Boston saloonkeepers pin hope on president to avert prohibition
War time prohibition looms July 1 as Boston bars face closure. Saloonkeepers, hotel managers, and bartender Monahan vow to resist. police pledge strict enforcement. Licensing Board explains extensions unavailable while federal ban stands and hints at license fee revisions.
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Boston
Wilson
Edwin A. Curtis
Massachusetts
Licensing Commission
Police Department
Mr. Monahan
Licensing Board
Congress
The
United
Love and Marriage Plans Amid Café Chronicles
Reporters hear of a pending wedding in a hotel parlor with Justice of the Peace to marry Honey and Mabel aka Gar. Attorney John Mc Neill Stark of the city named as performer though not consulted. Miss Puffer defends love over money and welcomes a chicken dinner at Sandy Point cottage with reporters.
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Chamberlain
Honey
John McNeill Stark
John Stark
Arrest of Hazzard and Miss Puffer Upends Ayer Wedding
Concord dispatch reports Arthur Hazzard known as Honey and Miss Mabel Puffer, a wealthy Ayer society woman, were arrested by Ayer police on serious charges and swiftly abducted across the Massachusetts line before extradition could be requested. Police halted the wedding plans as the pair were taken from the Phoenix Hotel lobby and sped toward Massachusetts in a high powered car.
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Hazzard
Ayer
Mabel
Chase
Arthur
Honey
Christopher T. Wallace
Concord
P. J. Beathy
Massachusetts
Warren H. Atwood
District Court of
Miss Puffer
Henry Bioch
Hollis
Mary L. Goodwin
Swampscott
Puffer
Wallace
Beatty
B. G. Dowling
Groton
Mass
John D. Carney
Boston
Blood
Goodwin
The
Phoenix
Roland
Dartmouth College
William Hazzard
Washington Club
Lowell
Vioney
N. H
Mabel Puffer
Arthur “Honey” Hazzard
Phoenix Hotel
Labor Endorses the League of Nations
Labor factions approve the League of Nations charter with broad support. An amendment embedding the Irish provision passed unanimously as part of the convention’s final adoption.
Labor Provisions in League Treaty Face Mixed News
President replies to Samuel Gompers on labor provisions in the League of Nations treaty. Gompers reports AFL backing for endorsement despite changes that may weaken the provisions. Messages read at the convention confirm no major changes to labor clauses except a social insurance provision for ceded territories.
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Samuel Gompers
Federation
Belgium
Friends of Labor
Gompers
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
League of Nations
Paris
State Department
Sir Robert Borden
Labor Commission
International Labor Office
Council
Germany
Bernstorff Reported Named Foreign Minister in Germany
An unconfirmed report from Coblenz via Army Intelligence Bureau says Count von Bernstorff former German ambassador to the United States has been named minister of foreign affairs and will travel to Versailles to sign the peace treaty.
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Paris
Army
Coblenz
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Versailles
Wealthy socialite Mabel Puffer linked to kidnapping case
Miss Mabel Puffer and her colored companion Honey Hazzard return to town as authorities file kidnapping charges and discuss a potential supreme test of race in the case. Hazzard released on bond. Puffer held on insanity allegations with a court date set before Judge Warren H. Atwood.
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Miss Puffer
Warren H. Atwood
Mary L. Goodwin
Swampscott
Hazard
Worcester State Hospital
Miss Puffer and Fiance Arrested in Concord on Statutory Charge
Wealthy elder woman Miss Mabel E. Puffer and her fiancé Arthur G. Honey Hazzard were arrested in Concord New Hampshire on a statutory offence charge.
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Mabel E. Puffer
Concord
N. H
Arthur G. “Honey
11 000 Haverhill Shoe Workers Strike
About 11 000 Shoe Workers' Protective Union members in Haverhill will quit work tonight for the rest of the week to push for a 44 hour week. Some cutters already have 44 hours. others remain out as manufacturers refuse to cut from 48.
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Haverhill
Shoe Workers’ Protective Union
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Parker House
Young’s
Mr. Hart
Adams House
Copley Plaza
Winterplace
Woodbury’s
Coan’s Bar
Marshall Street
North End
George F. Monahan
Curtis
Morning ‘Post
Monahan
Crowley
Kendall Street
Mr. Hazzard
Josephine Quarles
Meyer Jonasson & Co
Voile
Gingham
Georgette Crepe
Taffeta
Paulette
Tricolette
Batiste
Georgette
Concord Hotel
That Town
Joseph T. Brooks
Post
F. E. Hirsch
Mabel Emeline Puffer of
Arthur Garfield
Honey” Hazzard
Bernstorff
Philip Morris
Bond Street
Edward
NTMCN
Téh
Hanover St
Shreve, Crump and Low Company
Tremont Street
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