South Boston Hero Mickey Perkins Dies After Front Line Feat
Father James Sherry reveals Mickey Perkins of Company D 10th Infantry silenced a seven gun nest at Belleau Wood by rushing the position with a knife and grenades killing six and taking 25 prisoners. He survived an ambulance blast but died of a head wound after returning to the front.
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Michael J
Mickey) Perkins
South Boston
War Department
James P. Sherry
102D Infantry
St. Anthony’s Church
Cohasset
Mickey
Father Sherry
Boston
Perkins
Belleau Woods
Hans
Sherry
Veiled woman cuts girl’s hair then flees Gardner area
Dec 3 police in Gardner and nearby towns hunted a mysterious veiled woman who stepped from a car near an overhead bridge in Baldwinsville and cut 14 year old Margaret Berro’s long black braids near the scalp. The attacker threatened harm if she cried and fled.
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Gardner
Baldwinsville
Margaret Berro
Jesse Berro
Highland Street
Baldwinscille
Cottage Farm Bridge Closure Extended Three Weeks
Traffic over the Cottage Farm bridge remains detoured as repairs continue. Street Commissioner Sullivan of the public works department says work will resume in at least three weeks after a three week closure between Boston and Cambridge.
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Cottage Farm
Sullivan
Public Works Department
Boston
Cambridge
Harvard Bridge
State Education Dept Calls for $240 Teacher Pay Rise
The State department of education urges the Legislature to raise the minimum salary for school teachers in smaller towns from 560 to 800 dollars. Commissioner Payson Smith says the hike is needed to attract qualified teachers to these communities.
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State Department of Education
Payson Smith
Cambridge Children To Stage Post Santa Benefit Show
Alice Guertin, 13, leads 20 Cambridgeport girls in a December 10 vaudeville at Central Square Hall Cambridge to raise funds for Greater Boston children via Post Santa Claus. The second annual event features 25 acts, including dancing, singing, recitations and sketches led by the youngsters.
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Alice Guertin
Warland Street
Cambridge
Cambridgeport
Greater Boston
Santa Claus
Central Square Hall
Central Square
Boston Amherst Centenary Fund Drive Reaches Quota Goal
Boston Amherst College alumni push a round the clock drive to raise 425000 for the centenary fund. They aim to contact every Amherst graduate in Eastern Massachusetts and reported 138480 raised in the district at yesterday's luncheon, with until next Wednesday night to meet the quota.
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New York
Amherst College
Boston
Amherst
Massachusetts
Man Fatally Injured At West Medford Station
George A. Campbell a 65 year old ship carpenter of 56 Tyler avenue slipped under a Boston and Maine coach at West Medford station while stepping from the train. Both legs were amputated at the ankles.
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West Medford
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston
George A. Campbell
Tyler Avenue
Leverhulme promotes fair deal co partnership system
Lord Leverhulme, head of Lever Brothers, praises fair deal theories as key to success in co partnership. He says cheerful workers who feel their daily efforts matter outperform rigid Soviet control or impersonal capitalist profit motives. Lever Brothers employs over 40,000 people under this model.
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Lord Leverhulme
Great
Lever Brothers’ Company
Levers of Partnership Highlighted by Lord Leverhulme Dinner
Lord Leverhulme spoke at a Somerset dinner where 232 Cambridge factory workers were presented with partnership certificates. He recounted his rise from a Lancashire grocer’s clerk to a major industrial leader and outlined plans to share profits through pensions and workers owning homes before expanding to copartnership. He argued against Bolshevik methods and against rigid scientific management, urging a humane approach that treats workers as thinking humans.
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Somerset
Cambridge
Lord Leverhulme
Lancashire
England
Fortune No Idler Receives Large Inheritance in Malden
William R. Hanson a Liggett's drug store janitor in Malden square inherits nearly 250000 from his great-uncle and hosts a reception at Fitzpatrick Brothers lunch room 346 Pearl street Malden with workers from Converse Rubber Company congratulating him.
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William R. Hanson
Liggett’s
Malden Square
Fitzpatrick Brother
Pearl Street
Malden
Converse Rubber Company
Widower Hanson plans Malden life with vast inheritance
Hanson, a 49 year old widower, claims a fortune of up to a quarter million after his father’s share is finally inherited. He will live in Malden with the “prettiest girls in the country,” continue working, and says he would trade youth for any child’s future. He insists he won’t resort to Ponzi tricks and plans to stay local, even posing for a photo with a stenographer to mark his new status.
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Hanson
Malden
Buff
Bob Fitzpatrick
James Moore
Chicago
Howie Fitzpatrick
Philosopher Hanson
Billie Williams
Stenog
Converse
Post
Miss Williams
Fitz
Teddy
Schofield
Howie Fitz
Elixir touted by Springfield man proves effective
Mr. L W Newcomb of 139 Cambridge St writes to Dr J F True Co that Dr True’s Elixir has improved his health and eliminated pain and deep under eye circles. The advertisement touts the laxative and worm expeller as beneficial for consumption nervousness indigestion insomnia and worms over 68 years of reliability and pleasant to take.
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Springfield
Mass
J. F. True
Extension of Prohibition to Philippine Islands Proposed
Senator Jones proposes extending the Volstead act to the Philippine Islands and Chinese consular districts. The measure would clear doubt on enforcement and include a provision to penalize serving beverages with more than one half of one percent alcohol at public or official functions in the Philippines or consular districts.
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Washington
Philippine Islands
China
Jones
Philippines
You Cant Dodge It Quick Rebound With Red Blood Cells
Physicians test for weak blood when you feel run down. Low red blood cells reduce resistance and energy, making you pale and tired. Pepto-Mangan builds red blood cells and has been prescribed for thirty years, available as liquid or tablets. Ensure the package reads Gude's Pepto Mangan.
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Gude
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Gladys Langley
Lillian McLaughlin
Catherine Murphy
Mary Kelley
Hillen Nagle
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Wilma Morrison
Timothy Trot
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