Lasters Break in Haverhill
In Haverhill on March 20 40 McKay lasters in John J Paige and Randall B Day shops refused to accept Boot and Shoe Workers Union price lists. They offered new lists via Shoe Workers Protective Union as substitutes to end union control. A meeting with Secretary White is planned, while the Protective Union backs the action and the Boot and Shoe Workers Union downplays the impact.
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Haverhill
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
McKay
John J. Paige
Randall B. Day
Lastern
Boot and Shoe Workers
White
Shoe Workers’ Protective Union
Boot and Shoe Workers' Union
McKay Rasters
Paper Makers Enjoined From Sympathy Strike
Watertown N Y March 20 A Supreme Court injunction restrains George Mackey president of the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers from ordering a sympathy strike at Taggart paper mills Felt s mills or any mills affecting the St Regis Paper Company whose mill employing 325 men has been shut down the past week due to a strike of machine tenders.
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Watertown
N. Y
Supreme Court
Watson M. Rogers
George Mackey
International Brotherhood of Paper Makers
Taggart Paper Mills
Felt’s Mills
St Regis Paper Company
Hairbreadth escapes in sound collision on river run
Rescue efforts continued as the Plymouth and Taunton collided, leaving about 550 aboard. One body remained unaccounted for in the lower cabin while officers sought identities of victims and witnesses, including Italian steerage workers. Marines aided passengers by fabricating makeshift coverings from blankets.
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Boston
Plymouth
John Briscoe
John M. Thompson
Allegheny
Penn
Thompson
G. H. Nosten
G. H. Marsten
Taunton
McCarthy
J. W. Miller
Department of Marine Construction
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Itato
Miller
Fall River
United States Marines
Low
G. A. Slade
Slade
Elisha Davis
City of
Tales From a Stricken Ocean Vessel Taunton Wreck Memory
Passenger accounts recount the Taunton wreck as it struck Boston bound travelers. One traveler recalls reading in a stateroom before the crash and witnessing the vessel tear away two floors and leave sixteen staterooms exposed as distress signals pierced the chaos.
Buckley recounts fog bound voyage and crew bravery
Joseph J. Buckley, manager of Otis Skinner's Company, recalls the night aboard a vessel in dense fog. He notes 500 panicked passengers, a calm crew, and four marine companies aiding amid danger. The captain's officers kept order. casualty numbers remained low due to disciplined conduct.
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Joseph J. Buckley
Otis Skinner
Majestic Theatre
Collision Narrative of Plymouth and Tug Taunton
Richard Edwards of Lowell recalls being in the Plymouth when another steamer's whistle warned of danger near Saybrook. As fog and a slow speed persisted, the two vessels collided tearing a hole in the Plymouth bow. The Taunton drifted back as water rushed in, prompting rapid distress.
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Richard Edwards
Lowell
Plymouth
Mr. Edwards
Saybrook
Taunton
L Men in Session in Boston Street Railway Union Meeting
The Boston elevated division of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees held a regular meeting at Jefferson Hall last evening. The gathering drew a large attendance, admitted many new members, and conducted routine business.
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Boston
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees
Jefferson Hall
Fall River Union Plans Meeting After Boston Delegates
Fall River March 20. President John T. Coughlin of the local street railway employees union has prepared a call for a meeting next week to act on the delegate convention recommendations from Boston today.
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Fall River
John T. Coughlin
Union of Street Railway Employees
Boston
Hebrews of Chelsea Win New Slaughterhouse Location
The Hebrew community of Chelsea secured a change of location for the city slaughterhouse after a hearing by the Board of Health. The current one story building at Second and Maple Streets will give way to a new facility capable of killing 1200 fowl per day, with Black & Levin starting construction at 13 Elm Street.
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Chelsea
Board of Health
Black & Levin
Elm Street
Independent Citizens’ Club
Maple Streets
Hotel Fire Destroys Clarendon in Grand Rapids
A guest in room on the second floor started a blaze by tossing a lit match among silk goods allowing gas to ignite. The fire nearly destroyed the Clarendon Hotel causing total losses around 109000 dollars. One life was lost and several others were injured. Peter Sternberg was severely burned while trying to extinguish the flames and alert others.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Clarendon Hotel
Peter Sternberg
New York Names Third Deputy Police Commissioner
March 2 report that former Assemblyman Gherardi Davis was appointed the new third deputy commissioner of police. He will assume duties immediately and oversee police operations.
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DAVIS
New York
NW York
Gherardi Davis
Child’s Fall From Window Injures Five Year Old
Catherine Berg age five leaned from a window at her home 21 Decatur street Charlestown and fell eighteen feet to the sidewalk. She sustained a broken left leg and was taken to the Relief station for treatment.
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Catherine Berg
Decatur Street
Charlestown
Special Wine and Spirit Prices Through April Tenth
Until April tenth special offers on Mahogany Brown Tokay and White Tokay wines, Tarragona California wine, California Brandy, and Colonial Club Whiskey Rye or Bourbon. Prices range from 1.50 to 8.00 per gallon with per quart rates listed. Order today as delays are dangerous.
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Tarragona
California
Fire Fiend Foiled Near Hyde Park Home
Flames gnawed a roof hole at the Otto N. Hanson residence on Huntington Street near the Hyde Park line yesterday. A nearby youth on a fence watched and sketched as firefighters battled the blaze and contained the fire without further damage.
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Otto N. Hanson
Huntington Street
Hyde Park Line
Otto
The Boy Artist Drawings of Hanson Fire Scene
A sequence of sketches shows boys building a backyard fire in Boston as an alarm triggers a rapid fire response. Firefighters arrive to find a small blaze on a shingle many exclamations follow with a muddy pond incident and a colored boy's splash.
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Hanson
Letins
Boston
Cambridge roofer alleges kick by Division 2 officer
Robert Nixon, 61, of 8 Kenwood Street Cambridge, says an officer on School Street kicked him and caused hip injury after he sat to rest near his lawyer's office. He was taken to the Relief station but refused examination, with officials and police skeptical of his account.
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Robert Nixon
Kenwood Street
Cambridge
Hanscom
Division 2
School Street
Cambridge Police
Amateur Vaudeville Show Shines in Cambridge
The Cambridge Social Union held an amateur vaudeville show at Brattle Hall as a social season highlight. Prominent city families contributed sketches while evergreen palms decorated the hall and audiences wore pretty costumes for the event.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Social Union
Brattle Hall
Chelsea Painters Demand 2.80 Per Day
At a Chelsea Union 623 meeting painters voted to demand 2.80 per day from master painters with effect May 1 and double pay for overtime nights Sundays or holidays. They also forbade any member working on Labor Day under any condition.
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Chelsea Union
Sparks Set Two Fires In East Boston Conflagration Narrowed
Two alarms from box 662 yesterday noon and 3 30 p m sent fire crews to Coleridge street East Boston where houses occupied by Charles Priest Martin Flaherty and Charles Headbloom were damaged by sparks from Brooks s shipyard blacksmith shop The quick response prevented a major blaze.
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Coleridge Street
Boston
Charles Priest
Martin Flaherty
Charles Headbloom
Brooks
Lobsters Lead to Comical City Police Chase
In Charlestown two green lobsters reach an improbable 100 yard feat in two hours and vanish from a barber shop. Officers pursue the crustaceans through the Bunker Hill district before a dramatic police station scene reveals the lobsters crawled there, sparking a canine and feline stampede.
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William Lewis
Charlestown
Lowery
Lewis
Thayer
Fidalgo
Bunker Hill
City Square
Staten House
Curran
Crum and Byrnes Reappointed in Washington
President reappointed Dr. W. D. Crum as collector of customs at Charleston and William M. Byrnes as U S district attorney for Delaware. Both nominations had failed Senate confirmation in the recent session.
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Washington
W. D. Crum
Charleston
D. C
William M. Byrnes
Delaware
Senate
MCA Athletes Elect Officers
At a well attended meeting of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union Athletes at the Union last evening the following officers were elected President Berton C Morrill vice president H V Rawlings secretary Fred B Lane treasurer James Dalton athletic committee E O Parker E F Messinger Ss R Miller A G Mather D F Sennott Jack Howard
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Boston Young Men’s Christian Union A. A
Berton C. Morrill
H. V. Rawlings
Fred B. Lane
James Dalton
E. O. Parker
E. F. Messinger
Ss. R. Miller
A. G. Mather
D. F. Sennott
Jack Howard
Hope Commandery Plans Benefit Show in Pilgrim Hall
Hope Commandery United Order of Golden Star stages a musical and dramatic entertainment in Pilgrim Hall South Boston on Tuesday evening. The program includes farces A Silent Woman and The Widder's Proposals for charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilgrim Hall
South Boston
Hope Commandery
United Order Golden Star
Widder
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Offer Blood Based Cure
The article touts Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a blood and mucous membrane remedy for catarrh, claiming past treatments were ineffective. It notes the tablets dissolve in the mouth or water, can be used as a douche, and are sold by druggists for 50 cents a full sized package. Dr Bennett and others are quoted praising the internal treatment.
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Stuart
Bennett
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