Fire fighters hold big ball in Boston drill night
A 60 man Boston Fire Department drill led by Captain Charles Donoghue marked the 42nd annual Fire and Protective Departments ball at Mechanics Building. About 10,000 people attended, filling the main hall and overflow areas while Mayor Peters, Fire Commissioner Murphy, Chief Peter Walsh and others observed. The squad performed martial drill steps to applause, with the grand march led by Captain L C Stickel and his wife, followed by city officials and guests.
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Fire Department
Charles Donoghue
Fire Headquarters
Boston Fire and Protective Departments
Mechanics’ Building
Peters
Murphy
Peter Walsh
General Court
Hendrix Club
Donoghue
L. C. Stickel
Ladderly
Firemen’s Relief Association
Daniel J. Pt Ae
Engine 7
Father John's Medicine Ad Promises Cold Relief
An advertisement touts Father John's Medicine as the cure for persistent coughs and colds. It claims 65 years of success, soothing breathing passages, nourishing the body, rebuilding tissue, and restoring health before illness worsens.
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Father John
Fruit and Carrots as Best Diet for Preachers
Dr Martin Edwards of Boston urged Methodist preachers at Wesleyan Hall to follow two health commandments Eat right and Stand right. He claimed obedience would lead to long life and good health during yesterday forenoon’s weekly meeting.
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Martin Edwards
Boston
Wesleyan Hall
How simple it is to be well says preventive doctor
A noted preventive medicine doctor describes how diet affects mood and health. He praises fruit and vegetables, especially spinach and carrots, criticizes white flour and heavy protein foods, and notes his own regimen of limited meat and eggs. He urges lighter fish intake in summer and stresses toxins from heavy diets.
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Edwards
Penny ante names revealed in Central Court joke
In a lighthearted Central Court session, fourteen defendants faced penny ante charges on the Sabbath. Judge Murray asked who won as all raised hands except one. Three dollars fines were imposed. a broke man hesitated, and a name mix up led to a comic reveal as the clerk corrected him from Brown to Baker.
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Central Court
Murray
May Settle Strike Today In City Hall Conference
A 2 pm meeting at City Hall with Mayor Peters presiding aims to settle weeks of building trades strikes. A six member Building Trades Employers Association committee will meet the United Building Trades Council strike committee, while the mayor acts as sole public representative. Both sides had kept quiet as talks were anticipated.
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Peters
City Hall
Building Trades
Building Trades Employers Association
United Building Trades Council
Leninine Sees Crisis for Communist Party in 1920s style typo
Copenhagen report of a Petrograd Pravda article by A Nikolai Lenine warns that conflict between labor unions and Soviet power could fracture the Bolshevik state unless a settlement is found. The piece titled The Communist Party in a Crisis argues Russian workers seek self benefit over collective welfare.
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Copenhagen
Petrofrad Pravda
A. Nikolai Lenine
Communist Party
Puritan gray georgette dress tops afternoon show
The program featured Miss Esther McDade as the Miss Correct Evening Girl in a gray georgette gown with elbow sleeves and a rose-trimmed hat, while Miss Helen Rasmussen wore a backless brown chiffon velvet frock with an ostrich fan. Irish dances by Miss Leonora O'Tourke and Lady Gregory plays drew strong applause, including The Rising of the Moon and Hyacinth Harvey with sheep-stealing antics delivering laughter.
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Miss Esther McDade
Miss Incorrect
Helen Rasmussen
Bve
Leonora O’tourke
Lady Gregory
Hyacinth Harvey
Dress standards for the business girl debate clothing and conduct
Elsie K. Chamberlain addressed the League of Girls' Clubs on dress standards for the business girl. The talk urged modest, unobtrusive office attire and cautioned against stagelike makeup, loud hats, and excessive hair styling while illustrating correct and incorrect office and street costumes with model outfits.
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League of Girls
Elsie K. Chamberlain
League of Girls’ Clubs
Unity House
Girls’ City Club
Girls’ Friendly Society
Celtic Players Score Irish Night at Roxbury Opera House
The Celtic Players with the Irish Literary Society of Boston staged two Lady Gregory plays, The Rising of the Moon and Hyacinth Harvey, at Dudley Street Opera House Roxbury. Emmet O'Toole sang Irish songs and The Crossroads act by Misses Eileen and Anastasia Buckley featured lively Irish dancing.
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Celtic Players
Irish Literary Society of Boston
Dudley Street Opera House
Roxbury
Lady Gregory
Hyacinth Harvey
Emmet O'Toole
Eileen
Anastasia Buckley
Ireland
Wileen
Dublin
Mrs Marie Faelten Dies in Boston at 52
Mrs Marie Dewing Faelten president of the Professional Women's Club and a noted music educator died at Massachusetts General Hospital after a recent nervous collapse following an operation. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Mt Auburn. She was born in 1874 in Mendocino and educated at the New England Conservatory. Survived by husband Reinhold Faelten a brother and two sisters.
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Marie (Dewing) Faelten
Professional Women’s Club
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mt. Auburn
Faelten
Mendocino
Cal
Charles Sr
Elizabeth Collins Dewing
New York
New England Conservatory of Music
Conservatory
Reinhold Faelten
Carl Faelten
Boston
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