Municipal charter drive outlines sweeping city changes
The proposal calls for do away with municipal primaries and party designations, a four year mayor, a permanent finance commission with set pay, a nine member city council replacing the board, an advisory unpaid board, strict civil service controls, a reappointed street commission with more power, new permit fees, annual loan payments with no sinking fund, contracts over 1000 to be advertised, and limited long term contracts without mayoral council approval. The charter draft by the commission remains open to minor changes.
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Permanent Finance Commission
Common Council
Civil Service Commission
Great Boston Revival With Choir of 4000 Starts in Twenty-Five Churches Tonight
The Boston revival opens as eight evangelists arrive along with William McEwan of Scotland and other notables. Rev. A. Z. Conrad hails the campaign as the city’s greatest religious awakening, with Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman leading from Tremont Temple and a nationwide effort among twenty five churches.
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Boston
William McEwan
Scotland
Sankey
Lewis Smith
Albany Smith
Gypsy Smith
George A. Fisher
Lawrence Greenwood
Charles A. Rowe Wilbur I. Griffin
Christ
Tremont Temple
Dr. Chapman
Mr. Alexander
C. H. Moss
Evangelical Alliance
J. Wilbur Chapman
Jesus
God
Richmond
Committee On
Duncan A. MacPhie
F. A. Harold
Chapman
Herbert S. Johnson
Alexander
City Charter Referendum Foes Report
It was stated that May or Hubbard opposed a referendum on the city charter with input from the Finance Commission. John F. Kennedy will dissent from the report without a referendum when the charter goes to the Legislature. The commission met long and issued a brief land takings inquiry on the Washington street subway. The whitewash label and earlier charges of high land prices were raised by the Common Council special committee.
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Finance Commission
Hubbard
John F. Kennedy
Washington Street
the Common Council
Fire Claims Three Daughters of Bell Canada Treasurer
Montreal January 25. A fire at the residence of W G Slack treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada killed three daughters Beatrice 16 Marguerite 12 and Ruth 9. Mrs Slack and two other daughters Elizabeth and Gertrude were hospitalized with prostration and burns.
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Montreal
W. G. Slack
Bell Telephone Company of Canada
Tragic House Fire Claimed Four Family Members
Beatrice escaped the blaze at age sixteen then reentered the home to search for two missing sisters. She succumbed to smoke as the bodies of the two younger girls were found beside a half-burned mattress in the basement area.
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Beatrice
Nahant Boy Shot by Friend in Clubroom Accident
Everett Lewis, 17, was accidentally shot in the abdomen by George Alexander, 16, while they handled a 10 gauge shotgun in a Colby Hill clubroom. A heavy overcoat and quick action prevented serious injury though shots caused flesh wounds and a sensation among the boys.
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Nahant
Colby Hill
Everett Lewis
the Hill
George Alexander
Lewis
Q E Dickerman dies in Florida at 80
Quincy E. Dickerman longtime head of Brimmer School Boston dies in Daytona Florida pneumonia at Hotel Howard aged 80. He taught for 60 years and will be buried in Somerville at 5 Central Street. Survived by son Frank KE Dickerman daughter Mrs Henry F Hayward sister Miss Emily Dickerman brother Valentien Dickerman.
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Quincy E. Dickerman
Brimmer School
Boston
Howard
Daytona
Fla
Central Street
Somerville
Dickerman
Ifrank KE. Dickerman
Henry F. Hayward
Mankato
Minn
Speakers for Tuesday schedule across Boston churches
A compiled list shows church venues in South End Roxbury Jamaica Plain Dorchester Cambridge Somerville Melrose Brookline Watertown Newton Centre and more set to host speakers. Reverends Toy Sheldon Stewart Ottman Thacker Stair Atkinson Rees Taylor Weddell Schaeffer Needham Buswell Gray Granstaff Smith Spooner Davidson Taylor Elliott Sayford Earl Strough Faulconer and others are listed as speakers.
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South End
Tremont Street
Tremont and
West Concorde
People’s Temple
Columbus Ave
Berkeley Sel
West Medford—The Baptist Church
Boston
Harvard Aves
Roxbury
Dudley Street Baptist
Dudley St
Immanuel
Walnut Ave
Dale Jamaica Plain
Boylston Congregational
Boylston and
Armory Sts
Upham’s Corner
Dorchester
Stoughton St
Stoughton
Summer
Second Congregational
Centre
Wash
Field's Corner
Parkman St
Quincy
Bethany
Chestnut and
Hancock Sts
South Boston
South Baptist
Fourth
East Boston
Maverick
Central St Charlestown
Winthrop
Green St
Everett—First Methodist
Norwood St
Malden—Centre
Washington St
Cambridge—First Baptist
Central Sq
Magazine and
River Sts
Somerville—Broadway
Sycamore St
Melrose
First Baptist
Main and
Upham Sts
Melrose Highlands
Iranklin-Ashland
Stoneham
Common and
Central Sts
Brookline—The Baptist Church
Beacon and Park Sts
Allston
Brighton
Watertown
Mt. Auburn
Newton Centre
Methodist
Daniel S. Toy
H. D. Sheldon
W. F. Stewart
Ford C. Ottman
J. E. Thacker
George R. Stair
Ralph Atkinson
Milton S. Rees
Harry Taylor
John W. Weddell
C. T. Schaeffer
Thomas Needham
J. A. Earl
D. D
Henry W. Strough
Henry N. Faulconer
Medford
Csouth
Jamaica Plain
Brookline
Newton
Cambridge
Somerville
Boston and Roxbury Officials and Residents Listed in City Directory
A fragmented page lists names and titles including Superintendent, Chief Usher, Dr. Henry Broughton, Rev. HH, and several clergymen, along with numerous local neighborhoods in Boston such as Dorchester sections and Roxbury. The text includes multiple personal names like Alexander Diebold and L. K. Marston among others, indicating a registry or directory-like listing of officials and residents.
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Henry Broughton
George Coleman
Arthur Mans
Alexander Diebold
HL Wardley
L. K. Marston
W. (. Jowine
Herbert Barrier
William M
William Fe
Murphly
Nis
L. A. Nies
J. Davis
Lewis Hermance
George Fi. Carter
George
Carter
A. M. Osgood
M. V. B. Knox
Vibe Revoto
Burbee
Susceess
Alfred PP. Waterman
E. M. Worth
Denier
Enet. Paleon
William H. Rice
A. I. Miles
J. E. Gustin
Seventh annual subscription party planned by Sodality
Arrangements are nearly complete for the seventh annual subscription party of the Young Men's Sodality of the Immaculate Conception Church to be held in the Catholic Union hall next Thursday evening. The sodality aims to make this year’s party the best in its history.
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Young Men's Sodality of the
Immaculate Conception Church
The
Catholic Union
Sodality
Anti-Gag Rule Drive In Senate Aims For Roll Calls
The lobby king and Senator Richard Teeling push for an anti-gag rule to require roll calls in the Senate. It would reduce the current eight vote veto and bring Senate practice closer to House rules by forcing recorded votes on corporate measures. The move seeks to curb darkness and expand publicity among 40 senators.
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King
Senate
Richard
Teeling
Charlestown
House
President Treadway
Electra Debuts In Dresden With Stellar Cast
Richard Strauss new opera Electra premieres at Court Opera House in Dresden amid high praise. Conductor Herr Von Sehuch and lead performers Frau Krull and Mme Schumann Heink receive standing ovations as guests including Prince and Princess Johan George attend. The tale centers on dark horrors with limited redeeming poetry.
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Dresden
Germany
Richard Strauss
Electra
Europe
Court Opera House
Herr von Sehuch
Frau Krull
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Clytempestra
Prince
Johan-George
Salome
Salmon Falls Weavers End Week-Long Strike
The Local Weavers' Union voted to return to work with Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company tomorrow, ending a one week strike in Salmon Falls New Hampshire.
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Salmon Falls, N. H
Weavers’ Union
Salmon Falls
Mrs Tuttle Sentenced to Eight Months in House of Correction
Marion E. Tuttle wife of Patrolman George A. Tuttle of Hanover Street Police Station was sentenced yesterday to eight months in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to a charge connected with her home at 9 Temple Street.
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Marion E. Tuttle
George A. Tuttle
Hanover Street
House of Correction
Aiken
Elizabeth Silsbee Ashore Near Cape Negro
Gasoline auxiliary schooner Elizabeth Silsbee of Boston runs aground on Half Moon Shoal near Cape Negro. Master Captain John Laurie reports all hands are safe in the private dispatch received at Gloucester.
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Silsbee
Boston
Cape Negro Gloucester
Elizabeth Silsbee
Half Moon Shoal
Cape Negro
John Laurie
Roosevelt opens conference on care of dependent children
President Roosevelt at the White House opens a conference on the care of dependent children. He stresses that providing a home for children strengthens the nation and notes the limits of government action. The session considers whether breaking up a home should be permitted for poverty or only for inefficiency or immorality.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Conference Urges Home Care and Family Preservation
The group favors raising children in homes whenever possible and removing them only when home supervision fails. It supports aid to poverty in the home and emphasizes public private or mixed relief, with emphasis on foster and institutional options as needed. David I. Tilley advocates preserving the family home.
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David I. Tilley
Massachusetts State Board of Charities
Double Legal Pins Promised With Morning Purchases
Double legal pins will be given with every purchase morning until twelve o'clock noon at Wolf's My Clothier corner Hanover and Portland streets. Single stamps thereafter.
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Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Mind Restored by Letter Delights Dow in Chelsea Case
E Brooks Dow of Chelsea Massachusetts regains his reason after reading a letter from his daughter Miss Myrtle L Dow to Deputy County Clerk Beavers. The letter confirms his daughter and an aunt in Medford and ends his prior religious preoccupations. Beavers confirms Dow is once more rational and the jail watch notes the change.
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Fort Worth
Texas
E. Brooks Dow
Chelsea
Mass
Myrtle L. Dow
Beavers
Medford
Don
William MecKain
Brockton Lad Saves Woman From Team of Hooves
Brockton January 25 Lewis Maybury Jr of Belmont Street saved an elderly woman, Mrs Ellen Bonney, from beneath a heavy team attached to National Biscuit Company horses on Main and Church streets. He pulled her to safety despite risk to himself. she suffered only minor bruises.
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Brockton
Lewis Maybury, Jr
Belmont Street
Ellen Bonney
Brookville
Main
Church Street
National Biscuit Company
Marybury
Seven Negroes Lynched in Inverness Mississippi
Memphis report states seven Black men were lynched in Inverness Mississippi tonight, according to local accounts. The warning of mob violence reached the town as authorities were unable to intervene.
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Memphis
Tenn
Inverness
Miss
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Hibbard
Fin
Claude E. Goodwin
Lewis E. Smith
Charles A. Pearce
Wilbur I. Griffin
Nahant Boy
Chum
Q. E. Dickerman
South
Bionos
Harold
F. W. Harold
Fe G
Eee
Jeld
Owatt
Sodality Party
Strauss
X UK
Firsteoy
Rial No
Paul Jones & CO
Louisville, Ky
H. G. Simmons
N. E. States
Colonial Building
Tel
Warren F. Witherell Co
Causeway St
T. W. Little
Huntington Ave
F. Graham & Co
J. J. McNamara
Broadway
W. J. Higgins
A St
A. G. Pearce
Chas
P. Hurley & Co
R. Magullion & Co
H. H. Robinson
E. B. Dow
Texas Asylum
Brockton Lad
Olive G. Bishop
Milton
Talbot Co
Clothier
Car
Portland Sts
Friend O& Exit
Union St
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