Senate lobbies face sweeping inquiry into influence
The Senate lobby investigating committee votes to expand its probe to all organized efforts aimed at swaying Congress on any pending or past legislation. Focus shifts to sugar and wool tariffs with later reach into prohibition, railways, unions, and various groups using campaigns and endless chain letters to influence lawmakers. Tensions rise over Mormon Church holdings in Utah sugar and textile firms as Senator Smoot denies church influence while defending his representation of Utah’s people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Congress
Suboena
Farmers’ Protective Organizations
House
Lieved
Reed
Wilson
Ransdell
Utah
Senator Smoot
Smoot
Utah-Idaho
Knight Women Mills Company
Provo
Reed and
Walsh
East Boston Man Held as Pickpocket
Martin Silva of East Boston is captured after a chase through North End streets by officers and bystanders. Officer Chaisson fired three warning shots. Silva and an accomplice allegedly pickpocketed Herbert Wentworth of Eastport Maine on Fleet street before fleeing into Clark street.
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Martin Silva
Eutaw Street
Boston
Clark Street
North End
John Chaisson
Joseph Serrari
Silva
Herbert Wentworth
Eastport
Fleet Street
Chaisson
North Street
Honeymoon on Desert Lands
After a New York wedding in February the Tos i couple toured Egypt on camels with a native guard amid Bedouin tribes. They later crossed southern Europe aboard the Canopic and Adriatic with Mr. and Mrs. H A Austin joining part of the voyage. Professor C M Cobern of Allegheny College reported an ambush by Arabs near Oasis El Bourg during their desert expedition.
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Egypt
Charles A. Tosi
New York
Canopic
Italy
Tosi
Charlotte E. McGinn
Orient
Mrs. Tosi
Eyypt
Europe
Adriatic
H. A. Austin
Mrs. Austin
C. M. Cobern
Alleghany
College
Pennsylvania
Cobern
Oasis
el Bourg
Professor Cobern
Hank the Hermit Faces Tax Collector Comic Trouble
In the comic section of next Sundays Post Hank the Hermit encounters a tax collector. The strip amplifies rural humor as Hank navigates paperwork and preposterous demands. The scene sets a lighthearted clash over taxes within a seaside town.
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Hank the Hermit
Next Sunday
Post
St Aidan's Set for Grand June Party at Brookline Grounds
The Rev Joseph F Coppinger heads St Aidan's parish drive for a large June party on the church grounds and Crowninshield estate to raise funds for the church building. An all day festival features music games tea and dancing with children amid ornate church interiors and stained glass. Prominent diocesan figures and parish members back the event aiming to reduce the remaining debt.
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St. Aidan’s Church
Brookline
Pleasant
Freeman Streets
Crowninshield
Joseph F. Coppinger
Father Coppinger
Lynn Woman Weds Gloucester Man In Universalist Ceremony
Miss Vera Marguerite Hastings of Lynn daughter of Charles H Hastings publisher of the Lynn Item married William T Gamage assistant manager of the Gorton Pew Fishery Company Gloucester. Rev Frederic W Perkins officiated at the First Universalist Church with a large gathering. A reception followed at 163 Ocean Street and a wedding tour to the Berkshires and New York State.
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Vera Marguerite Hastings
Lynn
Charles H. Hastings
William T. Gamage
Gloucester
First Universalist Church
Frederic W. Perkins
The
Item
Gamage
Gorton-Pew Fishery Company
H. M. Specht
New York City
Carlton H. Parson
Ocean Street
Berkshires
New York State
Two Boys Hurt In Fall Off Circus Train
Robert J. Turner of Malden and Joseph McCarthy, both 18, were injured when they fell from the Wheeler and Dow circus train near Oak Grove station Malden early yesterday. They were taken to Malden Hospital after care from City Physician E. H. MacMichael.
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Robert J. Turner
Malden Street
Malden
Joseph McCarthy
Wheeler & Downie Circus
Oak Grove Station
Malden Hospital
E. H. MacMichael
Queensbury Mills Owes $624000 in Bankruptcy
The Queensbury Mills units in Worcester and Somersworth New Hampshire show liabilities of 624000 in U S District Court bankruptcy filings. Assets are estimated at 538088 with Fleitman Co of New York as principal creditor holding 112546 secured. There are about 250 unsecured creditors totaling 322266. Jeremiah Williams Co is the principal unsecured claimant with 41546. Three receivers are managing the property and a reorganization is planned.
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Queensbury Mills
Worcester
Somersworth
N. H
United States District Court
Fleitman & Co
New York
Jeremiah Williams & Co
Morton
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van Loon
LAND
Shane
Ards
MA Gomes
Low
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Bobby
Providence
Alaska-Siberia
Tremont Temple
Gilchrist
Overman
East Boston
ST. Aidan’s
America
Nio Lees
Skill Dental CO
Washingtone St
Gilchrist’s
Filene
W. T. Gamage
Miss Hastings
C. F. Hovey & Co
American Hosiery Company
Norfolk
United States
Drake & Hersey CO
Canal Street
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