Four Alarm Blaze Destroys Dexter Stores Building in South Boston
A four alarm fire gutted the six story Dexter Stores building at 168 A Street South Boston destroying wool and gutting the structure. Firemen battled extreme heat using relays gas masks water curtains and water towers as nearby buildings were protected. Fire crews suffered cuts from glass while fighting the flames and a wooden Gillette Shop also ignited.
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A Street
Boston
Gillette Safety Razor Company
Cornelius J. O’keefe
Michael Conly
Hippo Fund Reaches Campaign Peak in New England Drive
A baby hippo campaign nears its peak as donors from New England youths strive to raise nearly three quarters of the fund to buy the “funniest, ugliest and happiest” hippo. Continued on Page 6.
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Baby Hippo
New England
Greenwich man wrecks plane near crowded beach
Stanley S. Wincapop a Greenwich shipbuilder wrecked his Curtis hydroplane at Neponset tidal basin to avoid harming over 500 children at Tenean Beach The plane was wrecked beyond repair while the pilot and his passenger brother escaped unhurt Wincapop said he purposely wrecked the craft to spare the crowd
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Lawley
Roosevelt Seriously Ill in Boston Hospital
Former Navy secretary and Democratic vice presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is being treated in Boston for a serious illness. He recently arrived in the city, was examined by physicians, and is staying in Milton after a hospital stay at Massachusetts General. He had first fallen ill last fall at Campobello and showed some improvement before worsening again.
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Boston
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L Plans for New Terminal
Elevated Trustees propose a new terminal near Harvard avenue Allston between Brighton and Commonwealth avenues. Trains would run from Lechmere square Cambridge over the Aqueduct bridge to the subway entrance at North Station then to Kenmore square and out Commonwealth and Brighton avenues to the terminal. Return would follow Commonwealth avenue back toward the route.
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Shimmy Origins Debunked By Don Conrad In Rotterdam Arrival
New York reports Don Conrad, arriving on the Rotterdam, claims the shimmy did not come from Spain but from Russia where a peasant dance in a heavy woolen shirt caused shivering and writhing, ending the romance of 1918-20 dancers.
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College baseball results and boxing bout summaries
Holy Cross defeated Columbia 8 to 5 while Lafayette beat Penn 3 to 1 and Submarine Base routed Boston College 12 to 1. In boxing Eddie Brady outpointed Kid Sullivan over 12 rounds in New York with full sports reports on pages 12 15 16 and 17.
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Tragic Infant and Teen Drownings Reported in Lynn
Benjamin Sanosky fourteen months of 41 Lowell street died after illness at home and at Hay Market Square Relief Hospital. Raymond Parker Dow fifteen of 112 Hollingsworth street Lynn drowned last night after a cramp while swimming in Flax Pond Lynn.
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Lowell Street
Haymarket Square
Raymond Parker Dow
Hollingsworth Street
Lynn
Lightning Strikes Hit Suburban Church Steeples in Storm
An electrical storm last evening caused fires in church steeples and buildings and injured several people. The storm brought partial relief from the heat but also led to two deaths reported from the events of yesterday.
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Local Showers Forecast for New England and Mid-Atlantic
Forecast for Boston area and vicinity calls for local showers and lower temperatures Saturday with similar conditions Sunday. Northern New England unsettled with local showers and mild temperatures. Southern New England expected showers and cooler spell. Eastern New York sees local showers. Sandy Hook northward unsettled with showers Saturday. Sandy Hook to Hatteras winds west to southwest with partly cloudy skies Saturday.
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Washington
New England
New York
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Cooler Weather Likely With Showers Today
Forecast predicts much cooler conditions across the area with a good chance of showers this afternoon and again tonight. Residents should plan for wet pavement and cooler temps through the evening.
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Adeay
First Woman Prohibition Agent Leads Haverhill Raid
A Bay State prohibition agent participated in a Thursday booze raid in Haverhill becoming the first woman to perform such field work in Massachusetts.
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Haverhill
Bay State
Bradford Academy raiding linked to wife’s cooking praised
June 9 in Haverhill reports Miss Marion Coates says fashions reveal stockings as poor hiding places for liquor. Prohibition officers raided Herbert’s Bradford Academy home, blaming it on the wife’s reputed cooking and guest visits.
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Bradford Academy
Haverhill
Herbert
Harding Optimistic On Postwar Economy In Trenton Crowd Cheers
President Harding told an audience in Trenton from a train platform that business is improving and wages, though readjusting, will not return to pre war levels. The crowd shouted Atta boy as the president spoke.
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N. J
Harding
Atta Boy
Women of Note Die in Vermont Car Crash
Two prominent women were killed and another fatally injured when their car left the White River bank near South Royalton, Vermont, while returning from a Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in Springfield. A second passenger and the driver escaped serious injury.
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Hyde Park
Federation of Women’s Clubs
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South Royalton
Beaten Shot Money Intact In Malden Shack Attack
Rosa, 53, of 830 Charter street North End, was found with two bullet wounds in the abdomen and a head wound at 3 AM in a wooden shack behind Broad Way School Malden. About $200 in his pockets remained untouched as police suspect robbery but the assailants fled.
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North End
Malden
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Arland Keeps Fortune After Free-Love Fame Fade
Charles Garland, once touted as an apostle of free love, now vows to keep his wealth. He states he is through with women and will hold onto every penny of his multimillion fortune, leaving his wife and daughter with little of the estate.
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Charles Garland
Garland heir pledges to keep nearly two million undistributed
The article portrays Garland as the pragmatic heir to James Garland, renouncing altruistic schemes and philanthropic plans, and stating he will keep his fortune rather than devote it to charity.
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Mr. Garland
James Garland
New England
Dog Graduates With Mistress At Waynefleet School
Portland Me June 9 Ten members of the Class of 1922 at Waynefleet School graduate with their dog mascot Troubles beside his mistress Miss Mary Thomas. The dog bowed on the invocation and was praised by the principal as a popular graduate amid applause.
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Waynefleet School
Mary Thomas
Begged Husband to Take Her From Dreary Life
Mrs. Nellie Smith aged 30 wife of Ellsworth Smith keeper of Commincat Light in Narragansett Bay administered poison tablets to her two sons age two and five then consumed poison herself. The younger boy and the mother are dead the older boy in critical condition.
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Nellie Smith
Ellsworth Smith
Commicat Light
Narragansett Bay
First Official Bride of Harding Era Wed in Washington
Miss Catherine Hughes daughter of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes wed Chauncey Lockhart Waddell of New York in a 4 pm ceremony in Washington marking the first official marriage of the Harding administration. The event drew prominent figures from government and society as observers noted the occasion symbolized a new era in official social life.
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State Hughes
Harding
Washington
United News
Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes
Chauncey Lockhart Waddell
New York
Funeral Held Up for Bride in Hyde Park
After three days with the mother of the bride dead at her home on Agnee avenue Hyde Park relatives and police from Boston and New York searched for a honeymoon sedan carrying Walter and Mrs O Hearn. The funeral was delayed and will be held at 9 am in the Church of the Most Precious Blood Hyde Park following services at the house.
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Hyde Park
Boston
New York
Walter O’hearn
Church of the Most Precious Blood
Johanna T T. McCarthy
William L. McCarthy
Tragedy at Lighthouse Ends in Poison Suicide
Mrs. Smith living in a remote stone lighthouse area deprived of company grew despondent over isolation. She persuaded her husband to move, then used poison tablets found in a cabinet to kill herself and her two sons after giving candy to one. The lighthouse keeper returned to find most of his family dead or dying and an antidote given to the survivor.
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Smith
Providence
Mr. Smith
Brookline Worker Killed in Washington Street Cave-In
Mathew J. Walker of 141 Brook Street Brookline an employee of the Brookline Water Works Department died at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from injuries after a trench cave in on Washington Street yesterday. Other men in the trench escaped injury.
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Brookline
Brookline Water Works Department
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
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