Poor's Banking Firm Crashes Under Lavish Art Spending
New York December 27. Henry W Poor whose name bank failed is blamed for lavish art purchases that drained the firm. Poor was sole operator after others withdrew. A noted social figure, he owned two mansions and a vast art collection. He sold parts of his library for over 75 000 and faced liquidation as he tried to recover funds.
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New York
Henry W. Poor
Poor
Stanford White
Harry K. Thaw
Madison Square Garden
Tuxedo
America
Wall Street
Labor unions hold meetings protesting AFL leaders' sentencing
Labor men and helpers condemned the sentencing of Samuel Gompers and AFL leaders as a usurpation of constitutional rights. They endorsed a protest resolution and discussed a new metal trades department, while electing officers in several local unions and planning upcoming installations and events.
Coal Hoisting Engineers Protest Gompers Sentence
The Union No. 74 adopted a resolution yesterday denouncing the sentencing of AFL leaders President Gompers Vice President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison. It declares indignation at efforts to deprive citizens of free speech a free press and trial by jury and protests against government by injunction.
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Amiths
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
American Federation of Labor
United States
Metal Trades Department
Boston Central Labor Union
Union No. 74
Wage Demand to Be Presented by Boston Coal Hoisting Engineers
The Boston Coal Hoisting Engineers Union 74 will submit its annual wage requests to local employers next Wednesday as the current contract expires February 1. A committee of J. F. Matthews D. Kelly and M. Condon will present the schedule and negotiate, with no major changes anticipated from the present agreement. Plans also include the annual ball at Lyceum Hall East Boston on February 19.
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Boston
Union 74
J. F. Matthews
D. Kelly
M. Condon
Lyceum Hall
Lynn Central Labor Union Backs Gompers With Protest
The Lynn Central Labor Union adopts resolutions protesting a Supreme Court decision affecting Gompers and colleagues. They argue the injunction law infringes constitutional rights of workers and endorse President Gompers' court reply, with copies to press and records.
Labor Notes elects officers for awsboys Protective Union 9077
The group elected Charles Frasen president and Alex Ashenson first vice president with Leo Buckley and Benjamin Robrish in other top posts. A new executive board includes Simon Rubinovitch and Petey Levine. A committee will invite city leaders to the union’s annual gathering at Copley Hall on January 26.
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Awsboys’ Protective Union
A. F. of
Saterday
Charles Frasen
Alex. Ashenson
Leo J. BuckleyeeMond
Benjamin H. Robrish
Meyer Riser
Thomas J. Mulkern
Harry Weiberg
Maurice H. Zaremsky
Max Shankman
Hyman J. Cohen
Simon Rubinovitch
Daniel V. Mulkern
David Wilansky
Newton to Vote on City Lighting Rate Cut
Newton officials consider a measure after a petition urged lowering light rates from 18 to 12 cents per kilowatt hour. The Newton and Watertown Gas Light Co. would cut prices if the city accepts a 10 year lighting contract instead of the current five year term.
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Newton
Hutchinson
Annual Shot in the Eye Incident in New York
William Walsh a Bayonne 14 year old is hospitalized after an air rifle incident with Wallace McKenna 15 in New York Cal. Santa had given McKenna the rifle. Walsh warned not to shoot but was struck in the artificial eye. McKenna arrested for assault.
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New York
William Walsh
Bayonne
Isaac Greenstein
Walsh
Santa Claus
Wallace McKenna
McKenna
Labor unions plan 200000 demo over Gompers sentence
The Central Federated Union appointed 30 organizers to stage a mass protest next Sunday in New York against jail terms for Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. They sent a copy of resolutions to President Roosevelt and opposed pardons, arguing no crime was proven and constitutional rights were at stake.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Central Federated Union Today
Roosevelt
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Central Federation
Congress
American Federation
Herman Robinson
Federated Union
Newtonians Demand $5000 More for Schools
Newton, Dec. 27. The Board of Aldermen meeting tomorrow night draws deep interest as a committee of 10 parents, appointed by Mrs. George F. Lowell, outlines grievances. They seek $5000 more than the board granted for the coming year, arguing that without it evening and vacation schools may close. Parents from across the area plan to protest this condition.
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Newton
Board of Aldermen
George F. Lowel
Advocates Claim Child Labor Growth in Boston Schools
Mrs Frank W Page former Boston teacher urged action against child labor at Mt Vernon Church arguing schools push nine year olds into manual training and pencil box work. Everett W Lord opposed some points praising industrial training while detailing wartime bred harms of child labor and conditions in Massachusetts and New England. A cigar maker then attacked the cigar stores trust alleging use of child labor by firms with interstate agents.
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Frank W. Page
Boston
Mt. Vernon Congregational Church
Wild
Joseph Fallon
Aldrich
Brookline
Miss Page
Cambridge
Everett W. Lord
Congress
National
Child Labor Bureau
Page
Lord
Porto Rico
England
Africa
Massachusetts
New England
Maine
Ipswich Man Murder Investigation Raises Motive Ties
A brutal Ipswich homicide believed to be revenge echoes a prior Peabody case. Doctors say the victim Bob was sober at the time. Ipswich police question associates, seek two missing boarders, and request Lynn and Boston help as Josephine Szewtski’s questioning aims to yield new clues.
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Lynn
Boston
Ipswich
Josephine Szewtski
Slashing victim dies. investigators seek assailants
Ipswich reports the death of Wladysla Bolouszewicz who was badly cut at a house on Estes street Christmas night. He died at Dr Mc Ginley’s home. His sweetheart Josephine Szewiski remains in Salem Hospital ill, delaying questions that could identify the attackers.
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Wladysla Bolouszewicz
Ipswich
Josephine Szewiski
Salem Hospital
Estes Street
McGinley
Ipswich Slaying Leaves Police Murky Clues on Christmas Night
Police face silence as Bob Bolouszewicz, battered on Christmas night on Estes Street, refuses to name suspects. The Ipswich mill worker, recently courting Josephine Szewiski, lay gravely injured at Salem Hospital after a confrontation with unknown assailants. Marcel, with him at the scene, stayed silent as officers learned of the brutal attack.
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Josephine Szewiski
Salem Hospital
Bob
Bolo
Estes Street
Marcel
Boo
Wells
Maine Day At Sportsman's Show Highlights Aquatics
Maine Day features a busy program at the Sportsman Show with Charles M Daniels of New York aiming to break the 200 yard world record today and the 440 yard mark tomorrow. Other events include a funny costume race canoe tilting water polo and 80 yard scratch plus relay candle races.
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Charles M. Daniels
New York
Daniels
Peter S. McNally
Mary MccDonough
Esther Donough
Rose Pitonef
Margaret F. Kierney
Berle
Jane Donough
Marie McKenna
Winnifred Mahar
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
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O'Connell Assembly
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Michael Keavery Worthy
A. J. Norander
John Barry
John McCarthy
William O’brien
John Birmingham
Esquire
John Supple
Matthew O'Connell
Martin Gottfredson
Knight
Boston & Maine Freight Clerks’ Assembly
P. J. Flaherty
John P. Sullivan
Edward J. Doherty
Thomas Cook
Lawrence Atwell
A. Cole
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Charles Nolmes
James Murphy
Thomas Sutton
Michael Hallisey
John Lynch
FP. J. Flaherty
Maurice Conners
A. W. Cole
Michael Disken
Patrick O'Brien
Boston & Maine Freight Handlers
Assembly 5572
Michael White
Dennis McCarthy
Alexander Ryan
Marx McGarr
John Malone
Michael Shannon
John O'Rourke
Patrick Lowrey
John Hughes
WP. J. Driscoll
James T. Caffrey
Patrick Ealey
Richard White
John Sullivan
Teamsters’ Union
Daniel J. Tobin
Chicago
United Teamsters’ Union
Tobin
Washington
Nonantum Hall
Carpenters’ District Council
Coachmen’s and Stablemen’s Benevolent and Protective Union
Paul Revere Hall
Mechanics’ Building
J. H. Hurley
J. H. Green
J. T. Kane
James J. Burns
Thomas P. Carey
Free Home For
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Roxbury
Michael I. O’brien
Federation of State
Michael A. Murphy
Boston €. L. U
Water Works Union
P. J. Gorman
P. F. Mullen
Timothy Casey
Thomas Bowen
James McCaffrey
Gorman
Mullen
Casey
John Mahoney
John Freeman
International
Boston Brewery Workers’ Union
John Harney
W Edmond F. Ward
John Dempsy
H. J. Gildea
Daniel Coyne
P. B. Meade
Edmond IF. Ward
Patrick Glennon
M. T. Attridge
Michael Dolan
Daniel Berry
Edmond F. Ward
John Dempsey
John Casey
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Harvey
Attridge
Gildea
Dempsey
Lynn Central Labor Union
Supreme Court of
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LABOR
Tute
New York Central Federated Union Plans
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Garland
Ipswich Police
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Ipswich Mills
Essex Street
Outlet CO
Essex St
Falan Main Affiael & Elm
Central Sq
Mass. Ave
Broadway
Everett
Wain
Malden
Dorchester Ave
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Quincy
Cambridge St
Allston
Sportsman's Show
U. S
Felton's
Bond
Felton & Son
Carters
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Ward
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