Timilty Firm Lands Commonwealth Ave Paving Contract
The park and recreation department awarded the contract for paving Commonwealth Avenue between Beacon Street and Lake Street to Central Construction Company, led by Senator James P. Timilty. The firm bid $119,975 for three inch sheet asphalt.
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Park and Recreation Department
Central Construction Company
James P. Timilty
Commonwealth Avenue
Beacon Street
Lake Street
Timilty
Warren Brothers Bid For Bitulithic Surfacing Approved
Warren Brothers Company offered to lay bitulithic surfacing at 142,694 dollars. Bids were opened June 1 and Mayor Curley approved the award last night.
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Warren Brothers Company
Curley
Northcliffe to Speak at Great New York Rally
British recruitment week in New York City ending July 22 with a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden where Lord Northcliffe head of the British commission will be chief speaker. Similar demonstration planned in Chicago to rally 600000 British subjects in the United States.
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New York
New York City
Madison Square Garden
Lord Northcliffe
Chicago
Exchange window opens for Caliban tickets
Patrons with tickets to last night's Caliban performance may exchange for any other evening through July 14. The planned Naval night has been postponed to tonight.
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Caliban
Naval
Eloquent Package Wins Case In Suffolk Court
In Suffolk Superior Court Donato Finelli faced a cheese theft charge from rival Antonio Silano. A quiet session ended with Finelli’s case resolved after a shocking disruption during the trial.
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Suffolk Superior Criminal Court
Donato Finelli
Antonio Silano
Court Rules Cheese Exhibit Halts Trial
In a sensational court moment an aroma from a cheese sample halted proceedings. Witness Silano unveiled the odoriferous mass causing distress among jurors and translators. Judge granted acquittal after the disruption and venue shifts.
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Fielding
Silano
Sargent Held on Manslaughter Charge in Watch Hill Fatality
In Westerly Rhode Island on July 11 Miss Alice Sargent daughter of Harvard professor C S Sargent was jailed on a manslaughter count for the death of 12 year old Cornelius Shea. She pleaded not guilty before Judge Oliver H Williams and was held on $2000 bond for a July 27 hearing. Bail was posted by two Watch Hill residents. The accident occurred near the Watch Hill Golf Club as the boy was transported to Dr. Scanlon and care teams were summoned. Despite efforts by Drs. May and Savage the boy died within an hour.
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Westerly
R. I
Cornelius Shea
Alice Sargent
C. S. Sargent
Harvard
Boston
Brookline
Watch Hil
Miss Sargent
Oliver H. Williams
Watch Hill
Shea
Watch Hill Golf Club
M. H. Scanlon
J. L. May
C. Grant Savage
Teenager Injured Battle Fire At Westinghouse Plant
Francis K. E. O Rourke 17 of 33 Crescent Ave Dorchester was seriously burned while attempting to extinguish a fire at the Westinghouse Electric Company building on Binford Street South Boston yesterday afternoon. He notified the fire department then reentered the blaze and is in critical condition at City Hospital.
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Westinghouse Electric Company
Binford Street
Boston
Francis KE. O'Rourke
Crescent Avenue
Dorchester
O'Rourke
City Hospital
Bogus solicitors target Boston housewives in Hoover campaign swindle
Police report that a canvass by the Boston Equal Suffrage League for the government food campaign has spawned fraud. A young man claims Mr Hoover ordered magazine subscriptions to an official publication that does not exist and houseswives pay 50 cents for a non existent card.
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Boston Public Safety Committee
Boston
Hoover
Boston Equal Suffrage League
Public Safety Committee
Plumbers at Ayer Cantonment Strike Over Pay and Lodging
Thirty plumbers at the government cantonment in Ayer Massachusetts were removed from the job by agents of the Boston Plumbers Union 12 after a strike vote. Union officers claim the contractor violated the agreement by denying overtime double pay and charging workers for board lodging and transportation to and from the camp.
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Ayer
Mass
Boston Plumbers’ Union
DeKoven to Conduct at the Pops Tonight Novel guest appearance in old Boston venue
Reginald DeKoven returns to the Pops after 18 years to conduct selections from his operas and his own compositions. He leads Robin Hood waltzes The Dryads Czardas Ronde de la Lune and a Ballet Suite. Jacchia conducts the rest including Mozart Figaro and Strauss waltzes.
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Music Hall
Reginald DeKoven
Boston
DeKoven
Pops
Mr. DeKoven
Robin Hood
Czardas
Jacchia
der Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
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Marx
Continental Clothing House
Washington St
Cor
Boylston St
Toledo
Connell & McKone CO
Commonwealth Ave
Brookline Ave
Manchester
N. H
Merrimack
Worcester
Main &T
Lynn
Exchange
Spring Streets
Joseph Seminara
Mr. Fielding
John P. Manning
Boston Society
Miss Alice Sargent
the Pops
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de Koven
Metropolitania House
Berlioz
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Hugh Cabot
Harvard Surgical Unit
France
Plattsburg
Edwards
Wolff
New England
Department of the Northeast
Paine
America
Paine Furniture Company
Arlington Street
Boylston Street
Gilchrist
Palm ‘Beach
Palm Beach
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