Girls warned not to gossip about employers business
Edward F Flynn of the Stone Webster organization urged about 150 women stenographers to avoid discussing their employers affairs. He warned that even trivial chatter can harm the firm, and that a gossiping worker risks losing her place. Flynn noted salary ranges and the value of both high school and business college training, stressing individual ability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Flynn
Stone & Webster Marfigement Association
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Flynn
Boston
Hub sleuths sent to jail for taxicab sting
Nellie Grant Guertin and J Addison Patton private detectives in this city were convicted of perjury and conspiracy in a bid to collect 75000 from a New York taxicab company. Guertin eight months plus $1 fine. Patton one year at the island plus $1 fine. Patton took the blame. court found Guertin guilty. He attacked Dr Richard Wynne of Boston, who testified for the state. Wynne had been indicted but turned state's evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Grant Guertin
J. Addison Patton
New York
Miss Guertin
Patron
Richard Wynne
Boston
Wynne
Patton
Danderine Promises Heavy Hair Free From Dandruff
A 25 cent Knowlton's Danderine advertises a quick fix for dandruff and itchy scalps. It claims one application doubles hair beauty, dissolves dandruff in ten minutes, and prevents hair loss by nourishing roots, urging immediate purchase at drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knowlton
Domestic science in school lecture denounces high school curriculum
Professor Henry Clayton Metcalf of Tufts College lectured at Perkins Hall urging public schools to teach housekeeping and household economics. He condemned overorganization, wasteful shopping, and luxury while linking factory life to diminished home life and warning against misleading advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clayton Metcalf
Tufts College
Perkins Hall
Boylston Street
Metcalf
Mayor Curley Takes Up Women Seat Complaint At Dudley Street
Women petitioned Mayor Curley over seat hogs at the Dudley Street EL terminal. They say men board cars at entry and fill seats before women can enter, forcing women to stand. Curley forwarded the appeal to General Bancroft of the Boston Elevated, who pledged to discuss the issue with company officials and stressed deference to women boarding the cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curley
Dudley Street
General Bancroft
Boston
Dudley Street Terminal
Investigate Plan for Negro Kingdom on Gold Coast
Washington reports the State Department, at Britain's request, asks the Justice Department to probe Chief Sam of Oklahoma and followers about forming a negro kingdom on the Gold Coast of Africa. Investigation planned though action to stop emigration is unlikely. British officials question site suitability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Department of Justice
Gold Coast
Africa
Sam
Oklahoma
Harrison Co. Surplus Wholesale Suit Sale at $7.50
Harrison Co. advertises wholesale surplus clothing with hundreds of suits and silk mixtures at seven fifty each. The ad notes men’s suits priced at twelve fifty and seven fifty with stock from 662 to 672 Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
BH. Harrison Co
Washington
Adut
Cassie
H. Harrison Co
Washington St
Internal Bathing Gains Vast Popularity Across Society
Men and women from every walk of life are using and endorsing this treatment. In the past four years the practice of Internal Bathing has surged more than 500 percent in popularity.
Boston Woman “Fagin” Sought By Police
Boston police probe a West End woman reputed as a female Fagin by teaching young girls to steal. The chase intensified after 12 year old Jennie Desalvo of 151 Leverett Street was arrested for stealing a pocketbook from Mrs. John DeJong of 420 Geneva Avenue in a Washington Street department store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Dickens
West End
Jennie Desalvo
Leverett Street
John DeJong
Geneva Avenue
Dorchester
Washington Street
Fagin
Little Girl Accuses Woman Thief Teacher in Balloon Heist
Special Officer Carey captures a girl who admits stealing toy balloons and a pocketbook, claiming a larger woman coerced her. Police suspect a female thief trainer targets young girls, instructing theft in games, offering candy money, and placing children on probation to repeat crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie
Desalvo
Fire Guards for Horses in Massachusetts Stables
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals backs House bill 779 after a probe of 45 Boston stables found 2221 horses on second and third floors with only one exit. The bill demands a night watchman for larger stables, limits eight horses per second floor, and requires two exits or a fire proof partition with automatic doors on the third floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Legislative Committee
Boston
Rowley
Society
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Gilchrist Co
Washington & Winter Sts
HUB
Prof. Metcalf
Edwin M. Bacon
Sunday Post
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Appeal OF
Negro Kingdom
WM. A. Anderson
Rockland, Mass
Ruth H. Blackmer
South Hadley Falls
Mass
Sarah J. Culver
Stratford, Conn
J. B. L. Cascade
Thomas Francis
D. O
Charles A. Tyrrell
Tyrrell
Riker-Jaynes
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Lynn
Salem
Lowell
Lawrence
Brockton
Haverhill
Worcester
Springfield
Holyoke
New England
United States
Raed Drug Sedrcese
Carey
Dominion Coal CO
Halifax
N. S
Dominion Coal Company
Lingan
Louisburg
Stanley
Lady Laurier
Library Bureau
Federal Street
Fort Hill
Joan T, Connorco
Pa Lad
Union St
Jefferson
Connor
Santa Clara Valley
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