Promoting and Shifting Firemen in Boston Fire Dept
Fire Commissioner Cole promoted and shifted eight Boston Fire Department members, awarding a total annual salary increase of 1300 dollars. Lorenzo Db Merrill of Chemical 8 South Boston was named captain, with three lieutenants two engineers and two assistant engineers among the promotions. The commissioner also appointed nine new men and transferred 30 regulars in the department’s largest shake up since Cole took office.
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Cole
Boston Fire Department Promotes Officers and Plans Double Company
The Boston fire commission elevates Lorenzo Merrill to captain of Chemical 8 as the city expands Callender and Lyons streets into a double company. Lieutenants William Magner, Thomas Reese, and John McCarthy receive posts, with Magner noted for a past rescue. Engineers Patrick Ryan and Eugene Alexander are promoted from assistant engineers of Engine 38-39.
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Lorenzo D. Merrill
Chemical 8
B and
Athens Streets
South
Boston
Callender and
Lyons Streets
Dorchester
Chemical 2
Ladder
Merrill
William T. Magner
Bunker Hill Street
Charlestown
Thomas W. Reese
Leverett Street
West End
John J. McCarthy
Paris Street
Magner
Longwood
Brookline Avenues
Peter A. Matthews
Congress Street
Roose
William Lally
Engine
Salem Street
North End
McCarthy
Department
Patrick J. Ryan
Eugene H. Alexander
Charming Bundle of Furs at City Hall
Boston Mayor Fitzgerald hosts French actress Gaby Deslys at City Hall amid a flurry of photographers and aides. Deslys speaks broken English while arranging a doll matinee at the Shubert and a charity auction of “Gaby dolls” to benefit poor children and hospital inmates.
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City Hall
Gaby Deslys
Navy Yard
Sam
Veree
Fitzgerald
Boston
Shubert
Gaby
al Jolson
Tom’ Casey
South Boston
Deslys
Schoolél Street
Mary Garden
Boston Fire Department Promotes and Transfers Amid Staffing Changes
Joseph F. Hohman of Engine 48 and Francis E. Merrill of Engine 16 are promoted to assistant engineers with salary increases. Nine new appointees join Ladder 2, Chemical 7, Chemical 11, and Engine 28 as prep to station Ladder 2% at Callender street. Numerous transfers follow, shifting personnel among Chemical and Engine units, with reinstatement of Ring and Schiedel and regulars named from probation with raised pay.
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Joseph F. Hohman
Andrew Square
South
Boston
Francis E. Merrill
Temple Street
Dorchester
Merrill
Callender Street House
Joseph W. Duggan
Engine
William J. Fay
Ladder
Daniel P. Connor, Jr
Chemical 7
Edward J. Reavey
Patrick F. O’neil
George J. Hamilton
Chemical 11
Edward P. Hoye
Kerin Tf. Shaughnessey
Martin E. Ahlstrom
Lorenzo D. Merrill
Chemical 8
Chemical
Harry E. Richardson
Ernest B. Chittick
William H. Magner
Thomas W. Roose
John J. McCarthy
James I. Mulhern
William
Thomas I. Conley
William [A.S. Hughes
John T. Cronin
Michael J. Murphy
David J. Ryan, Jr
Francis W. Kelley
Thomas IF. Ring
George J. Schiedel
Ring
Engine 47
Schiedel
Cc. H. McDonnell
D. F. Mahoney
F. J. Reddington
B. J. Kelley
F. B. Seltz
Harris opposes longer school hours at Boston rally
Igaac Harris, Democratic city committee candidate for the Boston School Board, denounced extending school hours at a Dudley Street Opera House gathering. He urged a parents night, support for truancy officers paired with the juvenile court, and early warning to steer children away from delinquency.
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Igaac Harris
Democratic City Committee
Boston
Dudley Street Opera House
Ten arrests guns seized in Edgewater riot aftermath
Quiet returned to Edgewater near the Susquehanna coal yards after two men were killed and several injured in rioting tied to a 200 plus railroad labor strike. Guards searched wooded hideouts and rounded up stragglers before arrests. Weapons, mostly shotguns used in the violence, were seized from several village houses.
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New York
Susquehanna Coal Yards
Edgewater
N. J
Certain Cure For Nervous Debility Tona Vita
A historical ad promotes Tona Vita as a guaranteed remedy for run down conditions and nervous debility. It claims physicians endorse it and promises renewed strength in days with weight changes to track progress. It urges readers to buy at all druggists.
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Duffy
Duffy's
Duffy Malt Whiskey CO
Rochester
N. Y
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Express
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Scotchusner's V.v
Scotch ‘“Wise
Duffy’s Whisky Bot
Aquinas
Isso
Hrish Wm.Jameson
Robert Leeds
Reece
Ibeer Schlitz
the Ginter
Union St., Cor
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Washington St. S2
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