Five Cent Fare Backers Push Boston Elevated Hearing
Strong speakers at the Boston Elevated public trustees hearing urged a five cent fare for all lines. Corporation Counsel E Mark Sullivan, representing Mayor Curley, cited legal limits but urged progress toward uniform five cent fares before the Public Utilities Commission. Former Senator James H Brennan criticized lack of public control and pressed trustees to run the road, not its directors, with several lawmakers backing the plan.
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Boston
Thomas A. Niland
East Boston
Massachusetts Avenue
Corporation
E. Mark Sullivan
Curley
Sullivan
Public Utilities Commission
Mr. Niland
James F. Jackson
Board of Trustees
J. Frank O'Hare
Jackson
Niland
Chamber of Commerce
Boston Elevated
James H. Brennan
Charlestown
Elevated
State Street
Richard J. Foley
South Boston
Thomas IF. Donovan
W. Jennings Patton
William J. Foley
Meaney
Roxbury
J. Frederick Curtin
Baby Falls 40 Feet From Roof In Chelsea Tragedy
Dorothy White 20 months old daughter of Theodore White of 49 Chestnut Street Chelsea is in serious condition at Chelsea Memorial Hospital after a 40 foot fall from her home roof. Skull fractured.
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Dorothy White
Theodore White
Chestnut Street
Chelsea
Chelsea Memorial Hospital
Cox Raps Unions at Massachusetts Furniture Outing
Governor Channing Cox told 200 House Furnishers of Massachusetts at the Pemberton Inn that no group may bar a man from work and warned of an soon to come coal shortage. The gathering featured races and prizes, with Frank Cotton named most popular salesman and speakers including Joseph E. Warner and H L Kincaid. Warner attacked Lieut. Governor Fuller’s politics while praising furniture dealers for aiding home building and wages.
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Channing Cox
Massachusetts
Pemberton Inn
Commonwealth
Weather Bureau
House Furnishers’ Association of Massachusetts
Nero
Atheletes
Gladiators
Fred
Americo Mafero
A. G. Mafero
Isadore Westerman
Frank Cotton
of Cotton and Co
H. L. Kincaid
Charles E. Osgood
Warner
Fuller
Fisherman Cleared Distances In Swims To Shore
Henry J. Cleveland a fisherman qualified as a distance swimmer after falling from his power boat two miles southwest of Bay Head Cliff He shed his oilskins and boots and swam to shore Two summer residents swam out to assist him the last 50 yards through the undertow The boat continued on and beached a half mile away from the landing point.
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Vineyard Haven
Henry J. Cleveland
Bay Head Cliff
Cleveland
Carryall Upended by Auto on Revere Beach Parkway
Nine persons, four children, escaped serious injury when a carryall overturned after being struck by an automobile on the Revere Beach parkway. The driver Frank Pernstein of Chelsea and passenger Joseph Wiseman were among those treated at Chelsea Memorial Hospital and sent home. Bern stein was bruised and Daniel Saunders of Charlestown drove the auto and delivered occupants to the hospital.
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Revere Beach Parkway
Frank Pernstein
Elm Street
Chelsea
Joseph Wiseman
Bernstein
Chelsea Memorial Hospital
Daniel Saunders
Monument ) Street
Charlestown
Harding to push coal control law for national fuel plan
President Harding planned to ask Congress for emergency powers to regulate coal distribution and prices. Officials said the move aims to guard the country against winter hardships by empowering a federal fuel emergency organization.
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Washington
Associated Press
Harding
Congress
Federal Fuel Emergency Organization
Has Plan of Control for Coal Regulation Proposed
President weighs definite legislation to grant power to supersede voluntary coal control. A draft fuel administration plan by Secretary Hoover is before him. A federal coal commission could study the industry and propose permanent labor solutions. Until empowering law passes, the central coal distribution committee would keep voluntary price agreements in force during the strike.
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Hoover
Federal Coal Commission
Central Coal Distribution Committee
Mr. Hoover
Federal Coal Committee
Commerce
Spencer
Girl From Tragic Boston Party Applies for Marriage
In Worcester on August 16 Miss Ona M. Cosskie 24 Townsend Street filed for a marriage license to wed Arthur J. Crowe a Haverhill leather manufacturer. She initially denied the plan then confirmed the license but gave no date or place. Cosskie 28 Crowe 43 are both divorced or widowed in prior unions.
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Worcester
Ona M. Cosskie
Townsend Street
Boston
Arthur J. Crowe
Haverhill
Cosskie
Whipple Campaign Tour Gains Momentum in Mass.
The Sherman L. Whipple Flying Squadron returned to Boston after a Western Massachusetts swing, boosting support for Whipple in the Democratic race for the U.S. Senate. The tour continues with noonday talks in Webster, Southbridge, Fitchburg, Leominster, Gardner, and Clinton, and evening meetings in Fitchburg, Marlboro, Leominster, Clinton, Webster, and Southbridge. Thomas J. Boynton will speak in Fitchburg, while Mrs. Susan FitzGerald and Mrs. Celia White addressed Worcester County voters at a Fitchburg rally.
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Sherman L. Whipple
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
Webster
Southbridge
Fitchburg
Leominster
Gardner
Clinton
Marlboro
Thomas J. Boynton
Susan FitzGerald
Celia J. White
Worcester County
Walsh Accepts O Brien Challenge To Debate In Boston
Attorney Joseph P Walsh, candidate for Suffolk County district attorney, accepts District Attorney O Briens challenge for a public debate in Pemberton square at 1 PM. Walsh just returned from the West and will discuss his merits and the incumbent's qualifications, with further talks in Heath square Jamaica Plain Friday night.
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Joseph P. Walsh
Suffolk County
O’brien
Pemberton Square
Walsh
O'Brien
Heath Square
Jamaica Plain
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Cox
Pemberton Beach
Bernard A. McMahon
M. J. Sullivan
Henry L. Kincaid
Frank Ferdinand
Victor Heath
Carryall
Miss Cosskie
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