Firebug Crusade Nets 43rd Arrest in Arson Ring
The 43rd arrest in the arson trust cases came yesterday morning. Harry Green, 22, of 144 Chelsea Street East Boston, was taken into custody by Inspectors Lynch Towle and State Officers Sherlock Thompson. Green is indicted for setting fire to the dwelling at 480 Winthrop Street Winthrop on August 5 1915 and again on December 19 1915 to defraud insurance companies.
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Harry Green
Chelsea Street
Boston
Lynch and Towle
Sherlock and
Thompson
Green
Winthrop Street
Winthrop
Green on the Run After Grand Jury Action
Green fled after a grand jury began hearing cases in March and moved through Nashua and Manchester. Officers found his home at daylight yesterday, but Green protested innocence and cited fear of the grand jury investigation for his flight.
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Green
Nashua
Manchester
Arson Suspects Ahead of City Firebug Crusade Trials
Trials begin next Wednesday for 43 arson arrests as authorities push to convict and curb fire setting for insurance. Officials say the case could mark the greatest firebug crackdown in the city.
New Haven May Income Rises for New York New Haven and Hartford
New York New Haven and Hartford railroad reports May net corporate income of 3592 516, up by 259 486 from May 1915. Subsidiaries including Central New England New York Ontario and Western and Connecticut Company show gains, while some trolley lines drain resources. NY Westchester and Boston Railway turns last year’s deficit into a small profit.
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New York
New York, New Haven & Whartford Railroad
Central
New England
Ontario & Western
Connecticut Company
New York, Westchester & Boston Railway
Man Charged With Possession of Cocaine to Appear
John Healey aged 22 of 994 Cambridge Street Cambridge was arrested yesterday by Joy Street officers in the West End. He faces a Central Court appearance this morning on charges of unlawful cocaine possession.
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John Healey
Cambridge Street
Cambridge
Central Court
West End
Joy Street
Dying man found near Cambridge home after train tracks incident
M. R. Woodrow of 35 Harvey Street Cambridge was found unconscious with a fractured skull on the Massachusetts Central railroad tracks behind his home about 3 this morning. He died at Cambridge Hospital hours later. Medical Examiner Swan ordered an autopsy to determine if death resulted from a train strike.
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M. R. Woodrow
Harvey Street
Cambridge
Woodrow
Massachusetts Central Railroad
Swan
Gas Fitters Strike Ends at Arlington Gas Plant
Settlement reached in Arlington Gas Light Company's strike with workers at Arlington plant. Workers return to duty today after engaging in a summer half day Saturday off dispute, with the company reportedly planning the policy before the strike.
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Arlington
Arlington Gas Light Company
Zionists Raise 175000 for Jewish State Work
The Federation of American Zionists in Philadelphia reported a $175,000 fundraising total at a mass meeting in the Metropolitan Opera House to support Zionist work for the coming year. Rabbi Stephen Wise praised Jewish resilience and urged support for a legalized home in Palestine, while Judge Julian Mack and Justice Louis Brandeis addressed loyalty to America and Zionist aims.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Federation of American Zionists
Metropolitan Opera House
Stephen S. Wise
Julian W. Mack
Chicago
Mack
United States of America
Palestine
Provisional Executive Committee For General Staff Affairs
Horticultural Hall
W. R. Blackstone
Harrison
Louis D. Brandeis
United States Supreme Court
Justice Brandeis
Harry Friedenwald
Baltimore
Zionist Organization of America
Dr. Friedenwald
Funeral services for Mrs Dolores Buxton
Funeral services for Mrs Dolores Villiers Buxton wife of William S Buxton will be held Wednesday afternoon from the Buxton home 47 Appleton road Brighton
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Dolores Villiers Buxton
William S&s. Buxton
Buxton
Appleton Road
Brighton
Labor News Girls Ask New Scale for Cafes
The Waitresses' Union wage committee in Boston begins signing a new schedule agreement with cafe hotel and restaurant proprietors. The union demands a minimum wage for members for the first time and expects smooth talks with backing from allied hotel and restaurant workers and bartenders' groups. The local number is 412.
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Boston
International Alliance and Bartenders’ League of America
Waitresses Seek Higher Wages and Hours Limit
The schedule calls for six dollar weekly wages with meals and nine dollars weekly without meals plus one day off weekly for restaurant and cafe waitresses. Noon girls receive three fifty weekly with meals, one day off weekly. Night girls seek three dollars weekly with meals, evenings, one day off weekly. Extra girls ask one dollar with meals, late shifts. Banquet pay is one fifty for three hours, overtime twenty five cents per hour plus carfare. Union aims to cap weekly hours at fifty four and enforces conduct rules with suspension for proven misbehavior.
Wage raise efforts ripple through city unions yesterday
A Blacksmiths and Helpers' Union report targeted the Navy Department wage board for Charlestown yard raises. Park Department Workers' Union 7576 voted to push 25 cents more per hour over 2 dollars 50 per day to the City Council. Mass meeting of nearly 1000 Revere Rubber employees predicted early settlement of the strike.
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Blacksmiths and Helpers’ Union
Navy Department
Charlestown Navy Yard
Park Department Workers’ Union
Knights of Labor
Park and Recreation
Mayoral City Council
Revere Rubber Company
Chelsea
Stationary Engineers
Union 16
William Kelley
Aviation Corps
James McDonald
Castle Square
Battery A
Aime Beibo
Boston Lodge 97
Brotherhood of Railroad
New York
Boston
Washington Street
Boston Photo Engravers’ Union
Elf Ellis
Hayward Place
Edward F. Didion
William McNeil
John F. Maguire
International Organization
Kansas City
G. F. Mahoney
Inside Telephone Men’s Union
The
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Fitzgerald Addresses Hudson 50th Anniversary Speech
Former Boston mayor John F. Fitzgerald spoke at Hudson's 50th anniversary day as a substitute for Henry Cabot Lodge. L B Apsley predicted future honors for Fitzgerald while Dr. Fitzgerald urged restraint and said there will be no war with Mexico, reflecting President Wilson's stance.
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Hudson
L. B. Apsley
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ufford
Fitzgerald
Mexico
Wilson
New York
Three Lexington Churches Hold Union War Service
A union patriotic war service was held yesterday forenoon in Lexington at First Parish Unitarian Church with Rev. John Mills Wilson officiating. The Hancock Congregational and First Baptist churches contributed. Rev. Christopher Walter Collier and Rev. George Loring Thurlow spoke. Funds raised benefited the American Red Cross Society.
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Union
Hancock Congregational
First Baptist
First Parish Unitarian
Lexington
John Mills Wilson
American Red Cross Society
Christopher Walter Collier
Hancock Church
George Loring Thurlow
First Baptist Church
Peary Withdraws From Senate Candidacy
Rear Admiral Robert E Peary former North Pole explorer withdraws from the special election bid to fill the late Edwin C Burleigh The note says his aim was to push preparedness and a coast patrol of aeroplanes but he now believes as an untrained politician his chances are slim and asks friends to stop active support.
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Portland
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
United States
Edwin C. Burleigh
Peary
Senate
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Greater Boston
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Henfield
California
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Spnappy
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Washington, D. C
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