Shoe Women Visit Boston For Shoemen Convention
A thousand words describe visiting wives and daughters of shoemen gathered at Copley Plaza for a social week. From coast to coast and beyond, 250 guests tour Paine furniture, Filene's, Jordan Marsh, and local plants with tastings, shows, and tea. The youngest trio, including Miss Miriam Akenberry and Miss Carlene Ramsey from Roanoke and Louisville, bond amid New England snow as Grace Stoner defends Boston charm.
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Ohio
Virginia
Boston
Miriam Akenberry
Roanoke
Carlene Ramsey
Grace Stoner
Louisville
Gulf of Mexico
Golden Gate
California
Hell Gate
New York
Retail Men’s Association
Copley Plaza
Burlington
Towa
Alabama
Kentucky
Dakotas
Nebraska
Union
Canada
Denmark
H. B. Skates
Paine
Filene’s
Jordan Marsh
Arone
Mechanics’ Building
Harvard
United States ‘Rubber Company
North Shore
United Shoe Machinery Company
Beverly
H. B. Hagan
Skates
W. W. Wilson
John Fischer
W. H. L. Odell
Historia Roanoke
New England
Virginya
Roxbury Man Sentenced to 15 to 18 Years in Prison
George Houston of Roxbury was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in State prison by Judge O Connell in the Fast Cambridge Superior Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to a serious charge brought by a 10 year old Medford boy. Houston is 18 years old.
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George Houston
Roxbury
O’connell
Cambridge
Medford
Houston
Fire on Broadway: Couple Escape Burning Bed
A lamp toppled from a chair igniting bedding in a second floor bedroom at 692 Broadway Everett. Mr and Mrs Joseph Keene woke to heat and fled as flames spread when he moved burning coverings to the street.
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Joseph R. Keens
Broadway
Everett
Search of World for Miss DeKay
Providence January 13 As a result of John W DeKay Jr failing to appear for a conference with Judge Thomas Z Lee in charge of the search for Jeanne DeKay Jane Adams renowned social worker is expected to arrive tomorrow morning to confer with Judge Lee and arrange a wide search across America Mexico and Europe
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Providence
John W. DeKay, Jr
Jeanne DeKay
Thomas Z. Lee
Jane Addams
Lee
America
Mexico
Europe
Judge Lee Seeks Reward for Return of Missing Daughter
Judge Lee, father of the missing girl now in Lucerne, Switzerland, plans a global search for her whereabouts and offers a substantial reward. The brother’s disappearance remains unresolved, not believed linked to the girl’s case. A Chicago cousin protests the brother’s absence, suspecting newspaper involvement. Reports place the girl as seen in Providence, but details are vague. Judge Lee will confer with knowledgeable aides and extend inquiries worldwide, asking friends in Mexico and Europe to assist.
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Lee
John W. DeKay
Lucerne
Switzerland
Chicago Today
Chicago
Providence
Leo
Mexico
Europe
Prohibition Era Police Records Show Six Month Drop in Crimes
Boston police records reveal a sharp drop in arrests for most crime classes in the first half of prohibition. Comparing July to December 1919 with the same period in 1918, violations of automobile laws fell by 18 percent and intoxication arrests dropped by 19,940.
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Boston Police
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Prohibition Officials Predict Crime Drop Amid War Time Prohibition
High police officials forecast further reductions in crime if prohibition endures. Superintendent Michael H. Crowley notes real test lies ahead with scarce intoxicants. He cites 148 intoxication arrests on Saturday and compares monthly totals to 1918, showing dramatic declines during war time.
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Michael H. Crowley
Professor X in amnesia case meets son at navy yard
Dr John L Brand known as Professor X arrives in Philadelphia at his son Lieut Commander Charles S Brand’s home. The naval officer says his father now recognizes him and doctors will study the case to restore memory. They traveled from Lambertville New Jersey by car and plan quiet treatment to avoid delays in recovery.
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Philadelphia
John L. Brand
Professor X
Charless. Brand
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Lambertville
N. J
League Purges Spirits in Anti-Saloon Office Action
In Baltimore on January 13 George W Crabbe superintendent of the Maryland Anti Saloon League poured eighteen half pint bottles and two quarts bottles of whiskey into a wash basin in the league office to destroy them. He also disposed of a quart bottle of gin and checked the disposal pipe to ensure no one diverted the spirits from reaching the sewers as part of gathering evidence against liquor law violators.
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Baltimore
Maryland Anti-Saloon League
George W. Crabbe
League
Harvard adds two Wisconsin professors to business staff
Trade experts John G. Callan and Durwand E. Burchell join Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration as lecturers in factory management and industrial cost accounting and office organization. Callan chairs mechanical engineering at Western University, a MIT 1896 graduate. Burchell, former Wisconsin business professor, later taught at Columbia.
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Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin
Cambridge
John G. Callan
Callan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Burchell
Fund Goes to Guardsmen for Defenders of Public Safety
The fund of slightly over half a million dollars, raised by the public for the Relief of the Defenders of Public Safety, will be distributed to the men who served during the police strike if cases exhaust the fund. Henry Parkman, trustee chair, denied rumors that custodians would withhold money for future emergencies.
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Defenders of Public Safety
Henry Parkman
State Guard
Embroidery Transforms Wool Frock Into Fine Serene Garment
Embroidery in the fine wool of oriental colors elevates a simple serge frock from the commonplace to a striking, elegant attire piece.
Funeral for Chaplain Edwin Bolles at Goddard Chapel
Classes were suspended at Tufts and Jackson Colleges yesterday for the funeral of Chaplain Edwin C. Bolles who died Sunday at his home in Somerville at 84. Burial followed at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine, with services led by Rev. F. A. Bisbee and Dr. Lee S. McCollester.
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Tufts College
Jackson College
Edwin C. Bolles
Goddard Chapel
College Avenue
Somerville
Evergreen Cemetery
Portland
F. A. Bisbee
Leader
Boston
Lee
Death in Coal Chute at Calais Woodlands Paper Mill
Percy Roberts a 2 year old employee at St. Croix Paper Mill Woodland Calais suffocated in a coal chute. Discovered by a fireman about to shovel coal into the furnace. He had worked at the mill five years and had no known relatives. He was a native of France.
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Calais
Percy Roberts
St. Croix
Woodland
France
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Miller’s Chocolates
Armstrong Drug
Phoebe Phelps
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Kemp
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Richmond Candy Co
Simon Pure Candies
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