Red Tag Sale Ends With Convincing Bargains
Tonight closes one of the most satisfying Red Tag Sales with strong business and many new customers. The store highlights straight, honest values and offers its best bargains of the sale on the closing day.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1914
Page
3
Two Men Captured In Store Robbery Attempt
Dorchester police nabbed John Farrell of 9 Fenton Place and George Fitzgerald of 51 Greenwich Street while they tried to rob a provision store. Patrolman James Curtis made the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Farrell
Fenton Place
Dorchester
James Curtis
Farrell
George Fitzgerald
Greenwich Street
Young burglars nabbed after break in Dorchester store
Fitzgerald aged 18 on probation for larceny and an accomplice were said by police to have secured a pressed ham package and $1 in coppers. Officer Curtis, passing Dorchester avenue at 11, heard breaking glass near Wellman Fletcher�s provision store at 1419 Dorchester, peering in to see two men inside as he reached the rear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Curtis
Dorchester Avenue
Farrell
Wellman Fletcher
Two Suspects Arrested After Break-In at Cashiers Stand
Curtis reported entering through a broken window and confronting two intruders, one at the register and another with a bundle. He drew his revolver, ordered surrender, cuffed Farrell, and detained the other suspect who fled but was captured. both were taken to the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Curtis
Farrell
Nurse Threat Suspect Arrested After Threat to Nurse
Harry Larner, 25, of Broadway Dorchester, arrested by Dorchester police after allegedly threatening nurse Annie OConnor of Blue Hill Avenue Mattapan. A loaded revolver was found on him at the station and he is charged with carrying a dangerous weapon without a permit. The arrest followed a complaint by Miss OConnor a week earlier that he threatened to kill her if she would not allow visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Larner
Broadway
Boston
Dorchester
Annie O'Connor
Blue Hill Avenue
Mattapan
Larner
Ernest Kief
Miss O'Connor
Quigley Signs with National League as Umpire
The National League office in New York announced today that umpire E C Quigley has signed a contract to remain with the league. Secretary Heydler said Quigley had been negotiating with the Federal league but chose to stay with the Nationals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
E. C. Quigley
National League
Heydler
Quigley
Federal League
Nationals
Standards for Apples Should Be Raised, Professor Says
Professor Frederick C. Sears urged higher packing and size standards for apples at Horticultural Hall. He noted Sulzer law classes allow poor fruit and claimed raising minimum diameters to three inches for first class, two and three quarters for second, and two and a quarter for third would not disrupt supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick C. Sears
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Horticultural Hall
Sears
Minstrel Entertainment Shines at Wells Memorial Hall
The Wells Social and Dramatic Club presented a leading minstrel show at Wells Memorial Institute last night with Carroll J. Swan as interlocutor. Snappy jokes songs and dancing thrilled the audience. notable performers included Gene O Connor James Connolly Miss Gertrude Reynolds Miss Mae Gorman and a strong chorus. the Wells Memorial Orchestra under A Podnos provided music with Joseph T. DizeI as accompanist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Crowley
Gertrude Gunning
The
Wells
Wells Dramatic Club
Last Dramatic Club
Wells Memorial Hall
Wells Social and Dramatic Club
Wells Memorial Institute
Carroll J. Swan
Pilgrim Publicity Association
Tambos
Patrick Fenno
Annie Fitzsimmons
Albert Stolp
Herbert Schad
Charles J. McCluskey
Victoria Perry
Frank McLaughlin
Theodore
Minnie McNichols
Willian Collins
Gertrude Wilson
Hermine DeLisle
Elsie Reinhardt
Anna Braitsch
Susie Pothoff
Gertrude Reynolds
Mae Gorman
Messrs
David Burnside
Irving Canary
John Irving
John Campbell
Max Stahl
Herbert Beck
William McNalley
Robert Waterman
Francis Pearson
Joe Wilber
John Coffey
Otto Fitzdamma
Joseph Evans
James Harrigan
John Murphy
Utah State Banks Barred in Reserves Opinion
SALT LAKE CITY Utah Feb 27 Attorney General A R Barnes of Utah sent to Secretary McAdoo a legal opinion stating state banks in Utah cannot join the federal reserve system because state law bars ownership of stock in other corporations by state banks In effect the Utah banks are excluded from the reserve bank network due to governance restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
A. R. Barnes
McAdoo
Federal Reserve Bank
Dickens Takes Command of Marines at Charlestown Yard
Colonel Randolph C. Dickens is named the new commander of the Marines at the Charlestown navy yard and will assume duties today. Lieutenant-Colonel T. P. Kane departs to Portsmouth Navy Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph C. Dickens
Charlestown Navy Yard
T. P. Kane
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Opposition to tentative trust bills grows in Congress
Washington February 27 opposition is growing in Congress to tentative bills planned to supplement the Sherman act. Many leaders in both houses say the Sherman law leaves little debatable area and adding new measures could cause judicial confusion that would hamper the act’s effectiveness. Senator Newlands, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, voiced the view during a hearing on the proposed trust legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Newlands
Senate Leaders Debate Sherman Law and Federal Rail Road Control
Senate voices divided over administration bills and Sherman law scope with calls to reinforce antitrust enforcement via Interstate Commerce, a federal incorporation act for railroads, and tighter regulation of railroad securities. Albert H. Harris and Charles R. Van Hise advocate federal action to streamline railroad finance and curb abuses.
Trust Programme Bills Limitations and Cooperative Recognition
The speaker urged omitting from the trust programme bills any provisions that seek to further define unlawful restraints. He also stated that trust legislation should recognize and regulate cooperative corporations.
Dinner for Miss Wood at Tremont Stores farewell
A group of women gathered at the American House dining room for a farewell dinner honoring Miss Mary B. Wood after nine years as saleswoman and floor superintendent in Tremont Stores garment department. Present were Miss Wood and fellow associates including department manager Alice Burns and various Misses from the garment staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary B. Wood
Miss Wood
Salt and Coat
Tremont
Tremont Street
Butler's
Everybody’s
Boston
Mary Wood
Alice Burns
Annie O'Reilly
May Powell
Freidman
Lilian Lord
Annie Bilder
Mary Manning
Ada Bell
Alte Roberts
Katherine Plummer
Myra G. Kelly
Nellie Greenles
Lena Farlardeau
Take Primary Fight to Court In Cambridge Mayoral Race
Progressive candidate Wendall D. Rockwood vows to appeal to the courts to force placing his name on the ballot. Cambridge Board of Registrars reversed a Tuesday decision, declaring Arthur F. Blanchard the Progressive nominee for mayor to be on the March 10 ballot, prompting a mandamus action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Wendall D. Rockwood
Cambridge Board of Registrars
Board of Registrars of
Rockwood
Arthur F. Blanchard
Progressive Party
Mayor Curley calls for abolition of truant schools
Mayor Curley urged the abolition of truant and delinquent schools in Boston, proposing freedom for boys in those institutions. He cut a third from the department’s appropriation and favored closing the Parental School at West Roxbury, arguing truancy skews toward poorer families and suggesting truant officers escort children to schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curley
West Roxbury
Alfred Hopkins Dies Suddenl y in Chelsea
Alfred Hopkins president and treasurer of the Boston Gore and Web Manufacturing Company and a prominent Chelsea citizen died suddenly last night at his home 6 Franklin Avenue Chelsea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Hopkins
Boston Gore and Web Manufacturing Company
Chelsea
Franklin Avenue
City
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