Newbury Lacks Public Library Amid Nearby Newburyport
The town of Newbury has no public library, as residents prefer continuing to pay $200 yearly to Newburyport for access to its 53,060-volume collection. Louise Jones of the State Library Commission notes the situation, while Constable William Dole confirms the arrangement and mentions shared services including the Newburyport fire department and jail facilities.
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Newbury
Newburyport
Miss Ek
Louise Jones
State Library Commission
Miss Jones
Newburyport Public
William Dole
Hunt Slayer of Miss Hoxie
New York detectives scour the city over the hammer murder of 17 year old Miss Reihm Constance Hoxie in West Eighty ninth street. A former lodger is detained for questioning while detectives verify his Monday whereabouts and the caller’s description. Miss Hoxie to be buried in Hartford Connecticut.
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New York
Reihm
Constance Hoxie
West Eighty-ninth Street
Miss Hoxie
Hartford
McSweeney Defends Cleveland Case Against Editorial Charge
Edw I M Sweeney writes to The Post rebutting an editorial claim that President Cleveland meddled in foreign affairs. He argues the Monroe Doctrine protected U S interests, details the Venezuela boundary dispute, Schomburgk line, and arbitration outcomes led by U S diplomacy.
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Cleveland
League of Nations
Venezuela
England
Lord Salisbury
Robert Cecil
Richard Olney
Boston
United States
British Guiana
Great Britain
Holland
Schomburgk
Olney
Congress
Brazil
EDW
Mssweeney
Prohibition Agent Seizes Whiskey Shipment for Medicinal Claim
Four carloads of whiskey valued at $600000 were seized at a North River pier on orders by John J. Quigley federal prohibition agent. The 47958 cases, marked medicinal, were shipped by R. E. Wathen & Co. of Louisville without a permit, consigned to order and sent under armed guard to a bonded warehouse.
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New York
North River
John J. Quigley
Federal
Prohibition
Quigley
R. E. Wathen & Co
Louisville
Lawmakers Consider Limits on Wet Wash Laundries
A labor bill heard by the committee seeks to cap work hours in wet wash laundries. William R. Benoit of New Bedford testified that some workers endure 13 to 18 hours daily and urged a statutory 12 hour maximum.
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Committee On Labor
William R. Benoit
New Bedford
Kerensky to Prague to push new anti Bolshevik policy
Former Russian Premier Kerensky and ex War Minister Savinkov travel to Prague to promote a policy aligning Czecho-Slovakia with Russia. U S officials say the visit aims to spur Czecho-Slovaks Poles and Romanians to take military action against the Bolsheviks. They had been in London prior.
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Prague
Kerensky
Savinkov
Russia
Washington
London
Yarmouth to sail for Havana with seized whiskey cargo
The steamer Yarmouth with a $4 800 000 whiskey cargo seized by Prohibition Inspector Shevlin will be released to sail for Havana. A guard of 15 prohibition agents stays aboard until departure. The report notes this action follows talks with the attorney general's office in Washington.
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New York
Yarmouth
Shevlin
Havana
Attorney General’s Office
Washington
Prohibition
Boston Plans Private Hospital on Jamaica Way
Plans for a new private hospital to be built in the Jamaica Way section of Boston move forward. The project envisions a modern facility to serve the medical needs of the city with potential local impact on nearby neighborhoods and traffic patterns.
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Boston
Jamaica Way
Drunkless January Reported in Milford Courts
Milford records show no arrestees for drunkenness in January, a first since 1871. Over the last decade January arrests ranged from 18 to 30, attributed to the enforcement of the prohibition law.
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Milford Courts
Milford
District Court
Scrubwomen Pay Boost Proposed by State Lawmaker
Representative Niland of East Boston urged a bill to raise scrubwomen salaries to 60 cents an hour in public and private buildings. He noted Boston office buildings pay 26 cents, state workers 50 cents, and argued the minimum wage law supports such compensation.
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Committee On Labor
Niland
East
Boston
Roosevelt Introduces Bill on Board Elections in Legislature
Lieut Col Theodore Roosevelt, Assemblyman from Nassau, introduced his first measure in Albany. The City Club of New York prepared the bill, with Senate sponsor Alvah W. Burlingame of Kings. It would empower stockholders of non moneyed corporations to elect employees to boards of directors.
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Roosevelt
Albany
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Nassau County
City Club of New York
Senate
Alvah W. Burlingame
Kings
Chicago Real Estate Board to Launch Rent Hike Probe
Chicago leaders announce a drive against rent profiteers led by I. Ackley of the Real Estate Board. The plan targets speculators who raise rents on old buildings, claiming nine of ten profiteering cases. May 1 signals a shift to average model apartments at 25 dollars per room.
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Chicago
Chicago Real Estate Board
I. ©. Ackley
Ackley
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Metropolitan Newspaper Service
Gertrude
Jek
Gertrude Brown
D.remerson
Infants’ Dept
Emerson Corset
D.K Emerson
Reet An Liort
Temple Place
Emma
Rameses
Mr. McSweeney
Bolsheviki
Fenway
Back Bay
Conrad
Winter Street
New England
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