Pass Orders for Naming Three Squares for Heroes
The City Council approved three orders to name public squares in honor of war dead and an order naming Audubon road and Riverway Higginson Circle after Mayor Henry Lee Higginson. Additional orders name junctions and squares after Edwin C. McDermott Mandal Lewenberg and Gordon E. Denton.
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Boston
Audubon Road
Riverway
Higginson
Henry Lee Higginson
Moriarty
Toplit
Westville Streets
Geneva Avenue
Edwin C. McDermott
Councilman
Ford
Harvard Street
Talbot and
Blue Hill Avenues
Lewenberg Square
Restriction on Sweeping of Dry Sidewalks Sought
City Councilman Edward F. McLaughlin introduced an ordinance to make sweeping dry downtown sidewalks between 8 am and 7 pm illegal. The measure was laid over for one week on a motion by the sponsor, delaying action.
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Edward F. McLaughlin
Probe Prices of Ice in Boston and Statewide
The State Commission on the Necessaries of Life began an inquiry into ice prices in Boston and across the state. The move accompanies a cost of living report covering the previous three months.
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Boston
State Commission On
Ice Harvest Costs Under Scrutiny By Mass Ice Commission
General John Sherburne ordered an immediate survey of ice harvest and delivery costs ahead of the Republican national convention. The commission flags unjustified increases, noting Gardner's firm charging $1 per hundred pounds. It cites a February report finding no shortage justifying higher prices.
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John Sherburne
Gardner
Sherburne
Massachusetts
Memorial services planned by Cambridge Odd Fellows lodges
Harvard Lodge of Cambridge along with Thistle and Old Powder House lodges of Somerville will hold annual memorial services next Sunday. Ex service members will lead a parade from Odd Fellows Hall at 2 PM with the Uniform Bank No 1 IOOF MA and City Band, marching through Prospect Avenue.
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Harvard Lodge
Cambridge
Thistle
Old Powder House
Somerville
Uniform Bank
No. 1
M. A
City Band
Odd Fellows Hall
Massachusetts Avenue
Prospect
Parades and memorials led by local Masonic lodges in Somerville
In West Somerville the route from Cambridge street to Park Avenue for a ceremony at Methdist Church was announced with P. G. W. L. Gilman as marshal and P. G. Walter Hudson as chief of staff. Noble Grand Alexander Taylor and other officers will attend. The roll call of departed brothers overseas and at home will be read by P. G. H. V. Hopkins.
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P. G. Noyse
Thistle Lodge
P. G. E. Hudson
Harvard Lodge
P. G. Savage
Old Powder House Lodge
George E. Heath
P. G. H. V. Hopkins
Despondency Drags Woman to Self Destruction
Police say despondency over a lingering illness led Mrs. Annie Murray a widow living on Wensley Street Roxbury to end her life early yesterday. Her body was found in the kitchen on the third floor with gas escaping from an open jet near her head.
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Annie Murray
Wensley Street
Roxbury
Roxbury Crossing
Judge condemns methods in Jeffries Point land sale case
Judge Braley sharply criticizes the procedures used to authorize the Jeffries Point purchase from the East Boston Company. Morton Adams and John C. Watson claimed a $14,398 commission after the sale, but the Supreme Court voided the lower verdict on public policy grounds amid a $1,000,000 Commonwealth purchase.
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Point
East Boston Company
Braley
Morton Adams
John C. Watson
Commonwealth
Superior Court
Supreme Court
Weymouth Population Up 2163 in Census Figures
Census data released shows Weymouth Mass population rising by 2163 people, a 16.8 percent increase. Waterbury Connecticut records an 18269 gain, a 25 percent rise, and Burlington Vermont grows by 2311 residents, an 11.3 percent increase.
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Washington
Weymouth
Mass
Waterbury
Conn
Burlington
Delegation of 182 Members To Tour Eastern Canada
A Halifax bound delegation of 182 members plans a two week tour of eastern Canada after a city visit. The group will travel across several provinces during the upcoming fortnight.
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Walker
Halifax
Compri
Canad
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