This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
9
Four leaders in Boston plan to conduct the strike for the international and James H. Smith of Bridgeport Conn international organizer will assist him. Agent Frank Jennings of the union remains involved.
About 1200 workers in carpentry, construction, and machinist trades halted work to press for increases in Boston. Carpenters won raises of 0.50 per hour for house and shop carpenters and daily gains for wharf builders and others. Machinists pushed for a standard minimum of 3.00 to 4.00 per day depending on specialty. Additional laborers and excavators sought 0.85 and 0.30 per hour respectively. Dozens of shops had workers quitting until agreements signed, with many shops already settling or in talks.
About 49 men from the Hebrew Carpenters' Union pressed their boss to sign an official agreement yesterday and all did so before night. Nearly 600 machinists walked out at 12 shops including Atlantic Works and Bertleson & Peter 60n in East Boston and Lawley’s in the area.
Rev. Albert Parker Fitch president of Andover Theological Seminary spoke to about fifty graduates of the School of Industrial Science on Berkeley street. He defined an educated person as one led out and urged the women to work joyously, making work a habit, noting the lazy and idle as unhappy while the busy are the happy.
Mayor Fitzgerald names James L. Byrne of Dorchester as Water Commissioner and reappoints Wred A. Bolton of Ward 20 as a Board of Assessors member. Notices will be sent to the Civil Service Commission. Bolton has long been active in city and state politics.
Lynn resident J Delaney 23 a conductor on the Salem Boston Air Line died after being run over by a Lynn Swampscott electric car in front of West Lynn car barns around 10 p m. The forward wheels passed over his chest as the car followed his own.
Fear grips the Callas family in Lynn as 12 year old George Callas vanishes from 89 Pleasant Street. His brother and sister, who cared for him, report no clues since last Sunday night.
The Orpheum Club of American Music Hall employees held its first annual dance and social last night at the Knights of Honor Hall on Washington Street. About 100 couples attended as the event shifted from a subscription dance to a family party with Sternberg's Orchestra providing music and vaudeville entertainment by the American troupe.
A young woman, resident of the hotel, was found in great agony in a room at about 9 o clock. A doctor ordered her removal to Malden Hospital after the scene at Central House.
At a city hospital a woman survived a large morphine dose after two hours of resuscitation. Police, doctors, and attendants questioned her while she refused to reveal her name. A note offered $1 for the trouble, claiming weeklong drug use to end her life. An unknown man, calling himself her brother from New Hampshire, claimed responsibility and promised to return. The guest had stayed six days isolated in her room.
A Boston Post contest photo shows a girl on Hammond Street Roxbury at noon intermission. Readers may identify the child and claim a five dollar gold piece at the City Editor office 275 Washington Street third floor during weekday hours with a parent or guardian.
Theodore Roosevelt McPherson a seven year old from 25 Oakland street Brighton appeared in Sundays Post among twenty schoolchildren photographed for a $5 Gold Piece prize. He attends Winship school in the third grade with Miss McPherson as teacher.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.