Plans for Boston Old Home Week Activities
Boston Old Home Week committees discussed events for August including amateur athletic events on Boston Common Thursday August 1 and Symphony Hall speeches on Tuesday July 30. Governor Guild and Mayor Fitzgerald may speak. Trades parade entries are flooding in and Dorchester Old Home Week unit plans a Greater Boston Day.
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Boston Old Home Week
Joseph M. Thomas
M. F. Winston
Boston Common
Symphony Hall
Guild
Fitzgerald
Civic and Trades
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Dorchester Old Home Week Association
Municipal Building
Columbia Road
Greater Boston
Plan New Building for Museum of Fine Arts in Fenway District
The Museum of Fine Arts begins a new building near Harvard Medical School on Huntington Avenue. The Fenway site offers light, room, and growth, with ground-floor instruction spaces and first-floor galleries. Two wings and a central block house six small museums and related departments, ready by summer 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Museum of Fine Arts
Fenway District
Boston
Harvard Medical School
Huntington Avenue
Copiey Square
Fenway
Crowd Threatens Lynch Of Greek Cobbler After Alleged Assault
A mob in Spring Lane chased Greek cobbler George Margupus after an alleged attack on Emi Gimell, 15, of 71 Charter Street. The boy led the crowd, shouting for lynching. Margupus was taken to Station 2 and released. A warrant may be sought by the boy in court. Eyewitnesses say Margupus struck the bow with a tack hammer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Margupus
Spring Lane
Emi Gimell
Charter Street
Margupus
Teamsters Union Agent Not Guilty of Contempt
Judge Crosby dismissed contempt charges against Daniel I. Tobin agent of Local Union 25 after he was accused of trying to persuade Frost Transportation to stop handling Hilliard Company goods following a Supreme Court injunction issued by Judge Loring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilliard Company
Daniel I. Tobin
Union 25
Teamsters
Crosby
Equity
Tobin
Loring
Supreme Court
Frost Transportation Company
Senate Delays Adjournment For Bunker Hill Day Picnic
Senator Shaw’s Lake Quinsigamond picnic on Bunker Hill Day was substituted for Senator Taft’s in the chamber. Senator Mellen led a push for the holiday, but Taft urged a full calendar and prorogation, passing 19 to 15 to stay. The Senate will meet at 12 30 Monday while the House rests and reconvenes Tuesday.
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Jim Shaw
Lake Quinsigamond
Bunker Hill
Senate
Arthur M. Taft
James J. Mellen
Charlestown
Taft
Shaw
Boston & Worcester Railroad
Worcester County
Garfield
Brockton
House
Salvage Suit over G. W. Cochrane Ship Landing
Abel filed against the three masted schooner G. W. Cochrane of Parrsboro Nova Scotia in U S District Court. Betts Bros of East Boston seek salvage for floating and repair after the schooner went ashore on Nauset beach Cape Cod last November. The vessel was laden with lumber and allegedly abandoned by master and crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abel
G. W. Cochrane
Parrsboro
N. S
United States
Betts Bros
East Boston
Nauset Beach
Cape Cod
Masonic Convention at Burlington Is Closed
Burlington Vermont June 14 The annual meeting of Vermont grand Masonic bodies closed with the 90th annual convocation of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter Officers elected include High Priest Collins Blakely Montpelier Deputy High Priest Olin W Daly White River Junction King Edward H Martin Middlebury Scribe Harold Black Bellows Falls Treasurer Charles W Whitcomb Proctorville Secretary Henry H Ross Burlington Captain of the Host Henry S Root Newport
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Burlington
Grand Masonic Bodies of
Vermont
Grand Royal Arch Chapter
Collins Blakely
Montpelier
Olin W. Daly
White River Junction
King
Edward H. Martin
Middlebury
Harold Black
Bellows Falls
Charles W. Whitcomb
Proctorville
Henry H. Ross
Henry S. Root
Newport
Ames Comes On His Yacht for Pneumatic Service Election
Ames, slated to become president of the American Pneumatic Service Company, arrived yesterday aboard his steam yacht with a party of friends. President Dillaway calls his coming retirement a vacation and wishes his successor a prosperous administration as June 18 election approaches.
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Willian Hi. Ames
American Pneumatic Service Company
Stow
W. E. L. Dillaway
Bronze tablet to Rhode Island battleship at Newport
The Rhode Island receives a bronze tablet of Hope from the State tomorrow at 2 p.m. Governor Higgins and staff travel from Providence aboard the gunboat list for the ceremony. The state also presents a silver service to officers and a piano for enlisted men, with two silk flags from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Captain Bowman will formally receive the gifts.
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Newport
R. I
Rhode Island
James H. Higgins
Providence
Charles Warren Lippitt
Charles G. Bowman
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Mennen
Hood
Pear
Society Hygienique
Badons
Cosmo
Dr. Charles
Henry Siegel Co
Essex St
Washington& Essex Sts
Oxford
Siegel Photo Studio
Hayward Place
House of Kuppenheimer Cage
New England
Kuppenheimer
America
S. H. Harrison Co
Washington Street
Essex Street
Nic
Massachusetts
Clinton Market
City Square
W. L. Douglas
Geo. C. Snow
E. E. Taylor
Janis
Essex Street Side
Masonic
Ames
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