Douglas Snarl Still Untied
After four hours of mediation the Douglas controversy remains unsettled. The Boot and Shoe Workers' Union rejected the committee’s proposal, while Douglas Shoe Company accepted it. A Friday investigation by a mixed committee will probe wage scales for three shoe grades and summon both sides.
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Brockton
Committee of Mediation
Douglas
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
Douglas Shoe Company
Allen Hudson
Patrick McCarty
Warren Goddard
J. K. Vincent
Walter P. Copeland
Board of Trade
Douglas Manufacturing Company
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Association
Woman sues War Department for land price in Hingham
Mrs. Olive F. Hobart acting as her own attorney opposed the United States Government in U S District Court seeking a fair market price for land in Hingham taken for a magazine site. The War Department offered 500 dollars and condemnation proceedings started. Judge Dodge instructed the jury to consider only fair market value. The jury is deliberating as other seizure cases proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive F. Hobart
West Concord Street
Dodge
United States District Court
Hingham
War Department
Hobart
United States
Crib Fire Toll Grows As Officials Probe South Chicago Disaster
Officials deepen the investigation into the wooden crib blaze off South Chicago. The death toll, already at 59, is expected to rise to around 70 as more bodies are found, many at the shaft mouth where workers perished.
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Chicago
Italian Thugs Rob Sailor in Nice Beating
In Nice two Italians attacked Gehlan of the US battleship Minnesota as he walked a dark street. They beat him and stole his watch and money. He identified the assailants after police found him injured and they were jailed for six months.
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Nice
Minnesota
Gehlan
Fire threats disrupt Grant and Rice Schools on Phillips and Appleton
An incendiary fire at Grant School on Phillips Street endangers over 1000 children, with kerosene oil found on coats and burned clothing tossed from a window. Rice Primary School on Appleton Street encounters a faulty safety valve causing steam, but orderly evacuation averts panic under teachers Miss Turpin Miss O’Brien and Miss Emerson. Police and Fire Marshal investigate the Grant incident as a repeated fire bug attempt.
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Grant School
Phillips Street
Rice Primary
Appleton Street
Elias H. Marston
Agnes G. Turpin
Rice School
New York
O'Brien
Emerson
Daughters of Vermont Meet at the Vendome
Mrs. Harry W. Flagg of the Federation of Women's Clubs of Brockton spoke before the Daughters of Vermont at the Vendome on A Trip to Panama and the Spanish Main. Tea was served by several members. many officers and guests attended the afternoon meeting.
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Harry W. Flagg
Federation of Women’s Clubs of
Brockton
Daughters of Vermont
Vendome
Panama
Spanish Main
Louis G. Hale
I. C. Wheeler
G. A. Wheeler
F. W. Sherburne
George A. Burdett
Edith A. Brownell
Edward J. Sawyer
C. H. Huff
Charles A. Ketchum
Edgar H. Thomas
Croxford
Harvey L. Boutwell
Bert S. Currier
George H. Graves
Frederic W. Sherburne
Albert W. Pratt
O. B. Johnson
William H. Converse
Daniel P. Grosvenor
Anthony Kelley
Ford Hanscom
Mary M. Brigham
A. H., Brown
Delmer FE. Croft
Mary Walton Dewey
George H. Frost
Cora L. Davis Gleason
George O. Proctor
Edwin A. Quinn
Arthur L. Robinson
J. D. Wheeler
Mrs. Laura Juhn-Truelove-Talmer's triple wedding in one room
In Jeffersonville Indiana on January 21 Laura Juhn Truelove wed again in the same room where she had previously married two other men. Undaunted by prior unions she completed a third marriage, taking the new name Laura Juhn-Truelove-Talmer.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Laura Juhn- Truelove
Laura Juhn-Truelove-Talmer
Nurse Miss Cannon Calls for Inquiry at Burbank City Hospital
Miss Margaret Cannon former nurse probationer at Burbank City Hospital accuses the facility of serious misconduct. She alleges an attendant caused a patient's death by withholding a strychnine injection and that double morphine doses were given to gain time for a nurse. She sent a letter with seven charges to the hospital trustees and spoke with Mayor O Connell. The board promised action if specific names and charges are provided.
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Miss Cannon
David T. Walsh
O'Connell
Charles E. Ware
Board of Trustees
Ada M. Whyte
Birthday, Cat Grizel Bulges Through 28 Years in Jersey City
Edward Malcolm of 6 State street marked his cat Grizel turning 28. The once black cat now shows a grayish coat with a white tail and has mothered hundreds of kittens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
N. J
Edward Malcolm
State Street
Grizel
To Wolf's My Clothier car route directions
The message instructs pedestrians to reach Wolf's My Clothier via Hanover and Portland streets by the Washington Street Tunnel. It notes that passengers going south should exit at Friend Street, while those going north should exit at Union Street.
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Wolf’s
Hanover
Portland Sts
Washington Street
Friend St
Union St
Skippers Protest New Boston Fish Exchange Rules
Fresh fish sold as grain and commodities under a new method at T Wharf. The New England Fish Exchange, with 43 Boston firms, enforces a 1 percent levy on catch value. Skippers object as they must dock, enter the exchange rooms, and risk paying the fee despite prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T Wharf
New England Fish Exchange
Boston Fish Firms
John R. Neal
W. J. O’brien
M. P. Shaw
Exchange
Maine
Gagged Robbery Hits West End Resident
Joseph Creiger of 20 Parkman Street was assaulted by two men who followed him from his Chambers Street store to his home and escaped with 300 dollars. He was found unconscious and could not describe his attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Creiger
Parkman Street
West End
Chambers Street
Creiger
Coats and shirts bargain at Morse's department store
Morse's offers numerous $25 and $30 fancy overcoats priced at $18.50. Also available are men’s shirts originally $1.50 and $1.00, now 75 cents each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltham
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U. S
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Quebec Province
Grasset
Fort Albany
Hudson Bay Company
St. James’ Bay
Bernard
Lemieux
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Rochester
Roxbury
WaShington St
Bacon’s
Summer ST
Fitchburg
Daddaldaal
AAA Dal
Dadddadad
Ers
Boston
Charles B. Hubbell
SIS
Adams Square
Plimpton-Hervey CO
SLLVD
Wolf's
Mr. Clothier
Portland Streets
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