Angell Retorts on Finance Commission Charges
Boston area junk dealer Marks Angell roars at Finance Commission accusations linking two relatives to bid rigging for Franklin Park refreshment privileges. He praises his own diligence, details a demolition bid dispute, and recalls a past land lease with the Mayor, saying city interests outweigh friendship.
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Finance Commission
Marks Angell
Massachusetts
Angell
Franklin Park
Curley
Angell inflation debate centers on Neponset street bid
Angell says he advised his son-in-law not to bid for the Franklin Park refreshments and asserts neither he nor his brother-in-law were straw men in the bids. He invites a Finance Commission probe into the Neponset street plan, offers 1000 dollars to drop it, and details losses from the proposed route including land and improvements.
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Solomon J. Rubin
Franklin Park
Rubin
Charles M. Schlesinger
Finance Commission
Curley
Neponset
North End
Strattons
Law Department
New Haven
Schlesinger
Mrs Dana's Strange Burial After Suicide in Harbor Tragedy
The article recounts the suicide of Mrs. Dana who left at 7:15 AM for the harbor and drowned herself. Her husband Edmund Trowbridge Dana remains impassive as the body is found and buried in a plain pine coffin with no clergy. He participates in the burial, then scatters wildflowers and places a rough stone, saying nothing to reporters about the affair.
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Grouard
Dana
Cone
Mrs
Togo
Henry Holliday
Harrow
England
London
Fabian Society
America
Mrs. Dana
Nantucket
Shaw Dana
Mrs. Hutchinson
New York
Allston Dana
White Plains
Robert H. Hutchinson
Edmund
Boston
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Dana and Miss Holliday Ethical Marriage Ends in Tragedy
Miss Holliday and Edmund Dana married in Cambridge in an ethical ceremony. They pursued radical socialist ideals and a fasting honeymoon, then separated while Dana worked as a conductor and journalist. Mrs. Dana later returned to England and suffered a nervous disorder before her death.
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Dana
Cambridge
Miss Holliday
Brattle Street
England
Bay State Street Railway
the Post
Star of the Post
Junk dealer defends business ties and mayoral ties
Marks Angell rejects corruption claims and insists on his independent, profitable junk business. He says he never took favors from Mayor Curley and that rivals fear his success, noting his rise from junk cart to state’s top junk dealer while denying any partnership or straw-man schemes.
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Curley
Finance Commission
Marks Angell
Birth of Shaw Dana in Beverly Massachusetts
Jessie H. and Edmund T. Dana announce the birth of their son Shaw Dana on July 6 1914 in Beverly Massachusetts USA. The notice includes a Bernard Shaw quote about the dignity and individuality of every child.
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Jessie H. and
Edmund T. Dana
Shaw Dana
Beverly
Massachusetts
Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Danas Views on Marriage and Morality
The piece argues that freedom for married couples is limited and stifling and advocates co education from infancy with sex hygiene instruction. It condemns prudery as fueling the social evil, and urges ethical choices even when gossip warns against leaving a spouse.
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America
Dana Family Tragedy After Nantucket Death
Jessie Holliday Dana wife of Edmund Dana faces death by own action as medical examiner cites suicide. Family traces fall from Fabian Society ambitions and New Thought beliefs with mother’s struggle and illness since October. Father-in-law Richard Henry Dana recalls long fasting episodes and notes burial plans uncertain amid Boston and Nantucket movements.
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Richard Henry Dana
Cambridge
Edmund Trowbridge Dana
Jessie Holliday Dana
Brattle Street
John S. Grouard
Nantucket
Edmund
Dana
Marriage Record for Edmund Dana and Jessie Holliday
Wedding ceremony performed June 15, 1912 at Craigie House Cambridge before 15 guests and Justice Edmund M. Parker. Edmund Trowbridge Dana and Jessie Holliday exchanged rings and pledged vows, united as husband and wife under Massachusetts authority.
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Craigie House
Cambridge
Justice of the Peace
Edmund M. Parker
Edmund Trowbridge Dana
Jessie Holliday
J. H
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Crowley and Sullivan Named Postmasters in Boston Areas
Postmaster Murray nominates Daniel A. Crowley as superintendent of the South Boston station and Thomas G. Sullivan as superintendent of the Mattapan station. Appointments expected to take effect July 1.
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Murray
Daniel A. Crowley
South Boston
Thomas G. Sullivan
Mattapan
Moulders' Union Elects Officers in Boston Meeting
Boston Moulders' Union at 694 Washington Street elected officers last night including President Thomas F. Lee, Vice-President John C. Carr, Recording Secretary Daniel S. S. Callahan, Financial Secretary William Johnston, and Treasurer William John.
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Boston
Girls Forge Father’s Name in Check Scam
Brockton police seek Lillian and Syrena Eveson aged 19 and 17 after they forged their father J. H. Eveson’s signature on a $55 check, cashed it at Whitman Savings Bank, then vanished after sending $30 of the proceeds to their father.
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Cambridge
Chicago
Brockton
Lillian
Syrena Eveson
J. H. Eveson
Bryantville
Eveson
Whitman Savings Bank
Boilermakers Seek Full Time Work on New Haven Line
At a meeting on 724 Washington Street the Boilermakers voted to send a special representative to New Haven railroad officials to demand full time employment. They have been working only three days a week for months.
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New Haven Railroad
Washington Street
New Haven
Plant Juice touted by Neponset man for stomach relief
An advertisement claims Plant Juice cured a Neponset resident with long stomach trouble and rheumatism after years of doctors. It cites J. A. Swinehamer of No 3 Holebrook Street Boston and notes the Plant Juice dealer visits Liggett Drug Store at Washington and Avon Streets daily to explain its merits.
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J. A. Swinehamer
Holebrook Street
Neponset
Boston
Lodge
Liggett Drug Store
Washington and
Avon Streets
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Dorchester
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Harvard College
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Eea
Wagner
Richard Strauss
Isaiah
Bunyan and
Tolstoi
Lincoln
Emmeline Pankhurst
Shaw
Jesus Christ
Wilson
Mr. Dana
Crowley
Moulders’ Union
Rameles
Eames
Boilermakers
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