Collins Message Puzzles Aldermen Over Firemen Vote
The Common Council and Board of Aldermen seek clarity on Mayor Collins veto of the firemen’s bill. The mayor’s message was read, sparking debate on whether the ordinance granting one day off in five may pass over a veto, with the corporation counsel slated to issue an opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council
Board of Aldermen
Collins
Corporation Counsel
Kneeland
Doyle
Fire Department
City Hall
Quigley
Committee On Public Improvements
James Mulcahy
Josiah Benton, Jr
Public Library
Thomas Sproules
Pastor Gaine's Lynn Church Faces Sanctions Over Revere Beach Vaudeville
Controversy erupts after Sunday vaudeville at Nickel Palace Theatre benefiting Zion Baptist Church of Lynn and the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society. Pastor R M Gaines of Lynn pledges refund of proceeds and may resign if funds aren’t returned. Rabbis and Jewish charities probe congregations profiting from the shows amid broad protest.
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Nickel Palace
Revere Beach
Zion Baptist Church of
Lynn
Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society
Lynn Church
R. M. Gaines
Max Mitchell
Jewish Associated Charities
Common Sense Condemns War Address at Boston Ministers Meeting
Edwin D. Mead told a Boston ministers gathering in Tremont Temple that common sense condemns the war system and that conscience, churches, and commercial groups point to a successful October congress. He noted leading clergy from England, France and other nations will attend the coming international peace congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin D. Mead
Chipman Hall
Tremont Temple
England
France
Boston
Edward Everett Hale
Murphy Given 3 to 4 Years In State Prison
Richard A. Murphy was sentenced to a term of not less than three years and not more than four years in State prison for larceny. He and Martin Clancey, bailable on five to ten year terms, conspired to defraud by buying a provision store and selling it under misrepresentations. Clancey remains on bail with appellate exceptions to be heard in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard A. Murphy
Martin Clancey
Clancey
Killed by Car at Clinton
Thomas Wilkeson a 35 year old man was instantly killed at the Metropolitan reservoir when riding the cowcatcher of an engine he was crushed between the engine and a flat car bumper near Clinton on June 20.
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Clinton
Thomas Wilkeson
Metropolitan
Fractured skull puts off Dalzell's wedding
Brighton painter Robert Dalzell who was to be married yesterday suffered a 15 foot fall from a ladder to a roof and another 15 foot drop to the street fracturing his skull He was carried to 88 Surrey street the house he was painting and is expected to recover
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Robert Dalzell
Brighton
Dalzell
Surrey Street
Anti-Decollete Gown Crusade Lost in Boston
Boston women discussed fashion at the World’s fair in St Louis. Mrs D R Francis urged a return to low necklines but failed to sway society women. She reopened trunks of Paris creations and wore them again while others followed the broader dress reform trend poorly.
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St. Louis
Boston
D. R. Francis
Francis
Mrs. Francis
Bryan Denounces Parker and His Cowardly Platform
William J. Bryan spoke at Cooper Union against Parker at a New York anti Parker convention. He labeled Parker the candidate of plutocracy and accused him of hiding views on imperialism money and coinage while urging Democrats to reject the nominee. Speakers included Hinrichs Boulton and Forrest as the meeting urged a delegation to St Louis to protest Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William J. Bryan
Radical Democracy of
Cooper Union
Bryan
Alton D. Parker
Samuel Seabury
Parker
St. Louis
Mr. Belmont
Chicago
Kansas City
Cleveland
Wall Street
Belmont
Frederick W. Hinrichs
Fusion
A. J. Boulton
Brooklyn
Jay W. Forrest
Albany
George Wallace Dies A Noted Newspaper Man In Boston
George Wallace, longtime Boston Post staffer and prominent newspaper man, died Sunday after pneumonia followed a bout of illness. A versatile writer who served in New York San Francisco and Britain, he covered major murder cases and other big news events. Funeral services set for 11:30 Wednesday at David H. Curtis undertaking rooms Roxbury.
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George Wallace
Boston Post
New York
San Francisco
Great Britain
City Hospital
Wallace
David H. Curtis
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Cunard Saxonia Sets Atlantic Ferry From East Boston
The Cunard steamer Saxonia under Captain Cremer departs East Boston at 4 PM for Queenstown and Liverpool with 185 saloon, 220 second cabin, and 600 steerage passengers. Total headcount reaches 1005, among the heaviest Atlantic crossings from the Hub.
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Queenstown
Liverpool
Cunard
Saxonia
Cremer
Boston
Atlantic
Miss Gallagher Weds James J Hanning at Sacred Heart East Cambridge
Miss Mary Josephine Gallagher of East Cambridge marries James J Hanning of Boston, assistant buyer for Jordan Marsh Company. Ceremony at Church of the Sacred Heart with bride’s attendant Miss Donovan and best man Thomas Gallagher. Reception at 16 Fayerweather Street Old Cambridge then extended trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Josephine Gallagher
East Cambridge
James J. Hanning
Boston
Jordan Marsh Company
Father Higgins
Church of the Sacred Heart
Sixth Street
Mr. Hanning
Mary A. Donovan
Thomas G. Gallagher
Walter K. Hawkins
Elmer Phillips
Dennis Mahoney
Annie Crowley
Eomployers of Jordan Marsh Company
Hanning
Scribner Exonerated of Auto Fatality in Roxbury Court
Lieutenant-Commander E H Scribner U S N was fully exonerated in Roxbury Municipal Court on a manslaughter charge stemming from the Memorial Day death of six year old Marion Holder. The inquest earlier supported his account as he voluntarily testified.
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Scribner
E. H. Scribner
Roxbury
Marion Holder
Counsel Osgood
William N. Osgood
Warren Street
Readville
Lowell
Boston College Class Day Celebrated in College Hall
Boston College held a class day with a large crowd of relatives and friends in College Hall. Directors included Leo Adrian Dore as marshal and Joseph Aloysius Barden as historian. Speeches by Dore, Cummings, Murphy, and Quinn highlighted the senior class, followed by a faculty reception and an evening dance in Copley Hall.
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Boston College
College Hall
Leo Adrian Dore
John Vincent Barrett
Richard Stanislaus Millard, Jr
Joseph Aloysius ‘Barden
John Joseph Cummings
Leonard Ambrose Murphy
Joseph Aloysius Quinn
Joseph A. Barden
John V. Barrett
James BE. Collins
James A. Crowley
John J. Cummings
Neil J. Devlin
Clement J
Late reports tally 2500 Russians slain in battles
The report lists heavy casualties including the first artillery brigade with 10 officers and 103 soldiers killed, the ninth brigade with 1 officer and 25 soldiers killed, the Tobolk regiment with 1 officer and 3 soldiers killed and 1 officer with 40 wounded and 3 missing, the Mars chank regiment with 6 officers and 131 wounded, and 11 men killed or missing.
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Ninth Brigade of Artillery
Tobolk Regiment
Marschank Regiment
Japanese retreat reported near Fengwangcheng
Stated by General Kuropatkin in a dispatch from St Petersburg on June 20. Japanese forces in the Sai matsze and Fengwangcheng area have not only halted but begun a retrograde retreat. Several northern positions around Fengwangcheng were evacuated. The Dalime defile movement is halted while a notable Japanese withdrawal or redeployment appears toward Siuyen Haicheng or Siuyen Tashiacbato.
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Fengwangcheng
ST. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Saimatsze
Dalime
Siuyen
Haicheng
Tashiacbato
Think Jap leaders plan joint attack before rains
The general staff believes generals Kuroki and Oku plan a combined assault on Kuropatkin before reinforcements arrive, aiming to act before the rainy season. Oku’s siege work at Port Arthur suggests siege plans have shifted. Rumor of a battle at Haicheng with heavy losses lacks confirmation.
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ST. Petersburg
Kuroki
Oku
Kuropatkin
War Office
Nodzu
Baron Stakelberg
Wafangon
Port Arthur
Haicheng
Engstrom dies of consumption at Jamaica Plain home
Ex representative Charles O Engstrom died Sunday at his home 58 Rockview street Jamaica Plain of consumption after a four year illness. Born in Gortenburg Sweden May 19 1875 he came to this country as a boy and after graduating from Boston University Law School was admitted to the bar in 1897. He served Ward 22 in the Legislature in 1900 and advocated a 75 cent gas policy before health forced him to abandon politics and practice, moving to Denver for two years then returning to Boston about 13 months ago.
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Charles O. Engstrom
Rockview Street
Jamaica Plain
Gortenburg
Sweden
Boston University Law School
Denver
Col
Boston
Lobby Act Returns Show Legislative Expense Payments
Returns filed under the Lobby Act reveal payments to various individuals and firms. Names include Boston Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Anna F. Conant, the Arkwright Club, New England Trust, Little, Brown & Co, the Draper Company, and several others with amounts ranging from 50 to 1500 dollars for services at hearings, contract renewals, or opposition activities.
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Foster and Turner
Anna F. Conant
J. Q. A. Brackett
Mt. Vernon Street
Arkwright Club
Charles G. Bancroft
New England Trust Company
Charles H. Tyler
Little, Brown & Co
John D. Long
Supreme Court
Massachusetts Pawnbrokers’ Protective Alliance
Thomas W. Proctor
Edward S. Page
Massachusetts Civic League
Frederick W. Dallinger
Draper Company
Richardson, Herrick & Neave
Albert S. Apsey
Associated National Banks of
Springfield
Carroll McClintock
Union Trust Company
Boston Protective Department
Louis G. Tanner
Belmont slugger Lanata convicted for assault
Domenico Lanata of Belmont was found guilty in the Superior Criminal Court at Cambridge of assaulting Miss Rebecca Livingstone on June 5 and was sentenced to two years and six months in the House of Correction. He had escaped jail earlier by using a fellow prisoner's name and was recaptured Friday night in a West End Italian boarding house. John F. Bird of Cambridge testified to the overpowering and his arrest by police. Lanata claimed on the stand that he is a nice man and peaceably disposed.
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Domenico Lanata
Belmont
Superior Criminal Court
Cambridge
Rebecca Livingstone
House of Correction
Lanata
West End
John F. Bird
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Margolies
Baldwin Place
Synagogue
Beth Israel
Congregation
Linus Azedeth
Revere
The
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Union Street
Faneull Hall
Pitts-Kimball Co
Triple Blue
Marvel
New York Harbor
Lee Tase
Murphy
May Alden Wahd
Charles BE. Howe
Anna D.west
IMPS
M.fblodgett
Fiske-Warren
Isabella
A. Potter
Boston and
Vicinity
Connecticut
Hanover St Ini
Brooks
W. P. B. BrOoks & Co
Hanover St
OLD South Store
Washingten St
Geo. Wallace
Europe
Hanning—Gallagher
Bolster
Williams
Engstrom
Winter St
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