Bunker Hill Day Parade In Charlestown Honors Historic Battle
Charlestown celebrates the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill with a military and civic parade at 2:30 PM. The night before saw limited arrests and widespread social events hosted by local clubs and organizations. The Maryland crew will join the naval contingent as Chief Marshal Carney leads the procession, with reviews on Winthrop and Common Streets and High Street.
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Charlestown
Bunker Hill
Northern Club
Bunker Hill Council
K. of C
St. Mary’s
Joseph M. Carney
Maryland
Marshal Carney
Winthrop
Common Streets
Curley
High Street
Charlestown Holiday Events Full Schedule Of Parades And Bands
A detailed Charlestown holiday program lists events from 7:00 a.m. bells to 10:30 p.m. band concerts. Activities include memorial masses, legions dedications at multiple squares, the six mile Bunker Hill Day road race, Navy Yard open house, children's acts, Irish dancing, Punch and Judy, mayoral address, singing, dancing, ice cream for Charlestown High School students, a G A R veterans reunion, a civic parade, and band performances across designated venues and times.
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Charlestown
St. Vincent’s Cadets
Bunker Hill
Monument Grounds
Navy Yard Band
American Legions
Joseph A. Miller
Adams and
Chelsea
William A. Mortello
Wapping
Joseph C. Crowley
Rutherford Avenue
Devens Street
William J. Barry
Mystic Playground
John J. Dowd
Chapman Street
John J. Sweeney
Bunker Hill and
Elm
Charlestown Navy Yard
Bunker Hill Monument Grounds
Curley
Charlestown High School
29Th Mass
Anna Murphy
Holiday Street
Dorchester
Hayes Square
101St Regiment
Emmons’ Playground
Mawhinney
Charlestown Heights
Kelley
High Street
al Moore
Northern Club Banquet Highlights Political Clash in Charlestown
At the Northern Club banquet in Charlestown High School, Mayor Curley condemned Harvard and criticized national policy. Admiral Wiley warned that cutting navy funding harms defense while praising naval needs. Other speakers included Congressmen Huddleston and O'Brien with several mayors from Cambridge Worcester and Chelsea.
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Curley
Charlestown High School
Harvard University
Governor commutes Lescord death sentence in Bellows Falls murder
Montpelier Vt June 18 Governor Hartness commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on William Lescord of Ashburnham who was convicted of murdering George Race an elderly storekeeper at Bellows Falls in May 1921.
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Montpelier
Hartness
William Lescord
Ashburnham
George Race
Bellows Falls
Marconi claims world radio link possible on ether voyage
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi announced from his yacht Elettra that Atlantic experiments prove radio messages can circumnavigate the globe. He cited 12,200 miles as prior max range and said tests reached 100 to 200 words per minute with plans to receive 100 wpm from near New York.
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New York
Associated Press
Guglielmo Marconi
Italy
Elettra
Atlantic
England
Antipodes
Mediterranean
Mars
Venus
Bunker Hill K C Banquet Tackles Bias and Klan
Mayor Curley attacked Harvard College over its proposed Jews ban in Charlestown at the Bunker Hill Knights of Columbus banquet. Congressmen Tague condemned Ku Klux Klan actions and recounted a Catholic beating case. A tribute to Cardinal OConnell and Ireland’s situation followed.
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Curley
Harvard College
Bunker Hill Council
Knights of Columbus
High Street
Charlestown
Peter Fr. Tague
Tague
Ku Klux Klan
Department of Justice
John Bantry
Cardinal O’connell
Pius
Rome
Ireland
Thomas H. Dowd
Bunker Hill
Thomas F. McCarthy
David B. Shaw
John J. DeLay
Peter A. Donovan
John J. Gill
Vincent Reade
Robert C. Fitzgerald
William G. O’hare
William J. Monahan
John F. Johnson
Henry C. Murphy
John R. H. Finn
Joseph M. Blagdon
Edward P. Murphy
Remembering Bunker Hill and the Six Nations
A reflective piece recalls the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 11 and explores the potential role of the Iroquois Six Nations in 1775. It notes a August 1775 Albany convention post Battle Hill, discussing indigenous sympathy for American representative government and earlier ties at Lancaster in 1744.
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Bunker Hill
Five Nations
Albany
Lancaster
Harvard Address by Eliot Ends Racial Controversy
Dr. Eliot appears at Harvard Club meeting with President Grossman and Langdon Marvin as debate over admissions fairness prompts a committee probe. Eliot urges alums to trust the appointed inquiry while stressing Harvard's historical commitment to liberty and academic standards.
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Dr. Eliot
Emmanuel M. Grossman
St. Louis
Harvard Associated Clubs
Harvard
Eliot
Lowell
Watering tips include cold tea or coffee for houseplants
This note suggests using cold tea or coffee to water house plants and recommends boiling rhubarb juice to remove iron rust.
Lowell Defends Harvard Policy Before Alumni
President Lowell of Harvard spoke to more than 2000 alumni at Symphony Hall defending the university’s policy and its past and future course. He argued criticisms are valid but Harvard’s motives are pure and that the institution should remain true to its evolving yet steadfast aims.
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Harvard
Allen
Symphony Hall
United States
Canada
Harvard Club
Pres. Lowell
Pres
Lowell
Eliot
Harvard Medical School
Debate over Weeks Cleveland address dominates Capitol talk
Debate raged at both ends of the Capital over Secretary Weeks speech in Cleveland on dominant tendencies in American government.
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Washington
Cleveland
Weeks
GQ Ashore in a Hydroplane and Political Barbs in Senate
In Washington, Senator Norris and Representative Garner clash over Weeks and primaries as they accuse each other of harming self-government. Meanwhile in Newport a hydroplane from Jeffery-Nichols, piloted by Edward O'Toole, drifts for hours, sinks pontoons, is later pulled free, and finally makes an attempted Boston flight.
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Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Weeks
Garner
Texas
House
Philadelphia
White House
Cleveland
United States
Congress
Mellon
Tincher
Kansas
Massachusetts
Harding
David I. Walsh
Walsh
Mr. Weeks
Gillett
Winslow
Masachusetts
Newport
Benjamin
Jeffery
Jeffery-Nichols Motor Company
Commonwealth Avenue
Edward O'Toole
Boston
Fall River
Newport Harbor
Bateman’s Beach
Easton’s Point
Newport Beach
Coast Guard
Train holdup in Calexico ends with multiple deaths
Francisco Garcia and four companions were killed, seven wounded in a dawn attack on a Southern Pacific train bearing $450000 in gold bullion en route from Nayarit to Mazatlan for Los Angeles bank shipment. Nine Mexican army soldiers were wounded and four killed in the firefight.
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Calexico
Cal
Francisco Garcia
Southern Pacific
Nayarit
Mexico
Mazatlan
Sinaloa
First National Bank of
New England Plans Boston as World Shoe Style Centre
New England shoe manufacturers and tanners plan to crown Boston the world style centre for footwear. A campaign will launch during the National Shoe Style Show July 10 to 13 at Mechanics Building with Albert N. Blake as president and invitations sent to buyers worldwide. More than 300 exhibits will fill five halls, forcing basement space to be opened for the first time in the exposition.
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New England
Boston
Mechanics’ Building
Albert N. Blake
Watson Shoe Company of
Lynn
Chester I. Campbell
Hals
Mechanics
Campbell
Mayor backs 44 hour week plan for building trades
Building trades employers and workers meet in City Hall to decide the proposed 44 hour week with a fixed wage scale. The plan sets $1.00 per hour for most workers and $1.12 for masons and plasterers, for two years, aiming to sustain the building boom projected to exceed 175 million dollars by 1924.
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Building Trade
Aldermanic Chamber
City Hall
Curley
Jane Frost Rogers Loses 100000 Suit Over Marriage Contract
Jane Frost Rogers of Boston lost her $100,000 suit against Fred Greely of Needham over alleged interference with her contract to marry Cyrus Greely a 31-year-old banker of Lewiston Maine. This was the second trial in eight days.
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Jane Frost Rogers
Boston
Fred Greely
Needham
Cyrus Greely
Lewiston
Maine
Vaudeville Actress Seeks Death in Court Outburst
Mrs. John W. Vardeman also known as Ferne Hollis after a Chase National Bank bond robbery plea attempted to stab herself with a hatpin as she was sentenced to Auburn prison. Court attendants restrained her. She received an indefinite sentence of one and a half to three years.
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New York
United News
John W. Vardeman
Ferne Hollis
Auburn
Chase National Bank
Baccalaureate Sermon Broadcast Across New England
Thousands in New England will hear the first radiophone baccalaureate address aired from Amrad station Medford Saturday night. Dr Charles Park will deliver the Radcliffe graduating class address two hours earlier at Cambridge First Congregational Church.
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New England
Amrad
Medford
Sater
Charles Park
Radcliffe
First Congregational Church
Cambridge
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