Textile workers plan outside city mass meeting in Lawrence
Feb 11 report says strikers of Lawrence textile plants will meet outside city limits for an outdoor mass gathering Thursday after city officials refused requests for a street parade and mass meeting on Lawrence Common. Ime Kaplan, secretary of the general committee, announces the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Ime Kaplan
General Committee of
Textile Workers
Director of Public Safety
Director of Public Property
Lawrence Common
Parade and Mass Meeting Applications Filed Late
Applications for the parade and mass meeting were submitted late, triggering review by officials to determine eligibility and potential scheduling adjustments. Local organizers expressed disappointment at the delay but emphasized continued plans for public events.
Quiet Strike Day as Pickets Thinned and Aid Begins
After a quiet day no violence was seen as strikers dwindled. First strike benefit payments start tomorrow to aid families, and a cooperative store opens with $1000 invested. Six arrests for intimidation, mills report more workers, loom fixers and Woolen Company talks yield no settlement. Aid applications rise at City Hall for families of operatives.
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Waplan
General Committee
Maple Street
Fonce
Zihber
Arlington Mills
James I. Milliken
Hkiverett Mills
Loom Fixers
American Woolen Company
Ecekr
Everett
Malden Woman Turns 100 Gramma Robinson Celebrated
Malden’s oldest resident Mrs. Mary B. Robinson reaches her 100th birthday today known as Gramma Robinson by Oak Grove neighbors and local children. A birthday tree will light up her home and she will receive a bouquet of 101 pinks from neighbors. She is healthful and still helps with chores though a bit deaf widow of Joseph Robinson former train master for Boston & Maine railroad.
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Malden
Oak Grove
Gramma Robinson
Mary B. Robinson
Hew
Joseph Robinson
Boston & Maine Railroad
Quincy House Owners Take Over Essex Hotel Lease
McCarthy and Co owners of the Quincy House have bought the Essex Hotel lease opposite South Station after renewing their own 10 year Quincy House lease. Possession timing is uncertain as Essex lease runs for some time more and negotiations continue between current and new lessees.
State budget debate heralds tax relief push and cuts
Representative B Loring Young of Weston, chair of ways and means, urged support for the 34 million dollar State budget. He noted an 11 million dollar State tax target and led discussion on large reductions including trimming the State Guard budget from 248000 to 200000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Loring Young
Weston
Committee On Ways and Means
House
Young
State Guard
Peasant Army Captures Kiev In Ukraine Conflict
Advices from Kiev report Petlura and his peasant army in control of the city for five days after defeating Bolsheviks. Petlura aims to aid France at Odessa against Moscow Bolshevik bands invading Ukraine for food. In Vienna, Ukrainians and Ruthenians in the Temburg region favor an armistice with Poland, but Poles demand retreat from Lemberg and control over key oil regions.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Kiev
Petlura
Ukraine
Odessa
Moscow
Temburg
Child Falls Three Stories to Death in Veranda Accident
Four year old Walter Daley, son of William Daley, toppled from a back veranda railing at 938 Broadway Chelsea while piles of wood were being arranged. He was found unconscious with grave head injuries and died at Frost Hospital an hour later.
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Broadway
Chelsea
Walter Daley
William Daley
Frost Hospital
General McCain To Be Decorated At Camp Devens
Major General Henry P. McCain sails to Washington to receive the Distinguished Service Order for his wartime adjutant-general service during a period of great stress. At Devens, 48 overseas patients from the 26th Division arrive by Mongolia with 28 discharged for medical boards. a long list of soldiers and officers from multiple units are admitted or assigned to wards.
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Camp Devens
Henry P. McCain
Army
Uncle Sam
Washington
Camp Hospital
New York
Mongolia
Grand Central Palace Debarkation Hospital
Ellis Island
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hoboken
Williams Bridge Hospital
J. F. Fallon
Brookfine
Convales Center
Herbert H. Guild
101St Ambulance Company
Pleasant Street
Canton
Michael F. Tighe
101St Infantry
Child Street
Jamaica Plain
Eugene C. Merrill
108D Field Artillery
Kennebunkport
Oscar Desrosiers
104Th Infantry
Holyoke
John Stankavitch
East Granby
Conn
Harry Bradbury
Monroe
George F. Walker
325Th Infantry
Spencer
Hugh Hunt
Sempster
N. H
Elmer Palmer
Ordnance Corps
Fitchburg
Harry Cornell
312Th
Macine
Danbury
Michael Flanney
5Th
Troy
N. Y
Joseph B. Nye
Brockton
Charles IE. O'Connell
School Street
Roxbury
John W. Jacques
U7th Field Artillery
Medford Street
Malden
Henry J. Gosselin
11Th Infantry
New Haven
James J. Rigney
808D Field Artillery
Nashua
Charles J. Cormier
Cochituate
John J. Gookin
Pawtucket
Frank Calonszo
60Th Infantry
Bridgeport
Court Clears Sergeant Beresnack of Absence Charges
Summary court proceedings dismissed the absent without leave charges against Sergeant Samuel Beresnack. He was moved from the cantonment guardhouse to the remount depot after a complaint proved unfounded, and the military declined to publish details. Army friends praised his service with the military police. The Better Ole play arrives Friday from Boston with 60 actors for a performance at the Red Cross recreation building to aid base hospital and convalescent soldiers.
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Samuel Beresnack
Boston
Red Cross
Cambridge Opposes Annexation With Greater Boston
At a Cambridge public hearing on Mayor Peters' annexation bill, ex-Councillor Wentworth condemned merging Cambridge with Boston, arguing it would strip the city’s identity and educational prestige. Resident Joseph Garfield also opposed the move, warning of a loss of public spirit. The Cambridge City Council took no action.
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Peters
Cambridge
Greater Boston
Charles E. Wentworth
University City
Boston
Greater
Joseph E. Garfield
Chase Faces Assault Charge In Taunton
Taunton February 1 Thomas F. Kearns a former Mansion House associate of New Bedford will be arraigned in the Second District Court on assault and battery against J Frank Chase secretary of the Watch and Ward Society. Chase was hit in the Taunton Inn after a remark by Kearns. He was not seriously hurt and posted bail of 100 dollars. Chase has previously appeared in court against Kearns.
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Taunton
Thomas F. Kearns
Mansion House
New Bedford
Second District Court
J. Frank Chase
Watch and Ward Society
Taunton Inn
Kearns
Chase
Watch and Ward
Navy restricts shore duty to Bureau-approved cases
Newport Rhode Island February 11 The Bureau of Navigation orders all station commanding officers to assign regular navy personnel to shore duty only with explicit bureau authority. The policy aims to keep maximum regular establishment manpower for combatant vessel duties.
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Newport
R. I
Naval Station
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
German ships to boost U S troop transport capacity
Edward N Hurley chair of the United States Shipping Board said German ships totaling about 600 000 tons gross are available for troop transport This includes roughly 300 000 tons for the US and an added capacity of over 60 000 men per month The plan involves German crews and immediate deployment to British or French ports before US control.
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New York
United States
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Hurley
Herbert Hoover
The
Food Administration
Europe
Treves
Germany
Bismarck
Tipitz
Windenburg
Chester
Aylwin
Bremen
Naval Armistice Commission
United States Navy
War Department
Shipping Board
Leviathan
H. W. Rogers
John F. Madden
Quartermaster Corps
Edward Vollroth
Mmile M. A. Taufflieb
W. Bolling
Wilson
8. S. McClure
Philip Williams
VA. Ss. S. Chester
Julia Lathrop
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Auto Truck Injures Chelsea Girl
Five year old Hazel Bon of 155 Spencer Avenue Chelsea was struck by an auto truck owned by Hyman Chrey of 76 Howard Street Framingham and operated by 14 W VanDenburch of 6 Union Street Framingham. She is on the dangerous list at Frost Hospital with multiple head abrasions and possible internal injuries.
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Hazel Bon
Spencer Avenue
Chelsea
Hyman Chrey
Howard Street
Framingham
W. VanDenburch
Union Street
Frost
Debate over restraining dogs to aid sheep industry
A legislative committee heard several speakers condemning and criticizing a report that would allow dog officers or owners to kill dogs found at large between sunset and sunrise. Supporters urged a state dog officer and stronger restraints, while opponents argued such measures harm dogs and could benefit only commercial interests.
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Legislative Committee On Agriculture
Recess Committee
Commission
Wendell P. Thore
Sheep Commission
Peter T. Adams
Stockbridge
Charles H. Beaman
Leverett
Wilfrid Wheeler
Richardson
West Brookfield
Ife
The
Wool Trust
W. H. Niminess
Lynn
Francis H. Rowley
Massachusetts S. P. C. A
Suspect Arrested in Boston Public Library Coat Thefts
Police arrest 43 year old Charles J Gale on larceny charges for two overcoats stolen from the Boston Public Library. Gale refused to give an address and claims to be an accountant. Inspectors Hart and Conway led the arrest amid reports of multiple coat thefts at the library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Public Library
Charles J. Gale
Gale
Hart and Conway
Edward Ludlow
Isabella Street
James Doherty
Melrose Street
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Ways and Means
Coolidge
Gen. M'Cain
D.S.O
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Lowell
Arthur T. Paul
34Th Infantry
Manville
W. B. Strack
105Th Infantry
Schenectady
John HE. Bradley
11Th Machine Gun Battalion
South Norwalk
Clyde Vv. Abbott
55Th Coast Artillery Corps
Oleander Street
Holmes Street
Allston
Placid Burke
165Th Infantry
Washington Street
Clifton A. Westgate
65Th Coast Artillery Corps
Bridge Street
Fairhaven
Irving McLaughlin
Railroad Avenue
North Andover
Martin J. Kavanaugh
128Th Infantry
Worcester
Jeremiah Crowley
Eighth Field Signal Battalion
Murdoch Street
Brighton
Abraham Krasner
Coast Artillery Corps
Poplar Street
Edward Goyette
John Marley
Auburn
Bartholomew Flaherty
S9th
Norwood
Edward Hobday
M Company
310Th Infantry
Meshantinle
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S07th Infantry
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Dominic Bilancioni
Sd5th Engineers
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Chandler & Co
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