Mayor appoints 18 ex service men to transit labor posts
Mayor Curley announced appointments to city departments. Eighteen ex service men were hired as transit department laborers at four dollars per day for six months. Also named temporary fire wire division clerk Miss Gertrude P Walsh of East Boston at twelve hundred forty dollars yearly and salary increases for Charles D Foster of Lexington street East Boston.
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Curley
Gertrude P. Walsh
Ashley Street
East Boston
Fire Department
Charles D. Forster
Lexington Street
East Bos
Clerks Appointed in Water Service Salaries Set
Ton, clerk in the water service, to $1300, and John J. McCabe to the position of clerk at $1500, to succeed Forster.
Sumner Wells Leaves Diplomatic Service
Secretary Hughes accepted Sumner Wells resignation as head of the Latin American division in the State Department. He severed his ties with diplomacy immediately to enter business.
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Washington
Hughes
Sumner Wells
State Department
Diplomatic Service
Hyde Park Fare Talk Aims 10 Cents With Elevated
Governor Cox met with the Boston Elevated trustees and Eastern Massachusetts street railways to cut Hyde Park line fares from 20 to 10 cents and to assign operation to the Elevated for proper compensation. Eastern Massachusetts proposed court-set compensation and urged Boston to cover any deficit, with Cox planning a follow up with Mayor Curley.
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Cox
Boston Elevated
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railways
Hyde Park
Business
Eastern Massachusetts
Elevated
Boston
Curley
Gould seeks 18000 annual cost of living in divorce case
Edith Kelly Gould requests 18000 a year for clothes undergarments shoes and incidentals as maintenance from Frank Jay Gould after a French divorce. Justice Newburger considers whether the amount is reasonable while Mrs Gould also disputes the divorce validity in New York courts.
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New York
United News
Topeka
Kas
Edith Kelly Gould
Joseph E. Newburger
Supreme Court of New York
Frank Jay Gould
France
Gould
May equip homes with radiophone in Boston area
Radiophone receiving has become popular in Greater Boston. Prominent contractors and architects plan modern apartment houses with wired connections to a roof aerial network. Tenants connect their sets to inside wires and tune in broadcasts from various stations.
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Greater
Boston
Miss Marie Du Pont Hosts New England Radiophone Plea
Thousands of women across New England heard Miss Marie Du Pont urge caution to avoid being foolish wives on Station WGI Medford Hillside. She also asked men to listen and protect marriages while praising radiophone’s potential and opposing bans on artists without pay.
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WGI
American Radio and Research Corporation
Medford Hillside
Marie du- Pont
Miss du- Pont
New England
H. V. Crane
Centre Methodist Church
Malden
Millionaire suburb votes $10 fine for barky dogs
Springfield residents in a suburban colony adopt a town meeting article to impose a $10 fine on any dog owner whose pet barks or howls loudly enough to disturb neighbors. The measure aims to curb nuisance barking and push behavior toward well behaved dogs.
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Springfield
Circus Chef Sought in Proctor Brunen Killing Mystery
Riverside N J March 15 renewed efforts will be made to locate George Lamb Werner a circus chef in connection with the killing of John T Brunen circus proprietor shot to death in his home Friday night prosecutor Jonathan Kelsey Burlington county says Werner was employed at winter quarters of Brunen shows at Williamstown N J until a week before Christmas when discharged Walter S Keown Camden attorney retained by Mrs Brunen denies the widow knows the identity of the person or persons responsible for his death or anything about the killing
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Riverside
N. J
George Lamb Werner
John T. Brunen
Jonathan Kelsey
Burlington County
Werner
Brunens
Williamstown
Walter S. Keown
Camden
Brunen
No decision on pardon for Irish agitator Watkin
Governor Miller said no decision was reached on the pardon application for Big Jim Watkin an Irish labor agitator serving time in Sing Sing prison for criminal anarchy.
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Albany
N. Y
Miller
Big Jim” Watkin
Sing Sing
Cascarets Safer Laxative Ad Claims Quiet Effect
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle laxative that relieves headachy biliousness cold symptoms indigestion and dizziness. It promises one or two to work by morning without stomach upset unlike salts pills calomel or oil and notes a ten cent price per box plus appeal to children.
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WARD
Governor and Street Railway Trustees Center
Mrs. Gould
Filene
Goorie
Medford
Tillside
Dorothy
Eunice L. Randall
Margaret Sawyer
Marie Welch
KDKA
Westinghouse
East Pittsburg
Pittsburg
Fred W. Hagar
Oliver Denton
Edward Becker
Beacon Street
Becker-Stutz Auto Co
Americas
Pluto
Russia
Traveler
Traveler Shoe Co
I. Wit
Oxford
Brown
Atlantic Ave
Mass
Tremont Street
Notte
Washington Street
Betten Wine
Malin St
Avery Street
Ruggles St
Roxbury
Circus Man
Larkin
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