Crowns Mark Trinity Sunday at Gloucester Portuguese Church
Following a Portuguese custom, a dozen parishioners at the Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage in Gloucester wore solid silver crowns in a Trinity Sunday ceremony led by Rev. Francis Vieira Debm. The rite included loaf blessing and a community dinner at Manuel Azevedo’s home, drawing many churchgoers from area churches.
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Gloucester
Portugal
Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage
Francis Vieira Debm
Manuel Azevedo
Eighth Regular Convention Opens for Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
The eighth regular and third biennial convention opens this morning at Hotel Brunswick with about 200 delegates from the United States and Canada representing roughly 50,000 railway clerks. Mayor Fitzgerald and Boston Central Labor Union president McCarthy are slated to speak.
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Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Hotel Brunswick
United States
Canada
John F. Fitzgerald
Frank H. McCarthy
Boston Central Labor Union
Delegates to Banquet Hear Noted Leaders at Hotel Headquarters
A convention banquet at the delegates hotel will feature remarks by Governor Eugene N. Foss Mayor John F. Fitzgerald and leading labor figures. Invited guests include President William H. Taft Governor Foss Mayor Fitzgerald Lt Governor Luce and numerous railroad officials and labor leaders from the Boston and Maine New Haven and Boston & Albany lines. The organizing committee oversees the event.
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Eugene N. Foss
John F. Fitzgerald
William H. Taft
Robert Luce
William A. Murray
James P. Timilty
Charles S. Mellen
New Haven Railroad
Timothy E. Byrnes
New Haven
William T. Doherty
Concord
N. H
H. Stiles
Board of Adjustment
Boston & Albany
H. Rhines
Boston & Albany Locomotive Firemen
F. H. Cardino
Boston & Albany Conductors
Joseph B. Bode
Boston & Maine Telegraphers
E. R R. Wheeler
Boston & Albany Telegraphers
F. J. Oterson
Boston & Albany Locomotive Engineers
John I. Shaw
Boston & Maine
E. H. Wilson
Boston & Maine Locomotive Engineers
P. J. Coyle
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employees
John JF. Putnam
Charles E. Lee
Boston & Maine Road
Stuart H. McIntosh
Warren C. Kendall
J. L. Truden
Fred S. Evans
John Wall
J. L. Rowe
A. W. Lindsey
Boston
H. N. Walker
New
Organize Culinary Workers Petition Referred by Boston Union
The Boston Central Labor Union received a petition urging efforts to organize all culinary workers in hotels and restaurants. The petition was sent to the organizing committee for favorable action. Union officers and delegates were added to the organizing and grievance committee and a special meeting was set for tonight at the Wells Memorial building.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Harry P. Jennings
The
Brotherhood of Teamdrivers and Helpers
Cornelius P. Sullivan
Coal Teamsters’ Union
John Driscoll
Henry Desbrow
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union 17
Willam E. Kobs
Bottlers and Drivers’ Union
Thomas J. Minihan
Laundry Wagon Drivers’ Union
Wells Memorial Building
Park Department to Protect Old Men in Jobs
Park Department and K of I passed resolutions condemning a policy of replacing older workers with younger hires in playgrounds and other easy park jobs. Labor groups argue these jobs should go to old men who earned them.
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Park Department Assembly
K. of I
Labor notes on wage talks and union activity in Boston
Recorder E A Wilkie of the Boston Tele Phone & Telegraph Company will today receive the wage scale and working rules committee of the Telephone Operators Union and respond to their petition for better wages and conditions. A conference aims to consider Saturday half-holiday. Master Brewers Board of Trade, Coopers Union 89, and Boston Central Labor Union attend. Carpenters District Council in New Haven nears terms on the 1912 18 agreement, seeking nine hour days with no wage loss. Boston Stationary Engineers Union 16 will send delegates to the state steam engineers convention in Salem. Boston cigar factories plan union shop collector elections. Boston Painters Union 11 trustees plan audits.
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Daniel Cameron
Waltham
Cameron
Bridge and Draw Tenders
Joseph T. Walsh
New England
Bakers’ Unions
Worcester
New Haven Freight Handlers
Union 70
A. F. of L
K. of
Union 879
Dorchester
Brewery Workers’ Union
Konrad Young
Italian Barbers’ Union 666
Boston Barbers’ Union
Bricklayers’ Union
P. J. Sheehan
Stationary Firemen’s Union
E. A. Wilkie
Boston TelePhone & Telegraph Company
Telephone Operators’ Union
Master Brewers’ Board of Trade
Coopers’ Union 89
Boston Central Labor Union
Carpenters’ District Council
New Haven
Building Trades Crafts
Irwin
Building Department
James H. Sheehe
United Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steamfitters
Washington Street
Alfred D. Wheaton
Thomas Mahar
Fred W. Dethridge
John A. Carroll
Joseph A. Nash
Boston Stationary Engineers’ Union 16
Steam Engineers’ Unions
Salem
Boston
Board of Trustees of
Boston Painters’ Union 11
Merger opposition among Boston Baptist churches grows
Preliminary steps for merging the First and Warren Avenue Baptist congregations meet resistance as Bowdoin Square Tabernacle members oppose joining Clarendon Street. Dudley Street and Ruggles Street churches also show similar opposition, signaling fights ahead over consolidation.
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First
Warren Avenue
Baptist Churches
Boston
Bowdoin Square
Clarendon Street
Dudley Street
Ruggles Street
Noted Railroad Man Dies at 76 in Kennebunk
Sidney Thomas Fuller ex railroad engineer and former state representative died at his Kennebunk home aged 76. Born in Shirley Massachusetts he helped build the first railroad into Mexico and served as chief engineer of the Mexican lines. A widow survives.
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Kennebunk, Mo
Sidney Thomas Fuller
State House of Representatives
Mr. Fuller
Shirley
Mass
South
Mexico
World in Need of Sympathy sermon by Dr. Asher Anderson
Dr. Asher Anderson preached at Park Street Church on Human Responsibility. He argued God exists apart from humans and did not cause the Titanic disaster or war, noting that people ask God questions he cannot answer.
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A. Z. Conrad
Park Street
Asher Anderson
Anderson
God
Find Man's Body in River Between Bridges
The body of an unidentified man about 45 was found floating in the river between the Warren and Charlestown bridges by Crawtender Dennis Dunn. He was 5 feet 8 inches tall, 160 pounds, with a smooth face, wearing a black suit, black outing shirt, turned down collar, black stockings and black lace shoes. He was taken to the North Grove street morgue.
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Warren
Charlestown
Crawtender
Dennis Dunn
North Grove Street
Boston Advertising Leaders in Daily and Sunday Totals
The article compares Boston newspapers advertising reach and revenue. It notes Display ads dominate Boston Post in quality, while Boston Globe leads total advertising including Classifieds. Transcript, lacking a Sunday edition, leads in total daily advertising among papers.
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Boston Post
Boston Globe
The
Transcript
Boston
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