Hub Telegraph Operator McElroy Crowned World Radio Champion
Theodore P. McElroy a 22 year old telegraph operator from Somerville won the Chicago radio tournament setting a world record by sending 68 words per minute in continental code. He also triumphed in Boston and New York, receiving a diamond medal and 50 dollars in gold.
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Somerville
Western Union
Chicago
McElroy
Boston
New York
General Miles Healthy at 83
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles celebrated his 88rd birthday in Wil llsboro New York with setting up exercises and a lakefront stroll. The Civil and Spanish War hero, brigadier general at 25, remains active, attributing vigor to never being a slacker and continuing riding swimming hiking and travel.
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Willlsboro
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United News
Nelson A. Miles
Lake Champlain
Miles
Funeral Rites Set for Mrs Margaret M Brooks Jamaica Plain
Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret M Brooks who died Sunday at 89 Call Street Jamaica Plain will be held this morning. A requiem high mass at St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain at 9 o clock. She was a longtime Jamaica Plain resident and mother of Joseph T Brooks of the Post staff. Born in Boston she was educated in public schools and Notre Dame Academy Roxbury. She had been ill for weeks. Survived by husband Thomas Brooks and son Joseph T Brooks.
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Margaret M Brooks
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Joseph T. Brooks
Post Staff
Boston
Notre Dame Academy
Roxbury
Sherlock Holmes Solves The Adventure Of The Red Circle
Sherlock Holmes triumphs in solving The Adventure of the Red Circle in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. Conan Doyle’s detective leads the case with keen reasoning as readers follow the trail through clues and deduction.
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A. Conan Doyle
Boston Sunday Post
Transferred Captains of Police Receive Welcoming Tributes
Businessmen and patrolmen in Boston greeted recently transferred police captains as they left their old stations and arrived at new assignments. Captains Skillings Goodwin Goode Hall Kneeland Dailey Watkins McDevitt Mason received floral tributes, letters, and telegrams, with praise for leadership and calls for continued cooperation in police work.
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Fields Corner
Thomas F. Goode
Forrest F. Hall
Brighton
Richard Fitzgerald
Jay Street
Dudley Street
James J. Watkins
Morton Street
Perley C. Kneeland
City Hall Avenue
Matthew J. Dailey
James McDevitt
Joy Street
Bradley C. Mason
Hydro Airplane Reaches New York From Essington Pa
Sampalo Correa the hydro airplane slated to fly New York to Rio Janeiro arrived in New York at 6 30 p m from Essington Pa The seaplane piloted by Lieutenant Walter Hinton landed in the Hudson River opposite 2d Street on its trans Atlantic flight attempt
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Rio Janeiro
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Walter Hinton
Hudson River
President Harding push on road takeovers escalates transport crisis
President Harding seeks Congress in full session and emergency powers to address worsening transportation problems after likely rejection of his latest peace offer to rail executives and shop men.
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Harding
Congress
Rail strike tension grows as shopmen weigh return
Bert M. Jewell, leader of the striking shopmen, said his men may return to work if the government takes over the railroads, while administration leaders debate Congressional action. Cabinet discussions focus on the crisis with judgment postponed until shopmen and executives respond. Gompers cites locomotive breakdowns and wrecks as the growing reason for a general walkout amid ongoing pressure from the Big Four and rail unions.
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Cummins
Iowa
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Planten Wires Grable Over New Haven Wage Conference
Vice-President G H Planten telegraphed Grand President E F Grable accusing the New Haven railroad of flouting the Transportation Act by failing to grant a wage conference. The union says a conference was requested on July 7 and cites the act's requirements for such talks.
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Grable Road
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
G. H. Planten
E. F. Grable
New Haven
Union Seeks Conference Within Thirty Days on Rail Dispute
The union reports no notice from company executives on granting a conference within 30 days. Boston & Maine and other railroads waived 30 day delays, then joined a joint request to the Railroad Labor Board. Planten said union action against the New Haven hinges on orders from President Grable and argued a strike against one road is poor policy.
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Boston & Maine
Railroad Labor Board
Planten
New Haven
Grable
Executives in New York weigh Harding plan on rail strike
Reports say railroad executives may oppose President Harding's plan but they give no official stance. They will meet Friday to consider the proposal with an open mind. Chairman L. F. Loree voices personal opposition to submitting the seniority issue to the Railroad Labor Board.
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New York
United News
Wall Street
Harding
L. F. Loree
Eastern Group
Railroad Labor Board
Restore of strii ts to old jobs opposed by executives
A fragment notes that a plan to restore strii ts to their former positions without affecting seniority was consistently rejected by executives. The passage reflects repeated executive dismissal of the proposal.
Labor official predicting end to rail and coal strikes
Assistant Secretary of Labor E. J. Henning told retail dry goods merchants that both the railroad and coal stoppages would be settled within a week. He spoke in a public address outlining a swift resolution and stressed the government’s push to avert wider economic disruption.
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