Weymouth town meeting approves teacher pay raise and gains
The Honorable Louis A. Cook was chosen moderator for a 25th year as Weymouth votes on 115 warrant articles. Elementary teachers’ maximum pay rises from 600 to 700 dollars, water meter funding of 5000 dollars, police station expansion to 1499.99 dollars, and police wages remain contested. Assessor pay and night differential change, schoolhouse plan defeated, and key departmental appropriations approved.
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Louis A. Cook
Weymouth
John A. Raymond
Harvard Library Acquires 420 Diazokyo Buddhist Volumes
Harvard University gains 420 volumes of the Diazokyo, a major collection of Chinese and Japanese Buddhist scriptures. The books arrive via Professor Anesaki, the Japanese philosophy chair at Cambridge, and join Wadsworth House’s growing holdings from the Concordia Association of Tokyo.
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Harvard University Library
Harvard
Anesaki
Cambridge
America
Association Concordia
Tokio
Japan
Wadsworth House
Boy Scouts Debate Peace Role in Massachusetts
Ormond Loomis rejects ties between the Boy Scout movement and the Massachusetts militia while United Boys' Brigade seeks militia-style drills. State leaders discuss armory use for semi military youth groups under supervision, amid calls that scouts foster peace and fellowship.
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Ormond KE. Loomis
Greater Boston
Boy Scouts of America
Pearson
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
United Boys’ Brigade of America
Walsh Avor
Loomis
Yeserday
Boy Scouts
Massachusetts Militia
Boy Scout
Oys
Walsh
Divorce suit cites cruel treatment of baby by Herbert A. Hope
Mrs Evelyn Thompson Hope of Bath alleges in her divorce filing that her husband Herbert A. Hope of Norfolk Va inflicted repeated severe bodily punishment on their infant daughter Mildred. She recalls an elopement to Providence in 1907 and notes the child’s adenoids operation at 18 months was followed by a harsh whipping in Hope’s anger. The couple had lived in Bath and Quincy and separated with the child in Mrs Hope’s custody.
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Evelyn Thompson Hope
Thisty
Herbert A. Hope
Norfolk
Hope
Providence
Dean Academy
Franklin
Bath
Quincy
Fore River Works
Mildred
Smallpox Case Reported in Dorchester
Physicians alerted after the Board of Health confirms a smallpox case in Dorchester. Oscar Hollander, 25, married, of 44 Monadnock Street, isolated with his wife and infant at Gallup's Island. Source cites uncertainty of exposure from recent work with sailors rescued from a wreck and cared for at a hospital.
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Boston
Board of Health
Dorchester
Oscar Kk
Hollander
Monadnock Street
Gallup's Island
Sie
Francis J. Cotting Dies Leader of Crippled Children’s School
Francis J. Cotting, 48, longtime president of the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children, died yesterday at his home 249 Commonwealth Avenue. He was famed for expert school management and generous aid to hundreds of handicapped children in Greater Boston.
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Cotting
Commonwealth Avenue
Manchester
Sharon
Boston
Mr. Cotting
Charles E. Cotting
Alice Cotting
Francis J. Cotting
Industrial School For
Thin Folks Seek Fat Gain with Sargol Tablets Ad
Advertisement touts Sargol as a natural fat producing aid for thin people. It claims meals with the tablet convert sugars and starches to nourishment, with reported gains of ten to twenty five pounds per month. The product is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee.
Condition of Jews in Russia Cited by Bernstein
Herman Bernstein of New York, secretary of the American Jewish Committee, told Harvard Menorah Society that the 1900s Jewish plight in the Russian Empire is worse today than before the revolution. He praised U S policy and cited the Imperial Durnovo commission urging passport reform as evidence Russia’s methods were unfair.
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Herman Bernstein
New York
American Jewish Committee
Russia
Harvard Menorah Society
Russian Empire
Hie
United States
Imperial
Durnovo
Malden Seeks Cause of Tonsillitis Epidemic
Officials investigate whether polluted milk or city water spread at Malden as the epidemic favors wealthier areas while poorer sections remain largely free. No new cases were reported yesterday and officials hope the outbreak is subsiding.
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Malden
Veteran Boston letter carrier celebrates 75th birthday banquet
George Fred Marden who served 66 years as a letter carrier at the Boston post office was honored at a Berkeley Hall banquet for his 75th birthday. Friends and fellow letter carriers presented him with 75 dollars in gold. The ceremony marked a long career ending with commendation from peers.
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George Fred Marden
Boston
Berkeley Hall
Marden
Dorchester Letter Carrier Marden Retires After 38 Years
A veteran post office worker who began delivering on Pearl Street in 1868 and served at the South Station for six years retires. He is a member of Charles Russell Lowell Post 7 G. A. R. and a trustee of the Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association, living at 5 Waterloo Street, Dorchester.
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Pearl Street
South Station
Ile
Charles Russell Lowell
Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association
Marden
Waterloo Street
Dorchester
Sulzer Appeal for Mandamus Denied in New York
Former Governor Sulzer's bid for a writ of mandamus against State Comptroller Lohmer to force payment of his governor salary after removal was denied by Supreme Court Justice Chester. An appellate division decision is expected, with possible appeal to the Court of Appeals and, if needed, the United States Supreme Court to test impeachment validity.
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Albany
N. Y
Sulzer
Lohmer
Supreme Court
Chester
Appellate Division
Third Department
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
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