Circus Throngs Pack Boston as Sells Floto Opens
Holiday crowds flood Huntington avenue for two daily shows by Sells Floto. Press veteran W. D. Coxey and owner H. H. Tammen smile as thousands fill the big top. Georges Carpentier appears, sparring briefly for cheering children. The circus runs for a week with continuous performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Caesar
Nero
Boston
Daddy
Big Brother
Huntington Avenue
W. D. Coxey
H. H. Tammen
Sells- Floto
Georges Carpentier
Prison Team For Drunken Driver
Albert Fortin received the harshest Vermont penalty for driving while intoxicated. He was ordered to serve six to twelve months at the State Prison following a May accident in which Joseph Benoit and A. W. Ladd were seriously injured. Bottles of lemon extract were found near the wrecked car.
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Burlington
Albert Fortin
Vermont
Joseph Benoit
A. W. Ladd
Socialist platform adopted by state convention in Allston
The State Socialist party at its Allston convention released a 10 point program including model worker housing, cost of living based wages, a 40 hour week, free speech rights, holidays for election days, and equal suffrage for women. It also urged repeal of the espionage act and amnesty for Debs, naming Hutchins as governor and a full state ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Party
Cambridge Street
Allston
Commonwealth of Model Homes
Eugene V. Debs
Walter
Walter 8. Hutchins, Greenfield; Lieutenant-Governor, Daniel R. Donovan
Holyoke
Edith Williams
Brookline
Louis Marcus
Boston
Herbert H. Thompson
Haverhill
John Weaver Sherman
Brockton Veterans Ride in Automobiles in Memorial Parade
For the first time in Fletcher Webster Post G. A. R. history, Brockton veterans rode in automobiles in the Memorial Day parade. Mayor Gleason and the Board of Aldermen and Common Council lent their cars and walked, marking the first time city leaders did not ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Way
Grand Army Post
Fletcher Webster Post
William L. Gleason
Board of Aldermen
Officer Thrown From Motorcycle in Park Patrol
Patrolman John B. McKinnon 82 of the Metropolitan Park police was thrown from a motorcy cle on Watertown Parkway near the Brighton line. He was taken to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with a fracture of the left leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. McKinnon
Metropolitan Park Police
Watertown Parkway
Brighton
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Five Chelsea Street Rail Lines May Be Cut This Week
The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company pauses five lines in Chelsea with a 15 day extension granted to towns to arrange a profitable operation. Lines slated for discontinuance include Melrose Highlands to Saugus Centre Linden to Saugus Centre Malden Square to Linden Linden to Revere and Park Avenue in Revere. The board cites mounting operating losses and future rehabilitation costs as factors.
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Chelsea
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
Board of Trustees
Melrose Highlands
Saugus Centre
Linden
Malden Square
Revere
Park Avenue
Street Railway Company
Loring
Father and Son Hurt in Beacop and Charles Streets Crash
Achille Demba age 30 and his five year old son Joseph were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital after a motorcycle collision with a car at Beacop and Charles streets. The motorcycle sidecar rider Guido Compe, 23, escaped with minor injuries. The car owner was E. W. Preston and the driver was Charles H. Toby, who reported the accident.
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Achille Demba
Summer Street
Chelsea
Joseph
Massachusetts General Hospital
Beacop
Charles Streets
Guido Compe
Commonwealth Avenue
E. W. Preston
Charles H.toby
Worcester Street
Natick
Two Plays Presented at Peabody House Program
Women City Club members enjoyed two plays at the Elizabeth Peabody House on Charles Street. The Community Service, Incorporated produced The Golden Doom by Lord Dunsany and The Price of Coal by Harold Brighouse, with interludes of Spanish dances by Mme Marie Lawton.
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Elizabeth Peabody
Charles Street
Community Service, Incorporated
Lord Dunsany
Harold Brighouse
Mge
Marie Lawton
Joy Higgins
Community Service
Dorothy Sands
South End Child Injured by Auto
Hyman Zaetland eight of 43 Warrenton Street South End was badly injured yesterday when struck and knocked down by an automobile at Boylston and Exeter streets Back Bay. The car owned by Quitt Crossen Auto Parks Company Somerville and driven by William S Clough of 4 Columbia Street Somerville. Zaetland was taken to the City Hospital with contusions to the back and left forearm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyman Zaetland
Warrenton Street
South End
Boylston and
Exeter Streets
Back Bay
Cross
Witien
Quitt Crossen Auto Parks Company
Somerville
William 8 S. Clough
Columbia Street
7 Zaetland
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Concord
Massachusetts Reformatory
Concord Junction
Irl
Ives
Anne
Dresser
Seige
Roomgats
Ares
Moller
Spayeep
eMoller
C. B. Moller, Inc
Cambridge
Mass
Central Square
Renee A
Peae
Perma-Loc Manufacturing CO
Perma-Loc Building
Wilkes Barre
Army
Boston and
Freiman
le Jewelry Co
United States
Thi
Bromfield
Peabody House
Pth' Allersenrs
Bull” Durham
France
Pyrenees
RIZ LA Croix
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