Taft and Sherman praised at Vendome banquet for Bigney
Last night at the Vendome Hotel a Taft and Sherman tribute banquet honored Colonel Sidney O. Bigney Massachusetts representative on the notification committee. An enormous photograph of Judge Taft was unveiled to be presented to him with engraved parchment signatures from attendees. Surveyor J. J. McCarthy served as toastmaster and John Shepard chaired the banquet committee while several congressmen and officials spoke.
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Hotel Vendome
E. Chickering
J. J. McCarthy
John Shepard
8. O. Bigney
Massachusetts
Sidney O. Bigney
Taft
Sherman
Bigney
Judge Taft
Chickering
Boston
Colonel Bigney
Surveyor McCarthy
Jeremiah McCarthy
Lovering
Glines
Greene
Tirrell
Congressman Roberts
Samuel J. Elder
Representative Walker
Louis Frothingham
Robert Luce
Melvin 8. Nash
McCarthy
Governor Guild
Dow
Beverly
Commonwealth
Massachusetts Senate
Republican State Committee
Council Debates $182 203 Street Repair Funds Motion
President McCullough of Ward 13 and Alfred Lill of Ward 8 urged approval of a $182 203.29 street repair appropriation from state funds for armory account squaring. Opposition emerged and President McCullough named Councilman Ryan of Ward 8 to preside.
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McCullough
Ward 13
Alfred Lill
Ward 8
Common Council
Ryan
Park Chief Delays Report on Rotting Life Preservers
Charles Stratton, chairman of the Park Commission, said no report on rotten life preservers was finished but would be ready for publication today. The issue follows the drowning of Boston lawyer Robert H. Bowman in Muddy River, Fenway. A reporter found ferries North, South, and Revere Beach had life preservers in good condition and readily available.
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Park Commission
Charles ©. Stratton
Robert H. Bowman
Boston
Muddy River
Fenway
Post
Revere Beach
Inquiry Into Fault Over Defective Life Preservers Incident
Friends of the deceased allege a life preserver thrown to him after a fall into the river was defective and caused the death. Boston Park Commission faces possible responsibility while a report may apportion blame. United States inspectors say local life preservers are regularly inspected and in good condition.
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Lfe
Boston Park Commission
Stratton
Massachusetts Humane Society
Park Department
United States
W. A. Carleton
Boston
Edo
Rooster Fights Rat Dead in Darby Yard
In Darby Pennsylvania a black Minorcan cock owned by Charles Crumbach battled a 16 inch sewer rat. The rat tried to seize a chicken but was spurred in the eye and eventually killed by repeated blows after the animal fled to its burrow.
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Darby, Penn
Charles Crumbach
Emerson Faces Aldermen Over Street Dept Dismissals
The Board of Aldermen is expected to criticize Superintendent of Streets Emerson at a special meeting called by Mayor Hibbard. The dispute centers on his discharge of 125 street department laborers to pressure action on a $249 000 street repair order and on other street loans and the veto of the Union Freight Railway franchise for a single track over the Northern avenue bridge.
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Cummings
Ward 20
Bramhall
Colpoys
L Street
Casey
Ward 14
Bath House
Peninsular
Noonan
Allston Street
Brighton
Commonwealth Avenue
Emerson
Board of Aldermen
Hibbard
Provincetown
Union Freight Railway
Northern Avenue Bridge
Dollar Sent From Luxora Jail to Bryan
Hardy, a Luxora area farmer and prisoner in Blytheville county jail, sends $1 to William Jennings Bryan with jail inmates compliments and a verse hoping for Bryan's letter and victory. The prisoners claim complicity in a killing and request a reply.
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Blytheville
Ark
Hardy
Luxora
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
W L Douglas Shoes Claim Superior Quality
W L Douglas markets men s three fifty shoes claiming they keep shape fit better and wear longer than rivals. They tout four dollar gilt edge shoes as unmatched and list boys shoes at 1 75 and 2 00 with fast color eyelets and free catalog. Stores shown in Brockton and Boston locations.
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W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas Shoe
Boston
Washington St
Cor
School St
Court St
Howard St
Hanover S
Summer St
Lincoln St
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Sage
Oteme
Coffel Refining CO
New York
Goodwin
Carr
Sorenson
Sullivan
McGovern
McClennan
Ward 12
Hanover
John W. Crooks
EB. Chickering
William EH
Cluett
Moe
Kuppenheimer
Henry Siegel Co
Stein-Bloch Co
Rochester
N. Y
B. Kuppenheimer & Co
Chicago
Siegel
Eiye
Betetete Fants Siegel
Irees
America
Washington and
Essex Streets
Gamecock
Roxbury
Boston Ice-Cream CO
Rap
W.L. Douglas
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