Peggy Joyce Culprit or victim in costly alimony fight
In Chicago on June 15 United News reports counsel for J. Stanley Joyce accuses Peggy Upton Achibald Hopkins Joyce known as the Queen of the Follies of trimming rich men. He seeks temporary alimony and hefty legal fees while a crowded courtroom hears his claim. Alfred S. Austrian brands Peggy a Broadway vampire and arch defamer as the husband vows to continue the attack at the next session.
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Chicago
United News
Peggy Upton
Achibald Hopkins
Joyce
Alfred S. Austrian
Joseph Sabathana
Peggy
Charlestown Plans Night of Bunker Hill Day Festivities
Charlestown and Greater Boston prepare a BNight of events to mark Bunker Hill Day with three large banquets at Charlestown High School K of C hall and St Marys Hall, a patriotic meeting at Frothingham School, and a bell ringing at midnight.
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Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Greater
Boston
George III
Charlestown High School
Bunker Hill Council K. of C
St. Mary’s Woman's Club
Frothingham School
Jefferson Club
Northeastern College Grants 96 Degrees at First Commencement
Northeastern College awarded 96 degrees to 75 graduates spanning classes from this year to 1913. The inaugural commencement, held in Jordan Hall, featured President Frank Palmer Speare presenting diplomas to successful candidates.
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Northeastern College
Jordan Hall
Frank Palmer Speare
Post Reporter Eyes Rescue for Esperanto at Sea
The Esperanto, the fisherman’s blue ribbon winner, may defend its cup in upcoming international races despite lying at the ocean bottom near Sable Island. The Boston Post seeks to see the plucky craft that carried the Stars and Stripes to victory, hoping for its rescue from the current position.
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Ing International
Sable Island
Boston Post
Stars and Stripes
Expedition to salvage the Esperanto from Sable Island
A Gloucester salvage party led by the Fabia will depart at 4 30 PM to recover the Esperanto wreck off Sable Island. Financed by the Boston Post J Norman Abbott and fishing interests the mission aims to break the maritime curse of the graveyard and bring the Gloucester schooner home with honors.
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Boston Post
Gloucester
Sable Island
N. S
J. Norman Abbott
Graves
Saliger Salvage Corporation of
New York
Seek Two For Stock Swindle
Peter Saul of Winthrop and George Lapidus of Revere, stock brokers of Eastman & Lord, 166 Devonshire Street, are sought by police and post office inspectors for an alleged New York stock swindle nearing 500000 dollars. Indicted weeks ago for using the mails to defraud, they fled New York and were located in Boston yesterday. They reportedly made large sums in get rich quick mail sales of automobile tire securities.
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Peter Saul
Winthrop
George Lapidus
Revere
Eastman & Lord
Devonshire Street
Post Office
New York
Fire Sweeps Former Dighton Rock Park in Taunton Area
Taunton June 15 Dighton Rock Park a former amusement site between Taunton and Fall River was destroyed by flames today The buildings valued at 60000 when built 26 years ago belonged to the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company and had been sold for dismantling after long disuse The fire started from a blazing motor truck along the Taunton Fall River road and spread rapidly.
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Taunton
Dighton Rock Park
Fall River
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
Anraretinea
Wealth of Chances 10 Win Prizes in Ad-Writing Contest
Contest invites submissions for 24 listed products with a $500 or $1000 final prize. Send at least one idea per product within two weeks, plus weekly prizes totaling ten ideas for each product this week. Boston area judges and an announced merchandise prize add to the competition details.
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Pilgrim Publicity Association
New England
Boston
Mass
Boston Varnish Company
Kyanite
Revoked Charter of New England Post in Charlestown
The national executive committee of the American Legion revoked the charter of New England Womens Post No 29 of Charlestown after a Charleston area ruling limited one legion post per small district. The action follows a prior state vote confirming the same limit and was received by State Adjutant Leo A Spillane via telegram.
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National Executive Committee
The
American Legion
Indianapolis
New England Womens Post
Charlestown
Leo A. Spillane
National Legion
Legion
Tufts College at the Pops in Symphony Hall Tonight
Tufts College presents a Pops program at Symphony Hall featuring marches overtures and college songs. The program includes March of the Gladiators Furtk Overture to The Merry Wives of Wind, Tuftonia’s Day Ain’t You Glad Alma Mater’s Day Tales of Hoffmann Selections and a Tufts airs medley with Wagner and Rachmaninoff Entrances.
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Tufts College
Symphony Hall
Hayes
Newton
Goldmark Sélection
Wagner College
Williams
Lewis
Tufts
Morton
Rachmaninoff
Bovards
Halvorsen
Savannah man heads Shriners imperial potentate election
Savannah, Ga. Ernest A. Cutta, chief rab ban of the Shriners, was elected imperial potentate, succeeding Ellis L. Gatterson of Tacoma. Tom Houston of Chicago was elected imperial outer guard. San Francisco chosen for next imperial conclave. Imperial council favors laws to curb improper wearing of Shrine emblems and directs a committee to push such legislation nationwide.
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Savannah
Shriners
Des Moines
Iowa
Ernest A. Cutta
Rabban
Ellis L. Gatterson
Tacoma
Wash
Tom Houston
Chicago
Imperial
San Francisco
Imperial Council
Rival papers unite in single edition amid city strike
In Portsmouth New Hampshire two rival evening papers the Times and Herald printed a joint page paper as Times Herald after a week of no publication due to a compositors strike. The Chronicle, the morning paper, will not publish tomorrow remaining off air since Monday. Publishers made no new wage offers and the union stuck to its demand.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Times
The
Herald Today
Times-Herald
Chronicle
Ford Hall Forum Picnic in West Roxbury
Ford Hall Forum members meet this afternoon at the home of West Roxbury hosts on Manthorne Road and Weld Street. George W. Coleman, president of the Open Forum National Council, will reveal two serious surprises related to Ford Hall meetings. Samuel Bernard, a World War veteran and Ford Hall member, will entertain with selections from his lecture The Romance of Time-Telling.
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Ford Hall Forum
Boston
West Roxbury
Manthorne Road
Weld Street
George W. Coleman
Open Forum National Council
Ford Hall
Samuel Bernard
Greater
Vicinity
Radcliffe Endowment Fund Fair Planned in Radcliffe Yard
A fair for the Radcliffe endowment fund will be held in the Radcliffe Yard on Alumnae Day, Saturday June 18. Various classes will host booths decorated in class colors, with the class of 1920 led by Miss Caroline MacFadden of Cambridge, noted musician and permanent secretary of her class.
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Radcliffe Endowment Fund
Radcliffe Yard
Caroline MacFadden
Cambridge
Radcliffe
Radcliffe Endowment
Irish Train Fired On Attackers Kill Two In Shootout
A Limerick Ennis train was fired on today. Soldiers returned fire killing two attackers. one soldier wounded. Near Cashel, G S S Walls a 65 year old civil bill officer was murdered by an armed group. Cork military governor warns civilians to halt when ordered or risk being fired on.
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Dublin
Limerick
Ennis
G. S&s. Walls
Cashel
Cork
All-Night Dance Frolic Planned at Paragon Park
Summer residents from the South Shore and guests from greater Boston will gather for a midnight to dawn dance at Paragon Park tonight. Nantasket Beach will host a pre event, with the dancing pavilion open all evening and a program set to continue until daylight. President Albert A. Golden and Treasurer David Stone of Paragon Park Company arranged features and special parking for out of town motorists.
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South Shore
Greater Boston
Nantasket Beach
Paragon Park
Paragon
Albert A. Golden
David Stone
Paragon Park Company
Contracts annulled by Harding
Washington June 15 On advice of the Attorney General President Harding has annulled War Department contracts with the United States Harness Company for disposal of surplus harness. Mr Daugherty held these contracts to violate criminal code sections prohibiting participation by government officers in such transactions.
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Washington
Harding
War Department
United States Harness Company
Daugherty
Secretaries disclose war contract conspiracy by former officers
A memorandum by Secretary Weeks publicizes that contracts were entered into by the former director of sales with Secretary Baker's approval and tied to stock of surplus harness. It alleges a conspiracy by temporary army officers to gain profit and control of harness stocks. Department of Justice to take action. another case known as the Salmon case is also noted.
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Weeks
Baker
United States Harness Company
Attorne
War Department
Department of Justice
Daugherty
Departt of Justice
British warn Turkish nationalists over Constantinople raid
Constantinople June 15. The Associated Press reports Britain warns Turkish nationalists that any attempt to seize Constantinople will trigger war with Great Britain. A British brigade sent from Malta to relieve the Greeks at Ismid aims to thwart nationalist occupation plans.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Great Britain
Malta
Ismid
Porpoises Return Off Hough's Neck and Post Island
Off Hough's Neck and Post Island in Quincy a large school of porpoises drew crowds yesterday. Harbor frolicking lasted for hours as sailors misidentified them as sharks before confirming porpoises.
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Hough’s Neck
Post Island
Quincy
Steinhauser Seeks Change of Venue in Police Officer Case
Judge Nelson P. Brown heard arguments yesterday afternoon on Bernard Steinhauser’s motion for a change of venue. Robert W. Nason, counsel for the indicted police officer, contended the defendant could not receive a fair and impartial trial in this county.
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Nelson P. Brown
Superior Criminal Court
Bernard Steinhauser
Robert W. Nason
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Congress
Kenney
Renning Water
the Curtainless Shower CO
Fifth Ave
Okeh
Peggy O’neil
Sam Ash & Quartet
General Phonograph Corporation
NEW Tork
America’s Hope
Maritime Triumph
Gloucester Harbor
Fair For Benefit OF Radcliffe Fund
U.S. Harness Co
England
S Large School OF Porpoises
Hough
Steinhauser
Louis Quitt
Stein ‘Hauser
Coitt Square
Brown
Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, Ga
Berkshire
Reace
Walker-Stetson CO
Consolidated Textile Corporation
Windsor
Converse & Company
Worth Street
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