Frothingham Heads New Boston Elevated Trustees
Former Lieutenant Governor Louis A. Frothingham is named chairman of five public trustees to run the Boston Elevated Railway on a service at cost basis under a recent act. The board includes Galen L. Stone and William M. Butler with John Stevens and Stanley R. Miller, aiming to start operations by July 1.
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Louis A. Frothingham
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Frothingham
North
Boston
Galen L. Stone
Brookline
William M. Butler
John ¥. Stevens
Stanley R. Miller
Winchester
Marines
Stone
Boston Elevated Company
Butler
State Senate
Butler, Cox, Murchie & Beacon
Stevens
Public Safety Committee
Miller
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Boston Elevated Street Railway Company
McCall
Board of Trustees
Poston
Calvin D. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Congress
Governor’s surprise at Boston Elevated trustees
The governor’s list of appointees for the Boston Elevated railway board caused surprise as many expected other men to be named. Henry B. Endicott publicly praised the appointments as strong and representative, noting he was not included among the new trustees.
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State House
Henry B. Endicott
Orlex Hair Remedy Promises Quick Color Change
Brooklyn nurse Mrs A Dixon promotes Orlex powder as a home formula to turn gray hair black or brown. She claims it is affordable and safe with a $100 gold bond guarantee, and says the solution rinses in without sticky residue and makes hair look twenty years younger.
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A. Dixon
Brooklyn
Orlex
Public transportation board picks trusted reformers
A spokesperson praises chair Frothingham and secretary Miller while urging patience as the new Massachusetts board members face a slow road to improvements. Labor leader Stevens and organizer Stone are highlighted as key figures, with fare hikes anticipated and no quick gains in seating or equipment.
Brush to Aid New Elevated Trustees
M. C. Brush, president of the Boston Elevated, said he has received an offer to join a steel firm but will assist the new board of trustees who take office on July 1. He praised the appointment as excellent and pledged to help the board perform its duties.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Boston Elevated Street Railway Company
M. C. Brush
Boston Elevated
Steel
Mr. Brush
Massachusetts
Senate
Women Pickpockets Held in Boston Department Store
Rose Sarks aged 32 and Mamie Gentile aged 21, both listed with Lowell street addresses, were arrested by Inspectors Pelton and McCarthy on larceny charges. Store detective Ebba Lundquist filed the complaint. Police suspect the pair, said to be from New York, are behind a recent spree in Boston stores including a Tuesday theft of six pocketbooks in under ten minutes during a sale.
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Rose Sarks
Lowell Street
Mamie Gentile
New York
Pelton
McCarthy
Ebba Lundquist
Boston
Shipping Board Agents In Conference At National Headquarters
A conference of agents from Atlantic Gulf Great Lakes and Pacific ports opened yesterday at the Boston Custom base national headquarters of the Shipping Board Recruiting Service. Discussions covered placing graduates from the Shipping Board free marine engineering and navigation schools and the merchant marine training ships into active service.
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United Shipping Board Sea Service Bureau
Shipping Board
Boston Custom Base
Atlantic
Gulf, Great Lakes
Pacific
Free Marine Engineering and Navigation
3500 Pounds Mackerel Dumped At Gloucester Vessel
A Gloucester schooner arriving at Newport New Jersey will dump 3500 pounds of mackerel into the sea after a smallpox case was found on board. The port health officer recommends the disposal and awaits instructions from Washington.
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Newport
R. 1
Washington
WCTU Leaders Back Tobacco-Free Comfort Bags Policy
Mrs Katherine Lent Stevenson president of the WCTU told the New Bedford chapter at North Christian Church that the group would drop comfort bag work rather than include tobacco or cigarettes. She also discussed the liquor question and the organization’s war activities.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Katherine Lent Stevenson
New Bedford
North Christian Church
McCall enters Senate race amid war era
Governor McCall announces candidacy for U S Senate in September primaries. He cites 14 years on Ways and Means, 20 years in Congress, and desire to serve Massachusetts without moneyed pressure. He pledges liberty, fair treatment of capital and labor, and rejects funding influence.
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Committee On Ways and Means
Congress
Commonwealth
Germans Low in Spirits Over Austrian Defeat
British in France report prisoners say Austrians failed in Italy and shook German confidence. Germans believed the offensive would deliver a knockout blow to Italy and hasten peace, but the defeat dampened morale among German troops.
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France
Associated Press
Italy
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Notman
John F. Stevens
New
Boston Elevated Street Railway Company Board of Trustees
Mr. Stone
BRUSH
M’call
Confederation of Special Interests
Dentinol
Broadway
Palm Beach
Filene
Stein-Bloch
A. W. Jones CO
Speotacee Wholesale and Retail Milliners
Chauncy ST
Auncy
Athletic Union
P. S
Filene’s
Oxfords
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