Urge Mass Senators to Favor Child Labor Bill
Frederick W. Manafield, Democratic candidate for Governor, sent a telegram to Senators Lodge and Weeks urging support for the child labor bill in Washington. Martin T. Joyce of the Federation of Labor endorsed Mansfield for faithful service to organized labor.
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Frederick W. Manafield
Lodge
Weeks
Washington
Martin T. Joyce
Massachusetts
Emnch
Federation of Labor
Mansfield
Indoor Life Promotes Fat and the Oil of Kerein Solution
The notice urges people confined indoors to guard against overweight and promotes oil of kerein capsules as a safe inexpensive weight loss remedy. It claims lack of fresh air weakens blood and reduces vitality and suggests taking one capsule after each meal and before bed for a few days to shed 15 to 20 pounds, improve digestion, and regain energy.
Hold Up Freight Cars Plea Delayed by Hearing Adjournment
The Massachusetts Public Service Commission adjourned to allow 33 cities and towns to study the Bay State and Boston Elevated street railway plan for two car freight trains south of Boston. Bay State counsel urged a detailed brief. no new hearings will occur until the Bay State fare case concludes, expected around August 31.
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Boston
Massachusetts Public Service Commission
Robert Holt
The
Elevated
EI. L. Boutwell
Malden
Albert P. Worthen
Weymouth
Philip A. Hendrick
Arlington
Adjourment Follows City Counsel Point of Order
The adjournment followed a point of order raised by Lincoln Bryant Milton town counsel and sustained by Chairman Macleod of the commission. About 100 representatives from various cities and towns present admitted their communities would benefit by the added facilities proposed, though many were not certain.
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Lincoln Bryant
Milton
Macleod
Commission
Edward R. Kimball Dies After Long Illness
Edward R. Kimball of Ashland, senior member of R. Kimball & Co., longtime Boston Stock Exchange member since 1883, died yesterday at a private Framingham hospital after a long illness at age 67.
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Edward R. Kimball
Ashland
Boston Stock Exchange
Collision Injures Mrs Stanton Loring in Chestnut Hill
Mrs Stanton Loring of Crescent avenue Newton Centre was cut about the head by flying glass when her husband's car collided with a second auto driven by Milton Simpson of West Somerville at the Commonwealth avenue Hammond street junction Chestnut Hill yesterday afternoon.
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Stanton Loring
Crescent Avenue
Newton Centre
Milton Simpson
West Somerville
Commonwealth Avenue
Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill
Boston Post Office Revenues Rise Over Half Million
Postmaster Murray reported Boston postoffice fiscal year receipts totaling 8 785 118 89 dollars ending June 30 up 627 717 28 from last year. Parcel post served over a million items with 611 228 dispatched and 481 049 delivered in Boston, up 21 and 30 percent respectively. Money orders totaled 28 708 978 88, with increases in paid and issued orders. Essex street station led with 827 468 85, up 63 299 81, while Back Bay station reached 298 975 37, up 7 879 from last year.
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Justice Clarke Takes Oath of Office as Assistant Justice
John H. Clarke of Cleveland today took the oath as assistant justice of the U S Supreme Court in the presence of Chief Justice White and court officers. He will take his seat when the court reconvenes in October.
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Washington
John H. Clarke
Cleveland
Supreme Court of the United States
White
Miss Lillian B Treadwell Weds Arthur W Littlehale
Miss Lillian B Treadwell of 68 Ossi pee road West Somerville a longtime English and Latin teacher at Somerville High School married Arthur William Littlehale of 164 Hunnewell Street Needham Heights last evening.
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Lillian B. Treadwell
Ossipee Road
West Somerville
Somerville High School
Arthur William Littlehale
Hunnewell Street
Needham Heights
Day Camp for Girls Promoted by Mrs Storrow at Lincoln
The Lincoln day-time girls camp started its second week with about 20 participants. Girls and grown-ups study and work from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Forest Lake hill in tents, learning from first aid to woodcraft while cooking and living from their own labor. Mrs. Storrow envisions wider adoption of day camps to give affordable outdoor training to girls and even grown-ups, stressing simple food knowledge and appreciation of simple things.
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Lincoln
James J. Storrow
Forest Lake
Car Tie-Up Delays Broadway Commute in Somerville
A long line of cars stretched along Broadway Somerville last evening blocking the road and forcing hundreds of passengers to walk to Sullivan Square terminal crowded with homebound travelers. An articulated car halted near Mt Vernon street and only an Elevated Inspector could restart it. Hank is separated from animal friends over a one piece bathing suit.
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Somerville
Sullivan Square
Mt. Vernon Street
Hank
Next Sunday Post
Funeral for Drowned Cambridge Boy William Evans
Funeral services for William Evans 11 of 267 Concord Avenue Cambridge will be held tomorrow at 9 at St Peter's Church where he had served as an altar boy He drowned yesterday while swimming in the Charles River at Gerry's Landing
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William Evans
Concord Avenue
Cambridge
Charles River
Gerry’s Landing
St. Peter’s Church
Whiskers Again Popular in Style Comeback
Historians note whiskers are returning to fashion as Christmas neckties inspire new trends. A chic fur crop will conceal even the most vicious knot a loving relative might gift.
History Tells of Whiskered Times and Wartime Styles
Historians link waxing and waning facial hair to eras of conflict. From 1845 to 1859 America mocked whiskers before the Civil War sparked a beard boom with styles from the Elizabethan Van Dyke to County Cork fringe. Over time the fad faded as men returned to barbers.
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County Cork
Whisker Wars Ahead Said to Shape Generations
The author foresees a future of dramatic facial hair trends once peace returns. European styles will influence American grooming quickly, with poets and historians predicting Americans will grow beards and mustaches after the next great war ends as Russia and France bring bold facial styles.
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Europe
Verdun
Hand to Hand Fight in Court at Tombs
In New York on August 1 a panic in a Tombs court room followed a hearing for 12 alleged anarchists charged with inciting to riot at the Il Progresso office last Saturday. Police drove back rioters with night sticks as 75 sympathizers rushed guards and attacked court staff. Several people were injured and three arrests were made. A woman bit a court attendant on the wrist before fainting.
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Murphy
Il Progresso
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