Coolidge Plan for Edge Park Grammar Schools
Architect J Randolph Coolidge Jr proposes park edge grammar schools served by city streetcars to free light and air. He argues for lower cost sites near parks over expensive crowded city plots and details transport, school day schedule, lunch, and supervision plans with support from R Clipston Sturgis and Arthur A Shurtleff.
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J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
Franklin Park
Coolidge
R. Clipston Sturgis
Arthur A. Shurtleff
Mr. Coolidge
Fish Trust Not Yet Here in Boston
There is no confirmed fish trust in Boston yet though talks continue. C J Whitman says nothing is consummated, while rumors say a future combine could cover about 65 percent of wholesale dealers at the waterfront. Crews and retailers fear ar bitrary price setting and higher costs if a trust forms.
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Boston
C. J. Whitman
C. J. Whitman & Co
Whitman
Fish Trust
Ti Wharf
Gloucester firms reject fish trust plans
Gloucester on June 2 reports none of the local fishing firms will join the fish trust. Thomas J. Carroll, president of Gorton Pew Fisheries Company and the Gloucester Board of Trade, said his firm had nothing to do with the combine.
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Gloucester
Fish Trust
Thomas J. Carroll
Gorton Pew Fisheries Company
Gloucester Board of Trade
Post
Combine
Brookline Driver Run Over by His Own Hack
Vincent Fitzpatrick a Brookline livery stable keeper was thrown as he attempted to halt two horses attached to a hack. The wheels passed over him but injuries were slight. The horses ran to Dudley Street before being stopped by an employee of Sherman L Whipple on Ashmont Avenue and Sargent Street.
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Vincent Fitzpatrick
Brookline
Ashmont Avenue
Sargent Street
Dudley Street
Sherman L. Whipple
Mayor Says Coolidge Plan For Schools Not Practical
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald voices doubt about Mr. Coolidge proposed plan for schools at city park edges. He says it is an excellent topic but not practical now and that in districts most helped, children will be needed at home during the two hour school session gap.
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Coolidge
City Parks
Washington
Bowdoin Square
West End
Franklin Roe
John F. Fitzgerald
Famine Relief Ended as Russia Feels Self-Sufficient
St Petersburg June 2. Russian famine committee says foreign subscriptions can end as Russia can feed its people. State aid totals 87 million dollars with 6 million to combat scurvy and sustain eating places feeding 2.5 million. Duma funding improves harvest prospects in Central Russia.
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ST. Petersburg
Russian Famine Committee
London
New York
Russia
Prince Looff
Finland
Great Britain
United States
Ufa
Springfield heiress weds actor in Gretna Green style
Frank R. Mackenzie once an actor for E. H. Sothern married Bessie Vinton the Springfield heiress amid secrecy in Providence. Vinton famed for wealth social standing and multiple Springfield properties plus summer and winter homes. Mackenzie known on stage as Stuart Cameron frequented Vinton's Far Eastock home where their theatrical ties sparked the attachment.
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Bessie Vinton
Providence
Springfield
Mackenzie
R. I
New England
Gretna Green
Bay State
Frank R. Mackenzie
E. H. Sothern
G. W. Kent
Worcester
Adelaide Avenue
Mackenzie No. 1
Miss Vinton
Prospect Hill
Stuart Cameron
Far Etockaway
$300 000 to Enlarge Big Holyoke Cotton Mills
The Lyman Cotton Mills Company in Holyoke voted to double prior plans and spend 306000 on improvements. The project adds 500 workers and raises wages by 5 to 10 percent for 1400 operatives, effective this week.
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Big Holyoke
Holyoke
Lyman Cotton Mills Company
Resignation Read At Third Universalist Church Cambridge
The Rev. William B Eddy announces his resignation as pastor of the Third Universalist Church in North Cambridge effective at the end of June after four years of service. Tufts president Rev Frederick W Hamilton read the letter and a meeting to seek Eddy’s reconsideration is planned.
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Third Universalist Church
North
Cambridge
William B. Eddy
Frederick W. Hamilton
Tufts College
Mr. Eddy
Arthur H. Dennison
Arlington Street
North Cambridge
Norwood
Eddy
Three Deaths After Providence Plant Shooting
In Providence Rhode Island Thomas E Edmundson and Amos N Gorham died after being shot Friday by clerk Fitzroy Willard at the Brown and Sharpe plant. Willard and his father died this morning from shock. Willard remains jailed on bonds. He said the first man was taunted. the second shooting he claimed was accidental.
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Providence
R. I
Thomas E. Edmundson
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
Fitzroy Willard
Rhode Island
Amos N. Gorham
Willard
Willardts
Tiger Breaks from Enclosure in Panama Crowd
A tiger at a highly publicized event in Panama escaped its pen and charged toward the grandstand as 3000 spectators watched, triggering a deadly fusillade that killed the animal after it cleared the first ten rows. A preceding bull fight left a bull fighter seriously gored.
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Panama
Yale trainer Johnny Mack and Chelsea belle Miss Desmond marry plans
The bans of Johnny Mack Yale athletic director and Miss Catherine Desmond of Chelsea were announced in church. Mack, Chelsea born, has long trained Yale teams since 1905 and led Mercersburg teams to early intercollegiate wins. Desmond will wed in June with ceremonies planned later this month.
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Johnny Mack
Yale
Chelsea Belle
Catherine Desmond
Chelsea
Mack
Miss Desmond
Slaven Athletic
Harvard
Mercersburg Academy
Princeton
Katherine Desmond
21 Gun Salute at Charlestown Navy Yard Honoring Italy
The Charlestown navy yard marked Italy’s centennial with a 21 gun shore battery salute in return to the Italian cruiser Etruria. Admiral Snow ordered gunfire in exchange, ships decorated, and Italian crew visited Union Hall amid a day of ceremonies and talks. An anniversary picnic at Caledonian Grove was planned for today weather permitting.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Etruria
Italy
Snow
United States Navy
United States
Charlestown Yard
Union Hall
Salem Street
North Street
Caledonian Grove
Enterprise at Charlestown navy yard for boiler repairs
Labor troubles shift Massachusetts training ship Enterprise from Atlantic Works to Charlestown navy yard for boiler repairs. The work will take about two weeks, with union boilermakers onsite and no anticipated interference with the schedule for a summer cruise abroad.
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Massachusetts Nautical Training Ship Enterprise
Atlantic Works
Boston
Navy Yard
Charlestown
Jaw broken by horse kicks West End groom
Daniel McKerrigan, 20, living in West End, was knocked unconscious in Richardson's stable at Pitts and South Margin by a horse kick. He suffered a compound jaw fracture and facial lacerations while tending the animal. rushed to Relief station for treatment.
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Daniel MckKerrigan
West End
Richardson
Pitts
South Margin
Melxerrigan
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Kerchev
Sn Drinks
Perheas
Boston Common
Frank R. M'Kenzie
Tiger
Pirate
Prato
Washington Mills
Washington ST
Pyareee
Sudbury
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