State Plans Minimum Wage for Women and Children
Massachusetts moves to set a minimum weekly wage for women and children. A wage commission and boards will report findings to the State commission which can compel employers to pay the proposed minimum. Lawmakers and courts are expected to challenge the bill, but officials are confident it will pass. The plan mirrors Australian law and aims to reach large mills and factories with strong enforcement powers. The commission will publish its findings after hearings across many occupations.
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State Commission
Commonwealth
Permanent Commission
Massachusetts
Ain
Osborne Nominated for Gloucester Collector Post
Gloucester December 18 Walter F Osborne former newspaper man and hotel proprietor is named by Congressman Augustus P Gardner for the customs collector at the port of Gloucester He will replace William H Jordan after 12 years and defeated Ralph W Dennen in a bitter GOP contest Gardner allows citizen vote at polls and reports no local tally details.
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Gloucester
Walter F. Osborne
Augustus P. Gardner
Osborne
William H. Jordan
Ralph W. Dennen
Republican City Committee
Jordan
Dennen
Gardner
Washington
Local man fined for drunkenness and disorderly conduct
Stanley Mayhue of 17 Bowdoin Street was arraigned in Roxbury District Court on drunkenness and disorderly conduct on an outbound Jamaica Plain car Sunday evening. He was found guilty on both counts and fined $5 for drunkenness and $10 for disorderly conduct.
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Stanley Mayhue
Bowdoin Street
Roxbury
Jamaica Plain
Death of Mrs. Mary Meehan at Jamaica Plain
Mary Meehan wife of Patrick Meehan prominent Jamaica Plain real estate operator died at 3481 Washington Street after a two week illness. She leaves husband two sons William and John and four daughters Mrs Albert Hill Mrs Nicholas Boylston Mrs Fred Johnson and Mrs Frank Flanagan. Funeral from Meehan residence Wednesday at 9 with a solemn high mass at Our Lady of Lourdes at 9 30 and interment in St Joseph's Cemetery West Roxbury.
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Mary Meehan
Patrick Meehan
Jamaica Plain
Meehan
Washington Street
West Roxbury
William
John Meehan
Albert Hill
Nicholas Boylston
Fred Johnson
Frank Flanagan
Church of Our Lady of Lourde
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Boston Cigarmakers' Union Names Its Officers
In a poll of more than 1800 votes Ed ward Broders yesterday was declared elected president of Boston Cigarmakers' Union 97 for a second term. Patrick Ma honey won the office of vice president in a field of three, receiving more than 800 votes. Henry Abrahams unanimously was reelected secretary. William Kinder unanimously was chosen secretary treasurer for his second year and Michael Parks was made sergeant at arms for his 15th year.
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Edward Broders
Boston Cigarmakers’ Union 97
Patrick Mahoney
Flield
Henry Abrahams
William Kinder
Michael Parks
Mde
Roosevelt Favorite For Republican Nomination
In New York on December 18, reports indicate six small bets in Wall Street at 1 to 5 odds that Theodore Roosevelt will be the next Republican presidential nominee and be elected.
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New York
Wall Street
Theodore Roosevelt
Two Queens Compete for New York Society Leadership
Debutantes and social leaders await the result as New York's 400 faces rival claimants for society leadership. Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Mrs. John Jacob Astor are recognized as the main contenders, each arguing birth, beauty, and wealth justify the title before the new year’s rounds of balls and receptions begin.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt
John Jacob Astor
Smith Hollins McKim
Madeleine T. Force
American Press Association
Mishkin Studio
NEW York Society
New York
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Two Ladies Compete for New York Society Leadership
New York society faces a reckoning as Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor vie for social leadership. The winner could drive unprecedented extravagance, forcing others to keep pace or retreat to earlier, simpler manners. The opening of the Vanderbilt Hotel on Park Avenue signals the start of the season rivalry.
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New York
America
Nero
Park Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Fitzgerald Attacked in School Board Over Hyde Park Reform
The Boston school committee endorsed three controversial actions despite Mayor Fitzgerald's veto. They appointed Principal Brittain and music assistant B Harold Hamblin, while debating cost savings by consolidating Hyde Park elementary districts. Brittain, not yet naturalized, awaits final citizenship papers from Montreal officials. Hamblin will be paid 1800 a year for full-time music duties.
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Brittain
B. Harold Hamblin
Hyde Park
United States
Hamblin
Boston
McLaughlin
Brooks
Massachusetts
New Brunswick
Clark University
Montreal
Fitzgerald
Intercolonial Club
Worcester
Mayor Defends View on Teaching Americanism to Youth
Mayor Fitzgerald argued that appointing school department employees is not within his scope and defended the school board action as necessary to foster American values. He stated that the board’s move reflects duties beyond the mayor’s purview.
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Fitzgerald
Boston School Appointments Questioned by Mayor
The mayor questions sending appointment notices and argues for hiring local, Americanized educators for Boston public schools. He notes he supports appointing worthy local candidates and defends past Canadian born appointees as now American citizens. He refused to sign Britton due to non citizenship and cites prior Canadian hires like Chisholm and Dr. Martin.
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Britton
Chisholm
Bath Commission
Martin
Board of Health
Death notices from Wollaston and Boston area
Samuel Brown died December 18 and John Connelly died December 17 in East Boston. Funeral arrangements note services at their residences and nearby churches with solemn requiem masses and invites to relatives and friends. Annie L Lorden died December 17 in Charlestown. funeral from a cousin's residence with a requiem high mass at St Catherine's Church and relatives invited to attend.
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Brown
Samuel Brown
Beal Street
Wollaston
Mass
Providence
Connelly
Boston
John
Margaret Connelly
North End
Ilauvre Street
Most Holy Redeemer Church
Lorden
Charlestown
Annie L
John Lorden
Hannah Lorden
Callahan
Reenascrena
County Cork
Ireland
T. J. Long
Monument Street
St. Catherine's Church
In Memoriam Dalsey Evelyn Couillard December 1910
Memorial notice for Dalsey Evelyn Couillard daughter of Richard W White who died December 19 1910. The quote To live in the heart of one we love is not to die appears with Mizpah in the tribute.
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Dalsey Evelyn Couilllard
Richard W. White
Mizpah
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Kettell & Blake
Waltham Watch Specialists
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Connor
Brookside
Sicily
UTES
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Dee
Loren G
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Kiley
Weymouth
Henry E
Lydia A
Godfrey) Kiley
Church of the Sacred Heart
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Sophia
Horton Mackenzie
Brookfield Street
Roslindale
Matherson
Mary Aspinwall
Jerome Matherson
George H. Manley
Charles Street
O’brien
East Cambridge
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O'’Neil
Margaret A
Patrick F. O'Neil
Jee Murphy
Monument Square
Sheehan
Bridget
John Sheehan
Cortes Street
San Francisco
Wightman
John Hr
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Bennett
Keyes Street
Leicester
England
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Dorchester
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St. Peter’s Church
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Milton
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