Cape Cod Canal Opens Under Emergency Action
Sherman L. Whipple confirms Boston Cape Cod & New York Canal Company will open the canal to navigation as an emergency measure to prevent a fuel and transport disaster. The company cites government ownership and seeks no prejudice to its legal rights while awaiting War Department reply.
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Whipple
Belmont
Secretary of War
Baker
Canal Company
Secretary of
Sherman Whipple
Calvin Coolidge
State House
Boston
Cape Cod Canal
Boston, Cape Cod & New York
Congress
New England
Massachusetts
Washington
United States
Commonwealth
Canal
New Fingland
Sherman L. Whipple
Hearing on Cape Cod Canal Seeks Government Action
At Washington hearings on the Walsh joint resolution, the committee will consider allowing the President through the War Department to operate the Cape Cod Canal if owners fail to operate. Secretary Baker’s view that the War Department lacks jurisdiction was upheld by the attorney general. Senator Lodge backed the measure as mass opposition grows due to owners not running the canal.
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Wyoming
Devereau
Boston
Cape
Baker
Cape Cod
Washington, D. C
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Congressman Walsh
Secretary of War
Cape Cod Canal
Walsh
War Department
Congress
New England
Massachusetts
Lodge
Senate
Funeral Services For Rev Joseph F Mohan In Everett
Funeral services for Rev Joseph F Mohan pastor of Immaculate Conception Church Everett will be held Saturday at 10 30 AM with a solemn high mass. The body will lie in state at the church from 5 PM Friday. Mohan born in Ireland 73 years ago next April 25 came to America as a child and was ordained June 3 1871 by Bishop McQuaid.
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Joseph F. Mohan
Immaculate Conception Church
Everett
Edward I. Hurley
St. Philip's Church
South End
Daniel W. Lenehan
Sacred Heart Church
Malden
Thomas R. McCoy
St. Catherine’s Church
Charlestown
Francis X. Dolan
St. Gregory's Church
Milton
Immaculate Conception
Mohan
Ireland
America
Newburyport
St. Charles College
Baltimore
St. Joseph's Seminary
Troy
N. Y
McQuaid
Immaculate Conception Church of
Human Chain of Boys Save Drowning Friend
A group of boys formed a human chain on Dorchester Bay at the foot of G street South Boston rescuing 19 year old Jo sepht Donahue after his sled broke through ice He was pulled to safety and rushed to Carney Hospital with shock His home is 19 Loring street
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Josepht Donahue
Dorchester Bay
G Street
Boston
Carney Hospital
Loring Street
Child Dies After Drinking Cedar Oil in Westfield
Westfield notices the death of two and a half year old Harry Fuller son of Mr and Mrs Harry Fuller of Grand street from drinking oil of cedar found on a dresser. The child died almost immediately.
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Westfield
Harry Fuller
Grand Street
Amherst alumni celebrate founders day with toast and goddess Sabrina
Edward T. Esty, Worcester County district attorney, presides as toastmaster at Amherst College alumni events. Governor Coolidge reflects on independent thought and growth. President Meiklejohn urges faculty pay and sunny prospects. Professor Barker advocates Anglo American academic exchange. Rush Rhees of Rochester speaks on international understanding. Oldest alumni honored. new officers elected including Swett and Ferguson.
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Amherst
Edward T. Esty
Worcester County
Hitchcock, Morse and Garman
Sty
Frederick S. Allis
Coolidge
Commonwealth
Alexander Meiklejohn
Amherst College
Meiklejohn
America
England
Barker
Rush Rhees
Rochester University
S. W. Hatheway
Joseph Kimball
George L. Gleason
George G. Phipps
Calvin Stebbins
John Goddard
William J. Pope
Romance at Kelly Field Ends in Engagement in Los Angeles
Miss Rebecca Pinkett of Los Angeles and Lieutenant Harry D. Kroll of Dorchester announced their engagement yesterday. Kroll, Harvard 1914 graduate, narrowly missed striking Pinkett with an airplane at Kelly Field months ago, prompting their romance. He recently returned home via Los Angeles and then went to the Pacific coast to enter business.
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Rebecca Pinkert
Harry D. Kroll
Kroll
Miss Pinkert
Kelly Field
Los Angeles
Cal
Rebecca Pinkett
Wales Street
Dorchester
Louis Kroll
Harvard
Miss Pinkett
Pacific Coast
Amherst Graduates Celebrate Governor Visit in 1919
Amherst graduates greet the governor after a six mile chase through Boston streets ending in a victory for the odds. The Goddess statue’s transfer marks a notable event, with 800 alumni and many women guests filling the banquet galleries and boxes above the ballroom.
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Boston
Amherst
Hillquit Defends Five Socialist Assemblymen in Albany
Morris Hillquit, in a five hour defence in Albany, argues the judiciary committee cannot require office qualifications beyond the Constitution for the five Socialist Assemblymen under investigation. He calls the probe part of national hysteria against radicalism and condemns Speaker Sweet for overstepping limits, urging seating of the five. He notes many charges and evidence are irrelevant to the core issues.
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Albany
N. Y
Morris Hillquit
Judiciary Committee
Father Johns Medicine Adverts Grip Recovery
An old advertisement touts Father John’s Medicine as a tonic and body builder to speed recovery from grip. It claims forced nutrition aids healing, prevents further attacks, and notes 60 years of success for colds throat troubles coughs and sore throats.
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Father John
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Lata
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N.Y
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Charles E. Kelser
Charles H. Cobb
Frederick K. Kretschmar
Gordon R. Hall
Louis E. Cadieux
Clifford P. Warren
Raymond D. Hunting
Hillquit
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Kenosha
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Simmons Company
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