Patrolman Saves Woman as Suspect Foiled in West End
Patrolman Jeremiah F. Mahoney rushed to Bowker street after screams and halted a group of men who enticed a woman into a doorway. A gunfight ensued, the fugitive Morris Carlow fled, dropped a pistol, and was trapped in Green street doorway for arrest after Mahoney fired. Carlow claimed 16 Linden street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police
Jeremiah F. Mahoney
Bowker Street
West End
Mahoney
Hawkins and
Chardon Streets
Green Street
Morris Carlow
Linden Street
Eulogy for Col Glines at Somerville High School
Robert Luce delivered a stern eulogy for Colonel Edward Glines during a memorial at Somerville High School auditorium. He urged Americans to act beyond mere words, noting patriotism requires action especially when national honor or lives are at stake. Mayor Cliff presided as about 1500 people attended.
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Robert Luce
Edward Glines
Somerville High School
Mr. Luce
Cliff
Frieda Hempel at Symphony Hall Recital
Frieda Hempel, with Con rand van Bos, gave a crowded recital in Symphony Hall. She displayed rare vocal talent and refinement across many composers, earning repeated recalls and enthusiastic audience acclaim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frieda Hempel
Conrand van Bos
Symphony Hall
Miss Hempel
Charlestown Lady Glad to Testify for Plant Juice
A local Charlestown advertisement touts Plant Juice as an herbal stomach remedy. It cites Mrs Lenora Millin of Main Street who reports relief from indigestion headaches and nervousness after using the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlestown
Lenora Millin
No. 45
Main Street
France protests German barbarism in neutral states
Paris reports Premier Ribot issues formal protest to neutral governments over German evacuation in northern France. Note condemns systematic destruction of public property, monuments, homes, and wells. Also protests pillaging safes and stock theft, urging banks and nationals to beware. France and allies reject German seized negotiable papers as invalid under The Hague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ribot
Republic
France
Peronne
Bank of France
4000 March in Norwood
More than 4000 people marched through Norwood streets in a show of support for President Wilson and the country during the crisis. The parade included Boy Scouts Coast Guard Quincy G A R Sons of Veterans and Women’s Relief Corps. About 13000 watched as a preparedness rally was held in Everett Hall with an overflow in another hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
Wilson
Boy Scouts
Coast Guard of Quincy
Sons of Veterans
Women’s Relief Corps
Everett Hall
Charles F. Weed
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Michael J. Murray
Boston Municipal Court
Chinatown Not To Move Amid Progress Push
A report claims Boston's Chinatown will be wiped out by progress forcing 3000 Chinese residents to form a new Chinatown. Some former Chinese properties have been bought by promoters, with condemned buildings razed and new ones erected, yet the Chinese show little worry over the encroachment of modern structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoo Wing
Chinatown
Boston
March of Progress
City Building Department
Woman of 84 Hurt in Auto Crash
Elizabeth Eaton an 84 year old Watertown resident was seriously injured yesterday when a car driven by A C Baxter collided with a Newton driver’s vehicle at Marshall and Spring streets. Eaton suffered two broken ribs and internal injuries and was taken to her daughter’s Oliver street home in Watertown. Her condition was listed as critical. The Perkins family aboard the Baxter vehicle escaped injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Eaton
Watertown
A. C. Baxter
Thomas Perkins
John Carmody
Newton
Marshall and
Spring Streets
Calls for Elevation of Harvard Salaries
Yale and Princeton professors earn less than Harvard faculty, says a Harvard endowment fund committee report. The panel seeks to raise 10 million dollars, noting living costs rose about 60 percent since a 1906 salary increase and arguing Harvard professors deserve higher pay for highly specialized work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Harvard Endowment Fund Committee
Slater Help Hosts Musicale and Tea at Beacon Street Mansion
In the 18th century tap estry room of Mrs. Horatio N. Slater’s Beacon Street mansion the Slater household staff held a musicale and tea yesterday afternoon. Guests included housemaids cooks chauffeurs footmen coachmen butlers policemen carriage men and other friends of the Slater staff from Boston and Brookline families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beacon Street
Horatio N. Slater
Slater
Boston
Brookline
Mrs Slater Hosts Formal violin Reception
Mrs Slater wore black chiffon with white lace as 350 guests applauded then heard her accompany a song on violin for Mrs Joseph Fay. Attendees included Count Fontenilliat Peter Wieder Fidel Keonish and James W Baldwin with grandson Bernard Rothwell Baldwin. Cardinal O Connell’s greetings were read by Rev J J McGarry of St Cecilia s Church. Emil Knabb and Mrs Minnie McCarthy led as MCs with tables of ices cakes and punch. Mrs Slater supervised guests ensuring an enjoyable event.
Veterans plea for 6 percent civil service preference
Richard Rowles, former department commander of the Spanish War Veterans in the state, writes Senators Nichols, Hormel, and Wilson of Boston urging support for a bill granting honorably discharged veterans a 6 percent preference in civil service examinations. The bill advances to the Senate with a favorable committee report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Rowles
Nichols, Hormel and Wilson
Boston
Senate
Committee On Public Service
Funeral for Miss Spalding in Newton Centre
Funeral services for Margaret Spalding, a victim of the Portsmouth suicide pact, were held yesterday afternoon at her parents home in Newton Centre. Rev. Oscar B. Hawes presided and a large delegation of Newton High School girls from the class of ’16 attended. Burial is set for Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn. A funeral for Ethel Stanton of Cincinnati, the other pact victim, will likely be held today in Cincinnati.
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Margaret Spalding
Portsmouth
George F. Spalding
Paul Street
Newton Centre
Oscar B. Hawes
Unitarian Church
Newton High School
Miss Spalding
Pine Grove
Lynn
Ethel Stanton
Cincinnati
Radcliffe Census To Identify Student War Service Abilities
A Radcliffe canvas begins today to learn what each student can contribute to national defense. Blanks will be circulated for service preferences such as clerical work nursing sewing clothing and bandages automobile driving telephone service telegraphy or other lines. Faculty expect broad participation and quick tabulation of responses for instant use if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radcliffe
Funeral held for Albert L. Wilbur in Randolph
The funeral of Albert L. Wilbur, famed theatrical magnate, who died Friday in a Boston private hospital at about 70, was held at 3 pm at the Wilbur homestead in Randolph. Rev. Herbert L. Howard officiated, burial followed in Randolph Cemetery, and pallbearers represented the Shubert Majestic Plymouth and Wilbur theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert L. Wilbur
Boston
Wilbur Homestead
North Main Street
Randolph
Herbert L. Howard
First Baptist Church of
Randolph Cemetery
Ernest Grenier
John Kenefick
Shubert
Majestic
Plymouth
Wilbur Theatres
Charles J. Rich
Hollis Street Theatre
John B. Schoeffel
Tremont Theatre
E. D. Stair
Detroit
Mr. Wilbur
George W. Magee
Hap Ward
Thomas J. Barry
Charles 8. Howard
Boston Globe
Ship mechanics hold patriotic meetings in Quincy
E. Alexander Powell told 3000 workers in the Kincaide Theatre that shipyard workers building submarines torpedo boats destroyers and battleships can help stop Germany from renaming the Atlantic Ocean Lake Wilhelm He spoke at two Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation meetings with Joseph W Powell presiding as president of the company.
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Atlantic Ocean
Lake Wilhelm
E. Alexander Powell
Quincy
Powell
Kincaide Theatre
Fore River Sipbuilding Corporation
Joseph W. Powell
FALSE WAR ALARMS CALLED IN VIA FIRE DEPARTMENT
Somerville fire chief received a call at about 11 o clock yesterday morning claiming to be Colonel Willis W. Stover of the Fifth Regiment. The caller said he was at the adjutant general's office in the State House and gave Haymarket 2700. The chief verified with the adjutant general, Lt Colonel Stevens, who denied any orders. Colonel Stover also denied issuing such orders from his Everett home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich
Somerville
Willis W. Stover
Fifth Regiment
Adjutant-General
State House
Haymarket
Adjutant General's Office
Stevens
Colonel Stover
Everett
Providence man held on suspicion of carrying a dangerous weapon
John Corelli of Providence was seen in the Boston market area by Patrolman John F. Fitzpatrick. Corelli gave a questionable age and address, refused reasons for visiting, and was found with a brass-mounted horn-handled dirk over nine inches long with three indentations marked 1 2 and 3. He was booked on carrying a dangerous weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corelli
Providence
Market District
John F. Fitzpatrick
Hanover Street
Corelli
Tell Street
Boston
Watertown Public Safety Board Organizes Meeting
The Watertown public safety committee met at its headquarters and organized. Charles M. Abbott was named chairman and Joseph P. Keefe secretary. The group aims to recruit a 250 member roster.
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Watertown Public Safety Board
Watertown Committee of Public Safety
Watertown
Charles M. Abbott
Joseph P. Keefe
Women Called to Aid Nation in Wartime Mobilization
Mrs. Barrett Wendell, head of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness, urged universal female support for national defense at a Parker Memorial talk in Berkeley Street. The patriotic meeting drew girls from multiple settlement houses across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Fuertes Hitchcock
United States
Barrett Wendell
Special Aid Society For American Preparedness
Parker Memorial
Berkeley Street
Women at War Speech Outlines Allied Efforts and Roles
Several hundred women and girls heard speakers on European and American women's wartime duties. Mrs. Wendell highlighted the Special Aid Society training women as cooks wireless operators and stenographers. She said true patriotism means service and noted women’s laundry and sewing support for soldiers. Miss Caroline Kingman described English women's work since the war and stressed industry as war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Special Aid Society
Wendell
France
Caroline Kingman
England
Miss Kingman
Hod Carriers Win New State Charter in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union held its first formal meeting at 212 Charter Street and celebrated receiving a state charter. It reports 2200 members, previously part of International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union Local 209.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Hod Carriers and Common Laborers’ Union
Charter Street
International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers’ Union
Local 209
Weeks Sees A $1 Billion Allied Loan Guarantee
Senator John W Weeks urged a United States guaranteed loan of one billion dollars to the Allies at four percent. He spoke at Waltham High School to the Fales Club when asked about aid to France for Revolutionary assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
John W. Weeks
Waltham High School
Waltham
Fales Club
France
Senator Weeks
Funeral rites for Levi S Gould Melrose leader
Funeral services for Levi S S Gould long time Middlesex County Commission chairman and Melrose first mayor were held in Memorial Hall Melrose yesterday afternoon. Rev B C Hiller of First Methodist Church Rev Francis Beale grand chaplain A F and A M and Claude L Allen of Wyoming lodge Melrose attended. Mayor Charles H Adams delivered the eulogy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi S S. Gould
Middlesex County Commission
Melrose
Memorial Hall
B. C. Hiller
First Methodist Church
Francis Beale
Grand Lodge
A. F
A. M
Claude L. Allen
Wyoming Lodge
Charles H. Adams
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Col. Glines
Memorial
Germany
Paris
Mrs. Eaton
Tee
Mrs. Slater
Jordan Marsh Company
Spalding
Pridh
Franklin Union Berkeley and
Appleten
Bestes
Weeks
Levi S. Gould
Hote
ASTOR
Hotel Astor
Bingle
Times Square
Broadway
44Th
45Th Streets
New York
Chalmers
O. B. Detroit
Chalmers Motor Co
New England
Commonwealth Avenue
Congress Street
Portland
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