Fall River Spinners and Weavers Face Wage Standstill
After a 60 day contract, factory margins show 8 to 9 cents short of the 86 cent target, signaling likely continuation of wage cuts. Officials from both sides expect little movement as operatives seek restoration to the old scale while print cloth sales dip and deliveries lag.
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Fall River
Whitehead
Howard
Rhode Island
New Bedford
Manufacturers’ Executive Committee
Oda
Yale Crew Plans Early Training For Harvard Race
Captain Armstrong informs Yale rowing candidates they will not start formal training before January opening of the new term. A test crew and new shell were tried in harbor, with six last year’s champions back, including Armstrong and Treadway. Freshmen begin winter-term practices. Armstrong is a one year varsity rower and two year football halfback.
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New Haven
Conn
Armstrong
Yale
Harvard
Treadway
Holcomb
Beard
Cater
Cross
Johnson
Rogers
Varsity
Marriage Row Over Antiquated Wives In New York
Elisha Kingsley aged 92 married his housekeeper Julia Howes aged 70 with guardian W H Sperry reporting plans to annul. The bride says counsel has been taken and plans to contest. Kingsley is worth about $20 000.
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North Adams
Dee
Elisha Kingsley
Julia Howes
The Pigeon Show Ends With Low Closing Prices
Pigeon lovers faced disappointing prices as the Horticultural Hall exhibition closed last evening. The event drew large crowds all week, boosting interest in the fancier hobby and enabling growers to meet fellow owners. Birds will rest Sunday before new ownership transfers. Exhibitors praised the show’s care and Mr. C. E. Twomby’s management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Twombly
Newhall Declared Ward 1 School Committeeman After Recount
Lynn recount of city election returns ex-Mayor Asa T. Newhall as Ward 1 school committeeman by five votes, over J. P. Farrar who had been declared winner by four votes at the precinct level.
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Lynn
Asa T. Newhall
J. P. Farrar
Utes Agree to Return to Utah Reservations
General McCook telegraphs the War Department that Utah's Utes will likely end the dispute peacefully as they consent to return to their reservations under the agent already sent to them.
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Washington
McCook
War Department
Utah
Diphtheria Antitoxin Trials In New York Horses
New York City veterinarians under Dr. Hermann M. Biggs and colleagues inoculate horses with cultivated diphtheria toxin to produce antitoxin serum. Doses rise to 100 130 cubic centimetres weekly, with temperatures to 106 F and weight changes. Trials aim to three to six months for usable serum, compared to Paris results.
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New York
New York College of Veterinary Surgeons
East Fifty-seventh Street
Board of Health
Hermann M. Biggs
William Hallock Park
T. Mitchell Prudden
Health Department
Roux
Paris
Reader questions medical treatment stance in child death case
A reader writes to the Post questioning the framing of a child’s death and asking how treatment choices by Christian scientists or physicians could be linked to murder. He cites physician error and the alleged lack of accountability for doctors versus faith healers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. D
Boston talker Gorbett praises young mayoral candidate
Eloquent column by E A Corbett notes a 33 year old Boston mayor-elect Curtis as a bright, capable leader. It cites temperance debates and cites the Cushing Process Company at 580 Washington Street. It recalls Christmas memories and mocks inquiring thoughts on hanging and electric chairs. It also promotes Bowditch Co florists and Philadelphia Ice Cream Co. at Tremont Street.
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Cushing Process Company
Cushing
Brookline
Mass
Washington Street
Philadelphia Ice Cream Company
Tremont Street
E. A. Corbett
Roxbury's New Brewery Opens With Modern Plant
The Union Brewing Company on Terrace Street Roxbury launches a modern facility with a 125 HP engine and 50 ton daily ice output. The plant houses a 400 barrel copper hop kettle, 520 barrel mash tub, 300 barrel cellar casks, 40 barrel per hour filters, 600 barrel tubs, nineteen 600 barrel lager tanks, and two Beaudelet coolers. Capitalization is 500000 dollars with officers D Howard Vincent president Patrick Ford vice president James W Kenney treasurer and a slate of directors. Plant capacity reaches 100000 barrels per year and production will be lager only.
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Union Brewing Company
Terrace Street
Roxbury
D. Howard Vincent
Patrick Ford
James W. Kenney
Messrs. Vincent
Ford
Kenney
William D. Hillis
D. M. Cleary
Alix Read
M. H. Cobe
J. J. Donovan
Arthur H. O'Neil
John Hartin
Children Health Fund Plans Christmas Dinners for Poor Children
The Children's Health Fund coordinates Christmas dinners for poor children as well as poultry vegetables clothing and money to be sent to 8 Exchange Place. Local management hopes donors meet to celebrate a merry Christmas together they could not share at home.
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Hanover and
Portland Streets
Children’s Health Fund
Exchange Place
Police raid Dorchester grocery store for liquor
Police from Station 11 raided the grocery store at 6 Harvard Street Dorchester yesterday afternoon and seized about five and three quarters galtons of mixed liquors from 8 N Chittenden.
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N. Chittenden
Harvard Street
Dorchester
Bristol Farmers Demand Full Value for Tuberculosis Cattle
At a South Bristol Farmers Club meeting in New Bedford on December 15, members from Bristol county towns debated tuberculosis cattle laws. They urged repeal or amendment to pay full sound value for slaughtered cattle, appointing a committee to act and report next week.
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New Bedford
South
D. C. Potter
Fairhaven
Bristol County
Mr. Potter
Daniel W. Deane
Potter
Messrs. Deane
Hubbard
Nantucket County
Perry Yarrington Caught in Grand Larceny Swindle
Perry Yarrington a 62 year old engineer from Boston was arrested by Central Office detectives on a grand larceny charge in New York. Complainant Thomas F Murphy says he swindled him out of 250 dollars with a false invention pitch. Yarrington had been sought in Chicago and previously in Boston for similar deceit, traveling to collect investments with a bogus lamp machine.
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New York
Perry Yarrington
Boston
Central Office
Grady
Thomas F. Murphy
Yarrington
Chicago
Dorchester
Rehearsal of the Imps at Floating Hospital Pageant
Twenty four Back Bay lads drilled by Mr. Coleman for the Imp dance to feature in the Floating Hospital pageant. Imps emerge from a fireplace with red fire salute the Prince Mr W R Whitney then form lines and circles and perform impish movements ending with a lively exit. Costumes are scarlet with black fronts. Baroness Rose Posse and Miss Nellie G Hill are the matrons.
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Back Bay
Coleman
W. R. Whitney
Baroness Rose Posse
Nellie G. Hill
Cambridge City Adds Advanced Ambulance Service
The city adopts a new ambulance funded by forty plus physicians with Assistant City Physician L. L. Bryant to oversee. A gas store blaze at Charles James grocery on Main Street 619 caused damage and firefighting response by engine 2 around 9:15 pm.
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L. L. Bryant
Engine 2
Charles James
Main Street
Cambridge Club
Young’s
Federation
Harvard Religious Union
Edward Everett Hale
Cambridge
The
Theosophical Society
Ash Street
M. L. Guild
Samuel Francoeur
Cottage Park Avenue
Lockjaw
Harvey Street
Club Lafayette
Church of the Sacred Heart
Sixth Street
P. G. McDermott
Funeral for Patrolman Andrew Bracken at Deer Island
The 49 year old Deer Island patrolman Andrew Bracken died after illness. His funeral from 286 West Third Street South Boston included pallbearers from Trimountain Garrison. He was laid to rest in Randolph beside his parents after a service featuring the first requiem mass at the chapel.
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Andrew Bracken
Deer Island
West Third Street
South Boston
Trimountain Garrison
R. A
N. Y
R. R. Centre
Peter Cusack
O. H. Duren
French
John Kenny
Old Colony
Randolph
Mass
Mr. Bracken
Bracken
T. F
Father McAvoy
St. Mary’s Church
Cornelius Wiesslinger
E. G. Edwards
An Acceptable Christmas Gift Furs and Silk Umbrellas Shown
A Christmas gift idea feature highlights sealskin caps fur gloves and fur garments. Joseph A. Jackson at 412 Washington street displays elegant furs and a line of featherweight silk umbrellas with handles designed for both ladies and gentlemen.
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Joseph A. Jackson
Washington Street
Caucus law reforms aim to widen direct elections in party conventions
The Post reports forthcoming radical changes to the caucus law to require conventions be made up of delegates elected directly by the people. A city committee reorganization and infusion of new blood are planned, with fallouts for Curtis and Hibbard. O'Neil plans a Boston return to push party reorganization from the people up.
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Curtis
Hibbard
Vrk
City Committee
Democratic
O’neil
O'Neil
Boston
Chinaman Arrested After Flat Iron Assault
A East Boston laundryman nicknamed Yum was arrested on assault and battery with a flat iron after a 16 year old boy, William Mahoney of 279 Sumner Street, was struck on the head during a tormented attack by a crowd of youths. Mahoney, delirious, was sent to City Hospital but denied admission due to prior insanity. he is to be held at City Prison for public institution review.
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Mar Boy
Yum
Boston
William Mahoney
Sumner Street
Mahoney
Close of the Swedish Fair Auction Nets Building Fund
The four day Swedish Congregational Church fair at 287 Hanover Street closed with a grand auction of unsold items. Profit may not equal past events, but organizers report a substantial net gain for the church building fund.
Boston Club dinner at Parker House hosts mayor elect and guests
Mayor elect Edwin A. Curtis, Homer Rogers and Harvey Hartley attended a Boston Club dinner at the Parker House Saturday afternoon. C. V. Whitten presided as Rogers Curtis and Thomas L. Jenks gave brief speeches. The gathering was informal.
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Edwin A. Curtis
Homer Rogers
Harvey Hartley
Boston Club
Parker House
C. V. Whitten
Mr. Rogers
Mr. Curtis
Thomas L. Jenks
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