Butler’s Bravery Cost Him Life in Boathouse Fire
A deadly blaze in a summer colonists’ boathouse left Miss Helen Wilson and Miss Phebe Judkin trapped in a closet while guardrails burned. Kerr and Barnes suffered severe burns. Kerr faces disfigurement though recovery is possible, Barnes heals from inhalation injuries. Ulysses Pahud perished hours after attempts to save the inmates. The Frenchman hailed as hero for repeatedly entering the flames to aid the captives.
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Kerr
Barnes
Ruth Wilson
Harry Wilson
Helen Wilson
Phebe Judkin
Miss Tanner
Buffalo
Ulysses Pahud
Young Barnes
Review of the Market and New City Hotel Plans
Market review notes a muted pullback from recent highs with bulls hopeful after Union Pacific victory and Standard Oil decisions. Demand for new capital is strong as American firms raise funds rapidly in both U S and Europe. New York plans a 24 story hotel on Seventh avenue near Thirty seventh street, costing over 4 million dollars and leased for 84 years for forty nine million? Wait.
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Standard Oil
Bears
Union Pacific
Union Pacific- Southern Pacific
Europe
New York
Seventh Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bankers
Herman Lea Meader
Thirty-seventh Street
Calendar for Today Dividends and Assessments Noted
Dividends payable 2 percent extra for Central Railroad of New Jersey and 149 percent for Homestake Mining. Assessments payable for Old Colony Copper at 1 dollar. Books close for Chicago Burlington and Quincy for dividend, New Idria Quicksilver for dividend. Virginia Railroad and Public for mortgage. Du Pont de Nemours powder special. Richelieu and Ontario Railway National special.
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Ciacego
Burlington & Quincy
New Idria Quicksilver
Gleaming Facade for New Hotel With Grand 300 Foot Roof
Plans reveal a hotel with a polished exterior using granite faience and Venetian glass mosaic. A 300 foot roof with ten minarets, 1200 rooms with southern exposure and baths, a central ground floor rotunda, Pompeian style baths, and glass roof atrium set amid marble pools and palm terrace dining rooms.
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Hbotn
Somerville Police Raid Two Homes Seize Liquor
Somerville police raided two houses on Somerville avenue near the Middlesex bleachery taking 67 cases of lager beer one man found drinking a bottle of lager and 200 bottles of Italian wine a case of lager beer and some ale were seized from Tadga Bussala at 582 Somerville avenue.
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Somerville
Somerville Avenue
Middlesex Bleachery
Carter
Kennedy
Fitzpatrick
A. Nicola
Damery
Dwyer and
Kenney
Tadga Bussala
Memorial Services for L O L Leader in Cambridge
Memorial services for L. O. L. were held yesterday at the Harvard Street Methodist Church Cambridge by the True Blue Lodge 77. Over 500 members from various societies attended as they marched from Orange Hall to the church. State Grandmaster John Shaw spoke and Rev. John L. Garland delivered the eulogy. Miss Maude Ross sang as soloist.
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Cambridge
Harvard Street Methodist Church
True Blue Lodge
Orange Hall
John Shaw
Order
John L. Garland
Knights of Columbus defeat Fort Banks 6 to 1
The Winthrop Knights of Columbus nine beat Fort Banks on the fort grounds by 6 to 1. Anthony pitched for the K of C allowing two hits and striking out ten. Evans took the mound for Fort Banks and was hit hard early in the game.
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Fort Banks
Winthrop K. C
Winthrop Knights of Columbus
Fort Grounds
Anthony
K. of C
Evans
Printers Union Formally Aims for Wage Increase
Four hundred Boston Typographical Union 13 members witnessed the installation of officers and debated a wage rise. John J. O'Leary former Municipal printing plant foreman and now president spoke of future prospects, his ideas greeted with cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Typographical Union 13
John J. O'Leary
Municipal
Union aims at stronger activity and training reforms
The Boston Typographical Union plans more active organizing and larger monthly attendances. It endorses reduced dues for hardship, aid to old and disabled members, and a one year technical school program for apprentices. The retiring president John J. Chase is praised by Vice-President Louis J. Hyde as he retires after 20 years of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Technical School
The
International Typographical Union
Louis J. Hyde
John J. Chase
Boston Union
John J. O'Leary
Frank M. Flanagan
Joseph J. Dallas
John O. Battis
George S. Betts
Malcolm A. Knock
John F. Delaney
George C. DeVoe
W. D. B. Mitchell
Wallace B. Stoodley
Charles T. Tenney
Charles O. Wood
Thomas A. Barry
Edward A. Boyle
James H. Butler
Harvey O. Chappel
Walter A. Metcalf
James W. Phelps
San Francisco
Paul M. Crowley
Daniel A. Buckley
New England
William J. Rooney
Thomas C. Stephenson
William C. Trump
Charles QO. Wood
A. F. of
Tariff Debate Looms as Recipocity Plans Face Senate Split
The House advances reciprocity plans but faces Senate resistance from Democrats and insurgent Republicans. Key figures Bakley and LaFollette push amendments while tariff revisions and direct Senate elections loom. The week also covers the territories bill and ongoing sugar trust hearings with Joseph F. Smith slated as a witness.
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House
Senate
Bakley
LaFollette
Territories
Territories Committee
Arizona
New Mexico
Nelson, Lippitt and Burnham
Sugar Trust
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Ghureh
Ways and Means
Clark
Nnt
Lorimer Eagé
Labor Unions Name Heads in Local Officers Elected
Labor unions across multiple locals announced new officers including John F Cullen as president and George Jepson as treasurer in Boston and Maine Freight Handlers Assembly 5572 K of L. James J Brennan was named president of Coal Hoisting Engineers Union 74 with Michael McGrath as vice president.
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Highway Department
John F. Cullen
Edward Fitzgerald
George Jepson
Cullen
Jepson
Michael F. O’brien
Boston and Maine Railroad
K. of L
Michael White
Worthy
Dennis Driscoll
Alexander Ryan
Markes McGaugh
John Malone
Michael Shannon
Richard White
Inside Esquire
Daniel O’brien
D. J. Mahoney
Frank Cresley
Death Fund
George Wolf
Ben Franklin Assembly
William Corcoran
William Gorman
Bernard Co. Harkins
James Hi. Keenan
David Pound
Lawrence O'Neil
T. F. McCarthy
P. Dolan
Outside Sentinel
Eugene Leonard
Inside Sentinel
Daniel Dempsey
Michael Co. O'Hare
Patrick F. Sullivan
Gud Knight
John M. Anderson
Brennan
McGrath
Andrew J. Tighe
Steam Engineers
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Freight Handlers’ Assembly, R. of L
Robert Highland
Thomas Mullen
Johnennessy
John
U. K
Martin Godfredson
Mathew O'Connell
Esquire
John Birmingham
John Supple
Joseph Heath
William de Leier
William Mahomey
Alfred Hart
James McHugh
Malcolm W. Lindsay
Michael Rispen
David Doody
Charles Bonner
John Murray
John T. Somers
Andrew Cunningham
William Mahoney
New Haven Labor Strike Demands Higher Wages
Italian workers on the New Haven railroad construction camps from Dorchester to Providence strike for 1.80 a day, seeking housing improvements. They compare to Boston and Maine workers earning 1.80, with Chief Engineer Gagel denying any raise. Boston headquarters listed at Independence Hall 212 Charter street, with international officer support promised.
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New Haven
Dorchester
New London
Williamantic
Wellesley
Providence
South Braintree
Boston & Maine
Edward Gagel
Boston
Independence Hall
Charter Street
Cement Workers Extend Strike Against Four Local Firms
Cement and Asphalt Workers voted to continue the strike against four local firms, with Business Agent McNulty predicting a quick victory. Nominations for the next annual election produced no opposition. the slate includes Martin Farrell as president, Leonard Curtis as vice president, John Love recording secretary, Ingantus McNulty financial secretary and business agent, Wilmer Ohison treasurer, and John Buckley sergeant at arms.
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McNulty
Martin Farrell
Leonard Curtis
John Love
Ingantus McNulty
Ylamer Ohison
John Buckley
Sugar beet worker dies after home run at game
In Saginaw Michigan John Edward Long age 82 a sugar beet worker near Caro hit a home run as the first batter in the fifth inning and collapsed on the bench. The coroner jury ruled heart trouble caused his death.
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Saginaw, Mich
John Edward Long
Caro
City Men Ask Better Pay
Mayor Fitzgerald faces a push from Highway Department Union 6751 demanding higher wages. A committee of nine, including James P. Timilty and J H Galvin, will seek the answer on Augmented pay scales. Timilty named president and Michael F. O'Brien nominated for vice president. officers to be elected next month.
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Fitzgerald
Highway Department
James P. Timilty
J. H. Galvin
William Brennan
James McGreggor
John Waldron
William H. Condry
William A. Ryan
Thomas Mulvey
Dennis Desmond
James P
2500 Want Shorter Day With More Pay
At the Boston and Maine railroad board of adjustment an all day session considered wage and condition improvements for 2500 workers. P J Coyle presided at the Quincy House as workers seek a 10 hour day for passenger staff and nine hours for freight, with a modest raise.
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Board of Adjustment
Boston & Maine Railroad
P. J. Coyle
Somerville
Quincy House
Boston unions push for higher wages and overtime pay
Labor notes report Boston Lodge 97 and related unions filing 16 applications and urging wage and overtime improvements for bath department workers. The New York Hartford carmen group backed wage talks, with leaders Maloney Barry Barry Reynolds Marr and others guiding the stance ahead of the Niagara Falls convention opening July 8. William Williamson was chosen as delegate to the Cincinnati convention with Baldwin as alternate.
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Boston Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad
New York, New
P. T. Barry
International
John J. Barry
Edward Reynolds
William N. Marr
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Boston
Barry
Niagara Falls
Decorative Glass Workers’ Union
John 8S. Williamson
Cincinnati
F. Baldwin
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Butler
Overland Cigars
S. S. Pierce Co
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Havana
Vuelta Abajo
E. M. Schwarz & CO
S. S. Pierce CO. Cor
Tremont & Beacon Sts
Copley Square
Milk Street
Coolidge Corner
Brookline
Erican Coal Products
Coal Products Company
Ernest J. Steerer
Mmyiose Consolidated Mines Co
Oxford Linen AB BC & Co
GO State St
Deston
Review OF
William E. Soule
Central R. R
N. J
Homestoke Mining
Old Colonwy
Va. Ry
du Pont de Nem. Pdr
Richelieu & Ont. Nay
O’leary
McNamara
Henry Sterling
State Homestead Commission
Root
B. M
Theatres
B.F. Keith
Times Meistersingers
Harvard
Schubert—Weber
Onita
Brownie
Four Regals
Cook and Lorenz
Johnny Johnson
the Langdons
Mrs
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Lillian Ashley
Pollard
GLOBE
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Sonc ‘Noverty
Freeman Brothers
Juarez Aj
Battle Aires
Matinee
Ralpherz
Doctor de
Luxe
Man Who Owns
Broadway
Lindsay Morison Stock Co
Nxt
Zaza
Castile Sq
Tremont
John Craig
Winter St
Loew's Orpheum
Art
Bowdoin Sq. Log
Burke
Vaudeville Moving Picture
LE Huntington A
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Met
Massachusetts
Bunker Hill
Yale
India Wharf
Maine Steamship CO
Timilty
LABOR
Permittin
Nantasket
Pemberton
P. Cushing
Gen. Mer
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Otis Wharf
Ocean Pier
Gloucester
North Shore
Cape Ann
City of
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Nanak
Iana
Paragon
EL Esco
Pilgrims
First Landing Place
Dorothy Bradford Bay Line
Cape Cod
Atlantic Avenue
A. Moody
Edward W. Dixon
Commercial Wharf
Dally and Sun
Satellith
PRI
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St. Ry. Co
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