Progressives Near Key Massachusetts Delegation Win
A new progressive movement in Massachusetts is poised for a major victory as it nears two seats on the eight at large delegation to the Republican national convention. Republican leaders oppose direct vote for delegates but favor placing progressives on the delegation.
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Massachusetts
Crothers
Hale
Oveson
Republican State Committee
Progressive State Committee
Hatfield
Progressives Seek At Large Delegates Amid Republican Tensions
The piece discusses whether delegates will join the at large slate, notes confusion between Republican and progressive state committees, and mentions speakers Gifford Pinchot, Governor Bass, and George L. Record at a Saturday meeting in remont Temple. It highlights population-driven delegate increases and imminent legislative session actions.
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Crane
Lodge
Louis Frothingham
William F. Garcelon
James F. Cavanagh
Joseph Walker
Progresso
Remont Temple
Gifford Pinchot
Bass
George L. Record
Efficiency exhibition at Y M C U Hall
Burdett College students attended an efficiency lecture by John Quincy Adams followed by a demonstration by world champion typist Miss Florence E Wilson on an Underwood typewriter. Additional demonstrations in calculating shorthand writing and typewriting were shown by students.
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Y. M. C. U. Hall
John Quincy Adams
Burdett College
Florence E. Wilson
Wilson
Missing Father Promises Christmas Return for West End Family
James Hayes five and Dorothy four believe Frederick Hayes will return home at 9 Revere Street, West End, after kissing them goodbye on Oct 11. Hayes, an order clerk at a Boston wholesale paper firm, left his wife and children with no support, and only his return can save the home.
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James Hayes
Dorothy
Frederick Hayes
Revere Street
West End
Hayes
Boston
Mammoth 250-pound shark hauled by Patriot crewman
Edward Brown fought a 250 pound mackerel shark caught near Middle Banks on the fishing schooner Patriot. Brown was dragged three miles in his dory before battering the shark with a heavy oar and then with a trawl bucket as the Patriot crew closed in and rescued him.
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Patriot
Edward Brown
Brown
Miller
Find No Opium in Chinatown
Customs inspectors led by Richard Taylor searched 5 Oxford Street and 11 42 and 83 Harrison Avenue in Chinatown for opium yesterday. Despite thorough cellar to garret examination no ounce or pill of opium was found.
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Richard Taylor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Oxford Street
Harrison Avenue
Chinatown
Garret
65 Percent Hub Pupils Unhealthy in Boston Schools
Boston records show only about 35 percent of the city’s 101000 schoolchildren are normally healthy. Dr William J Gallivan, head of child hygiene, reports 42750 examined by school physicians in three months. 14957 normal, 27793 defective, with 19518 defective due to dental issues. Statistics are first of their kind for the city.
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Boston
William J. Gallivan
Division of
Board of Health
Gallivan
Boston to Screen All Public School Children for Defects
The Bureau of Child Hygiene organized last year begins universal examination of Boston public school children. Early results show defect counts across mental, physical, and dental areas with plans to form special classes and advise guardians to seek care from family physicians or dentists.
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Bureau of Child Hygiene
Boston
Education Conference Aims to Lessen Misfit Pupils in Boston
The Boston Education Conference of 1915 unanimously adopted recommendations to reduce the number of so called misfit pupils in elementary public schools. Suggestions were to be submitted to Superintendent Stratton D Brooks for adoption and implementation.
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Education Conference
Stratton D. Brooks
Boston
Education Conference of
Recommendations for Boston schools on vocational guidance
Recommendations to Superintendent Stratton D. Brooks propose enlarging the vocational guidance department, appointing a director of vocational guidance, adding elementary school teachers for remedial work, reducing pupils per teacher, expanding special and ungraded classes, creating a central custodial station, establishing a vocational extra year, and forming a separate junior high organization with possible extension to ninth and tenth grades as tested in New York.
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Stratton D. Brooks
Boston
Department of Vocational Guidance
Tra
Western Governors Return Home to Columbus
The Western Governors arrived in Columbus Ohio this forenoon and met with Governor Harmon shortly after their arrival. They previously traveled homeward after a visit that included discussions with Harmon.
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Columbus, CO
Harmon
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