Boston Heat Wave Paralyzes City As Humidity Rises
Annie Keane 37 of East Boston is taken to Relief Hospital with syncope from heat. Albert Kingsworth 53 of Bulfinch Place is near fainting. Gas Company worker semiconscious later. Thermometer hits 87 at 4 p.m. with lingering humidity and Sahara like conditions. Forecasters predict cooler day Tuesday as West cooler zones noted. Boston labeled nation’s hottest city with humidity 19 degrees above normal.
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Annie Keane
Burke's Court
Boston
Albert D. Kingsworth
Bulfinch Place
Consoli
Weather Bureau
Smith
Dakotas
Dated Gas Company
City Hospital
Rose Clark
Norton Street
Dorchester
Dudley Street
Sullivan Rumored to Head State Finance Commission
Rumor said ex-Congressman John A. Sullivan was offered the chairmanship of the permanent Finance Commission by Governor Draper. When asked, Sullivan declined to discuss the offer and noted the governor wants a Democrat for the post.
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John A. Sullivan
Permanent Finance Commission
Draper
Sullivan
Indicted Japanese Leaders Strike Oversees International Appeal
Honolulu dispatch reports M Negoro of Jiji, a Tokyo based publication, detained after a raid on the paper's office as a grand jury indicts 17 leaders in a plantation labor strike. Negoro petitions the Japanese foreign office alleging treaty rights violations while Territorial Sheriff Henry notes seized papers show criminal intent and supports remittance of redress through territorial courts.
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Honolulu
M. Negoro
Jiji
Tokio
William Henry
Negoro
Nervousness due to overwork and a tonic remedy
A testimonial from Mrs Grace W Glidden of Somerville Mass describes years of nervous exhaustion from overstudy. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing her after ineffective doctors and long illness. Pills sold by druggists or mailed by Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Grace W. Glidden
Adams Street
Winter Hill
Somerville
Mass
Dr. Williams
Vote on merger bill fuels heated House debate today
The present session featured a furious clash over Governor Draper's railroad holding company bill with Representative Bayley calling the Washburn alternative a counterfeit. Debates stretched into two hours, and a vote was postponed to today amid calls for more time.
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Draper
Railroad Holding Company
House
Washburn
Railroad Committee
Edwin A. Bayley
Lexington
White
Bayley
Brown
Medford
New Haven
Billard
Boston & Maine
Commission On Commerce and Industry
Charles S. Mellen
Garcelon
Newton
Draper-Malone
Fight Over Jobs Ends With Razor and Knife Fight
John Ely and Joseph Henedry were jailed after a dispute about job merits led to a battle using a razor and knife. Both men, a chauffeur and a cab driver, were sewed up at Massachusetts General Hospital and are reported to have non dangerous wounds.
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John Ely
Goodwin Place
Joseph Henedry
North Grove Street
Station 3
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ely
Henedry
Recluse Carpenter Ends Life by Hanging at Home
Lynn June 14 Richard McGlorey aged 68 of Cliftondale a recluse carpenter committed death by own action by hanging at his home 9 Baker street today.
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Lynn
Richard McGlorey
Cliftondale
Baker Street
Revolt by Republicans shakes City Board over Hibbard
The Republican majority in the Board of Aldermen ousted Mayor Hibbard's appointees Edward G. Richardson and Alonzo F. Andrews, reduced the Board of Assessors from nine to seven pending Common Council action, and moved to fund a suspension-bridge loan while reassigning thousands to park projects and a Ward 17 gymnasium for a playground.
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Republican City
Board of Aldermen
Hibbard
Cotton
Common Council
Edward G. Richardson
Alonzo F. Andrews
Buffalo
Giblin
Adams
Maverick Squares
Committee On Finance
Chelsea Street
Park Department
Ashmont Playground
Billings Field
Castle Island
Sanitary
Franklin Field
Curley
Russian contralto Meitschik to debut at Boston Opera House
Henry Russell reports to Ralph Flanders that Madame Meitschik, the renowned contralto from Moscow and La Scala Milan, has been engaged for the opening night at the new Boston Opera House. She will perform La Gioconda as La Cieea in her American debut.
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Henry Russell
New
Boston Opera House
Ralph. Flanders
Russia
Madame Meitschik
Imperial Opera House
Moscow
la Scala
Milan
la Cieea
Boston man elected secretary of piano dealers group
C R Putnam of Boston won the election to serve as secretary for the National Association of Piano Dealers. The vote was announced today in Detroit.
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Detroit
C. R. Putnam
Boston
National Association of Piano Dealers Today
St Vincent guild to hold summer whist parties for orphanage
The women of the St. Vincent guild announce weekly whist parties on Tuesday afternoons during the summer to raise funds for the St. Vincent Orphanage.
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St. Vincent Guild
St. Vincent
California Fig Syrup Co Promotes Its Purity Claim
The California Fig Syrup Co publishes a full statement on the contents and manufacturing method of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It asserts perfect purity and uniformity, notes California figs for taste, and urges purchase of the genuine product from the company only via druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
California
Planning for Home Coming of Archbishop O'Connell
Boston planning committee meets at the Cathedral to finalize a 25th anniversary celebration for Archbishop O'Connell. The event will include a grand procession with diverse societies, a 10 o'clock high mass, and a Mechanics building reception with a purse presentation by Judge De Courcey.
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O’connell
O'Connell
Anderson
Archdiocese of
Boston
United States
Mechanics
Committee On Printing
Company of
Hibernian Rifles
Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus
French Society of Lowell
Portuguese Society of Cambridge
Polish Society of South Boston
Mission Church
Mechanics Building
St. John's Ecclesiastical Seminary
Brighton
Joseph G. Anderson
Signor Pio DeLucca
Signor Delucca
Mechanics Hall
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Roessle
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Japan
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark
N. J
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Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
Houghton & Dutton
Gilchrist
Poplin
Staal Kao
New York
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