Trainmen to vote on strike over eight hour day demands
More than 400000 railroad workers nationwide will vote within a month on a general strike to press for an eight hour day and overtime pay. After two weeks of talks, unions rejected a railroad compromise and proposed arbitration or ICC review.
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New York
Railroad Workers of America
Interstate Commerce Commission
Board of Arbitration
Brotherhoods of
A. B. Garretson
Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors
Brotherhoods
Dance Hall Owner Sued Over Damaged Floor Problems
Helene Sweeney, a dancing teacher, files a bill in equity in Suffolk Superior Court seeking an injunction after cinders and dust under a third floor dancing floor allegedly ruin performances and gowns. She leased 136 Massachusetts Avenue in October 1915 for 1400 a year and stopped rent for March to May due to the defective floor. The owner threatens eviction. case set for Tuesday.
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Helene Sweeney
Suffolk Superior Court
Massachusetts Avenue
MISS HOLMES A JUNE BRIDE
Waverley girl Miss Barbara Holmes married Edmund Stevens Childs Harvard 1917 at bride’s home in Waverley. Rev. Charles A. Allen officiated. Reception at Belmont Spring Country Club with 500 guests. Attendants included Hazel Holmes Muriel Childs flower girl Carleton Childs best man and several ushers.
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Barbara Holmes
Fred Leroy Holmes
Lexington Street
Waverley
Edmund Stevens Childs
Harvard
Lexington
Waverley Unitarian Church
Belmont Spring Country Club
Hazel Holmes
Muriel Childs
Louise Holmes
Carleton ‘Childs
Lawrence Smith
Brookline
Ernest and
Linwood Geyer
New York
Robert Randall
Stearns Poor
Newton
William, Wellington
Belmont
Canopic Reaches Port With 1200 Passengers
The White Star liner Canopic arrived from Italy with more than 1200 passengers, mostly in steerage. The ship was delayed three days in Genoa when Italian officials ordered the harbor closed due to Austrian submarine activity off Corsica. Among the passengers were 450 Greeks awaiting military duty.
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Italy
Azores
Genoa
Puerto Farrajo
Corsica
Army Preparation in Moving Pictures Shown in Boston
British government sponsored films show how 6,000,000 civilians were turned into an efficient army in 18 months under Lord Kitchener. Charles Urban directed with approval from Balfour Lloyd George and the war cabinet. The program includes a German blockhouse destruction and Admiral Jellicoe’s fleet movements.
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Great Britain
Lord Kitchener
England
United States
Boston
Shubert Theatre
Charles Urban
Mr. Balfour
Lloyd George
War Cabinet
Flanders
Jellicoe
North Sea
Navy Department
Divorce Granted in Cruel Treatment Case in Lynn
Mrs Ida B Gibbs testified that Harold F Gibbs repeatedly struck her every day, pursued self care after he left in 1907, and provided little food. She, living with her father in Lynn, was granted a divorce on cruelty and desertion grounds with corroboration from her father.
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Harold F. Gibbs
Ida B. Gibbs
Wait
Peabody
Lynn
Boston
Hungary
Bath
Dorchester Seniors Present Lovers Garden Shakspeare Pageant
Dorchester High School seniors stage a Shaksperian pageant titled The Lovers Garden this afternoon as part of class day exercises. A public show next Monday evening funds decorations and a scholarship. Miss Alice C D Riley wrote the scenes from Hamlet Romeo and Juliet The Twelfth Night As You Like It and The Midsummer Night's Dream. Romeo and Juliet lead roles go to Miss Mabel Dacey and Henry Benski. Costumes were designed and made by teachers and sewing-class students.
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Shakspere
Dorchester High School
Alice C. D. Riley
Mabel Dacey
Henry Benski
Juliet
Shakespere
Twins Take Prominent Roles in Somerville High Ivy Day
Ruth E. Arrington and Winifred W. Arrington, sisters and twins, played key parts in the senior class ivy day exercises yesterday. Ruth served as odist and Winifred wrote the class poem.
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Ruth E. Arrington
Winifred W. Arrington
Somerville High School
Ruth
Winifred
Somerville High
Ivy Planting Marks Two 1916 and 1917 Classes
Two midyear graduation classes, 1916-B and 1917-A, were honored with ivy slips from Mt. Auburn and the Capitol at Washington. The 1916-B group planted its ivy in tribute to Longfellow, while 1917-A’s ivy came from the Capitol. A marble clock was presented to the school, with Wilhelm Hedlund delivering the presentation and Thomas Meskill giving the oration. The seniors were escorted by the freshman class.
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Longfellow
Mt. Auburn
Capitol
Washington
Wilhelm Hedlund
Thomas Meskill
Budget Cut May Close Bath Houses
Mayor Curley urged restoring 26 percent of the park department budget after a report noted finances are strained. If not restored, the summer bath houses could cut staff and close some facilities.
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Curley
Dillon
Park Department
Two Women and Man Arrested in Hanover Street Stabbing
Samuel Slavin and his wife Mary were stabbed in their store doorway at 384 Hanover Street North End on Wednesday night. Marianna Tri onna Philippe Montiforti and Lucian Montiforti of 14 Hanover Street North End were arrested last night and booked at Hanover Street station on assault and battery with knives charges.
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Samuel Slavin
Mary
Hanover Street
North End
Marianna Trionna
Philippe Montiforti
Lucian Montiforti
Slavin
Familiar Tales of a Childs Easy Summer Days
A narrator recalls a carefree vacation with a boy named Johnny and village children. They fish, climb trees, find robin eggs, and share playful banter about being “a sissy.” The scene shifts to a mother embroidering under blossoms, memories of childhood, and plans returning to city work and studio life in summer and winter exteriors.
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Johnny
California
My Really Truly Vacation in Spring
In the East the four seasons bring a joyous welcome after winter. Spring has never been so beautiful to me as this truly vacation with trees blooming and velvety leaves, making the season feel like a vivid celebration.
Personal letters and film chat from a 1920s reader page
A set of brief reader notes questions and remarks. J E D I declines to answer personal queries. Emma A predicts ideas will soften with age. Helen D mentions Viola Dana in Gladiola and denies family relation. F E K questions whether Firing Line was adapted to film.
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Emma A
Helen D
Viola Dana Piln
F. E
Mary Pickford Talks Set for Daily and Sunday Posts
Mary Pickford's talks will appear usually five days a week in the Daily Post and each Sunday in the Sunday Post, extending her weekly media presence.
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Mary Pickford
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Storm-Hit Schooner Lucinda Sutton Abandoned in Rio
The four-masted schooner Lucinda Sutton owned by Captain H. A. O'Brien of Boston is to be abandoned at Rio Janeiro after shipbuilders demanded excessive repair costs. The vessel, damaged in a March storm in the South Atlantic while en route from Buenos Aires to New York, put in at Rio Janeiro.
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Lucinda Sutton
H. A. O’brien
Boston
Rio Janeiro
Rilo Janeiro
South Atlantic
New York
Buenos Ayres
Forty Hours Devotion Opens at St. Clement's Church
The devotion at St. Clement's Church Somerville begins this morning with regular masses at 7 and 7 38. A special mass is scheduled for 5 30 today and tomorrow. The devotion concludes Sunday morning.
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ST. Clement’s Church
St. Clement's Church
Somerville
Orders Alleged Yegg Removed to North Carolina
Charles Hamilton alias Hamilton Dutch, an alleged yegg, was ordered removed to North Carolina yesterday by Judge Morton in the United States District Court. He is wanted there on an indictment charging conspiracy to break and enter the Kanapolis post office on Sept 18, 1914. Pending removal, he is committed to East Cambridge jail under $1000 bail.
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Yegg
Charles Hamilton
Hamilton Dutch
North Carolina
Morton
United States District Court
Hamilton
Kanapolis
N. C
East Cambridge
Cuticura Heals Child’s Severe Skin Rash
Mrs Watson Haines of Garnerville New York describes a five year old girl’s severe red itchy rash spreading on face back and arms. After three weeks a Cuticura Soap and Ointment regimen healed the eruptions. The ad claims Cuticura products sold worldwide and offers a 32 page Skin Book.
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Watson Haines
Garnerville, N. Y
A New Harmless Way to Banish Hairy Growths
A home beauty tip claims to remove facial hair using powdered delatone mixed with water to form a paste. Apply to the target hairs, wait two to three minutes, then rub off and wash the skin. The article warns to obtain genuine delatone and use care in application.
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van Loon
Wanlco
Bunglo
Cinders
Miss Holmes
Edmund Childs
Edmund
Canopic
Dorchester
Ivy Exercises
USA
D. Baker
Oxford
Washington Street
Boylston
Hollis Sta
Miss Pickford
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
New England
Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Inc
Becton
Masc
Federal St
Cambridge
Cornelius J. Guiney
Fairfield Street
Guiney
North Station
The
Kellogg Food Company
Battle Creek, Mich
Cuticura
Dept. T. Boston
Sanitol
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