Protest Over Gas Rate Hike Draws Few Attendees
At the State House hearing on Boston Consolidated Gas Company rate requests, fewer than a dozen residents attended amid opposition to raising standard gas price from $1.10 to $1.60. Boston officials, local advocates, and editors from East Boston spoke against increases sought by several gas providers including Quincy and Newton Watertown, while talks continued on tentative standards pending final commission decisions.
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Boston Consolidated Gas Company
State Department of Public Utilities
State House
George Murphy
Ara
Patrick F. Moran
Boston
Citizens’ Gas Light Company of
Quincy
Robert H. Holt
Holt
Attwill
Commission
Joseph L. Whiton
East Boston Gas Company
East Boston Company
James E. Maguire
East Boston Free Press
John J. Kearney
East Boston
George F. Murphy
John P. Holland
J. Frederick Curtin
John B. Cashman
Newton & Watertown Gas Company
City positions on case stated by Corporation Counsel Hill
Corporation Counsel Arthur D. Hill stated the city's position in the ongoing matter, asserting the legal framework supports the city's stance and outlining anticipated next steps in the dispute.
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Corporation
Arthur D. Hill
The Object Lesson by James Oliver Curwood
James Oliver Curwood, a master of tense descriptive narrative, has his story The Object Lesson slated for print in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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James Oliver Curwood
Boston Sunday Post
Vermonters Welcome Calvin Coolidge On Plymouth Notch Green
Three thousand Vermonters gathered on Plymouth Notch village green to honor Calvin Coolidge, Republican vice presidential candidate, with Governor James W. Clement and former Vermont governors in attendance. Coolidge spoke about Vermont birthright, education, industry, and national duties, as crowds cheered from motor horns and band music filled the mountainside.
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Plymouth
Calvin Coolidge
Vermont
Ludlow
Champlain Valley
Great Green Mountains
Plymouth Notch
Coolidge
W. P. Clement
W. C. B. Stickney
Allen M. Fletcher
Governor Coolidge
Massachusetts
America
Rough Stuff Ends in Amity
Giuseppe Cinqua of Henchman Street and Joe Gardella faced Central Court after a fatal love feud. A gunfight at Cinqua's tailoring shop left three shots fired and one misfired, with both men fined $100 after detectives Chaisson and Ferrari testified. The rivals pledged peace as officers warned of imprisonment for further outbursts.
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Giuseppe Cinqua
Henchman Street
Rose Gardella
Rose
Joseph
Cinqua
Central Court
Chaisson
Ferrari
Giuseppe
Joe Gardella
Harding confident third party won’t hurt GOP in 1920
Senator Harding declares the third party movement will not erode Republican strength. He praises the GOP platform as broad and progressive promising relief for laborers, farmers, and small business, and says laboring men and farmers will find a square deal and agricultural support under a Republican victory.
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Marion
Harding
Chicago
Farmer, Labor
LaFollette
Republican Party
America
Lenine Proclaims Week of Love in Moscow Decree
A Moscow report states Lenine declares a week of love in Russia. Unmarried women under 45 must marry any Bolshevik. divorced women with four years of marriage must remarry. Women to register now and later marry in squads at the Winter Palace. The state seizes all children over three.
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Copenhagen
Lenine
Moscow
Winter Palace
Russia
Boston Post
Cross- Atlantic
Raid on Dublin Post Office Stuns City
Fifty armed men raided Dublin's general post office at 7 am seizing letters addressed to Dublin Castle the vice regal lodge the chief secretary and under secretary of the Irish administration. The letters were taken by motor car as police and military scoured the city for the unidentified raiders.
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Dublin
Dublin Castle
Ex Mayor Curley Forms Consolidated Shipyards Corp
Former Boston mayor James M. Curley enters shipbuilding and brokerage, creating Consolidated Shipyards Corporation with offices at 92 State Street. The firm consolidates several Atlantic coast plants, capitalized around 6 million dollars, with Curley as president and officers Crowell Gilbert Stickney Alexander. Crowell is son of Captain Pete H. Crowell of Crowell & Thurlow.
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Curley
James M. Curley
Consolidated Shipyards Corporation
State Street
Atlantic Coast
Edgar P. Crowell
M. L. Gilbert
Robert Stickney
George Alexander
Mr. Crowell
Pete H. Crowell
Crowell & Thurlow
1St State Street
Christensen to Tour for Farmer-Labor Presidential Bid
Parley P. Christensen, Farmer-Labor party presidential nominee, announced a nationwide campaign tour from coast to coast after returning to Salt Lake City. He reaffirmed his candidacy despite internal party divisions and said further announcements will follow once national committee plans are set.
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Chicago
Parley P. Christensen
Farmer- Labor Party
Mr. Christensen
Salt Lake City
Committee of 48
Christensen
Senator LaFollette
Farmer-Labor Party
World War Veterans and People's Party
Farmer-Labor
Labor Party
Robert M. LaFollette
Single Tax
Gilbert E. Roe
LaFollette
Roe
Great Britain
Germans to Accept Allied Note Tomorrow
Spa Belgium July 15 German ministers are disposed to accept the allied note and to answer in the affirmative tomorrow without qualifications. The report comes as Allied negotiators press toward a proffered settlement in the war weary talks.
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Spa
Belgium
Associated Press
Noonan's Hair Petrole Advertises Dandruff Cure
An old advertisement promotes Noonan's Hair Petrole to prevent dandruff and renew hair health. It claims daily use improves dull hair, with barber application at 15 cents or $1 per bottle through T Noonan & Sons of Boston.
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Noonan
Drug End Dept
T. Noonan & Sons
Portland St
Boston
Stolen New York Auto Recovered in Medford
Medford police recovered a limousine valued at 4100 last night, stolen in New York City last fall. It was found in the Trowbridge garage on Dudley Street Medford, where the owner said he bought it on September 19, 1919 from a woman who claimed to be the daughter of a wealthy New Yorker.
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New York
Medford
New York City
Trowbridge
Dudley Street
Fruit a Tives Heart Remedy Endorsed by Mrs Wallace
Mrs Frank W Wallace shares a first person endorsement for Fruit a Tives claiming relief from indigestion belching and gas with improved heart symptoms after two years of discomfort. Ad lists pricing 50c single 6 for 2 50 and 25c trial size with order from Fruit a Tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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Frank W. Wallace
Fruit-Atives Limited
Ogdensburg, N. Y
Cadet Drowns in Swimming at Camp Devens
Charles A. Stewart, 20, of East Falls Church Virginia, a member of the 34 Company R T C, drowned in Rollin's Pond near Camp Devens during summer training. He had been submerged for about 46 minutes before a fellow cadet found him. Medical staff could not revive him after an hour of effort. The body will be shipped home for burial.
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Clinton
Charles A. Stewart
East Falls Church
T. C
Camp Devens
Rollin’s Pond
Stewart
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