Peters Announces Several City Appointments and Promotions
Mayor Peters announced multiple appointments and two promotions across city departments. Key entries include Thomas L. Sullivan of 509 Broadway South Boston named physical instructor in the park department at 1500 yearly for three months Russell J. Rice of Quint avenue Allston named building inspector at 2400 yearly Miss Mary E Gleasor appointed temporary visitor in the soldiers relief department at 100 monthly for one month Miss Lillian D McCarthy Roxbury to fill temporary clerk vacancy at 3 a day Miss Marion E Hankard East Boston named permanent stenographer in the soldiers relief department at 1100 yearly to fill Ethel V Gillis vacancy Joseph E Reinhalter West Newton appointed construction engineer in the transit department at 1700 yearly Others listed for minor posts.
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Peters
Thomas L. Sullivan
Broadway
South Boston
Park
Russell J. Rice
Quint Avenue
Allston
Mary E. Gleasor
Soldiers’ Relief Department
Lillian D. McCarthy
Tremont Street
Roxbury
Marion E. Hankard
Bennington Street
Boston
Ethel V. Gillis
Joseph E. Reinhalter
Henshaw Street
West Newton
Rubber Co Plant to Reopen July 11
The Millville plant of the Woon socket Rubber Company footwear division of United States Rubber Company will reopen July 11 after a six month shutdown. About 400 of its 700 employees will return to work.
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Woonsocket, R. 1
Millville
Mass
Woonsocket Rubber Company
United States Rubber Company
City Council Approves 67300 for Improvements and Expenses
The City Council gave unanimous approval to appropriation orders totaling 67300 for various improvements and county expenses. Dover street bridge repairs, damaged by fire, are estimated at 40000.
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Dover Street
Physician Calls Day Act Curse at Atlantic City Convention
Dr. W. Wallace Fritz of Philadelphia, president of the Allied Medical Association of America, urged doctors nationwide to repeal the Volstead act. He called prohibition a curse and said it increased drunkenness beyond old laws during the group’s annual convention in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Atlantic City
N. J
W. Wallace
Fritz
Philadelphia
Allied Medical Association of America
Prohibition Enforcement
Boston City Council Agrees Additional Funds for Branch Library
The mayor moved to fuse $10 000 with the $55 000 library appropriation in West Roxbury after bids showed the total insufficient. An extra $12 300 was approved for county expenses and salaries granted by legislative act. Other orders included 5000 for heating attics at Long Island buildings to protect sprinkler heads and 5350 for lights and awnings at Faneuil Hall market.
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West Roxbury
Long Island
Faneuil Hall
Health and Institutions Departments
Health Department
South Boston
O’brien
Deer Island
Peters
Jenkins
Dorchester Street
Protest by physicians on restrictions of practice and prohibition
A physician protests the Val Stead act, arguing it restricts medical practice and harms public health. The speaker condemns prohibition as driving people to secret drinking, fostering gambling and immorality, and causing deaths and blindness while urging the medical profession to oppose the law in defense of therapeutic liberty.
Shower baths open today in multiple Boston districts
Mayor Peters helps dedicate hydrant shower baths across Solari Square North Margin Street North End later openings in Maverick Square Charlestown Bunker Hill Street West End North Grove Street and South End Open 10 to 12 morning and 3 30 to 5 30 afternoon only on days when the temperature hits 80 degrees or more Authorities plan additional showers as the temporary facilities to relieve summer suffering.
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Peters
Solari Square
North Margin Street
North End
Boston
Maverick Square
Charlestown
Bunker Hill Street
Water pipe shower baths proposed to relieve street flushing
A 15 foot high iron pipe attached to a hydrant features spiral holes on the street facing side, creating a semicircular jet radius of at least 25 feet. devised by the Fire commissioner with Engineer McInnes at the mayor’s request to provide street showers as a substitute for flushing the street to relieve juvenile leather issues.
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McInnes
Mayo
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