Curley Inaugural to Attract Huge Throng
Mayor-elect Curley will be sworn in with Chief Justice Bugs administering the oath. Attending are Mayor Peters, City Council, Monsignor Peterson, and hundreds of guests followed by a 1:30 dinner at the Parker House and an 8 o'clock Shawmut Council event at the Hotel Somerset with speakers from the Knights of Columbus. 400 wounded veterans from Parker Hill Hospital will be front-row guests.
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Curley
Peters
Arthur BP. Rugg
John B. Peterson
Cardinal O'Connell
Edward Leary
Hagan
Monsignor
Peterson
James Donovan
Bugs
John Donoghue
George Gilbody
William Walsh
Thomas Goode
Back Bay
Theodore A. Glynn
George H. Johnson
Cox
Senate
House of Representatives
Parker Hill Hospital
City Hill
Joseph Ecker
Virgil Gheridini
John Shaughnessy
Shawmut Quartet
J. Leo Cass
Arthur J. Brady
Daniel J. Sullivan
William R. Powers
William C. Prout
Knights of Columbus
Shawmut Council
Edmund L. Dolan
Phillip J. O'Donnell
Irish difficulty dominates Downing Street conference
Ed Austen Chamberlain Hamar Greenwood and others loom large as Arthur Griffith joins a London meeting to discuss Ulster. The Downing Street talks aim for a settlement before Parliament but Sinn Fein Ard Fheis delays cloud prospects. The Ard Fheis postponement and De Valera split complicate border talks and possible conciliation.
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Austen Chamberlain
Hamar Greenwood
Gordon Hewart
Michael Collins
Kevin O’higgins
Hamon J. Duggan
Arthur Griffith
London
Downing Street
Ard Fheis
Ireland
Sinn Fein
de Valera
Griffith
Collins
James Craig
Lord Birkenhead
Collings
Ulster
Curley Axe Looms as Curley Takes City Hall
James M. Curley assumes control from retiring Mayor Andrew J. Peters with rapid reshuffles expected. Most high salaried posts to be filled. Arthur D. Hill likely to be ousted due to Edison hearings. Possible successors include Joseph F. O Connell and Rupert Carven.
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James M. Curley
Andrew J. Peters
Jamaica Way
Arthur D. Hill
Corporation
Edison Fledricc Illuminating Company
Public Utilities Commission
Joseph F. O'Connell
Hill
Rupert Carven
John Curley
Dr. Mahoney
Schoolhouse Commission
Joseph P. Lomasney
Woodward
O'Callaghan
Women for Republic reaffirm pledge at Sinn Fein convention
Six hundred delegates at Dublin Mansion House rally for a free republic and support for upcoming elections. They urge Irish women to back only pro republic candidates and reimpose the Belfast boycott unless political prisoners are released. Countess Markievics chaired as speeches showed mixed views on provisional government and the treaty.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Sinn Fein
Republic
Ireland
Belfast
Markievics
Mansion
Death Takes Chas S Hood 76 Innovative cattle breeder and medicine maker
Charles I Hood of Lowell died after a brief illness at 76. Born in Chelsea Vermont, he built Hood's Sarsaparilla and a renowned Jersey cattle stock farm at North Tu e ks bury. He joined major associations including the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the American Jersey Cattle Club.
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Charles I. Hood
Hood
Mr. Hood
Chelsea
North Tewksbury
Jersey
Boston Chamber of Commerce
American Pharmaceutical Association
The
Proprietary Association of America
National Wholesale Druggists’ Association
American Jersey Cattle Club
American Berkshire Association
Vitriol Thrower Dies Before Arrest in Lawrence Case
Lawrence Feb and Samuel Baker alias Becker died at Lawrence General Hospital while under guard after attempting to kill his former sweetheart Betta Silverman by splashing vitriol on her. He had fled to his Broadway home and mixed vitriol with poison before his collapse.
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Lawrence, Feb
Samuel Baker
Becker
Lawrence General Hospital
Betta Silverman
Baker
Broadway
Falls Dead in Greeting Old Friend at Mass
Thomas F. Emery aged 62 of 60 Winthrop Street Charlestown collapsed after shaking hands with a friend at the close of the 9 o’clock mass in Old St. Mary’s Church North End He received last rites from Rev Henry Leary and died minutes later in an ambulance en route to Relief Hospital.
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Old St. Mary’s
North End
Thomas F. Emery
Winthrop Street
Charlestown
Henry Leary
Mr. Emery
Death of local flour inspector Mr Emery noted as natural
Medical Examiner Magrath and Emery family state death was natural. Emery, a flour businessman for over four years and Chamber of Commerce inspector, had been allied with the Hoover commission during the war. Bernard Farren, a lifelong friend, recalls Emery collapsing after a chest pain while greeting him before church.
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Magrath
Brockton Girl Alternates Between Child and Adult State
In Brockton on February 5 18 year old Clara Beauclaire reportedly shifts between a child and her normal self without warning. Doctors have not explained the condition which has baffled specialists over the past two months. She is under observation at a temporarily rented apartment while tests proceed.
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Brockton
Mammma
Clara Beauclaire
Pleasant Street
Firemen Honored for Rescue at 70 Brighton Street West End
Hoseman Samuel J. Pope of Engine Company 4 and Ladderman John J. Buckley of Ladder Company 1 were commended in general orders read citywide for extraordinary heroism at the January 14 fire at 70 Brighton street. Pope rescued Mrs Sitcawich from smoke on the second floor balcony fire escape, Buckley saved the invalid Mr Sitcawich by carrying him to the fire escape and hospital.
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West End
Samuel J. Pope
Engine Company 4
John J. Buckley
Ladder Company 1
Brighton Street
Pope
Litcawich
Sitcawich
Buckley
Michael Sitcawich
Middlesex Grand Jury Opens Amid High Expectations
The Middlesex County Grand Jury starts its session in Cambridge amid expectations of handling multiple cases. Foremost is the Stearns divorce dispute viewed as a frameup involving a well known Boston underworld figure. Also under scrutiny is attorney George F. Perry facing disbarment proceedings tied to a mobile theft ring probe.
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Middlesex County Grand Jury
Cambridge
Nathan A. Tufts
Stearns
Boston
George F. Perry
Henry F. Hurlburt
Middlesex County
Brockton Woman Clings to Century Milestone Travel Dreams
Brockton resident Mrs. George H. Walker of 140 Highland Street in her eighties has a record of extensive travel. She has toured the country by train and car and, if she reaches 100, is promised an airplane trip to visit her son Clarence H. Walker in Berkeley California.
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Brockton
George H. Walker
Highland Street
Clarence H. Walker
Berkeley
Cal
California
Teachers Suspended in Merrimac School Whipping Case
Groveland Feb 6 A new twist in the Constance Peppin case reports that Miss Ruth E Sargent and Lewis S Combes the teachers accused of whipping the 12 year old pupil in Merrimac sixth grade have been suspended by the school committee pending an investigation The private meeting will replace a previously scheduled public hearing tomorrow night.
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Groveland
Constance Peppin
Merrimac
Ruth E. Sargent
Taylor Murder Case Trails Drug Peddler Clue and Missing Butler
Detectives pursue a drug peddler linked to Taylor murder and question Peavey the valet. They seek missing Miss Normand letters and Edward Sands amid theories of jealousy blackmail or burglary. Investigators vet former employees and consider a renamed Taylor, William Cunningham Deane Tanner, as a potential clue.
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Edward F. Sands
Butler
Motion Picture Colony
Sands
Henry Peavey
Mabel Normand
William Cunningham Deane Tanner
New York
Miss Normand
Edward Fitz Strathmore
Peavey
Vaughn Comfort, ill. Vaughn’s spot filled by Hit Man
Vaughn Comfort, slated to appear at B. F. Keith's Theatre this week, cancelled due to sudden illness. B. C. Hit-Man, writer of Buddies and other Broadway hits, will take his place. Remaining program features Bessie Clayton and a large company of dancers as previously announced.
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Vaughn Comfort
A Man of Letters
Stacy Aumonier crafts an unusual tale in the Vox Rosine magazine, presenting a writer whose life turns on letters and private revelations. The piece blends wry humor with quiet melancholy as the protagonist navigates literary fame and personal consequence.
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Stacy Aumonier
Magazina
Ethical Leader Odell on Marriage and Privacy
Grand Rapids Ethical Society leader George B. Odell spoke in Boston about marriage as an experiment in living together. He cited Sinclair Lewis and warned that clashes come from cultural gaps or lack of spiritual hygiene in marriage. A separate ad promotes Hayes Healing Honey and Penetrating Salve for chest colds.
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George B. Odell
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ethical Society
Boston Ethical Society
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
Left New York for Debt in Tale of Taylor 1908 1912
William Desmond Taylor disappeared in New York in 1908 and later joined a Los Angeles film company in 1912 after working as a timekeeper for Yukon Gold Company. George Morrison, a city engineer, cites Taylor’s travels from New York to San Francisco to the Yukon and notes he used an alias and left due to overwhelming debts from his arts dealing days. Mrs. Potter Palmer is mentioned in Chicago society circles.
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Cal
William Desmond Taylor
New York
Los Angeles
Yukon Gold Company
Yukon Territory
George Morrison
Morrison
Taylor
San Francisco
Yukon
Potter Palmer
Chicago
Personal backer to the fore in Santa Barbara tale
The deceased was his personal backer, as he told Morrison. The two renewed acquaintance occurred when Mr. Taylor came to Santa Barbara to work for the American Film Company.
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Morrison
Mr. Taylor
Santa Barbara
American Film Company
Children Rescued From West End Fire at 11 Minot Street
Fire drove Michael Kollerick his wife and four other children to flee down a smoke filled stairway from a third story of a four story house at 11 Minot street West End Patrolman John Smith found the blaze and aided two children to safety before firefighters extinguished the fire causing about 500 dollars in damage
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West End
Michael Kollerick
John Smith
Joy Street
Discover Liquor in Antique Furniture
Portland, Me, Feb 5 deputies arrested Henry W. Jacobs of Roxbury Mass a dealer in antiques on unlawful possession and illegal transportation charges after five gallons of alcohol were found in false drawers of a small bureau brought here on a truck by Jacobs.
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Henry W. Jacobs
Roxbury
Mass
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