Mutiny at Blackwell's Island Prison Puts City on Edge
Eight educated inmates in striped suits met with Dr. Katherine Davis in the warden's office to air grievances after four disturbances in a week. They cited warden sympathy, smuggling letters, and food during the mutinies. Davis pledged order, held conferences, and promised an increased food allowance while remaining cautious about leaders.
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Katherine B. Davis
Blackwell's
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Dr. Davis
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Frank Tannenbaum
Industrial Workers of the World
Tannenbaum
Protestant clergy moves and church notices across Massachusetts
The Rev. C. A. Henderson of Boston accepts the pastorate at Hopedale Unitarian Church Draper Memorial starting in September. Rev. Rufus H. Dix leaves Weymouth for Newtonville on Sept. 1. Summer union services continue at East Somerville Baptist and Franklin Street Congregational due to Baptist repairs. George A. Beazley named assistant philosophy instructor at Harvard. Robinson Methodist Sunday school Malden holds an annual picnic at Castle Island. Maverick Church East Boston Vacation Bible School opens for six weeks for youths over 14. Reading Protestant union service tomorrow at Congregational church with Rev. Charles Merrill preaching. Rev. George H. Flint of Central Congregational on a two week vacation at Satirey Indiana.
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Boston
Hopedale Unitarian Church
Draper Memorial
Mr. Henderson
East Somerville
Maverick Church
Reading
Congregational Church
Charles Merrill
George H. Flint
Central Congregational Church
Satirey, IN. Hy
Beef Price Rise Tops 25 Year Mark At Wholesale
Wholesale beef surged over the past week with native and imported cuts rising sharply. Native sirloin up to 40 cents from 30, imported sirloin 30 from 25, rump and back roasts higher, pork loins 20 to 22, pork chops 25, hams 20, and lamb legs 2 with foreign supply expected Sunday to ease the market. A large fish and vegetable supply supports substitutions as meat stocks tighten.
Snub to Novelist Sparks Boston Hall of Fame Debate
A Boston protest over omitting Nathaniel Hawthorne from the One Hundred Eminent Bostonians list draws support from descendants and scholars. Harvard historian Albert Hart says Hawthorne belongs among Boston writers. publishers Houghton Mifflin express regret, while some officials defend the committee’s Salem native criterion. Also noted is the Nevada and Oklahoma class ship launch with Eleanor Ann Seibert christening, and its oil-fired turbines, 14-inch gun battery arrangement, and superior firing concentration.
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Hall of Fame
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Massachusetts Avenue
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Salem
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Brooks
America
Albert Bushner] Hart
Harvard
Houghton, Mifflin Company
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Fred J. Seibert
Reno
Nevada
Miss Seibert
Tasker Lowndes Oddie
United States Navy
Oddie
Oklahoma
New York
Texas
Curtis Marine
United State Navy
Meat Shortage Strains Boston Households Amid War Trade
Local markets face reduced beef supplies with only a fraction of expected cattle arriving from Chicago and Western packing centers. Dealers cite cattle shortages tied to Kansas corn deficits and broader livestock declines, while imported Argentine beef cushions prices. Rump steaks and lamb chops lead price increases as retail costs edge upward.
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Post
West
Meat Trust
Despondent Dorchester Man Shoots Self at Home
Silvio Ceppi aged 23 of 20 Leroy Street Dorchester living blind, committed death by own action by shooting himself in the head at his residence yesterday afternoon. The body was found about 7 last evening with a 92 caliber revolver tightly clenched in his hand.
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Silvio Ceppi
Leroy Street
Dorchester
Launching of Nevada at Fore River Shipyards
The battleship Nevada, Uncle Sam’s newest warship, will be launched this afternoon at the Fore River shipyards in Quincy after a year of construction. Secretary of the Navy Daniels and several officials will attend.
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Uncle Sam
Fore River
Quincy
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Hold Gordon as Burglary Suspect in Brookline Loot
Police say Clarence Gordon of 7 Windsor Street Roxbury was captured in the South End with a large bundle and alleged to be linked to a Brookline home theft. $1500 worth of jewelry silverware cigars and cigarettes recovered identified as Brookline loot. Gordon says he is innocent and that a lodger brought the bundle home.
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Windsor Street
Roxbury
Brookline
Gordon
South End
Angell
Regan
Frank J. Donaldson
Park Street
Gilmore Not to Run Again for Congress
Brockton news reports Congressman Edward Gilmore will not seek re election from the 14th Massachusetts district this fall. He expects a presidential appointment as postmaster at Brockton but likely not until late in the current session. Gilmore, a Democrat, was elected two years ago.
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Brockton
Edward Gilmore
Congress
Massachusetts
Gilmore
Wilson
Father of Captain Armstrong Dies in Los Angeles
Thomas Ainsley C. Armstrong aged 83 died recently at the home of his son George A. Armstrong in Los Angeles California. He was father of Captain Ainsley C. Armstrong of the police headquarters and of Mrs. Charles A. Whitney of Paris France.
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Thomas Ainsley C. Armstrong
George A. Armstrong
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Cal
Ainsley C. Armstrong
Police
City
Charles A. Whitney
Paris
France
Pulp Mill Fire at Skowhegan Causes Large Loss
Skowhegan Me July 10 An overheated bearing on a grinder started a fire that destroyed the Riverside Pulp Mill here tonight The loss was estimated at twenty thousand dollars and lines of smoke rose over the riverfront area as firefighters battled the blaze all night Professionally written in the local paper voice with emphasis on the plant and local response.
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Skowhegan
Riverside
Will Probe U S Agents
Secretary McAdoo conducts a personal inquiry into three U S special customs agents in France after France appeals to the State Department. The agents are under scrutiny for export undervaluation cases, prompting Treasury to tighten investigations due to inadequate perjury penalties in French law.
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Washington
McAdoo
France
State Department
United States
Treasury Department
Treasury
Girl Coal Picker Killed by Train in Brockton
Catherine Brady aged 6 died at Brockton Hospital from injuries after being run over by a freight car in the Brockton freight yards of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Thursday night.
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Brockton
Catherine Brady
Brockton Hospital
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
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