Mass Choir Rehearsal Draws Near 2000 Voices for Pageant
A mass rehearsal of the Pageant of Darkness and Light gathered nearly 2000 choristers at People Temple Columbus Avenue and Berkeley Street. Pageant master George Pickett praised progress while solo parts were announced for Adelaide Griggs S Annesley Geraldine Bliss, Henry Gurney, Frank Conly, William Gustafson Jr and Rev D Brewer Eddy among others.
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People Temple
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
George Pickett
Cutter, Jr
Centralito
Adelaide Griggs
East Somerville
Kapiolani
Philadelphia
Frank Conly
William Gustafson, Jr
Boston
David Livingstone
D. Brewer Eddy
Home Department
The
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Labor Leader Altman Shot In Chicago
Vincent Altman a long time labor leader who faced bomb throwing and shooting charges was shot while at the Briggs house buffet. He was wounded and taken to a hospital with reports that he would die. the assailant escaped.
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Chicago
Vincent Altman
Sonny "Altman
Briggs House
Hostal
Altman
Plans of Hiel Amid Spy Confession and Kiel Conspiracy
A Fremdenblatt report states a foreigner arrested on espionage with four others confessed. The group had been under surveillance amid suspected naval sabotage plans at Kiel, with details suggesting coordination of operations. The narrative shifts to a U.S. legal matter where Packers' immunity ruling shapes future prosecutions under the Sherman act and 1906 precedents, with jurists detailing how pre and post immunity acts affect conspiracy charges and admissible evidence.
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Mamburg
Fremdenblatt
Kiel
Immunity Plea Lost by Trust Immunity Bath Signaled
Judge George A. Carpenter refused to quash indictments against 10 Chicago meat packers. He limited the earlier immunity granted by Judge Otis Humphrey in 1906 and allowed the immunity era facts to be used as evidence of a later conspiracy.
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Humphrey
Carpenter
G Land
Jacobs
Masson
Chicago
George A. Carpenter
United States District Court
Otis Humphrey
Portland Express Rolls Down Thirty Foot Embankment
A night express from New York to Portland, Maine, derailed two and a half miles west of Clinton on the Boston and Maine line. Three cars plunged down a 30-foot embankment. two people were injured but not seriously. Seventeen passengers were in the sleeping car, which stayed on track. one car caught fire but was extinguished quickly.
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Portland Express
Clinton
New York
Portland
Worcester, Nashua & Portland
Boston & Maine Railroad
J. J. Hennigan
Worcester
Edward Mayo
Clinton Hospital
Seventeen Explorers Drowned on Papua Expedition
Seventeen native policemen accompanying Blapforth Smith, administrator of Papua, drowned when rafts broke on the Strickland River in New Guinea. The party, cutting through dense jungle, faced starvation with only Bago roots for sustenance as they pressed forward.
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Melbourne
Australia
Blapforth Smith
Papua
New Guinea
Great Island
Strickland
Gage
Man He Brought From Europe Fails to Detain Suspect
Giuseppe Mascia after eight years of searching across Europe and the United States for the man he says killed his uncle in Italy located the suspect at Union Station in New London. The man fled upon contact and was not pursued. Police are continuing the search.
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New London
Conn
Europe
Italy
Giuseppe Mascia
Union Station
Mascla
Five Year Compact Signed In Rockport Quarry Dispute
In Rockport on March 22 the stone workers and quarrymen union signed a five year compact with manufacturers ending the March 1 strike. The agreement covers the largest union group among the granite workers and sets terms for labor relations and production through the next five years.
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Rockport
Five Year Industry Agreement Reached In Labor Talks
A five year pact was signed between manufacturers and a major union ending a strike that has affected about 1200 quarry workers. The agreement sets wages of 25 cents for experienced men and 23 cents for green hands, with progression after three months. Two-year adjustments raise experienced pay to 28 cents. smaller unions are expected to accept and return workers next week.
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Quarrymen’s Union
Clark Re-elected by Coal Dealers Association
W A Clark of Northampton was re elected president of the Retail Coal Dealers Association at a Ford Hall convention. J A Wilson named state vice president. George E Shaw Rhode Island. Elias Lyman Vermont. F K E Blodgett New Hampshire. I P McCusker Connecticut. Lyman K Lee Foxcroft Me and John S Cross Lawrence elected to the executive committee. Q Shirley Ladd spoke on mutual fire insurance. Apparatus and machinery exhibit highlighted coal handling and screening.
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W. A. Clark
Northampton
Coal Dealers’ Association
Ford Hall
J. A. Wilson
George E. Shaw
Rhode Island
Elias Lyman
Vermont
F. KE. Blodgett
New Hampshire
I. P. McCusker
Connecticut
Lyman K. Lee
Foxcroft
John S. Cross
Lawrence
Q. Shirley Ladd
Secret Conference on Railroad Rates in Concord
Three Republicans on the state legislative committee met behind closed doors in Concord with Boston & Maine officials President Charles S. Mellen and Vice-President Timothy E. Byrnes. Democratic members did not attend unless the session was public. Attorneys for both sides were present.
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Concord
N. H
Charles S. Mellen
Timothy E. Byrnes
Boston & Maine Railroad
Edgar J. Rich
John W. Kelley
Sherman WB. Burroughs
Edmund S. Cook
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Lynn
Tom Harney
America
Sheinwald
Summer Street
New England
William Sheinwald
Russia
Oxford
Misses’ and Children’s Dept
Oxfords
Orfords
Weaiawes
Brockton
Rappert Shoes
Baltimore
Sheinwald’s
LABOR
Hiel
Burton
Packers
Clark
C. S. Mellen and
Granite State Committee
Cenfer
Merete
Wolf's
My Clothier
Hanover
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