Knights Sail And Play Ball In Columbus Commemoration
Knights of Columbus members and families enjoyed an ocean trip aboard the Rose Standish from Rowe's Wharf to Salem Willows honoring Columbus. The event featured a harbor cruise, dinner, athletic contests, a Salem Cadet Band concert, and dancing, with baseball scores 28-8 and 7-6 as highlights, and speeches by Mayor Hurley and several priests and dignitaries.
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Columbus
Knights of Columbus
Salem Willows
Rose Standish
Rowe's Wharf
Willows
Essex County
Lynn
Beverly
Gloucester
Essex
B. J. Foley
South Boston
Hurley
Fourth Degree Knights
Salem Cadet Band
St. James
Somerville Sells 60 Tax Loots At Auction
City Treasurer Joseph S. Pike acted as auctioneer in Somerville for a tax sale of about 60 properties. About 25 property owners who had been advertised appeared and paid the amounts due just before the sale. All but two small parcels were sold.
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Joseph S. Pike
Somerville
Steeplejack survives 110 foot fall onto tar bucket
St. Louis July 23 Edward Horner a steeplejack at Granite City Illinois fell 110 feet from a smokestack onto a steel roof and landed head first in a bucket of tar he waved off medical help and walked half a mile home despite the plunge
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ST. Louis
Edward Horner
Granite City
Ill
Ice Theft Scandal Hits Fat City Ice Men
Falls River reports icemen accused of stealing ice after sale to customers. Aboard aldermen member and a businessman allege schemes where drivers took ice from chests to resell upstairs. Investigators say two cases involve theft from domestic ice chests and a boss directing workers to reclaim sold ice. The Board of Aldermen may call a special session to address charges.
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Fall River
Board of Aldermen
Residents complain ice weights short and threaten action
Residents of the city accuse ice men of under weighing and say they will nail their chests unless police intervene to stop further ice larceny.
Inoculate Guardsmen Against Typhoid Germ
The members of 1 Company Sixth Massachusetts Regiment M V M are to be inoculated by militia surgeons to guard against typhoid germs in camp on Cape Cod next week. Colonel Cyrus H. Cook division inspector of customs at the port of Boston will command the company in camp.
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Concord
Sixth
Massachusetts Regiment
Cape Cod
Cyrus H. Cook
Boston
Life Guard Neglect Probed at Dorchester Bay Station
A board of revenue cutter officers investigates complaints that South Boston floating lifesaving station crews failed to reach distressed yachtsmen swiftly in Dorchester and Pleasure Bays. The probe also reviews lifesaving inventions including an extended Lyle gun range as the new Dorchester Bay floating station nears completion.
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Dorchester Bay
Board of Revenue Cutter
South Boston
Saterlee
Life
Man Killed by Heavy Welding Car on Boston Elevated
Frederick C. Stockwell of Stoneham faced manslaughter charges in West Roxbury Court over the death of James F. Black in Roslindale on June 23. Stockwell said he rang bells, braked, and Black jumped in front of the wagon. state witnesses claim 35 mph and no gong heard. Hearing postponed to this morning.
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Frederick C. Stockwell
Elmwood’ Avenue
Stoneham
West Roxbury
James F. Black
Roxbury
Boston Elevated
Washington Street
Roslindale
Stockwell
Black
Comic trio keeps early readers laughing in Sunday Post
Uncle Man and the Tiny Tads entertain as Dolly Dimples and Gasolene Gus join the fun in the upcoming Post comic section.
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Uncle Man
Tads
Ever
Dolly
Gus
Next Sunday
Post
Remarkable One Dollar Sale Offers Wide Shoe Styles
Optical goods oxfords boots pumps house shoes white shoes party slips in leathers and whites with canvas velvets and satins. Large variety including trade marked shoes from Boston Lynn Haverhill Rochester Philadelphia all at one dollar per pair. Today 2400 pairs of three to five dollar sample shoes added. Boots oxfords and pumps in many styles and leathers mainly sizes 4 3 34 and 4 widths A B C D all at one dollar.
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Boston
Lynn
Haverhill
Rochester
Philadelphia
Éig As . Cretonne
Art T Soning
Jersey
Lisle
Saleai
Tussahress Messaline
Panama
Bissell
Moreens
Dutton
Wee
Renee Eee
Seeree
Serene Eens
Dresden
Eewerine
Warner
Ee Ee
Ter Ee
DeVoise
Bates
Seart
Shoes on sale factory samples and odd lots
$3.50 and $4 Black 165 Beauty Shoes in tan and patent leather. 324 pairs Black Beauty Oxfords and more styles in AA to B widths. $2 to $4 Sample 50 Shoes. 1800 pairs of Boots Oxfords Pumps factory samples and odd lots, mainly sizes 2% to 4, widths A to D. No exchanges, mail or C O D orders.
City judges hear bids to regulate motorboat noise
Three municipal court judges, harbor police, and representatives of two boating associations gathered in the harbor to decide what qualifies as a noisy motor boat. Residents of north and south shores have long complained about early morning fishermen using firecracker loud boats that disturb sleep.
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Motor Boat Protective Association
Motor Boat Muffling Association
Waterfront judges test motorboat mufflers for noise standard
In 1909 Massachusetts law forbade loud motorboats and three judges joined a harbor test with Captain Hird. They measured noise with muffler on versus off near Governor's Island, finding muffled sound reasonable and planning wider demonstrations to set a shorewide standard.
Penny game swindle nets $120 in Rock Rapids
Police seek two young men who cheated James A. Edgerton of Rock Rapids Indiana out of $120 yesterday morning with a penny matching scheme on Commonwealth avenue. One man, 35, 5 feet 8, 160 pounds, smooth face, light suit straw hat. the other similar but taller and paler.
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James A. Edgerton
Rock Rapids
Edgerton
Commonwealth Avenue
South Station
Leaky Gas Pipe Sparks Fire in Medford Lunch Room
Diners in the lunch room of J. A. Murphy at 110 Medford Street Medford escaped unharmed when a leaking gas pipe exploded and ignited. Firefighters arrived quickly and kept the blaze from spreading to adjacent structures, causing only minor building damage.
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J. A. Murphy
Medford Street
Medford
New Haven Road Not Liable for Wreck
Coroner J J Phelan of Bridgeport rules neither engineer Charles J Doherty nor the New York New Haven Hartford railroad its servants or agents guilty of criminal negligence in the Springfield express wreck in Stamford on June 12 as found today.
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New Haven
Bridgeport
Conn
Charlies J. Doherty
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Springfield Express
Stamford
J. J. Phelan
Railroads Protest Parcel Post Charge
Representatives of railroads formally protested to the Interstate Commerce Commission against enlarging parcel post packages as proposed by Postmaster General Burleson. They argue the change would cost railroads twenty million dollars in revenue currently earned from express companies.
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Washington
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Burleson
Stops Tobacco Habit at Elders Sanitarium Book Offer
Elders' Sanitarium at 687 Main Street, St. Joseph Missouri, has published a book detailing the deadly effects of tobacco and how to quit in three to five steps. Free copies are being distributed to anyone who provides name and address.
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Elders’ Sanitarium
Main Street
St. Joseph
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William J. Conway
S. J
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Augustine Gaynor
Michael J. Murphy
State Prison
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Joseph C. Pelletier
Suffolk County
Louis Watson
Philip L. McMahon
John F. Heffernan
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William M. Flynn
David Goldstein
John Gleason
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William J. O’brien
Edward T. McGettrick
James A. Ryan
T. Hanrahan
F. J. D. Ferguson
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William R. McCarthy
James A. Guilmartin
Edward E. McDonald
James Wilcox
Edwin F. Fay
John Roach
David F. Long
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Eward Powers
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William H. Sullivan
Ambrose Woods
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Fabrica of Light and Dark
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Quincy
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Motor Muffling
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Guardian
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