Senate Debates Child Labor Bill Action Before Adjournment
Washington July 23 Democratic senators weigh action on President Wilsons request for a child labor bill before Congress adjourns. Administration leaders say a vote is likely after the shipping bill but caucus control may shift timing. Republicans threaten unanimous consent to force inclusion, risking adjournment dates and party strategy.
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Senate moves to trim navy expansion in end section
Senate conferees press to reconcile the naval bill with House programs while aiming for a three year building plan. Army appropriation action is expected soon as debates continue. Senate plans to start shipping bill debates before tackling revenue and child labor measures. House remains idle awaiting Senate progress.
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Chamberlain
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Two State Jobs Open in Massachusetts and Federal Service
The Massachusetts Civil Service Commission calls for examinations for a probation officer in Boston's penal institutions department at 1200 a year and an agent of the State Board of Pharmacy at 1780 a year. Also listed are federal vacancies including an assistant biologist at 1200 to 1400 a year, a ceramics laboratory assistant in Pittsburgh at 900 to 1200, and an apprentice craftsman in ordnance at 360. Applications should be made at once to the Massachusetts commission or the United States Civil Service Commission in Boston. The forest assistant exam is indefinitely postponed.
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Dope Hidden Under Garter Leads to Arrest on Train
A 50 year old man claiming to be George W Townsend of Boston was arrested on a Quincy train by State Police Officer Edward Sherlock. A search found morphine and a dope gun concealed beneath his garter. Townsend faced vagrancy charges and awaited arraignment with potential new charges pending.
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Edward Sherlock
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Hoboes Discuss College Plan and Birth Control Debate
A Boston meeting of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association featured J Eads How of St Louis pushing a hobo college for Massachusetts. The session also debated a birth control case, adjourned on a tabled motion, and ended with coffee and doughnuts as committees formed.
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Funeral Services for Former Hovey Employee
Funeral services for John E. Mathews, who saved the books of the C. F. Hovey Company during the Boston fire of 1872 and served the firm for nearly 53 years, were held at his daughter’s Somerville home. The Rev. Winfield S. Holland officiated, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Salem, where he was born and lived for decades.
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C. F. Hovey Company
Boston
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Walnut Street
Somerville
Winfield S. Holland
East Somerville Baptist Church
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Greenlawn Cemetery
Salem
Odds Over New Car Line Spur in Stoneham Wakefield
Residents of Stoneham and Wakefield clash over a through trolley line from Wakefield through Stoneham to Sullivan Square. Stoneham protests service impairment. Wakefield argues both towns gain with increased Boston access and direct Spot Pond connection.
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Activity at Camp Whitney
Camp Whitney July 23 reports steady rain but campers stay busy preparing for the border trip on Tuesday. Visitors were few due to weather, though several hundred came to see friends on the last public visiting day. The Sixth Regiment band performed in the Y M C A tent in the afternoon and evening after playing at the Governor's review.
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Sixth Regiment
Lowell
No Trace of Bomb Plotters In San Francisco Blast
Police spent a day shadowing anarchist centers and chasing rumors but found no tangible trace of the bomber who detonated a suitcase bomb at a crowded parade corner in San Francisco. Six killed. many injured. clues include witnesses near Stewart and Market streets and a rooftop observer.
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National Defence
Thomas H. Turnbull
Central Emergency Hospital
Ben F. Lamborne
Alameda
L. H. Lamborne
Stewart
Market Streets
Von Linsingen's Losses Estimated at 50 000
Petrograd dispatch reports a five mile Russian advance on the Riga sector left wing. General von Linsingen's recent losses on the Styr and Lipa rivers are at least 50 000 men from three corps engaged. Russians near the northeast corner of Galicia flank Boehm-Ermolli and Count von Bothmer.
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London
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Lipa
Galicia
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Pitts youth to receive commission as second lieutenant
Harry Adamson a 22 year old Pitts field youth recently returned from France where he served seven months as ambulance driver for the French army will today receive his commission from Adjutant General Cole as second lieutenant of Company F Second Regiment He will join his regiment at Columbus N M with the Camp Whitney recruits having seen action near Verdun as a stretcher bearer and bearer of wounded and dead for four months
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Pittsfield
France
Cole
Columbus
N. M
Whitney
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Verdun
Adamson predicts end of war and Russian aid at front
Adamson, yesterday at Camp Whitney, was examined and passed for a commission in F Company after delaying exams to rejoin his unit. He spoke of a four month war end, German demoralization, and a larger allied drive with Russian forces to join soon. he noted German food shortages and prisoners receiving only one meal a day.
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