Wong You and Girl in Court
A Chinese American romance started in Boston was aired in New Haven Police Court before Judge Hoyt. Wong You received 30 days in jail while May Forbes, his former Sunday school teacher, was released after the court deemed she had been punished enough. Police found the pair hiding in a laundry cellar at 269 Grand Avenue after complaints of suspicious activity.
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New Haven
Conn
Bromfield Street
Boston
Hoyt
Wong You
May Forbes
You
Grand Avenue
Plea Reversal Follows Court Guilty Plea Changes
In court the defendants pleaded guilty but on the witness stand both insisted innocence, prompting the court to change the pleas to not guilty. A female witness described meeting Wong You at Bromfield Church five years earlier and said she taught Sunday school there. Church officials and a superintendent denied knowledge of any May Forbes associated with the Chinese work group.
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Wong You
Bromfield
Stevens Heights
West Haven
Bromfield Methodist Episcopal Church
May Forbes
Dillon Bronson
John Galbraith
Forbes
Martha Henry
Merchants protest Wash ington street traffic change
A protest signed by Tre mont street firms and the Boylston Street Merchants Association was sent to Mayor Fitzgerald opposing any action that would increase Tremont street traffic or shift trucking and vehicle flow. The letter urges careful hearings to protect Tremont street while addressing Washington street relief.
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Boylston Street
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Washington Street
E. T. Slattery Co
P. A. Howell
McDonald-Weber Co
J.S. Johnson
Boston Raincoat Co
Oliver Ditson Co
S. M. Goldberg
Studio Jewelry Co
G. W. Sawyer
Jackson & Co
Thomas F. Galvin
the Dunlap-Cook Co
Kakas Brothers
A. H. Howe & Sons
Meyer Jonasson Co
Chandler & Co
Columbia Phonograph Co
Arthur Robbins & Co
Houghton, Dutton Co
Shreve, Crump Low Co
W. S. Butler & Co
Helen G. Laffee
H. L. Tannenholz Co
G. Brown, Miller & Welltch
A. N. Cook & Co
H. H. Tuttle Co
Mark Cross Co
St. Clairs
Vw’ax Brothers
the Specialty Shop
Eldridge & Peabody
Regal Shoe Co
Hubman Named Head of Chemical Society
Arthur D. Little today elected president of the American Chemical Society at its Washington meeting. He is president and general manager of Arthur D. Little, Inc. 93 Broad Street, former vice president of the society, and former chairman of the Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers. He studied at MIT class of 1885 and helped develop the sulphite process, chrome tanning, electrolytic bleaching and chlorate manufacture.
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Arthur D. Little
American Chemical Society
Washington
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Broadstreet
Division of
Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cruiser Fire Incident Aboard Matoppo in Mediterranean
The British steamer Matoppo reports being fired upon by an Italian cruiser three weeks earlier near Tripoli. After stopping, a cruiser detachment boarded and searched the liner for contraband, as Third Officer F M Comanartie observed a small vessel approaching closely at dusk.
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Matoppo
Calcutta
Mediterranean
Tripoli
F. M. Comanartie
Comanartie
Italian Navy boards freighter in tense search at sea
An Italian cruiser halted the Matoppo off Calcutta to search the freighter’s crew and cargo for contraband. Soldiers with revolvers and a searchlight prowled the decks for over an hour while officers questioned Captain Dormand and inspected manifests before the Italians departed, leaving British observers upset at the heavy handed actions.
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Comanartie
Matoppo
Dormand
Calcutta
Boston
Hner
China Crisis Reaches Arbitration Agreement
State Department cable confirms reports of an agreement between Yuan Shikai and Tang Shao Yi to seek a national convention to decide China’s fate between imperialist and republican factions. Yuan is said to arrange preliminaries with the Imperial clan, Pekin met yesterday to approve a representative decision.
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Washington
State Department
Yuan Shai Kai
Tang Shao Yi
Yuan Shi Kai
Pekin
Yuan
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