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Salem
Tony Costello
Henry P. McMahon
Man Arrest Linked To Highland Ave Boy Murder
Police held Costello on a statutory charge as the crowd eyed his arraignment in Salem court. Witness Nellie Bean identified him as emerging from bushes near the death scene, while pathologists test if blood stains appear on clothing. Bedrosian, Costello’s Armenian companion, cried in court amid murder charges and potential prison for indecent assault.
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Nissine
McMahon
Highland Avenue
Costello
Nellie K. Bean
Ash Street
Salem
Howard Donnell
Sears
Ixirkor Bedrosian
Lynn Armenian
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Hooper
Railroad Labor Board
Harding
Hinaga
Diane TT
Chae Eae Ai Ein Eds
Hanane el de A
White House Coffee
White House
de Valera
Madison
Simmons
Simmons Springs
Gene Uine Simmons
Amanda Hendrickson
Westwood
Tilda
Ford
Trail Man
Pelletier
Boston Street
William F. Boos
Harvard Medical School
Chuck Roast
Dora-Co
Vermont
Tub
Arthur ‘E. Dorchester
DORR
Quincy
Paine
Paine’s
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