Police appoint new sergeants and lieutenants amid vacancies
Commissioner O'Meara issued a fresh batch of appointments but did not name any new captains. Sergeant Henry J. Watkins, reinstated as lieutenant at Station 6, was the first among reduced officers to return to duty. Other officers named include Lieutenant George M. Carr, Patrolman McDevitt, and Patrolman Charles T. Reardon, with several reservemen assigned to patrol roles at various stations.
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Henry J. Watkins
George M. Carr
McDevitt
Charles T. Reardon
O'Meara
South
Boston
Leutenant
Back Bay
Watkins
Hanover Street
John Rosatta
Thomas W. O'Donnell
Jow Street
LaGrange Street
Thie
Jamaica Plain
Patrick McGuckian
Perley G. Tilton
John EK. McCarthy
Do You Know Boston photos weekly contest begins
Readers are invited to identify a series of seven Boston area photographs published in the Sunday Post starting May 26. A second week’s photos will follow with a sixth image shown this week. Answers use the printed coupon and weekly awards are announced.
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Sunday Post
Boston
the Post
Daily Post
Lund
Know
Mass
Thanes
Boston Know Prizes Offered cash prizes total
A promotion offers multiple cash prizes of 50 25 15 10 50 100 and 250 dollars. Details on eligibility or entry are not provided in the text.
Governor Guild to Sign Antisho eu Machinery Bill
The United Shoe Machinery Company faces limits on exclusive leases as Governor Guild receives the measure after a Senate vote of 15 to 21. The roll call shows 38 of 40 senators on record with 15 voting for enactment and 23 against, amid no debate and a final, decisive approval.
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United Shoe Machinery Company
Guild
Executive Chamber
James J. Mellen
Charlestown
Curley
Mahoney
Dixon
Chapple
Rollecall
Meyers Moves to Block Boston and Maine Merger
Representative Julius Meyers of Cambridge proposes a recess committee to study buying the Boston & Maine by the Commonwealth to block the New Haven system. Senate rules would have acted on an anti-merger petition before Meyers’s House order, and the full question will be taken up to settle the issue. Meyers, a Republican merchant and Cambridge official, argues the move evades the law by bypassing state legislatures.
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Senate
Cole
Flouse
Joint Committee On Rules
Julius Meyers
Cambridge
Boston & Maine
Commonwealth
New Haven
Senate Committee On Rules
Meyers
House
Campridge
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts
Hospital Clinic Near 219 Bay State Road Faces Restriction
Dr Elizabeth A Riley must stop operating a lying in hospital at 219 Bay State Road due to lease restrictions. Justice Loring ruled but allowed appeal to the full court. Neighbors complained of odor and property value depreciation from the hospital.
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Dr. Riley
Bay State Road
Elizabeth A. Riley
Justice Loring
Supreme Court
D. Hy, Coakley
Riley
Slick Express Thief Repeats Old Shop Trick
An old trick dupes merchants as a glib express thief uses jumper overalls cap and badge to sign express company books for goods ready to ship. The goods are taken to a pawn shop or other place and disposed of.
Whitney Sees Coming Victory in Reciprocity Campaign
Newburyport, May 31. Henry M. Whitney urged a large audience for reciprocity and tariff revision. He argued high tariffs harmed growth, credited railways and agriculture for prosperity, and urged Canada open to benefit New England and the United States. He said it is not a party question and pledged to wait Massachusetts Democrats to decide his role.
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Newburyport
Henry M. Whitney
Whitney
Dominion of Canada
United States
New England
Massachusetts
Democrats of
MIT Seniors Honored At Alumni Banquet
Yesterday morning MIT alumni hosted a reception for the year’s graduating seniors in Engineering Building B Trinity place. Notables include William Graves Perry Kenneth Moller and Erle F Whitney. Perry designed a War Museum and arsenal building. Moller tested the producer gas engine at Medford. Whitney ran a 72 hour test on a 1000 kilowatt plant at Haverhill.
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Engineering Building
Trinity Place
William Graves Perry
Architectural
Kenneth Moller
Mechanical
Erle F. Whitney
Electrical
Harvard
Institute
Whitney
Exeter
Perry
Moller
Soston
Medford
Mechanical Engineering Society
Haverhill
Hayes Returns to House with Notable Amendment
Representative William H. S. Hayes of Lowell, out sick for months, reappeared in the House and offered a key amendment to a savings bank insurance bill. The Hayes proposal requires bank insurance departments to gain majority depositor approval, voting by proxy. The Lowell city rent bill for portions of the Common received readings and went to the Senate.
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William H. S. Hayes
Lowell
House
Hayes
Senate
Harbor improvements plan funds Dorchester Bay and Orient Heights
The ways and means committee reported harbor and river resolution totaling 136000 dollars to fund river and harbor work. It includes 8000 dollars for Dorchester Bay and 25000 dollars to dredge a channel near Orient Heights.
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Dorchester Bay
Orient Heights
Legislative Committee On Ways and Means
Grocers Set for Boston Association Jamestown Exposition Excursion
Between 500 and 600 members of the Boston Retail Grocers' Association and their families will leave by a special train at 8 45 tomorrow for an excursion to the Jamestown exposition. They will visit Washington Chesapeake Bay Hampton Roads Fortress Monroe and Old Point Comfort and return in one week.
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Boston Retail Grocers’ Association
Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Hampton Roads
Fortress Monroe
Old Point Comfort
Porter Antiseptic Healing Oil Refunded If Fails
Advertisement notes cuts scratches and bruises treated by The Household Surgeon with Dr Porter antiseptic healing oil priced at 25 cents. It promises a money back refund if the product fails to heal as claimed.
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Porter
Sister reunites with long-lost brother after convent fire
A Quebec nun from St. Andre meets her brother Peter Rogers in Adams after believing him dead for 12 years in a convent fire. She had come to Adams to escort a girl under her care and attend her parents golden wedding in Pittsfield. A chance conversation with locals revealed the surviving Rogers member.
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Adams
Charity
St. Andre
Quebec
Peter Rogers
Pittsfield
Rogers
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Charles H. Flood
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Albert H. Curtis
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Frederic J. Crosby
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Alice Briggs
AB Street
Forest Hills Cemetery
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