Sylvia Pankhurst Leads East End Parade Despite Expired Release
Sylvia Pankhurst, though released from Holloway jail, joins an East End procession to Canning Town Public Hall. East London Federation members march with a band and banners, as the Red Flag plays while she enters a wagonette under guard.
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London
Holloway
Sylvia Pankhurst
East End
Canning Town Public Hall
East London Federation
Miss Pankhurst
Militant Leader Praised as She Entered Hall and Spoke
The militant leader was loudly cheered upon entering the hall and again when she rose to address the gathering. Referring to a prominent figure, the scene underscores strong support during the event.
Suffragette Planled Crisis and Night of Attacks in England
Miss Pankhurst attacked Premier Asquith over his response to women voting. A bomb was found and Annie Bell was arrested at Westminster's St John Evangelist church after a prior bombing. Suffragettes attacked a railway station near Leicester and possibly caused an explosion in mail bags from Blackpool to Manchester.
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St. John Evangelist
Westminster
Annie Bell
Leicester
Blackpool
Manchester
Militants Cause Major Damage in 1913 Attacks
The Morning Post reports militant suffragette activity since 1913, noting 146 fires in public buildings churches and homes and 43 bomb incidents. Estimated material damage totals 1 920 000 dollars excluding unquantified art losses.
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London
The
Morning Post
Post
Thrown From Bicycle, Boy Badly Hurt in Hingham
James Quigley an 11 year old boy son of Patrick Quigley of North street is in a dangerous condition at Massachusetts General Hospital after being thrown head first over the handlebars on Bradley's Hill Lincoln street. He lost control of the bicycle and fell landing on the street narrowly missing an automobile.
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Hingham
James Quigley
Patrick Quigley
North Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bradley's Hill
Lincoln Street
Post Cane Holder at Tyngsboro Dies
Tyngsboro July 12 Melvin V Horton age 9 holder of the Post cane as Tyngsboro’s oldest resident died late last night. He was active in ship building and lumber work. Horton was born in Derby Vermont in 1824.
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Tyngsboro
Melvin Vv. Horton
Horton
Derby
25th Birthday Observed by Y P C U at First Universalist
More than 1000 people attended the 25th anniversary observance of the Universalist Young People's Christian Union at the First Universalist Church in Lynn where the union began. A memorial tablet was dedicated by the national union and Rev. Marion David Shutter delivered the sermon.
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Lynn
Union
Boston
National Union
Marion David Shutter
D. D
Minneapolis
Universalist General Convention
Frederick W. Perkins
Shutter
Boston bartenders push for $21 weekly minimum
More than 1800 Boston bartenders demand a weekly minimum of 21 dollars and a nine hour day after a union meeting. The international union endorses the action and offers support if needed. Current wages stand at 18 dollars per week for 10 hour days. All six day saloons in Boston are unionized, with non-union men in some first class hotels.
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Boston
International Organization
Boston Union
Labor union votes on wage and hour demands Aug 2 meeting
Members are asked to decide liquor dealers time to meet new wage and hour demands at an August 2 special meeting. A second New Bedford bartender strike is threatened, with potential new walkouts to press for a signed agreement.
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International
John W. Conley
New Bedford
Martin T. Joyce
Massachusetts
American Federation of Labor
Boston
James McGreavey, Sr
Thut
Bartenders
Labor unions set to march in Boston Labor Day parade
Boston unions vote to participate in the annual parade. The Sanitary and Street Cleaning Teamsters will march in special uniforms with 400 members. Over 350 members of the Department Store Drivers' and Helpers' Union join the parade, while Coal Teamsters' Union members abstain. A Holsting Engineers' Union committee plans to attend the City Hall hearing on the Edison street lighting contract to protest signing. International officers may arrive to support a strike against New England Gas and Coke in Everett. The New England District Council of Electrical Workers endorses Linemen's Union 104 in its fight with Edison. A vote by Coal Teamsters' Union blocks participation and a nonpartisan protest against Curley over a coal contract.
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Boston
Boston Central Labor Union
Sanitary and
Holsting Engineers’ Union
Edison Company
New England Gas & Coke Plant
Everett
New England District Council of Electrical Workers
Linemen’s Union 104
Coal Teamsters
Curley
Royal pair insulted by suffragette in Edinburgh
King George and Queen Mary faced a fresh insult during a Scottish tour as Olive Walker, a Dundee suffragette, ran at the royal carriage outside St Giles Cathedral and threw a rubber ball labeled Stop forcible feeding onto the Queen’s lap. She was hauled away amid a hostile crowd but released afterward.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
George
Queen Mary
St. Giles Cathedral
Dundee
Olive Walker
Labor Day Parade Preparations In Boston Build Momentum
Organized labor groups in Boston plan a large Labor Day demonstration with committees from the Boston Central Labor Union and the Boston Building Trades Council. William Kobs will serve as chief marshal with John J. Barry heading the CLU division, and subcommittees cover route music regalia finances and more. Matthew Higgins announced 2500 Street Carmen members will march with four bands.
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Organized Labor of
Boston and Vicinity
Boston Central Labor Union
Boston Building Trades’ Council
William Kobs
John J. Barry
George F. Tagen
D. D. Driscoll
Francis P. Morse
J. J. Connolly
Austin P. Kaveney
Matthew Higgins
Austin Fales
A. M. Huddell
J. T. Moriarty
J. P. Glavin
Ignatius McNulty
Michael Crump
John Stevens
David McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy
James Logan
John Fisher
J. C
Ask More Pay for Cold Work Longshoremen
Boston port longshoremen protested at meetings over unloading frozen meats from steamers. Andrew Norander of Charlestown Longshoremen's Union said workers endure 50 degree colder refrigerating compartments after deck duties, posing health risks. He urged limiting loads to six quarters of beef per hoist and called for higher compensation due to new frozen meat imports.
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Boston
Andrew Norander
Charlestown
Commodore Moore Dead and Remembered in Duxbury
Commodore William S. Moore U S N retired former Massachusetts legislator and Duxbury native died suddenly at 68. He served as a trustee of the Duxbury Free Library and split time between his summer home here and a winter home in Washington. He married twice first to Eastman daughter of General Eastman with guests including General and Mrs Grant. survivors include two sons and a daughter. Second wife, a noted Washington suffrage worker.
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Commodore William S. Moore
Massachusetts
Commodore Moore
Commodore
Josiah Moore
First Congregational Unitarian Church
Patridge Academy
Academy
Harvard University
Annapolis
Washington
Miss Eastman
General Eastman
U. S. Grant
Grant
Eastman Moore
Keith Forrester
Washington, D. C
Cambridge Citizens Demand Proof From Mayor Good
A 15 member committee from Cambridge plans to present evidence of alleged wide open conditions in the city to Mayor Good. They will bring material proof including bottles of whiskey and prize fight tickets said to violate the law, plus witnesses who claim to have observed and gathered the evidence.
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Cambridge
Good
University City
Eloper on Trial in Hingham Court Today
Louis Hisenman the chauffeur of Joseph H Hallian of Hull faces a 9 am trial in Hingham on a charge of abducting Miss Fern Hallian. Michael J Sughrue prosecutes for the government. The Hallian family supports the case and witnesses stand ready. The daughter previously professed love for Hisenman when the pair were captured in Portland Maine.
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Louis Hisenman
Joseph H. Hallian
Hull
Fern Fiallian
Hingham Court
Miss Hallian
Michael J. Sughrue
Eisenman
Honor Work of Dr Herzl Commemoration in Boston and Chelsea
To mark the 10th anniversary of Theodore Herzl’s death Zionists in Boston and Chelsea held memorial meetings. Speakers included H L Selig and James Pollock discussing Zionism as the solution to Jewish issues and protection from persecution in Russia. A public meeting is set for tomorrow night at Brunswick Hall Roxbury with multiple rabbis scholars and cantors scheduled to speak.
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Theodore Herzl
Zionist Movement
Zionists
Boston
Chelsea
Beth Hamedrosh Hagodal
North Russell Street
West End
Hatikvah
Order of Sons of Zion
H. L. Selig
James Pollock
Russia
Zionist Council of
Jacob de Haas
M. Halpern
Adath Jeshurun Synagogue
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
E. Wolkowich
Temple Ohabei Shalom
Union Park Street
Weymouth man hunts in woods after shooting two in argument
Hunted in the wooded area behind the Cortell bucket factory, Frank Berasco of Lake Street East Weymouth shot two men during a late afternoon dispute. Rosco Calva and Luigi de Luca, both of Hersey Street, were wounded with Calva hit in the body and De Luca grazed by a bullet causing a deep scalp wound.
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Weymouth
Frank Bercasco
Lake Street
East Weymouth
Cortell
Hingham
Rosco Calva
Hersey Street
Luigi de Luca
Calva
de Luca
Woman Fifth Bubonic Plague Victim in New Orleans
A fifth bubonic plague case was confirmed in New Orleans as a colored woman, ill since Thursday, was diagnosed by Dr. W C Rucker of the U S Health Service. The case marks the first female victim in the outbreak now two weeks old.
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New Orleans
W. C. Rucker
United States Health Service
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