Mayor and Finance Commission Clash Over Civil Service Duty
The Finance Commission accuses Mayor of trying to undermine the civil service system and seeks evidence of any attempted charter changes. The Mayor replies claims the commission misstates facts, challenges them to prove attempts, and defends his administration's actions as fair and necessary. He condemns the commission for failing in its duties amid ongoing data gathering.
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Civil Service Commission
Finance Commission
Civil Service
Commission
Ministerial impostor peddling funds hunted in Boston area
Police in Boston and nearby suburbs hunt a man dressed as a minister with a Bible, allegedly soliciting funds as an agent of the Volunteer Children's Home of Malden. Active two weeks with recent deeds in Malden Back Bay and Cambridge. description notes white hair thick glasses and age around 40.
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Boston
Children’s Home
Malden
Back Bay
Malboro Street
Cambridge
Navy Yard to Build Two Large Barges at Charlestown
An authorization from Washington orders Charlestown navy yard to construct two steel coal barges, each about 100 feet long and four feet draft, costing 25000 dollars apiece. No net gain in workers, but about 100 furloughed men will be recalled. Plans are awaited from Washington, and workers debate whether this signals the yard’s chance to build a bigger supply ship or if the barge project is only a stopgap.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Washington
Receivers Granted Fees in Walpole Tire Case
Judge Dodge approved six thousand dollars for each of the receivers Rob ert Harris and Robert C Fisher and similar sums for counsel Friedman and Atherton. Receivers in charge six months. disputed claims sent to Emery Gibbs as master. Inventory filing expected late this week.
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Dodge
United States District Court
Robert ©. Harris
Robert C. Fisher
Walpole ‘Tire & Rubber Company
Friedman & Atherton
Emery B. Gibbs
Harris
Dyer Outlines Cure for Hoodlumism at Club Meeting
Boston officials address hoodlumism arguing home reestablishment, moral training, and church school collaboration. Dyer calls for duties at home, spiritualization, and reform of curricula. Eliot praised for enriching studies. Local officers elected. Revere charter saloon exclusion urged.
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Franklin D. Dyer
Boston Congregational Club
Dyer
Boston
Eliot
Frank Wood
Clarence A
Revere
Biddeford Man Falls To River Bank Embankment Fatality
Frozen in solid ice at the foot of a railroad embankment four miles from Biddeford the body of Joseph Tarasewiz about 40 was found today. He apparently fell over the embankment Saturday night and was not noticed.
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Biddeford
Joseph Tarasewiz
Clergymen Help Calm South Boston Bank Run Over Rumor
Clergymen calmed a crowd outside the South Boston Savings Bank as 447 depositors withdrew 153000 after a rumor the bank would close. Police kept order while Cardinal O Connell authorized two priests to reassure the crowd. Bank officials promised ample cash and loans from other banks to meet withdrawals.
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South Boston Savings Bank
Cardinal O’connell
South Boston
Depos
Boston
George A. ‘Tyler
State Bank
Augustus L
Thorndike
Fitzgerald
District Attorney's
Charles H. Slattery
Prescott Palmer Crew Rescued After Abandonment At Sea
Captain George A. Carlisle and 11 crew members of the Prescott Palmer arrived in New York aboard the Bermudian after the five masted schooner was overtaken by a heavy gale on January 12 near the Atlantic coast. Second Mate Hans Hansen drowned when the vessel was abandoned. Two sailors from the Ladysmith, abandoned January 17, were also aboard the Bermudian, later rescued and landed in Bermuda before reaching New York.
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George A. Carlisle
Prescott Palmer
Norfolk
Portsmouth
N. H
Atlantic Seaboard
Hans Hansen
Ladysmith
Halifax
Bermuda
Campens
Pernambuco
De Gogorza Sings in Place of Schumann Heink
Madame Schumann Heink ill in Chicago with an acute laryngitis attack prompts Jose Iturbi de Gogorza to replace her for a recital at Symphony Hall next Sunday. The renowned baritone steps in amid high expectations from Chicago audiences and the concert's organizers.
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de Gogorza
Schumann-Heink
Chicago
Ill musician illness delays Boston concert plans
A singer sidelined by illness for a week tampers with a Boston engagement. Manager Mudgett declines to close the hall next Sunday. Emilio de Gorgorza, a distinguished baritone, is engaged to perform, with a second singer to be announced soon.
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Boston
Mudgett
Emilio de Gorgorza
de Gorgorza
Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil Buffered with Purity
Spencer Kellogg & Sons announce a tasteless purified castor oil product. Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil is sold in neat 25c and 50c bottles through druggists, with a green castor leaf trademark and Kellogg's signature.
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Spencer Kellogg & Sons
Kellogg Mills
Kellogg
Kellogg’s
Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc
Buffalo
N. Y
Talk Smith as New City Treasurer
City Councillor Ernest E. Smith is strongly mentioned for the appointment as city treasurer to succeed Slattery with Curley’s incoming administration. Smith will retire from the City Council Monday and was a mayoral candidate who fell short of nomination by a narrow margin. His active followers largely shifted to the Curley camp.
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Ernest E. Smith
Slattery
Curley
Smith
City Council
Prominent Boston figure linked to Curley inauguration plans
Smith, a veteran banker and Harvard alumnus, serves as treasurer of the General Theological Library and trustee of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. He helped found Cosmopolitan Trust and is a Brandeis associate. Mayor-elect Curley moves inauguration to Tremont Temple amid ticket demand. The event will feature Rev. Joseph Gallagher as chaplain.
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Slattery
City Hall
James M. Curley
Tremont Temple
Faneuil Hall
Fitzgerald
Boston
Joseph H. Gallagher
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Fr. Gallagher
Archdiocese of
Thurston Selected by G. O. P. for State Committee Chair
Edward A. Thurston of Fall River is slated to chair the Republican State committee. His election gained ground after a leaders meeting yesterday. Thurston is praised as a live wire and banker of southeastern Massachusetts politics. The piece notes a potential GOP progressive merger and cites Courtenay Crocker praising unity between Republicans and Progressives.
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Edward A. Thurston
Fall River
Republican State Committee
Harry P. Field
Northampton
George Barnes
William F. Garcelon
Thurston
Frank B
Hall
Worcester
Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Courtenay Crocker
Ward 11
Crocker
Martin Lomasney
Lomasney
Mr. Crocker
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Kansas Woman Seeks Congress Seat in Sixth District
Mrs Eva M Murphy of Goodland Kansas announced her candidacy for Congress from the sixth district as a Progressive. She cited being a woman and a wife mother as factors in her decision noting her children are grown and her husband supports her run.
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Goodland
Kan
Eva M. Murphy
Kansas
Murphy
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