Storrow Seeks Health Reforms On Boston Tour
Candidate James J. Storrow addressed six sizable crowds in downtown Boston areas Back Bay South End Brighton and Dorchester. He criticized the Fitzgerald administration’s health department and urged reforms to stamp out infectious disease, proposing a city map to mark plague spots and a Board of Health to remove disease to lower Boston’s high death rate.
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Storrow Campaign Rally Tour Includes Health Reform Stance
Candidate Storrow spoke at multiple Boston venues praising health safeguards like an urban health chart. He cited Philadelphia TB cases and argued that better preventive medicine and adequate Health Department funding would reduce deaths and illness while criticizing Fitzgerald for appointing costly, unnecessary officials.
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Murder Case Stirs Chinese Tong Rivalry in New York
A murder trial in New York heightens tension in Chinese tong factions. Bow Kum, called the plum blossom, a Chinese slave girl, was stabbed to death last August in a Chinatown room after arrival from San Francisco aboard Chin Lem of the On Leongs.
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Horse Shoots Itself After Cartridge Explosion in Roxbury
A horse pulling a laundry wagon owned by Charles A. Hurd was hit by a bullet when a cartridge placed on Cabot street exploded under its hoof. The horse suffered a breast wound but is expected to recover. Police believe boys placed the cartridge and the horse’s shoe triggered the blast.
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Roxbury
Boston Mayoral Campaign Fire Over False Charges
John F. Fitzgerald rejects Storrow accusations as campaign distortions. He cites Finance Commission records showing coal payments to W. K. Niver Coal Co. total 48 964.56 and demands an apology for misrepresentation. He accuses opponents of dragging City Hall figures into attacks.
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