Farewell Dinner for W. H. Schweizer in Boston
William H. Schweizer, long with L. P. Hollander & Co., was honored at a farewell dinner at Clark's Hotel hosted by a dozen newspaper friends. He heads to Saskatoon Saskatchewan to become sales manager for a major department store. Boston ad representatives attended. his Hollander colleagues had given a silver cigarette case earlier in the week.
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William H. Schweizer
Clark’s
Mr. Schweizer
L. P. Hollander & Co
Saskatoon
Sas
Katchewan
Boston
Schweizer
Gas Explosion Injures Family. Four Hart and House Damaged
Mrs Charles Connors and her three children 37 Carleton street suffered injuries when a gas explosion blasted their home yesterday. Attending physician Dr I P Parks says Harry 18 will fully recover though burned and stunned. Alice Leary married sister badly burned but expected to regain health and looks. Arthur 14 blistered and shocked. mother injured least of all.
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Charles Connors
Carleton Street
Revert
I. P. Parks
Harry
Arthur
Connors
Charles Consnors
Revere
Carnegie Gifts Aid Somerville Public Library Project
Andrew Carnegie sent $15,000 toward Somerville's $125,000 central hill library project. The instalment arrived at City Hall by check payable to Mayor Charles A. Burns, and was signed for by Treasurer Joseph Pike and Mayor Burns with the receipt returned to Carnegie.
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Andrew Carnegie
Somerville
Central Hill
City Hall
Charles A. Burns
Joseph §. Pike
Burns
Cambridge gives Barry third term landslide victory
James J. Casey defeated Julius J. Meyers for principal assessor by almost three to one and all three ballot questions passed. Mayor Barry led with 11 716 votes as the city approved a one day off in five for firefighters, a teachers' pension act, and an eight hour day for laborers amid a 60 percent turnout. The no license vote fell to 5750 against 4147, the Democrats winning new City Council seats in wards 5 6 and 7 and several other boards and offices with wide margins.
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James J. Casey
Julius J. Meyers
Barry
Arthur F. Blanchard
Democrats
Young Men’s
Progressive Municipal Party
Reginald M. Hall
Clarence H. Poor, Jr
Nelson C. Metcalf
Kenneth P. Hill
Board of Aldermen
James F. Black
Peter J. Nelligan
John P. Good
Joseph J. Reed
John A. Keleher
Thomas A. Glennon
John L. G. Glynn
William Danehy
John N. McDonald
Hugh S. Mullen
Frank J. McAvoy
Citizens’ Party
Oliver Dpd. Cleary
George R. Henderson
Progressive Party
Messrs. Lehan
J. H. Lynch
Ahearn and Mullen
Mahoney and
Whaley
Crowley
Dooley
McGee and Roper
Hamilton
Lamb
Murphy
Alphen
Edwards and
McCarthy
Hull and Poor
Walter H. Kirby
H. C. Metcalf
W. J. Lynch
Driscoll
Mike Flannery's Discourse on the Cubists Coming Next Sunday
The Post announces Mike Flannery will discuss the Cubists in a feature to run next Sunday. Readers are invited to attend or follow the discussion in the issue.
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Mike Flannery
One More Cold Wave Coming to Boston
A final cold spell is forecast for Boston with temperatures dropping to the twenties for a few days after a recent storm moves out to sea. The piece notes a stark contrast to March 1888 when the city endured a fierce blizzard, highlighting historical weather memory.
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Boston
Gale Roars Through Sydney Killing Dozens and Wrecking City
A 60 mile gale battered Sydney Nova Scotia today causing fatalities and heavy damage on land and water. Sixty street cars derailed, yachts wrecked, chimneys toppled, and a deluge accompanied the storm. One man and ten horses died from a fallen electric wire and three men were drowned in the harbor. Thunder and lightning added to the ferocity as officials tally fatalities.
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Sydney
Police free suffragette speakers from angry crowd in Nottingham
In Nottingham England a hostile crowd broke up a suffragette meeting. Miss Annie Kenny and others tried to speak but were denied a hearing as windows were smashed and banners torn. Police escorted Kenny and associates from the building by a rear exit to avoid mob violence.
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Nottingham
Eng
Annie Kenny
Paid for immunity to system in New York trials
The grand jury and District Attorney Whitman heard confessions from men and women who paid police for immunity while breaking the law. A hotel owner and several women who ran disorderly resorts described funding the system, corroborating prior testimony and naming new suspects to be pursued for indictment.
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New York
Whitman
Police Inspectors Demoted in Graft Probe Waves
Witnesses accuse several high police officials of graft with confessions yesterday and today leading to demotions. Commissioner Waldo lowers Inspector John J. Murtha to captain and transfers him as part of an overhaul.
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Waldo
John J. Murtha
Tona Vita Tonic Promised to Restore Health and Cheer
Nerve expert John Beazley Webb touts Tona Vita as restoring vitality and happiness, claiming disease is nature's retaliation and that the tonic renews energy, improves mood, appetite, memory, and weight, with many users reporting renewed joy in life and work. It is sold by Boston druggists.
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John Beazley Webb
Boston
London welcomes new British Chief Rabbi
Dr Joseph H Hertz arrives in London to take up duties as chief rabbi of the British empire. He is greeted by numerous co religious leaders at Huston station and will be inducted in April.
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London
Joseph H. Hertz
British Empire
Huston Station
Hertz
Orach Chaim
New York
Paris
Hodges
Temple Place
Bedford St
Newbro
Herpicide Company
Dept. S
Detroit
Mich
Eo Oughton & Dutton Co
Agen
Sails on Her 55th Atlantic Voyage
Mrs. W. B. McGrath of London formerly Swampscott sailed for Liverpool yesterday on the steamer Arabic for her 55th voyage across the Atlantic. Her son Fred commands the British steamer Georgic.
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Ocean
W. B. McGrath
London
Swampscott
Liverpool
Atlantic
Underworld figures testify in graft investigations
Witnesses describe long running corruption in Harlem precincts. Mary Stacom known as Mother Stacom testifies about decades in disorderly resorts while Annie Grey faces grand jury questions on alleged fortune and operations. Samuel Levy recounts graft involving liquor sales and a dodged case after bribe.
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Martha
Harlem
Whitman
Mary Stacom
Stacom
Annie Grey
Grand Jury
Samuel Levy
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W. H. Schweizer
Custom House
Wm. Filene’s Sons Co
Ata
American Wine Co
St. Louis
Armour
Armour and Company
Dept. 15
Chicago
Amour
Oulien
Stoddarddayton
Gray & Davis Electric Lighting System
Davis
Hart
Carnegie
Cambridge
James H. Regan
Oxford Park
America
H Company
Worcester, Mass
Mercury
Sydney, N. S. W
Outlook ON
Winter St
J. Ingraham
Celebi
Ann
Ingraham
Winter Street
F. S. Jones
Pathfinder
Gray & Davis
Ua Ous
Paulette
Butler
John T. Connor Co
Ceresota
Pillsbury
Brookside Creamery
Packag
South 4Th St
Richmond
India
Europe
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