Fire Clerks Get a Raise in City Department
Commissioner Grady announced salary increases for several fire department clerks and Mayor Curley is expected to approve. Daniel J. Quinn rises from 1600 to 1800, William J. Hurley from 1300 to 1500, James P. Maloney from 1300 to 1500, and Edward L. Tierney from 1400 to 1600, reflecting years of service and expanded duties under budget changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady
Cur
Daniel J. Quinn
William J. Hurley
James P. Maloney
Edward L. Tierney
Dorchester
Save Your Eyes with Optona Eye Bath Prescription
A warning ad urges readers to save their eyes from strain and eventual blindness. It promotes Optona tablets dissolved in warm water used as an eye bath two to four times daily. The claim is that the remedy is harmless and rapidly clears inflammation, prompting readers to act now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wideawake
Golden Wedding in South Weymouth
South Weymouth December 7 Mr and Mrs Leonard O Holbrook celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in their home at 504 Pleasant Street where the Holbrook farm has stood for over a century. Neighbors friends and their eight children and 18 grandchildren joined them as the couple marked 50 years together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Weymouth
Leonard O. Holbrook
Holbrook
Pleasant Street
Leonard Holbrook
Villa on march to Chihuahua
El Paso dispatch reports General Francisco Villa moving toward Madera Chihuahua with a small force of worn troops. Estrada Carranza commander presses Villa’s rear guard cavalry and has scattered them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Texas
State Department
Francisco Villa
Madera
Chihuahua
Estrada
Carranza
Villa
A Ridiculous Affair by Will Payne
Will Payne’s satirical piece in the Sunday Post Magazine parodies social pretensions and small town misunderstandings. The narrator exposes vanity and hypocrisy through sharp dialogue and comic misreadings of ordinary events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Payne
Sunday Post
British Attache Napier and MP Wilson Reported Captured
An Athens dispatch says Colonel H. D. Napier, late British military attaché at Sofia, was taken from a Greek steamer near Messina by a German submarine. A British report states Captain Arthur Stanley Wilson MP was captured while traveling by a Greek steamer. None of Wilsons papers were deemed important.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Athens
Exchange Telegraph Company
H. D. Napier
Sofia
Messina
Arthur Stanley Wilson
Yorkshire
Mediterranean
Greek Sailors Desert from Maria Statatos at East Boston Docks
The Greek consul-general reported to immigration authorities that many Greek sailors and firemen from the steamship Maria Statatos deserted after the vessel arrived Wednesday. The ship was loading a grain cargo at the B and A docks in East Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Statthatos
B. and A
Boston
Roosevelt urges Harvard to lead in national preparedness
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt criticizes pacifists and Harvard alumni who oppose war in a Harvard Advocate article. He argues for full preparedness, military training at Harvard, and a moral resolve to defend peace through strength, framing patriotism against professional pacifists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Harvard Advocate
Harvard
Roosevelt
Sissy
Dacias Cargo Bobs Up Again in Court Transfer
The Rhode Island insurer seeks $382,473 in unpaid premiums on 11,000 bales of cotton from the Dacia cargo seized by a French warship and later renamed Yser before sinking. The suit against Tom B Owens of Fort Worth, Texas was moved to federal court after the initial action in the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dacia
Galveston
Rotterdam
Supreme Court
Rhode Island Insurance Company
Tom B. Owens
Fort Worth
Texas
The Painted Lady and Griselda in a Child's Letter
A child recalls peeking into a toy shop window to see a flaxen haired doll named Griselda. She meets a Painted Lady who reveals she used to be an actress and clarifies she is a person, not a toy. The neighborly backlash contrasts kindness with prejudice, leaving a cautionary mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griselda
Ane
Mary
Little String Bean
Nature cures and domestic tips in a Victorian voice from Shreveport
Myrtle S. K. of Shreveport advocates no cosmetics and careful diet for clear skin, recommends hot water in the morning, plenty of water and pure milk, plus camphor and mutton tallow at night for chapped hands. A Victoria reader asks about paying for an ABC scenario with prices from 15 dollars upward. Mary Pickford’s Talks appear in the Daily Post five days a week and on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle S. K
Shreveport
Minnesota
St. Paul
John M
Victoria
Mary Pickford
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Mayor Denies License for Dorchester Movie Theater
Mayor Curley denies a license to operate a moving picture theater at 950 to 956 Dorchester Avenue petitioned by Joseph Mitchell Chapple. He cites strong public sentiment against the project voiced during the hearing as the reason for the adverse ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester Avenue
Joseph Mitchell Chapple
Curley
Fire destroys four merchant warehouses at Bahia Blanca
Buenos Aires dispatch reports four marine warehouses at the Bahia Blanca military post burned today with heavy property loss and several explosions. The Rivavia and Moreno battleship crews aided in extinguishing the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Bahia Blanca
Rivadavia
Moreno
Also Mentioned on This Page
Golden Wedding
Victor
Henry Burr
Holland
Harry Macdonough
Monterey
J. Reed
J. F. Harrison
Adair
McKee
Mother Mahree
McKee Trio
William Pickels
McArthurg
Sissies
High Seas
America
Ma’m
Mother
McClure
Goodyear
The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Akron, Ohio
Cobos
Rivadavia’s
GROVE
August Thiel & CO
Atlantic Ave
Cor
Congress St
J. J. Caldwell
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!