Coal Probe Measure Aims for Federal Commission
A bill by House commerce committee chair Winslow proposes a United States coal commission of nine members to study ownership, prices, wages, contracts, distribution, waste, profits, and other facts in the coal industry. It would report by Jan 1, 1928, with a $500,000 budget and a one year duration.
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Washington
Harding
Winslow
House Commerce Committee
White House
United States Coal Commission
Congress
Coal Plan Advances With City Fuel Office Opened
The city opens its fuel committee office at 73 Cornhill and awards a city contract to install an oil heating system in City Hospital. The State fuel committee says plans are underway but no decisions yet. Donald G. Robbins says questionnaires have been sent to all local coal dealers to assess current stocks, with full returns due by week’s end.
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City Fuel Committee
Cornhill
State Fuel Committee
Donald G. Robbins
James J. Phelan
Quibbiling Halting Hard Coal Peace Delayed
In Philadelphia on August 21 United News reports that failure of anthracite operators and miners to agree on the duration of a wage pact stalls peace talks. A protracted session adjourned without conclusion and resumption is planned for tomorrow. Repairs and overhauls begin as preparations for resumed work spread through the mining fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
United News
Four Die In Incendiary Fire In Tenement House
Four persons died in a tenement fire in Elizabeth New Jersey early today. Police believe the blaze was incendiary and the victims include a man a woman and two boys.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Train wreck called murder near Gary
Deliberate homicide was the verdict of Lake County coroner FE Evans in investigating the New York Chicago express derailment near Gary. He found thirty seven spikes removed from the tracks by unknown persons, with witnesses testifying the wreck was not caused by defective equipment. The coroner ruled the crash a deliberate plot.
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Gary
FE. FE
Evans
Lake County
War hero held for carrying revolver
Ronald E. McLeod of 6 Watgut Street Somerville was arrested by Back Bay Patrolman Hodgkinson for carrying a .40 caliber army revolver without a permit. McLeod displayed the weapon to a crowd on Boylston Street and claimed World War I service with the British army along with a Medal of the Order of King George bearing his name.
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Ronald E. McLeod
Watgut Street
Somerville
Hodgkinson
Back Bay
McLeod
Boylston Street
Three Women Testify in Irving Solomon Larceny Case
In Central Court Judge Bennett arraigned Irving Solomon on larceny charges involving Miss Ida Goldberg of Dorchester who says $2300 was taken and partly used for alimony to his divorced wife. Solomon allegedly kept company with a young woman while secretly married to a Revere girl, with multiple wives and fiancées named in background testimony. The case follows revelations of Solomon’s marriages and alimony payments as cargo news and harbor updates fill the rest of the page.
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Irving Solomon
New York Model Company
Central Court
Bennett
Ida Goldberg
Dorchester
Solomon
Revere
Fay Pearlman
Florence Avenue
Mary Cushman
East 116Th Street
New York City
New York
Miss Goldberg
Shipping News Briefs From Atlantic Ports
Shipping notices list arrivals and sailings including steamers City of Lahore Elida Clausen Saaman Novian Masters Agwi and more, with vessels bound for Liverpool Philadelphia Belfast Saco and Tampico among others. Numerous schooners and tugs noted with routes from Portland Halifax Saint John and Maine ports.
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City of
Lahore
Rowlands
Calcutta
Elida Clausen
Saaman
London
Shields
Novian
Masters
Philadelphia
Liverpool
Agwi Havre
Stanley
Port Lobos
Mex
City of Augusta
Diehl
Savannah
Ontario
Tond
Gloucester
Watch
Baltimore
Norfolk
Elinor
Eckhoff
Calvin Austin
Holmes
New York
Belfast
Sawyer
Bangor
City of Rockland
Northern Light
Newcombe
Wo Rivers
N. So
Annie M. Preble
Metntire
Salmon River
N. B
Nellie Eaton
Antle
Five Islands
N. S
Waltham
Churchill
Noel
Ervin J. Luce
Paschal
Stonington
James A. Webster
Maine
Esparata
Port Limon
U. K
Frederic Ewing
Tampico
Prince George
Maritime Shipping Ledger Mentions Tugs and Towed Barges
A historical list records vessels and routes from Br and port cities including Yarmouth St John Portland Bath Rockland Bangor Bangor and Neponset. It notes tugs Ontario and Clara H Doane towing barges toward Saco Smyrna Cadosia and Parkers Flats with several schooners and barges mentioned in the Saco Neponset region.
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Yarmouth
Governor Dingley
St. John
N. B
Eastport
Lubec
Ramon de Larrinaga
Baltimore
Dryden
New York
Calvin Austin
Belfast
Bangor
Ransom B. Fuller
Portland
City of
Jim Hughes
Neponset
Newburyport
Victor W. T
Sydney
C. RB
Coming Steamers and Dues From New York to Europe
A list of steamers due today Wednesday and Thursday with routes to Naples and Liverpool plus other Atlantic ports. The Ocean Forecast notes fresh shifting winds and fair weather from Boston and New York toward the Grand Banks.
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Naples
Veendyk
Oriental
Sark
Buenos Ayres
Etcc
Norvega
Christiania
Hartington
Fowey
England
Cardigan
Shields
Eng
Western Plains
Newport
Cauperata
Pacific
Honolulu
St. Mary
Jamaican
Prince Arthur
Yarmouth
N. S
K. J. Luckenbach
New York
Lake Elsmere
Jacksonville
Charleston
Hampden
Norfolk
Bristol
Winifredion
Liverpool
Pittsburgh
Queenstown
Presidente Wilson
Admiral de Ruitter
Hull
Sirrab
Tunningham
Turkestan
Boston
Europe
Grand Banks
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Joe
Oma OS
By Press Pub. CO
Gatalogue WI
Osmopolitan
Gilenes
Washington Street
Girl Claims
New England Fish Exchange
United Fruit Company
San Blas
J. S. Scott
Long Wharf
Bocas del Toro
Panama
Havana
Syaman
Acme White Lead & Color Works
Hartlepool
Norwich City
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Shipping Board
Great Britain
American
White Star Line
W. Marshall
Genoa
Ponta Delgada
Azores
Commonwealth Pier
South
Leyland Line
Winifredian
Harbor
Vier 4
Luckenbach Lines
Pacific Coast
Mary Solomon
Fay Solomon
Miss Fay Perlman
Jupiter
Venus
Saturn
Mars
South Boston
Mineola
Florence Merchant
Anita & Bernice L
Lafayettte
Haddock
George Peoples
The
Lafayette
Ganee
Ruth & Margaret
Killarney
Josephine DeCosta
Dawn Oises Ae Ebaene
Athena
Ralph Brown
Angie L. Marshall
Edith Silveira
Angeline C
Numan
Olivia Sears
Irocslare
Ang
Marshall
B. Brown
Dawn
John R. Neal
Winthrop
Mr. Neal
the Post Marine Record
Graves
Boylston and
Arlington Street
Alaska
Lamson & Hubbard
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