Hints of Attack on Labor Day by Boston Labor Union
P Harry Jennings of the Boston Central Labor Union warned at Wells Memorial that attempts may be made in the Massachusetts General Court to abolish Labor Day as a holiday. He spoke as Labor Day parade chair about plans for a record parade in Boston and said enemies of organized labor aim to repeal the law creating the holiday. Samuel Gompers may be invited to speak on Boston Common after the parade.
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Massachusetts General Court
P. Harry Jennings
Boston Central Labor Union
Wells Memorial Building
Jennings
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Boston Common
Postmasters, Federal Employees Biennial Conference Honors Baker
Postmaster Baker of the Boston Post Office received a vote of thanks at the New England locals conference of the National Federation of Federal Employees. Delegates praised his role in initiating the Saturday half holiday for postal and motor vehicle workers, and support for continued federal compensation and reclassification bills. Old officers were re-elected. next meeting in January 1923 in Boston.
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Baker
Boston
New England
National Federation of Federal Employees
American House
House
William J. Burke
Wallace Hale
R. M. Pollock
New London
New York
William J. Sleep
James H. Fitzgerald
John F. Green
William H. Nitz
Fifty Thousand to Ditch Digger of Mapleton Maine
Leslie P. Wheaton, a longtime rural caretaker known as northern Maine’s top ditch digger, inherits fifty thousand dollars in Hull England assets. He plans retirement, to help family and the needy, and to live simply in his shack beside the public dump in Aroostook County.
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England
Canada
Aroostook County
Leslie P. Wheaton
Mapleton
Read
The
Nouveau Riche
Maine
Fresque Isle
Hull
Bar Harbor
Post
Wheaton
Ditch Digger
Mapleton Road
Hidden Fortunes And Faith At Presque Isle’s Wealthy Legatee
A Rhode Island man recounts his years of prayer for health and welfare rather than money and ends with a practical farewell to the Presque Isle community. He notes his daughters, one in a Rhode Island silk mill, and reflects on what prayers yielded beyond wealth.
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Mr. Wheaton
Cullen
England
Rhode Island
Presque Isle
Terms for Stealing Ice Cream Shortened
Three prisoners Harold Waters Lyman Stottler and John Turner serving three months in East View Westchester Penitentiary had two thirds of their sentences cut on appeal to a higher court. They were initially sentenced by a Peekskill magistrate and the reduction was granted by County Judge Bleakley in Yonkers allowing release next Saturday.
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New York
Harold Waters
Lyman Stottler
John Turner
East View
Westchester
Peekskill
Charles Doyle
Thomas Macpherson
Bleakley
Yonkers
Winchester to Speak on Deeds Registrar Bid Dorchester Speech
Charles A. Winchester, candidate for Suffolk County Registrar of Deeds, will address voters tonight at Gilbert Dunphy square Dorchester. He is expected to propose terms to a rival in the contest.
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Charles A. Winchester
Suffolk County
Gilbert Dunphy
Hamilton
Bowdoin Streets
Dorchester
Winchester
Youngest and oldest Civil War veterans a local claim
Connecticut and Massachusetts may house the nation’s youngest and oldest veterans. Oliver Nason of New London at about 100 is thought to be the oldest living Civil War veteran. Gordon C. Smart of Fitchburg, in his sixties, is being checked to see if he was the youngest noncommissioned officer alongside Fighting Johnny Clem.
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Oliver Nason
New London
Mr. Smart
Colorado Infantry
Johnny Clem
Children With Baby Carriage Lost in Hub
Two sisters aged 11 and 9 from Storey Street, Evelyn Redmong and Mary O Keefe, were seen with a neighbor's two year old in a baby carriage as they viewed sights in Boston, drawing relieved reactions from onlookers.
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Hub
Boston
Evelyn Redmong
Storey Street
Mary O'Keefe
Anxious Parents Recount Incident at Storey Street
A fragment places Agnes O'Keefe, 5, and an adult at 283A Storey Street in South Boston as anxious parents react to an incident at the family address.
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Storey Street
Agnes O'Keefe
Boston
Police Return Lost Children Taken From East Dedham Station
Police recovered two missing children who were taken from the East Dedham street station. The youngsters were found unharmed and placed under police care for safety and reunification with guardians.
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Dedham Street
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