Vote Brach Library Shift at Haggerty School
Cambridge school board votes to move the branch library from the first floor to a basement room to free space for students. The decision follows prior objections from City Librarian T H Cummings and concerns over overcrowding and classroom needs. A motion to appoint Maude A Deehan as director of vocational guidance was defeated.
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Haggerty School of
Cambridge
University City
M. EB. Fitzgerald
T. H. Cummings
Mt. Auburn
Fitzgerald
John F. Gadsby
Maude A. Deehan
Funeral for Mrs. Winifred R. Ahern Roxbury
The funeral for Mrs. Winifred R. Ahern wife of Judge Timothy J. Ahern of Roxbury Court will be at her mother’s home 50 Adams Street Dorchester on Thursday morning with a solemn high mass of requiem at St. Peter's Church Meeting House Hill Burial in Holyhood Cemetery She died at St Margaret's Hospital Dorchester yesterday morning and Thursday she became mother of an infant daughter.
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Winifred R. Ahern
Riverway
Roxbury
Timothy J. Ahern
Roxbury Court
Annie B. Cavanagh
Adams Street
Dorchester
St. Peter’s Church
Meeting House Hill
Holyhood Cemetery
Nurse Lands Berth In Child Welfare Division Post
Miss Louise H. McCloskey of Allston was appointed by Mayor Peters as a visitor in the Child Welfare Division of the Institutions Department at a salary of 1400 dollars yearly.
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Louise H. McCloskey
Ridgemont Street
Allston
Peters
Institutions Department
Heavy defence plan for the Panama Canal in Congress
United States House appropriations committee plans a bill to fortify the Panama Canal against air land and sea attack. The measure aims to render the canal impregnable with modern coastal and fortification defenses, following a recent inspection by President-elect Harding and his party.
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Washington
Associated Press
Panama Canal
House Committee On
House
Harding
Many Features at Museum for Children
The Cambridge Museum for Children on Jarvis Street Cambridge opens daily this week from 9 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. except Saturday. New pictures books and exhibits fill the cases. Friday allows books to be charged and taken home for one week. A museum game will be played today tomorrow and Thursday. All children are invited to visit.
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Museum For Children
Cambridge Museum For Children
At & Jarvis Street
Cambridge
Plead Not Guilty To Tedesco Murder Case
Dominic Fantasio seven and Antonio Parrela thirty six were held without bail by Judge Barnes in East Boston Court for a Friday hearing on murder charges after Guiseppe Tedesco died from multiple wounds inflicted with an ice pick on Christmas morning.
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Dominic Fantasio
Antonio Parrela
Guiseppe Tedesco
Barnes
Boston
Betts Wrecking to Raise Schooner Edward Trevoy at Kings Cove
Betts Wrecking Company of East Boston will raise the two masted schooner Edward Trevoy that drifted ashore at Kings Cove North Weymouth on Sunday. The tug Susie D and wrecking lighter Liberty will assist and a diver will inspect the bow. The vessel bound to Quincy from Essex with 150 tons of sand aboard when the mishap occurred.
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Betts Wrecking Company
Boston
Edward Trevoy
Kings Cove
North Weymouth
Susie D
Liberty
Quincy
Essex
Trevoy
Fore River
Witch accusation echoes in Washington Heights Court
In New York on December 27, Mrs. Bessie Averin accused Mrs. Sophie Stern of public untrue accusations. Stern brought her two year old daughter claiming a curse caused the child to lose the use of her legs. Spectators shouted witch while the magistrate dismissed the summons for lack of evidence.
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New York
Washington Heights Court
Bessie Averin
Sophie Stern
Mrs. Stern
Gen Edwards Urges Men to Attend YD Ball
Brigadier-General Clarence R Edwards urges every Yankee Division officer and man to attend the East Newton street armory ball next Thursday evening, Dec 30. The event promises one of the winter’s largest social gatherings with high officials from city state and military circles expected. Harold Smith chairs the committee.
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East Newton Street Armory
Clarence R. Edwards
Boston
Harold Smith
Somerville VFW Post Renames to Honor George Dilboy
The Somerville Post No. 529 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars votes to change its name to George Dilboy Post No. 623 in honor of George Dilboy a private first class with Company H 1084 Infantry 26th Division noted for his distinguished war services.
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Somerville
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States
George Dilboy
1084 Infantry
Heat dispute looms as Moriarty threatens city bill
President James Moriarty orders more heat for the council chamber and warns he will hire a meeting place and charge the cost to the city if Monday afternoon sessions remain cold during winter.
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James Moriarty
Boston City Council Debates Pension Study and Police Affairs
The Boston council discussed a $9000 request for a comprehensive pension study of city employees, with the Finance Commission to explain its use and possible local investigation. A downtown police station study was approved, and a five-member committee named. Additional orders covered a Back Bay thoroughfare, increased jail medical attendance funds, matron salaries, and a bid-entry citizenship rule for city contracts.
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Peters
Finance Commission
Executive Committee
Michael H. Sullivan
Hagan
Brickley
Donoghue
McLaughlin
Lane
South Station
Back Bay
Boston & Albany
City Planning Board
Watson
Ford
Curtis
Law Department
Death of Commodore Craven at 62 in Annapolis
Commodore John Eccleston Craven U S N retired died suddenly at his Annapolis home yesterday at age 62. He served in the navy and was well known in military circles. The obituary notes his long career and local ties in Maryland.
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Annapolis
John Eccleston Craven
Advertising Expert to Lecture at B U
William H. McLeod, advertising manager of William Filene's Sons Company, will teach a 16 week course in retail store advertising at Boston University College of Business Administration in both day and evening divisions beginning the week of January 31.
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William H. McLeod
William Filene’s Sons Company
College of Business, Administration
Boston University
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