Lucy Stone Birthday Rally Honors Pioneer Suffragist
At Boston Common a 97th birthday celebration for Lucy Stone drew about 2000 attendees, including roughly 1500 men. Maud Wood Park presided and highlighted Stone’s education at Oberlin, while Ignatius McNulty and Albert Bushnell Hart urged equal voting rights and denounced anti suffrage arguments. The program closed with The Star Spangled Banner.
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Lucy Stone
Boston Common
Maud Wood Park
Stone
Oberlin College
Ignatius McNulty
Building Trades Council
American Federation of Labor
Federation of Labor
Albert Bushnell Hart
Colorado
California
Boston Story in the Movies
The Post Film Company of Chicago finishes filming A Twentieth Century Courtship in Boston for August 23 at B F Keith’s Theatre. Marie Post and Edward Randall star as a Boston society woman and a young business man with prior screen credits in Gretna Green and Chin Chin.
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Boston
Post Film Company of
Chicago
B. F. Keith's
Marie Post
Edward Randall
Miss Post
Mr. Randall
Famous Players
Globe Theatre
New York
Montgomery & Stone
Chin Chin
Elsie Janis
Mrs Henry Quin Arrives in Boston After Wedding in China
Mrs Henry Y Quin wife of a Salem merchant arrived in Boston from a two weeks honeymoon in San Francisco after a splendid wedding in China costing 1500 dollars. She is 22, daughter of Hom Sue Fung a wealthy Cantonese merchant, tall and slender with jade bracelets and inlaid gold earrings.
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Harry Y. Quin
Salem
Boston
San Francisco
China
Henry Y. Quin
Quin
Hom Sue Fung
Mother Chooses Bride for Salem Restaurant Owner
Mr Quin, born in San Francisco and running a Salem Essex Street restaurant with three brothers, wed Miss Hom Sue Fung in Canton after a two year engagement. The ceremony on October 1, 1818 featured 600 guests, three daily meals, and a $1500 wedding cost with gifts excluded.
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Hom
Hom Sue Fung
Quin
China
Roxbury Boy Drowns Off Squantum Head
Harry Jackson a 17 year old of Bartlett Street Roxbury drowned in the swift current off Squantum Head near Boston last evening. His friend James Sullivan tried to rescue him swimming out to help but Jackson clutched Sullivan and both were in peril before help arrived. Jackson's body was not recovered by night. Both men worked tearing down the Reed Hotel at Squantum.
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Harry Jackson
Bartlett Street
Roxbury
Squantum Head
James Sullivan
Jackson
Sullivan
West Seventh Street
Boston
Reed Hotel
Squantum
Burglar Found With Rare Coins After Break In
Armond Moore pleaded guilty in Quincy District Court to breaking and entering after a bag of old coins valued highly was found in his possession. Police believe the coins came from a Weymouth collector's cabinet at Elbridge Nash store. He was held for the grand jury, later claiming his real name was Vinal Penault from North Adams.
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Armond Moore
Quincy
Moore
Elbridge Nash
Weymouth
Vinal Penault
North Adams
Mayor Curley Seeks Old Probate Court Site Sale
Boston Mayor Curley says the Kimball Building Trust offers 475000 for the old Probate Court site between Tremont Street and King’s Chapel Burying Ground. He flags two police station site options in Market District or Pemberton Square and outlines school admin plans if the land is sold. Former Mayor Fitzgerald opposes moving Station 2 and urges keeping the site for a city building near City Hall.
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Curley
Post
Kimball Building Trust
Kimball Building
Tremont Street
Kimball
King’s Chapel Burying Ground
Kimball Trust
Fitzgerald
Division 2
Pemberton Square
Market District
King's Chapel
City Hall
New York
London
City Hall Avenue
Hibbard
Twe
O'Meara
Police Division 2
Dudley Street
Montgomery Street
Finance Commission
City
Old Court
Charlestown
South Boston
Boston
Probate Court
Sullivan
South End
Roslindale
Horticultural
Back Bay Fens
Marks Angell
President Wilson Sends Sympathy to Widow of Sailor
President Wilson replies to Mrs. Sophia Gompers of Brooklyn mother of William Gompers, killed by a Haitian sniper during the Port au Prince occupation. He expresses deep sympathy and notes he will refer the case to the Navy secretary to consider possible relief under existing law.
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Washington
Wilson
Sophia Gompers
Brooklyn
N. Y
William Gompers
White House
Madame
Secretary of the Navy
Woodrow Wilson
Missing Quincy Girl Spotted With Relatives Prompting Search
A 10 year old girl, Eva, was reported missing from 93 Coddington Street after spending the night with relatives. Her parents and local fire and police departments conducted a widespread search until Eva unexpectedly returned home, revealing the scare.
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Quincy
Coddington Street
Eva
Mackerel Schools Move North Off Cape Provincetown
Mackerel are moving north in myriads past Cape Cod as Provincetown and Truro weir men report advance schools signaling the main body. A few hundred barrels, from blinks to bloaters, were taken to local freezers after morning inspections.
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Provincetown
Cape Cod
Truro
Mackerel Run Delights Provincetown Fishermen At Sea
Daylight fishing near Railroad Pier drew summer visitors as diversely sized capurad fish flooded the area. Local expert sighted miles of mackerel schools near Highland Light Bluffs and a Lear C schooner arrived with 70 barrels, while Sam and Priscilla and Angela B. Freeman loaded 69 barrels more for Boston.
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Railroad Pier
Will” Baker
Beach Point
Provincetown
Highland Light Bluffs
Cape Cod Bay
Lear C
Sam and Priscilla
Angella B. Freeman
Boston
Russia to Put Crippled Soldiers on Lace Work
Russia plans lace making in the United States to employ maimed soldiers. The government now controls lace production and will assign handicapped veterans to the work, prohibiting able bodied peasants from sewing lace. Theodore Kryshtofovich, sent from Petrograd, announced the policy.
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Russia
San Francisco
United States
Theodore Kryshtofovich
Petrograd
Japan
Mill strike halts work at Readville plant
A unique strike occurred at the B B R Knight cotton mill in Readville when ten girl employees refused afternoon work after the morning shift, citing weaving frames were not kept in working order to meet a living wage standard.
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B. B. & R. Knight
Readville
Teens Strike Over Poor Frame Condition At Mill
A group of teenage girls claim wages drop to about $2 weekly for 54 hours due to poorly functioning frames. They demand better frame maintenance and upkeep, insisting they will stay out until guaranteed. The company manager denies a strike, attributing absence of work to the so called strike fever linked to Hyde Park Foss strike.
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Hyde Park
McDonald withdraws from Suffolk county sheriff race
City Councillor Daniel J. McDonald withdraws as a Democratic candidate for Suffolk county sheriff to pursue party harmony. With four Democrats originally running, the field narrows to three including Sheriff John Quinn, ex Senator James Powers, and Frank A. Gaffney. Graves is endorsed by the Republican city committee as Quinn’s replacement.
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Daniel J. McDonald
Suffolk County
McDonald
John Quinn
James F. Powers
Frank A. Gaffney
Republican City Committee
Edward G. Graves
Quinn
Sheriff Quinn
Graves
Candy firms seek delay on wage board for women workers
The Minimum Wage Commission released a statement saying it cannot understand the 27 confectionery firms’ bid to stop the wage board from recommending minimum pay rates for women and girls in candy factories. It questions the employers’ claim of unfair or technically illegal treatment.
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Minimum Wage Commission
Candy wage board meets resistance from candy makers
The commission cites refusal of candy manufacturers to attend wage board meetings until legal questions are resolved in court. It accuses employers of delaying proceedings to avoid an immediate minimum wage decision and says the issue must be settled face to face with workers.
Donaldson Killed in Automobile Race at Spirit Lake
R BE Donaldson of Milford Iowa owner of a racing car with Indianapolis and Omaha honors was killed instantly in an automobile race at Spirit Lake Iowa Aug 13 Mechanician Wilcox was seriously injured likely to die His two sons won first and second places in the race after their father was killed unaware of the tragedy
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Spirit Lake
R. BE. Donaldson
Milford
Iowa
Indianapolis
Omaha
Wilcox
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Boston Story
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Mr. Quin
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Dudley St
Hayti
Reading
Cape
Daylight School
M’donald
Suffolk
Commission
Donaldson
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