Sperry to Take the Fleet Around World
Washington March 17 Rear Admiral Charles S Sperry named commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet for the July departure from San Francisco to circle the globe. Promotions follow retirements of Evans and Thomas as Schroeder Wainwright and Emery advance to rear admiral. Sperry, a New Yorker credited to Connecticut, has long served in the Navy including the Yorktown story in the Philippines and the Hague peace conference.
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Washington
Charles S$. Sperry
San Francisco
Globe
Roosevelt
Evans
Pacific Coast
Thomas
Puget Sound
Seaton Schroeder
Richard Wainwright
Emery
Sperry
Spain
New York Navy Yard
Yorktown
Philippine
Luzon
Aguinaldo
Admiral Walker
Europe
South America
New Orleans
China Station
Admiral Sperry
War College
Hague
The
Horn
Admiral Evans
Finance Commission probes city contracts in Boston
Revelations at Monday hearing reveal alleged bid collusion in schoolhouse boiler repairs. Officials including Dwyer and Cox criticize practices as brazen and long standing while seeking grand jury action and new penalties for obstructing or falsifying testimony.
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Dwyer
Finance Commission
Commission
Post
Boston
Legislative Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
McCullough
Charles Callahan
Martin M. Lomasney
City Hall
Lomasney
Boston Finance Commission
Missing Patterson Sought After by Finance Commission
Public hearing reveals former James Russell Boiler Works bookkeeper Peter F. Patterson vanished from the State amid questions of influence. Home listed at 271 Park Street West Roxbury. telephone reachable but Patterson reportedly ill. Russell says he destroyed a cash book and denies involvement in Patterson’s departure. Patterson described as married with children living on Park Avenue West Roxbury.
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Sughrue
City Hall
Russell
M. J. Sughrue
Finance Commission
Peter F. Patterson
James Russell Boiler Works Company
South Boston
Boston
Patterson
Park Street
West Roxbury
Post
Park Avenue
Governor Guild Sees Comfortable Day in Recovery
The governor had a comfortable day with no new symptoms and little change in his physical condition. The absence of unfavorable signs suggests continued improvement and a step toward recovery.
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Governor Guild
Mystery surrounds Thornley death by own action in Quincy
Alfred I. Thornley, 24, shot himself after a four day marriage in Quincy. The medical examiner cites melancholia as the cause while his parents and widow question the tragedy and seek reasons behind the suicide. Two recently married women who visited his Saville Street room may hold answers but will not reveal them.
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Quincy
Alfred I. Thornley
Mount Wollaston Cemetery
Saville Street
Frederick Jones
Pittsburg Clubman to wed Cambridge Society Girl
David McKee Morris a leading Pittsburg and New York clubman will marry Miss Bessie Louise Pollard of Cambridge Mass in New York’s Brick Presbyterian Church on April 4. The couple will reside in Pittsburg after a pre wedding bachelor dinner and extended trip.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Pittsburg Society Club
David McKee Morris
New York
Bessie Louise Pollard
Riverbank Court
Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Brick Presbyterian Church of New York
Morris
William J. Morris
Nelson B. Morris
Pittsburgh
Mary Louise Evans
Miss Pollard
Miss Pollard Engaged to Mister Morris From Pittsburgh
Miss Bessie Pollard of Cambridge has announced her engagement to Daniel McKee Morris of Pittsburgh. They first met at Pollard's father's summer home in Harvard where he was acquainted with her. Pollard's father is a traveling salesman for Farley Harvey & Co. of Boston.
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Miss Pollard
Mr. Morris
Miss Bessie
Oulse Pollard
Cambridge
Daniel McKee Morris
Pittsburg
Harvard
Farley, Harvey & Co
Labor Notes Brotherhood Meeting At Old Fitchburg Station
The Order of Railroad Stationmen holds a regular meeting tonight at the old Fitchburg station with a key topic the proposal from the Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and Baggagemen of America. President A M Roberts signs communications urging full attendance and Hiram Leet reports on Lowell branch adjustments before Boston. The Brotherhood of Railway Employees adjusts at Carney House next Sunday to discuss craft working conditions.
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Order of
Fitchburg
Brotherhood of Railroad Freight and Baggagemen of America
A. M. Roberts
Hiram Leet
Board of Adjustment
Lowell
Salem Division
Boston
Brotherhood
General Board of Adjustment of the Brotherhood of Railway Employees
Carney House
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Henry Siegel CO
Washington and
Essex Streets
Panama
Batiste
Percale House
Percale
Aparri
Hare and Hounds
FIN. Com
Cox
Alfred E. Cox
Atlantic Works
John H. Broughton
Oliver Street
Atlas Boiler Manufacturing Company
Chicago
W. H. Davenport
William H. Page
George H. Sampson
Pearl Street
Stein-Bloch Smart
Stein-Bloch
New Spring
Cehclecale Toil Boon
Ladies and
Henry Siegelco
Cambridge Society
Rich
Lancaster
LABOR
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
W.L. Douglas Boys Shoes
W.l.douglas
Douglas
Brookton
Washington Street
Corner School
Summer Street
Cor
Lincoln St
Court Street
Hanover Street
J. H. Niles & CO
North St
Boston, Mass
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