City Finance Chief Recommends Cutting Water Pipe Loan
Nathan Matthews, chair of the finance commission, urged reducing the city's $300,000 loan for waterpipe extension to $75,000. A special Aldermen meeting set for Aug 26 to act on the loan, which Mayor Fitzgerald seeks to pass. The commission notes current revenue and debt service. if $75,000 suffices for this year, future mains loans may be avoided as revenue rises.
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Nathan Matthews
Finance Commission
Board of Aldermen
Fitzgerald
Sweethearts Arrested in Salem for Truancy
In Salem on August 16 Irving Savels aged 17 was arrested on a warrant filed by his parents for stubbornness and was taken from his sweetheart Gertrude Baker aged 16 from Boston. He had been away from home for some time and she says she came to Salem last Tuesday and spent nights with him. The police know only what she stated about herself.
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Salem
Irving Savels
Love
Young Savels
Gertrude Baker
Boston
Savels
Common
The
Willows
Push Button Inventor Edwin Rogers Dies at York Beach
Edwin Rogers of Boston, inventor of the electric push button, died at his Union Bluff cottage in York Beach, Maine, at age 65. Authorities believe an asthma attack caused his death, coming about an hour after the first symptoms. He had been a long time summer resident and is survived by a wife and daughter.
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York Beach
Edwin Rogers
Boston
Union Bluff
101st Birthday of Searsville Woman Celebrated
Williamsburg August 16 Mrs Elvira Streeter celebrated yesterday her 101st birthday at her daughter’s home in Searsville. Family, including children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, gathered to greet her. She has passed the century mark with vigor, walking without a cane yet needing help on stairs and spending her days reading after a brief postprandial nap.
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Williamsburg
Elvira Streeter
Searsville
St Agnes Garden Party at Reading Parish
The third annual garden party of St Agnes Parish Reading will be tomorrow afternoon and evening on Woburn street grounds. Attractions appeal to young and old with a contest for a Jamestown trip among four parishioners. Friends of Miss Turner and Miss Maguire and Messrs Doherty and Babine are active. Also drawing lively interest is a ball game between Reading Council K of C and the Holy Name Society.
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Reading
St. Agnes’ Parish
Woburn Street
Jamestown
Turner
Maguire
Doherty
Babine
Reading Council
K. of C
Holy Name Society
Funeral services for John W. Donahue held in Dorchester
The funeral services for John W. Donahue were conducted yesterday morning from his home at 41 Linden Street Dorchester. Rev Peter Rowan led a high mass of requiem at St. Peter's Church before the interment at New Calvary Cemetery.
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John W. Donahue
Linden Street
Dorchester
Peter Rowan
St. Peter’s Church
New Calvary Cemetery
Monahan Family Treats Charlestown Children Today
George F. Monahan, seeking the Senate seat, orchestrates a district outing for poor children from Charlestown East Boston and East Cambridge. Five thousand tickets and 25 special cars will transport kids to Combination Park Medford at 10 am. Massive food donations include 16,000 pounds of candy 4 000 pounds of cake 120 bushels of peanuts and 5000 sandwiches.
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George F. Monahan
Charlestown
East Boston
East Cambridge
Combination Park
Medford
City Square
Remarkable 26 Children Born to One Couple in New Jersey
Mrs. Chris Harris of 67 Geneva Street Elizabeth New Jersey has 26 children by the same husband. The family, now summering at Short Beach Beachmont, includes three sets of twins and a 44 year old mother with a youngest child of five. The family spans four generations with both parents and five grandchildren. Louis the eldest is 23 and Christopher is 5.
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Chris. Harris
Geneva Street
Elizabeth
N. J
Leslie Cottage
Short Beach
Beachmont
Harris
Louis
Patricius
Joseph
Isabelle
Raphael
Christina
Lucy
Agnes
Katherine
James
Evelyn
Edward
Rose
Mary
Harold
Christopher
Thomas
Anna
Winifred
Mrs. Harris
60 Mile Walk to Get Bride
A young Nova Scotia lumberman Chester Lister walked sixty miles from the interior to reach a railroad and travel to Boston to meet his Lancashire sweetheart Florence Evans who had arrived from England two weeks earlier to marry him. The couple will return to Yarmouth to wed.
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Nova Scotia
Chester Lister
Boston
Florence Evans
Saxonia
Yarmouth
N. S
Four-Generation Cullen Family Noted in Everett Portrait
In Everett on August 16 the city highlights a four generation Cullen clan led by Ellen Cullen aged 73, Agnes Cullen 63, Agnes Mc Donald 28, and Grace Mc Donald 10 years old.
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Everett
Ellen Cullen
Agnes
Agnes Cullen
Agnes McDonald
Grace McDonald
Christian Scientist Fined and Imprisoned in Concord
A special Police Court session in Concord heard Herbert D. Whitney, a Christian Scientist, for failing to notify the Board of Health about his children's scarlet fever. He was fined $10 and costs and given 3 days in the house of correction, both suspended.
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Concord
Herbert D. Whitney
Dunbarton
Board of Health
House of Correction
Man fined and jailed after assault at studio
Lena C. Pohle ran to a newsboy after Michael J. Walsh entered her Central Square photographic studio and kissed her several times. Reserve Officer Joe Cahill arrested Walsh, who was fined $2 for drunkenness and sentenced to 10 days in the house of correction for assault.
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Lynn
Michael J. Walsh
Central Square
Lena C. Pohle
Joe Cahill
House of Correction
Bachelors Are Taxed One Hundred Dollars in Absecom
Atlantic City, N J Aug 16 A tax of 100 on each bachelor was imposed by Absecom assessor Henry Alexander. Frank Hamill a wealthy bachelor asked why his taxes rose 100 and was told the tax was indeed for being a bachelor. The exchange reveals the unusual levy with a straight face from the official.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Henry Alexander
Absecom
Frank Hamill
Hamill
Alexander
Woman Helps Kill Rabid Dog in Belchertown Road Area
Aug. 16 a dog believed rabid terrorized farmers on the Belchertown road between the bridge and the Centre. Mrs. William D. Ellison and two men she called killed the animal. It bit a pig owned by the Ellisons, breaking its jaw, and bit two cows, one belonging to William O'Neil and the other to Miss Carrie A. Converse. The dog possibly bit cows owned by A. Lincoln Johnson. Mrs. Ellison entered the hogpen and urged passersby to assist. the dog was killed with pitchforks.
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Ludlow
Belchertown Road
William D. Ellison
Ellisons
William O'Neil
Carrie A. Converse
A. Lincoln Johnson
Ellison
Family of Muskrats Found Under Hartford Bathhouse
In Riverside Park workers made a river bank salvage for the bathhouse when a muskrat fell to the ground. They found a nest nearby containing four newborn muskrats with closed eyes. The workers placed the babies back in the nest at day’s end.
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Hartford
Conn
Riverside Park
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